OTAs twitter feed thread

[LinvilleGorge]

3 hours ago, grimesgoat said:

I'll respond once more, then give you the last word.

I imagine the playbook is full of all sorts of options, but I suspect with the constantly changing offensive line we fielded last year, that playbook was shortened considerably.  And we do not have Henry Winkler out there designing ridiculous plays in the middle of the Bourbon Bowl, so we have to use what we learned in training camp/preseason.

I'm sure there are short route options in the playbook.  But if Cam is counting the number of defenders in the box and he sees 8-9 guys, then he knows his best option will be further down the field.  He's counting on the line to hold up long enough for guys to get down there, but they just could not do it consistently.  Throwing short quick passes into an 8-9 man box is not the answer.  To add further insult to injury, when our only fast guy did get open downfield, it was 50/50 whether he would actually catch it.

I realize I'm defending Shula, which is a no-no on this board, but I'm not aware of anyone that would be significantly better for Cam at this point (other than maybe Norv Turner, whom I suspect Ron has on speed dial if we come out of the gate slow).  Let's see what Shula can design with some REAL weapons this year.

Quick routes and screen passes are staples of beating the blitz. Shula is too predictable in his approach. Teams figured out that instead of changing up his playcalling to try to get the ball out of Cam's hands faster, he simply elects to keep in eligible receivers (backs and TEs) to help with the blocking and continue to run slow developing deep routes with his WRs. The Broncos showed everyone the blueprint to beat that in the Super Bowl. Whenever we'd keep in extra blockers, they'd counter by having the man responsible for that assignment blitz (commonly known as "blue dog blitzing"). Just like that, no "extra" blockers. It's back to hat on a hat football. That's what team after team did to us last season and we never attempted to adapt. It was absolutely maddening to watch. The fact that we didn't have a single WR that scared an opposing DC exacerbated the issue.

I really, really hope our offense looks a lot different this season, but at this point I'll believe it when I actually see it happen. Shula has repeatedly shown us who he is and even if we do add some new wrinkles, I expect him to fall back to old habits way too often.

I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Saca312]

 

[LinvilleGorge]

6 hours ago, Khaki Lackey said:

our defense cost us four or five games last year, but McDermott gets a pass.

"he should have schemed around the rookie corners getting torched!"

He did. We started blitzing like mad. You know, the logical counter to a weak secondary. Sure, that creates some problems of it's own, but we weren't just sitting back waiting to get picked apart. Unlike Shula who seemingly held onto the belief that our OL would somehow magically morph into the Cowboys' OL at some point in the season.

[MHS831]

12 hours ago, SOJA said:

Good to see Funchess out there, Kelvin looks fine, Samuel looks quick but needs to tighten up his routes, Moton looks like a true HawgMallie.

samuel-routes are sloppy, but he is going to be quick

[ladypanther]

8 hours ago, Snake said:

He had drop cord power if I remember. 

Also shed makes it seem too big. What I remember was about the size of a kids playhouse. 

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article20610717.html

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.........he slept in the 10-foot-by-15-foot structure as any sort of defining moment.

It was simply a way to save on rent in southern California, where studio apartments went for as much as $1,000 a month.

That said, Mayo thinks the living arrangement made him a better player and student because, well, who wants to hang out in a shed any more than you have to?

“I think it helped me. Not having anything else to do, I worked out longer and studied a little more,” Mayo said. “People have had worse (situations), for sure.”

 

 

[Hogmolliesmaht]

I noticed that Blaine Clausell was in there with the one's in the Panthers.com pics from yesterday but I didn't want to say anything. They must really like this guy and want to really see what he can do. Say what you will about our O-line, but we do have a good position coach in that room and he seems to be able to get things out of guys that other teams couldn't.

[Jeremy Igo]

7 minutes ago, Hogmolliesmaht said:

I noticed that Blaine Clausell was in there with the one's in the Panthers.com pics from yesterday but I didn't want to say anything. They must really like this guy and want to really see what he can do. Say what you will about our O-line, but we do have a good position coach in that room and he seems to be able to get things out of guys that other teams couldn't.

He was in last week as well. 

 

I would not read much into it. They do this every year. The offensive line is constantly shuffled in OTAs, likely has more to do with who the coaches want to talk to on the sidelines more than who they want to see out there. 

[Hogmolliesmaht]

1 minute ago, Jeremy Igo said:

He was in last week as well. 

 

I would not read much into it. They do this every year. The offensive line is constantly shuffled in OTAs, likely has more to do with who the coaches want to talk to on the sidelines more than who they want to see out there. 

Fair enough, but it sure would be nice to have somebody who could just concentrate on backing up LT so they could let Williams and Moton fight it out over who starts at RT.