ESPN Picks the Panthers As Tied for Most Likely Team (who made the playoffs last year) To Miss the Playoffs This Coming Season

[pantherclaw]

22 minutes ago, pnthrs said:

They do both work. They just mean very different things to different people. 

Ignorance is bliss.

[Khyber53]

I'm fine with this. We're always better as the underdogs.

[FakePlasticTrees]

It really is incredible that in 23 years with four different head coaches, the Panthers have not had consecutive winning seasons. That is a definite trend and hard to ignore if asked which of last year's playoff teams will not make the playoffs next season. The only time the Panthers would have been a wrong answer coming off of a playoff appearance is when they made the playoffs without  a winning record.

I suspect that a great analytical article could be written as to why this trend exists. For example, it would interesting to analyze the conferences that the Panthers played in playoff years and nonplayoff years (and the one playoff year without a winning record). It would also be interesting to analyze the relative strengths of schedule in playoff and nonplayoff years. It is also interesting that the one constant throughout all of those years is that the Panther's head coaches were all defensive coordinators before becoming a head coach.

Perhaps this is the year that this "monkey is taken off of their backs". Perhaps new ownership brings a more positive and new trend.

[kungfoodude]

6 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

I'm fine with this. We're always better as the underdogs.

Yeah. I don't need to be hyped as a team, just get the results. I have plenty of misgivings about our team but until they suit up on Sept. 9th, none of that means poo.

[OneBadCat]

54 minutes ago, pantherclaw said:

Ignorance is bliss.

I could care less.

[pantherclaw]

22 minutes ago, OneBadCat said:

I could care less.

Lol. No, you couldn't. Evidently ya just don't care that you look like an idiot, still saying it the way you do, even though it makes no sense the way you say it. 

You should care about relaying what you're attempting to communicate.

[Sasquatch]

16 hours ago, Hoenheim said:

All the voters in this unilaterally picked the Panthers to miss the playoffs apparently (22 out of 22)

And the little blurb is written by David Newton, I wonder why he sounds so negative?  Thoughts?

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/23802011/2018-nfl-ranking-most-likely-new-playoff-teams-replacements

I guess its true we've never had back to back winning seasons, but then again we still went to the playoffs 3 years in a row (2013, 2014, 2015) in the somewhat recent past . And we've gone 4 out of the past 5 seasons total. 

 

Oh, were you betting your money on them naming the Patriots?

[Lumps]

On 6/23/2018 at 7:22 PM, bull123 said:

Could care less 

Then do it

[Panthera onca]

If that dumpster fire of a team last season can make the playoffs, this one surely can.

[RumHam]

We are a team in transition of ownership. We have an awful secondary. On paper, we've lost too much on our offensive line. On paper, we've gotten older. The media just hates us anyways so it makes sense. Not to mention, the division has rebounded and caught up and the NFC was tough. Jesus if we were in the AFC South, we'd be the Patriots. 

[Moo Daeng]

12 hours ago, Panthera onca said:

If that dumpster fire of a team last season can make the playoffs, this one surely can.

Dumpster Fire who went 11-5 beating 5 playoff teams and two 13-3 teams. One of being a Super Bowl team on the road.  One 5 pt loss to the Super Bowl winner. 

The worst aspect was the Achilles Heal being a division rival. 

If that makes for a dumpster fire you need to put some things in perspective.

[beastson]

I look back and wonder how we even made the playoffs last season, so I expect to make it this season

[Moo Daeng]

Some so desperately want to be negative they don't see the reality in front of them. 

[hepcat]

It took the Falcons 44 seasons to have back to back winning seasons.

It took the Saints 21 seasons.

It took the Bucs 23 seasons. This is discounting the strike-shortened 1982 season, where the Bucs did have consecutive winning seasons by going 5-4 in 1982 after going 9-7 in 1981. The reason I discount this season is because by this logic, the Panthers would have had back-to-back winning seasons should the 2006 season ended in Week 10. The Panthers were 5-4 in Week 10 of 2006.

So despite it being 23 seasons to consecutive winning records, compared to the Panthers division rivals, it's par for the course.