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Jonathan Stewart - PSA to Panthers fans. It's preseason, don't panic.

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A friendly reminder from the Panthers longtime RB...

 

Again, it's preseason. The 4-0 2008 Lions and 2017 Browns went 0-16 the regular season. The 1-4 2009 Colts went 1-3 in the preseason and 14-2 in the regular.

Is there work to be done? Of course. Perhaps the players are only putting half effort to minimize injuries, but o-line protection confusion and certain 1v1 looks have looked bad.

But then again, preseason is the best time to show these weaknesses, because that allows coaches to prepare to scheme/coach these deficiencies before the regular season.

The goal of preseason? Evaluate, get out healthy, and learn what weaknesses exist and adjust for it. Good teams don't play to win in preseason, they play to get reps to their players and evaluate.

Come regular season, if the Panthers look bad, feel free to panic.

For now, no matter how the preseason ends up, the Panthers will be 0-0 when the regular season starts, and then is where I expect improvement and schematic adjustments for the Panthers strengths. That's when you can actually get a grasp at what kind of team the Panthers are.

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Saca312 said:

Again, it's preseason. The 4-0 2008 Lions and 2017 Browns went 0-16 the regular season. The 1-4 2009 Colts went 1-3 in the preseason and 14-2 in the regular season.


I'd be very curious to see the statistical correlation between preseason and regular/postseason success. 

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1 minute ago, PantherBoy95 said:


I'd be very curious to see the statistical correlation between preseason and regular/postseason success. 

It's pretty hard to correlate when coaches go into games with different mindsets.

Perhaps some coaches want to evaluate certain schemes in different situations, some may just want to get through it healthy, others may want to boost morale.

With the preseason hinging on a very wide variable of coach intent, it's hard to really get a good statistical hypothesis on team success based on that.

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In my experience when the team looks bad in the preseason they look bad in the regular. I haven’t really seen enough individual efforts from guys to look excited. 
 

Right now they look pretty bad. I’d be surprised if they look much better in the regular season. 
 

I’m fine giving coaching 2-3 years to hit their stride but I expected a better preseason outing. Not really pessimistic about the team but I feel a little iffy. 

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27 minutes ago, PantherBoy95 said:


I'd be very curious to see the statistical correlation between preseason and regular/postseason success. 

There have only been two teams in NFL history who went undefeated in the preseason and then won the Super Bowl the following February. The 2003 New England Patriots were the first team to do it, and the 2013 Seattle Seahawks were the last team to do so.

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Too many cocktails to be specific but the interview with Bryce during the game was interesting to me - the question was about playing the Falcons and how it will be different and he said the coaches have a process and they need to trust it.  But there was a hint of frustration. 

My take was that he can't wait to open it up.  

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