The truest sentence Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton uttered in his postgame press conference Friday night was only six words long.
“We are not that good yet,” Newton said.
Absolutely true. On Friday night in a 19-17 exhibition loss to New England, the Panthers’ first-string offense looked nothing like the offense that led the NFL in points scored in 2015 and produced the league’s Most Valuable Player in Newton. It instead looked just like the offense that got whipped in the Super Bowl by Denver seven months ago. The same thing is about to happen again on Sept.