Panthers/Saints make your pick. Do the Saints get Rivera fired or do we win?

[PantherTrain84]

You've been rooting for us to lose off and on for weeks. Why should this week be any different?

I was starting to come around to wanting us to win just for winning sake but I have since been in the "lets lose for draft spot and Rivera's ouster camp"

[Panthers Nation]

and just like PantherTrain, you're going in my ignore list because everything you post annoys me <3

Pretty soon you will have everybody on the huddle on your ignore list lmao.

[CardiacCats]

Im hoping we lose just to knock 2 birds with 1 stone.

1.We lose Rivera should be fired

2.We get a better draft pick if we lose

Win/Win situation.

i like the way you think, but i always want to beat the saints

[CarolinaCoolin]

Pretty soon you will have everybody on the huddle on your ignore list lmao.

He's just a troll. Let him play in his own little box by himself.

[cdandi1]

IMO, regardless of the outcome Rivera will be the HC until a new GM is hired and evaluates the situation regarding Rivera on his own terms. A win of course would give a new GM more good Rivera work to evaluate. If the panthers win tomorrow they will have gone from 0-4 vs Atl and NOLA last year to 3-1 this year. To play devil's advocate the panthers went from 2-0 vs TB last year to 0-2 vs TB this year. To further my advocacy of the devil, a panthers win would put Rivera at 3-3 in the division vs 2-4 in the division last season. Tl,dr.....I effin hate everything New Orleans...screw riveras future I would like to sweep those offers.

[PhillyB]

honestly I think Greg hardy makes the difference between winning this one and losing it.

[Panthers Nation]

i like the way you think, but i always want to beat the saints

I want to beat the Saints also but what do we accomplish besides pride from a useless win?

Im looking at next year if we lose we get a better draft pick and Rivera will get fired.That sounds like a win to me.

[toldozer]

fug the aints. Nuff said /end thread

[beastson]

Lol at the all the people thinking Rivera fate depends on this one game

[Awesomeness!!]

Rivera is gone regardless, and this draft sucks

[Awesomeness!!]

How anybody could have watched the rest of the season and think Riveras fate rests in one meaningless game against the Saints I will never know.

[CardiacCats]

Rivera is gone regardless, and this draft sucks

this is a great draft. there's just no golden qb like rg3 or luck. defense in this draft looks stout

[rayzor]

saints won't be getting rivera fired. if it happens it's because he wasn't good enough at managing a team and managing games and ended up with two losing seasons in a row.

[Achilles]

I'm about as indifferent this weekend as I've ever been. I think Rivera is going to be fired.

But I don't think that it matters that much whether we win or lose this game.

If I'm the new GM, I think I'd want a new HC. I think JR would have a hard time getting a top GM, if he insisted on withholding control over the HC position. You've got to give the GM complete control over personnel. Otherwise, the GM really isn't doing what you're paying him for. I don't think JR will hire a GM who comes in and says...my plan is to keep the current coaching staff in place. It just doesn't make sense.

Rivera is gone. We might also be saying goodbye to deangelo, Beason, gamble, and some others.

That said...what I'd love to see today is a wild west shoot out kinda game. I'd love a score of 41-38. Something like that. I'd say the game is not over even if one team gets out to a 2 TD lead. I think the panthers can win this game if Cam picks up a lot of 3rd down conversions. He has been incredible lately in that dept. Bree's is gonna have his yards, but maybe we can get a pick or two.

We have been playing well. We know we can beat the Saints. They have been very mediocre, but they are at home and Sean Peyton just re- signed. It is a fitting way to end the season and year.