With all the injuries going on the NFL is WIDE open.

[pstall]

I could easily see a 10-6 team winning it all. Why not the Panthers?

[joemac]

I guess anything is possible....

[Nate Dogg]

Gotta win these next 2 games before we start contemplating 10-6..

[bigskypanthersguy]

Let's stick a nail in Tampon's coffin before we start talking 10-6.  Rivera shouldn't make the trip back if we lose because of his stupid Foxball lite obsession with sitting on the lead the entire fourth quarter...

[Millions]

I wish we could add nicks right now I see us going on a run barring injuries and fug up coaching

[The_Mango55]

[TheGreatestOfAllTimeCam]

I could easily see a 10-6 team winning it all. Why not the Panthers?

 

Come championship time, the cream will likely rise from the top. Things aren't that wide open. The elite are the elite, still.

 

San Fran, Seattle, Denver, New Orleans, and to a degree I think New England, Indy, Cincinnati are close.

 

 

We could rise into that echelon below those teams. Equal with the Packers, or the Lions, or Dallas... could be decent but not a realistic threat really. We aren't knocking off any of those teams I named above in a legacy games that REALLY matters. Ron Rivera isn't beating Jim Harbaugh in a game Harbaugh has to have in january. I'm sorry but that's just where things are in the NFL. Real talk.

[iamhubby1]

We take care of bidness at home. Steal a couple on the road. After this week we have 9ers, Fins, aints, and falcunts. With the birds being the last game of the season. We beat the Fins, and we go into the last game of the year in Atl. with a 10-5 record.

We very well could be locked into a Wild Card spot by then. So we sit our starters and lose the game. Now we are 10-6 instead of 11-5. The Rivera nonbelieverz will find a negative in that loss.

Or...we could go into Alt. needing to win. They may not want to give it to us. They may not be given that choice. We will end their miserable season with a humiliating beating.

Hate to call things this early. But...why not?

Of course this all nullifies with our next home loss. If however, this team continues to improve, especially the Offense, that just may not happen again this year.

[PhillyB]

fingers crossed. we'll know a lot after thursday... if we can assemble a three-game winning streak during what is historically rivera's weakest stretch i think we might be on to something.

[RelaxImaPro]

I really don't want to go into Atlanta in week 17 needing that game to make-or-break our season.  If we lost... good grief...

[Awesomeness!!]

2 weeks ago we were coming off of a lose to the Arizona Cardinals. 

[iamhubby1]

Come championship time, the cream will likely rise from the top. Things aren't that wide open. The elite are the elite, still.

 

San Fran, Seattle, Denver, New Orleans, and to a degree I think New England, Indy, Cincinnati are close.

 

 

We could rise into that echelon below those teams. Equal with the Packers, or the Lions, or Dallas... could be decent but not a realistic threat really. We aren't knocking off any of those teams I named above in a legacy games that REALLY matters. Ron Rivera isn't beating Jim Harbaugh in a game Harbaugh has to have in january. I'm sorry but that's just where things are in the NFL. Real talk.

The Cowgirls have not won a playoff game since we spanked them in 96. (?) We were their Cards.

We haven't played a meaningful Dec. game in years. We cannot say how "this team" will react in a game that far down the road.

IMO, this team is capable of being very good. When we limit the WTF? moments, like we have lately, we look damm good.

Our goal this year, and well, every year, is making the playoffs. When this team learns to win, and it appears we heading in that direction, on a yearly basis, then we can judge them. I believe we are on the verge on being elite. All it takes is to keep the wins coming.

Of course all this giddy talk of playoffs and being elite is contingent upon us continuing to win.

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Come championship time, the cream will likely rise from the top. Things aren't that wide open. The elite are the elite, still.

San Fran, Seattle, Denver, New Orleans, and to a degree I think New England, Indy, Cincinnati are close.

We could rise into that echelon below those teams. Equal with the Packers, or the Lions, or Dallas... could be decent but not a realistic threat really. We aren't knocking off any of those teams I named above in a legacy games that REALLY matters. Ron Rivera isn't beating Jim Harbaugh in a game Harbaugh has to have in january. I'm sorry but that's just where things are in the NFL. Real talk.

If we make it to the playoffs then we do belong to be playing with all of those teams you listed its any given sunday in the nfl remember a 9-7 team won the super bowl not long ago

[Mother Grabber]

we have to proove that we can hang with the Taints, too.  They are the team to beat in our division right now.  Until we do, we're just another also ran.