The Panthers open their 2023 series against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (-4)
tomorrow, so we did the usual five questions series with Bucs Nation. There’s plenty below about promising rookies, the impact of Baker Mayfield, and other tidbits about the game that are worth reading, but I want to draw particular focus to the following quote for Bucs writer Evan Wanish:
It’s the NFC South experience in a paragraph. That was the Panthers fate almost every year under Ron Rivera and even for much of the seasons under Matt Rhule. The Panthers are struggling to tread water in the worst division in the NF, but their path to consistent playoff runs is obvious if they can just learn to swim.