FBGP's '15 NFL Week 1 Panthers/Jagaurs Preview

[FootballCzar]

http://footballgameplan.com/fbgps-2015-nfl-week-1-preview-panthers-vs-jaguars/

 

Good evening Panther fans! Welcome to a new season and good luck this week!
 

Em

[nctarheel0619]

Emory knows his stuff.  You know it's bad when he picks us to lose to Jacksonville and his main point is our receivers are trash.  Yeesh.  

[Captain Obvious]

i still don't understand how they are trash. never will I guess. Maybe after the first game is played you could say that. BUt now? 

[pantherj]

Does he not know Lee is out?

[pantherj]

If we can't even beat the Jags, then what team can we beat? What team on our schedule is worse than the Jags? The Bucs maybe? Have I totally misread our team? It would seem to me that our defense would totally strangle the young and inexperienced Jag offense. If they carve up our defense then EVERYONE save the Bucs will do the same. Are we looking at a fuging 2-3 win season? Can't be. I just can't possibly see a loss to the Jags. If we lose to the 3 win Jags burn this poo down. We're finished. The rest of the teams we play this season (except the Bucs) are better than the Jags. 

[top dawg]

Our defense won't necessarily be a problem unless they get tired from being on the field due to an ineffective offense. If we can keep them honest with our passing game,  then we will win because we will force them out of the box,  and in turn we will rip them to shreds.  

[stankowalski]

His points are valid.  I just don't think Jacksonville is good enough at this point to take advantage of our weaknesses.  If Bortles continues progressing then in a couple years I could see him doing well against some of the better defenses in the league...just not right now.

[Mr. Scot]

Does he not know Lee is out?

Apparently not.

Also, I haven't seen anything to back up his assertion that Devin Funchess might not play. All indications are that Kevin Norwood will be the inactive receiver.

And come on man, it's Olsen, not Olson. Greg Olson is the Jags OC.

[panthers55]

I think that our defense will be better than Jacksonville and I think we will run better than they will. They may be better in the air but our front seven are better than theirs. I think the offense will be better than people think and Gano is going to be money this year

 Panthers 20

Jacksonville 14

[2jakefansinva]

I just don't see a rookie RB and second yr QB carving up our D.

also......he must have forgotten about our LB's.

[TheNewStandard]

I just don't see a rookie RB and second yr QB carving up our D.

also......he must have forgotten about our LB's.

Guessing he gives points to the home team, regardless of who's playing. 

Our Panthers cut most the fat on the team that made last season such a mess and strengthened all the areas that were the cause of last year's ugly record. 

If we had Ginn last season, I would basically guarantee 3-more wins based off of better starting field position alone, not even mentioning how much better our current OL is compared to what we had last season. 

We we also improved both LB and upgraded our defensive backfield. 

Mist critics picked TB to beat us in our first game last season as well and I know that no other NFCS improved their roster as much as we did this offseason, so we should be favorites to repeat as division champs. 

Its not like we're asking Cam for more than 275 yards passing to keep the defense fresh and half of last year we had Fozzy and Reaves as our rushing attack with swole bones as our FB because Tolbert, Stew and Deangelo missed considerable playing time due to injury. So there's another upgrade there.

how can you favor one of the worst teams in the league over a probable divisional favorite? 

Fug the pundits...can't wait to see them all stumble their way onto the Panther's bandwagon.

[Verge]

Oh man, I sure wish we had amazing receivers like the Jaguars, lord knows we would be amazing with the legendary Allen Robinson, Allen hurns, and...who else again?

[PanthersUnited]

I just don't get the sudden Jags love this season. What have they done to be so much better that people are calling them a sleeper team and how they will beat us?! Added Julien Thomas? (Who btw is out for our game?!) 

I could see if they were a 7-8 win team last season and right on the brink of greatness, but they weren't. I just don't get the sudden Jags love suddenly 

[Verge]

Our defensive line is going to take such a massive dump on their o-line, it's not even right. This matchup is so completely wonderful for us, anyone picking us to lose is not looking at the match up correctly at all. I have said it all month and will continue saying it; we are going to blow Jacksonville out, and it won't even be relatively close.