What if tonight is Pittsburgh the sequel?

[CRA]

3 minutes ago, DeAngelo Beason said:

How does no KK hurt?  He's been a nonfactor all year.

I actually think Ron is going to literally throw the kitchen sink at Brees tonight.  I think Ron is going to unleash every blitz he has in the books. 

Means Brees will make some plays but Carolina might surprise. 

I still think we lose but I actually think people will be shocked at how competitive this game is.  I expect it to go like every game we have played this season.  Only 1 hasn't been a game.  This will be a game worth watching. 

[Carl Spackler]

9 minutes ago, CRA said:

I mean today pretty signals the old saying.....you are never as bad as you think you are....or as good as you think you are. All the sudden we are now the 2010 Carolina Panthers.   When just 6 weeks ago, we were the playoffs are a lock Panthers. 

This is generally true and I agree with it, but we really are a lot like the 2010 team right now and we play like it too

EDIT: I take that back, we're like the 2001 team a lot more.

[Proudiddy]

18 minutes ago, CRA said:

DJ Moore was literally in the endzone with a ball going between his hands.....on the last play of the game.  I mean, you can't say it was never close.   Maybe we didn't play well enough to really deserve that shot but we were still there taking it. 

I went to that playoff game.  It was close.  That game hit a stretch where every Saint fan around us in that stadium thought they were going to lose.  Cam had Funchess late in that game too.....but Funchess went up like he was 4ft tall and 90 lbs.  

I mean today pretty signals the old saying.....you are never as bad as you think you are....or as good as you think you are. All the sudden we are now the 2010 Carolina Panthers.   When just 6 weeks ago, we were the playoffs are a lock Panthers. 

Yeah, good points, but i honestly wasn't speaking under the influence of the present...  none of those games last year against the saints felt close to me.  When an offense moves the ball at will on you for a majority of the game, it feels pretty helpless.

[Palmetto]

A second loss like that and at home. yea the coach and GM should be fired Tuesday morning

[CRA]

11 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

This is generally true and I agree with it, but we really are a lot like the 2010 team right now and we play like it too

EDIT: I take that back, we're like the 2001 team a lot more.

bout to say, we are nothing like the 2010 team.  That team has no shot.  The 2018 team literally has as shot to win every game at the end and we just implode.   I really can't name a comparable season. 

I mean the law of averages is eventually going to swing in our favor on the outcome of some of these games.   

[Carl Spackler]

Just now, CRA said:

bout to say, we are nothing like the 2010 team.  That team has no shot.  The 2018 team literally has as shot to win every game at the end and we just implode.   

I mean the law of averages is eventually going to swing in our favor on the outcome of some of these games. 

I agree. Like 2001, it won’t happen until the next season 

[CRA]

2 minutes ago, Palmetto said:

A second loss like that and at home. yea the coach and GM should be fired Tuesday morning

that doesn't make us better. 

talent is our issue more than coaching.  

who do you hire that you know is better than Ron

Norv is doing great things with a hurt Cam.   Just imagine a healthy Cam in that O with a year of playing with Moore and Samuel. 

I don't see Tepper firing Ron.  Maybe if he loses out. 

[trueblade]

2 minutes ago, CRA said:

I mean the law of averages is eventually going to swing in our favor on the outcome of some of these games.   

Giants game, and Philadelphia game come to mind as games were it swung in our favor.

[CRA]

3 minutes ago, trueblade said:

Giants game, and Philadelphia game come to mind as games were it swung in our favor.

they were.  

but it still is pretty slanted the other way IMO.   

I still find the 2001 comparison bad.   I mean every loss outside of 1 has been within a score this year.  Our record could easily look vastly different if a single throw worked out different late.  Can't say that about 01.   Without looking, I would say most of our loses in 2001 were by double digits.   We had some close ones but we also got the breaks off us often. 

[Palmetto]

1 minute ago, CRA said:

that doesn't make us better. 

talent is our issue more than coaching.  

who do you hire that you know is better than Ron

Norv is doing great things with a hurt Cam.   Just imagine a healthy Cam in that O with a year of playing with Moore and Samuel. 

I don't see Tepper firing Ron.  Maybe if he loses out. 

This team has been inconsistent for a long time its time for a fresh start

Think Dan Reeves,  Andy Reid,  Brian Billick  all with more success than RR

and i dont get paid to know who is the next Sean McVay or Doug Peterson  good teams have their eyes on the next great coach before they need him

 

[Carl Spackler]

21 minutes ago, CRA said:

Can't say that about 01.   Without looking, I would say most of our loses in 2001 were by double digits.   We had some close ones but we also got the breaks off us often. 

Wrong, actually. We lost eight games by a touchdown or less in 2001. We went through a four-game stretch where our largest margin of defeat was four points, and it was from mid-November to early December, right before the team just laid down and took it up the ass the last few weeks.

Sound familiar?

[Billy Love]

2 hours ago, pantherj said:

The moment the Saints upgraded their o-line we became their bitch more or less. Nothing has changed.

Saints upgraded their Oline, our Dline has declined. Drew Brees + 0 pass rush + piss poor secondary coach by piss poor Richard Rodgers = serious ass kickin

[JARROD]

Well that will pucker your little bung hole won’t it.

[Puddinhead]

2 hours ago, Billy Love said:

Saints upgraded their Oline, our Dline has declined. Drew Brees + 0 pass rush + piss poor secondary coach by piss poor Richard Rodgers = serious ass kickin

As a Saints fan I'd feel much more comfortable were Armstead back from his pectoral issue.  Bushrod is serviceable at this late stage of his career, but Armstead is among the league's best LTs.