Sorry folks, but Moose is expendable.

We tend to focus on our predictibility because, well, we are us.

We watch all of the Panthers' games, with a close eye on detail. We don't sit around and watch Baltimore, or Pittsburgh, or Tampa, or San Diego each week with the same amount of detail.

Try this....take a year off. Go cheer for another team. Any team. You will be saying the same things by year's end.

I am of the opinion that we are much more aggresive in the passing game that 75% of the league. And I don't think we are nearly as predictible as you do.

 

you gave me seven minutes before you started bitching that I wasn't responding to you, BB&T.

Two within the SD game -
3rd and 8 from SD 33, draw play. Don't convert. Miss FG, never score again.

3rd and 10 from the SD 25 - draw play with 4:00 to go down 10-6.

We sat on the ball, we sat on a 6-0 lead, and we tried to go field position with it. And then desperately passed down the field, only to run a draw on a critical 3rd down, with the game on the line.

I can think of 2-3 just from the last Atlanta game.

 

And you'll find that two coaches criticised for it, Matt Cavanaugh and Paul Hackett, are talking to realtors this week.

 

After we lose like our first three other options? Sure.

 

He takes shots (I won't get into the late-Atlanta fiasco, which went from ultra-conservative draw to OT and its fresh set of downs, which meant chuck it up Hail-Mary style every down till it's predictably picked). The problem is, he doesn't manage the game well enough to get us what's in between. You take shots at specific times where you can afford to do it - we'll take a shot, and then give up on the drive if the shot didn't make it. We'll get a penalty, and pout our way to the punt. We have a hard time putting together sustained drives because it's not our main goal.

 

You don't get to play with hypotheticals. You play with what you have suiting up. And the end result is that he was saying that the offense was good, so we didn't need Moose. This year, we don't have an offense without Moose.

 

Of course we're aggressive, our main philosophy is set up play-action and go downfield. Nobody has ever questioned that.

Yeah, I'm really gonna go cheer for another team just because someone on the internet doesn't agree that we're predictible with the draw play.

We could mix in more screens or TEs blocking for a second and releasing into a pattern very easily, but we're very slow to adapt offensively, albeit a lot of that was injury related.

 

Who called the play? There's no reason that Jake can't audible into another pass play, he was specifically told to check to the run, knowing they were gonna go for it on 4th. Jake didn't know that. That's still game management, and no matter how many individual asteriks and "well, maybe"s you put on each little bit of information, the end result is that we're too conservative, and you've even acknowledged that conservativity.

 

I can't put that on injury, we're not that quick to adapt anyway. I find it funny that we miraculously start playing good on offense around the 9th-10th week when our back is dinged and we start throwing the ball more than 15 times.