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I put the rest of my cheeseburger money on the Panthers to beat the Saints this weekend. I have faith the boys will get it done. If not, just fade me.

Because he is confident they are measurably better than us, and he doesn't want his team buying into the talk about being losers and flopping at the end of the season. Not saying it is right, not saying it will be effective. They've won the division 5 or 6 straight times though, and were the favorite to win this year as well. The bottom has fallen out only since their bye week. At 1 point there was talk of being #1 in the NFC and Mayfield as MVP.

Tepper gets a bad rap mostly because the team hasn’t been successful. But across the league, most owners aren’t great; they just get lucky hiring smart people who make them look good. There are some truly awful owners, but Tepper is no were near Stephen Ross or Woody Johnson. its are levels to this.

Winning fixes everything. We're in the lead, for at least this moment, and like being on a sled dog team, the view from the front is much, much more pleasant. I think the team is ahead of schedule right now. And I like that. Would really love to see us win out the rest of these games. And in the playoffs, anything can happen.

I don't have to see no more from this season to know that its been a success, we are playing with house money.

Yup. Top gear for top gear, panthers lose by 2 plus scores. High gear panthers vs an elite’s team middle gear is probably a 3 point game either way. High level Panthers football looks like the third quarter of the Rams game. This team has 2 very solid backs and a powerful line. That can make any game close.

The team wasn't going to send him on his way anyways.

well, would be a disclaimer on that, they could beat anyone w/ that strategy if a team doesn't show up or plays poorly. We could play the Rams 10 times and play well in most, they are going to beat us the majority of the time. Pretty big disparity in talent still exists IMO.

This. If Bryce can just be a game manager and Canales leans in to the run game, this team can beat anyone in the league. Bryce can make clutch throws in clutch moments, but asking him to do it all game is a recipe for failure.

Alarming stats considering how many of these are checkdowns

I've almost forgotten what it feels like to want players back healthy for a potential postseason run

Ehh. Any billionaire was going to leech. I actually think we're better off with Tepper since he's heavily invested here between the Panthers and CLTFC. It would be difficult and costly for him to leave town.

That is true, it was very concerning how easy the Rams made it look, but I feel like they were picking on our very thin secondary. Should be a better showing if we get to play them again. And yes we are rush first for sure, but if Bryce doesn’t throw the ball at all downfield we are being too conservative and will not make it past the first round. Our running is our bread and butter but if you can activate the good Bryce more consistently and he can throw the clutch shots, then that is the balance I am talking about. Not 50/50, more 65/35. Seems like Canales was going 80/20 in either direction there for a few weeks. I just hope Bryce builds more confidence and then we will be able to hang with anyone.

That 3 game skid when all we needed was 1 win to clinch the division was pretty stressful.

Bowles - "I don't think its a big hurdle"

Yeah you can just compare Sack % and Pressure % for Flacco vs. Burrow in the same offense. Flacco’s is significantly lower, but even Burrow’s isn’t too bad. Burrow’s pressure % is pretty similar to Bryce’s (23.3 vs. 23.0) and I think we all agree that we have put a pretty good o-line in front of Bryce, even with the injuries this year.

if you didn't watch 3 plays.....the D that played the Rams looked exactly like last years. I mean the Rams are a very good offensive team but just how easy that walked the field us on all game is a tad concerning. and the Panthers should 100000% roll out the same gameplan vs the Saints. All you need is Jaycee Horn not to give up 2 massive TDs and it's an easy ugly win. We know how the winning forumula. It isn't balance. It's leaning on the run and having Bryce make very few throws that matter. Hope he can when the few moments call.

And the Cardinals had to start Ryan Lindley that game as well. They were actually winning at halftime 14-13. That game summed up that season and we limped our way into Seattle standing no chance whatsoever but the team gained valuable playoff experience imo I’ll sign up for that again versus missing the playoffs. It would be good for this team. Even though we’ll most likely be one and done

Love Jonathan lol ’rise up’ is also the most pitiful motto. Pitiful

We were very banged up going into that Rams game. Our second best player (Horn), our best safety, and both starting ILBs were out. I feel like our defense has really been impressive considering a year ago. If our offense learns how to be balanced like they were against the Rams, we can honestly beat anyone. Those losses to the Saints and 49ers may have been what we needed to figure out that when we depend too much on either running exclusively or passing exclusively that we are no good. That Rams game showed what we can do when we are in sync offensively and it was so much fun to watch. If that offense shows up this week then go ahead and cancel your plans the second weekend in January as you will have a game to watch.

and we won a game in the playoffs.....where our leading receiver was Fozzy Whitaker w/ just 39 rec yards. That feels like a 2025 Panthers type winning setup.

Yep, the board has amnesia to the weekly swings and declarations made. The same cast of characters has been talked about vastly different repetitively and you only have to go back as far as the game before the last one....and just keep repeating that pattern largely backwards. I personally feel confident that this team is not bad and it is not good. And while that is nice to get back to be out of the literal dumpster......I don't view this team as an average team w/ a puncher's chance. All average teams are of different molds. We are more the, if a really good team plays bad, you will lose to us variety. We aren't bad enough where you can get away with a bad day vs us anymore.

My bad, I was referring to the second half. I was gone running errands for most of the first half and early 3rd qtr.

Same it’s been too long Cam’s third year we got a home playoff game and got bounced pretty harshly. That stung more because we were 12-4 Id love for us to make playoffs just for Bryce and these young guys to get that same experience heading into next season. I’ll view this more like 2014 when we had no business being in the playoffs but got in. Playoff experience is never a bad thing especially for a young team like us