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Anyone else think it's a strong possibillity we trade D-will on draft day?
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After calling out the defense in the Week 1 All-22 review, Evero's unit has since stepped it up. In week 2 against Arizona they gave up just 82yds rushing! This effectively snapped Carolina's horrendous streaks of giving up both 200+ yards rushing at seven games and 100+ yards rushing at 15 games. They also forced three turnovers which included a pick-6 that you'll be able to see again a little further down. For their efforts, this is going to be a mostly defense-focused review again (but with one "special" inclusion later). In celebration of the dub we're going to focus on some of the defensive highlights rather than lowlights! Q1 5:18 - 3rd & 6 (ATL 30) CAR 0 - 0 ATL Want to get a QB off of his rythm? Hit him. That's exactly what happened here rather than the usual cover-3 we've seen Evero lean towards. The Falcons had just walked it back 5yds due to a delay of game penalty, turning a 3rd & 1 into 3rd & 6. Evero is playing with a rare lead though as the team is up 7-0 and sends the heat. The team is in an under front and sends six with Wallace simulating pressure before dropping back as the robber. I'm not sure what the playcall here is... it looks like man coverage on the field side with Jaycee vs. McCloud but I can't tell if this a mistake on the backend by the secondary after the motion. Moehrig, Scott, and Jackson are all communicating but I don't think CSW got it. Fortunately, the simulated pressure draws the RG towards Trevin instead of Rozeboom who Bijan was designated to pick up. With DB on the C, Scourton on the LG, and Princely on the LT that leaves Moehrig coming in wide open to blast Penix on the throw. Good thing too, because given a little more time Pitts is popping out wide open on the other half of the field. moehrig1a.mp4 moehrig1b.mp4 Q1 4:23 - 2nd & 8 (CAR 31) CAR 7 - 0 ATL The Falcons line up in the shotgun with TE Charlie Woerner in the backfield and Kyle Pitts split out right. Bijan is lined up next to the RT and motions across the backfield. Scourton is the strong side end on the over front with DB to his right as the 3-tech. ARob is in a 2i alignment DJ Wonnum is the weak-side end. Panthers are in nickel personnel with a two high shell showing presnap. Scott and Moehrig are communicating to confirm as the play call is going to call for them to rotate based on where Bijan is. Once Bijan motions, Scott starts to drop down and shows that it's cover-1 robber (Rozeboom is the robber). Trevin Wallace closes fast and leaks out with Woerner to the flat. I couldn't tell if this was a designed swing pass with a couple of other options or if Penix was just selling the downfield pass to set up the swing, but it didn't matter because Wallace was there immediately. An article by Mike Kaye yesterday highlighted how Trevin is regularly chats with Luke Kuechly and has weekly film sessions with Dan Morgan. After week one, both mentors told him to play fast and not worry about being wrong. He responded by reacting faster and tackling better against Arizona and then continuing his improvement against ATL by logging four tackles (1 TFL, this play). Moehrig would give Penix a little extra again later in the game, giving him a shove as he went out of bounds on a scramble to send him toppling. trevin1a.mp4 trevin1b.mp4 Q1 3:37 - 3rd & 13 (CAR 36) CAR 7 - 0 ATL Evero has the defense come out showing cover-2 man while also showing pressure. The Panthers send six with Moehrig dropping back to a single-high with Scott dropping underneath to pick up Pitts who faked going into pass blocking before running his route. This was one of many bad passes forced by the defense with this one coming from the team's pair of rookie edge rushers and DJ Wonnum. It's a game of "meet at the QB!" with Scourton getting a hand on Penix's elbow during the delivery to disrupt the pass. edge1a.mp4 Q2 12:24 - 1st & 10 (CAR 45) CAR 7 - 0 ATL The play prior to this one Bijan took a short pass 25yds to the CAR 45. What stands out about this play isn't so much the design, the timing of the call, or anything game changing... it's who forced this play to go for no gain. The OLBs on the field are Princely and DJJ, and immediately that would make DJ the "weak link" on the field. The Falcons seemed to think so as well as they left Charlie Woerner in charge of blocking him and things went about as well for Charlie as they did earlier on that swing pass vs. Trevin Wallace. CAR shows an over front and as Woerner to the field side before shifting. The DL shifts as well, maintaining the over alignment as the Falcons now have both TEs stacked to the right. Penix calls for Mooney to motion inside and the ball is snapped with the Falcons showing playaction to the field side. Pitts releases and slides past DJJ who does his best DB impression by using one arm to sling Woerner around like a rag doll before closing in to force the checkdown to Allgeier in the flat. CSW drives as the ball is being thrown (a tale of things to come) and immediately brings him down for no gain. djcsw1a.mp4 djcsw1b.mp4 djcsw1b.mp4 Q3 11:46 - 2nd & 8 (ATL 16) CAR 10 - 0 ATL The pick-6! Not much to really go into detail here defensively as the squad blanked the Falcons in the first half. After only gaining 2yds on the 1st down run by Bijan, Zac Robinson dials up a dagger concept on the field side and an inside hitch/out route combo to the boundary with the RB swinging out left. Penix is going to want this one back as he missed Ray-Ray McCloud coming open on the dig with Rozeboom cheating towards the other side. That pressure from the first half must have gotten to him or the coaches emphasized getting the ball out faster, because he tried to check down to Bijan. If you pause during the wind-up, you can see CSW already driving while Bijan hasn't even gotten his head around yet. The result... a house call! csw1a.mp4 Q3 3:55 - 1st & 10 (ATL 32) CAR 10 - 0 ATL This play stood out to me because the game day thread had folks reacting as if Penix was awful and just dirting balls (he did dirt one on a screen earlier) when it was actually due to the pressure generated that not only collapsed the pocket but got Penix hit during the throw. BB3 collapsed the pocket while DB occupied the double team, Nic Scourton shoved back-up RT Elijah Wilkinson into Penix's back (causing the bad throw), and DJ Johnson shoved starting LT Jake Matthews into Penix's lap. Not only do we see the DL creating pressure with four, they did it with a rookie edge and a guy that has been regularly dunked on by the fanbase. Craziest part? You're going to see DJ Johnson a third time in this thread. dj1a.mp4 I've got five more plays to review but am seeing formatting issues already so I'll go ahead and get this first part up. 😄 -
Who is invalidating accomplishments? What does that even mean? -
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His stat line wasn't impressive but he had a big impact both on and off the field.
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