Panthers Team Stat Rankings through Week 1

[Pantha-kun]

OFFENSE 

Total offense : 28th 

Passing offense : 20th

Rushing offense : 31st

Points per Game : 10th 

DEFENSE 

Total defense : 17th

Passing defense : 2nd 

Rushing defense : 31st 

Points allowed per game : 26th

Turnover deferential : 27th

 

Ugly stuff. The only decent rakings we have are points per game and passing defense, and you could argue those are only high as a result of playing catch up and getting obliterated by the run so the browns didnt have to pass a bunch. 

Was kinda surprised we weren't last in rushing defense apparently that's the Titans. 

OFFENSE PLAYER STATS LEADERS

QB Baker Mayfield : 16/27 passing, 235 passing yards, 1 TD, 1 INT, 84.6 passer rating

RB Christian McCaffrey : 10 rush, 33 rush yards, 3.3 YPC, 1 TD

WR Robby Anderson : 5 receptions, 8 targets, 102 receiving yards, 20.4 YPR, 1 TD

DEFENSE

Damien Wilson : 1 sack (he has the teams only sack, the whole team is ranked somewhere near the bottom of the league only having one sack. IIRC Pitt and Buffalo lead the league in sacks with 7 total)

Xavier Woods : 10 tackles, Brian Burns, 8 tackles , Henry Anderson, 2 tackles for loss. 

0 INTS . O forced fumbles.

LOL 

 

Baker had bit of an ugly day with all the fumbles and that bad pick and the overall innaccuracy, but stats wise he looks kinda average if you don't take the fumbles into account (they don't show up on his stats line).

McCaffrey didnt have that many carries but even being said, 3.3 is rather low for him. But if you remember back to his rookie year when he was splitting carries with Jonathan Stewart he got very similar numbers out of similar work volumes of carries so in that sense it may not be too surprising. 

Robbie that was mosltly off that one pass in busted coverage but its encouraging at least.  If you remember his first two seasons he was also off to a big start and he subsequently disappeared last year, so keep an eye out for that. 

 

 

Edited September 13, 2022 by Pantha-kun

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, Pantha-kun said:

Passing defense : 2nd

"See?! We have a good defense! I told you!"

- What we'll probably be hearing from Rhule and Snow defenders soon

[Khyber53]

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

"See?! We have a good defense! I told you!"

- What we'll probably be hearing from Rhule and Snow defenders soon

Eff 'em.

[ForJimmy]

Lol we will have a great passing defense because teams get a free 7 yards per attempt running it on us.  Why would they even attempt a pass?

[Proudiddy]

We're about to see why the Titans have the worst rushing defense come Sunday.

[Sgt Schultz]

The passing defense is heavily skewed because the Browns were not exactly starting Mahomes.  Our rushing offense was 31st because of our (curious) choice to not run the football, especially early.  Both of those numbers will probably bounce more toward the middle.

Unfortunately, the rushing defense may not move much.

It's one game, so I am not going to draw many conclusions and certainly not many beyond decisions and performances in one game.  The one to watch, IMO, is turnover differential.  Being 27th right now means next to nothing, other than the fact we didn't force any.  Had the one we did get stood, the entire outcome and how the game unfolded from there may have changed.

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, ForJimmy said:

Lol we will have a great passing defense because teams get a free 7 yards per attempt running it on us.  Why would they even attempt a pass?

There was context to last year's Total Defense ranking too, but people kept ignoring it

[Waldo]

Why would any team throw it when they can run it at will? The Browns looked determined to screw even that up lol.

Not great yet not surprising.

[ForJimmy]

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

There was context to last year's Total Defense ranking too, but people kept ignoring it

Yeah last year Sam constantly turned it over or went 3 and out.  If they have a short field, they can't get as many yards.  Also they spent the last quarter just running the ball to end the game.  

[rayzor]

Rushing offense : 31st  - with a healthy CMC

Rushing defense : 31st  - at least we're consistent. 

[Pantha-kun]

1 minute ago, rayzor said:

Rushing offense : 31st  - with a healthy CMC

Rushing defense : 31st  - at least we're consistent. 

Just realized both the rushing offense and defense have the same 2nd to last ranking lol. Good God.

[Waldo]

They had 8 sacks and we had 0. Ugh, Riddick may just indeed be missed.

Looking for droped passes. I remember 2 for the Browns but wanted to see how that played into the passing game and pass D. Couldn't find it tho.

 

[Mr. Scot]

5 minutes ago, Pantha-kun said:

Just realized both the rushing offense and defense have the same 2nd to last ranking lol. Good God.

"Run the ball and stop the run."

- Matt Rhule

[Pantha-kun]

3 minutes ago, Waldo said:

They had 8 sacks and we had 0. Ugh, Riddick may just indeed be missed.

Looking for droped passes. I remember 2 for the Browns but wanted to see how that played into the passing game and pass D. Couldn't find it tho.

 

They were officially credited with 4 sacks. Myles Garret lead the team with 2 sacks with 4 other Cleveland defenders recording a 0.5 sack