The Offensive Line

[Sirpurrsom3885]

The O line is a wet napkin at best.....Ron better figure out a way to stiffen that up, or his liquidation should be imminent. It’s coaching. 

[45catfan]

Brain Burns has been solid, but I have to wonder if the team is second guessing not drafting Andre Dillard who was still on the board and the undisputed best LT this draft in pass protection?  Rolling the dice with Daryl Williams coming off season ending knee surgery and moving a career RT to Cam's blind side was either a super-ballsy or completely idiotic move.  It's till early, but indicator arrow is starting to point to the later.  Hopefully Daryl can keep Cam upright.

[tiger7_88]

1 minute ago, 45catfan said:

Brain Burns has been solid, but I have to wonder if the team is second guessing not drafting Andre Dillard who was still on the board and the undisputed best LT this draft in pass protection?

A team head-coached by Ron Rivera and GM’ed by Hurn-Dawg Hurney doesn’t lose a wink of sleep sacrificing protection for Cam Newton on the altar of Rivera’s Holy and Blessed Defense.

[TheRed]

5 minutes ago, TPanther920 said:

Someone else said it, BB and the Patriots gave the rest of the league the game plan to beat the Panthers. Blitz. A lot. The Oline can't handle the pressure, force Cam to run for his life. Bingo. Get yourself a W.

Blitzing the QB primarily through overloading the middle isn't exactly some revolutionary football concept only Bill Belichick could conjure up.

Besides, there's one crucial ingredient to all that, it's called talent.

Not to mention there's a slight difference in how opposing teams approach these methods in the regular season versus preseason. You know, like gameplanning?

[Basbear]

How many huddlers watched other teams during Cam years??? There are plenty of teams that would trade OLs with Carolina. During those years they normally finished no worst than 16th overall. 

Panthers had 1st/2nd team all-pro Norwell, Kalil and Turner for a three year run. Gross, Moton, Oher, and Williams where/are good OTs. 

The OL problem is a league-wide problem. College and limited Practice time have made good OLmen ultra-rare. 

Cam could also help the OL by not holding the dam ball for 5 seconds too.  

[LinvilleGorge]

11 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

Brain Burns has been solid, but I have to wonder if the team is second guessing not drafting Andre Dillard who was still on the board and the undisputed best LT this draft in pass protection?  Rolling the dice with Daryl Williams coming off season ending knee surgery and moving a career RT to Cam's blind side was either a super-ballsy or completely idiotic move.  It's till early, but indicator arrow is starting to point to the later.  Hopefully Daryl can keep Cam upright.

We desperately needed to upgrade our pass rush. I would've honestly just moved Moton to LT full time and drafted Cody Ford in the 2nd to play RT.

[MHS831]

The line  will be fine--but the biggest regret is going to be the failure to upgrade LG--the easiest position on the field to find talent, and we got Van Rotened again.

Pardis is learning the system---he calls the blocking assignments and there is communication between all OL whose feet start each play a few inches apart---so we have a new LT, a raw LG, and a new C.  They are developing on a schedule to be ready in September, not August.  Give them time to gel--they will not be great, but if we can get to average for the left side, I take that all day.

[45catfan]

Granted the pass rush was non-existent last year and needed to be upgraded. However, the coaching staff was full go on the switch to the 3-4 prior to the draft and knew they were going to need to sign some FAs that were familiar with this system, so an EDGE guy wasn't a must in round one.  Believe me, I wanted an EDGE guy too, but it was a deep draft for them and didn't deem it absolutely necessary to get one in the first round.

[MHS831]

9 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

We desperately needed to upgrade our pass rush. I would've honestly just moved Moton to LT full time and drafted Cody Ford in the 2nd to play RT.

I would have done the same thing, but knew they would not.  I said it all last year while being attacked by crackheads and basement dwellers about it.  Moton stays on the right side--mute point--unless there is a complete implosion on the left side--something that could happen.

[45catfan]

6 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

I would have done the same thing, but knew they would not.  I said it all last year while being attacked by crackheads and basement dwellers about it.  Moton stays on the right side--mute point--unless there is a complete implosion on the left side--something that could happen.

Remember Williams is on a one-year deal.  I think their idea was to completely solidify the right side of the line and hope for the best on the left side...planning get the franchise  LT next year.

[Bunskie]

On paper I thought this would be one of the better O-lines we've had... Not sure why things are looking as grim as they are.... Wasn't Paradis considered one of the top centre's in the league!? He's looked like the wrong Kalil brother out there so far.. I hope we shuffle things around and get a serviceable line as the team can go super far with even above-average line play. 

[Captain Obvious]

just going to put this here.  sure hope this is the problem with the O line underwhelming us with their performance

[45catfan]

I see a lot of chip blocks in our future out of our TEs and RBs on that left side.  I just hope Williams holds up better than the Miami Hurricanes LT in last night's game.   He got absolutely DESTROYED!

[philit99]

I just don’t understand where people see that this line is top third. Maybe top turd. Look the starters are ok, not great but ok. I saw very little protection calls which tells me the C needs work or we wanted to take the pressure to see how other players were reacting. It will limit our offense if we have to run 13, 22, 23 personnel. It is the depth that really scares me and the basis of my complaints the other night. I’m ok with the oline looking pedestrian again their 1s and 2s, but my god our 2s and 3s were really bad and if your fighting for a job, you do not want to see the tape. You don’t have an off game, when your fighting for the 53 and your playing the world champs in a dress rehearsal game. Not sure if I watched a different game than everyone else, maybe so.