Clearly I like Halloween Panda people what up let's talk about the Panthers losing in overtime against Atlanta and why you shouldn't be that bummed watching Panthers both of Phil Perkins thanks for joining well Panthers lose 37-34 their first divisional loss so far this year they are now two and six not atop the NFC South but hey it's only week eight could have gone either way it's a coin flip I thought the Panthers


Were gonna lose this game I thought they're gonna split this series I'm pretty sure when they go back to Charlotte later on the year where they are wearing the black helmets I think the Panthers will beat the Falcons but I thought you know the Goodwill that was going towards this team was a little bit too much for my liking especially what they who they beat the the week before in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who are complete disarray right now but I felt


That they were going to be it's gonna be a hard-fought game this is going to go to the very last second and I'm pretty sure I predicted they're going to lose by three and that's exactly what this was I believe the lead changed 10 times or they were they exchange scores 10 different times in this game uh at the Mercedes-Benz Dome and the Carolina Panthers team offense defense special teams everybody stepped up great to see DJ Moore come


Alive like he is awake he's awoken who knew it took you know a four-string quarterback because he would have been the four-string quarterback in PJ Walker to elicit this type of excitement out of the out of that wide receiver literally elicited excitement that eventually bit the Panthers in the ass but he was just like playing with like a man possesses take a look at the Stutz DJ more 152 yards receiving uh longest was that 62 yard Hail Mary


Um leviska Chenault also welcome to the party 26 yards five catches um but it was just it was just great to see uh uh DJ Moore just being a factor maybe that's what I mean that this looks like like an NFL team they can catch they can throw they can run they can block like you know normal things that literally Panther fans were not getting for the last couple of years um as a whole picture I know DJ Moore


Was great last couple years didn't matter who the quarterback was but it's just nice to see it all together um but obviously his he got too excited now whether that was an excitement from getting a Hail Mary touchdown reception which very rarely happened and that kind of big that kind of result and uh response to that is normally what would happen you take off your helmet you jump at The Stance that's great um or maybe there's you know letting off


Some frustration because the amount of people who probably wrote off DJ more including yours truly saying that he's a trade piece you can let him go you could replace him I mean they went up against a guy like Drake London today who's a rookie and doing just fine you just take a look at the rest of the league there's a lot of rookie wide receivers doing just fine uh you know and including guys like me saying yeah you can let DJ more go and


Kind of writing them off and not in a bad way but just saying you know let them go try to get a ring he's not going to happen here and you could replace him with a rookie that's kind of the way it was um and also just being stuck on a team that isn't succeeding and you know he hears that noise that he's kind of you I'm sure he's hearing things like you know you're not gonna win anything in Charlotte blah blah blah but here he is


Showing that he's still around showing that he's still a great wide receiver takes the helmet off frustration happiness I don't know but he did it and cost the Panthers a couple yards on the point after an Eddie dinero Panero just it wasn't money today twice in a row and a chance to literally win the game for the Panthers put them first overall in the NFC South didn't happen you know it's execution on individual basis like Eddie Panera has been money all all year


When he has been in uh in replacement right now for the starter and so you would think he can connect on a 43-yard uh extra point didn't happen uh you'd think he would connect on uh less than 40 yard uh game-winning overtime kick didn't happen blame DJ all you want but you know pinero's been money from Beyond that anyway so it's just a freak luck thing I hope he doesn't look like the bad guy you know in the media tomorrow or today like I haven't really looked at


It but you know he did what he did he put them in that position to win they would have just lost in overtime if it wasn't for his concentration and speed and reaction uh to PJ doing what he was doing which leads me to PJ walker uh who is giving this team life both on the field and in the locker room you can sense that they love him they respect him uh and he they let him cook today they let him just air that out mind you they had to it's a back and forth


Game with a lot on the line in week eight but he stepped up to the plate he did have that PJ pick which I did say was gonna happen last week didn't expect it to be a pick six but these are the kind of things he does I'm not saying that if you had a rookie in there like Matt Corral or Hell Bryce strong CJ Stroud head and hooker that wouldn't happen uh but you know he's he's been in the league for a good amount of years you don't want to see him do do that


Kind of stuff but it's kind of been known that he he has that in him like every week last week was weird he played great he also played great in this one as well take a look at the stats uh 317 yards one touchdown one interception which was that pick six yeah you could say you could take that away and the Panthers win this game but we know that that's who he is and which is why what I'm going to try to say is you can stick with him there's no reason why you


Should bench him next week heading into Cincinnati and put in Baker Mayfield I don't care if they're AFC North uh rivals in the past but you kind of have to still ride with a hot hand that is PJ Walker he gives you the chance to win we literally saw that today uh they could have won today on multiple occasions um but I could see next year that he is retained probably gets a bit of a pay bump he's making less than a million dollars now maybe Pam


Three million dollars or something like that five million dollars uh three year contract two-year contract plus an option and he could be that bridge he could you could literally redo what the Panthers had an opportunity to do with Teddy Bridgewater and have him be that bridge quarterback and you got Matt Corral there already who's at who's added insurance and then depending on where these guys draft and we talk about this 2023 uh QB draft being pretty deep


Whether you're picking top five top ten top 15 you have a chance to get Bryce young CJ Stroud Hendon hooker uh you know Anthony Richardson who might not come into this draft he definitely needs a year to Coke a little bit um but he got those three guys even will Levis we had a bad game this weekend against Tennessee in the hen and hooker will Levis Bowl did not play great he still has the trades that he can learn from he could be he could start as a


Third string quarterback shout out to a couple of players that really stood out to me um Dante Jackson who I predict is going to get traded by Tuesday November 1st in the trade deadline he looked a little banged up on the I'm not checking Twitter right now um but if he is banked up I don't see him being a trade Target but again he had his second interception this year um wasn't a pick six but it was a nice