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Shocking passing statistics for the 2021 Panthers.


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The offense is a problem top to bottom, but let's start at the top: the coaches. They're the reason for this shitshow. Let's take WRs... DJ is a good example of regressing promising young players, and taken in aggregate it's clearly a coaching problem, not a player issue... 

The last two years DJs catch % has declined by 10% to ~56%, while he has dropped 15 passes the last 2 seasons vs 7 total his first two years. Yea QB play has been bad these last couple years but when it's every receiver dropping balls at every down and distance we have to stop looking at what player is to blame imo.

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3 minutes ago, Newtcase said:

There are degrees of sucking though.  Right now we're 2001/2010 sucking level.

People bring up those years, but this 2021 team was really supposed to be better considering the talent. And, the thing is, I'm not sure that this team beats either one of those teams. It would be at least questionable. That speaks to Matt Rhule.

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19 minutes ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

With exception of a handful of years, the Panthers have always sucked. This shouldn't be shocking.

12 TD's over the course of a 16 game season in a pass happy league...that's shocking!

Our 3rd leading receiver has missed over 50% of the games this season. The next closest player in receptions is a RB Ameer Abdullah (26 receptions). I don't think Abdullah started the year with the team and he's only played in 10 games. That's shocking!

We extended R. Anderson's contract in the off season and now he averages less than 3 catches per game. It's shocking just how much his production has fallen.

Our skill position players and QB's are among the worst in the NFL in terms of productivity. Frankly, I'm shocked we've played this poorly. Last year's offenses was much better...and that's saying something considering our inability to pull out close games in the fourth quarter in 2020.

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7 minutes ago, top dawg said:

People bring up those years, but this 2021 team was really supposed to be better considering the talent. And, the thing is, I'm not sure that this team beats either one of those teams. It would be at least questionable. That speaks to Matt Rhule.

Very true.  2010 was basically a planned lame duck year, and 2001 wasn't much better.  We weren't very good the two seasons prior to 2001, but we had a decent passing game with Steve Beuerlein.  However, in 2001, we decided to let him walk and throw Chris Weinke in there instead, and the rest is history.

Both of those years had pretty low expectations.  We should have seen some improvement this year if Rhule was going to work out.

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