This paragraph says it ALL.

[pstall]

From Yahoo Sports.

For reasons that may be debated here forever, Carolina coach John Fox put together one of the strangest defensive game plans imaginable. More specifically, he put together the exact same defensive game plan he always does. Even with Boldin out, the Panthers appeared to pay no extra attention to the one Cardinal who could really hurt them – Fitzgerald.

He rarely was bumped at the line or covered tightly in man-to-man. He mostly faced something that looked kind of like a soft two-man zone. It was like they were daring Warner and Fitzgerald to beat them, gambling the young man wasn’t capable of running into the seams or the old man of finding him.

They got torched for it. Warner threw for 220 yards, 166 of them going to Fitzgerald. Of those, 151 (and a touchdown) came in the decisive first half.

“It seemed like he had the ball a lot,” Fox said of Fitzgerald.

“They don’t really change their schemes. … That’s John Fox’s motto,” Fitzgerald said.

But maybe more telling was this on Coach Whisenhut.

It was predictable enough that Whisenhunt put in a new play for Fitzgerald at Friday’s walk-through. It went for 41 yards and set up the Cardinals’ second touchdown. Soon after, the game effectively was over.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=ArIDE17WXIiKpI_7lwnzkeQ5nYcB?slug=dw-cardswin011009&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[Ncstatefan]

Wow....

[g-man430]

It got us 12 wins.

[Fox007]

It got us 12 wins.

No it didn't, the run game did.

Foxes usual poo gives us 7-9.

[chollar8]

Our defense didnt really get us many wins at all. Maybe the Oakland game. our offense won most of the games for us, especially after our bye week.

[pstall]

What are they doing next week?

All that matters. I was actually going to say DESPITE this philosophy they got this far. That is an anchievement onto itself.

BUT, when a player says that like that the book is out and over and done with.

Heres the thing, if you can't make ANY adjustments during the BYE and during the game then what are you doing?

[CardiacCat893490]

John Fox has got to be the most stubborn coach I have ever seen it makes it all too frustrating with losses like these

[Fox007]

I just hope the media destroys Fox and Jake, and the fans pressure the front office to fire Fox.

[pauliewalnuts]

twelve wins was nice!!! but damn..woulda been nice if they would shown some respect to Fitz.

[pstall]

John Fox has got to be the most stubborn coach I have ever seen it makes it all too frustrating with losses like these

Totally agree. Had the Panthers did SOMETHING different I wouldn't be as ticked.

At least give yourself a chance to win.

[grateflday]

Just read Fox's press conference today - read the part about Fitz - he basically said what the yahoo article talked about. The Panthers did the same exact thing they did against the Cards during the regular season game (which pissed me off cause he torched the panthers in that game.) Here is the link: http://blogs.charlotte.com/panthers/2009/01/foxs-sunday-new.html

Fox is just seems very stubborn about tweaking "what he wants to do" , I dont know - it just baffelled me how wide open Fitz was that entire first half and how nothing was done differently to try to stop him or get more pressure on Warner. Same sh*t, different game. And its not the Defense that got the Panthers 12 wins. What we saw yesterday was happening the entire second half of the season.

The bend dont break stuff has to go!!

Now I dont blame the lose solely on the defense. The Offense and JAKE had alot to do with it. I do blame coaching in this area also. Nothing done or changed to help Jake or minimize the damage when he was obviously sucking so bad.

[JPPT1974]

Offense may score points. But it's the defense that wins the games, usually!

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

It got us 12 wins.

clap......clap......clap..................by the way....this is a slow clap. Now enjoy your soft cover two zone and 12 wins and pick some other team to root for.

[punkpanther]

I wonder, if after 6 years of being a head coach with a reputation for being the type of guy that doesn't embrace change,it has finally caught up with him.I think every other team knows his style of play is very stagnant.kinda like you played a John Fox team once you've played them a thousand times.