The Carolina Panthers losing streak grew to six games last week and guaranteed there would be no winning season. After an impressive start to the year, the Panthers have failed to win a single game over the second half, during the worst collapse since both Ron Rivera and Cam Newton joined the franchise.
Two games remain but neither will feature Newton. Carolina and Rivera recently made the difficult decision to sit their star quarterback for the remainder of the season. Suffering from shoulder soreness since mid-year, hopes are the extra time off allows for Newton to begin a healing process and return at full strength for the start of training camp.