Dave Gettleman: "We need more speed on the field"

[PanthersGOATFan336]

I'd say in the offseason areas we would need to address would be DE, S, CB, OL (In no particular order) but you know "Best player available"

 

[PanthersGOATFan336]

Same thing can be said as far as the D Line with Old man Johnson and Allen slowing down our youngsters

[KB_fan]

What about rotating Teddy Williams in at CB on some plays?  Would that help? 

[General_Purr]

I have no idea why Roman Harper is playing the entire game at free safety. If we saw the tape of all the big plays that happened because he couldnt get there in time its amazing. If we had a Earl Thomas or honey badger our defense would be way different. I don't think Tre got one snap outside special teams today. In atlanta where last year he had a huge game.

[Fox007]

Yea we need more reliable hands at WR with speed.

Harper should not be starting dont' give a poo, period...the speed of his replacement is well worth whatever else may come.

Tillman should have help over the top on all plays but can't now that Bene is hurt so yea they really need to play with the lineup instead of this do or die with whatever the fug Rivera comes up with no matter if it's working or not mentality...seriously Riveras lack of adjustments is a big time hindrance...you cannot tell me Harper is the best SS option for this team ATM.

In other positions we are just sort of screwed like WR(we tried to bring in help and injuries are what they are) and OL we brought in a lot of help there too and drafted it.

 I mean DE we know can work but he keeps the veterans in there simply because they are veterans...so he just refuses to put whatever works since he cannot handle CJs bitching apparently...every coach has his weaknesses but that is a serious fatal flaw Rivera has....you have to play your best 11 on each and he is not doing that.

[CRA]

DE spot is killing us too.  We aren't getting squat from our DEs.

Allen, Peanut and Harper....that age is showing.   I love CJ but seems to bring our pass rush down too

[PhillyB]

harper isn't great in recovery but he's actually not that bad. tre boston would be a huge downgrade.

make no mistake, even with benwikere's loss considered, it's the pass rush that's the biggest problem here. without linebacker blitzes every quarterback we've played since thanksgiving has had all day to make a decision. that's bad bad bad.

[Tarheels23]

I can live with Tillman for the remainder of this season, but Harper serves no purpose at all.

He's not even helping in the run game. I seen him blow up a pulling guard about three weeks ago, that's about it. 

I see Luke out there having to overcompensate for these guys. 

[jasonluckydog]

We need to blow this team up and start over

[CRA]

A lack of pass rush is showing weaknesses....that we could live with.

we seemed to rush better when CJ was on IR....

Ealy and the former Redskin IMO should be playing significantly more.  We are asking too much of our secondary of late

[ickmule]

The defense has been exposed. I've come to terms with a one and done playoff senario and will hope for more, but I feel a huge letdown coming for many that think this team will recover from 3 of the last 4 games of poor defense. 

[CRA]

21 minutes ago, ickmule said:

The defense has been exposed. I've come to terms with a one and done playoff senario and will hope for more, but I feel a huge letdown coming for many that think this team will recover from 3 of the last 4 games of poor defense. 

We still have the talent to correct some of our defensive issues....

doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure figure out that once we went to a CJ/Allen DE tandem as our primary set.......our DE pressure disappeared.  No matter what you got on the backend it will show weakness if your DEs blow.

[ickmule]

22 minutes ago, CRA said:

We still have the talent to correct some of our defensive issues....

doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure figure out that once we went to a CJ/Allen DE tandem as our primary set.......our DE pressure disappeared.  No matter what you got on the backend it will show weakness if your DEs blow.

I agree, but not sure that RR will make the needed changes soon enough. He has a history of waiting too long to make the changes needed. 

[stirs]

Not many secondaries won't get burned when there is absolutely NO pass rush.

Blitzing has been pretty much our only chance of hurrying/sacking a QB this season, which in itself exposed the middle of the field to slants, as we saw today.

DE rush is our main weakness and priority for next season