The Carolina Panthers Won Today!

[Woodie]

56 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

I'm convinced most have no idea what they are looking at 

Well, if you look at bulk of posters that are being negative, they are the same ones that are negative 90% of the time they post.  They don't watch games like you or I do, they watch looking for mistakes, bad plays, and anything that will support their personal narrative that everything and everyone associated with the Panthers suck.  

And you're right, if you read what they are actually saying, it is clear that most of them do not really understand what they are looking at or how things work in the NFL.  The absurdness of some of their opinions are simply mindboggling.   

Edit:  I also think there is a lot of group think and follow the leader that goes on in this place.  

[Woodie]

9 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

People expect to much.  We have a new offensive coordinator, a lot of new players on offense, and we were playing against a decent defense.  And yet fans expect us to win 30-8.  If you look at the scores from today, most games were in the 5-10 point win range.  Its the NFL, not Alabama playing Southwest Dakota State.  We won, we enjoy it and move on.  

Exactly!  Like I'm sure everyone else wanted, I hoped our offense would come out blazing and put up 40 on Dallas.  But the rational part of me understood that there will be growing pains as the team adjusts to life under Norv.  Guys are still figuring out their roles, new players are still getting used to the scheme as well as Cam, and Norv is still adjusting to the players and figuring out what they do well and what they do not so well in real game situations. 

And I don't know if people simply don't realize that Dallas actually has a pretty good defense, and a very good front 7, especially when Lee is healthy.  So, it's no surprise that an OL with a 1st time LT, 1st time starter at LG, sick OC, and RT coming off of a significant knee injury would have some struggles.   

By midseason I think this offense will be humming, but for the time being, we should all expect some inconsistency.

[Inimicus]

1 hour ago, iBBB said:

This is a complete mind phuck. I watched the game at a Panthers bar in Denver and was really looking forward to coming home and checking out the huddle, but the moment I logged in, the phucking place is infested with negativity and bad vibes all around, almost as if we were blown out 45 to 0. People poo on Rivera, on Funchess, Cam lead in rushing, CMC shouldn't receive that much, CJ - not enough carries... WTF ???

Yeah it wasn't pretty, but we did what we had to do and we walked away with a win. 

It's almost as if everyone is new to the game of football and automatically assumes that what they saw today is exactly how every game will happen. 

Chill Panther Nation, it's gonna be alright, we will play better. Fuggg

Im guessing Shelby's was off the chain today.

[iBBB]

18 minutes ago, Inimicus said:

Im guessing Shelby's was off the chain today.

This is us at halftime. But yeah, we tore that place down with our chants and cheers. It was wild. 

[Inimicus]

8 minutes ago, iBBB said:

This is us at halftime. But yeah, we tore that place down with our chants and cheers. It was wild. 

Way to represent!

Stand up and cheer for the Panthers

Stand up and cheer for the black and blue

The pride of both Carolinas

The team for me and you

GO BIG CATS!

 

/bluejelloshots

[OneBadCat]

Yes we won bottom line. Still this game was nightmare. We damn near lost Williams, Olsen and Luke in one fuggin game. The offense did not move well enough and went to total hell when Amini went to RT. 

Dallas might just be an underrated team. However we need to fix a lot of sht.

[GRWatcher]

Well. Thank you, guys. All of you. Especially @KendrickPanther. I just got home from the game (traffic north with the rain was hell) and this is the first topic I opened. Thank goodness. If I had opened any other thread that you're talking about, I would've closed the Huddle all together and not come back until Tuesday.  I'm probably not the only one who does that too often. Hear that @Jeremy Igo?

I am 100% convinced that most Huddle posters are so drunk by the 2nd quarter that they fail to see what is really happening on the field, on the sideline. 

There's no way the team can totally avoid the effects of what happened this off season: scandalous owner investigation, new owner, every coordinator is new as are a lot of the coaches, one of our top LB's suspended 4 games. That's why pundits have us at the bottom of the NFCS. It's not a lack of talent.

This game. WE WON! It was ugly at times but I didn't expect the score to be high. Nor did I expect a blowout. I did expect us to win. Both defenses are good. Both offenses are going through changes.  We held Zeke to 69 yards. 69 yards!! Cam had a 65% completion rate! Tepper got the game ball! Room for improvement but what a fantastic start. 

[trueblade]

I'm normally an optimistic person, and I'm happy we got the win yesterday. We didn't exactly look like world beaters the opening weeks of 2015 either. The excitement of the win is simply tempered by some of the things we saw yesterday.

The offense looked poor after Williams went down, and that's being kind. While the defense played out of its mind, and most importantly made the play to finish the game (unlike, for example, Chicago's defense), there were still opportunities for Dallas to have made big plays, like the mix up between Searcy and Adams which left the TE wide open down the seam. Fortunately Dak was unable to make the throws.

Dallas was the perfect match up for the Panthers. The Panthers excel at taking away what Dallas does well (run with Zeke), and Dallas was ill equipped to challenge the Panthers in the passing game. Our next opponent knows us well and is better suited to stress every level of our defense.