This happened in late July in Spartanburg – the first day of the Carolina Panthers’ training camp.
Tight end Greg Olsen, one of the most thoughtful players on the team, was talking about guarding against a Super Bowl hangover. If the Panthers didn’t combat that successfully Olsen said, they would have a problem. In fact, he said, they could “find ourselves 1-4 asking, ‘What’s going on?’”
Olsen didn’t mean for the comment to be prescient, but it certainly is now. The Panthers limp into their “Monday Night Football” showcase at 1-3 – one more nasty loss away from the 1-4 record that Olsen was warning against as a worst-case scenario back in the summer heat.