The Panthers have a wide receiver problem

[Verge]

I typed up an article on the wide receiver problem that Carolina unfortunately finds itself in...once again. As always, thanks for checking out my work! I do not get paid for clicks and am always just excited to share my work with this forum. 

https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/2023/09/19/panthers-wr-problem-bryce-young-adam-thielen-dj-chark-terrace-marshall-jonathan-mingo/

[AceMan]

Nice @Verge,

We really REALLY need Mingo to step up as the season progresses and to nail a Tyreek Hill-level FA WR signing (Tee Higgins is the only one that remotely can qualify so far) next offseason.

I just don't think we'll be able to get Tee Higgins though sadly.

Edited September 20, 2023 by AceMan

[Mage]

7 minutes ago, AceMan said:

Nice @Verge,

We really REALLY need Mingo to step up as the season progresses and to nail a Tyreek Hill-level FA WR signing (Tee Higgins is the only one that remotely can qualify so far) next offseason.

I just don't think we'll be able to get Tee Higgins though sadly.

Mike Evans would be a great pick-up.  He's not as young as Higgins, but he's showing this year he's still one of the league's best and he's stayed healthy throughout his career.

Aiyuk would be a good trade target.

[SmokinwithWilly]

Im not so sure its a WR problem as it is an offensive playcalling problem. The reigning SB champs just did it with a WR1 of JSS and Travis Kelce. Theilen can get open. That’s been what he made a career doing. Great offensive minds scheme guys open. Our offense right now makes Mike Shula look like Andy Reid.

[CRA]

4 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

Im not so sure its a WR problem as it is an offensive playcalling problem. The reigning SB champs just did it with a WR1 of JSS and Travis Kelce. Theilen can get open. That’s been what he made a career doing. Great offensive minds scheme guys open. Our offense right now makes Mike Shula look like Andy Reid.

Frank Reich makes Joe Brady calling plays seem not that crazy 

[ClawOn]

Thielen is past his prime but at least looks like he belongs on an NFL 53.  Our other WRs wouldn't make a roster. 

Hurst belongs. 

Sanders is limited on a good day. 

I believe in Young but his situation couldn't be much worse.  

[BIGH2001]

Frank Reich got fired in Indy for…having a bad offense. 

[MillionDollarCam]

Are our wide receivers doing a good job, no. Is the coaching staff scheming them open, also no.

There’s a reason Puka Nacua has stepped in to the role of Cooper Kupp and is performing at the same level Kupp does… it’s because McVay can get guys open. Up to this point, Reich has not shown the ability to scheme our guys open.

Additionally, this isn’t new for a Reich coached team. The Colts were having the same problems in preseason last year that we did this year.

https://www.heraldbulletin.com/sports/colts/colts-notebook-wide-receivers-struggle-to-get-separation-in-2022-debut/article_ef417846-1c23-11ed-91e3-7bc2d589354e.html

Edited September 20, 2023 by MillionDollarCam

[toldozer]

30 minutes ago, CRA said:

Frank Reich makes Joe Brady calling plays seem not that crazy 

Look back at it. Joe Brady really wasn't the problem.  Our offense has gotten progressively worse since firing him.

2020

.Total Yards/Game 349.5 21st

Rushing Yards/Game 106.5 21st

Net Passing Yards/Game 243.0 18th 

 

Not great by any means but how many times have we throw for 250 yards in the past 2 seasons and 2 games

Edited September 20, 2023 by toldozer

[Mage]

29 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

 Theilen can get open. 

He really can't.  There is a reason Minnesota chose to move on from him.  He's not getting separation like he was 3 years ago.

Thielen would be decent as a #2, but we need one of Chark, Marshall, or Mingo to step up.  It really needs to be Chark, too soon to ask that out of Mingo.

[TeppersEgos]

More like we have a David Tepper problem

[toldozer]

12 minutes ago, Mage said:

He really can't.  There is a reason Minnesota chose to move on from him.  He's not getting separation like he was 3 years ago.

Thielen would be decent as a #2, but we need one of Chark, Marshall, or Mingo to step up.  It really needs to be Chark, too soon to ask that out of Mingo.

37 snaps 1 target 1 reception for 15 yards. It ain't going to be Chark

[Cdparr7]

Terrace Marshall has disappeared again, I think he played 30% of the passing snaps while Mingo played 90 something.

 

Safe to label him as a bust.

[Cdparr7]

2 minutes ago, toldozer said:

37 snaps 1 target 1 reception for 15 yards. It ain't going to be Chark

Yeah not him either. Mingo or nobody apparently. Marshall is a bust, Shenault is basically a running back, maybe give the return guy some routes. Hell maybe one of the practice squad guys, who knows at this point.