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You win some/you lose some. That is the mindset of a team that blitz's the way we have all season. When going against an OL of that talent. It showed how teams can take advantage of our secondary. 

I wouldn't be worried about this, as our secondary will continue to get better each day. CJ Hen is learning the playbook and Horn has already showed what he can be. DJax is also continuing to get better and better. This DB room is building chemistry and learning from their mistakes. They are also learning what it feels like to have to play without our DL generating constant pressure. 

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We had two guys at CB that were playing their first game of the year PERIOD or first in our system.

Big momentum shift after bogus, unchallengeable forward progress call. (Clearly a fumble)

Bad o-line.

Best player on offense out and more.

The media rushed to make excuses for Sean Payton and company. Going as far to say that Winston “had a bad day”. I wonder if they take the same approach with Rhule and the defense? My guess is a resounding NO.

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Exactly.  I get that we started well, and we look to be trending in the right direction.  But somehow a portion of our fanbase got it in their heads that we were a finished product.  This was just a little reminder that we're still not quite there.

I'd like to remind everyone that we still have FOURTY SEVEN MILLION in dead cap this year.  We were *never* going to compete that way.  Think of it this way . . . what if we had invested 47 million in our OLine for this year.  How much better would be be?

It sucks that we can't just skip this year and go straight to next year, but we can't.  As long as our team keeps playing hard and being competitive, that's ok.  Needle pointing up.

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Insert CMC and we may have come away with the W. And that is only one of the many problems we had in this game. That's all I should have to say to feel comfortable.

And it's not like its just some regular above talent player. CMC was literally our offense and we still played competitive without the man. 

A great learning experience nd since we won the games we were supposed to win we could afford to take this L (afford to, not want to). We have some more games that may not be "gimme games" but we should win.

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We are 3-1, most people didn't anticipate that start...

We have -- PHI / MIN / NYG / ATL / NE -- over the next 5 weeks, if we manage 3-2 over those 5, we're sitting at 6-3 at the midway mark of the season. The last three in that five to me are very winnable, PHI and MIN may be a little tougher. 

If we get through that patch 6-3 or better, we probably have a shot at a Wild Card, ARI / TB 2x / BUF are as good and most would consider them better than DAL so that is likely 4 losses in the back half of the season. 

So as far as a shot at the playoffs the next five games are critical, we need to win at least 3. 

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I don’t mind losing but I hate getting fuged by the refs. You could have negated 50+ of their rushing yard by just calling even 20% of their offensive holds. We also recorded zero sacks because if we got remotely close to Dak one of their lineman would illegally take our defenders out of the play.

The blown fumble call was all you needed to see to know the outcome of the game and that is horseshit.

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Let's see how they respond at home vs. Philly. The mark of a good team is the ability to put a loss behind them and get back to playing good football. 

Next Sunday will be more indicative of the type of team the Panthers are than this last one against the Cowboys.

I had no expectation for them this year and still stick with my 9-8/10-7 prediction (last 4 games are @Bills, Bucs x2 and @Saints). Anything more is gravy.

I want to see what they look like next year. You know, when the OLine is addressed.

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We lost on the road to a playoff team.

The refs had a terrible day, and we still kept is somewhat respectable.

We were missing 2 of our best 5 players....and this was the first game without them.

Dak is an elite QB.

We are young, have a bad O line, and are learning how to play together...this team has very little continuity.

This was expected.

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It’s just where we are currently at as a team. Dominating bad teams at home (Jets), beating bad teams on the road (Texans), beating good teams at home (Saints), but are going to struggle against solid teams on the road. Especially when momentum shifts and we have injuries. Hopefully we will get better as players come back and we get more experience. 

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