Carolina Panthers: We Are All Falcons Fans Now

Well the Carolina Panthers enter another week where they need someone else to do the dirty work on the New Orleans Saints. The Chicago Bears could not do the deed, because they had Jay Cutler. Now the Panthers have to depend on the Atlanta Falcons, which is terrible. If the Falcons do win against the Saints this weekend, then they will be more motivated to beat the Panthers in the season finale at home.

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It is either that or putting irrational expectations on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the next week. I don’t think so. When have you depended on Tampa to do anything this season? Except beat Pittsburgh or Washington, things that made total sense when they happened.

Here’s the NFC South standings –
New Orleans Saints 6-8
Carolina Panthers 5-8-1
Atlanta Falcons 5-9

So let’s look at the only scenario that I think makes sense. That would be a Week 17 universe where the Panthers beat the Cleveland Browns and the Falcons beat the Saints. In a way it solves all the Panthers problems. The Panthers would control their own fate against the Falcons on the road in the final week.

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So it would look like this:
Carolina Panthers 6-8-1
Atlanta Falcons 6-9
New Orleans Saints 6-9

The idea is to produce a scenario where the Panthers tie with the Bengals works in their favor. It already has the benefit that the Panthers will not be in any tiebreaking scenarios. It will either be all good or all bad.

The other scenario, the Tampa Bay hail mary scenario, would look like this going into the last week of the season. The good news would be the elimination of the Falcons, giving them less to play for in their final game. The bad news is obvious, trying to get the Josh McCown All Stars to beat Drew Brees straight up.

New Orleans Saints 7-8
Carolina Panthers 6-8-1
Atlanta Falcons 5-10

So my cardiac induced Panthers brethren, we are all Falcons fans now.

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