More artificial crowd noise
One way the Panthers tried to simulate a real-game environment over the weekend was piping in artificial crowd noise at the stadium. Apparently, several teams are planning on trying this out during the season.
The noise continued today. Rhule says he’s trying to get his players adjusted to that possibility once the games begin.
#Panthers pumped crowd noise into the bubble during practice today.
Rhule says they used that Saturday as well as game music to get players adjusted to the potential of artificial noise in stadiums without fans.
— Zach Goins (@zach_goins) August 24, 2020
Some NFL teams will be allowing fans into their stadiums this year, while others will not. This raises all kinds of competitive questions, but Rhule isn’t complaining. When he was asked today, Rhule said it is what it is and that it’s outside of his control.