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To save season and have a prayer at playoffs: Saints. A must win game.


PantherFanForLife

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Alright guys. As most of you know by now, I am generally skeptical, don't like to join the hype bandwagons on players, my thoughts on our chances this year are pretty gloomy and usually spend my time arguing about principles and morals. I do that mainly during the week(M-F), but I do like to end the week, a day or so before the game on the more positive side of things, putting differences aside and pulling for the team.

So realistically speaking we are in a do or die situation this Sunday as far as this season goes. Very few teams that start the season 0-3 rarely make the playoffs and I don't believe any have ever actually won a Superbowl. 0-4? Forget about it.

With the way things have gone, our current state, and the way things are probably going to go, there's really only one way I see us getting anywhere: winning divisional games.

Actually let me rephrase that: we kind of have to sweep our division from this point on.

Chances are we are going to lose a bunch more games, and when we will win, we are most likely going to win close ones, not in dominant fashion. Which means the chances of getting in as a wild card will be slim. So we have to do better than that and somehow finish at the top of our division(Don't laugh yet;)...save it for next week). Every divisional "W" for us, also gives our direct competitors, a BIG "L", effectively putting a 2 game spread in our W-L records.

We already got beat by Tampa Bay, what many considered before the regular season, to be the worst team in our division. The Saints, being the clear favorites with the Falcons somewhere in the middle are doing kind of what was expected of them, but they do look weaker than last year. They also just got beat by the Falcons so right now, Tampa is currently leading our division.

So here's the reality. We are 0-3. Our offense stinks. We have a rookie QB who's going to be making a lot of mistakes. We have no Nr. 2 receiver. Our running game is inconsistent and so is our defense. We have a coach many have lost faith in, a playbook teams are not afraid of but rather point and laugh at, a special teams unit that loves to help our opponents by cutting their field in half and our coordinators calls plays that look like were decided by flipping a coin.

Knowing all that, we are going to play the Saints, the Defending Superbowl Champions, on their own turf this Sunday and somehow have to figure out a way to beat those guys even though we have all of those problems listed above. Can it be done?

Yes. YES it can. Why do I believe that? Because unlike the Saints, we HAVE TO win this game. Once again, this game is do or die for us. For the first time this season, this team and us fans need to forget about our problems and somehow pull together and win DESPITE all of our differences and problems. We need it and we need it bad.

Or else we can spend the rest of the season hardly having anything to get excited about. So someone on this team needs to stand up and pump our "scrubs" up. It can start right here, with this forum.

GO PANTHERS!

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as I said in another thread..

if we win this game, and the Falcons/Tampa both lose their games, then we are only 1 game back from leading the division. Playoffs really are a possibility if we can get some problems fixed on the field.

also, the Jets went 3-0 last season, and then lost like 6 games in a row, and made it to the AFC Championship game..

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Well in that case, all hope is lost.

An 0-3 team has never won the Super Bowl.

Hey let's not rain on our own parade now. Because if you really think about it there probably has never been an 0-3 team that played as bad and was as bad as we are that even made the playoffs. The ones that did were probably well built teams or bad playing teams that just stumbled out of the gate. We are neither.

But since this is the thread of hope and prayer we'll take it one step at a time. Let's just win the Saints game which still kind of leaves us in playoffs contention. Then we'll worry about breaking that "other" trend and making history :D

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And imagine if we do somehow pull it off and upset the Defending Superbowl Champs. What's that going to do to this team's confidence?

I can see them sporting an "ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE" attitude for the remainder of the season with a win like this. And that will at least make the season a bit more entertaining than "we're f**ked"!

No?

Fine. Alright look. We'll at least get a few more headlines than usual from the mainstream media. OK? Come on guys, I'm bored of suck talk. It's f**king depressive. Let's take a break for a day and a half at least until 5pm Sunday.

That should be a rule. Everyone must dig deep and find at least one genuinely positive comment to post about this team from now until Sunday. If I can dig deep enough to write a post like this, so can the rest of you.

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