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Something I noticed about the toughest two game stretch on the schedule

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Not trying to look ahead too much, but I was looking at the schedule and BOTH the 49ers and Patriots will be coming off their bye week when they play the Panthers.  So in consecutive weeks, the Panthers will have to play the past two Superbowl runner-ups, well rested and with an extra week to game plan against Cam Newton and the Panthers.  If that's not the toughest two game stretch the Panthers have played in recent memory, I don't know what is.

 

If the Panthers win both of those games, they are legit Superbowl contenders.  I'm just hoping they can just win one of them to keep pace in the NFC.   

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Alot of teams have laid eggs after their bye week. The Panthers did it against the Cardinals, The Vikings were coming off a bye week when playing us. Also the Dolphins laid an egg against Buffalo this past week after coming off an bye.

 

Since 2003, the Patriots have only lost once after their bye week (2011 vs the Steelers).  And the Steelers weren't exactly slouches that year.  Tom Brady+Bill Belichick are VERY good after their bye week.

 

Jim Harbaugh's 49ers are 1-0-1 in games after their bye week.  No real tellings stats there.  

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Since 2003, the Patriots have only lost once after their bye week (2011 vs the Steelers).  And the Steelers weren't exactly slouches that year.  Tom Brady+Bill Belichick are VERY good after their bye week.

 

Jim Harbaugh's 49ers are 1-0-1 in games after their bye week.  No real tellings stats there.  

 

They couldn't beat the rams coming off a bye, that's pretty telling.

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Neither of those teams are as great as they have been in recent years IMHO, and both can be beaten. Shula needs to keep doing what he's been doing and morph his gameplan around what the defense gives, not around what he thinks we should get. And I'll put our D up against any offense in the league right now and feel like we have at least a punchers chance.

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