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Game Grades - Panthers at Bucs
Sep 10 2012 06:15 AM | Zod in Carolina Panthers
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The atmosphere at Raymond James Stadium was electric. The Bucs fans brought their enthusiasm and were recharged with tributes to Ronde Barber on the jumbo tron all game long. Video tributes by fan favorites like Derrick Brook, Mike Alstott, Tony Dungy. It was a celebration atmosphere and it helped keep the momentum for the Bucs.Hopefully the Panthers will have reason to celebrate this Sunday. On with the grades...
Offense:
No one notified me the Panthers would be showing their own tribute to 2010 by mimicking the anemic offense. Sloppy, undisciplined, and uninspired.
Two stats sum up the offensive, and by offensive I mean offensive, woes of the Panthers.
- 10 yards rushing total
- 2 for 10 on 3rd round conversions
Throw those two stats into any game this season, and it is a guaranteed Panthers loss.
Offensive Grade - F
Defense:
While many fans are moaning about the defense, they did manage to hold a team in their own stadium on opening day to under 17 points. That should be good enough to win the game given an adequate offensive effort.
Jon Beason returned to form with 10 tackles, 9 of them solo. Much maligned Greg Hardy was second with 8 tackles, 6 of them solo. So there were some bright spots to talk about.
All in all, not a dominating performance, but they did manage to hold the Bucs to less than 17 points despite being on the field for nearly 40 minutes.
Defensive Grade: B-
Special Teams
Bobbled balls, blocked punt. On a day the Panthers needed perfect Special Teams play, they got below average instead. While they were adequate on containing the Bucs' returns, they were inept in other facets of the game.
Special Teams Grade: D
Coaching
Ron Rivera, you were out coached by the finest college football mind New Jersey had to offer. That isn't a glowing testimonial. While it is difficult to game plan against an unknown, the Bucs did nothing spectacular in terms of game plan. In fact, they were quite vanilla.
Your team must be better prepared, mentally tougher, and execute better. This falls on you.
Coaching Grade - D-
42 Comments
Defense held the Bucs to 1/7 on third down in the second half. The object of ball/clock control offense is to keep the ball for as long as possible and to keep the clock running. Not to run three and outs and punt the ball. Our offense, particularly the o-line (and more specifically our two guards), poo the bed and didn't hold up their part of the bargain.
The defense deserves the B. They played a soft cover two zone to start the game because they didn't know what to expect from the offense. Even though the cover two gave up underneath passes on those first two drives, it did not give up big plays. Once we adjusted the defense to really go against what the bucs were doing, they locked that poo down and the Bucs offense went to poo.
Defense was a bit better but dnt let the stats fooled you. Schiano stayed honest and manage the game by running the ball with a rookie back. To kill the clock and put Cam on the sideline. That's why it was three and outs for the Bucs.
I gurantee you that if Schiano came back in the second half throwing those little "dump offs" and short passes and aimed for a high scoring game, they would've accomplish just that.
You don't play "let's go 3 and out on purpose" with only a 6 point lead. Even a college coach knows that.
Trick plays and misdirection are best used once the team thinks you have become predictable, not at the beginning of the game. Pass rush is slowed by a quick passing game, not by slow developing 20 yard routes.
Chud had his head firmly up his butt yesterday, and never took it out.
They tried to run the clock down! That was Schiano's plan going into the second half. Do you try running the clock down by throwing? No you dnt.
Of course you're going to suffer if you try running the ball the whole second half. Those dump offs little short passes killed us in the first half. If they wanted to keep it up, it would've been just as bad in the 2nd as it did in the 1st.
A rookie coach when holding a 13 points lead going into the second half is not going to come out passing 50 times! WTF people!
I dnt know why loves to run those stupid option plays with Cam taking forever to decides if he keeps the ball or give it to Dwill or whoever.
I was sick of it last year and this year they comes out flying with more of those failed junk.
Gotta do a better job utilizing the backs and Cam.
We scored one touchdown.
The Jekyll & Hyde of offensive coaching.
That one trick play where the moment it was executed Cam got smashed by 5 or so players.. yeah, let's not do that again until everyone knows how to fuging do it.
When I saw Cam's numbers- over 300 passing and a couple picks, I was guessing those picks came at very inopportune times (when are they not?). But no running game at all? Against a team that is featured all over in Panther lore .gif world with stiff arms and beat downs?
My guess is Schiano simply took the prime time game of a few seasons back when the Panthers ran at will all over the Bucs and Monte Kiffin essentially called it quits afterwards and used it as a remibder and a game plan.
Ron Rivera and his coaching staff got bitch-slapped by a rookie coach with a rebuilt, young football team who scored a TD and 3 FGs to win. I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I'm still waiting for this Ron Rivera to show up and do what he said he was going to do. For two years everyone has been touting his selection as head coach, and I'm still waiting for any reason that suggests he's anything but an average coach.
Oh and wtf was with the lack of plays to Tolbert. Srsly guys srsly....
Without the penalty and the drops, the second half passing yardage is similar to the first half. The difference was improved defense and worse execution.
regardless of the playcalling, we had the offensive to get into the endzone more than once and get into FG range enough to get more points on the board. they just didn't do their job. coaches and players failed.
the defense did quite enough to keep the game within range for what should have been an easy victory. the offense just didn't do their job.
that crap better get fixed this week. i am confident that they will get it fixed, btw. still, no excuse for that game. no way that next game between us and the bucs should be that close. the bucs threw everything they had at us and still managed to barely squeeze out a win.
There's a difference between starting off slow and getting beat the way Hangartner and Amini got beat.
Amini is a rookie so you just continue to work with him and hope that he gets better, but there's no excuse for Hangartner.