Wake up Call

[TheWiz]

I attribute yesterday's performance to a few factors: 

1.) Coming off a bye week - It just is what it is. In the past Rivera and staff have not prepared our team too well after a bye week.I think we've won the past two years but historically our team looks lethargic.

2.) Greg Olsen coming back - not fully healed, Ed Dickson has been on a roll. Hopefully next week things will be back to normal.

3.) Slightly looking past the Jets - this team doesn't handle success well. They perform when its a big game or when there is a sense of controversy. Panthers often play up to competition or down to competition. Mix in a predictably conservative approach to game-planning and it's going to be hard to get this team into a rhythm.

4.) Cam - thumb or no thumb. Can't have that kind of performance. But this is the PERFECT kind of game to have before the New Orleans Saints game. The media will undoubtedly get on him all week about his performance. 

Hope this was a wake-up call. The next stretch of games is brutal.

[therealmjl]

Thought the Bears game was our wake up call

[L-TownCat]

1 minute ago, mjligon said:

Thought the Bears game was our wake up call

Post bye wake up.  Seems like we hit the snooze button too many times coming out of a bye.

[therealmjl]

1 minute ago, L-TownCat said:

Post bye wake up.  Seems like we hit the snooze button too many times coming out of a bye.

Yeah glad we escaped with the win. Not sure what Rivera does coming off the bye but it’s never worked.

[TheWiz]

Just now, L-TownCat said:

Post bye wake up.  Seems like we hit the snooze button too many times coming out of a bye.

exactly. luckily it was a W. So I think its a win - win... as ironic as that sounds.

[uncfan888]

6 minutes ago, mjligon said:

Thought the Bears game was our wake up call

We play like that next week and the game will be over at halftime 

[Dex]

we have 7 - 8 wake up call games a season. 

[ecu88]

4 minutes ago, TheWiz said:

exactly. luckily it was a W. So I think its a win - win... as ironic as that sounds.

Need a little luck with talent to win the SuperB owl, Panthers so far have had both luck and talent.

[pantherclaw]

1. Bullshit. Our team was prepared. To many mistakes on the offense, doesn't equate to not being prepared.

2. It's alright that Olsen was eased back. Would have been better if Cam at least played averaged.

3. Bullshit again. Our team has to much veteran leadership to look past any team. Do away with that lame ass fan perspective.

4. The only thing I could agree with you. 

 

This was not a wake up call.  Thanks for your concern.

[Peppers90 NC]

14 minutes ago, pantherclaw said:

1. Bullshit. Our team was prepared. To many mistakes on the offense, doesn't equate to not being prepared.

2. It's alright that Olsen was eased back. Would have been better if Cam at least played averaged.

3. Bullshit again. Our team has to much veteran leadership to look past any team. Do away with that lame ass fan perspective.

4. The only thing I could agree with you. 

 

This was not a wake up call.  Thanks for your concern.

well we wont know if it's a wake up call until we see how they play next week, i would like to think it is. i had a bad feeling it was going to be a rough game 2 weeks ago.

[UpstatePanther]

2 hours ago, TheWiz said:

I2.) Greg Olsen coming back - not fully healed, Eric Dickson has been on a roll. Hopefully next week things will be back to normal.

Who is that? must be Donald LaFell's cousin

[TheWiz]

1 minute ago, UpstatePanther said:

Who is that? must be Donald LaFell's cousin

lol Thanks. Fixed it. 

[BIGH2001]

2 hours ago, pantherclaw said:

1. Bullshit. Our team was prepared. To many mistakes on the offense, doesn't equate to not being prepared.

2. It's alright that Olsen was eased back. Would have been better if Cam at least played averaged.

3. Bullshit again. Our team has to much veteran leadership to look past any team. Do away with that lame ass fan perspective.

4. The only thing I could agree with you. 

 

This was not a wake up call.  Thanks for your concern.

 

I agree.  Lots of spoiled fans on this board.  I read today that if we win the south this year, it would be 4 titles in 5 years.  I didn't think about it like that.  That is an amazing run we have had with these players and the coaching staff, as much as people do not want to give them credit for some reason.  It puts us in the top 4-5 franchises in the league.  Some folks have forgotten the late 90s and early 2000s as well as the 2009-2012 seasons.  

[xav8tor]

1. Cam played like (insert name of your favorite third string backup here). Horrible accuracy. Questionable decisions. Going for broke into double coverage when again and again, CMC was wide open for a first down plus. On a good number of plays, it seemed like he wasn't covered just because the defense knew Cam wasn't going to even consider the check down.

2. Receiving corps overall didn't do much to help their struggling QB.

3. Entire secondary looked like scrubs over half the time they were on the field, and that was with solid play from the front seven, which is supposed to make jags look good.

4. Shula. Moments of brilliance wrapped up in multiple layers of lunacy. 

PS...

Me. We missed the first play on offense. We gotta hit rewind.

Wife. Why? Stewart up the middle for a couple yards.

Me. Nah, Shula finally is starting to figure it out.

Wife. Okay, back it up.

Me.  Hits rewind, then play.

Both. ROFLMFAO.