ANALYSIS: “Break up the Panthers!

After dropping their first two games of the season, the Carolina Panthers now have their first winning streak of Matt Rhule’s tenure as head coach and their most convincing win of the season after handling the Arizona Cardinals at Bank of America Stadium.

Rhule was careful to downplay the significance of the Panthers’ ending the first quarter of the season at .500.

“If this is the high point of the season, then we won’t have a very good season,” Rhule told reporters. “I will say this: The coaches aren’t any different. I just think the players getting more and more comfortable with what we do and how we do it. And then more and more making it how they do it. And that, to me, is the mark of a winner.”

Still, this was an impressive