PantherChris

IMO this is one of the weakest years of NFL football in years..... I genuinely think the superbowl is wide open this year, there aren't any truly dominate week in and out teams, the Cheifs don't look like they will make it imo. The books have them at even odds to make it but I dont see it.... they play The Texans,Chargers and Broncos still....

You are making A LOT OF ASSUMPTIONS the 49ers have an equally challenging schedule imo. They have Bears, Colts and Seahawks in a row.

Since 95% of the Panthers road to the playoffs go through Tampa *follow me on this* tie breaker #1 head to head.... stay with me here..... we lose all the other tie breakers after that so losing to Seatle or NO without sweeping TB = no playoffs they can afford to lose to one of the two... because if they swept tampa and tampa wins their other 3 games we win via.... tie breaker #1. Literally I've run all the scenarios and unless tampa loses to both atl and NO we have to sweep them.

Factually incorrect, we can lose to the saints and if we run the table the last 3 we win the division

What's correct at this point isnt super relevant as they are both 9-3 one of them will be the 5 seed they also play each other. Honestly after watching several full Seattle games they are so conservative I think we will compete.

Tied now, also either Seattle or LA will be the 5 so we will have an idea if its a game we can compete in.

Who is Freddie Luvvu?

Defenses adapted again got smaller/faster its why power running is so much more effective and explosive than it was back then. The pendulum swings hard one way and back.

The one I looked at had the rams at 5

Don't look now but we actually just beat the current 5 seed on sunday

Obviously I pointed this out in several other threads.... Here are the facts since you didn't state them, Tampa must lose to Atl or NO for a split to affect us as all, if they lose to Miami it means littlerally nothing.

He was untouched tends to look more impressive than it is when its blocked that way

Honestly at this point he would be looking at back up $ in my book

Go look at contract structure and come back to me, total dollars is irrelevant bad teams pay more up front and in guaranteed $$$ as well as having to hand out longer contracts. I'd say if you look at total $$ potential you are correct but if you look at the breakdowns there is definitely a small tax, add into this that bad teams tend to have the most cap space.

People also forget even if Ickey isnt gross yet, hes A LOT BETTER THAN STREET FREE AGENTS.