Week 2 WIN against Houston - Stats & Analysis

[KB_fan]

Black & Blue Review ‏@BlackBlueReview 5m5 minutes ago

Unless Jets shutout Colts, Panthers D will be No. 1 in scoring through two weeks. Beat who you play, but schedule makers have been kind, too

[KB_fan]

Black & Blue Review ‏@BlackBlueReview 5m5 minutes ago

Unless Jets shutout Colts, Panthers D will be No. 1 in scoring through two weeks. Beat who you play, but schedule makers have been kind, too

I know folks are going to look at us atop the Defense tables for least points allowed and say "Oh it was only the Jags and the Texans."  But hey, Jax just won against Miami scoring 23 points to do so, and MIA don't exactly have a terrible Defense, so, our win against JAX might not look too shabby at all.

 

[Peppers90 NC]

Joe Person has some instant analysis.  Wow, 29 incompletions for Mallett:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article35910330.html

Defense taking care of bad quarterbacks

The Panthers have yet to face a good passer. They will next week when Drew Brees comes to town.

But the defense did its part against Blake Bortles and Ryan Mallett, who made his third career start Sunday.

Mallett had 29 incompletions, but made things interesting late.

Playing in place of Luke Kuechly, Klein had a key interception. The Panthers had taken Klein out in a lot of passing situations, but he was on the field and made a nice drop in coverage to pick off Mallett.

Charles Johnson’s pressure on Mallett forced an intentional grounding on the Texans’ final drive.

 

i'd advise against quoting Joe Person for any type of analysis

[JJT]

Texans w/o their star running back and a journeyman qb but still take Panthers to the wire... 

That is not a complete sentence. 

[KB_fan]

Just a quick stat:  5 of Houston's 21 1st downs in the game (24%) came on penalties. (compared to 0 1st downs on penalties for the Jags last week ).  That came close to costing us the game on that final Houston drive.  Definitely something that we must, and I'm sure WILL, correct.  We did very well last year in terms of few penalties. 

[Zithers]

Including the postseason, Panthers have run for 100+ yards in 15 straight games. I know the 13 straight games in the regular season is being reported as longest active streak in NFL. So that's cool.

Did the math and its 2,258 yards in the 15 games, or 151 per game. Jonathan Stewart has 1,032 of those yards on 218 carries (4.7 ypc) and 3 TDs. Cam has 680 on 131 carries (5.2 ypc) and 6 TDs. Fozzy Whittaker is the only other player with a rushing score in that span, which blows my mind... how have we only scored 10 rush TDs in the past 15 games?

Also, a hilarious 7-7-1 record in those games.

[tiger7_88]

I know folks are going to look at us atop the Defense tables for least points allowed and say "Oh it was only the Jags and the Texans."  But hey, Jax just won against Miami scoring 23 points to do so, and MIA don't exactly have a terrible Defense, so, our win against JAX might not look too shabby at all.

 

Yeah, its just the Jags and the Texans.

The Colts play those two teams a total of 4 times every year, right?

[KB_fan]

I'll be posting some original tables and analysis in a few hours after I finish some email for work.  But in the meantime, I do want to post the link to the grades & analysis at B/R.  Yeah, I know it's B/R, so take it or leave it.  But I thought that this week's analysis was quite strong in a few sections, especially p. 3 & p. 5.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2569861-texans-vs-panthers-carolina-grades-notes-quotes/

[KB_fan]

Here is BBR's Snap Count analysis:

http://blackandbluereview.com/panthers-texans-week-2-snap-counts/

 

[Diehardpanther02]

Everyone keeps saying cam was responsible for all of our run game totals, but didnt tolbert and stew account for 90 something of the yardage total.  I know their averages/ run wasnt very good but 90 some yards against that texans front is not to shabby.  Its also over half of the yardage gained.  Cams run were more chunk yardage gains but jstew and tolbert get those tough 2-5 yard gains that keeps the chains moving.

[KB_fan]

BBR's Stats & Superlatives - Week 2

http://blackandbluereview.com/panthers-texans-week-2-stats-and-superlatives/

[KB_fan]

Everyone keeps saying cam was responsible for all of our run game totals, but didnt tolbert and stew account for 90 something of the yardage total.  I know their averages/ run wasnt very good but 90 some yards against that texans front is not to shabby.  Its also over half of the yardage gained.  Cams run were more chunk yardage gains but jstew and tolbert get those tough 2-5 yard gains that keeps the chains moving.

Exactly.  Stew & Tolbert had 93 yards. (Stew 62  on 17 carries; Tolbert 31 on 5 carries).  So yes, they were a very key part of the game.

Here's what B/R had to say about our Oline protection & the run game:

In addition, the Panthers ran the ball very well, picking up 172 yards on the ground.  Yes, quite a bit of that was due to scrambles and improvisation by Cam Newton, but even taking him out of the picture, the Panthers had 96 yards rushing, averaging 4.2 yards per carry with Jonathan Stewart and Mike Tolbert carrying the load. 

A week after the Kansas City Chiefs and star running back Jamaal Charles could only average 3.0 yards per carry, that’s a stat the offensive line can hang its hat on.

 

[KB_fan]

If someone has the PFF grades and can post them here, I'd be really appreciative, thank you. 

Still no new PFF subscriptions allowed.  Bummer.

[KB_fan]

Jonathan Jones ‏@jjones9 3h3 hours ago

Texans were 5-for-19 on third downs yesterday, and that was when Panthers had their 2 most (healthy) dynamic LBs on the field in TD and Shaq