It was in Tampa, during the final game of Carolina’s awful 2016 season, that rock bottom arrived.
Think about this for a minute. Cam Newton was in the game, playing hurt and lobbing passes with a partially torn rotator cuff in his throwing shoulder. Four offensive linemen were playing out of position. At one point, the receivers on the field were Ted Ginn, Philly Brown and Brenton Bersin.
That, my friends, was an awful offense.
And now, less than four months later, the Panthers seem determined that they will never sink to that level again.