Cowboys on a short week, Panthers on a long week

[Zod]

Just occurred to me that the Cowboys have 5 days to prepare and the Panthers will have had 9. 

 

 

I like that. 

[NAS]

I'm sure that will be one of the excuses that Aikman will use if we win

[Panther'sBigD]

And posters need to lay off of the hand wringing posts about how ‘historically we do bad after a bye or a long week’ since this is a new regime and so far they’ve bucked the bad trends of the Rivera era. 
 

Excited to see what our guys can do with the extra rest and planning. 

[NAS]

1 minute ago, Panther'sBigD said:

And posters need to lay off of the hand wringing posts about how ‘historically we do bad after a bye or a long week’ since this is a new regime and so far they’ve bucked the bad trends of the Rivera era. 
 

Excited to see what our guys can do with the extra rest and planning. 

Agreed.  Rhule is more like Bellicick than Rivera in this regard

[jamos14]

I don't know how good they are yet.  I will reserve opinions until after tonight.

I am concerned about their WRs now with Horn out.    Need pass rush to dominate.

 

But the extra few days to prepare and recover from injury will absolutely help.   They have less time to study our defense and will be banged up from Monday night.

[Panther'sBigD]

We lost a star in the secondary, but we’ve got several back there, and a very creative DC. I think they’ll be able to cover as well as you can for the lack of Jaycee. 

[onmyown]

Going to be good…or bad…it will be the Panthers first match up against a legitimate team.

Edited September 27, 2021 by onmyown

[Wes21]

Its definitely an odd scheduling quirk in our favor.

[NAS]

20 minutes ago, onmyown said:

Going to be good…or bad…it will be the Panthers first match up against a legitimate team.

You don't think the Saints are legitimate? 

They dominated against Green Bay and New England!

Edited September 27, 2021 by NAS

[Harbingers]

It’s good to have the long break hopefully they been working with the guys getting cramps and tweaks over the weekend to get their conditioning up. 

[Fox007]

Yea in this past this wouldn't mean anything as Rivera is complete trash coming off a bye and even though this isn't a bye my point is Rivera with extra time never seemed to matter. Hopefully this staff can do better.

[Cary Kollins]

Just wanna say it’s such a relief to have a head coach that’s not an almost guarantee to field a lackadaisical, flat team coming off every bye/mini-bye.

[Cary Kollins]

19 minutes ago, Fox007 said:

Yea in this past this wouldn't mean anything as Rivera is complete trash coming off a bye and even though this isn't a bye my point is Rivera with extra time never seemed to matter. Hopefully this staff can do better.

Lol didn’t even see this post when I said basically the same thing.

[onmyown]

42 minutes ago, NAS said:

You don't think the Saints are legitimate? 

They dominated against Green Bay and New England!

Yea they beat GB and NE…that’s the point. The team we played was not that team. With the issues they had, no.

They literally had so many coaches out some scrub was calling subs and doing 10 other things he had no clue how to do.

Of course, are the Panthers legitimate without CMC and Horn? Meh, debatable. But one could look at last year when CMC was down (and everyone said we will be fine) and no Horn and a much better oline (shockingly). Seems we have a better qb though, but it was sad. I am not as optimistic as some without cmc with this oline. I think shits about to get bad and this place will implode.

In a COVID year everything is patchwork like last year so what’s considered legitimate or not will be very fluid and different from any other year, but in general, no, I don’t consider the Saints team the Panthers played legitimate. That team would be 0-3.

Edited September 27, 2021 by onmyown