A quick look into Seahawks improved Pass defense

[heelinfine]

The Seahawks fans are supremely confident that their defense has improved so much since the Panthers beat them in week 6, and that bears out statistically. 

They'll tell you that the Panthers don't have the offensive power to put up much of a fight. Their reasoning is that Bobby Wagner who was out in our first meeting is back and that fact alone will take away our running game. There's a little truth to that assertion, Wagner is a stud, and an important reason the Seahawks run D has benn playing at a much higher level. I still think we can be effectivly successful on the ground.

They believe that they can stop our Passing game because CB Cary Williams is no longer with the team being released after Jeremy Lane returned from injuries. The Hawks fans believe the LOB Is back to form with Lanes return on 12/26/15.

Lane returned for the Steelers game, then Big Ben proceeded to gashed LOB for almost 500 yds and 30pts. The rest of the QBs they faced were Bridgewater, Clausen, Manzel, Kennum and Palmer for a half. 

[Khyber53]

I really like seeing teams come into BOA stadium full of confidence and fire. Good game plans, great players, lots of energy and enthusiasm. Looks great as they stream in during team introductions. 

Kinda feel sorry for them, though, as they mope on their way off the playing field at the end of the game, yelling at their team mates, wondering where it all went wrong, thinking they'll have our number next year for sure.

[slail04]

Yeah I saw Casserly saying that they have Wagner back and if you can take away Olsen.....blah blah blah. don't have weapons.......blah blah blah. Cary Williams is gone.... blah blah blah. 

We will come out and bust them in the mouth and see how they respond. how they respond will determine if it will be a close game or we blow them out. Don't think the team doesn't see all of these analyst picking against them just like another high profile game we were supposed to lose in Dallas on Thanksgiving.  How did that go again?

 

Keep Pounding Panthers. Sunday cant get here soon enough

[panthers55]

What folks forget is that not only are we better as a team having big money back who didn't play last time or a Ted Ginn who is twice the receiver he was, earlier in the year, a Funchess who isn't a rookie anymore and a Newton who has been on fire in the second half, but we are home on grass. We have dominated teams at home. Sure we let teams back in games through a lack of focus and taking our foot off the gas, but our team plays with a confidence at home that will be the difference tomorrow. Here is to stomping the petal to the metal and crushing Seattle for all the times they beat us at home.

[VerticalThreat]

I keep thinking back to last year's playoff game vs Arizona. Granted, the teams couldn't be more different and Seattle and Ryan Lindley shouldn't even be in the same sentence, but I think about the crowd. The Big ATM was ROCKING for a 7-8-1 team versus the Cardinals. I don't think many teams realized how rabid our fan base is. Sure, we don't have the catchy nickname (i.e. The Dawg Pound - Cleveland) or a world record for sound (2012s), but it get's downright insane in that place. Think back to the Redskins game, Cam even said it himself, "I'm tellin' you, my cadence game, is like...it's ridiculous." Having an extra week, a very aggressive defensive line, and the home-field advantage (if we can keep these goons quiet while we're on offense), will allow Cam's cadence game to be "ridiculous" once more. Little wrinkles such as cadence can be the small things that separate two otherwise equal teams. Is it Sunday yet?

[MadHatter]

Giving up 28.5 pts a game against the teams they faced with offenses ranked in the top half of the league....16 pts per game the against the 4 WORST ranked offenses in the league plus 2 games against Jimmy Clausen led teams.

That is ALL that you need to know about their over-rated defense.

[CelibatePimp]

 

 

I rewatched our game last night.

To say we won due to Cary being in the line up is an overstatement. Cam hardly picked on him.

Jesus our offense left a lot of points on the board due to the lack of execution. Cam Newton underthrows Greg on a naked bootleg on 4th and 1. It could have gone for a TD like that against the giants.

Can Newton underthrows Olsen again when he had beat the linebacker. Would have been a TD had he led Olsen with the ball.

Newton was completing passes to Philly Brown when he was matched up with Sherman. Funchess had three BIG drops with some coming on passes where he beat Sherman.

I think the seahawks will be blown out tomorrow. Our offense has come a long way was the main thing I came out with after having watched the game.

 

[Ace_Aladdin]

2 hours ago, heelinfine said:

The Seahawks fans are supremely confident that their defense has improved so much since the Panthers beat them in week 6, and that bears out statistically. 

