Panthers at the Bye

You just know that PK had the article all drafted, about how much of a mistake it was to give Cam Newton all that guaranteed money. How he’d obviously go “soft” without the contract to play for.

Welllll…WOMP WOMP

Superman is indeed Superman after all. 4-0 even mostly without MLB/Overseer Keuchly (they just inserted another honky into his place, so the rest of the defense would know who to address as “suh”). Even more impressively, Cam has made a deep league fantasy starter out of Ted Fucking Ginn as…ahem…somebody may have predicted in the pre-season?

Just don’t look too closely at all the other shit I predicted.

Jonathan Stewart has surprisingly stayed alive, but unsurprisingly cromulent and fantasy irelevant. Greg Olson has been mildly-to-medium disappointing as everyone’s fantasy darling breakout TE. The offensive line has been significantly better than anyone, especially me, expected. Which is to say, mediocre. Josh Norman has turned to Revis Island 2: Electric Boogaloo. It’s an interesting mix, for sure.

That said, the cake part of the schedule is over. Riverboat Ron preaches about the regular season being broken into “4 quarters” (oh, teh symmetry!!) and #2 is a doozy! Yeah, the Iggles and Humps no longer loom as large as they once did, but there’s still some latent danger. And a trip to Seattle and hosting Green Bay…no getting around being a clear underdog in both of those.

But stagger to 6-2 at the turn, and it’s a cornucopia of division foes and NFC East shittiness (Doopy’s denouement on Thanksgiving included, won’t that be fun?) left on the table. I don’t need to look at the Falcons’ schedule to compare, because they’re the Falcons so who gives a shit.

As always, the question remains whether (i) they will finish strongly enough to get a 1 or 2 seed; and/or (ii) have enough firepower to really make a deep playoff run. They most certainly have the QB to do it. We shall see about the rest.