Carolina Panthers - Playing Their Best Football at the Best Time

Ready for Carolina Panthers Playoff Tickets? The Panthers are playing their best football at the best time, which is the closing out the season and heading into the playoffs. During the offseason, there was a sense of unease about the Panthers after a few lackluster, injury-filled seasons. John Fox surely heard the whispers that his job was on the line, and despite being the most successful Panthers coach, he still is not immune to the consequences of too many losses.

So the Panthers went to work, getting the offensive line players they needed to protect Jake Delhomme, coming off of elbow surgery, and to run the ball the way that John Fox wanted. John Fox's most successful teams were able to pound away for yards on the ground consistently, and he obviously felt that he needed to get the team back to that style in order for the Panthers to find their way back into the playoffs.

Gone was DeShawn Foster, a player who had shared the backfield with power runner Stephen Davis during the Panthers' last successful run and had been tagged as the heir apparent to carry the bulk of the rushing attempts after Davis's departure. Foster was a back with a lot of promise, but after getting a few seasons of being the primary ball carrier, the Panthers obviously felt that Foster and DeAngelo Williams, the third year running back out of Memphis who spelled Foster at time, weren't ever going to materialize into a power running game.

Enter Jonathan Stewart, a solid bruiser of a running back coming out of Oregon and fitting right into the style that the Panthers wanted, and combined with Williams and the revamped offensive line, have developed into the premier rushing attack in the NFL.

As the season rushes headlong into the postseason, it's little doubt now that the Panthers will indeed return to the playoffs, but after a few mid season games in which the Panthers looked vulnerable, now they appear to be a team that's looking like a serious Super Bowl contender.

It's time to get those Carolina Panthers Playoff Tickets before the first game is sold out!