Shades of 2015..

[Ivan The Awesome]

I'm not sure if anyone has made a thread about this. Probably has but yeah..

 

 

This win reminds me a lot of the 2015 season. Mainly finding ways to win. Not to lose. This game in particular, I believe we went to NY, it was that beckham/Norman fight game. 

The game it really reminded me of was the Colts win on Monday night? Or thursday? Where Gano won it for us too. The colts were underdogs and we kept it close but it was his fg that got us through it. 

Hopefully we do make it back to the big dance and win it this time. Today was a good day my friends. 

[Seltzer]

Our last 2 games against the Giants certainly have been emotional, back & forth games...

And the Giants whining about something after the game...

And oh yeah, Panthers wins that galvanized the team

[t96]

All I remember from that Colts game was Teddy dropping a wide open long bomb TD to win early in OT...

[brandon_87]

Nothing at all like 2015. We had a defense that year and a very opportunistic offense.

[KillaCamNewton]

4 minutes ago, brandon_87 said:

Nothing at all like 2015. We had a defense that year and a very opportunistic offense.

We got shredded by Luke McCown early in the season too. The idea that we had some suffocating defense in 2015 is a myth—-what they did do was force alot of turnovers

[KillaCamNewton]

For reference, here are the QBs we played in 2015

 

Brees

Luke McCown

Ryan x2

Jameis (rookie) x2

Bortles (lol)

Mariota (rookie)

Ryan Mallet (LOL)

Luck

Rodgers

Eli

Sam Bradford with Chip Kelly (what a terrible pairing that was)

Kirk

What was left of Tony Romo

Russell Wilson

 

every QB listed that you would consider “good” put up more than 20 on us. We mauled Matt Ryan in the 1st game then 2 weeks later gave up 20. Brees torched us in the dome, Rodgers and Eli mounted large comebacks against us. Russ got outdueled by Cam, all the scrub QBs we played scored less than 20 with the exception of Luke McCown

[Chaos]

Wouldn't that be some poo - win out this season, go 15-1, with our only loss coming at Atlanta, again.  This time though, win that SB.  In Atlanta.

[PleaseCutStewart]

1 hour ago, KillaCamNewton said:

We got shredded by Luke McCown early in the season too. The idea that we had some suffocating defense in 2015 is a myth—-what they did do was force alot of turnovers

That has more to do with New Orleans offensive scheme being a mismatch nightmare for us than the defense starting off bad.

[Saca312]

1 hour ago, brandon_87 said:

Nothing at all like 2015. We had a defense that year and a very opportunistic offense.

Defense lived off turnovers and Josh Norman. Pass rush honestly was mediocre outside of KK Short going ballistic. It did pick up later in the season when o-line quality around the league dropped. 

Playoff and SB stretch featured some of the league’s better offenses coupled with sub-par o-lines. Partly why our defense was so dominant through the whole stretch.

 

[Seltzer]

As pointed out... much, much better QBs and tougher schedule this year.

That's not exonerating defense though... but it is true

[LA_Panther]

1 hour ago, Chaos said:

Wouldn't that be some poo - win out this season, go 15-1, with our only loss coming at Atlanta, again.  This time though, win that SB.  In Atlanta.

Like how you think man 

[TheRumGone]

We have the most takeaways in the NFL since 2015. That’s crazy.

[t96]

9 hours ago, brandon_87 said:

Nothing at all like 2015. We had a defense that year and a very opportunistic offense.

Our defense in ‘15 had some horrible games...

[Pantherxtreme]

3 minutes ago, t96 said:

Our defense in ‘15 had some horrible games...

The Giants game in 2015 being one of them