Screw these Analyst, we know our team.

[Diehardpanther02]

(Hope this dont make your eyes bleed but its a point that needs to be made)

You know A few years back when we went 12-4 and beat some great teams, like the Niners and Pats and went to the wire with seattle I was consumed by the fact that no one seemed to take us seriously.  All the analyst, experts, NFL alumni never believed in us and week in and week out they picked us to lose.  We had a great defense with a front to be feared, and a run game that was solid.  I was pissed every week reading these articles about how we couldnt be trusted but week in and week out we managed to win.  An did it a fashion that was admirable with suffocating defense and cam putting up enough points to win.  In the end I realized that in this day and age the only respectable teams are those who have BIG name Weapons, and top 5 qb.  And i can accept that fact because those teams do win.  But the more I look at our roster and the history of who is sustainable with winning, are teams with great defenses.  And these so called "experts" dont respect a team that doesnt have the type of offense who explodes and wins 42-28.  But these guys get paid to get viewers and people who dont actually enjoy both sides of the football dont respect a team that fields a stout defense and a complementary O.  They want to see Touchdowns, and touchdowns win games, touchdowns get fans, and touchdowns boost viewing numbers.  They forget to realize that defense wins championships, because if the other team cant score how can they win?  This is when even though I knew the NFL was offensive driven, that I realized that these analyst only respected offensive driven teams.  And that is when I began to see that these guys have completely disregarded the fact that football has two sides to it(technically 3). Offense, Defense, and Special teams, and a good team wins with all three.  For instance look at the past Three Superbowl's:

2013: San Francisco Vs. Baltimore Ravens-  Both of these two teams fielded great defenses and both had offenses that could score when needed but neither had an Offense that could be considered Explosive.  The Ravens ended up winning this one and did it with a Ray Lewis lead defense against a 49er team that was lead by Patrick Willis.  Look at the quarterbacks of both teams, Joe Flacco and Colin Kaepernick.  Neither of those guys while good are world beaters.  And both rode the tail feathers of their defense and beat teams with high powered offenses to get there.  This is a prime example of the point I am making. DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS.

2014: Seattle Vs. Denver Broncos- Man this Super Bowl could not be more on point with what I am explaining.  Denver Broncos and their Highly touted offense meets head on with a damn Bear of a defense In Seattle.  Seattle comes in and steals Peytons cookies and sends him home looking like the Manning brother that never made it.  Every one was expecting this Superbowl to be a fun one to watch but I knew going in that it was going to be lopsided.  Either the High Powered offense that the media druled over was going to come and trample all over that seattle D, or that Seattle D was going to leave Peyton crying to archie about another blown superbowl with one of the best offenses in the league.   We all witnessed what happened and the Denver Offense looked abysmal and Seattle O looked like the Broncos of the regular season.  The defense made plays and their offense took advantage of the opportunities.

2015: Seattle Vs. New England Patriots- This Superbowl was one to watch, once again the Great D in seattle propels them to another superbowl, and the patriots make their way with a well balanced team.  The difference in this Superbowl was that the Pats had just enough D to keep that Seattle offense on their heels.  Had they went with what they did well in the final seconds by giving the ball to beast mode that great D might of came away with another superbowl victory.  And what do you know, the Patriots win a superbowl off a game clinching interception.  And the pats defense wins them a superbowl.

I guess, though i probably used to many words and not enough pictures to explain, my point being is that we shouldn't expect gratification from some bogus sports analyst.  Our gratification should come from the W's we have when we play.  We should be proud that we have a defense that shuts down Julio Jones, holds AP to abysmal yards and no touchdowns, and only lets teams score when it doesnt matter.  Us Panther fans should be used to being looked over, and we shouldn't expect any different.  Matter of fact we should be glad that we are looked over, because when it comes time to play us we will hit you in the mouth, more than once, and leave you so sore that you may not play next week, and do it legally too!  We are the Carolina Panthers, not the Broncos, Packers,  or the Colts.  We win by bruising your ego, we keep pounding, we dont give up.  And FUG any analyst that expects us to be anything other than who we are, THE CAROLINA PANTHERS.  FUG these Analyst and their phony reason why we suck, FUG the new NFL we do poo OLD SCHOOL around here, and we do it ugly.  What difference does it make cause in the end the win is what matters and as long as we continue to do so who gives a damn what our offensive stats look like, we score enough to win and thats enough for me.  And when our offense catches up to our D theses analyst will be on our D. So then, we fug em and they leave, we tell em "we gone need our shirt back".

[Leeroy Jenkins PhD]

Holy f'n text wall batman

[N.Y. PANTHER]

Great Fugin Post! Couldn't agree more. All of the panthers playoffs seasons we needed that strong D to get us there.

[Nate Dogg]

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

really made me pause and think on this rainy friday afternoon. thanks op

[Murrican]

Confirmed, eyes are bleeding.

But I do agree with your overall message.

[GRWatcher]

It was like this in our Super Bowl year too. No one believed in us. The best rep we got that year was 50 Cent wearing Panther gear on SNL before the NFCC game. lol 

[CarolinaXblue]

Offense sells tickets, defense wins championships.

[Jangler]

The Panthers will have to win for 5 years before they get any respect. And even then it will be grudgingly given.

[mc52beast]

Football today is about fantasy stats and style points... we fail in both categories. People don't like teams that rely on their defense to keep them in games, they want the "wild west" shootouts...

So let the "experts" continue to rag on us, we'll prove them wrong again on our way to a third straight NFCS title.

[Snake]

Way too long but I feel ya brother. I feel we have a team that can kick ass agian this year.  We keep going to the playoffs the cards will fall in our favor.