Panthers safety Roman Harper’s helmet cracked in collision with Marshawn Lynch

After putting up 31 points in the first half against Seattle on Sunday, the Panthers barely hung on to slip away with a 31-24 victory.

Lynch returned for Sunday’s game at Carolina, but was barely a factor in the run game with Seattle quickly falling behind 14-0 and trailing 31-0 at halftime. Yes, it’s the fourth time a team has made a notable rally against the Panthers, but Carolina has won all four games.

The field conditions at Bank of America Stadium became a big topic of discussion after some Seattle Seahawks complained about their footing in Sunday’s divisional-round playoff game.

Either way, when Newton took the final knee, the scoreboard said it all: Panthers 31, Seahawks 24.

“A lot of us wouldn’t mind going back there to Carolina and playing those guys again since they beat us past year when we had a lot of injuries”, Cardinals cornerback Justin Bethel said.

Of course it doesn’t work that way.

Carroll said that’s the last big piece of the puzzle on Wilson’s path to becoming a complete quarterback. We struggled so much early in the season to get going, and it took us a long time. “You have to learn to continue to attack”.

“But the truth of the matter is we’re not going to have the opportunity if we won’t hone in and make it the most important game we play”.

Although she gave respect and acknowledged the Panthers’ victory, Newton’s takedown of the flag was something Sarah would not let slide, according to the Sporting News.

Had tight end Greg Olsen double-covered.

The Panthers hope they’re in the position of handling prosperity next week against Arizona.

“You keep building, keep growing”. You don’t want to do anything silly either. “So it’s a fine line between keeping aggression and tempo”.

The Panthers stuffed a returning Marshawn Lynch and the Seahawks running game.

Carson Palmer had an MVP-caliber regular season, throwing for 4,671 yards, 35 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. The Cardinals had three receivers catch 50 or more passes and score six or more touchdowns in the regular season (Larry Fitzgerald, John Brown and Michael Floyd) and had two top 1,000 yards receiving (Fitzgerald, Brown). So Mr. Classless Cam Newton, good luck and may God teach you what real winning looks like. “And we won the football game”.

With undrafted rookie Thomas Rawls filling in wonderfully when Lynch was out injured, Seattle believes they have found the flawless replacement for the five-time Pro Bowler. Newton threw for a touchdown.

“We look at this game as kind of a microcosm of the season”, Seattle coach Pete Carroll said.

It’s not exactly what you’d expect from a team whose head coach has a defensive background.

On defense, defensive tackle Kawann Short will need to have two and maybe sometimes three Cardinals on him all day.

Sometimes I think I only watch sports for the brief moments of schadenfreude I get from seeing losing fans throw shit-flinging tantrums. However, the offense sputtered in the second half and did nothing, allowing the Seahawks to nearly come back to win the game. He spent more than half this season on the sideline, first with a bum hamstring and then with an abdomen injury that kept him out of the lineup from Week 11 until Sunday.