every team this year can beat us if rivera doesn't make adjustments from the broncos game.

[Hogmolliesmaht]

We need to run the ball run the ball run the ball....etc etc...That's how you slow down a pass rush.

[PhillyB]

Just now, Growl said:

The biggest concern I have is that its very clearly a physical limitation for Mike. You can blather all you like about how it was just one game-it wasnt-and that he's improved or will improve-but this isn't a case of low football IQ or your shoulders coming past your ankles or any other mechanic within his skillset. Its a physical limitations that will be present anytime he lines up against any rusher with any measure of athleticism.

 

The biggest flint of optimism shining here is that with a deeper WR corp present we can afford to dedicate more extra help with TEs and FBs. Which is the offensive equivalent of "we'll just generate pressure with out Safeties!"

he's gotten outmuscled a number of times. great footwork, handles the speed guys well enough most of the time, but it seems like he gets overpowered by bull rushes.

i'm curious if he's put on any weight for this season.

[emhoward]

58 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

I spent today in Florida scouting set locations for a film, and on the way back up I-95 I drove over the St. Johns River. Off to my right I spotted the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium - modern, humungous, a miracle of modern architecture and home to a really really bad football team. I laughed at their misery all the way to the Florida-Georgia state line, but then I started thinking about the hubris of Super Bowl losers and how even great teams gravitate to the mean. By the time I stopped to take a shit in Brunswick I was downright sober at the prospect of the Panthers actually losing the opener, and when I reached Savannah I promptly pulled over to get gas and write a piece about how Ron Rivera got his ass kicked by the blue-dog blitz.

Today's actually the first time I've watched highlights of the Super Bowl. It's still a raw wound. Douchebag was offsides on that field goal, and Cotchery caught that fucking ball.

But what really hurt the most was watching the Broncos negate our MVP offense by using the blue dog blitz, and watching Ron Rivera, Mike Shula, and John Matsko stand befuddled for three quarters without an answer. So it ended like this.

 

 

What the hell is blue dog blitzing, you might be asking. "Blue Dog" is simply a type of blitz package that negates extra blockers on the offensive line. Teams with poor offensive lines will often keep in extra blockers - usually a tight end - to assist in pass protection. Check out the following formation:

Notice the offensive formation: pretty simple. Greg Olsen is offset, which makes him an eligible receiver, but he can also stay in and block. Lots of times tight ends will chip a man to slow him down and then leak into the flat as an outlet. At any rate, he's set up to give Mike Remmers help here. This is the most common way to help out a tackle getting abused.

Fast forward to the Super Bowl:

 

We all have PTSD from this game, but keep your eyes open anyway. Remmers gets his ass kicked here, and Ron takes notice. His response is to start adding it tight ends to Remmers's side of the line. This ostensibly gives extra help and buys extra time.

What do the Broncos do? Well, Wade Phillips whips up the blue dog, a Jim Johnson favorite, and starts blitzing the guy who's facing off the extra blocker. In our original blocking scheme, Olsen can no longer help Remmers block his man because he's busy stopping one of his own.

 

Remmers has no help. It's back to one-on-one - just the way defenses like it when they've identified a weak cog. Wade Phillips identified it watching game tape of the Panthers, who betrayed Remmers's limitations first against the Falcons in week sixteen and then again versus the Seahawks in the divisional round. For three quarters, every time Shula kicked a blocker over to help him out, Phillips's defense audibled and sent an extra blitzer on that side of the field.

The result?

 

Ugh.

 

It's tempting to say that the Broncos provided the rest of the league the blueprint to stopping the Panthers. That's only half true. The Falcons actually figured it out, but they are stupid idiots so we give them zero credit for it. Wade Phillips just caught on and made it work on a national stage. And you can bet your sweet ass he's going to throw the exact same thing at us in week one to see if we've decided to make adjustments, or to see if Remmers has gotten any better. And twelve other teams will be watching to see how that works out for them. If they get consistent pressure again and Shula can't scheme around it, teams will do the same thing until somebody figures out how to stop it.

We'll see what happens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

p.s. it was still a fucking catch.

Curious? What kind of Film Production work do you do? 

[Smithers]

There's a way to defeat it with shorter routes, slants, QB draws, and bootlegs.  We did none of those obvious things and deserved to lose.

btw...damn right it was a catch!

[Randolph Panther]

I still watch the divisional against Seattle and the NFCC against the Cardinals every couple of weeks while im running on a treadmill.  Helps me while doing speed work training for my upcoming marathon.

[KSpan]

53 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

I've still never seen the superbowl on a screen.

Sent from my SM-G935P using CarolinaHuddle mobile app
 

Nor should you ever.

[nctarheel0619]

57 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

Other thoughts:

 

1) Not every team has a Von Miller. But teams don't need to hold us to 7 offensive points. Allow double that and run an efficient passing attack against a neophyte secondary and you've beaten the Panthers. Rivera and co. should be taking every pass rusher seriously now that this weakness has been betrayed.

2) One way to slow down blitzes like this is delayed releases and RB chips. Burning a couple of absent linebackers with a quick toss over the top or into the flat will keep them at bay and let blocks do what they're meant to do. This is largely why Fozzy is a much more valuable asset than people give him credit for: he's a great blocker and has veteran patience to navigate the screen game.

Wounds needed to be open.  Our fans ignore this and act like Remmers is okay.  When in reality he's awful.  Good post, bruh.  Well done.  

[PhillyB]

8 minutes ago, nctarheel0619 said:

Wounds needed to be open.  Our fans ignore this and act like Remmers is okay.  When in reality he's awful.  Good post, bruh.  Well done.  

he's not awful, and he'd start on half the teams in the NFL. but he's going to have to really work to not see those weaknesses exploited.

[uncfan888]

:(

[Ship]

for me if mike can't athletically stand toe to toe with miller, then we have to put hits on miller. hits like the steve smith takedown. like steve prefontaine said, if you want to beat us (sack us) you're gonna have to bleed to do it. miller fuging tomahawks guys in the throats when he falls on them. talib tries to rip peoples' heads off. if we aren't hitting those guys back and putting them on their asses then we aren't matching their physicality. if i'm playing against miller i'm falling on him every play and i'm pushing him after the whistle when he isn't looking and i don't give a fug about it.

this time we'll have KB and a much more confident and trash talking funchess. philly has added muscle. we need to bully them and not just stand there and take it. i'd love to see cam hit back with a stiff arm on a run play or a healthy stewart. i fully expect this to be an extremely physical game with lots of extracurricular activity.

[Chief Keek]

This is the first time I've actually looked at any pictures or GIFs of that game since the Super Bowl, thanks for reopening a old wound ya bastid. On a side note Ron and Co. don't have any other choice but to come out and beat Denver like a damn drum and make an example out of them. They've had ample time to review the footage and see their mistakes, now they just have to execute. I'm so ready for this game I can almost taste it, the Broncos have decimated the Panthers the past two meetings. Now it's time for some revenge.

[PhillyB]

38 minutes ago, emhoward said:

Curious? What kind of Film Production work do you do? 

i'm directing a vietnam war movie.

http://www.carolinahuddle.com/boards/topic/129317-so-im-officially-directing-and-producing-a-feature-length-vietnam-war-film/

 

[Cpt slay a ho]

damn you philly........the pain 

[PhillyB]

2 minutes ago, Cpt slay a ho said:

damn you philly........the pain 

i know, it killed my whole vibe. i'm sitting here listening to existential switchfoot tracks while i drive home and wondering if driving into the back of a tractor trailer would be a painless way to go