The Panthers are 1-8 in their last 9 nationally televised games vs. winning teams

[LiberalsRWeak93]

5 hours ago, JakeDel5674 said:

LOL, alrighty. Sureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. The last time we beat Pitt, was in 1996. Our Defense is average as Hell. So, I don't feel too comfortable about beating them. And LOL at the number 1 offense being the Bucs. Jesus. 

We have played them twice in 8 seasons.... 2010 2-14 record, and 2014 7-8-1 record..... that has little to no bearing on now.

[brandon_87]

Absolutely pointless stat. It's like saying we are 17-5 when there's 3 clouds in the sky and Chris Collinsworths dog sees his shadow....

[XOBlackxJokerOX]

[Doc Holiday]

The more telling stat in this is when both teams are coming off a short week, the home team usually wins on Thursday night. 

Tried to find the overall record for home and away games but couldn’t, maybe someone who knows where to look can find it

[Doc Holiday]

15 hours ago, CRA said:

Well....I would challenge the breakdown of the games you picked.  I mean you cherry picked in the Bronco Super Bowl and left out the 5 prime time games they won that season.  So if you include the Bronco loss I would think you would need to include those 5 wins. 

and like you mentioned, you then added a loss to a Bronco team that was 0-0.  And as far as actual play? They played well enough to win it.  Hence Gano hitting the first kick.  

Then you added a Raider game that wasn’t prime time I don’t believe. 

So to sum up how I feel? I feel like your post is more a representation of our 2017.  And our 2017 team made life easy on defenses.  Because we had zero speed on offense outside of what was in our backfield.  None.  And despite that, the 2 prime time games we had Olsen (Playoff game and Philly)....we had shots to win and were in them. 

So the real question is....why won’t we win.  We should be in the game with this roster. 

Great points all across. 

Imo we have a better team than the Steelers right now, and are certainly playing better, problem is we are the road team on the short week. That throws a lot of stuff out of the window. 

Would definitely be our most impressive win so far this season if we beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh on a short week.

[Daddy_Uncle]

Bunch of scaredy cat negative nancies on here. I'm confident we are going to make a statement

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

I agree that the Panthers have not always been great in the spotlight, but I think we show up this Thursday. We’re finally maturing as a franchise.

[Sam Mills Fan]

2 answers to a couple of questions:

- I used Super Bowl 50 as a cutoff point because that's when the troubles started. Obviously we did a lot better earlier in the 2015 in similar games. 

- Yes, all of those games were nationally televised games. Someone said the Raiders game wasn't nationally televised: it was a 4:25 game with Jim Nantz in the booth and CBS Media had it down as being in the nationally televised window.