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We only had 9 carries that went for over 5 yards on the day, I'm not really sure you can then say our OL manhandled their line. If you OL manhandled the opposing DL, you should have more than 9 carries that went for over 5 yards (and no, I'm not saying we should then have had a dozen 15 yard carries, but there should have been more of those 6-10 yard chunk plays than we got). Which again, is the root of my problems with this game, because I agree with you, Etienne looked solid, combined with Rico having the game of his life. Better play calling and being less predictable, in an advantageous matchup, 100% should have lead to more carries of over 5 yards than we had, which in turn should have then opened up the passing game more, none of which happened. Hence my point of the thread, not to let Rico's 200 yard game make you gloss over the fact that Canales still called an awful game. This thread was never meant to be an attack on Rico or a desire to see more T-Mac targets, it was a statement about Canales still being a terrible play caller.

The way the team is headed that may be just the right number of seats for a Panther game.

I can’t remember the last time we had one, maybe Chuba or Foreman? https://www.nfl.com/voting/air-and-ground/

It is hard to win in the NFL. I’m never going to put an * next to a Dub.

We had a very favorable matchup our o-line manhandles theirs. Even Etienne looked like he would have had a great game on his limited rushing opportunities.

I think that's part of the problem, he's spreading the ball around too much, many of them are the first read play calls, and on top of that, a large portion of them are purposefully called screens or other short passes. I just looked, the Cardinals are the only other team in the league right now without at least 3 players with 100+ yards receiving so far this year, with the majority of teams having 4 or more. And even then, their #2 right now is McBride with over 200 yards. Our 2nd leading receiver this year has 108 yards (albeit with 4 more players with 82 or more). On the surface, that might not be as alarming as you might think, but when you add into it that Bryce is currently 6th in the league in pass attempts, and it's even more alarming that he hasn't gotten a 3rd player to 100 yards so far and his second highest is only 108. XL has 39 yards on 18 targets. Renfrow has 82 yards on 24 targets. Tremble has 87 on 16 targets. Sanders has 92 on 14 targets. None of those are good enough, so why aren't we calling more plays with T-Mac as the first read and forcing the ball to him (and again, that's not me wanting my guy to get more targets, that's me wanting more targets for the only productive pass catcher so far this year, I'd feel the same no matter what that player's name was). All of this is why I have issues with Canales' play calling. How do you have a player who had 73 yards in the first half and then you only give him 1 target in the 2nd half despite playing from behind the majority of that time? You can be happy about the win, happy about Dowdle getting 200 yards, but in a game where your QB threw it 30 times, I can't accept the above sentence in the same breath, that's just terrible play calling, which is on top of the already predictable play calling in general, which is also on top of boring play designs as well. Add it all up, and THAT is why I'm unhappy even after a win, not because "my guy" didn't have a bigger game.

Fair criticisms

Tonight's game could be interesting. Chiefs have been struggling and Jacksonville is playing fairly well. Their defense will tested tonight though.

We're gonna lose but the game will be competitive

We are going to lose 100 to negative 20. We have no chance. None, nada, nacho.

I mean, you guys can be satisfied all you want. The two teams that we have beaten have helped us win to varying degrees. I'm not going to be fooled again by hollow wins. We haven't actually beaten a decent team in years. If we actually beat a good team, then perhaps we'll have something legitimate to get hopeful about, but even then we have to string some quality wins together.

I guess 10 isnt ebough

i agree with this i dont see alot of different people catching passes from young

if there is grass on the field play ball...

Maybe if the panthers were playing at home and had the home field advantage and it was you know home fans pulling for the panthers. maybe. but we know better...

He’s probably a pretty bad player if the Bengals released him and now the Raiders are releasing him 4 games into the season. I wonder if other teams message boards had threads about DJ Johnson.

I feel like somehow Evero schemed things up for him, he doesn't have the natural instincts to play ILB at that level on a weekly basis. If we had Shaq/Luke/TD he would only see special teams unless an injury

Could be both. Add in Las Vegas crazy to boot. Carroll has had player issues before with Russ as the center of it but only Lych got that bad even if the others remember.

I had season tickets 2005-2018 I would always sell my cowboys tickets because those dumb dumbs would pay for more than half the season. Then I'd scalp tickets about 45 minutes before kick for less than face

You can't think of 75 for Rico like a 75 on a test. 75 is a good PFF score. He was the highest ranking running back last week for RBs with at least 15 carries. Check out the 12:30 time stamp: https://youtu.be/Urq1j3byBes?si=_HoZbqKNM36KsyFf

Even if you were in your peak athletic prime he would fuging smack you behind the LOS if you tried to beat him to the corner Current day you would average -8 ypc against Trevin Wallace

On paper we have a chance. Dallas always seems so much more physical than us other than thise few very high profile games I miss Luke and TD bullying them instead

Why post this nonsense here? If it isn't obvious by now that PFF is a gambling outfit designed to sway the sports betting market, I don't know what to tell you.

Again, maybe it's my frustration with him on the whole that I just don't see it as much, but I don't see him going through his progressions from the pocket that much, only when he's forced to scramble. Just seems like he's very often throwing to his first read from the pocket, which would then be on Canales for spreading it around, not because he worked through to find the open man. Also, part of it is that we're constantly seeing open guys that he's not throwing to, so if he's going through his progressions, then he's just flat out making the wrong decisions.

Non Injury reasons? Something up with this dude better do some homework