Great Scott! We’ve gone back to the future! (If you don’t know that reference, you haven’t lived.) Sunday’s matchup between the Carolina Panthers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be a bit of a reminder of who Carolina used to be and who Tampa Bay has the potential to become. Although the players will be fighting for their present, the past and future will collide in an epic division battle on the gridiron.
Five years ago, the Carolina Panthers were a team in disarray. A defensive-minded coach had recently taken the reigns of a team with several problems, the greatest of which were at quarterback.