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panthers55

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  1. Who is saying we will beat down anyone. But you act as if they have a better defense than us and they don't. Total yards or even yards per play or yards per pass are really not important stats. The only things they shows is that their offense sucks so badly that the defense is on the field all the time and in poor positions so they give up points The only statistic that counts is points scored for and against. They are giving up almost 22 points a game while we are giving 12. So regardless of the total yards we are giving up10 points less than they are. That is the point, our offense will score more on their defense than their offense will score on us. Who gets more yards is never reflected in the score which is how the game is decided.
  2. I will take 3 yards a run and 6.1 yards a pass play which is what they are giving up. We should win handily.
  3. The whole we can't run because they have the third best rushing defense is often overblown. The second best run defense , Arizona, gives up 75 yards a game and the 19th best run defense, San Francisco, gives up 109 or 34 more yards. Even using the yards per attempt metric, Arizona gives up 3.0 yards per attempt and San Francisco gives up 3.5. Not a big deal. One of the reasons the defenses we played ranked so low was because of us. After Sunday Arizona will fall out of the top 5 because of us. They haven't faced a top 15 rushing attack. Instead they have faced St Louis (32), NO (25), Detroit (21) and Tampa (20)
  4. They average giving up 22 points on defense we are averaging 12. I would take that as a final score.
  5. The whole recent notion that this is a passing league and therefore good running attacks aren't important is negated by the fact that 6 of the top 10 rushing teams made the playoffs in 2012. And 3 of the four teams that played in the Championship games last year were on this list. The other Baltimore was 11th on the list.
  6. I don't know about the last team to go 1-2 and make the playoffs but in 2005 that is how we started and we reached the NFC championship game.
  7. Godfrey was a big blow but most of the backups got starting experience last year. I have not been impressed with Thomas at all and Norman seems to have reverted to playing 10 yards behind receivers. I am not sure if the backups are worse then the starters.Problem is that the more I just posted the more you might be right.
  8. I think Cam needs to combine his last 2 games. A great short passim g game with shots downfield. It makes safeties play deeper and opens up the ground game which makes play action work which opens up the seams and longer routes. Agree on the 30 points. Eli has also thrown 7 picks in the first 2 games. I would love to get 3-4 more.
  9. If anything you posted above was even a point of discussion then you might have something but it isn't. Why not stick to what people are saying rather than making things up so you can right about something and posting juvenile pictures about what you either do or hope to do. And if that is your level of conversation, then you are still right, you know nothing.
  10. If the avatarand picture are indicative of your skills sets stick to food. Food you know. Football not so much.
  11. So much fail in this post. shula did a good job calling plays. If anything Cam was conservative not Shula. Second Rivera is under contract through 2014 so he cant be a lame duck coach. He picked Shula for continuity and he got that. Newton played well albeit conservatively. We didn't want interceptions thinking it would be low scoring. Problem was no one exspected turnovers in the run game. Williams who rarely fumbles did so twice. Special teams also killed us. Mistakes cost us this game not Shula or Rivera. Anyone could plainly see that.
  12. The reality is Cam wasn't the Cam of old who threw the ball often to the wrong team. He was the one that was conservative not Shula. He said so himself. Secondly on third and short most any football guy will tell you that you don't go around the end where lots of problems occur if the ends are crashing in. You keep it simple and go off tackle. As for speeding up the game it cuts both ways. If your defense is gassed and you go into hurry up you better get several frst downs otherwise you put the defense back out there with no rest . Or you do what we did which was slow down the callplaying to give your defense time to recover. I don't think we were confident we were playing well enough to use the hurry up and not cause problems for the defense.
  13. Yeah you have to figure we game planned for Seattle like we will for Buffalo. I just hope it results in better coverage or Buffalo isn't as good. Either one is fine with me.
  14. That was last year, I don't know how good Seattle will be this year. What I do know is that we did not attack the receiver when they entered each zone in our zone coverage and we surely didn't play enough man coverage which was likely caused by our emphasis on stopping the run. Hopefully this won't be a consistent issue because guys like Brady and Brees will eat us up, which surely isn't the small stuff.
  15. I thought the secondary was not good at all. They allowed too many people uncovered. I think it might be scheme. They would put one guy out wide and 2 guys in the slot and we tried to cover the 2 inside guys with one corner five yards back and Godfrey 15 yards back. The linebacker wasn't covering them past 6 to 8 yards given the focus on stopping the run. We just weren't fundamentally sound. That needs to get fixed. Can't give them more than a C-. How many passed did we break up or intercept?
  16. It isn't obvious or even causal. Preseason is not the same as the regular season and the goals are very different. Furthermore each year is totally different in terms of what has happened the past 2 years. In 2011 we had no offseason, a shortened training camp and we were installing everything new including a rookie quarterback with little college experience. Everyone in the know were clear that the hardest transition would be for teams like the Panthers who were having a complete fruit basket turnover. So really last year is the only year where your theory would even apply. In order to have a body of evidence in order to support your thoughts, it would take at least 2 years which hasn't happened. So at this point your premise is clearly not obvious or even germaine. If they start off slow this year you might have a point. Until then though, it sounds more like chicken littling and whining after 2 preseason games.
  17. Tons of them. Can I help that both times the pittsburgh fans were from SC and they did live in trailer parks? I guess that is what happens when your seats are in the upper deck.
  18. Who said that South Carolina fans aren't loyal? And yes I have been to plenty of bobcat games including the playoff games. Lighten up Francis!!!
  19. I liked both those players. Just goes to show you why I am not a scout..............
  20. I still like to win the home ones. It still pisses me off when Pittsburgh fans who migrate from the trailer parks in South Carolina come to the game because it the only time they will see their team live and yell and make an ass of themselves if they win because their 4th string is better than ours at the end of the game. I don't like their fans anyway, butt this puts them over the top.
  21. The average salary in the CFL is 100,000. Their total team cap is like 4 million. So the NFL minimum is higher than the salaries for all but a few star players in the CFL.
  22. Schein was on the Panthers wagon in 2008 and since then has disliked us. he picked us to go 4th in the division last year but said we tied three other teams instead of finished second. He was factually correct but wrong in his prediction then and will be wrong in his prediction now. We will finish second based on a strong defense and good offense.
  23. Happy birthday to you as well. THe only thing that sucks with a birthday so close to christmas is you get less gifts. LOL.

  24. I hear you on Yates. As a later rounder I think you would give him consideration but unless he is better than Clausen at this point, you are looking at replacing Pike. If we don't carry 3 on the active roster that puts him on the practice squad. I figure someone would ****** him up at that point making the draft pick somewhat of a waste. And if he were on the active roster you want a guy who could come in and play if needed. I just don't have faith that he would be not struggle mightily. If I were picking a guy to replace Pike I might also look at Tyrod as an option. I think Dalton may even go in the first..

  25. Thanks for the rep. Yeah I have been a scoutmaster for the past 15 years, I have a 10 year old moving up so I am likely a "lifer". The good news about scouting is that we are celebrating our 100 year anniversary. I hope we will be around for another 100 years.

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