Your “The Carolina Panthers Lay Down With The Lambs” Monday Night Football Open Thread

This is it. It’s your next-to-last Monday Nighter of the season. To be honest, I don’t recall many of them but that’s just the way I dementia, er, roll. Far back in the day when I tended bar in a dining room spot, every Monday myself and all the male servers would turn away sit-down customers at 8pm and tell them that “Sorry, we’re done for the night but there’s a bar menu on the second floor”. One millisecond after the last table had left I was cashing out and running over to a bar by the name of “Tramps”. (the running joke at the time was that the owners were our ex-girlfriends-we were so clever back then) The shine has been off the rose for many a year now but some residue remains. I still get slightly pumped at the thought of a football game, any football game really, being played. I hope that many of you sorta, kinda feel that way as well. TO THE GAME!

Car/Was-The Panthers aren’t tanking but lb Kuechley is not playing despite being cleared from concussion whatchamacallit. As well, wr Benjamin will be in a limited role and de Johnson is not playing ce soir and most likely won’t be donning cleats for the remainder of the year. I wholeheartedly agree with this from both the player and the team’s perspective. Just let shit unfold, guard that draft spot and let the injured guys have some time off. Needless to say, many of the many injured Redacted players are being hustled back onto the field because of the possibility of getting to the next round. Rb Kelley should have his way with a broken down D-line that is still able to get to the qb but still gives up 3.7 ypc. If you have the slightest amount of interest in this game you’ve already come across numerous, “IT’S ALL ABOUT JOSH NORMAN PLAYING HIS OLD TEAM” articles so I’ll let that be.

That’s about it. TELL ME WHAT YOU GOT!