Coaching made this game Closer then it should have been..

[45catfan]

3 minutes ago, Darknight said:

I want to say that this is sarcasm but since this is the huddle you can never be too sure if this is the case or not.

Totally sarcasm; I'm well versed in it.  The point remains, we got out-coached in the second half and it didn't have to be that way.  Only a Panthers' staff would assume the opponent, who got beat badly in first half, would not come out super-aggressive in the second half. The Jets defensive front four is the strength of that team and dialing up pressure all second half was the only way they were going to get back in the game.  Who didn't see that coming?  Apparently Joe Brady.

[Khyber53]

We beat last year's second worst team in the league who are currently starting a brand new HC and are in year one of their rebuild. We were supposed to beat this team, by all rights.

And we did.

Anyone watching that first half was thinking, "These Panthers are for real, this might be the year" minus a few headscratcher moments. 

Anyone watching that second half was thinking, "These Panthers are going to disappoint again" except that the unstoppable passage of time left the Jets with too little room to work the comeback.

Our o-line wasn't good, but not as bad as we'd worried. CMC is CMC and that's a good thing. Our defense feasted on a rookie QB, an o-line with injuries and a non-existent running game. Our QB looked competent but posted eerily similar stats to Teddy Bridgewater's opener last year (a close loss to the Raiders) against a better team. Our kicker looks like a flat tire and we frikkin' punted from the 33. 

Coaching was uninspiring. 

But it's just week one. And we have a positive mark in the win-loss record. That's something. Right?

[NorthTryon]

15 hours ago, rayzor said:

I was disappointed. I expect better. 

This is exactly how I feel. Tepper said that if we expected to win now then we were sorely mistaken. But how long will this regime get if it is continued mediocrity. We allowed two franchise QBs to stay on the draft board for a CB so we could have this Darnold reclamation project without any pressure. The playbook looked limited yesterday after Brady's praise for Darnold. And then they did all the Ron and Fox things that we hated about Ron and Fox in the second half. They started ramming CMC into the teeth of the defense and played loiter ball zone the whole second half. And that punt returner, was just wow.

[Tr3ach]

1 hour ago, Darknight said:

He also said they done that because the Jets started to pick up on their blitzes the second half.

Maybe so.  To me it looked like the sit on the lead coaching on both sides of the ball we have had since the franchise started basically it feels like.