I'm still pumped from yesterday

11/11/2013 8:05:16 AM

Secondary seems to be sorting itself out, I know they weren't super challenged against SF, but they are starting to look just as nasty and mean as our front seven.

of course, I hope I'm saying the same thing after the patriots

nothing would make me happier than watching Tom Brady run for his life from a continuous four man rush while throwing multiple picks, regardless of the outcome of the game.

11/11/2013 8:20:20 AM

Considering Brady is just going to stand on his spot and try to deliver the ball, the defensive line can just tee off on him.

Also, the Panthers only allowed 4 yards of offense to the 9ers the entire 4th quarter.

11/11/2013 8:53:08 AM

Yeah I feel like San Fran was a good test for the D Line and New England will be a good test for the secondary. If we get another win I will go ahead and say we are a contender in the NFC. We beat San Fran and should have beaten Seattle. Wanna see how we do against New Orleans but I will be a believer.

11/11/2013 8:57:00 AM

http://espn.go.com/blog/carolina-panthers/post/_/id/1980/panthers-make-statement-were-relevant

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"SAN FRANCISCO -- Few expected the Carolina Panthers to win, even though they came into Candlestick Park with a modest winning streak and a solid defense. They were one of those teams people were talking about as a nice feel-good story, but not being taken completely seriously. That was 1995. The Panthers beat the 49ers 13-7 in a smashmouth gem to become the first expansion team in NFL history to defeat the reigning Super Bowl Champions. Fast forward to Sunday's game at Candlestick Park. The Panthers came in with a modest winning streak and a solid defense. They were one of those teams people were talking about as a nice feel-good story, but not being taken completely seriously. Carolina's 10-9 smashmouth victory over the reigning NFC champions was the fifth straight win -- and sixth in seven games -- for a team that until a few weeks ago hadn't been above .500 since 2008. It was a victory that could elevate the Panthers (6-3) from a potential playoff threat to a potential Super Bowl contender. "There's really something special going on in here I haven't seen in a long time, not since my days at Baltimore," said defensive tackle Dwan Edwards, who was with the Ravens from 2004-09. "There's a feeling nobody can beat us." It wasn't that long ago that there was a feeling this team couldn't beat anybody. They were 7-9 and 6-10 in head coach Ron Rivera's first two seasons, and they lost three of four to start 2013. They were 2-14 in games decided by seven or less points since 2011, including 0-2 this season. When the game was on the line, either a bad bounce or penalty or turnover turned a potential win into a loss. On Sunday, the Panthers fumbled twice in the final 2 minutes, 12 seconds -- and recovered the ball both times. The first one by quarterback Cam Newton, who was trying to run time off the clock, made Rivera a bit nervous. "I about threw up," he said. Then a defense that gave up critical plays in close games a year ago stepped up with its sixth sack and then a game-clinching interception by cornerback Drayton Florence, as if to say the past will not haunt them in the present. Or future. "We're relevant," safety Mike Mitchell said. "We're here." If you weren't on this team's bandwagon before, don't jump on now. "Man, we don't need no bandwagon," defensive end Charles Johnson said. "We know what we have in this group." "There's a feeling nobody can beat us," Panthers defensive tackle Dwan Edwards said. But on many levels this was a statement for the Panthers. The naysayers reminded before Sunday that their five wins came against teams with a combined 8-33 record. They reminded they hadn't beaten a team with a winning record, even though they were beating opponents by an average of about three touchdowns. The 49ers (6-3), who had won five straight, were considered one of the top two or three teams in the NFC. They were playing at home. They were supposed to win. "We finally played somebody," Mitchell said. "We won a tough game on the road. It was a real big win for our team, boosting our confidence and solidifying for ourselves that we are for real." That's what this win meant for the Panthers. That they are for real. That they are relevant. That they can dream about the Super Bowl, even though Rivera won't let them look past the next game. "People can still doubt us, but we are going to keep on lining up and playing football," linebacker Thomas Davis said. "Because we are for real." The defense definitely is for real. It held a San Francisco offense averaging 27 points and 342.9 yards a game to three field goals and 151 total yards -- 45 in the second half. One of those field goals came after officials ruled what appeared to be a fumble by 49ers tight end Vernon Davis an complete pass. Another came after a muffed punt. This was total domination, the way the defense Rivera played for with the '85 Chicago Bears dominated. "I can say everybody brought their A-game, and we needed it," said Johnson, who had 1.5 sacks and two tackles for loss. The offense wasn't great, but it had 111 yards rushing against one of the other better defenses in the NFC. Twenty-seven of those came on a late first-half touchdown run by DeAngelo Williams that cut San Francisco's lead to 9-7 at halftime. "Coming into this game, we said that the first team to get to 14 points was going to win, and fortunately for us it took only 10," Williams said with a huge smile. There were lots of smiles, from the players to team owner Jerry Richardson, who hung around long enough shaking hands to run into reporters for the first time this season. That's the way it was in 1995. Unfortunately for that team, it began 0-5 before catching the nation's eye with a victory here that propelled the Panthers to an expansion-record 7-9 season. This team caught fire early enough that, Newton said, "the sky is the limit for us as a team." That aura of gloom and doom that hung over this team early in the season has been lifted. Remember the opener? Williams fumbled inside the Seattle 10 in the final minutes of a 12-7 loss that could have been different. Remember Week 2 at Buffalo? The Bills scored on a 2-yard pass with 2 seconds to go to win 24-23. That's what this team was destined to be remembered for at one point. Now it has a chance to be remembered by wins such as this. "The Carolina Panthers needed this type of win," said Newton, whose passer rating of 52.7 was his second-lowest of the season. "Going back, looking at what type games we've won, we won games where we put up 30-plus points and won handily. "We haven't had this type of win under our belt consistently." They still haven't won close games consistently, but this one came at a good time with a "Monday Night Football" game against the New England Patriots next and two games against NFC South leader New Orleans among the final seven games. "We are going to get everybody's best shot from here on out," Florence said. "We would like to win them all. It might not happen, but we're going to prepare like we've got something to lose." Because now they do."

