Really hard being a Panthers fan today.

[Bunskie]

Loss aside... I was super pleased with what I saw... Our offence had really creative looks, Teddy looked way sharper as a passer than Cam has the past few seasons, our clock management was much better, we spread the ball around nicely. A couple of dumb ass holding calls costed us an otherwise impressive debut.

[pantherj]

Alex is barely in the NFL. He is in the NFL on a wing and a prayer. We could replace him with a guy off the street and I couldn't tell the difference. We put the ball in his 6th round draft pick hands. Give it to the 6th rounder. Good. Keep doing that because I want Lawrence.

[Proudiddy]

3 minutes ago, pantherj said:

You don't put the ball in Alex's hands to decide the game. Give it to DJ, CMC, I don't care who, but not Alex. We don't have a big premier o-line that can blow up an opposing d-line, so you should expect a muddle in the middle, and then Alex running into the back of it and falling down as per usual. I was EXPECTING to see that. TB was pretty hot throwing the ball, and had 0 INTS. Run it with Alex? Holy smokes.

agreed.  When we came out in the heavy and they stacked the box, on top of their DL being dominant and stronger than our OL all day, I was absolutely sure that was a pitch to CMC or a bootleg of some kind.  Unbelievable.

[pantherj]

1 minute ago, Proudiddy said:

agreed.  When we came out in the heavy and they stacked the box, on top of their DL being dominant and stronger than our OL all day, I was absolutely sure that was a pitch to CMC or a bootleg of some kind.  Unbelievable.

Why do we have to suffer seeing a 6TH ROUNDER decide our game???? We have a HoF level RB on the roster. Hall of Fame. 6th round Alex get the ball. LOL. Ok.

[Logic]

10 minutes ago, pantherj said:

Alex is barely in the NFL. He is in the NFL on a wing and a prayer. We could replace him with a guy off the street and I couldn't tell the difference. We put the ball in his 6th round draft pick hands. Give it to the 6th rounder. Good. Keep doing that because I want Lawrence.

[Icege]

Fairly exciting day imo.

• For those that felt that Cam, Rivera, and Olsen were done dirty they get to enjoy what they think is the suffering of those that hold opposing viewpoints as those individuals have successful starts in their new homes while the Panthers organization takes an L to start
• Panthers fans eager to see how bad the team will be should be excited about the potential they showed. They lost a one score game that saw several lead changes where questions were answered at QB in regards to can Teddy lead this offense (he can) and our young defense got some experience with Brown & Chinn looking especially good.
• No injuries to stars/starters!

There are definitely some concerns in regards to the pass rush (even if Carr gets the ball out super quick) and secondary (Troy Pride Jr got baptized by fire and while Rasul Douglas missed that Jacobs tackle he did flash multiple times throughout the game). Losing Ruggs hurt them quite a bit with their ability to try and go deep imo.

All in all though, the only thing that would've made today better is a Panthers W... but then again, the folks that are cheering for draft position have gotta be excited

[MechaZain]

12 minutes ago, pantherj said:

You don't put the ball in Alex's hands to decide the game. Give it to DJ, CMC, I don't care who, but not Alex. We don't have a big premier o-line that can blow up an opposing d-line, so you should expect a muddle in the middle, and then Alex running into the back of it and falling down as per usual. I was EXPECTING to see that. TB was pretty hot throwing the ball, and had 0 INTS. Run it with Alex? Holy smokes.

I agree with this (I would’ve asked Teddy to lean forward personally) but I’m annoyed that the fanbase is acting like Christian hasn’t been stopped in that situation multiple times.

[pantherj]

Just now, MechaZain said:

I agree with this (I would’ve asked Teddy to lean forward personally) but I’m annoyed that the fanbase is acting like Christian hasn’t been stopped in that situation multiple times.

If we get CMC the ball in space and they stop him then I'm 100% ok with that. They stopped a Hall of Fame type RB imo, and that is ok by me. When they stop Alex all I can do is say "I expected them to stop him. Stupid."

[Panthercougar68]

You’re kidding. 
 

all those other things expect Washington winning were supposed to happen but we were gonna lose 35-17 as most people thought.

We will be fine next year.

[pantherj]

If we had a big o-line with some maulers like Otah and Turner, some pro bowl monsters, then maybe you give it to Alex and blow them the hell up. We don't even have ONE mauler. Not one. None. What is ALEX doing with the ball?

[hepcat]

Everyone gleaning “positives” from this game also need to remember, they played the Raiders. That was not a quality football team. Let’s see how they look against the Bucs next week. Tom Brady is probably going to make that young defense cry Uncle.

[SpeedOFLight]

I’m normally a positive poster/person but I’m not a fan or moral victories. It’s the same ole panthers. We are a losing franchise and we need to turn it around quick or a lot of people will lose interest. Winning cures everything which we haven’t don’t in a while 

[WOW!!]

My expectations were just what I saw.. 

Don't understand others who thought this wouldn't be the outcome after a total rebuild..

[pantherj]

Today was a 50/50 game between two bad teams. We lost because we were the dumber team. Dumb critical calls = L.