Football Gameplan's 2015 NFL Team Preview: Panthers

[FootballCzar]

FBGP's Panthers 2015 Season Preview

Good evening Panther fans! Here's my season preview for you guys. Good luck this year!

 

Em

[DeeJay]

I May have to fap to this, Yup on it

[Udogg]

Good job once again EM

Only disagreement is I think it should be Collin Jones and FS and Coleman at strong safety. Especially when Bene being the 3rd cornerback. 

Other than that always appreciate your videos and analysis.  Especially since you actually ...analyze instead of pulling stuff out of your a#$ like a vast majority of the others.

[OnlyPantherFaninMaine]

Well done Em! We're finishing first in the NFCS but besides that, the only potential difference makers I think you forgot to mention were Frank Alexander at DE (returning from suspension) and Kurt Coleman that came over from KC at safety. 

You're one of the best in the business as far as I am concerned! 

[pantherj]

If we finish second in the very weak NFC South then we need to make some coaching changes. Cam is in his prime, and we have plenty of talent on both sides of the ball. To not even win the NFC South would result in possibly Shula and other coaches being fired in my opinion.

[SOJA]

no commentary on why we finish second?

[rodeo]

Good analyses. Lester has been a big disappointment though, I don't see him beating Coleman or Harper.

[The Huddler]

Meh. Quit kissing ass. This wasnt very good. Were not finishing fuging second. 

[RelaxImaPro]

Meh. Quit kissing ass. This wasnt very good. Were not finishing fuging second. 

Yeah.  I like Em and all, but this was all pretty basic stuff.  Also, Philly wasn't our return man last year other than for a handful of games... Bersin relieved him of that pretty early on in the season.  That and Lester has looked pretty damn awful outside of those couple of games he momentarily shined in 2013... so I'm not sure why a case would even be made for him starting.

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[The Huddler]

Yeah.  I like Em and all, but this was all pretty basic stuff.  Also, Philly wasn't our return man last year other than for a handful of games... Bersin relieved him of that pretty early on in the season.  That and Lester has looked pretty damn awful outside of those couple of games he momentarily shined in 2013... so I'm not sure why a case would even be made for him starting.

lester might not even make the damn team!

[ItsNotGonnaBeAlright]

Can't lie: This felt a little phoned in and not quite as informed as I've come to expect from FBGP.

[UpstatePanther]

i appreciate the effort Em but i have to agree with the other posters. you seem to have not done your homework on our team. would also like to know how you could possibly have anyone in the division finishing above us.

the Falcons have a new head coach, and while he may prove to be very good, you cant make chicken salad out of chicken poo. their roster is chicken poo outside of Ryan, Jones, and a few others. they did not address their lines on either side of the ball, and while guys are coming back from injury, they werent that good to begin with. Vic Beasly will not be able to carry their defense. he is a fantastic player, but he isnt Luke Kuechly. He cant do it all himself. who is going to run the ball for them? Devonta Freeman?! how did that work last year? again, Freeman isnt a bad player. but he isnt an every down back. who is going to catch the ball aside from Julio Jones? i cant even name the rest of their WR corps or any of their tight ends. we would have swept the series with them last year if we could have gotten out of our own way in our own house. so yeah, new head coach is great. but he has an uphill battle.

i wont even spend the time on the saints. they are the number two dumpster fire in the NFL right now. sure, Breesus will win them some games. like... 5 or so. but their defense was just as atrocious as Atlanta's last year. and they didnt do alot during the offseason to fix that. sure, they brought in some rookies. but not everybody drafts like Dave Gettleman bruh. The Saints will struggle to get more than 6 wins this year. 

i wont spend the time on Tampa either. there is a reason they only won 2 games last year. and sure, they made some strides this offseason. but they are still a sub-.500 club, no doubt about it.

meanwhile Cam is healthy and focused, JStew is finally the feature back, Greg Olsen and Ed Dickson will carry the TE corps, Benjamin will ball out this year, and the rest of the WR corps is suddenly stacked. Say what you will about the OL, but 4 of 5 positions are solved and played well in the last 6 games (counting 2 playoff games) last year. There is a good chance that Michael Oher will be better than his predecessor, at least enough to solidify the line and give Cam the standard 5 seconds to find an open (TALL) receiver. We have speed AND height in the receiving corps. our guys will get open this year. 

do i even have to talk about the defense? im pumped already talking about the offense so SURE I DO! we return the same line we finished with last year. you know, the one that was feasting the last 6 games? we legitimately have the best linebacking corps in the league. and our secondary is no longer the legion of whom. Josh Norman regularly shut down premier receivers last year, and Peanut Tillman looks good as ever, not to mention we have the steal of the 2014 5th round, Bene Benwickere, who could start in his own right, and might do just that. the only question on our defense is the safety position, but thats only if Roman Harper cant flourish with all this other talent around him. Maybe he wont, but thats okay because we are deep at safety. surely someone can mesh well with the rest of our defense. say what you will about out LDE rotation. Frank Alexander and Mario Addison are proving that either of them could be the every down DE opposite of Charles Big Money Johnson. this is not to mention that our under-the-radar first-round draft choice Shaq Thompson is going to ball out as our buffalo/joker player this season. Rivera and McDermott have wanted one all along. now they have one and they are going to terrorize the league with him.

im fired up so lets take it a step further. our special teams was atrocious in 2014. no doubt about that. this offseason, most of our free agent signings were guys that play special teams. we made a coaching change to a man who knows what the hell he is doing, and has the extra motivation of a fight with cancer (Keep Pounding Coach DeHaven) to make his unit the best it can be. we brought back our stellar return man, Ted Ginn, to run back our punts. we brought in Jordan Todman, the speedy kick returner from Jacksonville. We have the young lightening-in-a-bottle Dameire Byrd from the U of SoCar (Gamecocks represent!) that will just have to break one tackle and be in the endzone. there is no denying that this unit got better this offseason.

so tell me again how the Falcons, Saints, and Bucs are going to beat this Panthers team for the division title? i sure would love to know. seems to me there are only two teams in the NFC South that got better this offseason. One of them finished last in the division with a 2-14 record, and is a perennial NFL cellar-dweller. The other has won the division twice in a row, and gave eventual Super Bowl runners up (and lets be realistic, they should have been champions if not for their dumbass offensive coordinator) a run for their money in THEIR house. that team is the Carolina Panthers. and they are going to rule the South again this year. it wont even be close.

Carolina 11-5

Atlanta 8-8

Tampa 6-10

New Orleans 6-10

[panther4life]

I have always found his videos more suited for fans of other teams, who want to spend 2 minutes learning more about a team they otherwise know little to nothing about. The information is less than elementary and nothing groundbreaking for those who visit the huddle at least once a month.