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Save the panic until after Tenn, that game will tell us everything.

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I know I know, it seems every Sunday we hear the same thing, “OMG this is the most important and pivotal game ever! A must win.” But heat me out on this one..

I really do think if we lose to a very beatable Titans team at home, drop 4-4, our season is done and it could really have a huge domino effect on this team’s trajectory for the foreseeable future. 

First it will spell the end of the Hurney/Rivera era,  you even have to wonder if they will even bother playing Cam at all at that point this season if we can’t win this game. 
 

However IF we win (spoiler alert, I actually think we win handily) it will mean this team has pulled it together and bounced back after a brutal loss to San Fran and they haven’t folded and we might be able to put another winning streak together. 
 

TLDR- it would be wise to put the panic on hold until after the Titans game. If we win then it might show you can chalk up the San Fran game to a usual post bye hangover after A LOT of traveling. However if we lose then  the season is done along with this current regime.

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My own humble opinion is that because of the magnitude of this past loss, the importance of the Tennessee game gets magnified enormously. 

If they come out strong and post a solid win, that makes the San Francisco debacle look like an aberration.  Another loss congers up thoughts of last year, when after the wipeout in Pittsburgh we couldn't buy a win, even against teams where a mildly bad performance should have been enough.  A stinker and it looks like the wheels have come off, again.  These questions would not exist if we had dropped a 20-17 game.

Let's face it: Getting annihilated after having an extra week to prepare, even against a 6-0 team (now 7-0) creates a lot of questions, and doubt.  Especially going into Green Bay next week.

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I don't know how many people remember Game Five of the 2003 season, but it was against the same team we face this weekend.

We got our asses handed to us in that game. Lost by 20 points, and looked like sh-t doing it.

Our defense was exposed, our new quarterback (Delhomme) was terrible, we were a pretender, blah blah blah blah blah.

Went to the Super Bowl that season. Titans got eliminated in the divisional round.

You just never know...

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1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

I don't know how many people remember Game Five of the 2003 season.

We got our asses handed to us by the Tennessee Titans in that game. Lost by 20 points, and looked like sh-t doing it.

Our defense was exposed, our new quarterback (Delhomme) was terrible, we were a pretender, blah blah blah blah blah.

Went to the Super Bowl that season. Titans got eliminated in the divisional round.

You just never know...

Yes, but it was a completely different scenario with the top teams they had to overcome.   Also they didn't have Ron Rivera at the helm to right the ship.  This team doesn't have the grit that team had either to rebound from this.  

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1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

I wish people would stop rolling with the whole "this weekend's game will tell us everything" bit.

It's hardly ever true.

I dunno man I learned all I needed to know watching the team get raped against the 49ers. Same old same old.

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Just now, hepcat said:

I dunno man I learned all I needed to know watching the team get raped against the 49ers. Same old same old.

I wouldn't deny that we looked like sh-t in that game.

I would point out that I have seen plenty of teams bounce back from a game where they looked like sh-t and go on to great seasons.

Can we do that? Ask me again in about eight weeks.

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1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

I wouldn't deny that we looked like sh-t in that game.

I would point out that I have seen plenty of teams bounce back from a game where they looked like sh-t and go on to great seasons.

Can we do that? Ask me again in about eight weeks.

There's a big difference between a simple bad game, like what you referenced with the Panthers in 2003, and getting completely and utterly shredded from top to bottom, with nothing positive. (except for Christian McCaffrey, the only legitimate player on the roster anymore)

Ron thought the Steelers game last season was just a bad game. Sh*t happens he said. It's a pattern. There's deep rooted problems with this squad that haven't gone away.

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