USA Today has Panthers 7th in their latest power rankings

[rmoneyg35]

Correct me if I'm wrong but usually when we are projected to win/ have a good season we end up loosing and have a bad season and when we supposed to be a loosing team we end up winning?

[heel31ok]

Anything short of NFCCG is a big letdown, in my opinion.  Realistically.

 

Let's finish above .500 first. that is the next step.realistically.

 

[heel31ok]

Correct me if I'm wrong but usually when we are projected to win/ have a good season we end up loosing and have a bad season and when we supposed to be a loosing team we end up winning?

 

OK I'll correct you, you are wrong. It's losing.

 

[Mr. Scot]

Not a big fan of offseason power rankings.

Oh wait, they ranked us top ten? Cool power rankings!

[Doc Holiday]

yah they're just in a division with 3 of the 10 worst teams in the league. Two of those teams are two of like the 5 worst

and we have the other three in ours, your point being?

[JawnyBlaze]

Let's finish above .500 first. that is the next step.realistically.

 

 

We hit that step already, 2013.  Same regime, no need to repeat steps just because we had an off year last year.

 

[mpugh6]

But why aren't we 1?

[hepcat]

Dallas at 18 is kinda surprising.

 

Dallas is so overrated.  They had a good season on the back of a monster season from Demarco Murray.  Their O-Line is pretty good, and they have some talent on defense.  But this is still the same Cowboys team that finishes 8-8 every year, and I'm expecting no less.

[joeyxfresco]

I can live with that

[heel31ok]

We hit that step already, 2013.  Same regime, no need to repeat steps just because we had an off year last year.

 

 

yes we do need to repeat steps , off year means we are further from not closer to NFCCG. So yeah .500 is more realistic. 

[Chaos]

There's nothing like the smell of May power rankings in the morning.

[JawnyBlaze]

yes we do need to repeat steps , off year means we are further from not closer to NFCCG. So yeah .500 is more realistic. 

 

Well seeing as how we were literally closer to the NFCCG last year than the year before, getting to the second round, I'm not going to be satisfied with .500 nor do I think it's more realistic.  Last year there was a string of anomalous bad luck that hit the team and hopefully we won't have to deal with as much this year.

 

[heel31ok]

Well seeing as how we were literally closer to the NFCCG last year than the year before, getting to the second round, I'm not going to be satisfied with .500 nor do I think it's more realistic.  Last year there was a string of anomalous bad luck that hit the team and hopefully we won't have to deal with as much this year.

 

 

nothing realistic about thinking that will happen again  while finishing under .500, you start over each year and improvement would be over .500. the reality of it is we were lucky to be in a suck division and lucky to draw a team down to it's 3rd  string QB so that cannot be called a realistic expectation  and that is why we were literally closer and yet a million miles away from the NFCCG. But to each his own. If we win more than we lose it will be a successful season , a playoff spot would be nice and a NFCCG appearance would well exceed expectations.

 

[dcpanther89]

I could careless about power rankings if they don't make it to the NFC championship game this year then we are not making progress