Panthers 2010 NFL Schedule

[rayzor]

If the team is worthy there will be prime time games.

yep. flex scheduling.

panthers want respect and primetime games? they have to earn them. is it fair? not entirely but it's just going to make the guys work harder.

panthers didn't really do much overall last year to make themselves more marketable.

[MadHatter]

yep. flex scheduling.

panthers want respect and primetime games? they have to earn them. is it fair? not entirely but it's just going to make the guys work harder.

panthers didn't really do much overall last year to make themselves more marketable.

Well, the 49ers have sucked for almost a decade...and they get three.

[ladypanther]

Well, the 49ers have sucked for almost a decade...and they get three.

The Carr factor.

[Delhommey]

Can anyone repost it? Can't see flash on my iPhone.

[Yaboychris28]

Crap. I like to invite my dad up from Fla to see a primetime game. He's a minister so he can't so Sunday 1 PM, and pre-season sucks. Damn you, schedule!

my dads also a pastor so we can never go to the 1'oclock games unless he can get a week off. i was really wanting to see the bears game.:banghead::banghead::rant::incazzato:

[Birdstain]

Atlanta twice in four weeks. Interesting.

Yea twice in the last 4 games of the year. Kinda weird. Hopefully we both are in the mix and the Saints are not.

[MrBubba]

Surprised no MNF games at all. We have played well on Monday nights the last couple of years

Geez I thought JR was loved by the NFL

[MrBubba]

Surprised no MNF games at all. We have played well on Monday nights the last couple of years

Geez I thought JR was loved by the NFL

[thunderraiden]

Our only chance of getting a second primetime game comes in week 15 against the cards.

[JungleCat]

The Dolphins and Panthers had the worst 2 schedules last year and the Panthers finished 8 and 8. If the Panthers are any good, we'll know soon enough with the 26th hardest schedule.

[ladypanther]

Interesting read:

http://blogs.citizen-times.com/blogs/index.php?blog=20&cat=32

Carolina Panthers catch break with 2010 schedule

Coming off an 8-8 season and an off-season purge of overpaid veterans, the new look Carolina Panthers will have opportunities to improve in 2010 based on an early look at their schedule.

The NFL released its sked Tuesday night, and the Panthers' 16-game slate ranks as the seventh easiest among 32 teams, based on last season's records.

Carolina's opponents had a combined record of 122-134 in 2009. Just six of the 13 opponents (Panthers play their NFC West rivals Atlanta, New Orleans and Tampa Bay twice) finished above .500, and only four made the playoffs.

The Panthers' best chance of success will be to get off to a good start, and again the schedule is in their favor.

Four of the first six games are at home, and all of those at Bank of America Stadium should be wins - Tampa Bay, Cincinnati, Chicago and San Francisco.

It will be interesting to see the reaction of fans in Charlotte when Julius Peppers returns with the Bears on Oct. 10.

In October, Carolina will be home virtually the entire month. After an Oct. 3 date in New Orleans, the Panthers will be home from Oct. 4 through Oct. 29, when they will travel to St. Louis for a Oct. 31 game with the Rams.

In that stretch are two home games (Bears and 49ers) and a bye week. An NFL team spending almost an entire month without traveling is almost unheard of, and the Panthers should be able to take advantage of such a break.

The second half of the season looks less favorable, with games vs. Baltimore, Pittsburgh and two meetings against Atlanta in the last four weeks, including the season finale on the road.

Here's the Panthers' release on the 2010 season and the complete schedule.

Back-to-back games against Tampa Bay and Cincinnati kickoff the Carolina Panthers 2010 Bank of

America home schedule after a season opening game at the New York Giants.

It marks the third time in four seasons the Panthers have opened on the road with the only exception

being a home game against Philadelphia last year. Carolina also closes the season with two road games with a

nationally televised Thursday contest on December 23 at Pittsburgh and a Sunday, January 2 game at Atlanta.

“We will have a young team and opening against the Giants on the road will be an exciting challenge,”

says head coach John Fox. “So much can change during the course of a season that it is difficult to say how a

schedule will play out, but it is good to know the flow of how the games are scheduled.”

The first game will mark the opening of the Giants new stadium after the Panthers played New York in

the final game of Giants Stadium last December.

The Panthers are home four of the first six games with a bye scheduled for Sunday October 17 and

finish with four road games in the final six weeks.

Carolina is at home and away on two occasions for back-to-back games. The first home back-to-back

series comes in Weeks Two and Three when Carolina hosts Tampa Bay (September 19) and Cincinnati

(September 26). The second home back-to-back is in December when the Panthers play Atlanta (December

12) and Arizona (December 19).

Consecutive road games come in the second half of the season with games at Cleveland and Seattle

November 28 and December 5 and the final two games of the year at Pittsburgh and Atlanta.

The Panthers interdivisional opponent is the AFC North with home games against Cincinnati and

Baltimore and away contests at Cleveland and Pittsburgh. For the Ravens, it will be their first regular season

Charlotte appearance since the opening game of the 2002 season and Cincinnati will also be playing in Bank of

America Stadium for the first time since that same season.