[Edited on November 11, 2013 at 8:57 AM. Reason : asdf]

11/11/2013 8:57:01 AM

Panthers favored by 1.5 at home against NE.

I am glad we aren't playing Tampa or some nobody this week. Will ensure we stay motivated knowing that the Patriots are coming into town.

11/11/2013 9:21:08 AM

NFC South (2-0) Games remaining (4): TB, @NO, NO, @ATL
NFC West (2-2) Games remaining: None
NFC 2nd place 2012 (2-0) Games remaining: None
AFC East (0-1) Games remaining: NE, @MIA, NYJ

Good news is we've got our out of division NFC games out of the way with a sweep of the NFC North/East and a split with the West. bad news is the loss to Arizona, who is suddenly looking like competition in the wild card. we have head to head over everyone else important (assuming Seattle wins the West and #1 seed outright).

with tie breakers depending significantly on conference wins (and currently sitting at 6-2 in the NFC), going 3-1 against the South puts us in a pretty good situation (assuming we can win 2 of those AFC games) putting us at 9-3 NFC. thanks to the win at SF, we have room for another WTF loss (we'll call this the Rivera Factor), much as the Buffalo game was. with Arizona looking like a contender, and Seattle being who we thought they were (despite letting them off the hook), those losses can be forgiven at this point.

4 more wins in 7 games likely gets it done at this point, which seems plausible, provided the Rivera Factor doesn't return to form (as opposed to Riverboat Rivera). this team should have arrived last year, but things are finally looking up. take that, Cleveland.

11/11/2013 10:28:58 AM

Tugboat laying the wood

11/11/2013 11:22:14 AM

Here you go face, I don't really like you as a poster or a human being, but you deserve to talk all the shit you want after this.

Quote :

"@WillBrinson: Panthers now 18/1 to win Super Bowl on @Sportsbook_com. Were 125/1 four weeks ago."

11/11/2013 11:30:57 AM

Where's Kurtis and Ludachris at?

11/11/2013 12:21:03 PM

11/11/2013 12:51:04 PM

I'm here, and I do concede I believe we are legitimate playoff contenders at this point. Are we a top 3 team in the NFL? No. Are we arguably a top 3 team in the NFC on a neutral field? I believe we are, at least the way the league looks right now(with injuries and such).

Sunday's game showed that we have matured as a team/franchise. We played bad on offense and still won the game and we have a top 5 overall defense in the NFL right now, arguably the best run stopping defense in the league. Another big key is that we went on the road into a pretty good homefield advantage(arguably not on the same level as SEA or NO) and held on late in the game.

We're now officially in the playoff hunt. As far as the Patriots game, I still have a hard time betting against Brady coming off a BYE week, but I am more confident in our team than I was a week ago. I still think we'll really need our front 4 to get a bunch of pressure and get Brady out of rhythm to win the game. Our gameplan should work well though, run to control the ball and keep Brady off the field, and make sure that we don't end up settling for FGs each time we get the ball.

11/11/2013 1:40:41 PM

We should be able to play the Pats like the Bungles did, and whoop up on em

Although they do have Gronk back, but their defense is also Charmin-soft compared to San Fran's

11/11/2013 6:02:27 PM

Our linebackers are up to the assignment on Gronk

EDIT: Speaking of linebackers, AJ Klein looks like he could be a 5th round steal if he continues to play like he did yesterday. That sack where he got the personal foul called on Krapernick, stoning Gore on 3rd and 1, and that tackle on the fullback when they were on the 1 were all super plays.

I hope he starts stealing some snaps from Blackburn and just let Chase be the special teams leader.

[Edited on November 11, 2013 at 6:16 PM. Reason : .]

