Panthers/Cardinals game day thread

At Blinn - Cam was elite.
At Auburn - Cam was elite.
In his first start in his first game in the NFL - Cam was elite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

 

I agree it's too soon to declare him as an elite qb, but there were a few things to be encouraged about:

- his poise under pressure
- 2 min. drills
- his willingness/ability to put the team on his back and carry them
- the respect and leadership he earned from other teammates

after the last few years, it's nice to have some hope for the qb position.

 

I'll try again next week against the Packers

 

changing the subject a little, other observations after a second viewing:


17 isn't very good at all. Lazy routes, whiffed or didn't even attempt to block backside and his man made tackles on run plays backside at or before the LOS on more than 2 plays where he was the backside blocker. Many times, he never even turned to look to see if he was even targetted while running a lazy route (maybe he figured he wouldn't get the ball with no seperation whatsoever anyway, meh).

ST coverage guys are slow, with exception of the gunners.

Dline interior is not solid and loses badly at the POA (we knew that already).

Safeties are not good at all. Terrible tacklers and little presence.

GB is gonna kill us next week.

Our O would seem much better if our D and ST would help them out more.

No quick hot reads/check downs in the face of blitzes. All the pass plays/WR/TE's when we had more than 3rd and short even, were slow long developing routes. Sometimes I knew cam had nowhere to go with the ball and maybe should have taken off running earlier because there were no checkdowns or short, broken off blitze-hot routes- like slants or anything like thst, etc- maybe this is due to inexperience of the O as a whole together.

Ran two screens that I counted, very shittily.

Running game was shit because they were run blitzing up the middle on most all running plays. The two best running plays were negated by questionable holding penalties (imo) not affecting the play anyway. The one on Wharton was definitely not holding, imo.

DEs looking ok. Munnerlin, Ss and Dts did not. Had Kolb bad sacked, but totally ignored Jeff king was even on the field and he burned us - good for him.

WRs rarely get much seperation, even smith doesn't all that much. 14 and 17 really bad. Even 11? (laFell) doesn't get the best seperation, but does jump well to a high ball, much like the TEs.

Cammy has a shitty playfake sell.

Pennington wasn't bad in the booth.

 

trying to remember, was this the play that Beason went down on?

 

yes, unfortunately. I don't know if King was his man (prolly was though), though the OLB on that side was blitzing-or was rushing once Kolb was out of the pocket. But Beason would have not come close to catching King anyway, injury or not. It's too bad he was injured like that on an effort that was completely a waste anyway, really, in hindsight.

 

Eh that's a mistake to say. Its possible the existing injury was the reason King got so far away, and Beason made it worse trying to push it even harder to to catch up. Not saying you're wrong, but there's also no way of know what you said was right.

 

point is (atleast for me) once Beason went down, we only had 10 active, somebody ends up uncovered

 

So, you're saying they suck grandmother clit?

 

Rivera's presser was cool - he mentioned 6 plays cost game:

The two blown coverages
The punt return
The 3 times we took ourselves out of FG range.