Panthers Wild Card Game Among Worst Games of 2014

[Panther_Brotherhood]

According to SI

 

http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/02/04/worst-games-nfl-season-2014

 

 

 

We can look back now and hold up the Super Bowl, the NFC Championship Game and a handful of other moments as the NFL's gold standard for postseason drama, but the opening game of wild-card weekend did all it could to ensure the 2014 playoffs had nowhere to go but up. The battered and undermanned Cardinals capitalized on two gift-wrapped Panthers’ turnovers to take an improbable 14-13 lead at halftime, but as so often happens, 20 yards of second-half offense were not enough to put the game away. A final botched hook-and-ladder play landed Arizona in the record books with 78 total yards of offense, the lowest mark in playoff history. The blame largely fell to Cardinals quarterback Ryan Lindley, who became a sympathetic figure as he stumbled through a 16-of-28 performance for 82 yards, the first touchdown pass of his career and two interceptions in his sixth NFL start. The Panthers played their own valuable role in this high-stakes eyesore: Brenton Bersin's truly impressive muffed punt and Cam Newton's pedestrian performance helped keep Arizona close before a long Fozzy Whitaker touchdown and Ted Ginn Jr's fumble on the ensuing kickoff wrapped things up. -- Eric Single

 

 

I guess whenever you attend the game, it seems more interesting 

[Mr. Scot]

Objectively speaking, it genuinely was kind of a mess.

[Dex]

Spot fuging on.

[PantherWake]

Yeah it was a horrendous game for casual viewers. Good thing we weren't casual viewers of it.

[Goondal]

Cannot argue that it was bad, I cannot imagine watching that game had a different team been involved.

 

Having said that, our games against the Vikings and Packers were much worse.  At least the playoff game was close at halftime.

[The Huddler]

Didnt help half the country couldnt watch because it was on ESPN

[Jeremy Igo]

Agreed. It was a pretty terrible game. 
 

 

But watching the players take a final lap after was one of the most satisfying things for me to witness ever as a Panthers fan. 

[Mr. Scot]

No doubt.

[Kuech the Sneak]

Bad game, but I loved it

[the butch]

It was such a bad game that I went to use the bathroom . . . all the while Fozzy is scoring and Ginn is fumbling . . . just my luck, but we won!

[TheSpecial1]

Haha yeah it was pretty terrible.

[Mr. Scot]

It was such a bad game that I went to use the bathroom . . . all the while Fozzy is scoring and Ginn is fumbling . . . just my luck, but we won!

Ouch

[RelaxImaPro]

It wasn't that bad. The problem was most the country had already made up their mind to hate it because it was the 7-8-1 Panthers vs the 3rd string QB Cardinals

Great defense, big offensive plays, and stupid yet exciting STs screw ups

[panthers55]

We hadn't won a home playoff game since 2003 before that. I was at the game and thought it was awesome we won. In the end all that matters is the final,score, not how you won or lost. Do you think that it matters that New England was handed the Super Bowl or that they won?