4th quarter collapses

[Udogg]

If not for those James Stark screen passes.. it would have been a different story.  GB found a hole in the way we played defense and exploited it.  Last week the line just ran out of steam.  This week just good play calling by GB.  Pressure was fairly consistent all day.

 

[gtanaka]

Cant even blame the defense, they lights out through 3 quarters, but when the refs started calling bs calls leaving our D on the field it got them tired. Funchess PI would've kept the drive alive and d off the field, then the bs interception "catch"... our defense was on the field almost ALL of the 4th quarter and still came up with a big play to end the game.

[Chaos]

ARod gonna ARod.  We won't let Mariotta and Cousins and whoever else do this poo.  We got through the gauntlet unscathed fellas, it's all good. 

[xav8tor]

One way or another, the OP brings up a valid issue (this time anyway).  Cam himself in the on field post game interview said essentially the same thing, i.e., they need to finish out better and make big plays in the 4th quarter [not allow them]. Update edit:  RR also clearly said it, and that he planned on letting his coaches and the players know.  Regardless of what the rose colored glasses wearing fanboys may say, the guys who make the decisions, and those who must execute them, are aware that they must learn from their mistakes, not repeat them.  Nevertheless, 8-0, 12 reg. season straight, tops in the NFC, feels pretty damn good!

 

PS - Anyone think the pass ruled a GB completion (Adams?) in the first quarter that kept a drive going was incomplete?  From that point on, I thought the refs again were going to either screw up, or try to screw us.

[PhillyB]

refs, thin DL, great offenses

[beastson]

I blame the refs

After last game I went in on the defense and sean and the D did fug up on those screen calls at the end there

But refs, fug you once again

[emhoward]

As frustrated as I was, at least we didn't start playing prevent D. If fact we may have been too aggressive, which is why the Packers took advantage of us on those screen passes over and over.

[restNChrist]

3 hours ago, Sean Payton's Vicodin said:

Lack of d-linemen (get well CJ and Dwan), or shitty coaching?

easy..

REFS

[restNChrist]

3 hours ago, xav8tor said:

One way or another, the OP brings up a valid issue (this time anyway).  Cam himself in the on field post game interview said essentially the same thing, i.e., they need to finish out better and make big plays in the 4th quarter [not allow them]. Update edit:  RR also clearly said it, and that he planned on letting his coaches and the players know.  Regardless of what the rose colored glasses wearing fanboys may say, the guys who make the decisions, and those who must execute them, are aware that they must learn from their mistakes, not repeat them.  Nevertheless, 8-0, 12 reg. season straight, tops in the NFC, feels pretty damn good!

 

PS - Anyone think the pass ruled a GB completion (Adams?) in the first quarter that kept a drive going was incomplete?  From that point on, I thought the refs again were going to either screw up, or try to screw us.

i said this in the game day thread

[PoundCat]

I hate to say it, but a few inaccurate passes the 4th quarter last week helped kill drives that would have killed the clock if they could have been sustained. And that untimely interception didn't help this week either.

I think maybe we our foot off the gas too soon. But at least our defense has been able to come through for us in the clutch!

[panthers55]

Let's be real here, we managed him for 3 quarters and he did some magic to get them back in the game. A first vote future HOF quarterback making plays to engineer a comeback. Why does anyone want to complain about only winning by 8. I am ecstatic right now. Any Panther fan should be too. Particularly if you were at the game and spent all day supporting the team. Uncharted territory for us. What a great ride so far.

[lightsout]

It's just inexperience at being in this spot. Think about it, most of this team hasn't had to defend large leads on a consistent basis. Teams like GB and NE who do it and make it look effortless much of the time have players who have become accustomed to it. We haven't dominated teams like we have here lately, so we get up and think the game is over, and the other team goes into desperation mode while we're coasting a bit. I could be off-base, but it is an explanation.

I think this game, we changed and softened up defensively after the last TD. Lead looked insurmountable and we didn't want to take too many risks in coverage, so we sat back in zone hoping the pressure we were getting in the first half would continue. It didn't. Rodgers eats zones up. Rodgers also go crazy lucky a couple of times, particularly the play on 4th where J-No was 2 inches from a pick (had he just timed the jump correctly, that play would've at least been broken up, killing any come-back momentum that GB built up). Once we went back to more zone, we looked a bit better and the pressure got home.

Offensively, we left plays on the field, but you really can't pin it on them. Good TOP and put up 37 points. As a team, we won the turnover battle, so really, the offense did it's job. It's defense. I don't know if they get tired, if the defensive gameplan changes with the lead, or a combination of those. Not to take away from GB, Rodgers is amazing and is capable of killing you like he killed us. Would have liked to have kept our large lead and REALLY make a boom in the media with it, but it's fine.

Next week, we have a Titans team that we should throttle. Can't afford to let that team hang around. One of these times, we're going to let a team hang around and it's going to bite us. Finish strong through the 4th and we're golden.

[steveSmokin_D]

Its called keep pounding not start tapping and tickling we got to get that killer instinct to finish teams off or i fear our sb run will be a short one.

[ed bell]

Hate to nitpick, but a collapse indicates failure resulting in a loss. That hasn't happened