It's a Trap!

[Jeremy Igo]

I hereby am officially designating Sunday's game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a trap game. 

Here are a few of the factors that went into making this official designation. 

- Record flooding in Charlotte a distraction, especially to the players with families. I know my thoughts will be at home, so will theirs. 

- Terrible officiating , as outlined here by our own PhillyB. Also, it appears Carolina is getting the worst of the worst, as far as officials go. 

- Tampa is not as bad as you think. They defeated a Saints team with Drew Brees in New Orleans in a much more convincing fashion than Carolina did at home without Drew Brees. 

- Division matchups are rarely anything but a dog fight for the Panthers to begin with. 

- Although AJ Klein is a good player, missing Luke Kuechly started to show itself last week. Tackling was very sloppy. 

In conclusion... 

 

Take this game against Tampa Bay lightly at your own risk. 

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[TheRed]

I don't necessarily disagree, but the week before they beat the Saints they let the Titans in Tampa with a rookie QB drop 42 points on their D.

Cam, and the offense are going to have to win this one for us.

[blackcat]

It took one of Cam's best performances ever to knock off a brees-less Saints team.  Take away Norman's INT, and we likely lose that game. 

With all the noise last week before the NO game about how we were going to dominate them and then didn't, I'm hoping the players may have learned a lesson.

[RoaringRiot]

I like Cam vs their D more than I like Winston vs our banged up D. 

[TheRed]

With all the noise last week before the NO game about how we were going to dominate them and then didn't, I'm hoping the players may have learned a lesson.

The players were saying this? I must have missed that.

[Daeavorn]

Cam will keep us from losing to their silly trap. He seems really focused this season and I expect him to continue to perform.

[*FreeFua*]

Agree.

 

Plus with the bye coming next week it's easy to overlook Tampa, Winston actually looked good in Houston, his number may not show it but if there's any fan base that knows not to judge a QB's performance by the boxscore it's this one. Winston got the Cam treatment and was letdown by multiple drops by his WR's.

 

Missing Luke his huge if it's rainy and it becomes a battle of running backs, the Bucs OC said yesterday the Panthers D is pretty vanilla without Luke.

 

It'd sure suck having to sit on a loss to the Bucs for 2 weeks... 

Edited October 2, 2015 by *FreeFua*

[blackcat]

The players were saying this? I must have missed that.

Not sure if the players did, but pretty much everyone else did.  Did you visit the board last week?  If you hear something enough, even it's outside of your little world, you have a tendency to start to believe it.  Lighten up dude, it's Friday.  We get to drink booze if we wanna.

[Kuech the Sneak]

Just hope the team stays focused for this one, they've been pretty terrible at home so here's hoping that continues for them

[Snake]

It took one of Cam's best performances ever to knock off a brees-less Saints team.  Take away Norman's INT, and we likely lose that game. 

With all the noise last week before the NO game about how we were going to dominate them and then didn't, I'm hoping the players may have learned a lesson.

It's amazing how well a shitty team can look when they are allowed to hold all game. 

[wud35]

It took one of Cam's best performances ever to knock off a brees-less Saints team.  Take away Norman's INT, and we likely lose that game. 

With all the noise last week before the NO game about how we were going to dominate them and then didn't, I'm hoping the players may have learned a lesson.

Fans are not players. No players said that.

[Lumps]

Hate the fact we haven't played a legit team yet (with a real QB) hard to tell what we have and will be until we face the Hawks week 6.

[TheRed]

Not sure if the players did, but pretty much everyone else did.  Did you visit the board last week?  If you hear something enough, even it's outside of your little world, you have a tendency to start to believe it.  Lighten up dude, it's Friday.  We get to drink booze if we wanna.

Other than a few homer fans here, that's about it.

I'm sure some players read the huddle, but luckily they aren't nearly as fragile or fickle as some of the people here.

[blackcat]

Fans are not players. No players said that.

How do you know?