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Greg Olsen Says We Need To Be More Efficient Passing Team


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Apparently we have thrown for a league low 1033 passing yards in the last 6 games. Cam has completed only 54.1% of his passes over the last 6 games compared to completing 64.8% of his passes over his first 7 games of the season.

Theres alot of other stats in the article but I thought these were the most striking. I dont think its a coincidence that these poor passing stats seem to coincide with the timing when our running game starting coming alive in the 2nd half of the season . I cant help but think tho, what happens if we have a bad day rushing and Funchess isn't open? 

I'd say whats frustrated me the most this season in terms of a passing game, is that we have had absolutely 0 success throwing and completing passing 20+ yards down the field. We have no deep threat, every time Cam throws a deep bomb there's no Panther anywhere near the ball and usually a group of defenders are just waiting on it. We're clearly lacking explosive pass plays down the field that we had the last 2 years with Ginn and I think thats going to eventually be our downfall in the playoffs. Some team is going to just axe our run game and force us to make plays way down the field which we cant.

 

http://www.espn.com/blog/carolina-panthers/post/_/id/28516/greg-olsen-panthers-have-to-be-more-efficient-passing

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We've had more team rushing yards than team passing yards in three of our last six games.

Granted, those were all 200-yard games but there was one game (New York) where we had 154 passing and 145 rushing.

Also a lot of this rushing is coming from Cam. He's averaging around 60 yards a game the last five or six games.

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7 minutes ago, TN05 said:


Also a lot of this rushing is coming from Cam. He's averaging around 60 yards a game the last five or six games.

And I dont think that's sustainable all the way through the playoffs and SB if we're lucky. Were going to eventually run into a team the stops all the runs and we'll just have to throw well down the field to open up the running lanes again.

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7 minutes ago, Pantha-kun said:

And I dont think that's sustainable all the way through the playoffs and SB if we're lucky. Were going to eventually run into a team the stops all the runs and we'll just have to throw well down the field to open up the running lanes again.

Even against a Philly team that completely shut down the run, the Eagles still needed two turnovers in the Panthers end, plus CMC being a half yard short on 4th down to win. 

To elaborate, the final 4th down pass was caught by CMC a half yard short of the line to gain. If he makes it, the drive continues and anything could happen at that point.

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7 minutes ago, The Huddler said:

Wed throw for more yards if we were losing

Always act like you're playing from behind and there's less than 2 minutes on the clock.

I think if we did that, we wouldn't have to worry about losing leads we were trying to protect.

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