Yahoo Sports host Andrew Sicilianoand senior NFL writer Charles Robinson preview Buccaneers – Panthers Week 16 matchup. Check out the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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And here’s the thing about Carolina, too: that offense is…
I mean, it’s like you lose to the Saints, but you also beat the Rams.
Like you don’tyeah.
It’s, it’s, it’s… Like, which Carolina offense is gonna show up?
From one week to the next?
Which Bryce Youngs gonna show up from, from one week to the next?
Um, you know, I just…
I can’t figure that out.
Then, back-to-back, to beat the Rams and then lose to the Saints.
Was completely inexplicable to me, and the offense looked entirely disjointed from one Game to the next is…
I don’t know if that’s just…
It shows the youth and the way they’re still kind of progressing under Dave Canales.
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But there’s certainly not the consistency that, you know, makes me absolutely push all my chips on the Bucs in a Gor, excuse me, On the Panthers, in a game like this.
Yeah, and the win over the Rams at home came after the…
Uh, came on a short week after losing, and looking as badly as they didyeah.
… Um, looking as bad as they did against the 49ers on the road, on a Monday night.
So it’s funny you sayCrushed.
Uh, you know, “W- who, who are they?”
I wrote In my notes here: “Panthers, feast or famine?”
They have as many games with 30 points scored as they do with 10 or fewer Fewer.
Four, four each.
And let’s say they do win the division, Three games left.
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Okay.
Let’s say they do win the division.
Right now, they have a negative 53-point differential, negative 53.
It would be the third-worst for any division winner in the history of the National Football League, with the 2010 Seahawks and the 2011 Broncos, but both of those teams won a Playoff game.
So, like, what does it matter?