Has Worley Regressed?

[Achilles]

Worley has not regressed.  From this time last year, he has improved.  He is getting picked on because a) teams don't want or need to throw to Bradberry's side, and b) Worley isn't that great to begin with, so he's not going to make a play every time.  His receiver is going to catch the ball.  His tackling hasn't been that bad.

All in all, teams aren't getting a lot of deep passes against us (although we have been giving up long drives late in games) and that tells me the all the DBs are doing okay.

Seymour might be better short term, but the franchise has invested in Worley and they are not ready to give up on him.  He is a good CB, it's just that he's the weak link on an amazing defense. 

A truly great D, with an average starting CB.  Who would you pick on as the opposing offense? 

[NavyPF4L]

3 hours ago, Khyber53 said:

Worley played a pretty good game yesterday. He was up against a first class passer and a respected receiving corps. They were also playing on a fast indoor field which favors the offense/home team. 

On the endzone PI call, he made the best play possible. Without the PI, the catch is made for the touchdown. Interfere and break up the pass and yes, the other team gets the ball inside the 5 and four shots at the endzone, but they don't get the immediate 6 points. In that situation, he made the right decision.

Worley gets the majority of the targets because Bradberry is perceived as a top quality DB (and he is certainly developing into one). But he's in there and fighting for it. That's how your day goes if you are a team's CB2.

 

Finally. A little football sense dashed with a bit of common. 

 

From what I saw yes Worley was being targeted but at the same time he was being scrappy with their best receivers and getting a lot of bogus calls against him early on. Some people will point out his cushion but that's not on him that is directly contributed to the play call that's put in. It really put him in a cap spot but at the same time I'm fairly certain the entire reason those calls were made is because of our safety situation right now. Considering all of this and teams not wanting to go at Bradbury and our best safety right now then yeah you're going to go towards Worley and the fill in the gap safety until Byrd gets better with our playbook and defensive responsibilities. 

 

I don't get why we always have to have a scapegoat around here.

[AceBoogie]

The Huddle overrates players in the offseason and then ask if they’ve regressed during the season 

[General_Purr]

He's better number 2 than anyone else we have.

 

Worley will have that stigma forever from fans.. being a number 2 guy with fans blurting out he's bad.. the wave will continue to ride. 

I like the way he plays and I think he has flaws no doubt.. like not turning around on the ball, getting beat by speed but our defense can adjust to our weaknesses as winning teams do. Our two young cbs have a lot on their plate.. we do not have a all star saftey cast to back their mistakes up.

[OGPanther1993]

He's only 22 guys. I believe he will get better. To put things in perspective, what was Josh Norman doing at 22? Give him some time to develop

[Fox007]

2 hours ago, AceBoogie said:

The Huddle overrates players in the offseason and then ask if they’ve regressed during the season 

lol

Dunno why this made me laugh so hard but it did. You do see it on here so much...I'm trying to figure out when Worley progressed to the point where you could measure any drop at all much less a regression.

[Fox007]

3 hours ago, bobsfoodbasics said:

Imagine keeping Norman and not having the money to sign KK 

We had a poo ton of cap space wtf you talking about. Even that year we played out with room enough to sign Norman all through. Then you look at the obvious like the Matt Kalil contract and your post is even dumber.

Do you even Panthers?

[Snake]

Those PI calls were bull. Refs were terrible for the game. I've seen much worse never called. My guess was the NFL wanted the lions to beat us. Not today. 

[Snake]

2 minutes ago, stbugs said:

There was a much worse one on Detroit when either KB or Funchess got mugged and you could see a ref in the camera shot. Not just one grab, multiple grabs and holds, no call. It was honestly, ridiculous.

That said, if Worley has regressed and we are the #5 pass defense, I'll take it.

What really sticks out is officiating had been really good till that game. I think we came in with like 3 penaltys and left with like 12 or 13. 

[Snake]

2 minutes ago, stbugs said:

I know as homers you always see with a little bias, but holding calls on their OL were completely ignored. Like the one where Addison got grabbed and it was literally right in front of the ref behind the QB. They weren't in the trenches calls that we didn't get, they were right out in the obvious.

Oh well, we won, but damn that was a horribly officiated game and it was blatant, especially early in the game.

It was just really apparent because all the other games were done so well. I think the NFL had there agenda.