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I didn’t want to say anything because I don’t want to be shown a new bullshit fake stat, but dowdle ran better than Chuba on Sunday.

After calling out the defense in the Week 1 All-22 review, Evero's unit has since stepped it up. In week 2 against Arizona they gave up just 82yds rushing! This effectively snapped Carolina's horrendous streaks of giving up both 200+ yards rushing at seven games and 100+ yards rushing at 15 games. They also forced three turnovers which included a pick-6 that you'll be able to see again a little further down. For their efforts, this is going to be a mostly defense-focused review again (but with one "special" inclusion later). In celebration of the dub we're going to focus on some of the defensive highlights rather than lowlights! Q1 5:18 - 3rd & 6 (ATL 30) CAR 0 - 0 ATL Want to get a QB off of his rythm? Hit him. That's exactly what happened here rather than the usual cover-3 we've seen Evero lean towards. The Falcons had just walked it back 5yds due to a delay of game penalty, turning a 3rd & 1 into 3rd & 6. Evero is playing with a rare lead though as the team is up 7-0 and sends the heat. The team is in an under front and sends six with Wallace simulating pressure before dropping back as the robber. I'm not sure what the playcall here is... it looks like man coverage on the field side with Jaycee vs. McCloud but I can't tell if this a mistake on the backend by the secondary after the motion. Moehrig, Scott, and Jackson are all communicating but I don't think CSW got it. Fortunately, the simulated pressure draws the RG towards Trevin instead of Rozeboom who Bijan was designated to pick up. With DB on the C, Scourton on the LG, and Princely on the LT that leaves Moehrig coming in wide open to blast Penix on the throw. Good thing too, because given a little more time Pitts is popping out wide open on the other half of the field. Moehrig would give Penix a little extra again later in the game, giving him a shove as he went out of bounds on a scramble to send him toppling. moehrig1a.mp4 moehrig1b.mp4 Q1 4:23 - 2nd & 8 (CAR 31) CAR 7 - 0 ATL The Falcons line up in the shotgun with TE Charlie Woerner in the backfield and Kyle Pitts split out right. Bijan is lined up next to the RT and motions across the backfield. Scourton is the strong side end on the over front with DB to his right as the 3-tech. ARob is in a 2i alignment DJ Wonnum is the weak-side end. Panthers are in nickel personnel with a two high shell showing presnap. Scott and Moehrig are communicating to confirm as the play call is going to call for them to rotate based on where Bijan is. Once Bijan motions, Scott starts to drop down and shows that it's cover-1 robber (Rozeboom is the robber). Trevin Wallace closes fast and leaks out with Woerner to the flat. I couldn't tell if this was a designed swing pass with a couple of other options or if Penix was just selling the downfield pass to set up the swing, but it didn't matter because Wallace was there immediately. An article by Mike Kaye yesterday highlighted how Trevin is regularly chats with Luke Kuechly and has weekly film sessions with Dan Morgan. After week one, both mentors told him to play fast and not worry about being wrong. He responded by reacting faster and tackling better against Arizona and then continuing his improvement against ATL by logging four tackles (1 TFL, this play). trevin1a.mp4 trevin1b.mp4 Q1 3:37 - 3rd & 13 (CAR 36) CAR 7 - 0 ATL Evero has the defense come out showing cover-2 man while also showing pressure. The Panthers send six with Moehrig dropping back to a single-high with Scott dropping underneath to pick up Pitts who faked going into pass blocking before running his route. This was one of many bad passes forced by the defense with this one coming from the team's pair of rookie edge rushers and DJ Wonnum. It's a game of "meet at the QB!" with Scourton getting a hand on Penix's elbow during the delivery to disrupt the pass. edge1a.mp4 Q2 12:24 - 1st & 10 (CAR 45) CAR 7 - 0 ATL The play prior to this one Bijan took a short pass 25yds to the CAR 45. What stands out about this play isn't so much the design, the timing of the call, or anything game changing... it's who forced this play to go for no gain. The OLBs on the field are Princely and DJJ, and immediately that would make DJ the "weak link" on the field. The Falcons seemed to think so as well as they left Charlie Woerner in charge of blocking him and things went about as well for Charlie as they did earlier on that swing pass vs. Trevin Wallace. CAR shows an over front and as Woerner to the field side before shifting. The DL shifts as well, maintaining the over alignment as the Falcons now have both TEs stacked to the right. Penix calls for Mooney to motion inside and the ball is snapped with the Falcons showing playaction to the field side. Pitts releases and slides past DJJ who does his best DB impression by using one arm to sling Woerner around like a rag doll before closing in to force the checkdown to Allgeier in the flat. CSW drives as the ball is being thrown (a tale of things to come) and immediately brings him down for no gain. djcsw1a.mp4 djcsw1b.mp4 djcsw1b.mp4 Q3 11:46 - 2nd & 8 (ATL 16) CAR 10 - 0 ATL The pick-6! Not much to really go into detail here defensively as the squad blanked the Falcons in the first half. After only gaining 2yds on the 1st down run by Bijan, Zac Robinson dials up a dagger concept on the field side and an inside hitch/out route combo to the boundary with the RB swinging out left. Penix is going to want this one back as he missed Ray-Ray McCloud coming open on the dig with Rozeboom cheating towards the other side. That pressure from the first half must have gotten to him or the coaches emphasized getting the ball out faster, because he tried to check down to Bijan. If you pause during the wind-up, you can see CSW already driving while Bijan hasn't even gotten his head around yet. The result... a house call! csw1a.mp4 Q3 3:55 - 1st & 10 (ATL 32) CAR 10 - 0 ATL This play stood out to me because the game day thread had folks reacting as if Penix was awful and just dirting balls (he did dirt one on a screen earlier) when it was actually due to the pressure generated that not only collapsed the pocket but got Penix hit during the throw. BB3 collapsed the pocket while DB occupied the double team, Nic Scourton shoved back-up RT Elijah Wilkinson into Penix's back (causing the bad throw), and DJ Johnson shoved starting LT Jake Matthews into Penix's lap. Not only do we see the DL creating pressure with four, they did it with a rookie edge and a guy that has been regularly dunked on by the fanbase. Craziest part? You're going to see DJ Johnson a third time in this thread. dj1a.mp4 I've got five more plays to review but am seeing formatting issues already so I'll go ahead and get this first part up.

