Perhaps there really should be pressure mounting on the Carolina Panthers.

They actually have something to lose at this stage of the season.

The Panthers go into Monday night’s road game against the San Francisco 49ers as co-leaders in the NFC South.

Check your calendar. Yes, it’s late November.

A victory against the 49ers would put the Panthers in solo possession of first place in the NFC South. They’ve already reached the six-win level for just the second time in a seven-year span, though producing a winning record is no sure thing — and that hasn’t happened for Carolina since 2017.

Yet it’s still fair to ask what the NFL was thinking approving a Panthers game in prime time on a Monday night this late in the season — or any time in the season, for that matter.

That’s enough to ma

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