Time to take the next Step: Skins vs kitty cats Pre-game thread

[coffee]

Greetings. I'm a Panther fan just stopping by to respectfully say hi.

I guess I should start by saying thank you for taking such fine care of our division rival Saints. I don't care what kind of defensive problems they have. That was impressive what you did. And their poor defense had quite little to do with you stopping Drew Brees. Good job! I won't be upset at you if you're a little nicer to my Panthers.

If you don't mind, I'll snoop around and comment a bit this week, but I promise to behave myself.

BTW, in answer to the above question ... my vote is that I'd rather you beat the Giants.

[KI Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by coffee

Greetings. I'm a Panther fan just stopping by to respectfully say hi.

I guess I should start by saying thank you for taking such fine care of our division rival Saints. I don't care what kind of defensive problems they have. That was impressive what you did. And their poor defense had quite little to do with you stopping Drew Brees. Good job! I won't be upset at you if you're a little nicer to my Panthers.

If you don't mind, I'll snoop around and comment a bit this week, but I promise to behave myself.

BTW, in answer to the above question ... my vote is that I'd rather you beat the Giants.

Nice of you to stop by. Stick around a while.

I would answer the question "Both!". Besides, the Panthers can afford a loss and still win their division whereas we need every win we can get.

I watched a couple of Panthers games this season and I was very impressed. Your team has a very good defense and the offense is doing what they need to do to win. Your WR's are a bit weak, IMO, so we need to clamp down on Olsen. But don't worry too much about that because we suck at covering TE's.

[coffee]

Originally Posted by KI Skins Fan

Nice of you to stop by. Stick around a while.

I would answer the question "Both!". Besides, the Panthers can afford a loss and still win their division whereas we need every win we can get.

I watched a couple of Panthers games this season and I was very impressed. Your team has a very good defense and the offense is doing what they need to do to win. Your WR's are a bit weak, IMO, so we need to clamp down on Olsen. But don't worry too much about that because we suck at covering TE's.

Thanks! For some reason, we seem to put together some very ugly wins, yet consistently they are wins. A lot of it has to do with the fact that, if and when we get ahead, we focus on running out the clock more than running up the score. So it seems to always come down to one of the last drives.

I'm sorry. I'm one of those goofy fans that know a bunch about my team but I know little of your strengths and weaknesses. If I were game planning against the Panthers, I'd say the same that most of you have said here: Try to contain Cam and do whatever you can to stop Olsen. You are right about our receivers. It's almost like we have an endless supply of #2 or maybe even #3 receivers. Weird thing is, someone different keeps showing up just enough. I've almost gotten the impression that we are better off this way because it's so hard to figure out who the star will be on this day.

We have the makings of a spectacular D, but oddly enough, we've let other teams move better than expected, but our offense has done better than expected without our top receiver so it's worked out.

[skinsfaninok]

It's been proven, no ints and we don't lose, if kirk can play solid and have no TOS we have a chance. They don't really have a scary offense besides cam newton, their wrs don't alarm me at all.

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

We have NEVER beat Can Newton. We haven't beaten the Giants since 2012.

I want and need to see us beat both. If that occurs well buckle up we got first row seats on the bandwagon. There are tons of skins fans out there who haven't been able to stomach the last twenty years.

But in all seriousness (not that I wasn't above), we have to 1. Stop Cam Newton (we have never done that and god I can't stand that guy and 2. We need to put points on the board. Against an awesome defense who have players at all three levels and inside and out. It's going to be a tough go of it and the team will have to grind through and stay in the game.

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

I live down here (Charleston SC) so I see a lot of them. Cam has turned into a fine QB. It has been rather impressive the way he has grown as a QB. The guy needs to grow up with some of his show boating stuff on the field thpugh.

[HailGreen28]

Originally Posted by coffee

Greetings. I'm a Panther fan just stopping by to respectfully say hi.

I guess I should start by saying thank you for taking such fine care of our division rival Saints. I don't care what kind of defensive problems they have. That was impressive what you did. And their poor defense had quite little to do with you stopping Drew Brees. Good job! I won't be upset at you if you're a little nicer to my Panthers.

If you don't mind, I'll snoop around and comment a bit this week, but I promise to behave myself.

BTW, in answer to the above question ... my vote is that I'd rather you beat the Giants.

