The Panthers and Buccaneers enter Week 15 with identical 6-7 records and they’ll close the season with two games against each other in the final three weeks.

That kind of scheduling would make it easy to get caught looking past this week’s game, especially for a Panthers team that has not been to the postseason since the 2017 season. On Wednesday, head coach Dave Canales said that he wants to stress to his players that they can’t afford to do that with the Saints this week because losses in games that don’t feel as weighty as the ones against Tampa can still come back to haunt them.

“All of them, every single one from the beginning of the season ,” Canales said, via the team’s website. “I understand how important every single game is as you get to this point in the season, and so you

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