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Pingpong? Pickleball? Coach Matt Rhule leans into team building with Carolina Panthers

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Maybe the most intense moment of the Carolina Panthers’ offseason program that concluded Thursday happened last week when coach Matt Rhule went on the defensive.

As a soccer goalie.

During what amounted to Carolina’s version of a bar Olympics -- minus the drinking games -- the third-year NFL coach knocked down a kick by quarterback Sam Darnold and ran toward a camera shouting, “I hope you got that on tape!’’

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“There's a whole other side of me that no one ever gets to see,’’ Rhule said with a smile.