The Carolina Panthers are about to embark on what is usually their most painful road trip of the year.
The only thing you can say that’s guaranteed to be good about this 250-mile journey is that the Panthers will be going in the right direction - away from Hurricane Florence.
But everything else is uncertain – and in Atlanta, that’s where it usually falls apart for the Panthers. Carolina’s second regular-season game will be such a larger and more dangerous test than its first: This one is on the road, against a better team, in a place that has been Carolina’s personal version of a Scarowinds maze for more than two decades.