Ask The Old Guy: Preseason vibes meet regular season reality

Darin Gantt

CHARLOTTE - Welcome to the final week of the year when football is a theoretical exercise.

After this week, we'll have a sample size of evidence (albeit a potentially misleadingly small one) to tell us if what we've been expecting or not expecting is real.

But this week, anything is possible. And people seem to be leaning toward the happy side of that, for now. It's early, yet.

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