Five teams that won't return to the playoffs

[crowntownpanther]

This guy must have read three days of bleacher report as his research material all off season...

[brandon_87]

I don't buy excuses for not losing, just like I don't buy excuses for not winning.

Arizona had plenty of other weapons to rally around and got beat by the better team. The Panthers belonged in the playoff's both in 2013 and last year, that makes them a "playoff caliber" team. Not sure why anyone can allow the media or other fans to postulate differently.

Also... look what happened when we played real playoff teams... we were humiliated by 3 scores +. We got lucky we had a shitty division this year. Quit making yourself think we are playoff caliber

[Mol3m4n]

Quit making yourself think we are playoff caliber

Quit being a Panthers fan.

[Snake]

The only team that has a easier div is the hawks. If we don't win our div its because we imploded not because they got better.

[DaveThePanther2008]

We'll get our love after the draft.  Gettleman will hit a home run. 

 

The defense will be solid.  The oline at minimum will be serviceable and we got Cam.

 

Three Peats in the bag.

[Pejorative Miscreant]

Except, we won the division the past two years and didn't lose arguably our best player from last year (Saints/Graham), get a new coaching staff (Falcons) or will not be starting a rookie QB (Bucs).

Yea beating the Saints 41-10 in New Orleans and beating Falcons 34-3 in Atlanta to finish off the season means the Panthers will definitely finish third in the division.

I think the media has picked the Saints and Falcons to finish ahead of us every year for about a decade straight. It's certainly nothing new. It's as if the media thinks every other NFCS team has the ability to improve while the Panthers are bound to be worse than they were the previous season. It's weird.

You are under the false belief that these guys actually search and do homework. Drew Bree's is (was?) a better QB than Newton and he has two running backs. = Panthers irrelevant.

Can't wait till we sweep the division.

[B.BERSIN]

Sounds like we have already seen the end of 2015 season...

[MGH1989]

I don't even care they don't think we aren't making the playoffs. The reasoning is poo. The saints aren't ready to let go of their Super Bowl dreams? What is that poo? That's not even a reason. Especially given their offseason.

[saints4lifeagain]

Lazy, stupid article.

However, the "They said this last year!" responses are just as lazy. They were right about the Panthers last year. They missed on the prediction of a horrible Saints team being good though.

[MHS831]

This may have already been said--not reading entire thread to find out--but this Dilbert was writing a companion article to another crackhead they allow to draw a check who wrote an article about teams who WOULD make the playoffs in 2015.  That idiot had both Atlanta and New Orleans going.

 

It is amazing to see how many professionals know nothing about the panthers.  If it were my full time job, I could tell who the ball boys are for every team in the league. 

[BigCat]

They continue to count the Panthers out, good. All they have to do is use this as "bulletin board" material and let the rest happen.

[OneBadCat]

We have the fewest holes in the division with arguably the best defense in the game. Haters are going to hate.

[DeeJay]

NFL dot com has horrible writers who don't know anything about football. They lie a lot

[Mojo]

No one really knows but in all honesty the most egregious team on that list is the Dallas Cowboys.