Former Carolina Panthers coach John Fox wasn’t very quotable, but he did have a couple of truisms that bear repeating occasionally.
One was that any football team, no matter how strong, was always “two games from disaster” — in other words, two straight losses and the fan base starts seething once again and things began to fall apart.
By that token — and no, I’m not equating football losses to real disasters like the California wildfires — the Panthers have now immersed themselves in their own personal cataclysm after Sunday’s 20-19 loss to Detroit.
In a decision that will be debated the rest of the season, Carolina went for two points after scoring a touchdown to cut Detroit’s lead to 20-19 with 1:07 to go.