Why was Anderson not utilized

[AggieLean]

Could’ve used Anderson yesterday 

[Lumps]

Anderson to this day bewilders me. I am not saying don't keep CMC on the field for most of the game but there is no reason to pound CMC in the ground when keeping him fresh and giving him some air every now and then can not only help his play stay on a high level but lengthen his time as a player in general.

I think I will agree with Mr. Scot on this one, Rivera simply finds something that works and shoves in down your throat and ignores if it stops working or could be done more efficiently.

[rayzor]

He's not a hybrid player. Too slow. Limited what the offense could do when he was on the field.

People don't like this being said because it doesn't fit whatever narrative they have going on, but offensively he just wasn't a good fit.

I've got my issues with the coaching staff and I'm no fan of Rivera, but this wasn't one of the things I had a problem with. 

And no, I don't have some axe to grind with CJ either. I was pretty neutral about him before getting here and was excited about the element he could bring, but when you look at everything the offense is doing and the motion and deception that's going on, it's using fast players that bounce around all over the place and CJ just didn't fit what was going on. 

Everyone on the field is a decoy and I'm guessing he didn't like being one of them and/or wasn't good enough at it. 

Either way, I don't think that it's all that big of a deal. The offense is built around Cam and CMC. You take one of those pieces out for very long and you have to scrap a major part of the playbook.

Could we have used a bruiser to get in the end zone those two times we blew it this week? Maybe, but I get the feeling what we did down there was more on Ron and what he feels comfortable with in those situations and I don't feel it was the best utilization of the talent we had on the field.

[CRA]

6 hours ago, hepcat said:

Anderson never saw a carry in the red zone. Where did the Panthers get beat yesterday? Short runs in the red zone.

and Cam was on fire yesterday passing......and yet down at the goal was the only time we went away from the pass. 

that was the coaching error.  Not running the wrong back

[rayzor]

16 minutes ago, CRA said:

and Cam was on fire yesterday passing......and yet down at the goal was the only time we went away from the pass. 

that was the coaching error.  Not running the wrong back

We deviated from what was working. Big mistake.

[hepcat]

21 minutes ago, CRA said:

and Cam was on fire yesterday passing......and yet down at the goal was the only time we went away from the pass. 

that was the coaching error.  Not running the wrong back

I agree with you that the playcalling there was suspect. But after that 60 yard McCaffrey run, they trot him right back out there to run again and he unsurprisingly fumbled because he was winded. That was a situation to have CJ Anderson pound it into the end zone. It even better sets up the play action too. Oh well.

[Inimicus]

43 minutes ago, AggieLean said:

Could’ve used Anderson yesterday 

For what?

Was there a spot on the bench getting too cold?

 

 

 

If he had been on the roster he wouldn't have seen the field.

[CRA]

20 minutes ago, hepcat said:

I agree with you that the playcalling there was suspect. But after that 60 yard McCaffrey run, they trot him right back out there to run again and he unsurprisingly fumbled because he was winded. That was a situation to have CJ Anderson pound it into the end zone. It even better sets up the play action too. Oh well.

yeah, giving a winded CMC the ball at the goal was just bad.  Asking for trouble.  They almost got it. 

[Darvinsun]

7 hours ago, SOJA said:

We've had this topic a million times. It's pretty clear the Panthers want CMC to be on the field as much as possible, even when he's exhausted. He's extremely productive but my guess is Anderson (rightly so) wanted more playing time and the panthers weren't interested in that prospect. 

Also Anderson did have a huge mistake early in the season in the Atlanta game. My guess is between that gaff and his general attitude he landed himself in Rivera's doghouse. 

Players make mistakes..He had to knock off the rust. We should have seen this coming when he wasn't getting any at time in the preseason which was dumb. He should have had more opportunities and Norv blew it.

[AggieLean]

1 hour ago, Inimicus said:

For what?

Was there a spot on the bench getting too cold?

 

 

 

If he had been on the roster he wouldn't have seen the field.

To pound it in when we were in the red zone.

[jfra78]

3 minutes ago, AggieLean said:

To pound it in when we were in the red zone.

they could have used armah or cap for that

[Inimicus]

25 minutes ago, AggieLean said:

To pound it in when we were in the red zone.

But dude, you know as well as I do that his presence on the sideline wouldn't have changed the play calling or the personnel package one bit.

[AggieLean]

26 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

they could have used armah or cap for that

True.

2 minutes ago, Inimicus said:

But dude, you know as well as I do that his presence on the sideline wouldn't have changed the play calling or the personnel package one bit.

Touché.

[juliosantos]

because he sucks