Winning streak? Check.
Win on the road? Check.
Play meaningful games in December? Check.
Win a high stakes game at home against the Steelers? Oh.
It is no secret that Steve Wilks had the Carolina Panthers looking at this week as a de facto playoff game. That’s part of why it hurt so much to watch them lose convincingly to an ostensibly bad Pittsburgh Steelers team.
The rest of the why was because that “bad” team thoroughly dominated the Panthers at the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball.