CHARLOTTE — In the classic entry in the American songbook "Five Feet High and Rising," Johnny Cash watches the floodwaters continue to climb and sardonically says, "Looks like we'll be blessed with a little more rain."

Panthers head coach Dave Canales takes a sunnier view of the conditions.

"What a gift," Canales beamed at the beginning of his press conference Tuesday, following a practice that was conducted in a low-grade monsoon.

The Panthers practiced through it for nearly two hours, and likely will again tomorrow when the Browns visit for a joint practice, so Canales was clearly looking for silver linings in the many, many clouds.

"I mean, just to get the experience of it, that could happen to us early in the season here, with just some of the storms that have been rolling through,

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