Prevent Mode: Dear Ron Rivera...

[ThinkAboutIt]

Prevent mode is the opposite of "Keep Pounding." You literally stop pounding. The only purpose "prevent mode" serves is to give Panthers fans a heart attack as you try your best to hold on for dear life. 

-ThinkAboutIt

[Diehardpanther02]

Once again we didn't run prevent. Matter of fact the only time we ran it was at the last play of the game.  Ran man majority of the game.

[Fox007]

Honestly they have been blitzing the poo out of teams the last two weeks....we aren't all that great at it but it has worked pretty well on occasion.

It honestly does look like they are getting tired even when we win the ToP battle...doods need to run more.

 

[ThinkAboutIt]

When I say "Prevent Mode" I'm not talking about the defensive side of the ball. When your whole approach to offense changes from what's working just because you're ahead, you stop pounding. 

[CarolinaSock]

They attacked our overzealous pass rush with screens and went after Benwikere and Tillman over and over again. We actually threw the ball a good bit in the 4th but Cam was off frequently and we couldn't run block.

[Kuhndog94]

We threw the ball on first down with 3 minutes left. We were being aggressive.

[2jakefansinva]

1 minute ago, ThinkAboutIt said:

When I say "Prevent Mode" I'm not talking about the defensive side of the ball. When your whole approach to offense changes from what's working just because you're ahead, you stop pounding. 

Dude.....we didn't play any semblance of "prevent" today.

none what so ever.

[Hogmolliesmaht]

Damn, how much more aggressive do you want the offense or the defense to be? They went for it all day long on both sides of the ball, dude. It was missed throws by Cam and missed calls by the refs that made this game as close as it was.

[Davidson Deac II]

We changed our approach because they changed their approach.  It would have been dumb to not do so.  We started blitzing more because our defensive line started having trouble getting to Rogers.  We were being extremely aggressive, perhaps to much so.   We were playing with more db's, but you  have to do that when the offense is throwing on virtually every down. 

[csx]

It's become a given that prevent mode is the generic blame bucket for any type of close game. 

[Navy_football]

Yes, very aggressive play calling today. I love it!

Not sure if it was fatigue or complacency, but players lost fire at the end. Have to finish - only takes one guy.

[motocross_cat]

Looked to me more like the defence being tired again

And cobb gave bene a good reason to get back to work!

[mcdougal]

Yea, I wouldn't say we went into prevent mode. In fact, I don't think we did really.

What happened, was because of our defense's inability to stop the Packers...not even making the Packers have long drives and burn clock/TOs, or offense was suddenly put in a position that if felt it NEEDED to score or at least move the ball.

That is not our team. We were BUILT on defense. It is up to that UNIT to not put our offense in bad spots where they feel as though they HAVE to score because you can't get off the field.

Given our lack of talent on offense...that is asking way too much of them. Our "elite" defense should be able to hold 23 point 4th quarter leads without the offense feeling threatened.

[Pimpdaddy]

...Just seems when we have to put our foot on someones neck we let up at the most inopportune time..A missed first down here and there at the wrong time swings sht to the wrong side of town..we thumped their azz and it was a nail biter..drives me crazy. hell of a win on a short week..