Week 5 Bye Week

[Fidel Cashflow]

A bit early but oh well.

[KendrickPanther]

Last year we could have used a week 5 buy so Ron could watch film and realize half the guys he put faith in couldn't do the job.

[uncfan888]

Sarcasm?

Historically the schedule is a disaster for a Rivera led team.

Following a BYE week the Panthers are 0-4. In 4 games, they have scored 36 points and allowed 102 points.

Rivera has always started each season off with conservative coaching and vanilla game plans usually lasting about 6 to 8 games. Following the BYE game the Panthers record under Rivera is 7-23-1. The Panthers are 2-5 against division rivals in that stretch prior to the BYE loss.

Same pattern every season.

Wasn't the Cincinnati tie before our bye last year?

[KSpan]

An informal breakdown showing that bye week timing is generally unimportant:http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2014/9/26/6838463/nfl-bye-weeks-significance-effect

[Moorgan]

I like the bye a little early. It's not so much about getting healthy as it is breaking the mental grind. The season is 21 weeks long (w preseason) and with camp and the rookies in a daze since the end of their season last year, an early bye is good. Having a late bye threatens momentum going into the end of the season. Week 5 seems like the perfect time. And eventually we will win one after the bye, and beat Seattle so why not this year?

[rayzor]

i'd rather it was later, but better to get the post bye losing streak out of the way earlier.

[DaveThePanther2008]

I like it.  Get a couple of weeks to get things going right.  If we stumble out the gate we have two weeks to prepare for Seattle and get back on track before it is too late.  

 

I don't care for the later BYE week, to me the later bye week does not help us as much as an early one does.

[MadHatter]

The way it's split with 4 cupcakes followed by a bye followed by 4 potential beasts, it'll be like having another preseason the first month of the season with a week off before the REAL season starts.

There are no cupcakes in the nfl.

[t96]

There are no cupcakes in the nfl.

 

Especially not division rivals and the Texans had a better record than us last year...

[mbarbour21]

I would def prefer it be later, but the fact it is before going to Seattle makes it a lot better.

[stirs]

Would have liked it after our Monday Night game before the Packers.

 

4 of the last 6 on the road does not help and a later bye week would have been good

[osd22]

I would have liked it in week 8-10, but it is what it is...

[EightyNine]

I was listening to Mike and Mike on the way to work this morning and they had Jeff Saturday on.  He said the first thing he would look for when the schedule came out was when the bye was.  He said seeing an early bye is a terrible feeling and you knew the rest of the season was going to be miserable.

[mc52beast]

It's actually at a pretty convenient time, right before the toughest stretch of games... I likes