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 13 minutes 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.