{"id":911431,"date":"2020-02-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=911431"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:04:15","slug":"is-a-17-game-season-new-playoff-format-the-right-choice-for-the-nfl-and-its-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=911431","title":{"rendered":"Is a 17-game season, new playoff format the right choice for the NFL and its players?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our latest debate, where two of our writers argue about current issues in the world of sports. Today we tackle some of the questions raised by the proposed \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article240508856.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article240508856.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article240508856.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Is a 17-game season, new playoff format the right choice for the NFL and its players?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our latest debate, where two of our writers argue about current issues in the world of sports. Today we tackle some of the questions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903754,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911431\/revisions\/1903754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}