JawnyBlaze

Don't want to be entered for the contest, since I couldn't attend anyway, but I'll contribute to the topic. 

I don't like to be sappy or anything, so that's not my intent.  But in all truthfulness the Panthers are one of my main sources of stability.  I'm in the military, as I know a number of our fellow Huddlers are, so I'm going to be presumptuous and attempt to speak for us all. 

The Panthers are a source of stability.  We have to move around a lot.  Some more than others.  Some to less than desirable places.  Some of us have to be separated from our families for extended periods of time.  Some of us have to experience things that most people will never even have nightmares about (luckily, I'm not one of those). 

For those times we're over in a desert living in a tent, or out on a ship, or otherwise disconnected from the lives that being an American means we're all entitled to (well most of us, I know we got some international folks here....we love yall!), we have the Panthers to remind us of home.  In some cases we have the means to watch games.  In some cases all we have is the internet to keep us apprised of what's going on (thank you baby Jeebus for the Huddle!).  Our lives can be chaotic, unpredictable, can be uprooted at a moments notice.  When we're alone somewhere remote, sometimes surrounded by people we don't know even though they're our allies, shipmates, or brothers-in-arms, we have two things to keep us grounded and sane.  Our love for our families, and our love for our Panthers.  Thank God for them both.

well, two things I learned from that game.  Bridgewater is horrible.  He just laid down for the Seahawks about once or twice a drive.  And two, the Seahawks are still the luckiest team in history.  Another patented Wilson toss it up and pray play worked out for them, and a missed 27 yard fg by the Vikings to lose the game.  smh lol. 

and pacman shouldn't have been flagged either.

41 minutes ago, carolina-chuck2 said:

That's a damn clean hit. Shazier is 6'. Gio is probably 5'4" in reality. Shazier did not purposely go after his head. He even went with his head lowered toward the chest. Can't help that Gio is short.

he speared.  he launched with his helmet, can't do that.  height has nothing to do with it.  he should have been tackling with his shoulder and arms, not helmet.

definitely a penalty and burfict is definitely the biggest piece of poo in the game and deserves a lifetime ban.  bengals still got shafted though, if only the bryant "td" catch itself.  bernard was also speared helmet to helmet by shazier and that shoulda been called.  that wasn't incidental helmet to helmet contact.  that was spearing on a defenseless receiver (i believe he was a receiver at that point, my memory could be wrong though).  either way it was spearing.

I just watched the replay on that Bryant "TD".  There is NO WAY that was a catch.  He was rolling it around on his leg, OBVIOUSLY doesn't have control of it til he is mid flip, and then he lands out of bounds.  That they called it a TD is ridiculous.

3 hours ago, Will Lee Moe said:

2 yards more than half, actually. 178/2=89

according to profootballfocus.com it was 80.

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Jones notched 178 receiving yards and a score in the game, but only 80 of them (and not the touchdown) came against Norman, who shadowed Julio across the field but not to the slot (except on a couple of late plays).

point is, it wasn't most of his yards.

1 hour ago, PhillyB said:

i don't know what the answer is this year. late in the game last week josh norman started sliding into the slot to cover jones, so i'm guessing they're going to be giving josh tons of reps in the slot this week to see if he can work it. peanut outside doesn't bother me, nor does finnegan if he's shadowing a slot guy anyway.

we'll see. we've got the bucs game and then two weeks of practice to figure out a personnel alignment that minimizes the effect.

I think the only thing we can really do this year is hope the DEs remember how to find the QB.  Looking at the rest of our likely schedule, there aren't any Julio Joneses or OBJs left for Norman to shadow.  Assuming the rest of our schedule looks something like TB, Seattle, Arizona, NE: vs TB Norman will probably be on Evans most of the game, I don't foresee them putting him in the slot much; vs Seattle the biggest worry is Baldwin and they do use him from the slot a lot so we will have to rely on QB pressure to force quick throws and minimize damage; vs Arizona I would REALLY prefer Norman stay on Fitz the whole game even though he's mostly in the slot these days....I could see Brown being a problem for us no matter who's on him so if Norman can shut down Fitz we can try to double cover Brown and hope that Finnegan or Peanut can handle Floyd (I don't think Floyd will be as much a problem as the other two could be); and vs NE we mostly have to worry about Gronk.  Pressure Brady, keep Norman on either Edelman or Gronk (whichever is wide), keep Coleman and Luke or TD on Gronk when he's in the slot or Finnegan when it's Edelman and that should probably lead to the best results for us.  Peanut should be able to handle Lafell or Amendola, whichever is in at any given time.

So, TLDR, the teams we likely have left on our schedule don't have the single beast WRs that some of our recent opponents have had so they won't be able to play the "hide our good WR from Norman in the slot" game as much.  Baldwin in Seattle is the closest thing to that we might have to see.

1 minute ago, PhillyB said:

i heard 98, but i could be remembering wrong. still that's trending in the wrong direction and coincides with a marked shift in field application that multiple players themselves have actually reflected in interviews.

default inside leverage in that game is partially to blame, but it's also that zone. i hate to just rip on the zone, because it's used effectively by plenty of teams, including us (remember those awesome keuchly picks against the cowboys? both were the result of phenomenal zone coverage) but it seems like every time we get torched it's because we're running zone and teams are figuring out how to punch holes in it. the deep touchdown against keuchly/coleman was one such example.

yea, no doubt.  I'm hoping we can get another stud CB soon, whether by draft or by an uncharacteristic FA splash so we can play more man.  the past few games we've seen what you're talking about, and teams nullifying Norman by simply moving their good WRs into the slot and putting JAG decoys out for Norman to cover. 

not to nitpick or anything, great post as always, but

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Those numbers speak for themselves. Not all of Julio Jones's yards came against Norman, but a huge chunk of them did.

if I remember correctly, it was like 75ish of Julio's yards that came against Norman.  Less than half.  A terrible game by Norman's standards, but not as appalling as the damage he did against the rest of the defense.

should be reversed but should also be intentional grounding

if the pussy ass refs won't eject him from this game, the league better suspend his ass for that spearing helmet to helmet on Josh

how they havent ejected beckham yet is beyond me

lol what a little bitch beckham

great catch and run by CAP

CAP's trying, but he's getting smacked at or behind the LOS every carry almost.

oh my goodness that boy Norman is amazing.

Just now, SamMills4Life said:

Never saw a replay, did the ball move when it hit the ground? I know the TD stands, but I just want to know.

I was watching it, tough to tell.  it may have shifted slightly, but it didn't look like an incompletion to me...

that double move by Brown was vicious

omg those ravens uniforms are terrible

1 minute ago, KillerKat said:

I just saw the Giants LT false start and no flag

i saw that too.  it's like the refs aren't even watching the Giants for transgressions

1 minute ago, CPF4LIFE said:

The ball flying of JPPs mit is fuging hilarious.

yup, you'd think in another universe he might have gotten a finger on that pass....

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!! BRILLIANT PLAY CALL AND EXECUTION!!!  Cam sold the HELL out of that play!

Just now, panik said:

And it was pretty clear he was not down, it wasn't even close that's what I meant.

oh I agree.  I was just disagreeing what it seemed to be that you were saying.

1 minute ago, panik said:

There is no evidence whatsoever to say he was down.

doesn't need to have evidence he was down.  need inarguable evidence he wasn't because the got the call wrong on the field.