I think we missed Stew out there more than we thought

[Castavar]

No excuses. If the Pats can create a successful gameplan for their 3rd string QB, we damn well should be able to gameplan without Stew. CAP ran just fine, the playcalling was another story.

[ooglechi]

Not week 1, he was fine. The other 3, yes.

Oops, my bad. Either way, week 1 was easily our best game of the 4


Sent from my iPhone using CarolinaHuddle

[ooglechi]

LOL no he doesn't. Teams stack the box cause of Cam not Stewart who can't outrun a DE at this point.

Mike Zimmer even talked about it after the game that Stew being out made a big difference


Sent from my iPhone using CarolinaHuddle

[The Question]

Stew stacks the box


Sent from my iPhone using CarolinaHuddle

This is partially relevant.


Sent from my iPhone using CarolinaHuddle

[d-dave]

Y'all are really discounting Stewart.  He's not an all pro player, but he's a good RB.  We miss him being able to get those three yards at a time and set up shorter down and distance.

I'm just really baffled by a couple of things: no short passing game at all and not throwing the ball the KB.  

Let's hope this is an aberration and not the new norm.

[GoobyPls]

5 hours ago, ooglechi said:

Mike Zimmer even talked about it after the game that Stew being out made a big difference


Sent from my iPhone using CarolinaHuddle

That's a coach complimenting a veteran. Fozzy is clearly our best back.

[JARROD]

Yeh every time I see people bashing Stewart I just laugh.  Most don't get just how much having him changes our offense. The other team commits so much to the run with him that the passing game opens up even in our feeble offensive scheme. 

CAP is not Stewart and he never will be. 

[Khyber53]

10 hours ago, ooglechi said:

 

Especially in pass pro. Although CAP ran alright today, neither him nor Fozzy held up well against Zimmer's exotic blitz packages. I remember one play in particular where Fozzy stepped up to take on an interior rusher (which was already blocked) and let Harrison Smith to have a free rush off the edge to drill Cam in the back. Let's hope Stew is back sooner rather than later.

Sent from my iPhone using CarolinaHuddle

 

Dude, at this point, we're really missing DeAngelo out there. 

[The_Rainmaker]

11 minutes ago, GoobyPls said:

That's a coach complimenting a veteran. Fozzy is clearly our best back.

Dumbest post 

[GoobyPls]

10 minutes ago, The_Rainmaker said:

Dumbest post 

Dumb poster

[ThPantherFan]

Oh, please.

[Montsta]

Adjustments are this team's biggest problem and that falls on the shoulders of the coaching staff. Rivera, McDermott, and Shula are the ones who never adjust. The first quarter when Cam was 9/9 passing and looked great, CAP also looked really good.

Why?

Because the offensive line was maintaining their blocks and opening up running lanes all day. Then the Vikings adjusted and started fake-blitzing linebackers and dropping them into coverage and our O-line didn't know who to block and Cam ended up getting sacked like 9 times. Shula didn't adjust. 

When our defense had them held to like 50 total yards for a good chunk of the first half everybody was playing great. Then the Vikings offense adjusted and Bradford starts dinking and dunking to the tight end and our defense went into a shell and couldn't get a stop or get off the field. McDermott didn't adjust. 

And special teams always has been and always will be our Achilles heel, they are just atrocious and I've come to expect that they poo the bed every single game in some way. 

We don't lose to good or bad teams, we seem to lose to good or bad coaches that either adjust or do not. I love Rivera, but he better start learning to be a little bit more flexible with his game plans or he'll find himself fired before he finds himself coaching in the Super Bowl. 

[The_Rainmaker]

1 hour ago, GoobyPls said:

Dumb poster

Even dumber post , BTW  "NFL Players" voted J-Stew #86 in the league. You should get your posting privilege revoked saying dumb stuff like that

[tiger7_88]

12 hours ago, ooglechi said:

 

Especially in pass pro. Although CAP ran alright today, neither him nor Fozzy held up well against Zimmer's exotic blitz packages. I remember one play in particular where Fozzy stepped up to take on an interior rusher (which was already blocked) and let Harrison Smith to have a free rush off the edge to drill Cam in the back. Let's hope Stew is back sooner rather than later.

Sent from my iPhone using CarolinaHuddle

 

CAP averaged 4 yards per carry.

I also clearly remember him stepping up and picking up two blitzes.  Might I have missed him missing some blocks?  Maybe.  But CAP being one of my faves, I kept a close eye on him for the entire game.

What I think is happening here is a lot of you assuming that CAP somehow was bad in pass pro when he actually wasn't.  Nearly all (if not all) of the sacks came from an excellent Minnesota DL beating their opposite number on the OL, not from RB pass pro faults.