"Run the same damn play!"

[Cam's New Arm]

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Reggie Bonafon broke loose for a 59-yard touchdown run to help the Panthers pick up 285 total yards on the ground. McCaffrey had 84 of his 176 yards on another touchdown that looked a lot like Bonafon’s score. That’s because the team ran the same play to different sides of the line for both scores.

They ran it a lot of other times as well. Tight end Greg Olsen said he doesn’t think he’s ever heard the same play call as many times as he heard calls for what guard Greg Van Roten called a “mid zone” run that allowed for the big cutbacks that both backs used for their scores.

“It’s kind of like this: Defenses call blitzes until you pick them up and we ran the same play until they could stop it,” Van Roten said. “And they didn’t. That was a good play for us. I don’t think we thought it was going to be that successful.”

 

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[Mr. Scot]

That's one of the benefits of having an experienced play-caller.

Some guys never seem to figure stuff like this out.

[ncfan]

A Ron Rivera offense running the same play over and over and over again?

You dont say

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kidding, if it aint broke, dont fix it.  It wouldve been nice to see that on the 3rd-4th and a half

[JARROD]

But but but Norv is a terrible play caller, Fire the staff.

 

[BrianS]

57 minutes ago, JARROD said:

But but but Norv is a terrible play caller, Fire the staff.

 

I'm a fan of Norv, but that HB option pass inside the 5 on third and half a yard was a terrible call.  Looking at the defense before the play, I was like "ffs - QB sneak!  It's wide open!"

We left a lot of points on the field yesterday.

[Pantha-kun]

Just now, BrianS said:

I'm a fan of Norv, but that HB option pass inside the 5 on third and half a yard was a terrible call.  Looking at the defense before the play, I was like "ffs - QB sneak!  It's wide open!"

We left a lot of points on the field yesterday.

 

With the Panthers, Norv is a combined 9-2 when playing with a healthy QB and he is 0-9 when playing with an unhealthy QB. Who would've thunk it??

[g5jamz]

That game could've gone really really badly on that CMC pass attempt and run from within the 5 late in the game.  If you can run the ball with success you do it (see Indy's win over KC) until they can stop you.  If you watched the second half of the Indy/KC, that was probably the best example of a smash-mouth running game I've seen in quite a while.  

[Mr. Scot]

19 minutes ago, BrianS said:

I'm a fan of Norv, but that HB option pass inside the 5 on third and half a yard was a terrible call.  Looking at the defense before the play, I was like "ffs - QB sneak!  It's wide open!"

We left a lot of points on the field yesterday.

Speaking for myself, I'm talking about the subtle stuff more so than the playcalling.

Example: "Hey, their top DB just left the game due to injury. His replacement is a rookie. Let's go after him."

I spent years watching us not do that and getting extremely frustrated that we weren't taking advantage of an obvious opportunity.

Since Norv took over, I don't find myself experiencing that particular frustration so much.

[trucpfan]

29 minutes ago, BrianS said:

I'm a fan of Norv, but that HB option pass inside the 5 on third and half a yard was a terrible call.  Looking at the defense before the play, I was like "ffs - QB sneak!  It's wide open!"

We left a lot of points on the field yesterday.

Every team has wtf plays just last week Nuk tried to pass sylesst CMC didn’t pass the ball like Houston last week one dam play relax no ones perfect every play great job to Norv running the rock down their throat Pause.

[JARROD]

35 minutes ago, BrianS said:

I'm a fan of Norv, but that HB option pass inside the 5 on third and half a yard was a terrible call.  Looking at the defense before the play, I was like "ffs - QB sneak!  It's wide open!"

We left a lot of points on the field yesterday.

I would have ran a qb sneak both plays. Nothing to complain about if we don’t make it. Just line up and push for a couple of feet.

yes Norv tried the Pete Carroll special or Something,.. only way we don’t lose our minds is if it worked!

[BrianS]

16 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Speaking for myself, I'm talking about the subtle stuff more so than the playcalling.

Example: "Hey, their top DB just left the game due to injury. His replacement is a rookie. Let's go after him."

I spent years watching us not do that and getting extremely frustrated that we weren't taking advantage of an obvious opportunity.

Since Norv took over, I don't find myself experiencing that particular frustration so much.

Hey, compared to the Shula years, we are freaking amazing now.  Totally agree.  It's like we look at the opposing defense, figure out what they don't do very well, and then proceed to attack it.  We even look like it was all part of the plan.  We'll run plays early in the game to set things up later.  On CMC's long TD run, you can see how the Jags backside backer froze because we had already established Curtis Samuel as a threat for the end around.  Love stuff like that.

[rayzor]

34 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Speaking for myself, I'm talking about the subtle stuff more so than the playcalling.

Example: "Hey, their top DB just left the game due to injury. His replacement is a rookie. Let's go after him."

I spent years watching us not do that and getting extremely frustrated that we weren't taking advantage of an obvious opportunity.

Since Norv took over, I don't find myself experiencing that particular frustration so much.

That kind of stuff was going on back well into the fox years. It was rare that we would exploit another team's weakness.

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, BrianS said:

Hey, compared to the Shula years, we are freaking amazing now.  Totally agree.  It's like we look at the opposing defense, figure out what they don't do very well, and then proceed to attack it.  We even look like it was all part of the plan.  We'll run plays early in the game to set things up later.  On CMC's long TD run, you can see how the Jags backside backer froze because we had already established Curtis Samuel as a threat for the end around.  Love stuff like that.

Yep. With Shula I never really got the feeling that it evolved past "what play should I call next?"

To be fair, maybe it did, but it sure didn't feel like it.

[Mr. Scot]

Just now, rayzor said:

That kind of stuff was going on back as far as the fox years. It was rare that we would exploit another team's weakness.

Passing up or failing to recognize obvious opportunities like that made me want to tear my hair out.