 Were you surprised you had to have been right about the Panthers win over the Bucks on Sunday? I was surprised by the win what I wasn't surprised by was the way that they played and the way that they came out And like crops the Carolina Panthers People definitely wrote you off. Have you seen the NFC South stands South spot open right now a lot of opportunity for everybody Everything that we want to hoodlums. So I mean there's no reason to be down over, you know We are home. We make it a state. We want folks to watch the game. Let's go. Let's go. One, two, three. Win against the Falcons and the Buccaneers lose to Ravens. The Panthers would be tied for first place. And they would have the tiebreaker. The Falcons are going to be without Casey Hayward. They're going to be without AJ Terrell. That's a skeleton crew in the back end of that defense. Could be an opportunity for PJ Walker to hook up with DJ Moore and some other guys and a little bit more positive momentum going in their direction. All right. Mock it. Mercedes Benz Stadium downtown Atlanta. We get ready for Falcons and Panthers. Panthers in all white, silver helmets, white pants, white jerseys, black letters and numerals. Here's Pinheiro to kick it away. And we are underway from downtown. Mariota going to take another shot. This is Byrd again and intercepted. The Panthers pull it with Dante Jackson coming up with the interception on the long ball headed for Demir Byrd. The perimeter and going nowhere is LaVisca Chinalt. My gosh. Three receivers in a tight end. Walker on a straight drop wants to shoot it down the field and it's thrown behind Moore incomplete. Boy, good coverage that time. 12.36 to go and they almost got it. Somebody came flying through there. Anderson I think and almost got it. Spare catch by Williams. Marcus Mariota on first down trying to get it to Tyler Algear around the corner first down and Moore Algear shows you a little burn. He gets to the edge. He's got an extra gear. Marcus will hand Algear again and runs right into Brian Burns. This is a game that field position is going to play a major role because these two teams very similar offensively and field position will be a huge. So PJ Walker has Carolina plus territory here where he Blackshear the former Virginia Tech player and he's going to get the call and go nowhere. He joins the long list of people tackled by Grady Jarrett behind the line. Yarrow will try a 37 yard field goal kick away and it is good. Carolina three Atlanta nothing. There's a play fake down here going to spin it inside. There's pits to grab out to the 37 maybe the 38 for Kyle Pitts. Carolina has nobody on Avery Williams out here to the side to get it to him. Sure does and Avery slips across the 45. Shaq Thompson made the stop. Mariota looked that way. Now Marcus shoots caught Parker first down Atlanta. Mariota a little play fake has to sidestep now throws that's pits 25 20. Kyle Russell down at the 15 straight ahead goes to do Marcus will take play fake across caught Kyle Pitts touchdown. And Kyle Pitts has got his second touchdown catch of the year. Oh yeah reverse to more on first and 10 at the 25 and now he's going to reroute it. That could have been a little bit bigger and it ends up he ran about a mile to get three yards. So here is second down to 15 Walker middle of the field wants to rip it it does to four. Throw it right by Anderson in the hands of DJ Moore and a Carolina first down to the Atlanta 18. Walker wants to throw puts it up and it is broken up. DJ Walker and the gun are going to hand it to Deontay Foreman and he will score first touchdown as a panther for Deontay Foreman. Carolina with a three point lead and just over a hundred seconds to play in this first half. They try to run the football here to run the clock. Of course Carolina gets the ball to start the second half. Right. Walker and the gun form it with him straight drop pressure coming trying to loop it intercepted Lorenzo Carter tries to get left. He does ten five touchdown Atlanta. Holy cow my goodness. He's just trying to throw a screen and he throws it tries to throw the ball over the top of Lorenzo Carter and Carter just elevates and takes it out of the air. Made some changes. Here's Walker trying to dump it to Big E and Thomas for Sean Evans and it looks like TQ Graham were there on the charge. Third down and six Carolina trailing by four wants to throw and hits Stephon Sullivan. My goodness first in 10 at Atlanta's 24. Now going to throw to the end zone for Moore and it's broken up on the play and that's