Anyone remember 2003?

[Doc Holiday]

Yeah, that year the first time around that we went to the super bowl?

Regular season record? 11-5

a ton of gritty close wins

and being on the wrong end of an ass whopping in week 6 versus the titans.

Titans game was actually worse than this one tonight, because 1. we were at home, 2. we had a full week leading into it 3. the Panthers defense in 2003 was elite. Steve McNair and the Titans utterly destroyed us by dropping 37 points on that elite defense and we only scored 17 points... it was ugly.....

The point of this is, tonights game doesnt mean anything more than one thing. we lost tonight.  Dont make it out to be anything more or less than that. a single loss.

[ellis]

We lost 4 fumbles against Tennessee that day, and it wasn’t nearly as close as that score.

That game absolutely came to mind tonight. 

[Seltzer]

19 minutes ago, je1005 said:

We lost 4 fumbles against Tennessee that day, and it wasn’t nearly as close at that score.

That game absolutely came to mind tonight. 

That 2003 game and the 2008 Arizona playoff debacle are the 2 that some to mind for me...

Not that we haven't had other bad losses, just the 2 easiest examples of bad losses when we were expecting something different.

At least like 2003, we still get a chance to get back off the mat next week...  we didn't have that chance for 9 months in 2008

[Zaximus]

Yeah that team had 500x the heart this team has and that defense was 500x the defense this team is.   It's not even close.

[BIGH2001]

That defense was not as consistently bad as ours has been.  

[LiberalsRWeak93]

2 minutes ago, Seltzer said:

That 2003 game and the 2008 Arizona playoff debacle are the 2 that some to mind for me...

Not that we haven't had other bad losses, just the 2 easiest examples of bad losses when we were expecting something different.

At least like 2003, we still get a chance to get back off the mat next week...  we didn't have that chance for 9 months in 2008

Tonight felt worse... 

[Doc Holiday]

2 minutes ago, Zaximus said:

Yeah that team had 500x the heart this team has and that defense was 500x the defense this team is.   It's not even close.

I dont know about the heart thing, I think after some of our close wins, this team has proven that, I'd just give my left nut to have that defense tho...

[Seltzer]

2 minutes ago, LiberalsRWeak93 said:

Tonight felt worse... 

Not than the Arizona loss... not even in the same stratosphere... maybe the '03 loss

[LiberalsRWeak93]

Just now, Seltzer said:

Not than the Arizona loss... not even in the same stratosphere... maybe the '03 loss

05' Seattle was bad too.

 

[Seltzer]

Just now, Doc Holiday said:

I dont know about the heart thing, I think after some of our close wins, this team has proven that, I'd just give my left nut to have that defense tho...

I don't think this defense is any less talented across the back 7, especially considering the rule changes and how it affects DB play...

But yeah, the Front 4 is light years less... crazy that 15 years later and Peppers still was our best D lineman tonight...

[KSpan]

Seattle 2016 (the 'didn't wear a tie' game) was pretty much the same as tonight, even down to the head-scratching pick 6 at the start of the game. A few less points scored overall but the exact same type of on-field ass-whooping in front of a national primetime (SNF) audience.

[Doc Holiday]

3 minutes ago, LiberalsRWeak93 said:

Tonight felt worse... 

no bro, 2008 was way worse, this one may be stinging a little bit still right now, but 2008 was yikes. 2015 super bowl felt bad, but at the same time, I felt like we had a very good core to the team and would be back, just didnt realize the NFL would let opposing teams have an open season on Cam that year, and that gettleman was dumb enough to let Norman walk. still pissed about both those thing, and I dont think I will ever forgive them for that either.

[LinvilleGorge]

Dropped 37 on us? We'd given up 52 with over 14 minutes to go tonight. If they hadn't taken Big Ben out and coasted they would've easily hung 70+ on us tonight.

[Doc Holiday]

5 minutes ago, LiberalsRWeak93 said:

05' Seattle was bad too.

 

we had a great team that year, but the injuries and our road through the playoffs just killed us, we had the toughest road to the super bowl that year, and pulled off 2 outstanding wins, just going cross country, and then players on the team getting sick. We just got worn out.