Panthers earn passing grade despite second straight loss

For the fourth consecutive season, the Carolina Panthers are off to a 0-2 start. Last week, for the second straight Sunday, Dave Canales’ team trailed an opponent 20-3 after two quarters. In Week 1, Bryce Young and company finally reached the end zone late in the fourth quarter in an ugly 26-10 setback. Last Sunday against the Cardinals at Arizona, Canales’s club nearly came all the way back from a 27-3 third-quarter deficit by scoring the final 19 points of the game.

Cody Benjamin of CBS Sports gave out his grades for Week 2 of the NFL season. Although the Panthers came up short for the second consecutive Sunday, this time by a 27-22 score, Canales’s club was given a C grade for its performance.

Panthers earn mediocre but passing grade despite loss to Cardinals

“For three-and-a-half quarters,” explained Benjamin, “the Panthers squarely looked like one of the worst teams in the NFL, almost totally incapable of pushing the ball with Bryce Young at the controls. Then Young found new life, zipping the rock with precision to drag Carolina all the way back into contention. A successful onside kick even threatened to lift the Panthers over Arizona at the close. In the end, the turnovers were too much to offset.”