Looking Way Ahead, But.

[Hoenheim]

Don't want to spoil the mood on a win, but I'm looking ahead at the rest of our schedule and have some thoughts.

I see we are on a bye next weekend. And we play at New Orleans on Sunday December 14th.

We've seen this team get up for huge games but lose the next game when they were smelling themselves. I think we are really going to learn if this team has turned a corner if we beat the Saints in the next game. 

Big wins like today are important I know, but this Saints game is underrated in importance. Winning in New Orleans in 2 weeks would put us at 8 wins, putting us only 1 more win away from guaranteeing a winning season with 9 wins. A win vs the Saints would keep us in contention for the NFC South division. And would represent only the 2nd time all season long we've won multiple games in a row ( the only other time we did that was weeks 5-8 with wins vs Dolphins, vs Cowboys, and the at the Jets). 

A loss would just be a repetition of the cycle. We have been going W-L-W-L-W-L since the win vs Jets and the loss to Buffalo. And I really hope they can break the whiplash cycle. If any of you watched Rico's last interview after our loss against the 49ers last week, it just about sums it up. 

Cleary we can see this team has greatness inside of them somewhere. I just hope it can show up more consistently down the last stretch of the season!! At the very least, we know we can beat just about any team but we can also lose to anyone lol

[CRA]

Saints play Bryce Young better than any team in the NFL IMO.

but the game is a dome game, which means Bryce’s O production ceiling goes from 200ish to more the 250ish range.

I think Saints QB likely can’t repeat his game from the first matchup (he played very well).  

who knows, folks are wasting their time if they think they can predict this Panthers team.   That’s been proven on repeat.   So maybe JJ Jansen scores 2 TDs off fumble recoveries on the punt team (and Bryce logs a GWD for illegally being the 12th man on the field and it didn’t get called) 

[uncfan888]

Panthers win against the saints and they control their destiny even with a loss to the seahawks

[Mr. Scot]

I wanna see what Canales does differently (i.e. adjustments)

[ProcessBlue2]

My theory is we are going to get healthy and they will be very focused this time on the Saints because of what happened before. Plus, the NFL is going to want to build up the showdown between us and Tampa so I doubt the refs will poo on us.

However, Tampa has New Orleans and Atlanta, I think they will fug around and lose one of those games and we will get lackadaisical in our first game and the Bucs will be locked in. 

Edited 1 hour ago by ProcessBlue2

[ChibCU]

All is for nothing if we don’t pull out a sweep against the Bucs. That’s who we need to lose and we have two opportunities to do that. 

[LinvilleGorge]

Looking at our remaining schedule if we have any chance at the playoffs then N.O. feels like a must win. 

[HPPantherzfan]

No matter what, we have to beat the Saints!  One game at a time at this point

just to add where I am at this point, if we can beat the Rams, we can beat any team in the NFL.  But, we have also proven we can lose to any team in the NFL

Edited 49 minutes ago by HPPantherzfan

[OneBadCat]

I think we’ll handle the Saints this time. We’ll be getting multiple starters back and Bryce/DC will hopefully have a plan for what happened last time.

It’s absolutely a must win game. We also at minimum have to win two of the last three games. I supposed preferably a sweep of the Buccaneers.

[PantherChris]

Unless the Buccaneers lose to either the Falcons or the Saints in the next two weeks we will have to sweep them to win the division (realistically to make the playoffs we have to sweep them) its also possible for Seattle to clinch the west by the time we play them

[pantherj]

The Saints totally had our number last time. But this is the NFL, and we have an extra week to prepare. This isn't like when we had River and did the same stuff no matter what. Canales will make adjustments to counter what the Saints did to us. Now will it work? Stay tuned. Hold on to your butts. 

[PantherChris]

1 minute ago, OneBadCat said:

I think we’ll handle the Saints this time. We’ll be getting multiple starters back and Bryce/DC will hopefully have a plan for what happened last time.

It’s absolutely a must win game. We also at minimum have to win two of the last three games. I supposed preferably a sweep of the 

The Buccaneers play the saints next week and the Falcons the week after, if the beat both we HAVE to sweep them to win the division or we lose by conference record 

[WUnderhill]

I think it helps that the next team is the Saints. If there’s any silver lining to that last game against the Saints, it’s that I think they’ll have plenty of motivation and take it seriously this time around.

[gakonline]

Last game against Saints, Horn fell down  on both TDs. Something normally will not happen. Flip side, the Panthers offense was terrible. I don’t see either happening the next game when we go 8-6.