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Truth Is: The Defense Is Horrible. Chud and Cam Are Regressing.

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The defense doesn't even have to be discussed. 35 points is plenty enough points to beat a team on any given Sunday... Unless the team scoring 35 points has the Carolina Panthers' defense. They are obviously f*cking horrible and I'm tired of seeing people discussing which offensive players should be our first pick in the draft... They shouldn't be. The first pick should be a defender. Most likely, every pick after that should be defense as bad as we are.

Secondly, say what you want but Chud is regressing and consequently so is Cam. I'll go easy on Cam for a couple of reasons - First, he's being in a position to fail because of Chud's playcalling. Be honest, that 35 points today had very little to do with a dominant offense... We got lucky with 3 early turnovers and a KO return. Realistically, if our offense was that awesome, we should've had a lot more points than we had in the first half.

The other reason to go easy on Cam is because, duh, he's a rookie. But, he's shown at times that he doesn't play like a rookie. Today though, the stuff we saw was all rookie... He was overthrowing and forcing things that weren't there. The overthrows had a lot to do with poor snaps from Kalil; the forced throws I think are attributable to the Titans loss knocking his confidence a little bit and secondly, teams now know how to play our offense.

They have 10 weeks worth of tape on us now and the last two weeks have been our worst showings. Why? Because, now they know to create pressure with the front four and drop 7 into coverage. At times last week, the Titans were even dropping 8 into coverage.

This goes back to Chud. I understand we're a vertical passing team, but there is a little something called adjustments, and Chud isn't making them. Deangelo should've had over 100 yards rushing today. Instead, he broke a few nice gains and Chud was content with that and felt it was enough for the defense to respect and went right back to forcing the pass.

Problem is, again, defenses are now playing the pass. The passes Cam made today were into some very tight windows aside from the flats and screens. It's because teams are playing the pass now as the priority. Chud should mix up some heavy sets and power runs, but he doesn't. Even the runs we've broke for big gains have been out of cute little 1 back 1 TE sets.

Teams don't respect our run anymore and are happy to allow Cam to pass. The INTs are a result of nothing being there. Period. Even the Smitty TD was in an extremely tight window. Chud has to make adjustments or it's going to be a very ugly finish this last 6 games.

Just some observations... I'm at peace with this being a lost season now and just looking for improvements now and what we can do for next year as sad as it is.

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I honestly don't think Cam is regressing. He was generally good-to-great until the last 5 minutes of the game where he stunk it up. That's how he's been in basically every game this season.

He continues to be the least of our worries though. Like Frank Caliendo said on the Fox pregame show, "Cam Newton is a winner stuck with a bunch of losers." Nail on the head.

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28 pts on lions defense on road is not regressing

So do you count on 3 turnovers from 2 horrible throws and a forced fumble in the first 3 possessions from our opponent every game?

Cam is not regressing, he is learning

Yes, he is learning... But, he is also regressing from where he started. But again, I'm not really putting it on him... I think he's being put in bad positions in the passing game and I wish Chud would help him out.

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So do you count on 3 turnovers from 2 horrible throws and a forced fumble in the first 3 possessions from our opponent every game?

Yes, he is learning... But, he is also regressing from where he started. But again, I'm not really putting it on him... I think he's being put in bad positions in the passing game and I wish Chud would help him out.

1st INT -Gross got manhandled and caused it, pushed into Cam just as he was throwing

2nd INT - Hangartner got destroyed by Suh, Cam tried to throw to receiver and got nailed in split second

3rd INT - Great play by LB, pass was perfect otherwise

4th INT - junk time

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Fairweather fans everywhere. The chat makes me want to cry on gameday.

How does saying our offense is regressing being a fairweather fan? LOL... A fairweather fan wouldn't give a sh*t and be off to pull for another team.

Believe me... I'm still here after plenty of sh*t seasons and depressing games since '95, I'm not going anywhere.

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