(5-8) have dropped eight of their last ten games. The team has four games left, including two against Tampa Bay and one each against the Bills and the Saints. While playoffs haven’t been ruled out yet, it is growing increasingly more difficult to see this as a reality from the product we’re seeing on the field.
As expected, national media did not hold back their wrath towards the Panthers. The most cutting? Perhaps CBS Sports when it wrote that “maybe Matt Rhule should have gone back to college.”
Aggregating several rankings, the Panthers come out to an average of No.