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#pounditThursday, March 28, 2024

O’Brien Schofield says Panthers were sore losers: I was dabbing in their faces

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The Falcons put an end to the Panthers’ perfect season on Sunday, and some of the Carolina players may not have been all that gracious in defeat.

After Atlanta’s 20-13 victory, Falcons linebacker O’Brien Schofield ripped the Panthers for being sore losers.

“If you handle yourself with class, you don’t have to worry about that,” Schofield said, per Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com. “But you see, they didn’t handle themselves with class the first time we played [when Carolina won 38-0]. So I didn’t care about how they were feeling after this game. I was ‘dabbing’ all in their faces.”

Was Schofield “dabbing all in their faces” before or after the Panthers acted like sore losers? The timeline seems important there.

As many of you know, the “dab” has become a symbol for Carolina’s success this season. Cam Newton has been criticized for doing it, and one sports anchor offered an extremely hot take about it not too long ago. On Sunday, Falcons players and even team owner Athur Blank were doing the dance to mock Newton.

“They took a picture during the game and posted it on social media the first time we played,” Schofield added. “It was a whole team picture. And Cam was running up and down the sidelines. There wasn’t none of that today. We played a football game today. I’m not even a trash talker, but when someone disrespects you and you get payback and then they can’t handle it, that’s glorious. If they could handle it, it would be cool. I probably wouldn’t have even ‘dabbed.’ But I was ‘dabbing’ in front of everybody.”

It will be very interesting to see how the Panthers respond to their first loss. In many ways, it can be dangerous to go undefeated for that long and almost forget what losing feels like. The tone was much different in Carolina earlier this month, as you can see in this video. Time will tell if a loss helps or hurts the Panthers going into the postseason.

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