Positives from today?

[LinvilleGorge]

The D played very well in the 2cd half. They sucked in the 1st half, but they showed they could adapt and make adjustments.

Frank Alexander needs to be starting at DE very soon.

Smitty is still a monster.

LaFell, Olsen, and Murphy did what we need them to do.

TD looked great running around out there.

[Proudiddy]

Only positive for me was no major injuries.

The rest is all candy sprinkles on dog crap.

[Pimpdaddy]

.... good start on getting the number one draft pick next year...

[tgrfan01]

well the d showed they can make adjustments at half time that is a good thing.the offense was the real sour spot today.but we have the horses to put up a bunch of points.it will get fixed

[bigdog10]

Thomas Davis and Smitty are the only two positives I took from the game.

Everything else was utter garbage

[Marguide]

Panthers' football is back. We might have lost, but I still enjoyed seeing them on the field.

[Actionman0z]

Special Teams covered well.. Davis and that kid from the 9ers we traded for were money. :) The block was something we should have seen from the box and called a TO for.

[SCMunnerlyn1]

Captain played well two key breakups on 3rd down.

[Lout]

Munnerlyn played all pro as a nickelback.. and he belongs there. He made 2 great swats in the slot.

Our defense played great.. our offense lost us this game, which is a change from last year.

I chalk this loss up to not having game tape on a rookie head coach. We made great adjustments at the half, and to think if we had game tape.. we would have been playing that well from start to finish. I will panic if we lose to the Saints* at home next week. It's hard to imagine the Saints* at 0-2..

[SCMunnerlyn1]

Gracious nfl.com is so lazy on statistics.. gotta go off memory .. I wanna say he had 2 passes defended and 2 assisted tackles.. but they say one assisted and nothing else

[KendrickPanther]

I've sat back, turned my air conditioner down and drank a few beers. I'm starting to calm down. For me the bright side is we played very very poor and still almost won. Conversely the Bucs played very very well and almost lost. The season is only a game old, we have 15 chances to atone. If you just run down the stat line you will see we were definitely in this game even though it felt like a blow out.

Also all of the so called "power houses" in the NFC struggled today. Eagles, Giants, Packers, Saints*, and Lions all looked shaky. Hopefully this is a wake up call to the players. I think it's very apparent they had this game marked down as a win before kickoff.

[DawgzLife]

I was suprised we got sacks & it wasn't just Charles Johnson. In 2nd half actually collapses the pocket consistently. Funny how a player cut from the Bills is the turning point in how strong on DL is.

[Fiz]

2nd half defense adjustment, Murphy, Olsen

that's it.

[SZ James (banned)]

The defense didn't look that good the bucs are just that bad