The Drive

[Anybodyhome]

1:34 left in the 2nd quarter and Carolina is starting with the ball on their own 11 yard line.

One of the most perfectly executed drives I've seen from this team in a long time. That's all I'm gonna say at this point.

[jayflip]

We actually had time outs in our back pocket and we didn’t play for half time. 
 

It cleansed me of Rivera’s shitty game management and outdated offensive philosophy. 
 

 

[ellis]

 

[gorillamilitia13]

18 minutes ago, jayflip said:

We actually had time outs in our back pocket and we didn’t play for half time. 
 

It cleansed me of Rivera’s shitty game management and outdated offensive philosophy. 
 

 

I remember thinking it was weird seeing we had 2 timeouts left in that situation

[Mr. Scot]

Rivera probably would have been content to sit on it in that situation.

It's nice to think that the team might now actually use all of the time allotted in the first half.

[Panther'sBigD]

10 minutes ago, ellis said:

 

Mike Davis pushing all those defenders upfield and then shedding them and walking out of bounds was probably my favorite play of the game. 

[Anybodyhome]

This is what watching Mike Davis reminded me of yesterday:

DeShaun Foster's run in the 2003 NFC Championship game against the Eagles in Philly. A group of us watching that play at a sport bar in Greensboro, left and drove to Charlotte that night and waited at the stadium for the team buses at BOA (then Ericsson Stadium).

 

 

[joemac]

3 hours ago, Anybodyhome said:

1:34 left in the 2nd quarter and Carolina is starting with the ball on their own 11 yard line.

One of the most perfectly executed drives I've seen from this team in a long time. That's all I'm gonna say at this point.

Rhules clock management and execution at the end of a half is really good.

[stbugs]

2 hours ago, Panther'sBigD said:

Mike Davis pushing all those defenders upfield and then shedding them and walking out of bounds was probably my favorite play of the game. 

That was awesome. I think it really shows the difference in coaches. One has his team believing and is fighting for everything and the other team is going through the motions assuming the season’s over. Reminds me of last year at Indy. You couldn’t have given up more.

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

3 hours ago, CaliPanthers said:

A Ron Rivera, Cam Newton two minute drill is the worst 2 minute drill Ive ever seen. I didnt know if it was Cam or Rivera but we did have different offensive coordinators and nothing changed. Now we actually look like a real football team, running a pro style offense. 

A combination of both ron was horrible at judicialy using time outs and Cam was often slow the line after spending 10-15 seconds celebrating every first down with clock running.

[Sgt Schultz]

Last year and beyond, we would have started that possession (not drive) on our own 11 with 2 timeouts left.  We would have tried to run out the clock, had to burn the timeouts to prevent delay of game penalties, and somehow had to punt the ball back from about our own 7 with time remaining on the clock.

 

[Mistuh Jones]

It's been nice seeing Samuel used as the occasional RB. He ran with some power yesterday! But goddamnit man, why TF wasn't this done the whole time. Oh yeah. Rivera.