Did both teams lose?

[thefuzz]

If you were to ask me yesterday at 12:30 if I would be cool with a tie, on the road, against a good Bengals team, I would have said yes in a heartbeat.

 

 

I'm bummed with the way the game played out, but we dodged a bullet.

[The Cats Meow]

I will take the tie over the loss any day. You have to look at the positive! The way I look at it we are 1/2" a point ahead of where we all thought we were going to be. On this given Sunday we got lucky and their kicker missed. 

[ThinkAboutIt]

It was not the Panthers that gave the game away... Just saying

 

A game is more than the last play. The Panthers gave it away at least 3 times. 

[MCC]

It's a goddamn tie. Not a win or a loss, but a tie. Exactly what it says it is. Why is this so hard for fans to comprehend.

[DatsMyQuarterback]

I think we should feel the exact same way Luke did after the missed kick.....Anybody else notice Luke damn near skipping all the way off the field in about 3 fuging skips? It's pretty funny imo.

[Mr Mojo Risin]

I wonder how often that happens? I don't really keep up with who gets in by how much.

I'm still confused how a tie might benefit us here, can someone lay out a plausible scenario?

If the leader of the division goes 10-6 and we go 10-5-1 we are ranked ahead of them same if a team is 9-7 and we go 9-6-1 our winning pct is better

[PantherFanOne]

I consider this game a win,now I am ready to go to Green Bay and kick some Packer ass.

[cbully]

both teams are in the positive

[aaronitout]

Yup, I was just about to add that the Packers won the division by half a game.

[thunderraiden]

After further review, a tie is perfectly fine and here is why. We would be in the same EXACT situation in the NFCS had we won or tied. A tie puts us at 3-2-1, the Bucs are 1-4, Saints 2-3 and Falcons 2-4. What does that mean?! It means we are still up 2 games in the division and it means if the worst case scenario next week happens which is us losing and the Saints winning still keeps up at the top of the NFCs because we win conference wins tiebreaker over the Saints since we are 3-0 in the NFC.

Also keep in mind, if we finish 8-7-1 and say the Saints or Falcons go 8-8, we still win the NFCS because they would have one more loss than us and by default we win the division. Even better, say we go 9-6-1 and either the Falcons or Saints goes 9-7, we still win the NFCS by default because we would have less losses.

So if we went 4-2 today we would still be in the same exact position, up 2 games in the NFCs and worst case scenario next week has us still on top of the NFCs. In essence us tying today puts in the same exact position as if we where 4-2, we are all just upset is more mental than anything but in reality, a tie would have put us in the same exact position in thr NFCs had we won

 

Also 8-7-1 is a winning record. 8-8 is not.