This won’t take long. There wasn’t a whole lot to love in the Panthers embarrassingly inept loss to the Bears. With 10 days to prepare for a bad team following up a bad year and starting a very fresh rookie Quarterback, Carolina came out and fell flat on the field. You know what? That doesn’t do it justice. The Panthers, ready to be knighted as one of the NFL’s elite teams in 2017, tripped and landed gut first on their own sword, dying an unnecessarily noble death. I don’t think there is any other team in the league that can so acutely take an above .