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Carolina Panthers Defensive Turnaround

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Through 5 weeks of football, we are:

*12th in Points Per Game at 23.6. We were 31st last year. 
*25th in Rushing Yards Per Game at 133.4. We were 29th last year.

*4th in Passing Yards Per Game at 222.2. We were 13th last year.
*14th in Total Yards Per Game.We were 23rd last year.

 

EDIT: I’d like to add that last year only two teams were averaging 29 or more points a game last year. Right now there are 10 teams doing that. Offense is up across the board but our young defense has improved despite the league trends. 

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1 minute ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Panthers needed at least 3 rookies to make an impact as defensive starters and they got it. 

Friggin amazing. 

It’s crazy to think we lost Bradberry and Luke, drafted 7 defensive players, signed Douglas like 4 minutes before the season started off the trash heap and had a new staff trying to learn these NFL players and these have been the early results. 

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Just now, Varking said:

It’s crazy to think we lost Bradberry and Luke, drafted 7 defensive players, signed Douglas like 4 minutes before the season started off the trash heap and had a new staff trying to learn these NFL players and these have been the early results. 

With a truncated off-season, abbreviated training camp, and no preseason.

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1 minute ago, trueblade said:

With a truncated off-season, abbreviated training camp, and no preseason.

And offenses getting away with holding all over and scoring being up all over the league. Last year two teams were at 29+ points a game. This year it’s 10 so far and a few are close to 40 points a game. 

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Scoring is up because holding calls are WAY down. Falcons were holding on literally every running play. Todd Gurley’s TD run gets called back in years past

The fact our defense is still hanging in there despite getting held a lot is a positive sign

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2 minutes ago, hepcat said:

Scoring is up because holding calls are WAY down. Falcons were holding on literally every running play. Todd Gurley’s TD run gets called back in years past

The fact our defense is still hanging in there despite getting held a lot is a positive sign

Yeah I added this after an edit to the OP. Scoring is up across the league a lot because offenses aren’t being penalized but our numbers are still better now than they were last year. It speaks volumes about the coaching. It also speaks highly of our offense staying on the field more and having less three an outs or multiple turnover games like our offense last year suffered from. Our defense doesn’t get as tired so quickly. 

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Have we found a gem in Snow? I'm not going to lie, I did not like the Snow hire. Thought there were better DC options out there. But Rhule obviously knows wtf he's doing and believed in his guy from the start. Snow has this young defense playing fast. Deserves a TON of credit for this turnaround. It speaks volumes that Snow has FAR less talent than Rivera did last year, and still has the better defense.

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1 hour ago, Varking said:

Through 5 weeks of football, we are:

*12th in Points Per Game at 23.6. We were 31st last year. 
*25th in Rushing Yards Per Game at 133.4. We were 29th last year.

*4th in Passing Yards Per Game at 222.2. We were 13th last year.
*14th in Total Yards Per Game.We were 23rd last year.

 

EDIT: I’d like to add that last year only two teams were averaging 29 or more points a game last year. Right now there are 10 teams doing that. Offense is up across the board but our young defense has improved despite the league trends. 

Lack of holding calls will do that 

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1 hour ago, hepcat said:

Scoring is up because holding calls are WAY down. Falcons were holding on literally every running play. Todd Gurley’s TD run gets called back in years past

The fact our defense is still hanging in there despite getting held a lot is a positive sign

Snow also attributes scoring due to lack of loud home fields 

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1 hour ago, Varking said:

It’s crazy to think we lost Bradberry and Luke, drafted 7 defensive players, signed Douglas like 4 minutes before the season started off the trash heap and had a new staff trying to learn these NFL players and these have been the early results. 

Imagine If Luke had played another year :’(

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