Cmac Had Only 14 Touches!!!

[Pimpdaddy]

8 hours ago, Jackie Lee said:

Yeah his first few touches were runs up the middle? I thought McAdoo had 5 waffle house menus of play calls. Looked worse than preseason play calls in the first half

right.... Hes fraud... CMC  up the middle again..how original...

[pantherj]

The Panthers coaching staff certainly knew that our o-line was going to be outmatched against their d-line, and they put together a quick passing attacking. Get the ball out fast, and go pass heavy. The plan failed because Baker was told to hurry ahead of time, and that led to him dropping snaps. Then Baker further got frustrated when passes were being batted down. To make matters worse we couldn't use CMC as much to gash them with runs because their d-line was beastly. Look how tall they were. Good lord. Monsters. 

[pantherj]

3 minutes ago, Skack25 said:

My first move would be... to not start a back up at center.  Wtf is happening?

Yeah Pat is trash, and that Browns d-line is elite.

[Skack25]

1 minute ago, pantherj said:

Yeah Pat is trash, and that Browns d-line is elite.

Yes, their DL blew past us basically every play.  I underestimated how good Myles is.

[pantherj]

When you face a really tall and powerful d-line, you had better hope your QB is tall. 6'1 was not enough against those monsters, but you can still win. Poor Baker looked 5'8 at times out there against that pack of werewolves.

[pantherj]

Icky just can't handle that kind of speed and athleticism. You have to chip Myles, but that reduces the offenses effectiveness. That's why elite DEs go in the top 5 picks generally.

[frankw]

8 hours ago, Jackie Lee said:

Yeah his first few touches were runs up the middle? I thought McAdoo had 5 waffle house menus of play calls. Looked worse than preseason play calls in the first half

[pantherj]

Even with all of that we nearly won. The Browns secondary was being exploited badly by our veteran receivers, but there was too much chaos in the pocket to get it to them.

[Diehardpanth02]

8 hours ago, Jackie Lee said:

You at least give him most of the first couple drives to let Baker settle in, especially in a game with so much drama off the field. At least get the Browns defense focused on the threat of CMC before you start spreading the ball around

30 Touches a game is just stupid. But this is a long the lines of what I was wondering. Why not let your new QB and Tackle get settled in by leaning on your run game. That's what blew my mind.

Edited September 12, 2022 by Diehardpanth02

[PNW_PantherMan]

7 hours ago, Manna said:

I get that they were trying to limit his load and protect him, but you can protect him by substituting and not by not using him at all. 

Yea why didn't Foreman get any carries?

[pantherj]

2 minutes ago, Diehardpanth02 said:

30 Touches a game is just stupid. But this is a long the lines of what I was wondering. Why not let your new QB and Tackle get settled in by leaning on your run game. That's what blew my mind.

We wanted to attack the Browns weakness imo, and that clearly their secondary. Running against that d-line was exactly what the Browns wanted. Even though we upgraded our o-line from last season we're still not good enough in that area. The Panthers staff probably looked at the match ups between our o-line and their d-line and concluded that running a lot was a very bad idea. They know ahead of time how the trench battle will go and game plan accordingly.

[pantherj]

Basically the Browns have two Pro Bowl DE freaks of nature, and a 1st round pick veteran DT, and a 3rd rounder next to him. We had poopy Pat in the middle, and a rookie LT. It just wasn't a good matchup for us.

[pantherj]

I didn't want the Panthers built this way. I didn't want to be this far into Rhule's era starting a rookie LT. The o-line should have been the FIRST thing we built. NOT that defense. O-line FIRST. Defense later. We did it backwards.

[hepcat]

7 hours ago, Catsfan69 said:

Sweetness averaged 24 touches.

Emmit 22 but there was some injury years but at his peak 28 touches per game.

Faulk had low overall use amongst the greats at about 20 per overall but had years averging 29 touches per game.

 

So most hall of fame backs at their peak were being ridden 27,28,30 times a game.

 

Those RBs never missed as much time as CMC has