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QB Hits allowed: Week 3 and Season-to-date. Carolina about in the middle of the pack. Could be a lot worse.

Well.... I've not really been watching the game. Had it on in the background while I work on some other stuff.... But given the way the Cowboys are dominating, they should be a very good test for the Panthers. If we can pull off a win in Dallas, it should help quiet the "but they haven't played any good teams" narrative. Quality competition will be a good measuring stick for how we're doing, though it certainly hurts that CMC & Jaycee won't be playing.

I might not be able to post many stats until mid-next week as I'll be traveling from Wed - Sunday. I hope others might post any fun stuff that I miss!

And to close out this week 3 stat round up.... the ONLY stat that reaily matters:

I posted about the Run Defense earlier: Was fun to also see this: In the comments on that tweet, some folks were saying "well, it's because teams abandon the run against Carolina, there haven't been very many rushing attempts" (Quite true: Average rushing attempts by Panthers' opponents is 17/game, 3rd lowest in the league). But.... THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT! STOP THE RUN AND MAKE TEAMS ONE DIMENSIONAL!!! So whether it's 10 attempts or 30 attempts who cares?!, the Panthers ARE shutting down the run and the pass rush is feasting!

Another QB performance chart for what it's worth:

Some deets on cost of CJ Henderson's contract for the Panthers:

Not related to week 3 stats, but here was a nice side by side comparison of Jaycee Horn & CJ' Henderson's RAS scores from earlier today:

Top PFF grades for Panthers from week 3 in case anyone cares

QB Efficiency & EPA/play charts. Sam is moving nicely in the right direction!

NFL Tiers chart following Sunday's games:

Jaycee's injury hurts even more when you see stats like this....

The current sack leaderboard for the Panthers

Week 3 Snap Counts: Christian McCaffrey played 22 snaps before exiting the game with a hamstring injury. Chuba Hubbard (40 snaps) and Royce Freeman (11 snaps) had new highs in snaps with Carolina as they replaced him and combined for 104 scrimmage yards. John Miller missed five snaps and was briefly replaced by Trent Scott. Terrace Marshall Jr. played in a career-high 62 percent of the snaps, making four receptions for 48 yards. Panthers tight ends Ian Thomas, Dan Arnold, Colin Thompson and Tommy Tremble totaled 103 snaps, the highest percentage for that group this year. Jaycee Horn played 37 snaps before leaving the field with a foot injury. Juston Burris only played one fewer snap before he left with a groin injury around the same time. Sean Chandler played a career-high 80 percent of the snaps on the backend, making two tackles. Rashaan Melvin (29 snaps) and Sam Franklin Jr. (15 snaps) saw snap increases to replace Horn and Burris. Brian Burns played 84 percent of the snaps, his highest since the game at Green Bay last season. He had his fifth-straight game with a sack. Haason Reddick also played 84 percent of the snaps, recording his third-straight game with at least 1.5 sacks.

Week 3 pressures:

DJ that's my DJ:

Not that PFF grades matter, but they are improving their grades for Sam Darnold:

Stats about CMC's contract given his injury...:

Here's the link to the weekly "Stats & Superlatives" article from Panthers' Will Bryan: TONS of fun stats in there.... The section on the defense is just so fun to read: The Panthers defense held the Texans to 193 net yards, the third straight game of holding an opponent under 200 yards. Carolina has only allowed 573 yards through its first three games, the fewest allowed by any NFL team starting 3-0 since 1992. The Panthers defense gave up just 42 rushing yards, and Carolina now has the fewest rush yards allowed (135) through the first three games of a season in franchise history. It's the eighth-fewest in the NFL, dating back to 1995. The Panthers recorded four sacks and nine quarterback hits. Carolina's 14 sacks through the first three games tie the 1998 team for the best start in terms of total sacks. The Panthers limited held the Texans to 1-of-9 on third down. Carolina has allowed just a 21.2 percent third-down conversion rate, second-best (20.5, 2002) in franchise history through three games.

This has been talked about a lot in various threads, but for the record, the Panthers' season outcomes in the 4 other seasons when they started 3-0:

Haason putting up some Pep-like numbers