it was hard to have a worse beginning to the year than the Carolina Panthers after the loss to the Saints 47 to10 we're not going to talk about what happened on the field but it was after the fact on Monday that the news came out that their best player on their roster Derek Brown their defensive tackle suffered a potential season ending miniscus injury that could require surgery to determine the Tim table that he will be out if you do remember JJ McCarthy suffered a miniscus injury as well in preseason which required surgery basically ending his entire year Derek Brown is facing the same thing Dave Canal is said afterwards that the team is going to get a second opinion to determine whether or not Derek Brown needs surgery but again a devastating piece of news for the Carolina Panthers not only to lose the way they did but to have one of their best players now be out potentially for the whole year is really unfortunate for the Panthers to start