Panthers win Sunday…1st place in the South

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

Literally the worst division of all time. Panthers were 1st overall in every mock draft 5 days ago... and they might be in a playoff slot by midseason.

[saX man]

21 minutes ago, Sean Payton's Vicodin said:

Literally the worst division of all time. Panthers were 1st overall in every mock draft 5 days ago... and they might be in a playoff slot by midseason.

Yup. That’s not hyperbole. This may be the worst division in history, definitely worst since they made it 8. 

[PleaseCutStewart]

1 hour ago, Murph said:

A 7-10 record might be good enough to win the division.

7-10?? 6-11 honestly might get it - having six games against the other NFC South teams really screwed over our tanking plans...

[Aussie Tank]

We’re still gonna need to draft a QB imagine the price to move up from the 20s if we scrape into the playoffs because of how poo our division is 

[07579394]

7-8-1 Warning

[electro's horse]

4 hours ago, PleaseCutStewart said:

7-10?? 6-11 honestly might get it - having six games against the other NFC South teams really screwed over our tanking plans...

Panthers gonna go undefeated against the nfcs, lose out otherwise, hit the playoffs and shock the world baby aroo (wolf howl)

[hepcat]

It is nuts that if they win they’re in first place. What a wacky ass season this has been. Dumping Rhule seems to have righted some bad karma this team was dealing with 

[PghPanther]

Panthers will figure out a way to win 5 to 7 games this year............miss any playoffs of course and as a result of finishing in the bottom half of the middle of the league thus missing out on the tanking draft picks.

.......and as a result, risk repeating that possible fate again and again. 

 

[Luciu5]

We've won 1 game post Rhule. Could we win Sunday? Sure. Can we win 4 more after that?  There's a good chance PJ turns back into a pumpkin and we collapse.

Right now, I still think top 10 pick.

[SpeedOFLight]

You play to win. I don’t believe in tanking and players don’t purposely tank when their  livelihoods depend on winning. You play every game to win.  

[Prowler2k18]

2 minutes ago, SpeedOFLight said:

You play to win. I don’t believe in tanking and players don’t purposely tank when their  livelihoods depend on winning. You play every game to win.  

Oh I agree. Last Sunday not withstanding, we have a ways to go before we can be considered playoff ready!

[Rastlet]

We won 1 game against a collapsing Tampa Bay. Let's pump the brakes a minute. It's as if everyone has forgotten all the other games we played this year. The tank is still on.

[UpstatePantherfan]

I will say that this upcoming game IS our season and will dictate how the rest of the season goes. I will say that the Bucs look like the worst team in the league right now or damn near close to it, so I’m not as impressed by our win against them as I initially was, and the Saints might be 2nd worst and we beat them with a mediocre QB that also had a broken back.

Last week against the Bucs you could tell the Panthers were playing with a “fug it, nothing to lose, let’s have fun” type mentality. 
 

This Sunday against the falcons will be a GIGANTIC test to see how they do when the stakes are high and are actually playing for something with the pressure turned to 10. How do they handle the success of beating out the Bucs? How do they handle the high pressure situation of winning to get 1st place? Also, how will we do now that the falcons have tape on both PJ and the kind of offense we run without CMC?! 

[UpstatePantherfan]

10 minutes ago, Rastlet said:

We won 1 game against a collapsing Tampa Bay. Let's pump the brakes a minute. It's as if everyone has forgotten all the other games we played this year. The tank is still on.

I agree. The thing that concerns me the most is if we fall to say pick 10 or 12, Fitt will mortgage our future and move up in the draft to get a QB all because we won 7 or 8 games when we could have just tanked, kept all our future draft picks and pick any QB that we wanted to pick.