So what is the expectation next year, NFCC game?

[Goondal]

Ask me in about seven months but right now I would say a three peat in the south, at least ten wins and making it to at least the second weekend

[Brooklyn Bully]

Eight wins.

[ctrcat]

I think we should be able to win the south again and make the playoffs. I wouldn't expect the team to go downhill from here considering we have more money to go get better free agents, and a lot of our rookies got some great experience this season. Win the SB? Not a chance.

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We had a chance this year. Bersin was the #1 option on the pick 6 play, a play that may have prevented us from ultimately winning or at least having a chance to win that game against the clear team to beat at their peak playing lights out. Hardy $$$ back, healthy Cam with full offseason, healthy Star, GMan moving up from the dollar store=d@mn good chance.

[shelbypanther]

8-8.  You can't expect the AFCS and Washington and the Giants to be as piss poor as they have been.

 

I would like to see us finally get to play on Thanksgiving at Dallas next season.  That would be cool.

[panthers55]

I expect to win every game and am disappointed when we don't. So I don't know what a reasonable expectation is really. After all isn't fan short for fanatic. Are true fanatics reasonable??

[WhoAmI?]

I easily see 4 more wins in our record next year. We have one of the easiest schedules going into the year and now our O-line will finally have some continuity going into next year. Barring any major injuries, we should be 11-5 or 12-4 and make it to the divisional championship game. It really all hinges on Cam Newton's progression.

[The Huddler]

Lucky?

Cam ankle surgery.....

Cam misses most of camp.....

All new receiving corp...

Cam fractures ribs in preseason....

Hardy placed on Commissioners list......

Top 3 RBs injured so we're signing guys off PS and street FA's......

Offensive line is in shambles for the first 9 games.....

Defensive secondary is in shambles the first 9 games......

Cam is injured in car wreck.....

Star breaks his foot before playoff game.....

Rivera's house catches fire before Seattle game.....

Our punt returners were UDFA's who could barely catch the ball......

I'd say we had our share of bad luck and did pretty well overcoming that adversity.

Hey man im right there with you, and in that respect we were incredibly unlucky.

Im comming at this from the perspective that the division was historically bad

[The Huddler]

we were more lucky the previous season. Can't count how many times the ball bounced our way that season.

Hey, like my post above im talking from the weak division perspective

[ThPantherFan]

I see a very good upcoming season.  We have a lot of players in place and believe Gettleman will get a good draft group plus FA.  Now a lot will ride on whether there are some coaching moves.  Not looking like anything will happen soon.  So, I'll only say we will have a winning season.

[Panthers Fanatic]

I don't get the pessimism, indifference, or whatever you want to call it on some of these posts

[rayzor]

at minimum two of the follwing three:

 

1) winning season

2) win division again

3) nfcc game

 

we know the first two can be done.

 

we know we can have at least a 12 win season.

we know that we can win the division and looking at how all three teams are in bad shape we should be able to win it again

• bucs still don't have a QB and they still have an overrated mediocre antiquated conservative minded coach,
• falcons have no defense and no OL and no run game and a gambling fool for a GM and nobody wants to coach there,
• and the saints have a HoF QB who is on a rapid decline, but whose contract (along with 4 others who will be either the first or second highest paid at their position next year) prevents them from doing much to improve anywhere and will be lucky to get their team under the cap without having to cut every reasonably priced player who won't kill them with dead money and replace them with scrubs from the CFL

we will be going into the season with 6(?) starters who were rookies this past season who will now have a year under their belt. i would expect a couple of them to lose their jobs to some upgrade somewhere and/or hit the rookie wall, but for the most part they along with the rest of this very young and solid team should improve heading into next year.

 

what we need to see is a greater sense of urgency heading into the season. jeremy talked at length about how that was absent from the team and said that it could very well cost them early wins and it definitely did. they need to come back hungry and ready to fight. i don't want us to blow our load all at once in the first part of the season like many teams who come running out of the gate looking like champs, but then peter out halfway through the season and miss the playoffs. i want us to still play our strongest ball in the last couple months and go into the post season hot, but i also don't want us to go into that hot streak having to dig out of a hole that we dug for ourselves.

 

with more money to spend and a GM that seems intent on bringing in a better class of "diamonds in the rough" as well as another solid draft class, i think the talent will be there on both sides of the ball and hopefully STs won't be the albatross around our neck it typically is.

 

all things are lining up for a successful run next year. i still have no faith in shula or rodgers and very little in rivera's ability to judge talent or manage the game, but this team has heart and talent. if they can't achieve great things next year, imo, it's on the coaching staff and their ability to take the talent that they've been handed and make it produce.

 

we also need to get rid of this "under the radar" and "underdog" mindset where we (fans and players alike) are afraid of being the king of the hill and being recognized as talented and having the expectations that come with that. it seems we want success, but quite a few are afraid of either failing or being the one that everyone wants to take down.

 

i expect this team to win and be not just better than average, but great.  we have the talent on both sides of the ball to do it. now it's just a matter of doing it. potential energy needs to turn into kenetic energy.

 

 

[PandaPancake]

^ ok you win. Please don't make me read anymore

[NanuqoftheNorth]

2015 Rivera led Panthers finally learn how to:

Consistently score when in the red zone

Execute the two minute offense efficiently

Win after the bye week

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

Rivera outcoached Arians & Carroll in the playoffs this year. He is a good coach.

 

AYYYY LMAO