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Same old Panthers. Huge losing streak here we come.


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6 minutes ago, Wolfpredator said:

I had a conversation the other day with my friend and he said, "Yeah, it seems like the players do not even take it as personally as we do sometimes.  They usually are all friends ( with some exceptions ) and probably half of them go out to dinner after the game"  Fans are willing to kill each other over their teams and probably down the road people have completely destroyed their lives over rooting for things you have zero control over.  

Exactly. I do derive pleasure from eviscerating the Panthers poor performances on this forum every season though. It’s too easy. Horrible decisions and mistakes all off-season and then we get terrible mind numbing losses during the season. It’s a broken record at this point!

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40 minutes ago, Sean Payton's Vicodin said:

yeah i really dont care anymore either. sb50 was kinda my breaking point TBH. year after year its the same issues and once in a while they'll pull off some magical season and then go back to being a mediocre blob after.

for me it was the 2nd hiring of Hurney....crushed my soul and my fandom a bit.  

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4 hours ago, lightsout said:

Our problems haven't changed. We just didn't address them.

 

Defensively we're just young and hurt. Offensively, we haven't had a good OL in the better part of a decade.

 

But relax guys. We're better than we were last year. Losing tight games sucks but we're competitive. Nobody should've expected more than that this year.

So whens it end year six with a playoff birth?

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Just now, SBBlue said:

Not sure your point.  Are you predicting a huge losing streak frankw?

I'm not but it can't be overstated how poo this line is:

 

Next Gen stat of the game: The Eagles became the second team to have four players with six-plus pressures in a game since start of 2018 season -- also NYJ in Week 4, 2021 at TEN-- (Sweat, Barnett, Cox, Hargrave).

 
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11 minutes ago, Fox007 said:

I'm not but it can't be overstated how poo this line is:

 

Next Gen stat of the game: The Eagles became the second team to have four players with six-plus pressures in a game since start of 2018 season -- also NYJ in Week 4, 2021 at TEN-- (Sweat, Barnett, Cox, Hargrave).

 

Considering the OL included a backup LG, moving the RT to LT, the very first start for a rookie RT and a QB who is holding the ball for 3s on average per pass, I'm not surprised.  Oh, and they weren't great to begin with.

And yes I'm saying it, Elflein>Daley.  The stats support it, the eye-ball test supports it and when he doesn't get a lot of help, Daley looks bad.  I don't give a f what pff says.

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21 minutes ago, SBBlue said:

Not sure your point.  Are you predicting a huge losing streak frankw?

If our offense looks as putrid as it did today the rest of the way I would say we will be lucky to win two or three more games. But as the poster after you remarked this is the worst our oline has been in years and idk if the line was ever this bad under Hurney or even Gettleman I think maybe the Byron Bell days come close. But again it did not have to be this way entirely. Our decision makers put us on this collision course.

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