Shocking passing statistics for the 2021 Panthers.

[SCO96]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/stats/_/name/car

The Panther passing game has been so anemic this year that:

1) Our 3rd leading receiver in terms of receptions (37) and yardage (343) is Christian McCaffrey; and he's only played in 7 games this season.

2) Our #2 WR is Robbie Anderson. He's played in all 16 games and only has 46 receptions and 469 yards.

3) Brandon Zylstra is our 3rd leading WR (18/250/1 TD) and his 18 receptions tie him with Ian Thomas and Tommy Tremble for 6th place on the team. Zylstra has been more productive than our 2nd round draft pick Terrace Marshall Jr. (17/138/0). Yesterday, Bengal rookie Ja'marr Chase had more yards in one game than our #3 and #4 WR's have in an entire season.

4) Darnold, Newton, and Walker have a combined of 12 TD passes on the year. Forty-four year old Tom Brady has more than 3x that many (40).

 

Even with a poor oline, the offense shouldn't be this bad. I can't see things improving next year unless some drastic changes are made.

[4Corners]

[mav1234]

The offense is a problem top to bottom, but let's start at the top: the coaches. They're the reason for this shitshow. Let's take WRs... DJ is a good example of regressing promising young players, and taken in aggregate it's clearly a coaching problem, not a player issue... 

The last two years DJs catch % has declined by 10% to ~56%, while he has dropped 15 passes the last 2 seasons vs 7 total his first two years. Yea QB play has been bad these last couple years but when it's every receiver dropping balls at every down and distance we have to stop looking at what player is to blame imo.

[BrianS]

Joe Burrow has been sacked 51 times this year.

His team however is 10-6, and won their division.  Burrow has thrown 34 TD's against 14 INT's and over 4000 yards passing while completing 70% of his throws.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

With exception of a handful of years, the Panthers have always sucked. This shouldn't be shocking.

[Waldo]

It's like everyone was coached down this year on offense. 

Hey, let's do a year three because it was 1000% all Brady and then Cam hurt feelings and such. But the Oline. 

[Newtcase]

4 minutes ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

With exception of a handful of years, the Panthers have always sucked. This shouldn't be shocking.

There are degrees of sucking though.  Right now we're 2001/2010 sucking level.

[t96]

Rhule/Brady/Nixon honestly make Mike Shula look like a Hall of Fame offensive coordinator.

[PNW_PantherMan]

Those numbers are surprising given we were such an excellent passing team early in the season.

[TheRumGone]

Rhule gave up a 2nd rounder for a qb and targeted 2 “starting” olineman in pat and cam very fuging early. Then drafted a rb and a second round wr. This is in one off-season and it’s one of the worst offenses we’ve ever fielded. I don’t wanna hear that he needs time to rebuild the offense. He just did and this is what we got.

[top dawg]

3 minutes ago, Newtcase said:

There are degrees of sucking though.  Right now we're 2001/2010 sucking level.

People bring up those years, but this 2021 team was really supposed to be better considering the talent. And, the thing is, I'm not sure that this team beats either one of those teams. It would be at least questionable. That speaks to Matt Rhule.

[SCO96]

19 minutes ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

With exception of a handful of years, the Panthers have always sucked. This shouldn't be shocking.

12 TD's over the course of a 16 game season in a pass happy league...that's shocking!

Our 3rd leading receiver has missed over 50% of the games this season. The next closest player in receptions is a RB Ameer Abdullah (26 receptions). I don't think Abdullah started the year with the team and he's only played in 10 games. That's shocking!

We extended R. Anderson's contract in the off season and now he averages less than 3 catches per game. It's shocking just how much his production has fallen.

Our skill position players and QB's are among the worst in the NFL in terms of productivity. Frankly, I'm shocked we've played this poorly. Last year's offenses was much better...and that's saying something considering our inability to pull out close games in the fourth quarter in 2020.

Edited January 3, 2022 by SCO96

[Jackie Lee]

Didn't the drops seem to go down when PJ/Cam were playing?

[PNW_PantherMan]

7 minutes ago, top dawg said:

People bring up those years, but this 2021 team was really supposed to be better considering the talent. And, the thing is, I'm not sure that this team beats either one of those teams. It would be at least questionable. That speaks to Matt Rhule.

Very true.  2010 was basically a planned lame duck year, and 2001 wasn't much better.  We weren't very good the two seasons prior to 2001, but we had a decent passing game with Steve Beuerlein.  However, in 2001, we decided to let him walk and throw Chris Weinke in there instead, and the rest is history.

Both of those years had pretty low expectations.  We should have seen some improvement this year if Rhule was going to work out.