2026 Schedule. My goodness

[PanthersATL]

On 2/4/2026 at 11:30 AM, PanthersATL said:

Recap of international home team options from earlier thread
 

 

Doesn't matter for us, but it'll be LARams vs 49ers in Australia next season

 

 

[Davidson Deac II]

On 2/4/2026 at 12:02 AM, CBird said:

Look we can be in the Archie manning sweepstakes? 

God, I hope not.  

[Navy_football]

16 hours ago, UnluckyforSome said:

6 playoff teams. 1 Superbowl team. 3 teams that missed playoffs despite winning more games or same number of games as we did. 

And some folks want to claim it's going to be easy.

I haven't seen anyone say it'll be easy next season. Personally think major improvements with regards to pass rush and offensive playmakers are needed to take the next step. 

Won 8 games after playing 7 playoff teams and both superbowl teams in 2025. And that's with Hunt, Chuba and Coker injured most of the season. A rookie and XL were your top 2 WRs. Rozeboom was your green dot LB. Have to think there will be improvements in WR and pass rush, just because the top guys aren't rookies anymore. Long shot for 9-10 wins, but it's possible. 

[mrcompletely11]

2 hours ago, Navy_football said:

I haven't seen anyone say it'll be easy next season. Personally think major improvements with regards to pass rush and offensive playmakers are needed to take the next step. 

Won 8 games after playing 7 playoff teams and both superbowl teams in 2025. And that's with Hunt, Chuba and Coker injured most of the season. A rookie and XL were your top 2 WRs. Rozeboom was your green dot LB. Have to think there will be improvements in WR and pass rush, just because the top guys aren't rookies anymore. Long shot for 9-10 wins, but it's possible. 

For us to win 9-10 games a lot of poo has to break in our favor.  A lot more than last season.  That stuff just doesnt happen two years in a row.   I really think the icky injury is really going to mess things up for a prolonged period.  We have all seen what happens when we dont have a competent LT.  Things get dicey in hurry.

 

Couple that with Tampa getting healthy, Atlanta getting some grown ups in the room and New Orleans on the up and up then our div seemingly is slowly rising from the ashes.  Oh yeah that goes along with our first place schedule

 

As we sit here today I would say our O/U is probably 6.5-7.   Maybe.   But if this offense doesnt get figured out stat then we are in a world of hurt.  We cannot be relying on going for it on 4rth so much and we cannot think the breaks are going to go our way in one score games.  For us to win 10 games we probably need close to a top 10 offense.  As of 2/2/26 I just dont see it

[TLGPanthersFan]

4 hours ago, Davidson Deac II said:

God, I hope not.  

He’ll be better than what we have now. But so don’t think we will be that bad. I think we will draft a QB in mid 1st round. 

[Jmac]

You want to be the best, you have to beat the best........

[Davidson Deac II]

1 hour ago, TLGPanthersFan said:

He’ll be better than what we have now. But so don’t think we will be that bad. I think we will draft a QB in mid 1st round. 

Manning looks good on a team that is loaded and has significantly more talent than most of the teams he faces.  The odds are that he will be like the vast majority of college qb's drafted early in the first round, ie a significant disappointment.  Imo, if not for his last name, he wouldn't be talked about very much.

[mrcompletely11]

13 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

Manning looks good on a team that is loaded and has significantly more talent than most of the teams he faces.  The odds are that he will be like the vast majority of college qb's drafted early in the first round, ie a significant disappointment.  Imo, if not for his last name, he wouldn't be talked about very much.

Next qb we get, manning or not he needs to sit for a good chunk of time

[csx]

On 2/6/2026 at 3:34 AM, UnluckyforSome said:

6 playoff teams. 1 Superbowl team. 3 teams that missed playoffs despite winning more games or same number of games as we did. 

And some folks want to claim it's going to be easy.

So easier than this season 

[UnluckyforSome]

On 2/6/2026 at 7:53 AM, Navy_football said:

I haven't seen anyone say it'll be easy next season. Personally think major improvements with regards to pass rush and offensive playmakers are needed to take the next step. 

Won 8 games after playing 7 playoff teams and both superbowl teams in 2025. And that's with Hunt, Chuba and Coker injured most of the season. A rookie and XL were your top 2 WRs. Rozeboom was your green dot LB. Have to think there will be improvements in WR and pass rush, just because the top guys aren't rookies anymore. Long shot for 9-10 wins, but it's possible. 

It's also possible to go 0-17, or 17-0.

I didn't even include our own division in that, with Tampa and Atlanta both equalling our win total, and the damn Saints sweeping us.

Double digit wins. Might be more than a long shot.

But hey, anything is possible. 

There is no starting caliber left tackle. XL is absolutely not a top 2 wr. The linebacker group may very well be the worst in the league. There is no pass rush. The top cb may not even be the best cb on the team.

And I haven't even mentioned whatever Young is.

I know, I know, maybe they will just be better next year! 

8 wins, and a struggle to get to that, but somehow a 25% increase in wins should be a given. With what reasoning? fuging magic? 

It's the Panther way.

[raleigh-panther]

On 2/4/2026 at 7:08 AM, LinvilleGorge said:

I'm glad we're facing a #1 schedule. If Bryce regresses and sucks again we should be sitting pretty in what should be a much better QB draft class. Time to sink or swim little guy.

Yes

hus interviews have been very telling about getting the olay call to the like too late in order to make line, receivers, bacjs adjustments 

i think 2 things that would help him tremendously

1. Pre snap motion and thats on canales

2. More no huddle

offense is too damned stagnant 

 

oh yeah, getting the play call in quicker 

[DeAngelo Beason]

I've got us at 4 wins.

[strato]

On 2/5/2026 at 5:40 PM, mrcompletely11 said:

If you want to listen to some funny poo here it is.  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mac-bone-show-lindsay-rhodes-interview/id1541654577?i=1000748390898     towards the end

 

They have an analytics person on there talking about football etc and towards the end they ask about sustainability and bryce and his "progression".  She rips their soul from them in real time.   Talks about how lucky the panthers were, how bad his metrics (7th worst offense, negative epa in every offensive category, Bryce was avg 6.2 yards which was the 5th worst)were and how she doesnt think as of now he is the answer.  They try to answer back that "win he is good he is good" bullshit but she just turns them sideways.  Its glorious

 

That was great. 
BTW Sumer Sports is where we got Eager.  
 

From a real zoomed out perspective we could maybe have a great draft and sign a high profile FA and all the stuff we have seen Morgan do but the Icky thing is a major monkey wrench. 
 

if Bryce plays like he did vs LA Rams Wild Card and a couple of his other top games, and we get a great draft and FA, maybe we get to 9-10 wins.  
Want to bet? 
 

I don’t bet just saying. If I did I wouldn’t bet on that all happening. It could, and could even be better but you are betting on that QB being what his fans claim he is, every week. Not just sometimes. 
All 4 quarters in at least ten to 15 games. Good luck.  

Edited February 10 by strato