My pick for an immediate downfall in 2016 was the Carolina Panthers. (Make note of this for next season when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys, the same drum I’ve been beating for months.) My gain for bragging rights was Panthers fans gain of a 6-10 season.
Not that I hold any grudges from the amount of crap I was given by Carolina fans in 2015. No, nothing like that.
The Panthers’ obvious deficiencies in the secondary and Cam Newton’s clear impending decline for anyone who wasn’t blinded by his gaudy outlier stats in 2015 led to them not just falling from a Super Bowl contender to a playoff hopeful, but to being in the cellar of the NFC South .