Monday Morning Optimist: This is miles better than being an Atlanta Falcons fan

I hate to say it, but the Tampa Bay Buccaneers might win more than four football games this year. The Carolina Panthers young and already banged up defense gave up more points than the offense could put up against a surprisingly good Tampa defense and a mild deluge of turnovers. But let’s not call the team washed for the season yet. The Panthers defense committed a series of backbreaking penalties, but still held Tom Brady relatively in check more often than not. He may no longer have the arm strength of a 2015 Peyton Manning, but he still has the savvy of a twenty year veteran and that means something against a defense as young and new to each other as these Panthers.