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Rodrigue analyzes the season

Mr. Scot

By Mr. Scot,
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raleigh-panther Grand Master

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55 minutes ago, CBDellinger said:

Pretty silly analysis.  She’s just using hindsight to fit the narrative she wants to push.  

The diff btwn 6-10 and 10-6 is a half dozen plays over the course of a season.  Always.  

Ball bounces our way in a few of those games she’s writing a completely different story.  

Funny how the ball always bounces for the better team

 

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GoPanthers123 Newbie

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We had a top 5 most difficult schedule going into last season, facing a lot of 2017 playoff teams.  I would say 6-2 needs luck just based on that and we were a pretty good team before Cam injury with legit chance to win NFCS.  You can nitpick wins on any team (see New Orleans first 8 games and how mediocre they looked).

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MHS831 Grand Master

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4 hours ago, CBDellinger said:

Pretty silly analysis.  She’s just using hindsight to fit the narrative she wants to push.  

The diff btwn 6-10 and 10-6 is a half dozen plays over the course of a season.  Always.  

Ball bounces our way in a few of those games she’s writing a completely different story.  

She is reflecting and looking for signs of weaknesses before we saw them.  If the difference is a bouncing ball or gust of wind, how do some teams win year in and year out?  I agree that there are a few plays a game that determine the winner, but in boxing, for example, there are a few punches that determine winners.  Those in good shape, well trained, etc. take advantage when those plays open opportunities.

Take the GIants game--one of those random plays was a 63 yard FG.  Gano stepped up.  The Eagles comeback was nearly for naught--but a fresh Love pressured Wentz and caused him to miss a wide open Jeffries in the endzone.  Prepared, sound players make plays.  The team with the most play makers wins.

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pantherclaw Grand Master

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Good, accurate piece. 

It's amazing the team was 6-2 despite the team not executing fundamental football.  Poor tackling, players trying to do more, compensating for the injection of other players. Turnovers. Injuries. 

Crazy if we could have just executed, our team was still talented enough to beat good teams. 

Unfortunately it was all to much to overcome. 

We are not as far away from being a damn good team again. 

Will definitely be an interesting off season.

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Moo Daeng Experienced

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10 hours ago, mc52beast said:

Panthers could easily have been the worse 6-2 team in NFL history. We were all kidding ourselves thinking this team wasn’t a Cam Newton injury away from falling apart.

Nah. They beat 3 playoff teams in that 6 and had a chance to win all but 2 of the 16. Its not that they were awful they just crumpled at the end of every game 

 

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14 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

And states that there were signs early on that pointed to the coming collapse down the stretch...

 

 

 

These moments defined the Carolina Panthers in 2018. Some might tell the future, too

Rodrigue's slant that there were early predictors of the failure to come also jibes with the feeling many of us had early on, that this success was a house of cards, an illusion that was bound to break down, and ultimately did.

Her closing paragraph echos Igo's statement that some current Panthers assistants might not be on staff come next season.

With Rivera now having returned from meeting with Tepper, I guess we'll see.

Whoa! Wait a minute! Is she implying that maybe, just maybe, there can be warning signs of a bad team even during a win?

That’s so odd. 10 years of browsing the Carolina Huddle taught me that after a win, we can do nothing but worship the ground these players walk on, anoint every starter as a 1st ballot hall of famer, and be forced to stomach Saca’s 53 page dissertations on how Daryl Worley is “elite” and how Russell Shepard is an amazing player that us standard fans just don’t understand because we “don’t watch the film” like he does.

Someone really needs to tweet at Jourdan and give her the official Huddle treatment of “LOL! WE’RE 6-2!! STOP COMPLAINING!” (As if a “win” means anything in the evaluation process). What happened guys? When Ron Rivera showed some of the worst clock management in modern NFL history, then relied on a [nearly] world record FG attempt to beat the Giants, 95% of the Huddle homers jumped down our throats for having the audacity to complain about it and share concerns. I believe “Shut up and go root for the Saints then!” was a comment that got thrown at us semi-regularly.

But wow. I, for one, am absolutely shocked that a team that barely scrapped by for 4 weeks, by the skin of their teeth and lucked out of multiple negative situations, ending up being a poor football team. Who could have ever seen that coming?

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