Tuesday Notes/interviews including Eric Washington

[ncfan]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Captain Obvious]

He trotted out that excuse sometime last year about wanting to see CAP. Either you know what you have or not by now. Poor Excuse.

[TheRed]

If Artis-Payne is truly just now getting an "honest look" after our QB led the team in rushing last year, Ron needs to be fired today.

[ncfan]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[hepcat]

 

No poo CJ Anderson was frustrated. He barely got on the field! Secondly, who gives a poo if CJ Anderson was frustrated? He signed with the team for 1 year. He's a professional athlete. He is literally, figuratively, and however you want to put it, contractually obligated to deal with it. 

Thirdly, why the hell did you even sign him in the first place? It's not like McCaffrey exceeded expectations in 2017. Everyone knew he was a rising star and explosive player. It's like they signed Anderson to fill the Stewart role in last year's offense AFTER replacing the freaking offensive coordinator and knowing that system wouldn't be there in 2018. The lack of foresight is mind numbing.

 

Um, you haven't gotten an "honest look" and Cameron-Artis Payne in the 3.5 seasons he's been a Panther? This is horseshit. 

 

[ncfan]

 

 

So we bring him in just to get info on the saints?

[Mr. Scot]

Somebody wanna let Ron know that you're allowed to "take a look" at another player on the depth chart without releasing the guy in front of him?

[rhyslloyd]

Deflection and "execution" issues.  You can definitely tell Washington has been around Rivera too long.  

[panthers55]

18 minutes ago, TheRed said:

It's always the fault of the players.

No accountability from this staff.

Truth is that in most cases it is player execution for or against you. I promise when it is drawn up on the board it always works well. Not so much when you move to the field. Identifying players issues and errors and fixing them is the accountability that coaches have to the players. Sharing blame or falling on the sword is all fine and good but isn't true accountability and doesn't change anything. If the plan was faulty it doesn't matter unless you play them again since each week is different as are each of the game plans.

[TheRed]

Just now, panthers55 said:

Truth is that in most cases it is player execution for or against you. I promise when it is drawn up on the board it always works well. Not so much when you move to the field. Identifying players issues and errors and fixing them is the accountability that coaches have to the players. Sharing blame or falling on the sword is all fine and good but isn't true accountability and doesn't change anything. If the plan was faulty it doesn't matter unless you play them again since each week is different as are each of the game plans.

I'm not absolving the players of blame. Please let me be clear.

But lack of adjustments to what the Steelers were doing and an overall poor gameplan is not on the players.

[panthers55]

CJ was brought in to fill a need that has been filled by other options. Of course they couldn't read the future so Hurney brought in who they thought they needed. Based on the first 9 games they decided that CJ doesn't fit what Norv wants to do so he was waived. It isn't a big deal or anyone's fault.

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[Mr. Scot]

So in one answer, we need to "take an honest look" at him, while in another we're confident that he can fill in for Anderson and maybe even McCaffrey? 

If we actually believed he was that good, why hasn't he been playing? And why did we need to sign a free agent back?

And how exactly do we know all this if we're just now "taking an honest look" at him?

This team makes my head hurt sometimes.

[panthers55]

2 minutes ago, TheRed said:

I'm not absolving the players of blame. Please let me be clear.

But lack of adjustments to what the Steelers were doing and an overall poor gameplan is not on the players.

You don't know if adjustments were attempted or not and we have no clue who executed what. Obviously the game plan didn't work. And absolutely the players are responsible for implementing the game plan since the coaches aren't on the field. So yeah the players deserve most of the blame because they actually played the game.