Studs and losers from Panthers’ Week 12 win over Broncos

Darnold didn’t precisely light up the box rating on Sunday afternoon. But he didn’t requirement to.

All he had to do in his veryfirst start was to keep his offense afloat—and he did. The fifth-year quarterback finished 11 of his 19 passes for 164 backyards in his 2022 launching, assembling 2 goals (one death and one hurrying) and—in the flashiest stat of all—zero turnovers.

Only one of those balls and 8 of those backyards discovered Marshall Jr., who had a extremely peaceful day.

The second-year wideout came in with a team-leading 259 getting backyards over the previous 4 videogames. So although the videogame strategy from offensive organizer Ben McAdoo didn’t need much through the air, it was a littlebit deflating to see Marshall Jr. come up with simply a single reception.

Luckily for Marshall Jr. and Carolina’s other pass catchers not called DJ Moore, DJ Moore selected up the slack.

After stoppingworking to hit the 30-yard mark in the 3 getaways previous, Moore torched cornerback Patrick Surtain II and the Denver defense for a game-high 103 backyards and a goal. That goal provided him 4 on the project, which ties a career-high (a mark he reached in each of the previous 3 seasons) with 5 videogames staying.

With receiver Shi Smith justrecently havingahardtime as the group’s punt returner, Blackshear took over the function for the veryfirst time on Sunday. Unfortunately, catastrophe struck on his 3rd effort.

Blackshear muffed a punt at the 12: 56 mark of the 2nd quarter, permitting Broncos security Delarrin Turner-Yell to recuperate at the Panthers’ 27-yard line. The freegift led to Denver’s just 3 points of the videogame’s initially 57 minutes.

But luckily for Blackshear, his fellow backs made his muff a simple remote memory.

Foreman and Hubbard regulated the ground and the videogame, integrating for 178 backyards on 41 brings. That permitted the Panthers to control the time-of-possession fight—37: 05 to 22: 55.

Look, when you were as dominant as the Panthers were in Week 12, you have to dig a little deep for the losers. So . . . sorry, Carolina and Denver fans.

While Foreman was being tended to for an injury, the folks in presence at Bank of America Stadium teamed up for an effort at a wave. And with the Panthers approaching the line of skirmish on the next play for a third-and-short, Wilks waved at them—in an effort to silence the “fun.”

For embarassment . . .

The whole Panthers defense mostlikely shouldhave their own stud slide, as they held the Broncos down for 246 overall lawns and kept them to simply 3 points till the 3: 19 mark of the 4th quarter.

But we’ll just emphasize Burns, who racked up 2.0 sacks (one a strip sack) of quarterback Russell Wilson. And in doing so, the fourth-year pass rush hit double digits and set a brand-new career-high in takedowns at 10.0.