The run to the playoffs begins Sunday!

[CelibatePimp]

Clearly you're in denial. The season is done, this team looks worse than 2010.

 

I am not. I am sure we can beat the Falcons. If we fail to beat them, then I will join you guys.

[Marc Anthony]

Playoffs, maybe not, but win against "get the fug outta our house" Ryan would be bitter sweet.

[doghead28]

I wish I shared the optimism. I will be there Sunday to cheer on the team, but objectively this team just does not have the pieces to be a playoff team.

[TheAmericanDream]

I think the title should be fans run for the exits.

[SOJA]

I'm a really positive fan with a heavy dose of rationality. 

 

This team isn't making the playoffs. The New Orleans game was the time to really turn our season around and we blew it. The Eagles debacle was just the icing on the cake. It's truly miraculous that we have not been all but mathematically eliminated yet, and are still "in contention." There has only been one time I've seen a team rally back from the brink of hope: the 2004 Panthers. 

 

For those of you who don't remember, or weren't fans during those days, we started 1-7. We were coming off the Superbowl run and Smitty (primed for a HUGE year) broke his leg and was out for the season on opening night. 

 

Despite a ferocious finish to the season, we finished 7-9 and narrowly missed the playoffs. 

 

Here's a huge difference between that season and this season. That season we were losing games, but we were competitive. This season we are losing games and simply aren't competitive. 

 

It was painfully obvious during the Eagles game. You could have blacked out the scoreboard and shown me any random play and I would have told you we were losing. While the Eagles were swarming to the ball and gang tackling, the Panthers had their heads low and were trudging around like they just heard grave news. Outside of a few players, our team's body language reflected we had lost the game before it was out of hand. 

 

Momentum is a very real thing in the NFL and right now we have NONE of it. Zero. Not a bit. 

 

It isn't one single thing that has caused this catastrophic season. Terrible o-line and secondary, beat up defensive line, the Hardy debacle, questionable play calling, dropped balls, forced throws, injuries to Cam, reversal of our luck with hitting on free agents......lots of things have not broken our way. 

 

I hate to say it, but even if we win Sunday this team is not equipped for a deep run. At some point our talent inadequacies are going to rear their ugly head and when they do we haven't shown any fire to overcome adversity. 

 

 

Despite what some of you think the future is really bright in Carolina. We have two of the best young stars in the game, and have drafted some real blue chippers recently. I really don't believe Rivera is the reason for this season, but he will be a scapegoat. With a new coaching regime and a fresh season we will be contenders in the near future. 

 

So yea beating Atlanta would be nice because I will forever hate Matt flaccid penis arm Ryan, but at this point this team has shown you what it's made of. 

 

[beastson]

I am not. I am sure we can beat the Falcons. If we fail to beat them, then I will join you guys.

 

Well you're setting yourself up for failure. This team has been exposed on all phases. Any time Sproles mention what they saw on tape and it turn out to be exactly that proves it. Defenses know what plays and routes we run. Offenses know our garbage schemes and weak secondary

[Marguide]

I admire your optimism, OP, I really do.

I think you're fuging crazy, but I admire you.

[cardiackat88.]

Give it up.

We would have to win every single remaining game to have a winning season.

You really think this team is capable of winning even one more game?

[CelibatePimp]

Give it up.

We would have to win every single remaining game to have a winning season.

You really think this team is capable of winning even one more game?

 

Have you seen the Falcons play? How about the Bucs? Those are easliy three more wins. Add in MIN and that puts us at 7-6-1. We have to go into a slugfest with NO and the Browns. Steal one of those and we are at 8-6-1 and I think NO will lose more than a few games to end the season.

 

[CRA]

Give it up.

We would have to win every single remaining game to have a winning season.

You really think this team is capable of winning even one more game?

We could lose to the Saints at NO and win the rest and have a winning season.

8-7-1

[Brooklyn Bully]

Yes we are 3-6-1 and one. Of all the losses we have had, how many did you think we were realistically going to win at the start of the season? Pitt? Ravens? Seahawks? Philly? GB? Or the Saints? Yeah yeah it's the way we lost bla bla but the season is about to start for us.

 

On Sunday, the offense comes alive again. To the people complaining about Rivera leaving Cam in there, I think it was a good decision. Let him play through the sulking, he is a grown ass man being paid to play big boy football. In the end, granted it was garbage time, he completed some nice throws and made a nice TD throw to KB. That sort of memory could help him in crucial game time situations.

 

Oh and Bene may be back.

 

This is to the rest of the season! Go Panthers, KEEP POUNDING that ass.

 

[cardiackat88.]

You guys probably still think the world is flat

[pamlicopanther]

I will have 4 ozs of whatever the OP has had.

[doogy]

I am not. I am sure we can beat the Falcons. If we fail to beat them, then I will join you guys.

 

We won't be beating the Falcons. They will feast on our secondary and I'm sure our offense will continue to look inadequate. They're also coming off of a win (albeit the Bucs), something we haven't experienced in some time. 

 

To be honest I'm not sure we could beat anyone right now.