Hell he knew it before the season started, or should have. I would hope that isn't some revelation to him that he might lose his job after this season.

I am glad to see he stuck with it even after negative results on 4th down in the Card game though.

Those two 4th downs on that first scoring drive really developed momentum for the offense.

10/14/2013 2:26:39 PM

Quote :

"Donald Lafell > Brandon"

10/14/2013 2:53:58 PM

We've dug ourselves quite the hole here with these silly losses and other teams in the NFC keep seeming to win. Playoff odds really took a hit these last two weeks but we still look like we might be the 3rd best team in the NFC behind Seattle and New Orleans.

Not a good week though. The road wins by Detroit and GB really hurt our chances. On top of that SF, Chi, STL, Dallas, and Philly all won too which doesn't help.

The good news is the injuries are really mounting across the league and we've stayed really healthy so far. Just have to keep on clicking like this and roll through our next three opponents: vs STL, @TB, and vs ATL.

10/14/2013 9:23:12 PM

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" Playoff odds really took a hit these last two weeks but we still look like we might be the 3rd best team in the NFC behind Seattle and New Orleans."

Holy shit, that's fucking gold.

10/15/2013 1:06:21 AM

http://blogs.charlotte.com/panthers/2013/10/lebron-james-greg-hardy-nfl-nba-panthers-heat-basketball-one-on-one.html

10/15/2013 1:36:42 PM

^^,^ both are hilarious

10/15/2013 4:45:16 PM

Nfc is definitely weak and weve dug a hole but no argument we're as good as any team but Seattle right now after the injuries this weekend. We should roll our next three opponents

10/16/2013 1:22:46 AM

Ok, I'll bite. The Panthers are not as good as the Saints, Seahawks, 49ers, Packers, Lions, Bears or Cowboys. So you're, at best, 8th in the NFC. Congrats

10/16/2013 1:24:43 AM

I'd take that bet. Our defense is nasty and I don't see that any team other than Seattle has really proven itself. If, and I know its a big but not unreasonable if, our offense can build momentum off of 2 of the 3 most recent games, we could be trouble for this weak-ass conference.

10/16/2013 6:19:27 AM

^I'll take Green Bay who has won @ 3-3 Baltimore, beaten 4-2 Detroit at home. I'll also take New Orleans who is 5-1 with their only loss a last second fluke on the road to New England. Also San Francisco whos only losses are @ Seattle and home to a good Indianapolis club. Gimme Dallas as well whos losses are to 6-0 KC, 6-0 Denver and 3-3 San Diego. I'll take 4-2 Detroit who won at home against Chicago and @ Cleveland as well. I'll also take Chicago who has beaten a good Cincinatti team and their two losses were by one score.

But hey...the Panthers are 2-3 with wins over 0-6 New York and 1-4 Minnesota and losses to 2-4 Buffalo and 3-3 Arizona. They are definitely better than those other teams with better wins/losses.

10/16/2013 6:34:31 AM

Agreed. The stats dont lie. We're better than all but Seattle. #3 defense in the nfl

10/16/2013 8:07:42 AM

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"Saints, Seahawks, 49ers, Packers, Lions, Bears or Cowboys"

10/16/2013 8:34:30 AM

Doesn't matter how good your defense is if your offense can't convert in the redzone and you turn the ball over.

Ask the 2004 NC State football team. #1 defense, team finished 5-6.

Not sure how you can watch the Arizona game and group us in even the top 6 in the NFC. So far we've looked great 2 games, and both of those games were against 2 of the worst teams in the NFL. If we're still even in the hunt for a wildcard spot after the next 6 weeks, I'll be amazed. I'd be happy just to go 3-3 in that stretch.

10/16/2013 8:45:57 AM

I'm not saying the Panthers are world beaters, but some people itt act like the teams like the 9ers and Saints are miles ahead of us. It's just simply not true.

10/16/2013 8:56:24 AM

TWW side bet action? Will the Panthers finish in the top 7 of the NFC? I'll put some down saying yes.

10/16/2013 10:37:31 AM

You cant be so results oriented and just look at wins and losses. A lot more to it than that. Nfl games are too close and small in sample size dto use strict win/loss records.

