There is a point in the Broadway smash “Hamilton” where the audience has been wrung dry. Duels, deaths and illicit love affairs have sent just about everyone over the emotional edge in the musical about the life of the guy on the front of the $10 bill.
Two characters face the crowd and say plaintively: “Can we get back to politics?! Please?”
I know this is hard to imagine, but the audience sighs with relief at this line. They realize they are about to find safer ground. The emotional hullabaloo can subside for awhile.
This, to me, is what the Carolina Panthers’ 24th training camp feels like.