David Newton on McCaffrey’s Use

[dldove77]

I actually think Newton does a good job here of presenting the different looks Shula put McCaffrey in on Sunday. Would have preferred to see gifs instead of pics, though.  

Does it matter if not much comes of it? Is too much made of the amount of time opposing coordinators spend preparing for a specific player?

Going to have to see it pay off in an important game. 

It’s worth a read.

http://www.espn.com/blog/carolina-panthers/post/_/id/27248/a-snapshot-of-all-the-ways-the-panthers-use-rookie-christian-mccaffrey

[Harbingers]

Ugh... ESPN needs a new reporter. I see his name and instantly skip. 

[xav8tor]

3 hours ago, Harbingers said:

Ugh... ESPN needs a new reporter. I see his name and instantly skip. 

I understand the sentiment, but OP is right. While it would have benefited from Gifs, it's a decent read, at best a bit light on analysis, but at worst, it's a feel good piece with a lot of positive things to say about Cam and 22. He even makes it sound like Shula is getting it to some extent. Beats the hell out of the doom and gloom around here this week, especially when I just scored a pair of free clubs for Sunday! Pump me up even more.

[Harbingers]

6 hours ago, Harbingers said:

Ugh... ESPN needs a new reporter. I see his name and instantly skip. 

I think I just found DN's alt. 

[Harbingers]

3 hours ago, xav8tor said:

I understand the sentiment, but OP is right. While it would have benefited from Gifs, it's a decent read, at best a bit light on analysis, but at worst, it's a feel good piece with a lot of positive things to say about Cam and 22. He even makes it sound like Shula is getting it to some extent. Beats the hell out of the doom and gloom around here this week, especially when I just scored a pair of free clubs for Sunday! Pump me up even more.

But he's so bad. So bad. If I'm saying that. It means something. 

[Khyber53]

I thought it was a good read and not a bad analysis. Right now, with CMC, defensive coordinators have two ways of going at it: guard the heck out of him because of his potential, or look at him as a big, noisy distraction that isn't exactly lighting up the scoreboard. If they go with option 1, the rest of the Panthers offense gets major opportunities throughout the game. If they go with option 2, sooner or later they will get burned badly.

Option 3 is probably to just designate a spy for him to follow him on each play, just like they used to do with Cam. Of course, once they do that, we might see that Cam's still got some of the old razzle dazzle left in his running game.

The best teams offer a "pick your poison" opportunity like this. It's nice to be one of those teams.

[pantherj]

I think there might have been over 1,000 posts on the huddle about how we shouldn't draft CMC because we wouldn't be able to use him properly. With the right team and right coaches CMC could blow up the league. On this team it depends on if our O-line can push around the opposing teams D-line as to how well CMC will do from game to game. We can push the Saints around, so expect a good day for CMC. But you're right back to the same problem when we face a tough D-line.