Heartbroken and Pissed Off

Old habits die hard.......such a simple yet in this case very true statement.

I post this morning with a broken heart. I refuse to believe what happened Sunday, I'm not allowing my mind to register it. Someone please tell me it didn't happen again. Not again, not like that. After any loss that the Panthers suffer I always feel sad at first then review the game in my mind to pick out some good things we did and pick out the mistakes that cost us the game. I didn't do that this past Sunday. This past Sunday I just sat there staring at the television.......then all of a sudden I got pissed off.

When my dog was just a puppy he and I were outside one day and I was burning some cardboard off in the back yard and the puppy's natural curiousity took over when he saw the flame for the first time. Needless to say the next time we went outside and I burned cardboard he wouldn't go anywhere near the fire. He was burned one time and that was enough for him to learn that fire to a pup is bad........one time. You'd think that grown men also would only have to be "burned" once to learn a lesson. Apparently not. The coaches and players of the Carolina Panthers just flat out refuse to learn one very important lesson when it comes to playing football in the NFL. "Dance with one that brought you." Our defense flat out dominated Dallas for about 55 minutes or so, but then as always they started to man handle us. Why?? Why do we insist on changing our defensive philosophy at the end of every game?? Why do we go soft with five minutes to go?? Anyone know?? Haven't we been burned enough times over the past two years by doing the same exact thing?? If not how many losses is it going to take??

I feel ashamed for admitting this but when Galloway scored the first touchdown a voice in my head said to me "we are going to lose this game." Someone please tell me I wasn't the only one.
But unlike some of the other people on this board I haven't lost faith in the Panthers. I do agree that Wienke looked good in relief of Peete and moved the offense well. If not for some brain farts by our offensive line(from 3rd and 1 to 3rd and 16 is inexcusable) I might not be posting about a loss.

I'll end on a bit of a bright note........at least we don't live in Cincinnati!!!!!

GO PANTHERS!!!!!!!!!

 

I was just thinking about Cincy... they have arguably the WORST designed website in the NFL to go along with the WORST Front Office and WORST Coach. Man, that is a Bad, Bad, Situation.

I thought the same thing watching Galloway scamper for that TD. My Dad called from out of town asking what was happening in the game, and I told him "We are getting ready to lose the game right here". Sure enough, we did.

We should have shut out Dallas.

 

I got double wammied. First the panthers choke, then Harrington gets baited into a pick in the end zone with 20 seconds left.

I was flipping back and forth between the two games. seemed like every time I switched to the panthers game there was a penalty.

 

sad part is, they have the best RB.

 

To top off the loss. The Panthers cost me a huge parlay payout. Took 3 underdogs to win straight up.

 

As soon as Galloway caught that fluke catch, I looked at my wife and said 'we lose'.

As for dominating the whole game - I'd argue that. Dallas was in our Red zone when peppers picked him off. They were driving.

We were only p by 13 points. How can you 'dominate' a team when you're up less that 2 scores?

Atlanta is going to be very hard. Our offense sucks. It's not likely to get better with Moose, Smith, and Byrd banged up. Weinke's in.

 

we dominated defensively........ they drove on us but scoreboard had a fat zero on it. thats domination as far as im concerned.

 

We dominated defensively, but Defense is only half the game. We led by less than 2 scores, regardless of whether the score was 13-0 or 35-23.

We led by less than 14 in the 4th quarter, and then set the standard for choking.

 

i've already posted my opionions on offense.....the offense niether won nor lost us the game. they put up 13 points.....not great by anyones standards. they should have scored a couple more times, but you can't account for penatlies and dropped passes on third down. the defense on the other hand LOST us the game, they played the last five or so minutes soft and we lost. the first touchdown was a fluke, a product of Panther luck. the other was a product of playing soft, giving up too much space underneath. i think its called a "prevent you from winning" defense

 

13 points loses against 22 other teams this past weekend. Panthers beat Cinncinati, New England, Giants and Cleveland. That is pathetic.