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Official Week 5: Dolphins @ Panthers Gameday Thread

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3 hours ago, PappyMay said:

If this defense shows up the rest of the year I’m not expecting playoffs but will be fun to watch games. Coker, Sanders,  and Hubbard hopefully will be back soon.  Just hope next week isn’t a home game for the Cowboys and CeeDee has a sore ankle still. 

The catch by Horn to keep the last drive alive was a good catch. I hope he stays active. This years draft class showed up today. I know this was not a top ranked team, but we needed it. 

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A QB passing for less that 200 yards, but two TDs? A running back getting 200+ yards himself? If that gets a win, I'll take it every time.

More than anything, coming back from 17 down on a day that I honestly thought this was the straw that broke the camel's back, was eye-opening. They showed a level of grit that I haven't seen here in years. Many years.

Do it again next week and I might start really believing something is happening here.

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48 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

A QB passing for less that 200 yards, but two TDs? A running back getting 200+ yards himself? If that gets a win, I'll take it every time.

More than anything, coming back from 17 down on a day that I honestly thought this was the straw that broke the camel's back, was eye-opening. They showed a level of grit that I haven't seen here in years. Many years.

Do it again next week and I might start really believing something is happening here.

It was a good day for the team. 
I say this, as a non fan of relentless cheerleading style leadership: 

I looked at the video of postgame locker room and you can’t tell me those players aren’t bought in. It didn’t look fake to me. 

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We're running out of home games versus trash opponents.  I said after week 2 we got a stretch of 3 winnable games and the team better take advantage of it because it's going to be a long season after week 5.  To their credit, they won 2 of 3.  That being said, we realistically only match those wins the rest of the season now we hit the meat of the schedule.  The Saints are getting better and sweeping them might not be as easy as it once looked.   We still probably split the Saints and shock another team.  That's all I'm seeing as far as wins.

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We're running out of home games versus trash opponents.  I said after week 2 we got a stretch of 3 winnable games and the team better take advantage of it because it's going to be a long season after week 5.  To their credit, they won 2 of 3.  That being said, we realistically only match those wins the rest of the season now we hit the meat of the schedule.  The Saints are getting better and sweeping them might not be as easy as it once looked.   We still probably split the Saints and shock another team.  That's all I'm seeing as far as wins.

Yeah we’re going to have to sweep Saints for sure in order to get to 7 wins 

Must wins are Jets, Saints x2 then we’ll have to surprise someone like Dallas, Tampa at home maybe? Maybe we go win in Atlanta again but I doubt it 

The Jets are also probably looking at the game against us as their one real shot at not going 0-17 so there’s that

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