Game plan criticism from an odd source

[Mr. Scot]

You don't usually hear this sort of thing from Brad Hoover.

Veteran fullback Brad Hoover said he thinks the Carolina Panthers could have run the ball on Arizona Saturday night.

"Our plan was to try to run the ball on them. That’s what we’ve hung our hat on all year, being successful in the running game, and I still think we could have done it," Hoover said. "Not to question things but, when you start putting yourself in a hole, and we did pretty fast, it’s hard to just run the ball when you’ve put yourself in pass situations."

Hoover thinks Panthers could have run on Cards

[HeatCheck]

I think Davidson strayed away from the gameplan too early. I think he put us in that hole to a degree.

[Zaximus]

I agree. The decision to abandon the run game so early was a bad one. It's not like our run game is a 4-6 yard run team, we have a lot of big runs and even had one against Arizona early on, we could have put up points quickly. I also noticed DWill sitting for a ton of plays in the 2nd.

[ashehudson]

Speaking of odd sources, even my mother said that the Panthers should have ran the ball more.... And she's no Go to Girl when it comes to football....

[Delhommey]

Not only abandoning the run but poo like sending Moose on a deep route?

Ugh.

[Sloth]

Good. Hoping the coaches lose the players.

[Sweeneyman]

The the defense did their part in causing us to abandon the run so early.

[Newtcase]

We lost on 1st and 2nd down way too often. 2nd and long, 3rd and long.....I knew we were passing, they knew we were passing....bad bad gameplan.

[Kevin Greene]

Hoover is right. Coaching staff had a bad case of HUA Saturday night.

[cookinbrak]

Key stat

Delhomme accounted for six turnovers (five interceptions, one fumble) and the Cardinals scored 23 of their 33 points off of those takeaways.

Our gameplan shoulda been to keep the ball out of Warner's hands, not continually give him the ball. We were lucky he got tired or they might have put up 66 points on us.

[chollar8]

I think Davidson strayed away from the gameplan too early. I think he put us in that hole to a degree.

Exactly. Hard to throw picks when youre handing the ball off.

[TylerDurden]

As sad as it sounds, it looked like a game of Madden gone wrong. Played someone online? Threw an INT or turned it over early? They score. Feels like they went extra hard at you, challeneged your manhood. You say, "Alright, Imma show this mf'er..." You throw non-stop. INTs galore. They run up the score and you are blown out. Only to realize, "Man, I should've just run when I first got down..."

...Never happened to me, but this guy I know...

[engine9]

I think if you secretly polled the team, they'd all say wtf? It's impossible for everyone in the world to see that all we had to do was run the ball and cover Fitzgerald and yet we did exactly the opposite.

...by the way, it was just reported on the radio that Delhomme threw yet another interception this morning.

[Pride4Real]

I see nothing odd about telling the truth(unless it is coming from a person known to lie regularly).