The sky isn’t falling, it’s just low enough to bump our heads into each week
It looks like Carolina Panthers fans have finally learned their lesson. Caution and circumspection are the watch words of the season, particularly if we’re discussing such foreign concepts as confidence and optimism.
40% of Panthers fans are confident this team is heading in the right direction at this moment. That’s down from 67% enter Week 5. From the start of Week 1, Panthers fans have been 79%, 17%, 33%, 74%, 67%, and now 40% confident. Yeah, that seems about right.
Asked another way, y’all seem to think the Panthers are difficult to evaluate due to the abundance of serious injuries spread across their roster. 34% of y’all think that Panthers are simply too hurt to meaningfully evaluate at this juncture. The rest of you are split between thinking that team is bad or middling.
In short, none of us are rushing to Vegas or FanDuel to take odds on the Panthers making the Super Bowl this year.
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