11/11/2013 6:05:54 PM

Panthers boner is still in full effect

11/11/2013 10:36:52 PM

I just enjoy actually seeking out articles on all the different sports sites again

11/11/2013 10:40:43 PM

I think we all feel that way

not much better than a Monday after your favorite team has a signature win

11/12/2013 12:28:25 AM

or hopefully in next week's case, a Tuesday

11/12/2013 12:44:12 AM

^^^ yeah that's pretty much all i did at work yesterday

11/12/2013 8:39:25 AM

Caption this.

11/12/2013 1:20:34 PM

Welcome back!

11/13/2013 2:04:01 PM

Must mean Blackburn's injury is a bit more serious than they are letting on. Guess he will take AJ's spot on special teams

11/13/2013 2:36:21 PM

Kuechly named NFC Defensive Player of the Week

It's the 3rd time this season a Panther has taken home the award (Hardy/Giants and TD/Vikes)

11/14/2013 8:49:58 AM

greatest uniforms of all time

11/14/2013 10:31:47 AM

Going to be a long weekend waiting for this game

11/14/2013 10:44:17 AM

Must read for Panthers fans. This guy breaks down our defense in the 49er game so well.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer/pete-prisco/24233226/after-further-review-panthers-defense-bringing-the-heat-and-the-wins

11/14/2013 2:45:40 PM

even if he's slobbing the Panthers knob, Prisco is a fucking idiot

Quote :

"The Panthers are ranked second in total defense, second in points allowed, second against the run and fourth in total defense. "

everyone on cbs sports is (the only place greggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg doyel can find work)

11/14/2013 6:27:28 PM

he's been cool with me ever since he wrote this:

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer/pete-prisco/23106985/more-comfortable-newton-dials-up-mature-charm-down-aloofness

11/14/2013 6:44:13 PM

Just saw that Eric Reid's father wrote the Panthers and Rivera a letter commending Tolbert for kneeling and staying with his son after that hit.

It was a classy move by Mike and cool of Reid's dad to do that.

11/14/2013 9:43:52 PM

welp, my Friday has been made


http://youtu.be/4Z43pGZvhg0

plz 2 embed

11/15/2013 11:58:17 AM

LOL

11/15/2013 12:33:35 PM

RIP Mike McCormack

11/15/2013 3:10:36 PM

Thank you for helping Big Cat bring the Panthers to Charlotte RIP

It's going to be a long weekend waiting on this game

11/15/2013 3:37:48 PM

11/16/2013 8:09:11 AM

I wish we were playing today

This wait is killing me

11/17/2013 10:45:39 AM

as i am watching Panthers Game Day, I looked back on TWW for posts about Kuechly...forgot State was basically the other school aside from BC that was recruiting him...also while nobody was too down on him like drafting Cam, some where kinda like meh...but who knew what Davis, Beason, etc would still have left

and lol at Kuechly, arguably the best defensive player in the NFL, being a 3* prospect out of high school...gg scout and rivals

11/18/2013 1:18:52 AM

^I'm sure there are a ton of top-tier talents that were 2-3* players out of high school. Russell Wilson comes to mind, Philip Rivers, TJ Graham, Manny Lawson, etc. That's just from NC State.

Aaron Rodgers, arguably the best player in the NFL over the last several years, had 1 scholarship offer out of high school.

11/18/2013 8:02:40 AM

Pretty damn excited for tonight. Gonna be a looong day at work

11/18/2013 8:23:47 AM

Anyone on here work uptown and know if they are letting people go home early this afternoon?

I don't want to wait till 530 to get out there.

KEEP POUNDING

11/18/2013 9:19:42 AM

11/18/2013 9:46:57 AM

Feels strange to be pumped up for a football game involving a team I root for. I had almost forgotten what that felt like.

11/18/2013 10:10:00 AM

I had it last week for the 9ers game too, but I haven't been this pumped for the Panthers since that shitstorm game against Arizona in the 08 playoffs

11/18/2013 10:27:19 AM

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"I had it last week for the 9ers game too, but I haven't been this pumped for the Panthers since that shitstorm game against Arizona in the 08 playoffs"

this. that is still the only game (excluding pre season) i've ever walked out early. Still sitting in the same seat hoping for a different outcome this time around. 318 Row 2 Seat 11

11/18/2013 12:01:02 PM

THE FLAGS ARE ON MY CAR

11/18/2013 12:58:48 PM

Thinking about going to walmart and getting some hoodrat panthers shit for the game. Something to go with my "pounding it out since 1996" poster.

11/18/2013 1:15:36 PM

Flags are up, jersey is on, Keep Pounding bracelet is on.......is it game time yet?? So excited!

11/18/2013 1:57:19 PM

11/18/2013 2:01:07 PM

LOL. they go on a five game winning streak AND EVERYONE LOSES THEIR MIND

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""I had it last week for the 9ers game too, but I haven't been this pumped for the Panthers since that shitstorm game against Arizona in the 08 playoffs""

the last game I went to in person was that playoff game. I have boycotted them every since.

11/18/2013 2:11:08 PM

onward to a new page

11/18/2013 6:13:21 PM

SET EM UP

11/18/2013 6:13:55 PM