The Carolina Panthers just aren’t good enough right now.

They have lost two games in a row for the first time this season after Green Bay beat them, 27-19, on “Thursday Night Football.”

And while the Panthers (3-4) did some things better Thursday than they did in a brutal loss five days before — the run defense was much stronger, for instance — the result still wasn’t acceptable. Now the Panthers have to sit with this one until Nov. 8, when it will get no easier with a difficult home game against the 5-2 Denver Broncos.

That old problem the Panthers had of not being able to protect quarterback Bryce Young? It’s back, with a vengeance.

Young was sacked six times Thursday night and pressured many more. Largely because of that, and because Young’s mobility is obviously limited because of his nagging knee injury, Carolina is having trouble scoring points again.

“We’ve got to make sure we have better solutions,” Carolina coach Dave Canales said.

You need to score in the 20s — or even in the 30s — to win most NFL games. The Panthers have scored in the teens the last two games in a row: They also had only 13 points Sunday, in the 43-13 shellacking Tampa Bay handed them.

And then there are the cornerbacks.

Because of one injury after another — rookie Will Lee was the latest to go down Thursday night — the Panthers have climbed so far down the cornerback depth chart that it almost feels like they should hold an open tryout at Freedom Park on Monday. They were playing guys hardly anyone had ever heard of Thursday night.

Against that depleted secondary, Green Bay’s Jordan Love flung the ball all over the place for 288 yards and three TDs. He did so despite one of his receivers (Christian Watson) missing about half the game with a chest injury that required a mid-game trip to the hospital and the other (Matthew Golden) adding to his NFL lead in dropped passes.

While NFL teams often like to blame losses on turnover differential, the Panthers can’t do so this time.

Unlike the Tampa Bay game, when they had four turnovers and the Bucs had zero, this time the Panthers won the turnover battle 3-2 (and one of the Panthers’ turnovers hardly counts, given that it was on a desperation multi-lateral play on the game’s final play).

Carolina forced a turnover on the opening kickoff, getting a fumble recovery, but only got a field goal out of it.

“We’ve got to turn that into seven,” Canales said.

They later grabbed two more turnovers, with an interception from rookie Zakee Wheatley and a forced fumble by safety Nick Scott. However, Carolina only turned those three turnovers into three total points.

While Carolina’s defense did give up all those passing yards, often while playing CB5 and CB6, it also made enough big plays that this could have been a winnable game had the offense been humming.

Instead, the Panthers had all sorts of trouble moving the ball most of the night. They had only one play all night of 20 yards or longer: A 26-yard catch-and-run by Jalen Coker on a fourth-down pass that cut Green Bay’s lead to 27-19 midway through the fourth quarter.

Then, after a defensive stop, the Panthers got the ball back at their own 45 with three timeouts and 4:35 left. They needed a TD and a two-point conversion to tie the game. This was their chance.

But they couldn’t make a single first down, running the ball on third-and-7 and then seeing Young throw a ground ball that was short of Tetairoa McMillan on fourth down.

“Gotta make sure the ball is in his hands and not on the ground,” Young said. “That’s on me.”

Green Bay (5-3) ran almost all of the clock down after that, and it was soon over.

I can’t stress this enough: Nothing good is going to happen for the Panthers until they solve the O-line. Even without the still-injured Micah Parsons, the Packers could not be blocked. Young was running for his life.

Left tackle Rasheed Walker and right tackle Monroe Freeling both had tough nights, and they weren’t alone. Everything was a slog. Running back Chuba Hubbard was about the only effective offensive player, with 29 total touches for 119 total yards and a TD in which he found a few Panthers fans at Lambeau Field and did his own “Lambeau Leap.” Still, he never had a play of more than 18 yards and was often hit at or behind the line of scrimmage.

The Packers somehow entered the day in last place in their division. Carolina was in first. But Green Bay was clearly the better team on this night. The Panthers are now in a first-place tie with Atlanta in the NFC South. But that’s not going to last for long unless they can figure out how to protect Young.