If we beat the Seahawks week one, will the talking heads around the NFL jump on the Panthers nuts or continue to overlook us?

[Marguide]

You'd think the media would give more respect to a small market team that's had 4 winning seasons in its 18 season existence.

Well said and quite true.

Everyone needs to remember 2 things about the national media:

1) Big market teams draw ratings so they are always deemed worthy of attention

and

2) Smaller market teams must be good to get any significant attention

The Panthers are not a large market team, so they will always be shortchanged by the media unless we become a consistently good team.

People should stop wishing for respect until it is earned on the field. The only other alternative is to somehow cram a few million more people in the Charlotte area, and that's probably not going to happen anytime soon.