Do You Honestly Believe We Will Have Another Non-Winning Season ? Or Is A New Owner a Sign of Immediate Change?

[rayzor]

Said it before. I'm bullish about this year. I felt like last year we could have won 3-4 more games last year if we had a better OC and this year we've got it. Aside from LG I think we're in better shape than last year and Poe makes the DLine better.

We'll run the table this year. I feel good about it.

[Untouchable]

There's talent all over the roster but I'm cautiously optimistic.  I'm more worried about all the coaching changes.  Teams tend to take some time to round into form when there is coordinator changes.  The offenses of the Eagles/Vikings last season and the Falcons the year before all took a year before taking off.  Throw in the fact that we won so many close games last year (7-1 record) and there is certainly reasons to be worried.  

[s1lent_kn1ght]

I will never, ever have expectations for this team after watching them go up and down for so many years.

[rayzor]

3 minutes ago, Untouchable said:

There's talent all over the roster but I'm cautiously optimistic.  I'm more worried about all the coaching changes.  Teams tend to take some time to round into form when there is coordinator changes.  The offenses of the Eagles/Vikings last season and the Falcons the year before all took a year before taking off.  Throw in the fact that we won so many close games last year (7-1 record) and there is certainly reasons to be worried.  

the thing is, this isnt all that new to them. same basic offense just run better,

[heel31ok]

17 hours ago, Pantha-kun said:

I was just thinking about how the team will do now we're undergoing so much change.  Of course its not all due to JR leaving, but how cool would it be that in our first year with a new owner we would have consecutive winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.  

I just want to know if you guys actually beleive it will happen. I said before many times on here that in 20+ years of existance , weve had plenty of different coaches , players , staff members through the years and we still didnt EVER manager ONE single pair of back to back winning seasons, so the common denominator I always arrived at was JR. Of course I was unilaterally stomped on for saying stuff against JR for much of the time , but now we finally get to see if I was right. 

I know itll eventually happen, but my question is , WILL it happen THIS season. 

The weird thing about the Panthers is we always seem to do well , when people pick against us before the season (low expectations). But when there's high expectations and alot of pressure (ALA 2016) shits gone south fast and the team crumples record wise. Is getting Tepper, Norv , DJ , Torrey Smith,  CJ Anderson, Dontari Poe, Donte Jackson actually be enough to put us over the edge and have a 9-7 season or better? Or will we just simply have another 6-10 ish season that we ususally do following successful years in the River era? 

8-8 not good enough. 9-7 will probably not even make the playoffs but would still be  a huge franchise bucking trend in the correct direction of establishing a culture of consistent winning. We cant be a .500 franchise for the next 25 years too , right?

Norv Turner...

[The Pieyed Piper]

 

[bigdog10]

I think Cam will have his 2nd best season of his career. I don’t know that he will ever duplicate 2015, but I expect him to be near that level as opposed to years past. 

I think our defense will be way worse than what we’ve come to expect. I don’t see us having any pass rush, I don’t trust Shaq Thompson as much as others here, and I think our secondary is a bottom five secondary in the league with games against Julio x2, Thomas x2, Evans x2, Brown, AJ Green, and Alshon. 

I think this year will resemble the early Cam years where the offense is being held back by the defense. 

I said 9-7, but I could easily see 7-9 or 6-10. 

[Ace_Aladdin]

14-2, 

1 loss to division 

1 loss to AFC

[mc52beast]

Tepper has already said Ron and Marty are safe, so there’s no pressure on them to do well this year. I think we’ll go 10-6 or 11-5 and finally break that dreaded curse.