Worries about Arizona

[Verge]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000627276/article/deone-bucannon-will-have-huge-role-vs-panthers

 

 

Adding onto the whole Bucannon thing

[TheGreatestOfAllTimeCam]

newton is going to have to be like Michael Jordan and do something unbelievable to make me believe because right now I simply don't believe fully

[Ivan The Awesome]

Palmer is no Lindley guys.. Don't underestimate him. 

 

It's gonna be a good game. The key will be pressure. Rattle Palmer some early and he'll give up the ball a couple of times. He's noRussell Wilson either.  So we don't have to worry about him running around so much and heaving a prayer to be caught in the end zone. 

[WUnderhill]

Biggest concern is 7pm kickoff, but hey more prep for the Super Bowl!

[ThPantherFan]

I don't have any worries.

[csx]

7 hours ago, TheGreatestOfAllTimeCam said:

newton is going to have to be like Michael Jordan and do something unbelievable to make me believe because right now I simply don't believe fully

Of course you don't.  You never ever have.

[panthers55]

On 1/19/2016 at 6:11 PM, Verge said:

 

This happened because of Washington and Dansby, athletic and rangy, they were able to seal off Cam.

If Cam is running then it is a designed run and everyone is going to be watching Cam. If it is a passing play then I hope they waste a guy spying the middle while Cam throws behind him. Or up the seam to Olsen. Or we move one direction and reverse to the other side. Cam didn't have a big running game against Seattle. I don't want Cam running all day, I want him throwing the ball and handing it off. Avoiding pressure and dumping it off or hitting slants. Taking away their blitz and then throwing to Cotchery or Funchess or even Philly deep. Arizona isn't the only team with long ball potential

[JSouth]

Like always the key is the lines. They have to keep Cam and the running game clean. Oher is gonna have to keep Freeney at bay. He is older now but he can still wreck havok in the backfield. 

Now if Short, Star, Ealy and CJ can dominate that line and not give Palmer time to find Brown or Fitz then this game is over. 

This will not be easy but I think we get the win. Damn I really hope so.

[PantherPride5]

Cam has always struggled against this defense. And Carson is an MVP calider player with a ton of weapons. We'll need a little luck to get that W today. 

[!stUp]

I think Sean MacD may have something up his sleeve in the way of exotic blitz packages.

[the butch]

The D has to be licking their chops knowing they don't have to tackle a RW.  We lost contain and pressured him to his right multiple times in that game.  That said, Palmer is no slouch, and has his team here despite his lack of mobility.  Hopefully our DL speed can really be showcased here since Wilson largely eliminated it last game.

[Thanatos]

On 1/19/2016 at 5:52 PM, Verge said:

I have not been particularly threatened by a team this year, I felt we could beat anyone without much pressure because no one matched up with us well. However, Arizona does a list of things that make me very nervous about the matchup.

- Deone Bucannon: Here is one of maybe three guys in the nfl that can actually spy Cam Newton successfully. Arizona used to have a guy like that, Daryl Washington, the last time we played a healthy Washington, he spied Cam all day and basically shut him down. Bucannon has that ability and we need to be able to put him on his ass and have Cam make some moves to get away, or else they will eliminate a huge part of our offense.

-Their interior o-line: The strength of our defense is very clearly Short and Star, they both demand a double team which leaves our edge rushers free as well as our linebackers to come up the middle. Their interior o-line is pretty damn outstanding and does not allow a ton of pressure up the middle, the only weakness on that line is their right side, which is not exactly our strength by any means.

-Patrick Peterson: Pretty simply put, this dude is going to cap Ginn, eliminating a deep threat.

-John Brown, JJ Nelson, and Larry Fitz vs McClain, Finnegan, and Coleman: This one is obvious, Norman is going to take away Floyd, which is very important, but we are going to have to take these guys vertically almost every play, and make sure we have additional mid field coverage for Fitz going across the middle. Do we have the speed with McClain and Coleman to cover the electric Brown and Nelson? I don't really think so. Can we contain Fitz with Finnegan and LB help? Probably. Either way it's a huge question mark, even if we do get massive pressure.

 

Of course, this doesn't make me think this is a loss by any means, but certainly a concern. We do things well that is their weakness as well. We can eliminate their best defensive trait which is their interior pass rush, we can beat their secondary with Greg Olsen, and we can most certainly run it on them. So all in all, it's just my thoughts. What is your biggest worry against Arizona? 

Their interior O-line is actually been playing like poo. Jared Veldheer and Mike Iupati are big names, but they have been playing like crap the second half of the season. Look for KK to have a huge game.

[truthjuice]

Still no worries, although I hope the coaches do not get conservative. What happened last week shouldn't have happened. It's playoff football, you can't play not to lose. I hope they understand that with this team. 

[Mage]

Spying Cam would be dumb, at least if you are doing it over the course of the game.

If you really are that worried about Cam running, you play zone defense.