Refocused: Carolina Panthers 33, New England Patriots 30

[TheSpecialJuan]

Top 5 Grades:

WR Kelvin Benjamin, 84.8 overall grade

LB Luke Kuechly, 84.6 overall grade

DI Kyle Love, 83.9 overall grade

OT Daryl Williams, 83.1 overall grade

OG Andrew Norwell, 82.0

Performances of Note:

QB Cam Newton, 79.9 overall grade

Recovering from a poor early interception, that saw him sail a pass too far downfield allowing for the easy takeaway, Newton settled in as the game went on, and delivered several key throws before leading the Panthers into position for the game winning field goal. When the Patriots didn’t get pressure on him, which was on nine of his 33 dropbacks, Newton completed 82.6 percent of his passes, tossed three touchdowns and produced an passer rating of 140.2.

HB Christian McCaffrey, 77.4 overall grade

[TheSpecialJuan]

https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/pro-refocused-carolina-panthers-33-new-england-patriots-30

[L-TownCat]

Stats just back up what my eyes were telling me.  We looked good.

Scary thing is, this wasn't our best game.  If somehow we can put first 2 weeks D with last weeks O.  Look out.

[Bartin]

Kyle Love is still a boss. Still can't believe we cut him last year and then he was still available to be signed after week 3.

[JawnyBlaze]

Don't understand how their game ball went to KB. He had a good game, but if it goes to anybody but Cam it would be Funchess or Peppers. hashtagpffmakesnosense

[top dawg]

12 minutes ago, JawnyBlaze said:

Don't understand how their game ball went to KB. He had a good game, but if it goes to anybody but Cam it would be Funchess or Peppers. hashtagpffmakesnosense

KB was a beast, catching everything that came his way. You can't get better than that.

[JawnyBlaze]

2 minutes ago, top dawg said:

KB was a beast, catching everything that came his way. You can't get better than that.

Two TDs is better than that in my opinion. Not trying to take away from KB, he did what was asked of him, but the two TDs far outweigh that drop and that puts Funchess over KB to me. 

[Snake]

40 minutes ago, thebigcat said:

How Gettie thought Solai over Love still baffles me

Wish people knew the difference when it came to DTs. Love is UT and Solai was a NT. Star is our only NT on the team. With that said Solai came with skates. 

[KB_fan]

13 hours ago, Bartin said:

Kyle Love is still a boss. Still can't believe we cut him last year and then he was still available to be signed after week 3.

Love had extra motivation on Sunday... wanted to show Belichick and the Pats that they were wrong to cut him.

Somewhere there was an interview with him in which he admitted that Sunday was personal.  Forget where I saw it.  Sorry...

[Saca312]

Yeah don’t understand the KB overrate and the Daryl Williams optimism. Not what i saw.

[countryboi]

1 hour ago, Saca312 said:

Yeah don’t understand the KB overrate and the Daryl Williams optimism. Not what i saw.

KB was the product of two blown coverages...i just dont think its the type of thing we can expect him to duplicate. 

[dpm0409]

6 hours ago, KB_fan said:

Love had extra motivation on Sunday... wanted to show Belichick and the Pats that they were wrong to cut him.

Somewhere there was an interview with him in which he admitted that Sunday was personal.  Forget where I saw it.  Sorry...

Saw the same thing.  Article said they released him a few weeks after he was diagnosed with Type II diabetes and he was very unhappy with the way the situation was handled.  Said he has "no love" (pun intended) for BB whatsoever.

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