Carolina Panthers

[mrpolarbear]

Is Carolina that good or did the Giants just lay down today? I think i would put my 2 cents worth that the Giants laid down. I guess we will find out next Sunday when the Panthers come to Chicago for the second time this year. I just hope the weather cooperates and it will be bitter cold and nasty. Get ready Jake i have a feeling that you are going to be in for a long day.LETS GO BEARS!

 

[Scenicdrive]

Is Carolina that good or did the Giants just lay down today? I think i would put my 2 cents worth that the Giants laid down. I guess we will find out next Sunday when the Panthers come to Chicago for the second time this year. I just hope the weather cooperates and it will be bitter cold and nasty. Get ready Jake i have a feeling that you are going to be in for a long day.LETS GO BEARS!

As I said the Panthers are a character team with the heart of the champion. The Giants unfortunately played like headless chicken today, too bad!!! Eli Manning was just awful!!! If the Panthers can get pass Da Bears, watch out!!! I won't be surprised if the Panthers will be in Super Bowl slugging it out with another character champion team, the Patriots. Shall we say Deja Vu?

 

[frankcastle]

They often talk about playoff experience as being important and perhaps todays game and the Bucs game yesterday were indications of that.

Both Simms and Manning struggled to get things going.

 

[spiff]

Palmer

Carolina looked good today and were in all the right places at the right time on defense.

Cincy just took a huge blow on their second play of the game on offense with Palmer getting his left leg mangled.

Rumours have started already. Torn MCL and ACL. Could this be a career ending injury for Palmer...

 

[frankcastle]

Defense was also key. To be able to keep Tiki with such a low yard total is pretty impressive given his performance this year.

 

[Fingers]

Bears will win!!!!!!!!!!

Then off to Seattle to see if they can stop Shaun.

 

[iluvbtca]

If the Panthers can get pass Da Bears, watch out!!! I won't be surprised if the Panthers will be in Super Bowl

If you look at it, this team isn't that far removed from the one that made it to the "Big Dance". Last year can be chalked up to adjusting to injuries since they were definitely one of the hot teams at the end.

I think Carolina is the dark horse in the NFC since they can run the football, with an explosive runner in Foster, play "D" by stopping the run and most of all, have the biggest game breaker left in the NFC. Alexander was the MVP but Steve Smith can break one off on returns or by a simple hitch.

If Grossman plays like a guy who has never played a full NFL season as a starter, which I think he will, Carolina will go to the "Dance".

 

[gladheateher]

Is Carolina that good or did the Giants just lay down today?

more of the latter rather the former - Eli isn't quite ready for primetime.

 

[BlahBlah]

I think it was definitley Carolina being the team they can be versus the Giants laying down. If I'm the Bears, I would much rather have faced the Giants than the Panthers. I think if the weather becomes a factor and there is snow, cold weather, the Bears have the huge edge, but if the weather is reasonably mild, the Panthers have the advantage. I still believe the Bears will barely escape with a victory, but that's only due to homefield.
I won't be convined in Seattle until they beat anyone in a playoff game, and with that I think Washington will win a sqeaker.
Leaving the 'Skins at the Bears and the odds against any #6 seed (Redskins) getting past the conference title game is so overwhelming, meaning... dare I say it, Da Bears in the Super Bowl?!?!?!
Whoever wins Panthers versus Bears will represent NFC in Super Bowl, in my humbe opinion. Then they'll get trounced by any of the four far-superior AFC teams.

 

[mrpolarbear]

I think it was definitley Carolina being the team they can be versus the Giants laying down. If I'm the Bears, I would much rather have faced the Giants than the Panthers. I think if the weather becomes a factor and there is snow, cold weather, the Bears have the huge edge, but if the weather is reasonably mild, the Panthers have the advantage. I still believe the Bears will barely escape with a victory, but that's only due to homefield.
I won't be convined in Seattle until they beat anyone in a playoff game, and with that I think Washington will win a sqeaker.
Leaving the 'Skins at the Bears and the odds against any #6 seed (Redskins) getting past the conference title game is so overwhelming, meaning... dare I say it, Da Bears in the Super Bowl?!?!?!
Whoever wins Panthers versus Bears will represent NFC in Super Bowl, in my humbe opinion. Then they'll get trounced by any of the four far-superior AFC teams.

I hope you are right. From what i have seen the weather really shouldnt be a factor. They are calling for temps. in the 30'sand a little wind, with a 20% chance of rain.but as anyone who has been to Chicago knows the weather can change in the blink of an eye.Personally i hope its like when Houston came to town last year, or Atlanta a few weeks ago.

 

[homonger]

As much as I like the Giants, the Panthers just kicked their asses, plain and simple. Eli is a promising young QB, but he played like a playoff novice on Sunday. I'm not saying Eli is in their class, but Elway, Marino, and Peyton all looked bad in their first playoff games, so the optimist in me looks at this as a rite of passage. I think if the Giants get their defense in order, they should be able to be competitive again next season. With defense long being the strength of the Giants, this was a weird season. The defense was mediocre and the offense was great. It didn't work.

As for the Bears, you have to like their chances at home against Carolina. I think the Bears do a much better job at pressuring Delhomme than the Giants did. Foster and Goings had good games against New York, but I attribute that more to the Giants' depleted linebacking corps than to the notion that these guys are prime time backs. I think it will be close, and I think it will be an ugly game, but the Bears win.

 

[shack]

but the Bears win.

But as we all know, it matters not whether you win or lose but whether you cover.