They'll tell you that the Panthers don't have the offensive power to put up much of a fight. Their reasoning is that Bobby Wagner who was out in our first meeting is back and that fact alone will take away our running game. There's a little truth to that assertion, Wagner is a stud, and an important reason the Seahawks run D has benn playing at a much higher level. I still think we can be effectivly successful on the ground.

They believe that they can stop our Passing game because CB Cary Williams is no longer with the team being released after Jeremy Lane returned from injuries. The Hawks fans believe the LOB Is back to form with Lanes return on 12/26/15.

Lane returned for the Steelers game, then Big Ben proceeded to gashed LOB for almost 500 yds and 30pts. The rest of the QBs they faced were Bridgewater, Clausen, Manzel, Kennum and Palmer for a half. 

The Panthers OL is far better than what it was in week 6, there going to own the Seahawks D and pound them down to defeat. 

[Harbingers]

6 minutes ago, sanjay_rajput said:

The Panthers OL is far better than what it was in week 6, there going to own the Seahawks D and pound them down to defeat. 

Come on Remmers! Don't hold.

[UpstatePanther]

1 hour ago, panthers55 said:

What folks forget is that not only are we better as a team having big money back who didn't play last time

I mean... I hear you. But CJ has been nonexistent since returning from injury. Maybe he was saving his energy for the playoffs, but I'm not hopeful. I would rather be starting Ealy and Delaire/Addison/Horton and rotating CJ and Allen in at this point.

1 hour ago, VerticalThreat said:

(if we can keep these goons quiet while we're on offense)

We should all make a pact right now that we won't sit idly by at this egregious error. If you see fans getting rowdy while we are on offense, call them out and tell them to save it for when we are on defense

[VerticalThreat]

18 minutes ago, UpstatePanther said:

I mean... I hear you. But CJ has been nonexistent since returning from injury. Maybe he was saving his energy for the playoffs, but I'm not hopeful. I would rather be starting Ealy and Delaire/Addison/Horton and rotating CJ and Allen in at this point.

We should all make a pact right now that we won't sit idly by at this egregious error. If you see fans getting rowdy while we are on offense, call them out and tell them to save it for when we are on defense

Feel free to share this on social media or print a bunch and throw them from the upper deck.

[panthers55]

13 minutes ago, UpstatePanther said:

I mean... I hear you. But CJ has been nonexistent since returning from injury. Maybe he was saving his energy for the playoffs, but I'm not hopeful. I would rather be starting Ealy and Delaire/Addison/Horton and rotating CJ and Allen in at this point.

We should all make a pact right now that we won't sit idly by at this egregious error. If you see fans getting rowdy while we are on offense, call them out and tell them to save it for when we are on defense

CJ gets a bad rap because he counts almost 20 million toward the cap and compared to previous years he had a big drop off and missed 6 games due to injury.  I hope he reaches down and channels the player he was from the past who was dominant. If he doesn't then he will be gone next year plain and simple and will continue to lose playing time to other guys. 

[CRA]

2 hours ago, panthers55 said:

What folks forget is that not only are we better as a team having big money back who didn't play last time or a Ted Ginn who is twice the receiver he was, earlier in the year, a Funchess who isn't a rookie anymore and a Newton who has been on fire in the second half, but we are home on grass. We have dominated teams at home. Sure we let teams back in games through a lack of focus and taking our foot off the gas, but our team plays with a confidence at home that will be the difference tomorrow. Here is to stomping the petal to the metal and crushing Seattle for all the times they beat us at home.

Are we better with Johnson back? DE play IMO hasn't gotten weaker since he returned.  

Offensively we are much better than week 6.

I think CJ and Allen are too slow to have a big role tomorrow.  Wilson breaks the pocket and their like of ability to close on him IMO will give him too much time and that is really when you have to worry about Wilson

[thefuzz]

7 minutes ago, panthers55 said:

CJ gets a bad rap because he counts almost 20 million toward the cap and compared to previous years he had a big drop off and missed 6 games due to injury.  I hope he reaches down and channels the player he was from the past who was dominant. If he doesn't then he will be gone next year plain and simple and will continue to lose playing time to other guys. 

He counted a touch over 20M toward the cap, however, I don't think that's where he gets the bad rap.

He gets a bad rap because he has 1 sack, and is going to twitter complaining about minutes.....and he counts 20M against the cap.  Big Money has counted 31M against the cap over the past two seasons, and that has produced 9.5 sacks.

2014 he was tied for 22nd in sacks....with the likes of DT's like Marks, Suh, and McCoy....not DE's.  This year, not even in the top 200.

I like Big Money, but he either can't, or won't play any longer, and he is certainly gone after this season.