PantherChris

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.

There aren't discounts but teams that are as extremely bad as the Panthers were the last five years do pay more to lure free agents than playoff teams, even getting them in the door requires bigger "pay ranges" im sure.

I did say slightly.... and tbh if we can get anther 2 good throws from brycey in each Tampa game along with a healthy Mayes and Hunt... I could see us squeaking out a tampa sweep.... Hunt is one of maybe 3 linemen in the NFL who can block vita vea 1 on 1 our ground game will be very very hard to stop if hes healthy for the last 4 or possibly the playoffs.... (only think stopping it will be Young not being able to take advantage of 10 man boxes)