Are you pulling for the Panthers or Saints if...

[Peon Awesome]

In the event that the Bears are able to upset Green Bay and the Seahawks take care of the 49ers, how would you feel about a Panthers win? Cause the scenario then becomes:

1. Saints win, clinch a 1st round bye, homefield advantage throughout and have Kamara likely available for their 1st playoff game where they're poised to trounce on the winner of the Bucs-NFC East champ at home for an easy path to the NFC championship. Panthers lose and probably end up around pick 7 or 8. 

2. Panthers win, drop the Saints to a 3 seed where they have to play in the wildcard without Kamara and even if they win, their path to the Super Bowl likely goes through Greenbay and Seattle on the road. Panthers drop to around pick 12 or 13.

Obviously Saints could go out early or win the super bowl in either scenario but the odds shift dramatically. It boils down to what do you value more, trouncing on the super bowl hopes of those smug Saints bastards as a final exclamation point in the 2020 season, or gaining a few spots in the draft order and look ahead to 2021 and beyond? Can see the argument in both sides.

 

[GOAT]

I have never once in my 20+ years of fandom wanted the Panthers to lose.

[LinvilleGorge]

I don't give a poo about the Saints. We need a QB and there are some really good ones in this draft. I don't want to play spoiler to the Saints, I want to build a team so that we can contend ourselves.

[GoPanthers123]

Panthers as every game before this one

[stbugs]

If the Saints would have gotten the 1 seed, I’d have no problem winning. I’m fairly certain that GB and Seattle will win. I don’t really want to win but seeing as how we already royally fuged up our #3 pick potential, I wouldn’t mind fuging up the Saints playoff hopes if we did win.

If the 3rd pick was in play still, there’s likely no scenario where I’d want to win.

[t96]

Panthers win is a no brainer here. fug the Aints. We can get a QB without a top 5-10 pick.

[PantherKyle]

Lose. We need a QB. 

[Varking]

4 minutes ago, t96 said:

Panthers win is a no brainer here. fug the Aints. We can get a QB without a top 5-10 pick.

If Lance goes top 10 that means we’d be looking at Trask or Jones or a much lesser QB. Unless you’re waiting for next season. 

[electro's horse]

win

there's only 16 games a year

just win who knows what the fug is going to happen in the months until the draft

just fuging win

[WarPanthers89]

I hope we win, fug the Saints so that they miss out on the last chance they have at a super bowl run, then trade up in the draft to get our franchise QB and run the division the next 10+ years.

[Jon Snow]

You should be banned for this.

[PantherPhann89]

I want the Panthers to win every game they/we play. But us winning a game that only grants us a partially moral victory isn't with winning. A win here would be bitter sweet...

[BrianS]

I could give two (&@#s what this game means to the Saints.  They are irrelevant to me.

Wins need to mean something.  What does this potential win mean to us?  Near as I can tell, it means nothing.  In fact, forget about the draft for just a minute, pretend we're picking 15th regardless of the outcome.

Do you really, REALLY want to see TB5 beat the Saints in the 'dome and instill some sort of farcical idea into a brain somewhere that "Maybe he is the answer".  NO.  HELL NO.  TB5 is not the answer, and I don't want there to be any doubts about that at all.

Do you really want our front office to look at our line and go "You know what?  We did fine against the Saints at the end of the season after everything gelled."  NO.  FFS NO.

This game if it turns into a win could serve to obfuscate problems we've spent an entire season exposing.  I don't want another season like this.  Yea, the season has shown promise, and we've been far better than expected.  That said, I want to see us CONTINUE to show progress next season.  I don't want some meaningless game at the end of the season to make people think twice about what they've seen already.

[kass]

My first thought was a weird swedish analogy..  

It would be like peeing in your pants*. Sure, it feels warm and nice at first. But in the end it will be cold and you will stink.

 

The Saint get a harder path, thanks to the Panthers, sure great. But they could still end up winning.

And the Panthers get to pick later in all seven rounds. In theory making it harder to select good prospects and the team will continue to stink. 

 

*I have not tried it