{"id":447726,"date":"2025-12-15T02:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/447726\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T02:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:35:21","slug":"panthers-fall-at-new-orleans-still-tied-for-division-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/447726\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers fall at New Orleans, still tied for division lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After he hit Chris Olave for a 12-yard touchdown with 2:29 left in the game, the Saints&#8217; defense stopped Bryce Young and gave him another chance.<\/p>\n<p>And he drove them for the game-winning field goal by international kicker Charlie Smyth, whose 47-yarder with 0:02 left gave the Saints the winning margin.<\/p>\n<p>Shough set it up by offering himself up, running up the middle and into an unnecessary roughness penalty on rookie safety <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/lathan-ransom\/\" title=\"Lathan Ransom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lathan Ransom<\/a>, buying Smyth an extra 15 yards. That one was the last of a season-high 11 penalties for 103 yards for the Panthers, and the most painful.<\/p>\n<p>That spoiled a day that began so promising for the Panthers, with <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/bryce-young\/\" title=\"Bryce Young\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bryce Young<\/a> throwing it downfield in a way he hadn&#8217;t in the first meeting, and running it enough to maintain some kind of pace.<\/p>\n<p>But the defensive lapses late will haunt them, at least until they move onto a future that includes three games with playoff implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After he hit Chris Olave for a 12-yard touchdown with 2:29 left in the game, the Saints&#8217; defense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":447727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25714,78274,105,79838,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-447726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-app-news","9":"tag-gameday","10":"tag-latest-news","11":"tag-rapid-reactions","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115721255321189589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}