//Panthers get some positive reinforcement as they continue building process

Panthers get some positive reinforcement as they continue building process

It would be easy to overstate some of the individual components of the game. They played well enough on defense, but it wasn’t as much a lockdown performance as it was receiving the gifts Washington quarterback Dwayne Haskins gave them.

Washington ended up benching Haskins, when a win would have secured the NFC East title.

And the second part of that sentence wasn’t lost on the Panthers.

Cornerback Donte Jackson said it became a pride thing: “We’re not going to let you clinch on us.”

Some day, their goals will be about them, but at the moment, this is what they have to grab onto.

“A lot of parts of this season, we were searching to find our identity, to find out what we do and what we have,” Jackson said. “That’s what we’re doing. We were trying to