It's just one game

[stankowalski]

Enough with the doom and gloom  Denver is a good team.  We're a good team.  Either of us could have won that game.  If not for that timeout before Gano's first kick we would have won.  Nothing to get bent out of shape about as far as the outlook for the season.  We're going to win a lot of games.  We will win the NFC South.  We will go to the playoffs as one of the top 2 seeds.  

We have stuff we need to work on obviously but get a hold of yourselves and act like a man for christs sake.

[BIGH2001]

We have a tough schedule this year.  I hope this loss doesnt send us spiraling into poo.

[Snake]

All I know is we will never make it over the hump if our QB is brain dead. 

[Seamonk]

I'm personally not upset that we lost; it's in the way we lost that I'm upset. This will probably be the toughest defense/refs we'll play all year and we put ourselves in a position to win despite that. Our defense needs to tighten up the run defense though. Those running lanes were pretty wide. 

[Daddy_Uncle]

I'm not mad that we lost. I'm mad that refs continue to allow Cam to take headshots. This has been going on for far too long and players know they can get away with it. Something has too change or Cam's career will be cut short. Thats what I'm flaming fuging mad about. Give our QB the same treatment as all the other QBs in the league

[UpstatePanther]

2 minutes ago, Seamonk said:

I'm personally not upset that we lost; it's in the way we lost that I'm upset. This will probably be the toughest defense/refs we'll play all year and we put ourselves in a position to win despite that. Our defense needs to tighten up the run defense though. Those running lanes were pretty wide. 

This is the only problem I had with our play tonight. Too much given up in the running game

[trucpfan]

I think Denvers the best team in the league we're literally neck and neck with an elite team with an outrageous defense and a slightly upgraded offense. Also considering this is the first game of the year we should be sharper next week after that watch out. 

[Matthias]

I'm not worried that we gave up a lot of rushing yards this game, but I am greatly concerned about our pass defense.  If KK, Ealy, or CJ aren't getting to the QB, we will lose some of games this year.  I wish we would have kept Norman for one more year.  We did with Hardy when I said we shouldn't have tagged him, yet we let Norman walk?

Man, it feels like we are in rebuilding mode on defense.

[Captroop]

Enough with the doom and gloom  Denver is a good team.  We're a good team.  Either of us could have won that game.  If not for that timeout before Gano's first kick we would have won.  Nothing to get bent out of shape about as far as the outlook for the season.  We're going to win a lot of games.  We will win the NFC South.  We will go to the playoffs as one of the top 2 seeds.  

We have stuff we need to work on obviously but get a hold of yourselves and act like a man for christs sake.

We lost the same game twice in a row. Pretty much the same way. If you can't make adjustments with 6 months, it doesn't give me a lot of confidence in our ability to out fox the best teams in the league in the playoffs.

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[stankowalski]

Just now, Captroop said:

We lost the same game twice in a row. Pretty much the same way. If you can't make adjustments with 6 months, it doesn't give me a lot of confidence in our ability to out fox the best teams in the league in the playoffs.

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I thought we made some pretty good adjustments.  But guess what?  Denver might still be good.  You're not going to blow out every team.

[CPantherKing]

1 road game across the country lost. Need to win 2 of the next 3 west coast road trips.

[Captroop]

I thought we made some pretty good adjustments.  But guess what?  Denver might still be good.  You're not going to blow out every team.

The 1 glaring weakness is still there. The utter, shocking inability to protect Cam.

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[stankowalski]

Just now, Captroop said:

The 1 glaring weakness is still there. The utter, shocking inability to protect Cam.

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Honestly I don't know what the answer is.  I don't sit down and study game tape.  I still believe the penalty differential was the difference in this game.  Maybe we get those calls if Denver were playing in Carolina and we'd have won by 10+.

[CPantherKing]

Just now, stankowalski said:

Honestly I don't know what the answer is.  I don't sit down and study game tape.  I still believe the penalty differential was the difference in this game.  Maybe we get those calls if Denver were playing in Carolina and we'd have won by 10+.

The answer is to block release a green dog blitz and pass it to the TE or RB who released as the hot read. Did it in the 1st half. Stopped doing it in the second half. The coaches went into clock running mode to start the second half. They believed the defense could win it for the Panthers with a 17-7 lead.

30+ points or it will be 50/50 shots at the end of the game, and left up to the clock management.