How accurate is pre season game 3 in determing the season?! Very

[Cookie Lyon]

Two preseason games over two years. 

That's not a sample size. 

Exactly. 

[OneBadCat]

People just trying to fit in with the "cool" crowd. He has actually been making some quality threads lately.

Because there is a "cool" crowd on the huddle. Lol  He just makes bad threads.

[Cookie Lyon]

Because there is a "cool" crowd on the huddle. Lol  He just makes bad threads.

This. I can't believe some people defended him for making this thread.

[PhillyB]

We've reached the time of year when it's a race to see who can get the most cool points by being the first to poo on a thread. Look out for the classic "not this poo again" and "this needed its own thread?" Make sure to say hello when you see it because the poster is sure to be sitting there waiting for their high 5.

what will i post then?

[gakonline]

Good thread and I and totally agree that preseason game 3 ultimately shows how a team will perform in the regular season.  2013 and 2014 are good indicators although we started both seasons totally opposite of the 3rd preseason game. 

If the OLine continues to impress and Cam can gain their trust he will not get nano blitzed every time he drops back, he will have his best season yet. The defense will continue to do what the do. I do not see them get gashed like they did last year the first half of the season. 

 

[Mage]

Lions went 4-0 in the preseason in 2008.

[PanthersUnited]

this dude needs to get laid

The sad part is your right, I actually do need to but the only problem is I'm married.. :(

[iBBB]

The sad part is your right, I actually do need to but the only problem is I'm married.. :(

The romance is gone?

Nothing brings it back like a good ol forehead kiss. Seek huddle advice immediately.

As in for 3rd preseason game, some one needs to do some research and compare all our 20 seasons with all 3rd preseason performances, maybe theres more to it. 

[t96]

There's no way any woman on this earth would marry PU.

[teeray]

You guys REALLY want these games to mean something more than they do.

Watch preseason, have fun, make cases for the guys who should be on the roster.  But these games mean so little in regards to regular season.

I want to see #1s play better too,  but I am not going to panic just because we dont score a TD every drive

[CRA]

So I went back and looked at highlight vids of our 3rd pre season game in each of the last two seasons and it's almost scary how the way we looked in those games is almost exactly how our regular season went those years..

Here is a highlight vid of our 2013 pre season game against the Ravens.. http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap2000000232960/Pre-Week-3-Panthers-vs-Ravens-highlights  

How can anyone forget this game. This was the Luke Kuechly show, if you remember correctly, this is the game with the force fumble play by Kuechly on Flacco and Thomas Davis recovering the fumble for a TD..

In this game, the offense didn't do much at all but you had a Ginn punt return for a TD, and an absolute dominating performance by our D. Fast forward to the regular season that year.. We go 12-4 on the backs of a dominating defense and solid performances by Ted Ginn in the return game.

Now let's look at pre season game 3 of last season against the Patriots. Complete disaster, our O line looked like poo, Brady carves our D up with his eyes closed and Cam gets the injured ribs, result is a blowout loss for us.

Fast forward to the regular season that year and the NFCs title not withstanding, it was a pretty terrible season. Some of the worst O line play ever, Cam banged up all year and countless blowout losses. 

I was actually quite amazed at how pre season game 3 mirrored and set the tone of how those respective seasons went.

last season we came out and won our first 2 games...after looking like poo in preseason.

 

2013 we lost our first 2 games after looking like an All Pro Terror squad against Baltimore in that 3rd preseason game...

 

so so basically we opened up both the last two seasons being the opposite of what we displayed in the all important big preseason game