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The Charlotte Observer
The Charlotte Observer
The Carolina Panthers have closed the book on their 2021 season, which is good, because it was a horrible book that got worse as the pages kept turning, and we all should have put it down long ago, except by then we already had so much time invested in it we kept hate-reading, and when the book finally ended Sunday with a seventh straight loss we wanted to scream at the author “Why did you waste my time!” except that there were about 60 different authors, so it’s no wonder the plot got completely lost in early November, and.. OK, let me slow down a little. The Carolina Panthers finished 5-12 t…