Who is moronic enough to believe we stand a chance against Green Bay?

[Chaos]

Nice spin on the thread title and the OP. I will gladly join the "moronic" crowd, because to be quite honest, it isn't much fun to live on the other side.

[Lord_Vader]

I bet we get crushed but will happily admit I'm wrong if we don't.

Your lack of faith disturbs me.

[XLR8]

I am for five reasons:

1. The last time Cam Newton lost a home game that counted was September 8, 2006 when Westlake HS lost at home to the eventual state champions, the Frederick Douglass Astros 25-22. That was over 5 years ago. The man feeds off the energy from the fans and that's why I hope we bring it on Sunday. Keep in mind that his best games by far this preseason were at home.

2. We lost to Arizona solely due to dumb mental errors. Talent-wise, we looked better than they did throughout the day. All of the penalties by the offensive line that killed drives are easily correctable, especially at home. The sloppy breakdowns in coverage against Doucet and King came from defenders still learning McDermott's scheme. Heck, Beason had no preseason and he was the one that blew the Jeff King touchdown by being out of position. The Peterson TD came off inexperienced punt coverage that is also very fixable. If we had played Arizona in December, we would have won by two scores easily.

3. You may have heard about how great the Green Bay secondary is, and they very well may still be, but they were just shredded by Drew Brees for 419 yards and 3 TDs. I'm not saying Cam Newton is as good as Brees yet, but the Panthers supporting cast of 89, Shockey, and Olsen is much better than what the Saints had going up against the Packers secondary. Dom Capers is a master of disguise and gameplanning, but the media that keeps hyping up Woodson and Williams seems to already have forgotten their performance last Thursday.

4. The Packers defense struggles against pass-catching tight ends. Last season, Vernon Davis shredded them for 126 yards and a touchdown. In one bad game against the Lions in the first month of the season last year, Tony Sheffler and Brandon Pettigrew combined for 14 catches for 154 yards. If Sheffler and Pettigrew could do that with Drew Stanton throwing them the ball, what's going to happen when we run Shockey and Olsen and Cam at them?

5. The Packers defense also has had weaknesses against scrambling quarterbacks. In their road opener last year, Michael Vick ran for 100+ yards against them in his coming out performance as the new Eagles starting quarterback.

BELIEVE

I got a good 89 reasons I believe we'll win.

[Sword]

We can win this game. Rivera is preaching that this is our house. I hope people that are able to go to the games will stand up and prove that this is actually true.

[Guest Cpnanacat]

I'm all in...I have more trust & faith in the new regime & team than I have felt in 8 years. I believe we can win them all with the right game plans that suit the individual strengths of our players. Cam's growth has been phenomenal. I expect that it has continued at the same rate this week. I take nothing away from GB, I just think our coaches will be very creative in developing their game plans each week & each team will see something a little different on both sides of the ball. Which makes it harder for our opponents to game plan. My only caveat is...injuries. Can someone please spray that bug & get rid of it?

[JawnyBlaze]

I opened this thread expecting to trash SMF.....I stand corrected

lol me too

[Toundra]

Greenbay may have a very small chance to win this game, well 1% chance.

[Panthers128]

Any given Sunday as they say but I'll be expecting a huge loss.

[Cavscout]

Panthers can win this game. Green Bay is over-rated. Who cares what they have done in the past, this year their defense sucks. oh, and Aaron Rodgers is gay.

[rico6]

We Cam win this.

[Captain Obvious]

i think we win if our D holds GB to >17.

this was funny to me.

[CRA]

Panthers can win this game. Green Bay is over-rated. Who cares what they have done in the past, this year their defense sucks. oh, and Aaron Rodgers is gay.

Green Bay was 3-5 on the road last year and almost missed the playoffs. Yeah, they are good.....but they are far from consistant. Even the consistant teams (like NE last year got beat by crap teams).

They can be beat. Guys just have to make plays.

[Murph]

Whats big for me is that I will be watching the game with a new sense of excitement looking for things this young team is doing right rather than mulling on their mistakes. So matter how they do, Panthers football is getting fun again.

[Saintsfan422]

I'm not saying Cam Newton is as good as Brees yet, but the Panthers supporting cast of 89, Shockey, and Olsen is much better than what the Saints had going up against the Packers secondary.

I had to stop reading after reading this.