Isaiah Oliver in coverage. Walker he's going to take another shot to the other side and it complete. Yeah good coverage by Cornel Armstrong on a fade route boy taking a lot of shots. So Carolina's on the board with Eddie Pinieros 42 yard field goal and they trip the Atlanta lead to one. Let's go shoot. Play fake Mario to looking for pits caught it in traffic first down. You do it. You do it. Yeah. Wow just runs right over the top of Corey Littleton the 225 pound linebacker. Marcus looking left throws caught London Drake reroutes first down Atlanta. Marcus going to skip it out here got a block left side 15 10 5. Touchdown with 100 seconds to go into third. But I'm going to try and throw it. Now we'll all count pits wide open 35 30 pits reroutes 20 15 and Atlanta big first down. Holy smokes. So Atlanta's regained the lead with 733 to go in the ball game. Got to defend that interior breaking route. That's the one that's given Atlanta problems. Walker dropping straight back pressure coming across the middle card. DJ Moore first down to the Falcon 43 yard line. They're going to hand the ball to Foreman and he breaks inside the five and scores. The Panthers have jumped back in front by three at 27 24. Marcus takes a snap traffic coming. You'll get it down to your Tyler trying to circle to the perimeter first down. Marcus on a straight drop not going to fire and caught London. Mario looks now mails to his right going to shoot it down field caught bird 35 to mere far side 30 25 20 bird 15 10 5 touchdown Atlanta. 47 yards to 14 to go in the two minute warning. The Panthers start from there 25 and Foreman trying to cut it to the outside. Avocadio riding down after a yard. Got to find some pass rush now. Yep. Atlanta bringing the extra guy and Walker's going to go down on the side 34 yard field goal by Q comes with 36 seconds left. Here's PJ Walker dancing to his left. He wants to fire the cannon shot deep DJ Moore down there with two guys. Did he catch it? He did. How about that? DJ Moore caught it for the touchdown with 12 seconds left. They're going to spell out a 15-yard penalty on the field as a touchdown. Play was over. Unsportsman like conduct offense number two for removing his helmet. 48 yard extra point to give the Panthers the lead from Pinheiro. The kick is away and it is no good. He missed the extra point from 48 yards. Mario is just going to touch me and overtime we go. How about this little ball game we've walked ourselves into today? As is the call. It is a tail. You've won the cross you'd like to receive. You want to kick this way. Atlanta will receive on this end. Good luck gentlemen. There's Bird in motion. They're going to hand it to Huntley trying to get left. Hits the cut back. Caleb rolls out to the 20. Marcus will have to get the ball out quick. Here's Mario to the pressure coming. He'll make the throw first down. And that is Drake London. Mario on second and nine. Play fake to Algier. Marcus coming from the pocket, throwing for Bird. And it is intercepted. Picked off by CJ Henderson. Coming back 40, 35, 30. They've now run themselves into a field goal opportunity to win it. Here we go. Snap spot. Try is away from Pinheiro. He missed it. Holy smokes. This is the game that will not die. A little zombie type game here. You okay with that? Man. Mario to throw the perimeter. That's the key. That's a first down. Bird down at short. They're calling it. Looks like he had the line made. Here's Marcus. He's got the first down. Mario to breaking here to the near side. 35, 30. Mario to knocked out of bounds at the 25 yard line. How about that play by Marcus? Mario to. Right now it's a 41 yard try. 42 yard try for Young Way Coon. Snap spot. Here's Coon from the win. Kick is away. And drive home safely. Young Way Coon from 40 wins the ball game. Arthur Smith and Atlanta are four and four. Just unbelievable job by our guys. Just staying in the moment. Staying present. Understanding that you know what? If there's time at the clock, we got a chance. I think there's a roller coaster. I mean, ups, the highs, the lows. But it's something that we preach about just staying ready and never giving up. So we're going to fight to the very end, regardless of what it looks like. I mean, shoot, we thought we were down and out twice and came back and were able to get the win. I mean, it broke our way. And then sometimes you need that to happen. You got to look at the tape and we got to get on to the chargers. But it's hard to win in this league and we'll enjoy the win. But there's a lot of football left.