You are going to read any number of eulogies of the 2021 Carolina Panthers today. There will be indictments of the front office; pointings out of the obvious with regards to Sam Darnold; and more than a few jokes at the expense of David Tepper. Many of those may be well founded and well earned by their subjects. This column, however, will not be one of them.
I’m going to try to focus this audience on two things: (1) why I’m still not mad at the Panthers for the Darnold trade and (2) their ever evolving conundrum that is Christian McCaffrey.