99.9 Espn podcast reactions immediately following game

[travisura]

10 minutes ago, Seltzer said:

I see absolutely no reason not to return to a 4-3.

Clowney, Wonnum, Brown, and Robinson would be a good start for the Dline.

I think Trevin Wallace would be a natural 4-3 MLB (and carry on the Panthers proud tradition of elite interior LBs).

We've got to do something. Obviously getting someone elite like Derrick Brown back will help, but in general, what we are doing schematically against the run just isn't working.

Have Canales call his buddy Saleh and let's fix this thing for next year and win the division 

Didn't Tepper try to force Ron to move to a 3-4? I may be misremembering, but if that's the case I doubt we're moving away from a 3-4 anytime soon.

[Seltzer]

3 minutes ago, travisura said:

Didn't Tepper try to force Ron to move to a 3-4? I may be misremembering, but if that's the case I doubt we're moving away from a 3-4 anytime soon.

I honestly don't think Tepper forced that, but I think he was infatuated with the idea bc of his background as Steelers minority owner.

Tepper never should have been in the equation period in terms of football operations.

I also don't want to get too hung up on 3-4 vs 4-3 bc i know there are so many variations etc that the difference between the two can be overblown, but whatever we are running, we haven't been able to stop pretty much every team gashing us at will.

That needs to stop regardless 

[travisura]

4 minutes ago, Seltzer said:

I honestly don't think Tepper forced that, but I think he was infatuated with the idea bc of his background as Steelers minority owner.

Tepper never should have been in the equation period in terms of football operations.

I also don't want to get too hung up on 3-4 vs 4-3 bc i know there are so many variations etc that the difference between the two can be overblown, but whatever we are running, we haven't been able to stop pretty much every team gashing us at will.

That needs to stop regardless 

Agreed.

[Mother Grabber]

how many times do people want us to run against a stacked box? did people actually watch the game, or just read the box score and freak out?

[pantherclaw]

Interesting that people are calling for our DC'S head, when we never would have been in the game if it wasn't for the defense.  Never should have gotten to OT. 

Edited December 2 by pantherclaw

[raleigh-panther]

24 minutes ago, pantherclaw said:

Interesting that people are calling for our DC'S head, when we never would have been in the game if it wasn't for the defense.  Never should have gotten to OT. 

236 yards rushing and stopping any team from winning when it counts will do that 

Insisting on not moving your  best player to be on their best player, the one that is their go to…the one that has consistently beat the crap out of the Panthers by himself. ..tells me he will not change. 
 

he constantly plays the softest defense in the NFL  let his players play for god sake 

Evero’s time here has not been great…he dived down in Denver during his time there too.

I get he lost players this year..,every team loses players…236 yards on the ground, come on man.

we can agree to disagree 

[SCO96]

2 hours ago, Seltzer said:

I honestly don't think Tepper forced that, but I think he was infatuated with the idea bc of his background as Steelers minority owner.

We won't ever really know for sure. But we do know that Rivera ran a 4-3 from from his first  season in Carolina thru the 2018 season. Then we went to a 3-4 in 2019 after hearing Tepper favored that front. We stayed with it ever since.

Owners definitely have a major influence. Richardson also admired the Steelers organization. And, just like the Steelers,  JR never hired an offensive minded HC in the years he owned the team. 

[pantherclaw]

3 hours ago, raleigh-panther said:

236 yards rushing and stopping any team from winning when it counts will do that 

Insisting on not moving your  best player to be on their best player, the one that is their go to…the one that has consistently beat the crap out of the Panthers by himself. ..tells me he will not change. 
 

he constantly plays the softest defense in the NFL  let his players play for god sake 

Evero’s time here has not been great…he dived down in Denver during his time there too.

I get he lost players this year..,every team loses players…236 yards on the ground, come on man.

we can agree to disagree 

Yet it wasn't the ground game that beat us. 

I hate the poor defense of the rush too, although that is not what lost this game.