The Carolina Panthers fought valiantly against the New Orleans Saints yesterday, but a win just wasn’t meant to be for the Panthers as they fell 34-31 on a Will Lutz field goal as time expired to send the Panthers back to Charlotte with a 5-6 record and an extremely difficult road to the playoffs ahead of them. The Panthers are all but eliminated at this point, because even if they win out a 10-6 record might not be good enough to get a Wild Card spot in the stacked NFC.
But that doesn’t mean there weren’t some bright spots yesterday.