CHARLOTTE — In case you're wondering where your favorite Panthers player or coach is today, the safest bet is "nowhere near a football field." At least one designed for adults.

That might be a quiet mountain trail. Or a youth sports sideline. Or a Chuck E. Cheese.

But for all of them, there's the realization that this is the last real weekend they're getting until December and their Week 14 bye.

"Football, football is brutal," center Austin Corbett said before getting away. "It sucks. It hurts and it's a long, long season to get to February, so we're rolling with it."

He doesn't really mean that one part. Corbett loves football as much as the rest of them. But having been through seven NFL seasons and a couple of major rehabs, he also knows that that love comes with a cost. And the c

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