Playing Time & Our Rookie Class, Notes, By: Beach

[davos]

I won't say this draft was perfect.  The developmental edge rusher was a weird one but we're looking good peeps.

The following charts break down our defensive snap counts at the end of last season when we were playing pretty well.  

Game 17:

James Bradberry	CB	0	0%	72	100%	10	33%
Luke Kuechly	LB	0	0%	72	100%	9	30%
Mike Adams	SS	0	0%	72	100%	8	27%
Thomas Davis	LB	0	0%	72	100%	6	20%
Daryl Worley	CB	0	0%	66	92%	10	33%
Mario Addison	DE	0	0%	51	71%	2	7%
Kawann Short	DT	0	0%	49	68%	8	27%
Colin Jones	FS	0	0%	39	54%	23	77%
Star Lotulelei	DT	0	0%	39	54%	8	27%
Shaq Thompson	LB	0	0%	37	51%	11	37%
Julius Peppers	DE	0	0%	35	49%	8	27%
Jairus Byrd	FS	0	0%	33	46%	3	10%
Kyle Love	DT	0	0%	31	43%	0	0%
Captain Munnerlyn	CB	0	0%	29	40%	0	0%
Vernon Butler	DT	0	0%	25	35%	6	20%
Wes Horton	DE	0	0%	22	31%	0	0%
Bryan Cox	DE	0	0%	19	26%	11	37%
Charles Johnson	DE	0	0%	17	24%	0	0%
Kevon Seymour	CB	0	0%	12	17%	21	70%

 

Wildcard:

James Bradberry	CB	0	0%	58	100%	9	29%
Luke Kuechly	LB	0	0%	58	100%	6	19%
Thomas Davis	LB	0	0%	58	100%	5	16%
Mike Adams	SS	0	0%	57	98%	6	19%
Kurt Coleman	FS	0	0%	57	98%	6	19%
Daryl Worley	CB	0	0%	51	88%	8	26%
Shaq Thompson	LB	0	0%	44	76%	9	29%
Kawann Short	DT	0	0%	42	72%	6	19%
Mario Addison	DE	0	0%	42	72%	1	3%
Star Lotulelei	DT	0	0%	35	60%	6	19%
Julius Peppers	DE	0	0%	32	55%	6	19%
Wes Horton	DE	0	0%	26	45%	0	0%
Kyle Love	DT	0	0%	21	36%	0	0%
Vernon Butler	DT	0	0%	18	31%	5	16%
Bryan Cox	DE	0	0%	16	28%	9	29%
Captain Munnerlyn	CB	0	0%	16	28%	0	0%
Ladarius Gunter

 

Defensively, a few observations:

• Kurt Coleman, when 100%, was our full time FS
• Without a for sure FS starter, it was 50/50 Byrd/Jones :(  Either Gaulden is good to go or we start Searcy (who's started plenty in his career) 
• Worley is the obvious void, now it's Cockrell (90%+/gm)
• Munnerlyn's time is now Jackson's (30-40%/gm)
• What happens without TD games 1-4? Well, yes, more nickel.  Otherwise, Mayo is solid, however, we can't hedge our bets and have to look to the future.  We've got a fresh OLB  
• We've got extra redshirts in Hall and Elder who should get playing time
• +A developmental DE

 

Offense:

Game 17:

Player	Pos	Num	Pct ▼	Num	Pct	Num	Pct
Andrew Norwell	G	61	100%	0	0%	2	7%
Daryl Williams	T	61	100%	0	0%	2	7%
Amini Silatolu	T	61	100%	0	0%	2	7%
Cam Newton	QB	61	100%	0	0%	0	0%
Ryan Kalil	C	61	100%	0	0%	0	0%
Matt Kalil	T	61	100%	0	0%	0	0%
Greg Olsen	TE	57	93%	0	0%	0	0%
Devin Funchess	WR	53	87%	0	0%	0	0%
Christian McCaffrey	RB	52	85%	0	0%	0	0%
Kaelin Clay	WR	42	69%	0	0%	8	27%
Brenton Bersin	WR	35	57%	0	0%	0	0%
Ed Dickson	TE	29	48%	0	0%	9	30%
Cameron Artis-Payne	RB	12	20%	0	0%	11	37%
Russell Shepard	WR	8	13%	0	0%	17	57%
Chris Manhertz	TE	8	13%	0	0%	3	10%
Taylor Moton	T	5	8%	0	0%	2	7%
Fozzy Whittaker	RB	4	7%	0	0%	15	50%

 

Wildcard:

Player	Pos	Num	Pct ▼	Num	Pct	Num	Pct
Andrew Norwell	G	74	100%	0	0%	7	23%
Matt Kalil	T	74	100%	0	0%	7	23%
Daryl Williams	T	74	100%	0	0%	7	23%
Trai Turner	G	74	100%	0	0%	7	23%
Ryan Kalil	C	74	100%	0	0%	0	0%
Cam Newton	QB	73	99%	0	0%	0	0%
Greg Olsen	TE	69	93%	0	0%	0	0%
Devin Funchess	WR	65	88%	0	0%	0	0%
Christian McCaffrey	RB	59	80%	0	0%	1	3%
Brenton Bersin	WR	45	61%	0	0%	0	0%
Kaelin Clay	WR	42	57%	0	0%	4	13%
Ed Dickson	TE	26	35%	0	0%	13	42%
Jonathan Stewart	RB	24	32%	0	0%	0	0%
Russell Shepard	WR	22	30%	0	0%	15	48%
Taylor Moton	T	7	9%	0	0%	7	23%
Alex Armah	RB	6	8%	0	0%	14	45%
Fozzy Whittaker	RB	4	5%	0	0%	18	58%

 

Notes:

• Replace Norwell with Moton or Sirles (OT: Stop overracting to Amini, he's not going to be our starter)  Sirles was starting for the Vikes when we played them FYI.  
• Dickson at 35% (Sometimes near 50%) will be replaced with Ian Thomas (Maybe another UFA comes in)
• We now have Funchess and Moore to get 85%+ each routinely.  Seriously, we marched into the playoffs with Clay and Bersin being our #2 and 3.  We should feel good folks.
• We closed those last 4-5 games with Funchess-Clay-Shepard-Byrd-Bersin.  We now have Moore-Funchess-Smith-Wright-Samuel to work with with a new OC.    

 

The point: The rookies we got are at the most opportune positions to get playing time considering who's gone. The whole "Will they be a starter?" is not the way to look at it.  Minus LG and RB, we addressed the biggest problem areas, like the pick or not.

Also, obligatory, f*ck Russell Shepard.

 

 

[davos]

Also, don't reply to the first post, it will fatten up the thread.  The first table came in wrong--just corrected it.  

[Fox007]

RB isn't a big problem and still plenty of time to get one anyway.

G/LT still an issue but we're probably rolling with what we got....issue with that is....those 2 spots can bring our offense to a stop like they have in the past regardless of the weapons we have.

[davos]

4 minutes ago, Fox007 said:

RB isn't a big problem and still plenty of time to get one anyway.

G/LT still an issue but we're probably rolling with what we got....issue with that is....those 2 spots can bring our offense to a stop like they have in the past regardless of the weapons we have.

I agree.  Just look at how someone like Chris Carson can get rolling for SEA with their awful line last year.  We're fine there.  Outside of Penny, I wasn't really overly excited about any RBs outside maybe John Kelly and Mark Walton.  

G is an issue but not having a long term solution doesn't mean Moton can't beast it there.  I personally think we may be better off with Williams at LG and Moton at RT but we'll see what happens.  Our UFA signings, Sirles and Cockrell in particular, are being quite overlooked in my view.