Who is invalidating accomplishments? What does that even mean?

His stat line wasn't impressive but he had a big impact both on and off the field.

Agree. His talent though….. and football intellect. He was a code breaker. Offenses had no surprises.

I wouldn't say they hate them. They just prefer their safeties to have size and strength, to not shy away from run defense support.

I think that just depends on how "ready" he looks in the offseason, how Dowdle works out this year and if we have the opportunity to draft another guy above him in the offseason before he recovers. The fact we took Etienne at all shows some movement towards looking beyond him.

This is why Ive always thought Bryce was a Dave and Nicole pick and been doomed to failure from the beginning. If you look at Frank and his past offense, Bryce was always the least likely to fit. Square peg in a round hole. That's not saying anything against Bryce. He was put in a bad position from the very beginning with a coach who didnt want him because his skill set didnt fit what he does as well as Stroud's did. And that was obvious because Frank didnt care once Bryce was drafted. He didnt even get an opportunity to do his job so why pretend to care. Bryce needs an offense specifically designed around him, but that wasn't going to be Frank because Dave overruled him even choosing his own QB, and now DC whose offense isn't really built around Bryce's style either. You gotta let a HC chose his QB and instead we've been trying to find a HC to fit our QB which is a much larger ask and we have a leftover hire at GM from one of the worst GMs in NFL history. This whole thing has been fugged from the beginning. And whether youre a Bryce lover or hater, the clear issue is Dave and Nicole made a franchise defining football decision without understanding football.

They signed what everyone thought was the best corner in the league it turned out he was just never thrown at because the other ten guys on the field for the raiders were fans from the stands and he was completely washed lmao

He's dope on Madden

Not if etienne keeps making an ass of himself.

I honestly am not sure we really ever see him in a Panthers uniform on the field. I suspect he will be gone from the roster as soon as next offseason.

Luke’s shorter career is the only knock. If he played like 3 more years he would have been in first tear

Boy what a poo show that was hahaha

https://x.com/themarcjohnnfl/status/1970928512111608130?s=46 Lmao pff

That's why paper teams never win. It's not about the names, it's about the play. Remember the Eagles dream team like 15 years ago?

yep, if you look at the 20+ throws of Bryce Young w/ Canales in 2024-2025 (and remove the anomaly week 18 Atlanta game). It's horrific downfield play. Pretty sure it works out to 5 for 24 when going 20+ yards w/ 3 INTs. Is it all on him? No, you can find fault elsewhere in that in either Dave or some WRs. But to be THAT bad going downfield, you got to acknowledge Young is a big part of why it doesn't work. A big chunk of that is his heavy bad throw % and ball placement (Bryce makes life hard). WRs pretty consistently having to go for a lot of contested balls that are contested in the manner they are because of ball placement often. my stance has been consistent since the day we drafted him. Pick a direction. I don't care which. You either need a BY centric scheme and HC....or you need a new QB. We hired Frank and now Canales. And it's too late to finally attempt something year 4 that should of been attempted day 1. I was hard on the Frank hire if BY was the pick. Same for Canales if BY was going to be the guy. It's really raging at the Panthers org not really BY. But BY is the square peg and Carolina has a round hole O ever since drafting him. So he becomes the easiest fix given they have never wanted to do what they should of always done.

I like how we went from the WR room being a strength to a weakness in 4 weeks. fugin A

I'd still rather keep Tremayne at spot

I think everyone from last week plays Sunday and honestly we are better without this current version of XL

But the huddle will tell you we fleeced them for a convoluted pick swap lmao. Trash decision

I don't think this will be answered for a few games. I think Dallas will start the reality check. NE and Miami are more toss up games, who knows what those look like at this point.

Pretty sure Luke gets in this year

Its crazy because as a Panthers fan since Luke retired has been the only time in franchise history that we don't have an elite MLB

DNP Wednesday with a hamstring injury. This next game could be a disaster especially if Christian Gonzalez is back for the Pats. May have to switch back to Ladd McConkey for my fantasy lineup and mark this one as a L.