Panthers S Xavier Woods on Week 1 loss to Saints: ‘That was an [expletive]’

Carolina Panthers safety Xavier Woods has perfectly summed up Sunday’s brutal defeat—and he only needed one word to do it.

The New Orleans Saints came marching in on Woods and the Panthers yesterday, handing the visiting cats a 47-10 loss to open their 2024 regular season. Carolina was thoroughly outmatched from start to finish, allowing their hosts to dominate in all three phases of the game.

Woods, in a chat with Carolina Blitz editor Vashti Hurt on Monday, was asked what went wrong for his team in the beatdown.

“Everything,” he replied. “Everything. Everything went wrong. We wasn’t all keyed in. That was, excuse my language, that was an [expletive]-whopping. We went and looked at the tape and everything went wrong. We didn’t do a lot of good. So, we gotta take that on the chin.”

Woods and the Panthers defense took nine straight scoring drives to the chin in Week 1, getting their first stop of the New Orleans offense with 4:37 remaining in the contest. By game’s end, the Saints had rushed for an astonishing 180 yards while setting a new franchise record for their largest opening week victory.

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