Panthers Stat Tracking 2021: Opponents on 3rd & 4th Downs

[Ricky Spanish]

What's interesting is that 3 three opponents we have faced so far are also all in the top 10 of the league...

[KB_fan]

I just dug into the details for our Defensive Performance in stopping Houston on 3rd down.  So awesome to see!!!

• No 3rd downs allowed in 1st half
• Only 1 3rd & short allowed the whole game
• Average distance to go for HOU: 10.2 Yds

The key stop was honestly on a 3rd down stop on a long 11 play drive by Houston to start the 2nd half (Drive 6). Houston got fairly deep into CAR territory (to the CAR 39) (aided by a DPI call against Donte). Houston on 3rd & 4 (their 2nd shortest 3rd down attempt of the game) fails to convert, with the stop by Frankie Luvu.  They punt it away rather than try a long FG.  After that, our offense began dominating and our defense held Houston in quite tight check the rest of the way.  

Here's what the game log looked like:

Officially only 1 3rd down conversion allowed.  The second one was "made" on a DPI penalty.

  

I'll have summary tables re: our defensive stops on 3rd down tomorrow.

Edited September 28, 2021 by KB_fan

[DaveThePanther2008]

On 9/22/2021 at 12:22 AM, KB_fan said:

I love being able to see the plethora of names too in terms of Panthers defenders making the stop.  It really is a "whole of defense" effort, not just one or two guys doing all the tackling.

This is what I love the most about our team.  It's not a Luke/TD show.  It's the whole damn team.

I also think it is going to be hard to game plan against our defense because you really can't focus on one or two players to stop.  Stop Burns you get Reddick, Stop Reddick you get Shaq and so on and so on.