What makes matters worse than the horrible reffing job in the Cowboys game is that everything else that needed to happen this weekend for the Panthers to make the playoffs besides beating the Cowboys happened. The Redskins killed the Vikings and New Orleans lost. If Carolina had won this weekend like they could of, beaten a resting Tampa Bay team next weekend, watched the Vikings lose one more and the Redskins another, they would have been in the playoffs.

Disapointingly, there’s been no national attention to the horrid refs and it ticks me off. Carolina wasn’t that far done. I blame it on the NFL Network and it’s small audience.

If New Orleans wins next weekend and makes it, that would have been Carolina. But that piss-poor oblivious reffing job…

For the record, not a single Panther player or coach complained in any post-game conference about being jilted out of a win. That is simply the most classy thing I’ve ever seen in my life. They know they got robbed of a fair chance to beat the Cowboys yet they didn’t complain. For that, I have nothing but the upmost respect for everything that Jerry Richardson has built up.

AND. John Fox’s job security should have never been in question this season. He’s a good coach that’s done a lot for this football team. We’ve been average for a while, but not terrible. I don’t want a 1-15 season. I want decent consistency and you have to admit, we’ve been consistently .500 when weren’t amazing like in ‘03 and ‘05.

I like John Fox and I want to see him do well enough to keep his job next season and with how this season seems to be ending, there’s no reason the Panthers shouldn’t be more solid next season. You can hear it in the players’ voices that they really believe they’ll be good next season and to have a coach get a group of guys to believe in their team that much when this season went so horribly wrong is unbelievable. He’s just as valuable as Jeff Fisher of the Titans and neither coach should be fired for quite some time.

Can the zebras be any more incompetent and blatantly biased? There were maybe 2 calls against Dallas all night, and don’t get me started on the incredibly obvious defensive pass interference or the “if 100 guys in a bar would think it’s a catch, it’s a catch” Steve Smith incompletion. It’s not like Carolina played that well this evening that they deserved to win, but if they’re given opportunities to beat a 12-2 Dallas team that’s letting them hang, let them play the damn game.

Worst reffing job in quite some time. I demand to see some apologies and retractions from the NFL soon.

Let me knock this out real quick… I’ll come back later on tonight to make this a bit more formal.

Matt Moore is the real deal. Just like I said all season. And tonight, the Panthers will start the beginning of their playoff push with Matt Moore at the helm and a W over the always annoying Cowboys.

Week Sixteen Picks
Carolina Panthers over Dallas Cowboys
Pittsburgh Steelers over St. Louis Rams
Jacksonville Jaguars over Oakland Raiders
Philadelphia Eagles over New Orleans Saints
Detroit Lions over Kansas City Chiefs
Cleveland Browns over Cincinnati Bengals
Green Bay Packers over Chicago Bears
Buffalo Bills over New York Giants
Indianapolis Colts over Houston Texans
Arizona Cardinals over Atlanta Falcons
Tampa Bay Buccaneers over San Francisco 49ers
Seattle Seahawks over Baltimore Ravens
Miami Dolphins over New England Patriots [NOTE BELOW]
New York Jets over Tennessee Titans
Washington Redskins over Minnesota Vikings
San Diego Chargers over Denver Broncos

Miami v New England: IT’S ALL ABOUT KARMA.

UPDATE: Following the result of Monday Night’s game.

Yes sir, you read that right. Even after that horrible losing streak, and general crap play, the Carolina Panthers played well enough at the beginning of the year to still have a chance to make the playoffs.

What does that involve? Actually only a couple of things. Thanks to Carolina’s 6-4 conference mark (8-4 at the end of the season if they win out, which they have to in order to have a chance), they own the tiebreakers on a bunch of 6-8 teams, the 7-7 teams above them, and the Vikes.

Here’s what has to happen:

1) Carolina must win out (vs DAL, at TAM)
2) New Orleans must lose a game (vs PHI, at CHI)
3) Minnesota must lose both games (vs WAS, at DEN)
4) Washington must beat Minnesota and lose to Dallas (at MIN, vs DAL)

I’ve gotten lazy and I’ll probably be lazy for the rest of the season. Sorry about that. I’ll have stuff fixed for next season along with the one thing I just don’t have: more time. In the mean time, however, enjoy this week’s picks.

GO MATT MOORE!

Alright guys, I really apologize for falling incredibly behind, but this is the very last week of a virtually non-existent update. Exams are next week and after that it’s all about the pigskin.

And the Carolina Panther playoff push. More on the next page.

Thursday’s Pick
Dallas Cowboys over Green Bay Packers

Week Thirteen Predictions
Carolina Panthers over San Francisco 49ers
Philadelphia Eagles over Seattle Seahawks
Buffalo Bills over Washington Redskins
Tennessee Titans over Houston Texans
Jacksonville Jaguars over Indianapolis Colts
Kansas City Chiefs over San Diego Chargers
Atlanta Falcons over St. Louis Rams
New York Jets over Miami Dolphins
Detroit Lions over Minnesota Vikings
Denver Broncos over Oakland Raiders
Cleveland Browns over Arizona Cardinals
Tampa Bay Buccaneers over New Orleans Saints
Chicago Bears over New York Giants
Pittsburgh Steelers over Cincinnati Bengals
New England Patriots over Baltimore Ravens

Prediction: Dallas Cowboys over Green Bay Packers.

Well, it’s the first incredibly weird week with the start of the new Thursday NFL game on the NFL Network channel that nobody can watch. It’s so incredibly wonderful. Check one of my earlier posts to see that I did indeed have the the Thanksgiving picks already made and on time, but for the sake of simplicity, I’ll post it again.

I admit it. Finally. It took eleven full football weeks for me to finally realize it, but the Carolina Panthers will NOT even make the playoffs this season. We’re finished and it’s time to move on to next season. It’d be one thing if I had hope, or a belief that they could actually win games, but it’s gotten to the point where I see that there’s no chance to win any game at all. Well, there’s a small chance that we can beat New Orleans and we better beat San Francisco, but after that, the schedule will be far too difficult for us to make any sort of comeback.