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Love your writing and anecdotal style. My wife and I are still dancing to "Baby Monkey!" Simple question, is "win-now" realistic? Note, I'm asking this a day after the thrilling win in Arizona. — Brad, Winston-Salem, NC

Baby Monkey, you say? Riding backwards on a pig? (Pause for 58-second dance break.) (Ahhh, that feels better.)

Where were we? Win now? Maybe. It depends on what your definition of winning is.

What I know for sure is their defense is capable of playing with anyone. They are fast, they're getting pressure on quarterbacks with Haason Reddick and Brian Burns, linebacker Shaq Thompson is playing the best football of his career, and they have plenty of options in the secondary.

What I know for the time being is that Newton and Walker have provided a lift for an offense that needed one, along with the aforementioned line. By the way, Christian McCaffrey's here too, along with DJ Moore and Robby Anderson. That's a good place to start.

Are the Panthers well-rounded enough to compete with the top teams in the league? We'll find out in December when they play the Bucs twice and the Bills.

Are they good enough to stay in the playoff hunt in a muddled conference? I'd say they already are. If the season ended today, they'd be the seventh seed in the NFC. Also, a lot of people would be saying, "Why did the season end the Tuesday of Week 11?"

And because Brad teed me up to tell my favorite dumb football joke of all time, and because he clearly knows how to get date-night with the wife off to a good start, I'm making him this week's Ask The Old Guy Friend of the Mailbag, and as soon as we have merch, he's getting the 16th piece of it behind me, Hal from Canada, Westray from Kershaw, Joseph formerly of Concord who's moving away for some big fancy job with a desk, Sunny from Houston, Adam from Germany, Long-Winded Donovan, Juan from Argentina, Wise Bob from Colorado, Newlywed Alex, Every Day Susan from Training Camp, Lynn from Lake Wylie, Scott With Good Taste in Music, Cory Who Got Right To The Point And Begged, and Peter the Australian Punter Expert.

(There will be photographic evidence of said merch next week, promise.)

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