Yahoo.com article: How Phil Snow turned the Panthers’ defense into the NFL’s new nightmare

[Chaos]

Gotdamn, this quote...

It's entirely possible that the primary reason Carolina's defense is ready to set fire to the NFL is that, outside of the fact that Snow now has the personnel to run everything he wants, a college-minded defensive coach who learned to defend modern offenses at an elevated level now has the same thing on lock in the pros. It was bound to happen eventually, and right now, nobody in the league seems to know what to do against it.

[SBBlue]

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Snow now has the personnel to run everything he wants, a college-minded defensive coach who learned to defend modern offenses at an elevated level now has the same thing on lock in the pros. It was bound to happen eventually, and right now, nobody in the league seems to know what to do against it.
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[NAS]

41 minutes ago, OneBadCat said:

Man I love it but we're two games in. Can we pump the brakes a little?

What fun is that, lol?  

[PghPanther]

as far as worry warts two games in the season............fans tend to climb a wall of worry all season as their team progresses................and you can't blame them because one bad hit to a starting QB of any team in this league could sink your season fast....

In regards to the Snow defense..............time will tell.........the fact the high flying Saint offense from week 1 performed so poorly against Panthers D in week two may factor in with some key starters missing due to covid on the part of the Saints.........

Meanwhile Panthers have trying to keep a healthy o-line a bit of a challenge this week. 

 

[Burnout189]

12 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

Beating up on Dallas the following week will bring on the coverage. 

This. I want this more than anything.

I want it to be better than the shelacking we gave Romo and Dallas, on Thanksgiving that one time.

[R0CKnR0LLA]

10 minutes ago, SBBlue said:

Here we are doing the exact same ordinary corner blitz 3 times in a row

Big part of play calling is out guessing your opponent. I'm sure after we did the exact same blitz twice in a row they were thinking "well they sure as hell aren't going to do the same thing THREE times in a row"

[PanthersGOATFan336]

57 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Snow is extremely legit and I said it last year when people were ragging on the D without being able to see the significant roster holes he was working with.

But, 8 consecutive draft picks spent on the defense including two top 10 overall picks and signing last year's 3rd ranked sack artist certainly haven't hurt efforts.

Rhule is clearly trying to build the Panthers the same way he build Temple and Baylor - dominant defense paired with decent offense. I know we can field a competitive team that way, but I'm not certain we can compete for titles that way. We shall see.

How is it clear he is trying the build the Panthers like Temple and Baylor, defend your argument...

[BlitzMonster]

7 minutes ago, SBBlue said:

Its the epic talent on the line and man coverage on the receivers taking away the quick throws.  They have to go to total pass pro, removing at least one (TE) or two (TE and RB) pass options and they can't double team on the line leaving 1-1 match ups.  With 1 on 1s,  Brown, Daquan, and Nixon  are eventually going to get thru.  

The 2020 draft was fantastic at adding serious defensive talent to this team.   And adding Horn & Bouye might be the last pieces of this puzzle.   Being able to have CB who can go single coverage on talented receivers really opens up the possibilities for exotic blitzes and crazy pressure on the QB.  

[Jon Snow]

1 minute ago, Burnout189 said:

This. I want this more than anything.

I want it to be better than the shelacking we gave Romo and Dallas, on Thanksgiving that one time.

I have to admit that this is the game I want us hitting on all cylinders.  I want to beat them so bad that old Jerry "the crypt keeper" Jones is too embarrassed to bring his creepy ass before the cameras after the game.  That my friend is how you put on a beat down.

[t96]

21 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

sure would be sweet to take houston to the woodshed on national tv. that'd trigger a 2015-esque breakout in terms of media coverage and hype

not so sure about this. It's the lowly Texans on Thursday night and still early in the season. I don't think we'd get any more respect even if we smash them 42-0 and send their QB back to pre school. Which isn't a bad thing, kinda like flying a bit under the radar for as long as we can.

[Jon Snow]

3 minutes ago, PanthersGOATFan336 said:

How is it clear he is trying the build the Panthers like Temple and Baylor, defend your argument...

He's still sore about you know who.

[NAS]

Just now, t96 said:

not so sure about this. It's the lowly Texans on Thursday night and still early in the season. I don't think we'd get any more respect even if we smash them 42-0 and send their QB back to pre school. Which isn't a bad thing, kinda like flying a bit under the radar for as long as we can.

I disagree.  A dominant showing against Texans will show that we are for real.  Good teams beat who they're supposed to beat. 

[shaqattaq]

11 minutes ago, SBBlue said:

Our formations can be odd, but that's not the secret sauce.  Its the epic talent on the line and man coverage on the receivers taking away the quick throws.

That is why it will take a while for others to copy cat Snow. Rhule spent 8 consecutive draft picks (plus a few more) and a good part of this off season building this defensive personnel. Snow did well last season, as the article points out, with only 1/2 the pieces in place. NOW he has the rest of them, so he can do everything he wanted. 

[joemac]

25 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

sure would be sweet to take houston to the woodshed on national tv. that'd trigger a 2015-esque breakout in terms of media coverage and hype

Yeah, assuming we do whoop the poo out of Houston tomorrow, the hype train is going to be firmly rolling down the tracks.  We are going to be the talk of the league - even more so than we already are after last week.

IDK guys....this time around just feels different.  It feels like we are actually building something long term special here, instead of these 1 year wonder flash in the pan teams.  With all the youth we've got, all the studs up and down the starting lineups on both sides of the ball, all the cap space we've got, you've got to think its only going to improve moving forward.