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Preseason week 3 a strong indicator/omen for Panthers' regular season play?

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2005: Played Cleveland, Delhomme looked sharp, touchdown to Smith in the first half, defense got a turnover. NFCC game appearance.

2006: Played Miami, struggled, Delhomme went something like 6/15 in passing, eeked out a win, struggled the entire year.

2007: Got handled by the Pats, Brady looked sharp, so did Delhomme, which carried on into the season. The rest of the team struggled however and that also carried into the season.

2008: Played the 'Skins. Looked more like a game between DeAngelo and Stewart however of who could stomp the Redskins' defense better. These two backs broke records in 2008, as the Panthers dominated plenty games.

I hate getting caught up into patterns and I realize this is uncharacteristic of me but it is interesting to say the least, and right now, we look miserable, which, I hope, isn't a preview of what we're in store for this season.

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First couple of games in the regular season are going to be ugly.

so right now if the trends that we see in this game are real, that means....

A: The defense will still be soft and give up gratuitous amounts of yards through the air this season

B: Jake Delhomme will have a decent year

C: Mike Goodson will make plays whether he gets 10 carries on the season or 100

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Our LB core is great, but unfortunately we don't have anyone in front or behind them that can play defense. I don't think anyone would call the Ravens offense a dominate one, but they certainly looked like that today, they rolled all over us.

Of course getting Beason and Davis back will make a difference, but I still think we'll have a lot of issues on defense this year.

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Unfortunately, our injuries are making us look bad. No starting running backs and no starting linebackers are making us look bad. They're normally our top strengths.

still though, our LBs haven't looked good at all yet with that huge void in the middle of the line.

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