PantherJD

Are people actually banging seatbacks with their hands or swinging the empty seat in front of them against the seatback? I do the latter, and it certainly makes a ton more noise than banging the seat would. It also doesn't hurt your hand, so no worries there. I don't do this often because normally the seats in front of me are full, but sometimes I get the opportunity to do this late in the game when the stadium has emptied out some. Of course, I'm also yelling as loud as I can when I do this.

How did no time come off the clock?

Still plenty of time if they get the onside kick.

Well, we knew it was coming down to this. Lions need to look out for the pick play.

That was close to Rodgers not getting out of bounds (it looked like his elbow might have hit in bounds before the forearm got out of bounds).

The Lions D isn't ours, so unless Rodgers forces something, this will probably come down to a 2-point conversion.

This Starks fumble will be overturned, but if he wasn't touched, he was close to not being down anymore and thus fumbling the ball on his own. Yeah, he was obviously touched on the replay, so it's down either way.

That should have been a first down on Stew's run, but we'll take that extra down to run more time.

Olsen!

Let's get some first downs now. Run that clock down.

Stop them here and it's probably the game.

It's on the defense to win this for us from here on out because we'll clearly be going conservative (even at the goal line).

Get some points here and we're in business.

Nice, Gano. That was huge, although we still need to be up by more than a TD.

Tennessee is dumb. But they'll look like geniuses if we miss the second FG.

We are playing with fire only up by 4 and giving them the ball back multiple times. We need to be up by multiple scores to put pressure on them.

Needed a momentum-changing play - that was huge.

So, we called a timeout so we could lose yards on 2 consecutive plays. That was a waste of a TO.

This is not trending in the right direction. We need to wake up before we're down double digits and have no shot.

I have mixed feelings on Smitty, but today is my 36th birthday as well, so I can't hate on him too much. I hope to see him retire a Panther someday.

I like Kroeger mainly because he's not full of himself, which couldn't be said about a host of the afternoon drive slot on WFNZ ever since Packer was on. I liked Zarzour, but James just cancelled him out, so unfortunately he doesn't count. Anyway, the main reason I didn't like James had nothing to do with his bravado. Warranted or not, a lot of radio personalities are going to act that way. I get it. But, you just couldn't trust what he was saying. I'm not even sure that he believed most of what he spewed out on the radio. For example, he constantly talked about how much he loved Charlotte, but in retrospect - now that he's bashed Charlotte - that just seems like he was sucking up to the listeners. And, you could tell it at the time, too. He has a slimy nature about him that just oozes used car salesman. I deal with that enough in life to have to listen to that every day on my drive home too. I don't always agree with Kroeger, but at least I know he's being real. That, and he's a fan of the home teams, which is very refreshing after listening to Raiders Packer, Dolphins Zarzour and Knicks/Raiders James on the air for all these years.