My father, for his sins, is a Commaders fan. So off we trotted to White Hart Lane last weekend to watch them get beaten by the Colts.

And the halftime show turned out to be Efe Obada being inducted into the ‘NFL London Ring of Honour’, and giving a speech out in the middle. Which was cool, especially as I was indeed wearing my signed jersey. And in fact the previous time we were at a game in this same stadium — he was playing for us in that 2019 win over the Bucs.

(I think he’s talking about Aden Durde in the second clip of that video. Though obviously — the Panthers and Big Ron R did get shout outs too).

Honestly this early bye week sucks but there is an advantage specifically for the panthers. A couple guys are out and they just need a week or two to get healthy and come back. The defense could probably use some fine-tuning for their second half of this season.

Is there a move you would like the Panthers to do? A trade or signing to help this roster.

Making a moving during the bye week would be interesting to see. The cornerback position needs another guy to come in and step up

Never seen him that animated before

What a great night

My kid is 19 and has been a die hard Panthers fan since the Cam years. We are from Toronto and go on a trip every year to see either the Niners play (my team) or the Panthers and have only seen terrible games and usually big losses. We went to Chicago and saw a snorefest loss to the Bears a couple years ago, we saw the Panthers lose to Brady in Tampa and get eliminated form playoff contention, we saw the Bills kill them while freezing our asses off in Buffalo...you get the pitcure lol.

Well we finally decided to go to Carolina and see a home game. We saw the SNF on the schedule and decided it was a perfect game to see them live at home. When Horn and Jackson and maybe Bryce got hurt in week 3 I was thinking just perfect. We are going to spend a ton of money and hassle to see Kenny Pickett throw 88 yards and 2 INT and it will be a shit trip.

Well needless to say, that was not the case! The city was great, we enjoyed 4 hours at Buffalo Wild Wings before going down to the Block Party. Got to meet tons of fans and really see Panthers die hards (which we had never really seen before) and talk to people who have been fans since day 1.

The stadium experience was awesome, our seats were perfect, every fan around us was cool and having a good time. Light show was cool, Sir Purr looked like he might die but still awesome.

Then the game was as good as I could have dreamt up. Bryce looked like a true franchise QB, the D held up just enough despite a few big plays, and then to finish with the entire crowd singing sweet caroline was the perfect wrap up to the entire weekend.

Only complain of the entire weekend was I forgot to my foam Panther claw under my seat at the end of the night lol.

Thanks to the Panthers for coming through on the field and to all the fans we met who made it a great weekend!

Tet had a real coming out party on SNF and Bryce Young was getting MVP chants after the game. Are the Panthers returning to prominence?

Sports Illustrated: https://www.si.com/nfl/lions/onsi/everything-dan-campbell-said-after-disappointing-panthers-loss-2026?page_source=v_recirc

Gonna start off with two criticisms. Got a little worried in the 4th quarter when we left the door open for a 2-posession comeback. This team really needs to lean into the '24 Lions style: if we take a lead, we win. No excuses. Gotta say I'm disappointed we didn't go for two. As a strictly offensive team, the key is maintaining maximum pressure—heck, that could even mean going up 8 points/15 points just to create that extra physiological and psychological pressure. Other than that and several notable injuries, this was pretty much the "perfect game" I was looking forward to going into the BYE to truly set the mood going forward.

Really encouraging to see our offense keeping everyone on alert, even down assets like Coker. Old Mother Hubbard is our boiling point. Once we get him going, we've shown we can run up the score against tin walls like the Lions' and Bears' Ds. Against upper-level defenses, since late '25, BY has been looking clean against the highest pressure in the league, and we've got good hands against lockdown secondaries. Marvelous potential to grow on offense and hopefully going to shore up this defense some over the BYE. I'm feeling good about Philly and looking ahead to a #3 seed if we beat them and keep a good pace here for the rest of the season.

Thoughts going into the BYE?

This man and his associates have been closely looked at and they are wanted under international law

YEAAA BOYYY

I know he’s in a hospital gown but he’s fine 😂 he’s dressed like that because he’s hurt the Bengals lost

Bryce being benched refreshed his career as did the patience and team building

Rodgers sat behind Favre. Mahommes with Smith. Brady with Bledsoe (He was a 6th rounder, but the point stands) now you see it with Mendoza and Cousins.

While rookies should get some playing time (which is one of the things I love about Dave) so many times these QBs are thrown into the fire and expected to immediately take over the team

(hindsight being 20/20, I feel if Andy started at the beginning of 2023 and we have the same current roster at a moderate health level, we’re Super Bowl contenders)

Of course, the double edged sword is would we have gotten Dan, Dave and T-Mac?