CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Thomas Davis heard the rumblings late last season about how the NFL needed to consider changing its playoff rules to prevent teams with a losing record from playing in the postseason.
He was talking about Davis' Carolina Panthers, last year's poster child for what ailed the league.
"We ain't got to worry about that this year, now do we?" the Panthers veteran linebacker said with a wry smile.
Nope, they certainly do not.
The Panthers (13-0) have gone from being the joke of the NFC South last December with a 3-8-1 record to darlings of the league in a little more than a year.