It’s an open secret now in the NFL – the 2016 Carolina Panthers are simply a bad team.
Monday night clinched it. Unlike the teams the Panthers took their first three losses of the season to, Tampa Bay just isn’t very good. The Buccaneers (2-3) will not make the playoffs.
Yet Carolina managed to mess up just enough to lose again, dropping to 1-4 when Tampa Bay’s Roberto Aguayo made a 38-yard field goal on the final play of the game to beat the Panthers 17-14.
Maybe the Panthers rebound. Maybe they don’t. At the moment, they are floundering in the cellar of the NFC South and deserve to be there.