It is Falcons week again - What are your thoughts and predictions?

[nctarheelreincarnated]

6 minutes ago, CRA said:

we opened the season vs the Raiders.  Not Green Bay. 

And everyone had the Raiders winning. Shrugs. And they did win. 

[SmittysLawnGuy]

I got us winning this week convincingly. Sadly that will turn us all into possible Wild Card? Then the next 3 games smash our faces into reality. Oh well. Still hopefulll!

[chknwing]

this will not be pretty. Carolina 42, Falcons 17

[Davidson Deac II]

31 - 20 Good guys.  We tie 14 all at the half, but we hold them to nothing but fg's in the second.  

[MHS831]

Hard to say-until we get some CBs and OL, gonna be tough

Atlanta 27

Carolina 30

[DJ feed me moore]

14 hours ago, hepcat said:

We haven't won on Thursday night since 2016. This is just not a game the Panthers typically win. Falcons are going to bounce back from all their bad luck sooner or later, why not against the team with a freaking black cat as a mascot a few days before Halloween. 

oh hell yeah the Luke concussion game, fun times on TNF!

[DaveThePanther2008]

20 hours ago, t96 said:

Falcons get a go ahead TD with 16 seconds left to go up by 1. They go for 2 to go up by a FG. Jeremy Chinn gets a game winning pick-2 and we win by 1.

Then we can watch Arthur Blank head implode as his team finds another way to blow a victory. 

[PantherPhann89]

19 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

It's extremely odd. If anyone would've suggest prior to the season that six games into the season we would have a defense that was slightly above average they would've been soundly mocked and ridiculed. Fast forward to now and we actually do have a defense slightly above average (13th in both yardage and points allowed) and a good chunk of the fanbase claiming they suck.

 

That's because a lot of huddle fan base suck. What fans complain immediately after a win? The ones here...

[nctarheelreincarnated]

17 minutes ago, bull123 said:

Our defense does kind of suck....but we are not historically bad like I thought we could be

He literally gave you stats why they don't technically "suck." Hell, they're better than last years defense FFS. 

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

23 hours ago, Panthercougar68 said:

It’s gonna be a wet slop fest so running game will be important.

It’s in the dome, right?

Never mind.

I guess I’m fine with a W or L. People thinking playoffs are way off. The NFC west and the Saints are probably getting those WC slots 

 

[nctarheelreincarnated]

11 minutes ago, Move the Panthers to Raleigh said:

It’s in the dome, right?

Never mind.

I guess I’m fine with a W or L. People thinking playoffs are way off. The NFC west and the Saints are probably getting those WC slots 

 

We could literally lose every game the rest of the year, and I could be content. This coaching staff is so, freaking, good. 

[Chaos]

Let’s see, Thursday night game, terrible run defense, run-heavy conditions likely, I don’t feel great about it.  If Dan Quinn wasn’t such an idiot I think ATL wins the first meeting if they’d stuck with the run game.  Gurley was embarrassing us.

[Jon Snow]

I have no predictions but they need to do at least 3 things on defense to have a shot at victory.  Stop Gurley from going off, same with Julio (good luck with that) and hit Ryan hard and repeatedly as much as possible.

On offense, just keep defenders off of Teddy.

[Mr. Scot]

The Falcons are so up and down I'm not sure what to think.

Julio playing definitely makes a difference. We don't really have anybody that I have confidence can cover him.

You could concentrate on going after Matt Ryan but aren't we last or close to last in the league in sacks?