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I've been looking at 2013 salary-cap figures and it's pretty obvious that whoever takes over as general manager of the Carolina Panthers is going to face a pretty difficult situation. The Panthers, who fired general manager Marty Hurney on Monday,...

Unless Mike Smith gives Roddy White his Twitter password back, the Atlanta Falcons aren't going to say it. And Larry Bird isn't participating in 3-point competitions these days. So I'll take it upon myself to ask the most relevant question in the ...

The best thing about living in much of the South is that you can leave the door open in December and January. The flip side is, you never know who's going to walk in. That's been demonstrated repeatedly throughout most of the decade the NFC South ...

The standings say the Carolina Panthers are the worst team in the NFC South. I say, they're not even close. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have worked really hard to clinch that honor, at least for the moment. Yeah, I know Carolina is 3-8 and Tampa B...

Now that the Carolina Panthers have stepped into this century, the NFC South has a new look from top to bottom. Cam Newton is flinging footballs, the Panthers are scoring points, and the days of John Fox signing off on a third-and-long draw play t...

Thoughts on the Carolina Panthers' 28-21 loss to the Arizona Cardinals at University of Phoenix Stadium: What it means: All four NFC South teams lost their openers, but the Panthers are the only ones to come away with a moral victory. Cam Newton b...

As promised, we're rolling out our predictions for the 2011 NFL season today. We'll go in reverse order in the NFC South. Here's the link to the preview page for the Carolina Panthers. Here's what I wrote about the Panthers, followed by my pred...

Aside from drafting and signing Cam Newton, this offseason the Carolina Panthers have focused on bringing back the nucleus of the team that was so bad they were able to draft Newton in the first place. Carolina has spent its money and time rer...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- You've heard plenty about the lockout over the past few months, but it actually was in effect in Charlotte since 2008. The moment owners opted out of the previous labor agreement, Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson reali...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- As we've already started to see the last couple of days, it really is a new era for the Carolina Panthers with John Fox out as the coach and Ron Rivera in his place. In the Fox days, players rarely discussed strategy, mainly b...

They were 2-14 last season, so the Carolina Panthers can't have much talent, right? Actually, that's quite wrong. Last year's debacle had a lot more to do with John Fox's status as a lame-duck coach and failure to embrace a youth movement than the...

Perhaps no team is in need of offseason practices more than the NFL-worst Carolina Panthers. After falling behind their division rivals, the Panthers finally gathered Tuesday for their first player-organized workout since the lockout began.

Our friends over at Cat Scratch Reader are throwing out the idea that maybe the Carolina Panthers should be a candidate for HBO's "Hard Knocks" this summer. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers already turned down an offer to be featured on the show, saying ...

The news just keeps getting worse for the Carolina Panthers. Coach John Fox said Monday that quarterback Matt Moore and middle linebacker Dan Connor will miss the rest of the season after both were injured in Sunday's loss to New Orleans. The Panther...

Sitting in the Georgia Dome press box Sunday, I thought about comparisons between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Carolina Panthers. On a day the Bucs gained respect in defeat, the Panthers lost their last bit of dignity as they got shredded by New O...

We're opening up today's series of team-by-team mailbags with the Carolina Panthers. Bob in Matthews, N.C., writes: What do think is the real reason the Panthers cannot run the ball this year? Jeff Otah and Keydrick Vincent not playing this year? ...