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2nd Half Offense

Nate Dogg

By Nate Dogg,
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Conservative play calling when you have a lead, no halftime adjustments to counter act their opposing teams adjustmenst, poor execution.  Personally I blame more on Shula and the conservative ass play calls that he is running in the 2nd half with a lead.  Its been his MO since hes been here.  Once we get a lead we play "not to lose" instead of keeping the aggression high and stepping on necks.  Frustrates the hell out of me.  We have the skill on both sides of the ball to blow teams out but its not what Shula and Rivera are all about.

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7 minutes ago, Nate Dogg said:

In the Chiefs, Rams, Cardinals, Vikings, and Broncos games this team has a combined FIFTEEN offensive points in second halves. Just let that sink in. Fifteen.

We don't actually run block well and our OL is so weak we have to scheme up heavily for our plays to work vs good defenses.  We can't line up man on man.

good defenses that can line up...simply take a half to see all the ways Shula is attempting to help our OL (because of talent issues) and counter

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12 minutes ago, CRA said:

We don't actually run block well and our OL is so weak we have to scheme up heavily for our plays to work vs good defenses.  We can't line up man on man.

good defenses that can line up...simply take a half to see all the ways Shula is attempting to help our OL (because of talent issues) and counter

Well said and most average fans don't understand that. Hopefully we will address line issues in the off season. 

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12 minutes ago, Promethean Forerunner said:

I can't believe that but I've been keeping count. I'm surprised Black and Blue hasn't posted that stat yet.

The sad thing is, we had a lead at half time in all 5 games. We held on in the Cardinals game, but we got real lucky the Rams are so bad. Could've easily blown that one too.

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We can't run. We can't pass protect at critical times in the game. 

The offense doesn't have any confidence and deflates when it becomes overmatched.

The 20 play drive with zero points at the end was a total collapse in protection and the air was sucked out of the offense. Cam was yelling, guys were sulking.

First team guys are first team for a reason. Backups can flash but they aren't world beaters. They were already weak at the point of attack but without Kalil and Oher even more so. 

 

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Wow.  I'd really not been paying enough attention.  Have not even looked at gamebooks since week 3 or 4.  Haven't touched my Panthers excel spreadsheets in that long either.  Work is just slightly lighter now than it's been, but still pretty rough for another 2-3 weeks... I won't be doing any stat crunching soon.

What's really alarming is that we ALSO had a stretch this season of being shut out in long stretches of the first half.  During our 4 game losing streak, BBR had some stat of how long we'd been shut out in consecutive 1st quarters or something.  It was UGLY.  We really don't seem to be able to put together 2 good halves of football. 

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4 minutes ago, KB_fan said:

Wow.  I'd really not been paying enough attention.  Have not even looked at gamebooks since week 3 or 4.  Haven't touched my Panthers excel spreadsheets in that long either.  Work is just slightly lighter now than it's been, but still pretty rough for another 2-3 weeks... I won't be doing any stat crunching soon.

What's really alarming is that we ALSO had a stretch this season of being shut out in long stretches of the first half.  During our 4 game losing streak, BBR had some stat of how long we'd been shut out in consecutive 1st quarters or something.  It was UGLY.  We really don't seem to be able to put together 2 good halves of football. 

 

Another thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is how the Panthers have been favored in all 9 games so far lol. I'd like to know if any team in football history has ever had a stretch of 2-6-1 ATS and 3-6 SU in 9 straight favored games.

What that tells me is Vegas thinks we have the superior talent against all of our opponents, but our coaching staff is seriously inhibiting this team.

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