As Good As Our Defense Has Been, We Let Julio Beat Us Twice

[CPF4LIFE]

So we were supposed to limit arguably the best receiver in the league to no catches with a below average secondary?

[Carolina Cajun]

1 hour ago, Panthers Fanatic said:

We used to have a gameplan for Julio: it was called Josh Norman. We definitely can't count on the lucky breaks if he gets behind our secondary in ATL. Seriously though, I miss JNo. 

Not entirely true, the 2 games against him in 2015 when he was a full time starter, Julio went for 88 and 178 yards.  Julio always tears our soft zone coverage apart regardless who is on him.

[pantherclaw]

One of the best, receivers in the NFL. CERTAINLY the BEST in the NFC South. 

 

[BIGH2001]

John Fox "the other team practices, too." 

This is professional football.  Sometimes we aren't going to dominate every play of every game.  

[ecu88]

15 minutes ago, BIGH2001 said:

John Fox "the other team practices, too." 

This is professional football.  Sometimes we aren't going to dominate every play of every game.  

Just we need to make more plays and we did.

[Davidson Deac II]

Julio is a great player, he is going to get his yards.  We played well on defense for the most part, but occasionally a guy like him is going to burn us, no matter how well our secondary plays.  Our offense needs to play be play better to consistently beat teams with those kind of players.

 

 

 

[KillerKat]

7 hours ago, GoobyPls said:

Bradberry played horrible 

Yeah he looked like ass. He's not as elite as some here think.

[UpstatePanther]

6 hours ago, KillerKat said:

Yeah he looked like ass. He's not as elite as some here think.

hes also not normally ass. i dont think anyone here is calling him elite, but he is a good corner. and even good corners have bad games once in a while. 

plus playing Julio Jones can make a good corner look bad. only reason Josh never looked bad playing Julio was because Josh is the Julio of cornerbacks.

[Davidson Deac II]

 

27 minutes ago, UpstatePanther said:

hes also not normally ass. i dont think anyone here is calling him elite, but he is a good corner. and even good corners have bad games once in a while. 

plus playing Julio Jones can make a good corner look bad. only reason Josh never looked bad playing Julio was because Josh is the Julio of cornerbacks.

Regarding the Jones drop, I don't think Bradberry was in the game when the drop occurred.  Seymour and Worley were the corners, and it appears to me that the safeties got beat.  

[PhillyB]

some guys you just try to limit.

[Daddy_Uncle]

we held him in check most games. He is a very good player and him getting past our defense twice isn't a huge shock. 

[dpanther69]

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. It happens and we won. Corrections will be made. This defense is good enough to take us to the promise land we just need the offense to step up. I have a good feeling about this team I feel we will peak at the right time.

[UpstatePanther]

21 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

Seymour and Worley were the corners, and it appears to me that the safeties got beat.  

as tends to happen when Julio Jones is playing in the game. thats why im not mad about his stat line. the only way Julio would have had a worse game is if John Norman himself was covering him.

[Cary Kollins]

Yeah Julio is the best WR in the league so you can expect him to get his.

What's funny is Matt Ryan has had first ballot hall of famers in Tony Gonzalez and Julio to throw to almost his entire career, and still only has that one playoff run under his (braided) belt.