CHARLOTTE — Dave Canales and Rico Dowdle agree.

The Panthers need to run more to achieve the kind of balance they need on offense.

Maybe this is where the handshake emoji goes.

Coming off a game in which the Panthers only had nine carries by their running backs, everybody involved acknowledged Wednesday that they'd prefer it the other way. The head coach told his players as much in the team meeting, and the running back admitted that his postgame social media emoji-usage was related to wondering why they didn't lean into the run game the way they generally have.

"Yeah, just was frustrated with the way the outcome of the game went," Dowdle admitted on Wednesday. "We lost, and I thought we had an opportunity to run the ball on them, so just frustration. Coach addressed it with the team

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