Bottom line is that other teams are sustaining veru significant injuries and we are healthy. And that thus far only Seattle and kansas city have superior defenses to us.

The offense is functioning as an above average unit. If it gets slightly better then we are one of the most balanced teams in the league.

I know its easy to be pessimistic bc weve had several down years but this is clearly a top team just looking at it objectively.

10/16/2013 1:10:49 PM

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"Saints, Seahawks, 49ers, Packers, Lions, Bears or Cowboys"

49ers haven't looked like the 49ers since Week 1 and the Packers have an odd cloud hanging over them. something just looks off with them

both are also incredibly injured right now

10/16/2013 1:29:16 PM

Quote :

"I'll also take Chicago who has beaten a good Cincinatti team and their two losses were by one score. But hey...the Panthers are 2-3 with wins over 0-6 New York and 1-4 Minnesota and losses to 2-4 Buffalo and 3-3 Arizona"

I'd say the Lions and Saints are better than the Bills...but both of the Bears' losses were by 8 points (technically one score), and the Panthers' loss to the Bills was by 1 point...the Bears were down 13 at the end of the 3rd to the Saints, and down 21 to the Lions after 3 quarters...whereas the Panthers had a poor coaching decision and bad prevent defense to lose on an extra point to Buffalo

10/16/2013 6:09:38 PM

Chicago also needed a miracle to beat the Vikings at home scoring with like 5 sec to go.

I cant remember exactly when but they were losing anf scored late vs the bengals to steal that game too.

The difference in theirs and the panthers record? A little bit of luck.

10/16/2013 6:46:33 PM

Subjective rankings vs objective rankings



Apparently we are by far the most underrated team in the NFL.

10/17/2013 12:13:14 AM

wat

10/17/2013 12:16:57 AM

Jaybee must've done the Objective column, it's the only way things make sense

10/17/2013 12:19:30 AM

This shows the objective and subjective scores they used to get our rankings

http://www.boltsfromtheblue.com/2013/10/16/4846104/2013-nfl-power-rankings-consensus-week-7-west-is-best

10/17/2013 12:32:58 AM

That made a lot more sense after visiting the article.

I'm still confused about how the objective range for the panthers can go from 4-21 but whatever

10/17/2013 8:13:35 AM

someone needs to photoshop that and make it about colleges so we can troll jibbles with it

10/17/2013 9:06:48 AM

Well the rankings are objective but the metrics they decide to be most useful in determining rank are still subjective

10/17/2013 11:49:26 AM

http://www.aikman.com/AikmanEfficiencyRatings/tabid/274/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/50/Aikman-Efficiency-Ratings-2013-as-of-Week-6.aspx

                                 --------- Aikman --------       ------- NFL --------
Rank  Record   Team             Combined     Off      Def       Off    Def  Combined
   1     6-0    Broncos            174.0    106.3     67.7         1     29     30 
   2     6-0    Chiefs             172.6     77.9     94.6        25      5     30 
   3     5-1    Seahawks           169.3     81.6     87.7        10      2     12 
   4     2-3    Panthers           167.9     84.2     83.6        21      3     24 
   5     4-2    Colts              163.0     89.3     73.8        15     11     26 
   6     4-2    Lions              158.5     85.6     72.9         9     26     35 
   7     4-2    Bears              158.3     84.6     73.7        11     20     31 
   8     5-1    Saints             156.9     84.4     72.4         5.5   12     17.5
   9     5-1    Patriots           156.5     76.6     79.9        14     14     28 
  10     3-3    Eagles             154.7     90.9     63.8         3     32     35 
  11     3-3    Titans             151.7     76.1     75.6        29     10     39 
  12     3-3    Ravens             151.7     72.6     79.1        22     17     39 
  13     4-2    Bengals            151.2     77.6     73.6        12      8     20 
  14     2-4    Bills              150.6     78.2     72.4        16     27.5   43.5
  15     4-2    49ers              150.6     77.5     73.1        23      9     32 
  16     3-2    Dolphins           150.4     81.8     68.6        28     25     53 
  17     3-2    Packers            149.4     84.2     65.2         2     18     20 
  18     3-3    Cowboys            149.3     86.8     62.5        13     30     43 
  19     3-3    Rams               148.6     79.5     69.1        30     23     53 
  20     3-3    Cardinals          148.1     70.5     77.6        26     15     41 
  21     0-5    Buccaneers         147.7     69.9     77.7        31     16     47 
  22     3-3    Chargers           147.5     85.2     62.2         5.5   21     26.5
  23     3-3    Browns             146.3     75.4     70.9        24      7     31 
  24     3-3    Jets               145.2     72.2     73.0        20      4     24 
  25     1-4    Redskins           145.1     79.4     65.7         4     27.5   31.5
  26     2-4    Raiders            142.5     72.0     70.5        27     13     40 
  27     1-4    Falcons            140.2     83.2     56.9         8     19     27 
  28     2-4    Texans             138.2     73.2     65.0         7      1      8 
  29     1-4    Vikings            138.2     77.0     61.2        19     31     50 
  30     1-4    Steelers           137.7     68.7     69.0        18      6     24 
  31     0-6    Giants             124.8     66.7     58.1        17     24     41 
  32     0-6    Jaguars            114.6     55.1     59.5        32     22     54 
 

