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CHARLOTTE, N. Lukas Podolski Germany Jersey .C. -- Only five games into the season and the Carolina Panthers look nothing like the team that went 15-1 last year and lost in the Super Bowl.These days, the reigning NFC and three-time NFC South champions are struggling with a little of everything -- shaky defense, injuries, turnovers, you name it -- in a shocking 1-4 start to the season.And after a mistake-filled 17-14 home loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a last-second field goal, the Panthers are left to explain how they can turn it all around.Stuff like this happens in the NFL, cornerback Teddy Williams said. You can be great one year and come back and have a season like this. But at the end of the day were only five games in, you really can circle the wagons and know that its a long season, and come back strong and really finish stronger than you started.Injuries have been a huge problem, starting with Mondays absence of reigning NFL MVP Cam Newton. He missed this one after suffering a concussion after taking a hard shot to the head when he pulled up near the goal line on a 2-point conversion in a loss at Atlanta.Carolina has also been without top tailback Jonathan Stewart since Week 2 with a hamstring injury. Two other starters, left tackle Michael Oher (concussion) and cornerback James Bradberry (toe), were also out along with first-round draft pick Vernon Butler (ankle) at defensive tackle.But the problems run deeper, starting with the fact the Panthers are committing way too many mistakes.Carolina had four turnovers Monday night, three coming from backup quarterback Derek Anderson. The most costly was a goal-line interception in which Anderson threw into double coverage looking for Greg Olsen -- Brent Grimes made a leaping grab in the end zone -- with the teams tied at 14-all midway through the fourth quarter.That pushed the Panthers to 14 turnovers through five games after committing 19 during their 15-win regular season a year ago.Carolina got the ball only once more, a three-and-out that ultimately led to the Buccaneers winning drive. By the end, Carolina had finished with nearly 100 more total yards (414-315) but plenty of empty possessions.We moved the ball when we wanted to, Anderson said. We did a lot of good things. Unfortunately we had bad plays at the wrong time. Thats kind of what it came down to.Overall, Carolinas offense is averaging about a touchdown less per game from its NFL-best 31.2-point average last season, while the defense has struggled to get a pass rush and is surrendering 27 points per game after allowing about 19 a year ago.Carolina is also committing more penalties. Theyve committed 39 penalties for 330 yards, including a 15-yard facemask by Kony Ealy while trying to tackle Jacquizz Rodgers in the final minute to set up Roberto Aguayos 38-yard field goal for the win.The Panthers travel to New Orleans this weekend before getting a needed bye. They can only hope that gives them a chance to get healthy and regroup.The things that we arent doing a good job of, we need to fix, center Ryan Kalil said, and we need to fix them right away.---Follow Aaron Beard on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aaronbeardap and the APs NFL site at http://pro32.ap.org Matthias Ginter Jersey .Y. -- Leading 3-0 with only 11:25 left, the Colorado Avalanche committed a seemingly meaningless penalty to give the New York Islanders a power play. Mario Gotze Germany Jersey . Clarkson had been dealing with an elbow injury in early January and will be out of action for at least one week. He has three goals and five assists through 36 games with the Leafs this season. http://www.germanyfcsoccershop.com/c-22-christoph-kramer-germany-jersey.aspx . Now, correct me if Im wrong but I saw one official distinctly pointing at the net indicating a good goal but after an inconclusive review they overturned the goal. Shouldnt the ruling on the ice (good goal) stand after an inconclusive review? Why was this overturned? James Veaudry Pembroke, ON -- Hey Kerry, Youll get a lot of these, but why was the Montreal goal against Nashville Saturday night overturned? Eller puts the puck on net and the on ice ruling from the ref behind the net is a Montreal goal. SINGAPORE -- Nico Rosberg hung on for the narrowest Formula One victory for six years to win the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday, celebrating his 200th career start in perfect style as he reclaimed the championship lead from his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton.Rosberg held on to beat a fast-finishing Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull by just 0.488 of a second at the Marina Bay street circuit while Hamilton took third place, narrowly in front of Ferraris Kimi Raikkonen.Rosbergs third successive win, and first in Singapore, took him back to the top of the drivers championship, eight points ahead of Hamilton with six races left.Ricciardo, having pitted for fresh tires with 14 laps left, sliced Rosbergs lead from 25 seconds to under a second but ultimately fell just short of overtaking the German. It was the closest F1 finish since the 2010 race at this venue when Fernando Alonso edged Sebastian Vettel by three tenths of a second.Daniel tried to pull one up on me with the pitstop at the end, we knew it was going to be tight but we got there so Im very happy, Rosberg said. The whole car was on the edge, it always is here in Singapore, so its very satisfying to finish like that.His team boss Toto Wolff perhaps summed it up best.We nearly peed our pants at the end, Wolff said. It was so close at the end, how it should be in Formula One; four really great cars, different strategies. I must take my hat off to Red Bull with their strategy by pitting him, we couldnt do that. Ricciardo was out of the blocks with amazing pace and it was really exciting at the end.Ricciardo was only 5.2 seconds behind with five laps to go and it looked likely he would catch Rosberg, but as the ultrasoft tires passed their peak, he was not quite able to make up the ground.We tried something different with strategy and got to within half a second, it was close, Ricciardo said. It was nice to be able to push to the last lap and put some pressure on him and give the crowd some hope.Vettel finished a creditable fifth after having started at the back of the grid due to a technical malfunction in qualifying.Red Bulls Max Verstappen started poorly from fourth on the grid and finished sixth, overtaking Alonso with seven laps to go. Force Indias Sergio Perez held off Daniil KKvyat to finish eighth while Kevin Magnussen was tenth to give Renault only its second points finish of the season. Joshua Kimmich Germany Jersey. Rosberg got away well from pole position, beating Ricciardo in the race to the first corner.The safety car came out almost immediately due to a spectacular accident in the middle of the pack just after the start. Force Indias Nico Hulkenberg tried to get through a narrowing gap between the two Toro Rossos but clipped a tire on Carlos Sainz Jr.s car and speared heavily into the pitlane wall.After a couple of laps behind the safety car, the racing restarted at very short notice, almost catching out a safety marshall, who was picking up debris on the track when the field rounded the turn into the start-finish straight, and he was forced to sprint to safety.The finishing order of the top four was already in place by the end of lap one, but that disguised a thrilling finish due to some risky pit strategies.Hamilton, running fourth, came in for ultrasoft tires with 15 laps left, forcing Ferrari to hastily bring in third-placed Raikkonen the next lap, but they could not get the Finn back out quickly enough, and the move ultimately handed third to Hamilton.Ricciardo had been gaining ground on Rosberg, with both on the hardest compound tire, with the gap down to three seconds with 15 laps left. The Australian looked capable of catching the leader, but the team gambled on bringing him for ultrasofts, expecting that would force Rosberg to do the same.You need a pretty big speed advantage to pull (a passing move) off here, Ricciardo said. We did the right thing in the end. Staying on the same tire would not have given us any better chance.As soon as we did the pitstop, we thought Nico was going to come in so I pushed really hard on those tires, and in the end they were a little bit dead. At least it made it exciting.Mercedes had intended to respond to Ricciardos stop by bringing Rosberg in, but he was in the midst of backmarkers, and the team feared that a pitstop could bring him out behind Ricciardo, so they successfully gambled on keeping him out on worn tires and hoping he would hold on.Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys ' ' '
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