raleigh-panther

I have not given up and yes, I will enjoy the show and that's I can do. L I just don't have expectations that the makeup of this team can be something they have shown themselves to not be. Transformation takes more than drafting two DTs. In the NFL, there are clutch teams who consistently ****** victory from the jaws of defeat and then there are the teams that consistently ****** defeat from the jaws of victory. The Panthers have proven themselves to be the latter...and over a period of years.

The Panthers are a team emblamatic and symptomatic of 'lost opportunity.' They are the 'poster children' for the phrase and have been for 5 years. The Panthers yesterday had a huge opportunity. Its gone. They had the crowd behind them. Its gone. Everyone in the stands knew with that fumble that was the end, just like with Olsen dropping those passes. There is not one single player, offensively or defensively, or Coach, that when the game is on the line to score or to stop the other team from scoring at the end of the game who steps up....not one. No excuses or reasons here, its fact. We all know it. The makeup of this team and this coaching staff is not 'clutch'. When it matters, they don't. It's as simple as that and I would suggest that after this year, a lot of players and coaches need to be gone. As for me, given the cost, time and expense, this is in high likelihood my last year of PSLs. I'm going to try and enjoy the day, let the millionaires get paid win or lose, and stop drinking the kool aid of 'next year. '

I don't know about Rivera. Newton, IMHO is a fabulous athlete learning to be a QB at this level. Again, not trying to belittle him but there were two games clearly in his hands to win and he lost them. This is the year he must make clutch plays. As for Colin and Russell there are not two more complete teams in the NFL than Seattle and San Francisco; but, even with those two, when they needed to make plays they made them. As for RG III, I don't take him seriously, sorry, with NFL Sunday Ticket I would catch some of his games. Some of it was luck, some strength of schedule and some of it people not having enough tape on him at the NFL level. He did not make smart plays with his body which does not speak to his longevity in the league. I like Newton, a lot but I don't know how he will do. That's up to him. As for the commentators with Newton, maybe they think Newton loves himself too much for them to love him. At the end of the day, it does not matter if he wins.

Cam + Luke = Bright future for the Panthers