Of the four divisional playoff games this weekend, the Arizona Cardinals - Carolina Panthers matchup is easily…

For all of the time the Carolina Panthers spend drawing up plays in meeting rooms and working on precision pass routes in practice, two of the biggest plays this season have come when Jake Delhomme has taken on the role of playground quarterback, chucking a ball downfield and letting 5-foot-9 wide receiver Steve Smith use his incredible athletic ability to make the catch.

For the second time in five weeks, a downfield heave from Delhomme to Smith with the game on the line led to a crucial, perhaps season-saving victory for the Carolina Panthers.

On Sunday at the Louisiana Superdome, Delhomme fired a pass off his back foot and let Smith go up and get it, culminating in a 39-yard gain that led to John Kasay’s winning 42-yard field goal with one second left and an NFC…

Before John Kasay lined up for a 42-yard field goal attempt Sunday that would determine if Carolina got a first-round bye in the playoffs, J’Vonne Parker nervously ran on the field to line up as the right end. Parker had been a Panther for five days. But a rash of injuries had left him the only big body to fill a hole on a play that would determine if the Panthers would be the No.

For all of the time the Carolina Panthers spend drawing up plays in meeting rooms and working on precision pass routes in practice, two of the biggest plays this season have come when Jake Delhomme has taken on the role of playground quarterback, chucking a ball downfield and letting 5-foot-9 wide receiver Steve Smith use his incredible athletic ability to make the catch.

For the second time in five weeks, a downfield heave from Delhomme to Smith with the game on the line led to a crucial, perhaps season-saving victory for the Carolina Panthers.

On Sunday at the Louisiana Superdome, Delhomme fired a pass off his back foot and let Smith go up and get it, culminating in a 39-yard gain that led to John Kasay’s winning 42-yard field goal with one second left and an NFC…

Rhys Lloyd has one of the cushiest jobs in the NFL. The Carolina Panthers’ stocky kicker with the booming leg and English accent spends about a minute on the field per game, sending kickoffs usually into the end zone and watching an opponent take a knee. He then trots off and lets John Kasay do the high pressure place-kicking.

Panthers kickoff specialist Rhys Lloyd has made some history this season. Lloyd’s 30 touchbacks are the most in the NFL since the league began using the “K-ball” in 1999. The league introduced the K-ball — an unused ball specifically for…

Carolina’s DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart have a new nickname and added some spice to their disagreement with Tennessee’s running back tandem of LenDale White and Chris Johnson. After rushing for 178 yards and breaking the Panthers’ single-season rushing record with 1,515 yards in a 33-31 win over New Orleans on Sunday, Williams announced he had created a Web site,…

Carolina Panthers coach John Fox spent last week insisting too much is made of having a bye in the playoffs, repeatedly mentioning how the New York Giants didn’t have a week off last year en route to winning the Super Bowl. But a day after avoiding a monumental collapse in beating New Orleans 33-31 on John Kasay’s last-second field goal, Fox had a different message.

Here’s the transcript from coach John Fox’s Monday news conference: Q. Any injury updates? “Nothing since it happened, I don’t know, how many hours ago. There’s nothing else to report. We’ll report again Wednesday.” Q. Can you prepare this week…

Written off after a blowout loss to the Ravens, Donovan McNabb and Andy Reid aren’t quite done in Philly.