Dave Canales, the latest head coach of the Panthers told reporters in Charlotte that his team will not be using their starters Thursday night in their meeting the Steelers down there.

You know, I don't care about them either, but that got me thinking.

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The Panthers, by the way, have really set the stage to stink again.

It's kind of what they do, so that's not going to shock the football world.

But as much as you can disregard preseason results, it's not just that they've been smoked by a cumulative 50 to 13 in their first two preseason games, those coming against the Browns and the Texans.

It's that they've looked really bad in doing so, including their first team.

And Canales, and I quote directly here, told the Charlotte Observer,

quote, I don't feel good about our execution of the basics, end quote.

But such is life in the National Football League in 2025 that coaches and executives across the board have such disdain for preseason football,

have so little use for preseason football that between them and Aaron Rogers publicly acknowledging a week ago in La Trobe that

it's not real football and that the Steelers would actually gain a lot more from the joint

practice that they had with the Buccaneers, as opposed to the preseason game that they had with the Buccaneers, as opposed to the preseason game that they had

with the Buccaneers, that I honestly wonder why we're even doing this.

I mean, I get that there's money involved because you end up taking the season ticket

holders mandatory payment into those games,

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