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Take with a grain of salt. Cam Erving 60.0 Pat Elfelin 51.3 Matt Paradis 73.2 (wtf?) Dennis Daley 54.1 Taylor Moton 74.7

3 receptions for 26 yards including a key first down. A rookie, in his first game, with guys named CMC, Moore and Anderson on the field. Yall need to back off. He did very well.

Take a look at this play right here by Ian Thomas bottom right of the screen.. Thomas gets tossed like a rag doll by 47 who ends up making the tackle on CMC. Isn't this why we drafted Tommy Tremble?

Burns was held on nearly every play of the game.

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He honestly looked better than Devin Funchess ever has.

He contributed right away in his NFL debut. Can't think of many other Panthers WR's that did that.

The Carolina Panthers were indeed victorious against the lowly NY Jets. However, not all deserved the victory. Here are my top and bottom players of the day. Walk of Fame I can probably safely pin Christian McCaffrey to the Walk of Fame this season. McCaffrey was the best player on the field, and it wasn't close. If not for him, I don't believe we beat the Jets. Sam Darnold deserves a whole heck of a lot of credit this morning. Darnold was only sacked once, but the Jets hit him seven other times. Under tremendous pressure with his Panthers debut and playing against his old team, Darnold stood tall in the pocket and showed poise and patience. It paid of with a dub. Nice job, Sam. When the Carolina Panthers drafted Shaq Thompson, they envisioned an athletic freak of a linebacker that would cover the field sideline to sideline. What they got was far less than that, until yesterday. Shaq Thompson in his new #7 jersey was reborn and finally lived up to his expectations. Let's hope this new Shaq is here to stay. Walk of Shame Dennis Daley warned us all last week that he isn't all that comfortable on the right side. So what did the Panthers do? Put him in at the right side. What transpired was an awful display of pass protection. This is not all Daley's fault. He should not have been put there. Let's hope Deonte Brown is active this week. Panthers offensive coordinator Joe Brady has an amazing playbook full of top notch content. Unfortunately, he doesn't exactly know how to use it properly. Brady is a DJ with the world's largest music collection that still plays poo that no one wants to hear. For that he gets a healthy helping of shame. A gratuitous and unnecessary hold by left guard Pat Elflein stalled what would have been a quick six points for the Panthers. We all knew Elflein would cost us this season, but we didn't know how soon. His 10 yard penalty deflated the offense that was looking very good otherwise.

Rewatching the game. Daley was awful. Elflein was bad at times, but Daley was just awful. How is Deonte Brown or Brady Christensen not better?

Mac Jones looks like a solid starter already. Pats made the right decision.

According to Matt Rhule, this was CMC's best play today. Daley gets beat bad with a spin move, CMC is able to hold him off long enough for Darnold to throw the TD.

The Panthers were able to squeek out a win against a very bad team. As such, give me your TOP TWO areas of concern For me .... Red zone play calling. Still far too many opportunities wasted. KIcking. Already a missed xp. That will end up losing us games eventually.

Good enough. This team can contend with him.

First home opener win in a long as time. Let's Goooo!

He has a fantastic play book. He just is clueless on when to call them.

Shaq Thompson - Lives up to his rookie hype, finally Derrick Brown - BEAST Brian Burns - Held all game long still got his. Sam Darnold - Solid performance CMC - Best RB in the league is back Who gets yours?

FIRST HALF THOUGHTS https://www.carolinahuddle.com/topic/171669-first-half-thoughts/

Sam looks good to very good. Defense is outstanding. Poor Zach Wilson is getting David Carr'd My butthole is burning from habeneros Slow start but I am hoping for a 30+ point shutout.

Elflein the player that has most benefitted the Jets so far.

Jets don't have NFL caliber corners and we are getting cute with screens. They need to stop babying Darnold.

My god the Jets are complete ass. We better bury these fools.

Bench Elflein for god sakes. He completely ruined that drive single handedly

Rhule described him as a project. I don't think we will see him anytime soon.

Andrew Norwell was inactive for the first half of the season too until the coaching staff realized he was their best left guard and only then after multiple injuries

OL Deonte Brown DT Phil Hoskins DE Darryl Johnson LB Clay Johnston OL Michael Jordan WR Shi Smith