I am not overlooking Chicago, and neither should you.

[dimbee]

3 hours ago, Jeremy Igo said:

The Panthers could very well lose in Chicago this weekend. 

 

Take a look at their season so far... 

Chicago Bears (2-4)

Week 1 - HOME - Lose to Atlanta 23-17

Week 2 - AWAY - Blown out in Tampa Bay 29-7

Week 3 - HOME - Defeat the Steelers in Chicago - 29-17

Week 4 - AWAY - Lose to Green Bay 35-14

Week 5 - HOME - Lose to Vikings 20-17

Week 6 - Away - Defeat the Ravens 27-24 

 

Observations 

Chicago quietly has the 6th ranked defense in the league currently. (Better than Detroit and Philadelphia's )

All of Chicago's home games have either been wins, or losses within 1 score. I suspect the same will be true this weekend. 

Chicago has not allowed more than 23 points at home against offenses better than the Panthers (Steelers, Falcons). 

 

Conclusion

For a Panthers team that is struggling on offense to begin with, this is not an automatic win. Throw in the fact that John Fox has extra motivation to hand Jerry and Marty an L this weekend, and things become far less certain. 

 

 

Good luck this week.  I expect the Panthers to win.  The Bears D has outplayed itself so far but the personnel losses are bound to catch up.  The inept WRs do little and it's only our O-Line and RBs that offer any potential for a win this week.  If the Bears can somehow grind it out getting first downs and controlling the clock, we might have a chance... but I'm not hopeful.

[Growl]

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[raleigh-panther]

3 hours ago, GoobyPls said:

God forbid we make Trubisky look like a 10 year vet.

 

Their running game is the only thing that worries me about them

The panthers have a history of doing just that

[Growl]

I'm not humoring this attitude anymore and I'm tired of the team doing so.

 

We are a talented, veteran team and there's no excuse to not go out there and get a strong win off a stupid loss.

Do your job.

[TDAllDay]

With shula calling offense, any team can beat us. 

[Hallin'AllDaeDae]

They just beat the Ravens in Baltimore

I don't think anyone is overlooking them

[thefuzz]

As a longtime Panthers fan, I overlook no one.

 

John Fox and George Seifert taught me that lesson.

[PhillyB]

this feels like the type of game we'd inexplicably drop 

[Moorgan]

2 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

this feels like the type of game we'd inexplicably drop 

There's plenty here that will tell you it wasn't inexplicable and was downright expected. But football this year is kinda wide open. It's actually fun not having a solid pulse on any team this year (including college).

[backINblack28]

The reason I'm overly confident for this game, is that normally I would be terrified that the young rookie is gonna come in and throw caution to the wind and show out against us.  Lucky there is 0% chance of John Fox allowing any QB to do that.  We know now that Clausen was trash but you'd have never been able to tell in 2010 when Fox just let him either run a boot leg and throw it under 7 yards or throw it away.  The dude tried to make Peyton Manning a game manager and handed Joe Flacco a free super bowl because of it.  Bless.

[Proudiddy]

I'm not gonna lie, I've been worried about their run game with Howard and Cohen.  I think they could give us a lot of trouble.

I'm not worried about Trubisky at all.  I think our defense is going to have him rattled early...  but again, that run game is what I'm worried about.

[Wolfcop]

Chicago does a lot of the little things well. I don't think too many Panthers fans are overlooking them, and I know the team isn't. Any win on the road (and at home for US lately) is hard to come by. We need to start winning the turnover battle. If we do that this game, I think we have a really good chance to win...just like we would have against the Eagles without those 2 gift scores we gave them. 

 

[Mr. Scot]

42 minutes ago, thefuzz said:

As a longtime Panthers fan, I overlook no one.

As a long time NFL fan, I overlook no one.

Even the worst teams in the league are still professionals and tend to win at least a few games.

The Bears may not be great but it'd be absolutely foolish to just dismiss them as an easy win.

[juliosantos]

there a tough defense . leonard floyd is going to give us mothers problems