Meanwhile, bums don't usually go 15-1 and get to the Super Bowl, either. I put that losing streak in with what happened to us in 1993 -- we started out 5-0 but it was a bit of a mirage, the team had gotten old all of a sudden and all those years of coming close and failing hadn't built any confidence, and things just collapsed. Panthers started their massive rebuild a little late, and last year it showed, and I put a lot of that on their FO.
Since he got there, we're 8-6 against them (omitting last year's meaningless season ender), so it's not like they aren't regularly prepared to play us.
They've had year to year inconsistency, but i'd hardly put him in the bum category.