OFFICIAL GAMEDAY THREAD - PANTHERS @ BUCS WEEK 18 2026

GO PANTHERS!!!!

It would be a good time for them to play a great game.

-National spotlight
-Earn the playoff spot (as weak as the NFC South playoff spot is)
-Fans deserve it

Our only hope is for our Defense to step up and play like their ass is on fire.  I just don't believe that our Offense can stand toe to toe with anyone right now.

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I'm talking about situational football here. With everything on the line -- can we even hope to play championship football?? My guess would be....probably not. Yes, we beat the Rams and GB and a couple other teams along the way.  But really, with a .500 average, what did those games really mean.??  When the Division was on the line, we lost to the Saints twice and the Seahawks and the 49ers, and the Bills, et al....

We won't play pressure football. Not that we CAN'T, but we WON'T.!!

No reason to believe this game (or the playoffs..) will be any different.

I've heard a LOT of rumblings about the Bucs' locker room this week, and it wasn't good (for them, anyways). Sounds like trouble in paradise. I saw Baker Mayfield on an interview last night and he sounded like he was gassed. Like he was on his last leg. But you can never count Baker Mayfield out, like him or not.

I've heard a LOT of rumblings about the Bucs' locker room this week, and it wasn't good (for them, anyways).  Sounds like trouble in paradise.  I saw Baker Mayfield on an interview last night and he sounded like he was gassed.  Like he was on his last leg.  But you can never count Baker Mayfield out, like him or not.

Bowles through Baker under the bus recently. Not good when that starts to happen. Team just might just implode with a loss.

I got to my seat early , to take In all the excitement of a NFL GAME WITH PLAYOFF IMPLICATIONS. .
Well , I’m a little early. I’m leaving my seat ( living room / family room ) to go down the hall to the bathroom,, not sure if they’ll be a line .
I’ll be back in my seat by 4:15

Honestly, they have far exceeded my expectations this year! I’m pulling for us, but we have over achieved. Anything we get after today is just gravy. Step on some necks guys!

It would be a good time for them to play a great game.

-National spotlight
-Earn the playoff spot (as weak as the NFC South playoff spot is)
-Fans deserve it

I got to my seat early , to take In all the  excitement of a  NFL GAME WITH PLAYOFF IMPLICATIONS.  .
Well , I’m a little early.  I’m leaving my seat ( living room / family room ) to go down the hall to the bathroom,, not sure if they’ll be a line . 
I’ll be back in my seat by 4:15

 That must be a long line to get into the bathroom!

It would be a good time for them to play a great game.

-National spotlight
-Earn the playoff spot (as weak as the NFC South playoff spot is)
-Fans deserve it

I got to my seat early , to take In all the  excitement of a  NFL GAME WITH PLAYOFF IMPLICATIONS.  .
Well , I’m a little early.  I’m leaving my seat ( living room / family room ) to go down the hall to the bathroom,, not sure if they’ll be a line . 
I’ll be back in my seat by 4:15

 That must be a long line to get into the bathroom!

Yeah, usually is at most BIG NFL GAMES LOL

INACTIVES:

The Panthers will be without veteran defensive tackle Tershawn Wharton for the fourth week in a row.

Wharton returned to practice this week and was questionable with a hamstring injury, but was on the inactive list Saturday afternoon.

Wharton hasn't played since the Rams game on Nov. 30. He'll be replaced in the starting lineup by Bobby Brown III.

Also inactive for the Panthers are wide receiver Hunter Renfrow, cornerback Robert Rochell, safeties Demani Richardson and D'Anthony Bell, linebacker Claudin Cherelus, and defensive tackle Jared Harrison-Hunte.

They activated cornerback David Long Jr. and linebacker Jacoby Windmon from the practice squad for depth purposes for the finale, to cover for the absences of Rochell and Cherelus.