The 2025 NFL season has delivered its fair share of twists, but the Carolina Panthers going into Sunday and handing the NFC leaders, Los Angeles Rams, a 31–28 loss sits near the top of the list. Still, if you listened to former Rams tackle Andrew Whitworth, this wasn’t some inexplicable collapse. In his mind, it was almost baked in.

Speaking on the Rich Eisen Show , Whitworth pushed back on the idea that Sean McVay’s team somehow “overlooked” the Panthers. He argued it had far more to do with how much the team had just poured out over the previous two weeks than anything Carolina did to catch them napping.

“I don’t think it was something they overlooked. I think that the reality is: they played the Seattle Seahawks two weeks before. Come back to next week, where they got SNF against t

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