Your OFFICIAL NFC Wild Card Playoffs Thread LA Rams @Carolina Panthers

[TheSpecialJuan]

https://x.com/talonhifl/status/2010046918098071865?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA

[Moonraker]

49 minutes ago, strato said:

In a way. I get it because even though I missed the game except for the very end it seems like it was a big positive.

Being happy after losing means we were just happy to be here. I think most of us were to be honest.  
And you don’t want that but it is hard to blame people that have been starved for success for so long. 
 

This board was split between us either cracking .500 at 9, maybe 10 wins or winning 5 games. Wind it back, and this was a "good" season. We played our asses off against a team everyone has been glazing as a SB team all year and lost it in the last minute. We showed multiple times this year that we CAN play with and beat the best teams in the league. Next season, the bar is higher. The playoffs are the expectation, that's the floor. This is my take on the year. We've done enough growing now, time to be grown. 

[strato]

1 minute ago, Moonraker said:

This board was split between us either cracking .500 at 9, maybe 10 wins or winning 5 games. Wind it back, and this was a "good" season. We played our asses off against a team everyone has been glazing as a SB team all year and lost it in the last minute. We showed multiple times this year that we CAN play with and beat the best teams in the league. Next season, the bar is higher. The playoffs are the expectation, that's the floor. This is my take on the year. We've done enough growing now, time to be grown. 

I get all that, not sure I went over 7 wins. So, we over achieved. Happy to be here is what it feels like from most people.  

[Moonraker]

3 minutes ago, strato said:

I get all that, not sure I went over 7 wins. So, we over achieved. Happy to be here is what it feels like from most people.  

I'm usually Mr. Pessimistic but I can't help but feel optimistic going into next year. 

[strato]

30 minutes ago, Moonraker said:

I'm usually Mr. Pessimistic but I can't help but feel optimistic going into next year. 

I am usually Mr Pessimistic as well and am looking at that 1st place schedule, at our 1-4 finish and tempering my optimism, I’ll be a wait and see type. 

[Lemur Lathon]

The Panthers put up a good fight so I am not mad.  See you guys around draft season. 

[panthersphan]

PROUD OF THIS TEAM

[Khyber53]

If in June you said we'd have hosted a home playoff game and had four lead changes in the final quarter of that game vs the mighty Rams, but just lost by 3 in the end...

I'd have thought you were smoking crack.

The guys did better than any of us expected this season. They've set the bar high for themselves next season. I ain't mad.

And Bryce played like he deserved to be there. Still not sure why we didn't keep pushing those slant routes at the end there with the success we'd been having with them and three timeouts in our pocket. 

Oh well, coach and company have grown a lot this year, and they've got some more to grow on.

 

[MHS831]

9 hours ago, PantherPhann89 said:

I wasn't indicating our saying that you were endorsing him

Was not sure--but I wanted to make sure--I gave up on him early this season---and I was born in Columbia while my father was playing for the Gamecocks, so it was tough to do!!

[MHS831]

Now, if we could only beat the Saints...

[Frank9999]

Honestly so confused at what they were trying to do on that last offensive drive. They literally had all their timeouts. Why wouldn't they just tale some middle of field stuff to move the ball. I know there was under 40 seconds but they literally had timeouts 

Edited 5 hours ago by Frank9999

[strato]

21 minutes ago, Frank9999 said:

Honestly so confused at what they were trying to do on that last offensive drive. They literally had all their timeouts. Why wouldn't they just tale some middle of field stuff to move the ball. I know there was under 40 seconds but they literally had timeouts 

Looked like panic. I listened on the radio, sounded like panic. What else?

Bang bang bang bang empty your gun and never hit a thing. 

[Butterflyj30]

I feel just like Coach feels

 

(6) Carolina Panthers on X: "This is what family looks like https://t.co/CZTHenqx3M" / X

[Moonraker]

53 minutes ago, Butterflyj30 said:

I feel just like Coach feels

 

(6) Carolina Panthers on X: "This is what family looks like https://t.co/CZTHenqx3M" / X

I like that energy. I definitely think he's a little Scooby Doo overboard positive dopey in the pressers but behind closed doors I do think it's different.

I know we all want to have the #1 HC, OC and DC every year but I do think we can win consistently with Canales.