10/17/2013 11:54:52 AM

So nobody wants to bet me on the Panthers over/under 7.5 in final NFC rankings?

I got the over.

10/17/2013 3:43:29 PM

I'm confused by your post. Are you saying over means they'll finish as a top 7 NFC team?

I think most people are agreeing with you on that judging the responses on this page.

10/17/2013 4:35:06 PM

7-9

10/17/2013 6:27:39 PM

Yeah, I am saying I think the Panthers are a top 7 team. Some people can't get past the record and the fact that our 2 wins came against shit teams. It does seem as if everyone is now agreeing that the Panthers are a good team

10/17/2013 7:27:36 PM

http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/2013/09/all-32-quarterbacks-as-their-team-name.html

10/18/2013 8:31:06 AM

LOL dick stockton

3-3 = "dominance"

2-3 = "red hot"

10/20/2013 12:57:10 PM

NICE

I think he stepped out though

10/20/2013 1:04:56 PM

Tavon is so soft, glad we didn't draft him

10/20/2013 1:31:20 PM

Munnerlyn having a career day in the first quarter

10/20/2013 1:32:27 PM

Panthers offense is so fucking bad. Thank god for the defense.

10/20/2013 1:37:50 PM

^^^^^^AHAHAHAHA

10/20/2013 1:40:06 PM

our offense isn't that bad. our ability to be good in exact situations when it actually counts is the issue.

10/20/2013 1:43:04 PM

But, at this level, I thought it was expected that players generally perform in the moments that count. If you can't do that, then you're pretty bad, right?

10/20/2013 1:44:57 PM

agree to disagree i guess. id say if a total of 10 or less plays go differently for us we have 2-3 more wins so I don't think we're bad, we're dissapointing when it counts.

10/20/2013 1:51:31 PM

The defense has been opportunistic but overall they have been pretty unimpressive today.

10/20/2013 1:54:55 PM

At the NFL level it's mostly coaching and execution that makes the difference (aside from injuries). Everyone is good athletically, it's all in how good you are at scheming and executing. Panthers have no offensive creativity.

10/20/2013 1:55:37 PM

^Okay, that makes sense to me.

^^Yeah.

10/20/2013 1:58:37 PM

that would've been a late hit out of bounds on smaller or less mobile QBs

10/20/2013 2:08:47 PM

Maybe if he had been running parallel to the sideline, but he was nowhere near the sideline when he got tackled.

Also, RGIII may have killed that call for everyone after his comments this week.

10/20/2013 2:10:41 PM

Does the EAS require that it's weekly test be during a football game every week?

10/20/2013 2:13:09 PM

^^i was talking more about getting slammed down out of bounds...didn't look as bad on the replay though

what did RG3 say?

10/20/2013 2:15:22 PM

^he said he looks to draw flags when he's running

10/20/2013 2:18:59 PM

Somebody tell Olsen that it's 65 degrees out, he can lose the fucking puff ball topped beanie.

10/20/2013 2:20:35 PM