Welcome Coffee. NC-based Skins fan here. My workplace is a house divided between a couple Skins fans and a couple Panthers fans. About half the dept. doesn't care, lol.

I like to check out other teams boards too, not join just browse. What's the best Panthers board out there?

[coffee]

Originally Posted by HailGreen28

Welcome Coffee. NC-based Skins fan here. My workplace is a house divided between a couple Skins fans and a couple Panthers fans. About half the dept. doesn't care, lol.

I like to check out other teams boards too, not join just browse. What's the best Panthers board out there?

Your workplace sounds like it'll be an interesting place before and after this Sunday!

I've kind of settled in on panthersfanz.com. It's a very polite forum, well moderated. So some good people there. You're welcome to browse or come chat with us!

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by coffee

Greetings. I'm a Panther fan just stopping by to respectfully say hi.

I guess I should start by saying thank you for taking such fine care of our division rival Saints. I don't care what kind of defensive problems they have. That was impressive what you did. And their poor defense had quite little to do with you stopping Drew Brees. Good job! I won't be upset at you if you're a little nicer to my Panthers.

If you don't mind, I'll snoop around and comment a bit this week, but I promise to behave myself.

BTW, in answer to the above question ... my vote is that I'd rather you beat the Giants.

Greetings coffee,

Appreciate your respectful tone in the enemy camp. Regretfully it will be necessary to treat in a....most surly Burgundy & Gold sort of way. Prepare to be smited accordingly!
HTTR

[coffee]

Originally Posted by Hog1

Greetings coffee,

Appreciate your respectful tone in the enemy camp. Regretfully it will be necessary to treat in a....most surly Burgundy & Gold sort of way. Prepare to be smited accordingly!
HTTR

Consider me officially hunkered down and braced for smiting.

[Bangee7]

I Hope they sneak a win on the road in Carolina but then THOROUGHLY stomp the Giants at home.

Carolina is undefeated for a reason- they are a good team. This will be a good test to see if the 'Skins can keep the momentum & focus & play a tough game.

Not sure we have enough to get the 'W', but like Coffee said, Carolina seems to let teams hang around.

[Schneed10]

The big key to victory, can the 'Skins get their blocker who's best at getting to the second level to Luke Kuechly?

Scherff vs Kuechly, matchup of the game. Our running game hinges on that.

[HailGreen28]

Originally Posted by coffee

Your workplace sounds like it'll be an interesting place before and after this Sunday!

I've kind of settled in on panthersfanz.com. It's a very polite forum, well moderated. So some good people there. You're welcome to browse or come chat with us!

TY coffee. Looks good, will check it periodically this week. (Sadly I agree with the article about why Newton succeeded and Griffin didn't.)

[44Deezel]

Originally Posted by Chief X_Phackter

I think I fall into this camp more than any other. While the win against the Saints was great, it came against a defense that is widely considered one of the worst - historically - to this point in the season. Exciting, but I'm still a bit skeptical.

That being said, they took care of business in a big way. Part of being a good team is winning the games you are supposed to. AND, perhaps the biggest story of that game was holding that offense to 14 points...so....

With Carolina, they are 9-0 which is real hard to do in this league. Aside from the NE game, and perhaps the NYG game, this is the toughest test for Washington to date - and on the road. However, when looking at their 9 wins, the only one I'm really impressed with is Seattle on the road.

This is a game that can be won, for sure. Just gotta be solid in all areas.

To answer your question: if the Skins split the next 2 which team would you rather they beat, Panthers or NYG?

NYG no doubt. Even if Washington loses the Carolina game, they won't be more than one game out still...Beat NYG the following week and they're still in the driver's seat.

Let's win them both though

A good team? Already? Damn, that was fast. I was just expecting them to be better than the last 2 years while showing signs that McCloughan has them trending in the right direction. I'll still settle for that right now and will postpone expectations of blowing out good Defenses for at least a few years.

Because isn't that what the good teams do? The Pats hang 50 on everyone, right? Just like the Bengals, Packers, Panthers, Cardinals, etc.

Or maybe the good teams, like the Skins aspire to be one day, win ugly 10-6 games sometimes and don't ALWAYS put up huge Offensive stats, especially when they run into good Defenses.

If the Skins win 6-7 games this year, they've exceeded most people's expectations and optimism will be high going into next season.

[SFREDSKIN]

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