If we lose on Thursday, the following things will be true

[pantherj]

I start off every game thinking "Ok let's totally dominate this team so I can have an amazing time! No mercy! Violence!" Then the actual game starts and I see the bloopers and bonehead plays, and the "who cares?" body language, and I start drawing some conclusions about the team and our future. I loose my steam. I think that's only human nature.

[punkpanther]

If they lose , and it’s ugly .. I don’t think Ron getting fired is out of the realm of possibility. Tepper in an unknown but one thing is for sure .. he doesn’t want to be embarrassed .losing this game would be as embarrassing as it gets.

[Toolbox]

it would just mean we wasted a year on ron when he should have been fired last season...

[Moo Daeng]

It means you all are obsessed with what losing means to people who have nothing to do with the competition 

[jasonluckydog]

Cam played 1 game in about a year he looked rusty but week 2 watch out

[jasonluckydog]

We could always

 

SUCK FOR LUCK!!!

 

Woot!

[ickmule]

6 hours ago, Happy Panther said:

And our playoff hopes become slim.

They aren’t already slim ? 

[ickmule]

4 hours ago, pantherj said:

I start off every game thinking "Ok let's totally dominate this team so I can have an amazing time! No mercy! Violence!" Then the actual game starts and I see the bloopers and bonehead plays, and the "who cares?" body language, and I start drawing some conclusions about the team and our future. I loose my steam. I think that's only human nature.

This. ^^^^^^

 

I am driving 4 hours for this game.  It better be a blowout by the Panthers, but I know it won’t.   

[raleigh-panther]

4 hours ago, Jeremy Igo said:

If we lose Thursday night then the wheels fall completely off the bandwagon and it will be uglier than 2010 in the fanbase.

Ahh, memories 

[parker]

I think we win by 20+.  Ron likes messing with Arians.

[emhoward]

0-2 is a nail in the coffin for most teams, but because we start slow and finish strong (sans last year for obvious reasons), I'm not sure we still wouldn't be ok. We started off 0-2 in 2013 if I recall.

That said it definitely feels like a must win

[KillaCamNewton]

14 hours ago, pantherj said:

We are either:

A.) A playoff team.

B.) An average non-playoff team.

C.) The bottom of the barrel.

I think the Bucs are C. What we do to them helps clear things up for me. I want the Panthers to stomp the poop out of the Bucs and every team we play, but we just looked like a B team. We have to be realistic.

we just went toe to toe with and were a ball bouncing the wrong way from beating a team that has won 24 games the last 2 years (outscoring opponents by almost 300 points along the way) and we looked like an average non playoff team?

[steven8989]

This fan base is not happy with keeping Ron and the rest of the coaching staff. I went to training camp as I always do each year and can't believe how it was not crowded. Last time I seen it like that was the years of Wienke and Clausen. Then I go to the game Sunday and the stadium was the same way. I come to work and everyone is laughing about how empty stadium was for a home opener to start the year off. Tepper better do something soon. All that poo he did last year is wearing off real quick. Their won't be a fan base if he keeps letting this crap go on. Maybe he don't care and wants to move the team somewhere else. I guess we will find out soon enough.

[mc52beast]

16 hours ago, WarPanthers89 said:

If CMC runs for 300 yards Thursday he has a 97% chance of making it to the pro bowl.

He also has a 0% chance of lasting more than 5 years if Ron continues to be his coach