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

[Swarly]

Atlanta is not gonna lose at home to sinking 49ers. They have fired their OC and their starting SS just quit on them, all in the last five days.

The 9ers are just horrible, I guess you can always hope for the upset, it's just not gonna happen.

the same Falcons that were supposed to beat the Steelers(who were without their starting quarterback?)

49ers nearly beat the Saints. They CAN be a good team, they're just like the Panthers. Making a bunch of stupid mistakes(turnovers, bad play calling, etc) and throwing games away.

I'm just saying, there is still time left in the season to do something. How many people thought the Panthers would finish the season 8-8 last season after the 0-3 start?

do I think the Panthers will make the playoffs? no probably not. doesn't mean it's impossible and it definitely doesn't mean I'm going to stop rooting for them.

[grateflday]

Not thinking playoffs at all right now. I just want a Panther win because it will be nice for a change, and will knock out ALOT of people from a suicide pool I am in

[AceMan]

the same Falcons that were supposed to beat the Steelers(who were without their starting quarterback?)

Bad example because 1.) The Steelers are undefeated and 2.) They put a whooping on the Bucs, the same team that put a whooping on us.

Seriously doubt the Falcunts will lose to the 49ers, but anything can happen. Forget other teams though.

We NEED this game...we NEED for some players to step up

[SorthNarolina]

13-3 dare I say "bank on it".

[PantherFanForLife]

Atlanta is not gonna lose at home to sinking 49ers. They have fired their OC and their starting SS just quit on them, all in the last five days.

The 9ers are just horrible, I guess you can always hope for the upset, it's just not gonna happen.

Actually I was very impressed with the 9'ers when they played the Saints. They lost such a heartbreaker.

They were down by 8 with 2 minutes to go. Alex Smith scored a touchdown and 2 point conversion to tie the game.

The bad part or should I say irony? He was so efficient he did it in just 50 seconds and left 1 minute and some change on the clock. Enough for the Saints to get past the 50 and score the winning field goal.

They have a shot against the Falcons. Actually they have a better shot against the Falcons than we do against the Saints, and since this is the thread of hope and prayer.............

[Carolinator]

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!

First we go for 1st win, baby steps remember