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Why not measure ourselves against a heavy weight contender? Why not see how we stack up against a really good defense and a very explosive offense? I know we don’t think we have what it takes to win it all bc of the ups and downs but I hate to be the one that says it fellas we can win it All this year. We’ve beaten the Rams many believe they’ll represent the NFC. Green Bay at top notch O and D when we beat them Dallas a high powers offense team we contained them and out scored them. With this healthy roster that we currently have we can beat any team in the nfl we can go on a 4 game win streak vs teams like the Eagles Rams San Fran (should’ve beat the life out of them). I’d love to play Chi for the NFC it’ll be such an interesting twist of fate crossing paths with the Bryce compensation package.

Not resigning your first round pick who you give 5th year option to is getting rid of him. He will be extended before next season starts.

Brilliant. We just extended him. Let's release him before a single season on the extension when the dead cap is highest

Keep Pounding!

Hines Allen is having a career year he had a 9 pressure game I think week 12 he’s producing at a high level. He got the best of Garrett B on Denver who most think is going to be an All Pro this year so yea it happens when facing extremely good players. That’s where gameplan and scheme come into play to help minimize his production. Thats a bad person to use to say he’s not a viable option to take over after next season. But only time will tell.

There was a moment during the Falcons game they ended up winning in OT where I thought Canales might end up being in trouble. But they turned it around. Penix getting hurt might have saved the Panthers season. Cousins was rusty coming back cold. He was absolute money against the Bucs last Thursday.

Hahahaha did you suddenly forget how miserable the last 6.5 seasons were? If he could just go back in time, not hire Matt Rhule, and hire literally any NFL caliber head coach, even a BAD NFL head coach, I think many many things would be better.

You don’t go losing to the butthole Saints twice and get a victory Monday.

If it isnt rigged it sure appears to be. Not so much the total number or yards per call but when calls are made. It almost seems refs try to make up for calling too many calls one way or another as games go on to make the total seem more fair but they call them at times when the penalty doesnt matter. Would love to see some kinda study done looking at just calls that directly effect scoring or turnovers or points compared to vegas lines.

Dan Morgan earned his job this offseason. Best draft class in probably 10 years.

The NFL is an entertainment product. The games being fixed, or moreso nudged towards preferred outcomes, doesn’t change the fact that NFL football is still entertaining.

Absolutely not. Go out and pound Seattle into dust and get some playoff caliber energy. If the Bucs take a dump and lose to the Dolphins then it’s all wrapped up by Week 18.

Benching Icky was a wise choice based on the referee crew assignment. Shawn Smith’s crew had a heavy tendency to call false starts on the home team. I have a feeling the Panthers are using AI analytics for game planning, for better or for worse. This was one of the “gotchas” that came up in the AI analysis of the game taking into account the ref assignment.

Princely is just too small, I think he'll be fine once he puts on weight. Its all on him to do the hard work in the offseason to get in a position to be very good.

Yes and 22 fumbles losing 12. and looking at just this year he is 20th in yards , 16th in passing tds, 21st QBR. 16th is middle of the nfl , with several big name qbs injured most of the year that would normally be above him. He has had horrible games this season and better games this season . His last few weeks he has been trending in the right direction. He shows out and wins next 2 games for the panthers and wins a playoff game I will eat my words and return to say you are correct he is a great nfl qb, but at this point in time he has had probably 6 really good games in his 3 year career.

I have done some research into this subject. Clete Blakeman’s crew called the most penalties in the NFL in 2024. When Blakeman is assigned, the outcome becomes high-variance. The sheer volume of penalties means the referees have an outsized impact on the result. This is ideal for "trap games" where the league might want to introduce chaos into a matchup that looks like a guaranteed blowout on paper. The assignment makes perfect sense in hindsight for a usually high powered Chiefs offense going against the lowly Titans. But in the end the variance of Blakeman’s crew calling a high volume of penalties allowed the game to be influenced by the officials and yes, have Vegas’s preferred outcome occur. It happens very often.

Going from the 32nd to 27th ranked QB is a huge achievement indeed.

I do expect the offense to fall back to earth next year if everything stays the same. It is kinda like how the Panthers and even now the Chiefs won in the past. Winning many close, coin flip games. It never lasts from season to season usually.

Biased is one way of putting it. The NFL is an entertainment product in the strictest legal sense. Although I might yell it out on game days, I do not believe the games are outright “rigged” meaning there is one team that is going to win no matter what happens. It’s impossible. There’s too much variance in the game that can prevent a truly rigged game from happening unless there was cooperation from many parties involved. What I am thoroughly convinced happens is that the NFL and referees “manage” the games towards certain outcomes. And that is done primarily through referee crew choice however I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s more going on behind the curtain. The NFL uses the officials statistical tendencies to call penalties is to keep games close to drive user engagement. For example, If a crew tends to call more false start penalties, and there’s a game between a heavy pass offense where the NFL would like to manufacture a close game where it might have potential to be a blowout, then they’ll assign a crew that will slow that offense down and keep the game close. There is an insane amount of marketing and now sports betting money that is married to the NFL economic ecosystem. To think this whole system is fair when the referee union has no outward accountability structure for poor performance is just naive. It’s closer to the WWE than outward appearances suggest, but it’s not a fully scripted outcome either. So for those who say “stop watching” if you don’t want to watch a “rigged” game, it’s an entertainment product. You can still be entertained by it, even if it’s not as fair as a truly merit based sporting event.

Jeanty? He's barely in the conversation