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

[arbnranger]

I believe we have the talent. I'm watching closely to see if the coaching has taken that last big step. Every team will be giving it their level best against us. We have the pieces , I think it comes down to what we learned as a coaching staff and how we will implement changes and adjust fire. 

Fans of the game know what a Chess battle this can become. 

[PhillyB]

1 hour ago, pantherclaw said:

Can't say I agree with the sentiment of the title.

 

the falcons beat us because of this weakness. it can and will be exploited. i don't think we're going to lose very many games this year but i also know successful teams know to mind the anklebiters.

[beastson]

As I watched the Titans game recently, I'm wondering why did we abandon the 3 HB play. Two players besides Cam and one behind him. A lot of misdirection and defenses couldn't stop it due to Cam being another runner and so much confusion. As I recall, that play seemed to go away as the season went along. The offense started to turn into a throwing, high powered show as we got so good at it and the SB just seemed like it was being forced to work. Just drop back and throw, it was like no we're going to score 30 as we have been doing. No patience, no adjustments at all. Pity, cause the defense did their best to try to keep us in it

 

Also, one would think with Ron being such a great defensive mind and he knows how the 3-4 works, he should have had some answers. I guess he didn't, cause I damn sure know Shula didn't know

[pantherclaw]

9 hours ago, PhillyB said:

the falcons beat us because of this weakness. it can and will be exploited. i don't think we're going to lose very many games this year but i also know successful teams know to mind the anklebiters.

This season is also the first season that i can remember, that our oline has continuity from one season to the next. This doesn't happen often in today's NFL, thanks to the salary cap. ~ the advantages that it brings can't be over stated, as the linemen know how each other plays, and continues to grow as a unit. 

Add to this, the coaching adjusting to how teams attack us. Not every team can even attack us this way.  Most can't. Every team attacks us a bit differently in every game.  Our unfamiliarity with the Broncos, didn't help either.  The home opener will be a decidedly different game, based on the fact that the Panthers know more to what to expect, and will be attacking Denver differently. 

I still say, if our offensive starters executed their roles better, we'd be the Champs.

[TheRumGone]

4 hours ago, PhillyB said:

actually most of them were committed to containing cam and bracketing olsen, remember? the broncos were the first ones to not give a poo about olsen. they just didn't give him enough time to cut past his coverage, and it worked.

but why could they not give a poo about Olsen? Because they had the talent at pass rushing to get to Cam quick. Look what they did to Brady who is the master of getting the ball out quickly. Talent trumps everything in the NFL.

If you look at the other teams we face this year, do you believe those other teams could replicate what the Broncos did? I see maybe one, KC, and maybe the Raiders. The others don't have the talent to do that schematically. Mike is limited athletically, but he's not dog poo against everyone he matches up 1v1, like you said earlier. Not every team has the talent to scheme like that and pull it off.

[Cary Kollins]

Gifs make me want to puke.

[Devil Doc]

4 hours ago, PhillyB said:

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/

 

Just letting you know. There is ex military here that would prolly love to be an extra, military advisor, etc

[Jangler]

2 hours ago, Cary Kollins said:

Gifs make me want to puke.

[csx]

I'm going to assume that the staff did more than a lot of analysis of the game and individually thought about this the entire offseason. They live and breath this chess match.

[Norway]

Man those gifs are tough to see

[Kakarot]

I'm still not ready for this, lol.

[Ivan The Awesome]

Rivera does have a track record for certain things, not learning from his mistakes and past games isn't one of them. Throughout his career he's learned several things the hard way. I'm hopeful this is another one of those things. 

[CRA]

Well, there is only one Von Miller at least...and a lot of that game was simply the man doing he rushing more than the playcall that was the issue 

the above coupled with our talent at RT that was subpar

so I see it was more a talent issue...a matchup of our weakest vs the strongest in the NFL played in the Super Bowl.

but we need to replace Remmers.  Warning sign was there all season 

[ecu88]

12 hours 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.