The Carolina Panthers and Atlanta Falcons meet for the second time this season with all illusions dispelled. The Panthers are not a playoff team, and neither are the Falcons, and they’ll be showing up together at Bank of America Stadium knowing full well just how disappointing their 2018 seasons have been. The Falcons and Panthers will have little to prove, when all is said is done, except that one might be better than the other.
Is that important, when a top five draft pick in this class might be transformative? I’d argue no, but the Panthers are trying to keep a head coach in a job and the Falcons are trying to prove they.