Panthers - Vikings Postgame Notes

[Jeremy Igo]

THE SERIES

·         Carolina improves to 6-8 all-time against Minnesota, including 3-2 at home.

·         The Panthers are now 4-2 at home this season, winning three straight at home.

 

NEWTON ENGINEERS 14TH CAREER GAME-WINNING DRIVE

·         Cam Newton made a 62-yard run to set up a game-winning 1-yard touchdown run by Jonathan Stewart with less than two minutes remaining.

·         Newton has 14 career game-winning drives and two this season (previously at New England).

·         Newton’s 62-yard run was his second run over 60 yards this season (69 vs. Miami, 11/13). He is the first quarterback in NFL history with two runs over 60 yards in the same season.

 

PANTHERS RUSH FOR OVER 200

·         Helped by big runs from Cam Newton (62) and Jonathan Stewart (60), the Panthers rushed for 216 yards as a team, the most allowed by Minnesota this season. Before today, the longest run that Minnesota allowed was a 29-yard run.

·         Carolina and Chicago are the only two teams with three or more games of 200 or more rushing yards this season. The last time that Carolina had at least three 200-yard rushing games was in 2009.

 

STEWART SETS NEW CAREER MARK

·         Jonathan Stewart set a new career high with three rushing touchdowns. He finished with 103 rushing yards, including a 60-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Stewart has 16 career 100-yard rushing games, two behind DeAngelo Williams for the franchise mark.

·         Stewart becomes the eighth different player in franchise history with a three-touchdown game, and the first since Mike Tolbert on 12/30/12 at New Orleans.

·         Stewart is one of three players (Mike Gillislee, Mark Ingram) in the NFL this season with a game of three rushing touchdowns. 

 

THIEVES RETURN

·         Carolina extended its streak with a takeaway to six games, as Carolina made three takeaways on two interceptions and a fumble recovery. The Panthers have won the turnover battle by a combined margin of 10-5 since the Tampa Bay game (10/29). The Panthers have gone 5-1 over that stretch.

·         Cornerbacks Daryl Worley and James Bradberry each made interceptions against Minnesota. They marked the first interceptions by Carolina’s cornerbacks this season.

·         Since 2015, Carolina has made 48 interceptions, the second-most in the NFL. 

 

SACK LUNCH

·         The Panthers tallied six sacks against Minnesota, tied for the most by Carolina’s defense this year, and the most allowed by Minnesota.

·         Mario Addison and Julius Peppers each had a sack as they share the team lead at 9.5 sacks this season. Addison has 17.5 sacks over the last 20 games, ranking fourth in the NFL over that span.

·         Kawann Short made two sacks for his second multi-sack game of the season.

·         Kyle Love now has 3.5 sacks on the season while Luke Kuechly picked up his first sack of the year.

 

PANTHERS TIE FRANCHISE RECORD

·         Carolina has now gone 17 games without allowing a 100-yard individual rusher. That streak ties the franchise record set over 2001-2002. Carolina’s streak is currently the third-longest in the NFL.

·         The last time that an opponent had a 100-yard rush game against Carolina was at Seattle (12/4/16) when Thomas Rawls topped 100.

[Hoenheim]

only thing you really left out is how well funchess has kept doing since KB has gone out. He's on pace for over 1000 receiving yards and double digit receiving tds.

Funchess' 762 receiving yards and 7 receiving TDs is at least the 3rd best receiving season out of any Panther receiver since Cam came into the the league in 2011. Smitty had 1394 receiving yards and  7 touchdowns in Cams rookie 2011 season. In a similar vein in that time period, was 2014 KBs rookie season , 1008 receiving yards, 9 TDs. 

 

 

[cookinbrak]

Pep should be credited with 2 sacks. One play Keenum was down, but got up and moved 2 more yards forward, Pep wasn't credited with a sack.

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, cookinbrak said:

Pep should be credited with 2 sacks. One play Keenum was down, but got up and moved 2 more yards forward, Pep wasn't credited with a sack.

Yeah, Keenum's knee was clearly down. 

[UpstatePanther]

How far is Pep from #3 all-time?

[tiger7_88]

11 hours ago, Hoenheim said:

Funchess' 762 receiving yards and 7 receiving TDs is at least the 3rd best receiving season out of any Panther receiver since Cam came into the the league in 2011.

I assume the above comment is directed strictly to WR options, right?

Still... wow.

That makes one helluva comment about the trash that has been provided as WR options for Cam for almost 7 years now.

[KillerKat]

11 hours ago, cookinbrak said:

Pep should be credited with 2 sacks. One play Keenum was down, but got up and moved 2 more yards forward, Pep wasn't credited with a sack.

don't they correct that later in the season? 

[Khyber53]

Also, our O-line play was sturdier in pass protect and much better in the rushing game than we've seen in a while. 

Overall, we picked a good day to have a good day against a top-notch opponent.

Cam was in control of the game and played with a lot of, I don't know, Cam-ness. We broke past 30 points against a very respected defense and our defense slowed down a high-powered offense enough to get the win.

And if Case Keenum isn't the Vikings starter next year, then he's going to be getting a big contract from someone. He's matured a lot in the last year and he's good, very good.

[KB_fan]

12 hours ago, Hoenheim said:

Funchess' 762 receiving yards and 7 receiving TDs is at least the 3rd best receiving season out of any Panther receiver since Cam came into the the league in 2011. Smitty had 1394 receiving yards and  7 touchdowns in Cams rookie 2011 season. In a similar vein in that time period, was 2014 KBs rookie season , 1008 receiving yards, 9 TDs. 

I recall Ginn had 10 TDs in 2015, but don't remember his yards total... 

[Fox007]

1 hour ago, tiger7_88 said:

I assume the above comment is directed strictly to WR options, right?

Still... wow.

That makes one helluva comment about the trash that has been provided as WR options for Cam for almost 7 years now.

Yea I think like the 3rd or 4th WR on GB gets that in his sleep.(when Rodgers is healthy)

[Fox007]

10 minutes ago, KB_fan said:

I recall Ginn had 10 TDs in 2015, but don't remember his yards total... 

He had 739 yards and 10 TDs that year.

So yea that's better atm totally but Funchess will beat it by the end of the season.

[KB_fan]

4 minutes ago, Fox007 said:

He had 739 yards and 10 TDs that year.

So yea that's better atm totally but Funchess will beat it by the end of the season.

Thanks for looking up the yards.  My Internet is so lousy lately that it makes even a simple stat look up quite a chore.

[rainwater]

1 hour ago, KillerKat said:

don't they correct that later in the season? 

They can't overturn a bad call by the refs. And since they didn't rule him down, they aren't suppose to give Peppers credit for the sack. Of course things like that can be changed if the NFL really wanted but the Panthers and Peppers aren't going to push the NFL on a stat.

[Chaos]

Lots of sad looking Vikings fans on my flight to Chicago this morning.  Lugging their horned hats and tears towards the back lol