Panthers handle Rhelpers as Andy Dalton, commenceing in place of benched Bryce Young, throws 3 touchdowns

The “Red Rifle” was red hot on Sunday as Andy Dalton and the Carolina Panthers shocked the Las Vegas Rhelpers on the road in a 36-22 triumph for the team’s first triumph of the season. 

One of the hugegest storylines this week was Dave Canales’ decision to bench the Panthers‘ 2023 No. 1 overall pick, Bryce Young, in prefer of Dalton at quarterback after a horrific 0-2 commence in which the offense couldn’t get anyleang going. 

Well, the Panthers are going to have more Young asks to answer after what Dalton was able to do in Canales’ system, and it came instantly for Carolina to commence this game in Sin City.

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Dalton, comprehending the Panthers scored equitable 13 united points in its first two losses on the year, led a nine-join, 70-yard drive that was capped by running back Chubba Hubbard’s six-yard pass for the touchdown. 

It was the first touchdown by a position joiner on the Panthers this season as Young was the only scorer in garbage time in Week 1 aachievest the New Orleans Saints. And Hubbard joined a beginant role in this insolent outburst, finishing the game with 114 yards on 21 carries while catching five passes from Dalton for 55 yards.

But this game wasn’t a blowout from the get-go as Gardner Minshew and the Rhelpers aligned the Panthers’ discdisthink abouting-drive touchdown with a 10-join, 97-yard drive in which Alexander Mattison punched it in from two yards out to knot it up at 7 apiece. 

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But the wheels fell off for the Rhelpers when Dalton reacted on the ensuing drive, this time discovering his directing getr on the day, Diontae Johnson, for a five-yard score to get a 14-7 direct. Johnson had eight catches for 122 yards. 

Then, after some back-and-forth by both offenses, Dalton fired his third touchdown pass of the first half, this time hitting veteran getr Adam Thielen, thraw a firm triumphdow between two Rhelpers deffinishers for 31 yards and a 21-7 direct with 21 seconds left in the second quarter. 

Thielen suffered a hamstring injury on the join and didn’t return for the rest of the game after notching three catches for 40 yards. 

In the second half, Dalton evolved to put together scoring drives for Carolina.

After back-to-back field goals on the first two drives of the second half, Dalton picked his way down the field with chunk joins by Johnson and Hubbard. And after 11 joins and 84 yards, Miles Sanders busted into the finish zone to produce this a blowout in Las Vegas, 33-7. 

The Rhelpers showed a little life on the ensuing drive as Minshew set up Jakobi Meyers for a 13-yard touchdown. Meyers finished the game with seven catches and 62 yards.

However, Minshew’s next drive saw an interception on the second join from scrimmage as he and Davante Adams (four catches, 40 yards) were not on the same page.

That led head coach Antonio Pierce to bench Minshew in prefer of Aidan O’Connell, who got his first snaps of the novel year. He would direct a garbage-time touchdown drive in which Tre Tucker, the team’s directing getr with 96 yards, set up the finish zone to produce it 36-22.

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But all signs were pointing to the Panthers, a team that many apshowd was on track to have the worst record in the NFL aachieve this season, accumulateing its first triumph of the year, shotriumphg that the transfer to bench Young was the right call for this week.

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