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Best article ever Ed Hardin on Panthers offense


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I agree with every word in this article.

 

On the last play, with everything on the line. Our 5 offensive lineman could not block their 3 pass rushers. We started game burning a time out because " oh sh!t, we need to call a play?" And we end it by laying down and letting Cam Newton get trucked one last time. 

Mike Shula, don't let the door knob hit ya where the good lord split ya! BITCH

 

 

 

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On 1/9/2018 at 1:17 PM, hepcat said:

That is brutal

but not untrue.

"In the end, only Newton had the skill and the passion to win a game against all odds. And then it all came crashing down, as we knew it would, because once again the franchise had let down its quarterback. Once again, the franchise left its own mistakes on Newton’s sore shoulder."

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Newton needed a running game, but that evaporated after Week 10, which was when Jonathan Stewart’s annual expiration date arrived and reality finally settled in to the brain trust that rookie sensation Christian McCaffrey is not a running back as much as he’s a flanker.

And yet, there they were on Sunday, still sending No. 22 into the line between the tackles in a series of wasted and meaningless plays that only took time off the clock and took the ball out of the hands of the only player on the team capable of moving the offense.

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He needed protection. Instead, he had five traffic cones, two of them named Kalil, one of whom an opposing New Orleans player referred to as “Speedbump McGee” after the game.

You should retire if you're an offensive lineman and the defense calls you a speed bump. 

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