Do the Panthers have a pass rush?

[kungfoodude]

Maybe?

[Mr. Scot]

My concern is whether we have a pass rush that lasts a full 60 minutes.

Under Rivera, we've had a pattern of looking strong in the first half of games and fading in the second.  General belief on why that's been a pattern is that since Shula / Rivera either didn't bother adjusting or just weren't very good at it, our second half offense was largely ineffective resulting in our second half defense getting worn out.

If Turner can do a better job keeping the offense going for a full game than Shula did, it'll be easier to keep the defense up as well.

[jtm]

Pep hasn't played and I put very very little into the preseason.  Other than Luke, most vets are not going full speed and are just trying to shake the rust off.  Plus, teams don't show any of their blitz packages in the preseason.  Our pass rush will be good . . . my concern is the secondary.  

[Mr. Scot]

Have said this before, but will again:

While I know everyone is high on Eric Washington, this is still his rookie season as a DC.  Lots of guys who went on to be great struggled in their first year.

It's probably wise to be patient with Washington, especially as the season goes on.

[philit99]

Super Mario gets no respect.

[WarPanthers89]

With Washington as our D coordinator, and the addition of Poe, the pass rush is the least of my worries. Most teams would kill to have Short, Poe, Pep, Addison, and the Depth to rotate people in. Not sending a Blitz 98 percent of the plays will help us out tremendously. I do not believe you can name 5 stronger looking D lines than ours.

[Mr. Scot]

Also have to remember that all throughout preseason, we saw teams using quick passes to nullify our rush.  You can likely expect to see even more of that once the live bullets are flying.

The west coast type approach has been used to combat high pressure defenses for a long time, though I have to admit watching this preseason it felt like passes were flying out of QB hands even faster than usual.  That's just a feeling, of course, but it would make sense.

The proper response to that is having a secondary (and sometimes linebackers) that can challenge receivers on those short quick routes.

Do we have that?

[SetfreexX]

Don't see pass rush as an issue, what I see as an issue is the corners CONTINUING TO LINE UP 10 yards off the LOS. Any Trips set that occupies the LB, clears the corners is going to leave those flat dump offs, the quick curls WIDE OPEN. 

I hope this was just vanilla coverage, and I believe it is, because no way can we play vs -- Ryan / Bress / Manning / Smith / Roethlisberger -- giving that kind of cushion with the receiving options on those teams. 

[La Pantera]

Weve had good pressure all preseason, but weve not finished with the sack, as much as we could've.

but all that wont matter if a flag is thrown, for farting in the QBs general direction. It appears that you'll get a flag simply because you hit them too hard. Be damned if its good technique.

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, La Pantera said:

Weve had good pressure all preseason, but weve not finished with the sack, as much as we could've.

but all that wont matter if a flag is thrown, for farting in the QBs general direction. It appears that you'll get a flag simply because you hit them too hard. Be damned if its good technique.

Is it a penalty to tell them their mother was a hamster?

[Wyank]

Well since it is roughing the passer to look at the opposing QB in un-friendly manner, we better start worrying less about the pass rush and more about DB that can cover.

[La Pantera]

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

Is it a penalty to tell them their mother was a hamster?

Yes. Because it hurts their feels. And thats wrong

[WarPanthers89]

3 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Also have to remember that all throughout preseason, we saw teams using quick passes to nullify our rush.  You can likely expect to see even more of that once the live bullets are flying.

The west coast type approach has been used to combat high pressure defenses for a long time, though I have to admit watching this preseason it felt like passes were flying out of QB hands even faster than usual.  That's just a feeling, of course, but it would make sense.

The proper response to that is having a secondary (and sometimes linebackers) that can challenge receivers on those short quick routes.

Do we have that?

Yes as long as we can get pressure with the front 4. We can handle it and we really have been fortunate to have a decent D line for many years after we drafted star and KK

[Khyber53]

We've got a pass rush and we haven't even seen it in action yet.