Must win game

[Joe Bear]

This was always marked down as an L for me. Splitting was a pleasant surprise. Hammer their ML.

[OldhamA]

8 hours ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

Really needed the win against the saints, like bad. 
 

10 games probably gets the 7th seed this year. Tampa probably wins 11-12 so division is out of question unless Mayfield gets hurt or something.
 

Which means now, our best shot is: Beat the Falcons, 49ers, Saints. And then we need to win 2/4 between the Rams, Seahawks, Bucs, and Bucs. 
 

Possible, but unlikely. Now losing to the Saints- very unlikely.

We needed the Saints game for respectability. 

Now any win on our schedule can be written off as a fluke result.

[NAS]

11 hours ago, OldhamA said:

No, the Saints game was the must win game.

I don't disagree

[kungfoodude]

9 hours ago, Proudiddy said:

I may be in the minority, but I watch every year because I’m hoping we make the playoffs.  We a competitor pulling for a team in a competitive sport, why would I watch knowing we’re just gonna suck anyway?  Even in years that we know we’re going into it thin, I still want to believe we’ll be one of those miraculous one-year-turnaround stories.  Why else should we be watch if we don’t want to compete?  And yes, I’m aware competing can happen without winning, but the playoffs are the minimum goal in my mind.  Nobody wants to waste their time or resources to lose.

That being said, as long as Bryce is playing, we will not be making the playoffs.

I mean....I just watch because I have been doing it for 30 fuging years. Tepper has slowly robbed me of the wishing for playoffs. 

I just watch because I have been doing it for so long.

[HaricotVert]

17 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I mean....I just watch because I have been doing it for 30 fuging years. Tepper has slowly robbed me of the wishing for playoffs. 

I just watch because I have been doing it for so long.

This is me.

We used to have rituals in the house, family and friends wearing swag, cooking out, even in the down years.

Now we watch every game mostly alone.  Maybe a family member or two come over but thats got more to do with they know what Im making for dinner.

The wins just are not as sweet and you become numb to the losing.

[Khaki Lackey]

2 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

I mean....I just watch because I have been doing it for 30 fuging years. Tepper has slowly robbed me of the wishing for playoffs. 

I just watch because I have been doing it for so long.

Yeah, I watch them more like an interesting case study than an exciting entertainment experience at this point.

[strato]

2 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

I mean....I just watch because I have been doing it for 30 fuging years. Tepper has slowly robbed me of the wishing for playoffs. 

I just watch because I have been doing it for so long.

That’s me. It is a lifelong staple of existence. Watching NFL since I was a youngster in Redskins territory. bBt wasn’t a Redskins fan really, we weren’t that close to DC.

I was a Colts fan because my cousins moved to Baltimore. Then Irsay Sr Sr moved them in the dead of night in a huge betrayal. So I was cut loose to be a FA which it sucks to not have a team of your own. 
This is why I always loved JR. He gave me a team. So I was automatically a Panthers fan from day one. 

What Tepper has done, he should be made to feel ashamed. He is disliked by many and for good reason. He tore our pretty darned good thing down starting the day he took over. Bryce Young is just his most recent instrument of torture. 

[Candler Cat]

1 hour ago, strato said:

That’s me. It is a lifelong staple of existence. Watching NFL since I was a youngster in Redskins territory. bBt wasn’t a Redskins fan really, we weren’t that close to DC.

I was a Colts fan because my cousins moved to Baltimore. Then Irsay Sr Sr moved them in the dead of night in a huge betrayal. So I was cut loose to be a FA which it sucks to not have a team of your own. 
This is why I always loved JR. He gave me a team. So I was automatically a Panthers fan from day one. 

What Tepper has done, he should be made to feel ashamed. He is disliked by many and for good reason. He tore our pretty darned good thing down starting the day he took over. Bryce Young is just his most recent instrument of torture. 

Same here, Colts fan until they moved

[PleaseCutStewart]

Pretty sure the Saints game was the must win game that we blew... Now it's just "will we win another game this year?"

[PleaseCutStewart]

If we do beat ATL, the only reason is because they were very stupid and decided to not have a bye week on their schedule after playing in Germany

[kungfoodude]

4 hours ago, HaricotVert said:

This is me.

We used to have rituals in the house, family and friends wearing swag, cooking out, even in the down years.

Now we watch every game mostly alone.  Maybe a family member or two come over but thats got more to do with they know what Im making for dinner.

The wins just are not as sweet and you become numb to the losing.

 

2 hours ago, Khaki Lackey said:

Yeah, I watch them more like an interesting case study than an exciting entertainment experience at this point.

 

2 hours ago, strato said:

That’s me. It is a lifelong staple of existence. Watching NFL since I was a youngster in Redskins territory. bBt wasn’t a Redskins fan really, we weren’t that close to DC.

I was a Colts fan because my cousins moved to Baltimore. Then Irsay Sr Sr moved them in the dead of night in a huge betrayal. So I was cut loose to be a FA which it sucks to not have a team of your own. 
This is why I always loved JR. He gave me a team. So I was automatically a Panthers fan from day one. 

What Tepper has done, he should be made to feel ashamed. He is disliked by many and for good reason. He tore our pretty darned good thing down starting the day he took over. Bryce Young is just his most recent instrument of torture. 

This is genuinely why I come to this place rather than Twatter or fuging Reddit. Those guys are largely a bunch of Johnny come lately's that showed up later down the line(no shade to actual young fans here) or showed up after a Super Bowl appearance or success.

The OG's are the real ones I want to fight, bicker and debate with. We were the guys that went through all this poo, no matter who liked what players or coaches or whatever. We all shared the full fuging experience of being a Panthers fan. All the highs, all the lows and the BS that still makes me come to this fuging place Zod created.

[strato]

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

 

 

This is genuinely why I come to this place rather than Twatter or fuging Reddit. Those guys are largely a bunch of Johnny come lately's that showed up later down the line(no shade to actual young fans here) or showed up after a Super Bowl appearance or success.

The OG's are the real ones I want to fight, bicker and debate with. We were the guys that went through all this poo, no matter who liked what players or coaches or whatever. We all shared the full fuging experience of being a Panthers fan. All the highs, all the lows and the BS that still makes me come to this fuging place Zod created.

Hear hear. 
I missed some of the best days because I didn’t even know what the internet was in 1995, and was working in Atlanta in 1995-1997.  I used to go to the bar on Sundays to try and get a Panthers game but it was hard. If they were on the 4pm then maybe I could se it but it was all Falcons everywhere. Mostly a game here and there and twice a year when we played Atlanta. And forget about print coverage. 
The whole 1996 season was lost to me really. 
We could not get coverage like we have now with the net and all the video streaming. 
And a message board to interact with people. What a concept. 

[PghPanther]

Correction........this is a must lose game.........to keep a decent enough QB draft picking going for next year 

[frankw]

I definitely would have to say if any game fell under the category of must win it would have been against the at the time 1 win Saints who have been a complete mess at QB.

This game in Atlanta could get ugly quick.