After 3 games (all wins) what was your opinion on...

[SizzleBuzz]

...Silver Platter Sam?

Be honest pikers...

Merry Christmas

Edited December 25, 2021 by SizzleBuzz

[PanthersGOATFan336]

When you said piker this is who came to mind

 

[Carl Spackler]

I was very excited but it was tempered by needing to see more, before I’d be convinced it was anything short of the mirage it proved to be. 

[Pejorative Miscreant]

At the time I think I said I was cautiously optimistic but needed to see more before forming an opinion.  
 

And then Sam gave me the more I needed…
 

[X-Clown on 1]

[BurnNChinn]

Dude this thread is as bad if not worse than all the Panther bot threads that get started about every couple hours. Just stop!

[top dawg]

He's OK, but still a little sketchy--not someone I can trust yet, but perhaps moving in that direction.

[kungfoodude]

5 hours ago, Pejorative Miscreant said:

At the time I think I said I was cautiously optimistic but needed to see more before forming an opinion.  
 

And then Sam gave me the more I needed…
 

Basically me. Did not believe in him at all, saw some of the warts still being present but was cautiously optimistic. Then regular edition Sam played the rest of the year.

[PghPanther]

I was concerned that the Panthers defense was undersized, fast and strategic but had not faced a team yet with a powerful running game.

I figured the offense was well so so at best but the defense would have to keep games close enough for them to win some more but they were the worst 3-0 team I've seen early in the season....

As soon as the defense faced a team with a power running game (one where all the starters were intact) they got punched in the mouth and became swiss cheese and I felt my prediction of 6 wins this year would hold true.  

[stirs]

Why don't you just link all the overreaction threads saying "this is a playoff team" and such.  Would be much easier than seeing every one slink away saying "not me"

[Leotiger]

Very happy … just a qb a way I felt .. Donald was good but he missed a lot of reads …. Very hopeful for the coming season even tho we we were playing bum teams and then we got exposed.. over and over 

Edited December 25, 2021 by Leotiger

[SteveSmithTD89]

Offense looked like one with potential to be tops in the league. We would just have one inconsistent quarter.

Sam was making reads quick and standing in there taking hits and still delivering strikes. 

DJ was looking like a problem. 

Even after our 4th game against Dallas with the back to back picks I thought we still had something. Refs clearly had it out for us and they still battled back and made it a one score game with a chance for the D to get a stop and get the ball back. 

Then it all unraveled so fast. CMC got hurt, the offense went vanilla, opposing defenses learned we run 3 routes a a game and they could squat on them, WRs forgot how to catch and the Oline turned into what we all knew it would. Sam quickly turned back into Sam sometime during that stretch of games against garbage teams with losing records and then it all comes clear... we are one of those garbage teams too. 

 

Edited December 25, 2021 by SteveSmithTD89

[Green-Ghost]

I thought we had turned the corner.  Panthers would be the power house of the NFC south.

[kungfoodude]

30 minutes ago, SteveSmithTD89 said:

Offense looked like one with potential to be tops in the league. We would just have one inconsistent quarter.

Sam was making reads quick and standing in there taking hits and still delivering strikes. 

DJ was looking like a problem. 

Even after our 4th game against Dallas with the back to back picks I thought we still had something. Refs clearly had it out for us and they still battled back and made it a one score game with a chance for the D to get a stop and get the ball back. 

Then it all unraveled so fast. CMC got hurt, the offense went vanilla, opposing defenses learned we run 3 routes a a game and they could squat on them, WRs forgot how to catch and the Oline turned into what we all knew it would. Sam quickly turned back into Sam sometime during that stretch of games against garbage teams with losing records and then it all comes clear... we are one of those garbage teams too. 

 

Sam was still missing a lot of open guys in those first three games. He was playing well enough to win, so that got lost in the shuffle.