Tampa's remaining schedule

[DeAngelo Beason]

14 hours ago, DaveThePanther2008 said:

Tampa has a pretty easy schedule.  

They have both Atl and N.O. at home so an upset by either of these two teams is pretty slim.  

There only other game is Miami, who has been playing better lately but it's going to be tough. 

We are going to have to win against TB twice and New Orleans.

We'd both end up 10-7 if we beat them both games.  We'd have the tie breaker from head to head.

It's a huge task but if we can beat them in Carolina in week 15 we have a chance in the final game.  

If we beat Seattle it going to be quite interesting. 

I mentioned this in another thread, but you're spot on.  The only way I see us winning the division is to sweep Tampa and win at least 3 of the last 4.  Highly unlikely Tampa loses to anyone else but us.  The worst part is it looks like Mike Evans is coming back and he's taken our lunch money twice a year ever since Josh Norman left.  Losing to New Orleans was an absolute catastrophe that put us in a nearly impossible situation.

[PanthersATL]

Isn't it fun for a change to be arguing about IF/WHEN playoff scenarios?

[PantherChris]

54 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

We beat Seattle already???

The one I looked at had the rams at 5

[WhoKnows]

11 hours ago, PantherChris said:

Don't look now but we actually just beat the current 5 seed on sunday 

Rams are still #2 seed. We turned them from #1 to #2, but they beat the Seahawks so they are first in the west.

[kungfoodude]

57 minutes ago, PantherChris said:

The one I looked at had the rams at 5

That would be the incorrect one.

[DJ feed me moore]

TB will have to lose to both the saints and falcons for us to win the split tiebreaker. Thankfully the falcons game is TNF so we will know what needs to be done in about 8 and a half days.

[Bear Hands]

The most basic way to put it: We have a clear path if we can sweep them and they just lose 1 of the 3 other games.

• They finish 2-3
• We finish 3-1 (2 of those wins the sweep)
• We win the tie-breaker, we're the 4th seed at 10-7

That gets it done. 

We have to take care of the Saints or else it's pretty much done.  

 

[Kuhndog94]

13 hours ago, PantherChris said:

Don't look now but we actually just beat the current 5 seed on sunday 

They were the 1 seed when we beat them. 

[frankw]

The Bucs upcoming games are the Saints at home and the Falcons at home. It's difficult to envision them losing either of those regardless of divsional rivalry. The only game I see as truly up in the air for them would be against the Dolphins in Miami. That could be an upset. If we want to take the torch from the Bucs we have to basically win out and slam the door shut.

[Carolina Cajun]

As someone said, divisional games are always tricky, that said they SHOULD take care of business vs NO and ATL, though I'd watch atlanta, they always seem to have Tampas number, only lost by 3 in week 1 and swept them last year.

The big key to me is I think Miami, I think Miami is really feeling themselves right now and the team somehow seems to have rallied around Mcdaniel.  After starting 1-6, theyve won 4 of their last 5 and now are 5-7.  As history has shown, under McDaniel, the Dolphins can either be EXTREMELY hot or EXTREMELY cold and they seem to be on the hot side right now.  Dont be surprised if they drop that game down in Miami too.

Basically, our schedule comes down to this, 1 very Layup (SHOULD BE LAYUP THAT IS!), 1 game that will be brutal and hard to win (seattle) and then 2 games to determine the division.

[DaveThePanther2008]

1st we MUST win against the Saints.  A loss and everything else is a mute point.

Week 16 is our season.  If we can beat the Bucs in Carolina we stand a chance regardless of week 17.

 

[UnluckyforSome]

An old nemesis is set to return.

[Jon Snow]

20 minutes ago, DaveThePanther2008 said:

1st we MUST win against the Saints.  A loss and everything else is a mute point.

Week 16 is our season.  If we can beat the Bucs in Carolina we stand a chance regardless of week 17.

 

I'm glad I chose that game at the beginning of the season to go to. I hope that game still has significance by the time it gets here.

[mrcompletely11]

1 hour ago, UnluckyforSome said:

An old nemesis is set to return.

that truly sucks