The Carolina Panthers will host the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday with both teams needing to prove something and both teams looking to make vast improvements from their showings across the opening 7 weeks of the season.

Today's game is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. EST, and takes place from the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. The game will be broadcast live on the CBS network, but can also be watched online through live stream - free for subscribers to Direct TV's NFL Sunday Ticket - via the link provided below.

The Seahawks' season is quickly slipping away from them and they have had a tough past three weeks. However, despite their difficult patch, they are still well in the chase for the Playoffs and if they can pull out of their recent slump and push on, then they should still be good to make the postseason.

The worrying thing for the Seahawks is that they have not been struggling in just any one area of the game. But rather they have been shown having big gaps and weaknesses in all three phases of the game.

They are a team with a lot of work to do, and a lot of thing to fix, and they will not want to go too many weeks more struggling along or they could quickly find their postseason hopes begin to slip away from them.

However, as it is, if they can claim a win here today against a shaken Panthers team, then they would move back into the positive record territory and they would have the chance to push on in the coming weeks.

Today's game will start at 1 p.m. EST and can be watched online by clicking here.