Carolina Panthers, NFL Offensive Line of the Week

[Pantha-kun]

Check out the NFL.com home page, theres a huge as picture of McCaffrey, R. Kalil, Stewart , and Trai Turner nfl.com

In snapping the Vikings' eight-game win streak with a 31-24 triumph, the Panthers did what no one else has been able to do this season: run the ball down Minnesota's throat. The Vikes entered last week's game with the No. 2 rushing defense in the league, giving up just 77.7 ground yards per game. Carolina nearly tripled that number, posting a whopping 216 yards on 36 carries (6.0 ypc). That's the most rushing yards gained on Mike Zimmer's defense since Week 1 of 2015. Cam Newton and Jonathan Stewart each logged a run of 60-plus yards, which goosed up the total, but this is nothing new for the Panthers, who've eclipsed 200 yards rushing in three of their last five games. Much of the credit goes to Carolina's road-grading guard duo: Pro Bowl RG Trai Turner was his typically dominant self against Minnesota, while LG Andrew Norwell provided one of his best games of the year. And it certainly didn't hurt to have five-time Pro Bowl center Ryan Kalil back from injury.

The Panthers' front also acquitted itself well in pass protection. Newton didn't have his most prolific throwing game (13 of 25 for 137 yards with one touchdown and one pick), but that wasn't due to lackluster play in the trenches. After giving up an early sack, Carolina's offensive line allowed just one additional QB hit on Newton the entire game.

At the end of the day, Carolina's 31 points represented the most Minnesota has allowed this season. The Panthers capitalized on their opportunities: Not counting the game-ending kneeldown possession, Carolina scored a touchdown every time it entered the red zone. And that 3-for-3 mark is nothing to scoff at, considering Minnesota entered Week 14 with the third-best red-zone defense in football.

The Panthers' needed their offensive line to set the tone in a crucial bout between two playoff contenders, and the big boys up front definitely got the job done.

 

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[over the legal limit]

Minnesota knows wassup now

[t96]

Kalil was pretty rusty but still a huge upgrade over Larsen in the run game. Just wait until Kalil is closer to 100% in healthy and conditioning. And Williams has been a stud this year, Matt has been slowly improving and the guards are solid as always. This year, our offensive problems are not on the OL. Our OL is every bit as good as it was in 2015 when it was rock solid for 18 games that year. Our weapons are similar. Only differences are Cam and Shula. Shula's been horsesh*t and Cam hasn't been healthy enough to put the team on his back all year.

[MVPccaffrey]

Gettleman says hi.  

 

Couldn't be reached for further comment though, as he's on the phone with Mara ready to slide into that Giants job

[Chairman Wow]

Without the two long runs by Stewart and Newton we had 94 yards rushing and averaged 2.8 ypc.

We were fortunate.

Incidentally, you can give the credit for Newton's long run directly to Mike Shula. 

It was a beautiful call out of an offensive scheme no one else in the NFL uses. 

[goodoleboy]

17 minutes ago, Chairman Wow said:

Without the two long runs by Stewart and Newton we had 94 yards rushing and averaged 2.8 ypc.

We were fortunate.

Incidentally, you can give the credit for Newton's long run directly to Mike Shula. 

It was a beautiful call out of an offensive scheme no one else in the NFL uses. 

The same could be said about Stewart’s long TD run. Shula put our left tackle next to our right tackle. Minn didn’t match up with such an unconventional front and they cleared it out for Stewart

[Dex]

[The Huddler]

5 hours ago, thomas96 said:

Kalil was pretty rusty but still a huge upgrade over Larsen in the run game. Just wait until Kalil is closer to 100% in healthy and conditioning. And Williams has been a stud this year, Matt has been slowly improving and the guards are solid as always. This year, our offensive problems are not on the OL. Our OL is every bit as good as it was in 2015 when it was rock solid for 18 games that year. Our weapons are similar. Only differences are Cam and Shula. Shula's been horsesh*t and Cam hasn't been healthy enough to put the team on his back all year.

Look for us to get healthy at QB and our rythm offensivly to get hot. We can be a very deadly team, and i think we peak at the right time.  Almost there. 

[Hoenheim]

too bad Turner fuging went down

[JARROD]

5 hours ago, Chairman Wow said:

Without the two long runs by Stewart and Newton we had 94 yards rushing and averaged 2.8 ypc.

We were fortunate.

Incidentally, you can give the credit for Newton's long run directly to Mike Shula. 

It was a beautiful call out of an offensive scheme no one else in the NFL uses. 

That’s usually how running games or even passing games go.

Most any game there are negative, break even, 3-4 yard runs and then longer runs all mixed in.

if we did the opposite and removed a couple of negative runs attributed to busted plays and protections, how much would that HELP the total?

we can not pick stats to suit our own agendas any time.

its been said that numbers don’t lie, but people lie about numbers. That’s the picking and choosing which parts of stats to back up our points of view.

[shaqattaq]

17 hours ago, goodoleboy said:

The same could be said about Stewart’s long TD run. Shula put our left tackle next to our right tackle. Minn didn’t match up with such an unconventional front and they cleared it out for Stewart

Agree.  Shula had every active offensive lineman on the roster except Van Roten out there on that play.