Jaws: "I wouldn't give up on Jimmy"

[Dpantherman]

“It's very difficult. I wouldn't give up on Jimmy,” Jaworski said Wednesday while visiting the Super Bowl media center. “I know people probably expected more. But you've got to look at what happened throughout the year – the running game, the injuries, all those factors came into play. The defense wasn't where it should have been,” forcing the Panthers to play from behind nearly every game.

“People aren't throwing the ball downfield. It's becoming a dink-and-dunk league,” Jaworski said. “And when you're struggling offensive line-wise, the ball's gotta come out quick. So you're taking a lot of three- and five-step drops.”

“I think what Ron will do, he'll evaluate that position,” said Jaworski, who led Philadelphia to the Super Bowl during the 1980 season. “He knows they've gotta run the football. I know what Ron's template will be: It will be a ball-control offense, play good defense. So he's not going to ask him to go out and win the game.”

“He's about steak, not sizzle,” Jaworski said. “Ron will put a football team together.”

http://blogs.charlotte.com/panthers/

[OneBadassCat]

lol blaming the defense... shut up Jaws

[Brooklyn Bully]

WAIT...someone has an opinion! DEATH TO HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CRA]

the fact he made the comment about a defense that realistically overachieved and was on the field all day b/c of lack of the offense just shows Jaws didn't watch anything but ESPN highlights of Carolina this year.

[Lumps]

Hmmm sounds a lot like Fox.

[frash.exe]

so i guess Jaws didn't do any research on Rivera

[mav1234]

Sure, Rivera wants to control the ball. But to call what he has described so far a ball control offense seems a little bit of a... uh, a mis-statement.

[Doc Holiday]

WAIT...someone has an opinion! DEATH TO HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He blamed the defense for carolinas problems that alone should be enough to ignor him, but I will say I'm not yet ready for the run Jimmy out of town wagon yet, not saying we shouldn't get someone else, just saying its too early for Jimmy

[Matthias]

I find it funny how they "unknowingly" mention Jaws taking the eagles to a superbowl way back when, yet it has absolutely nothing to do with the subject. Anyway, Jaws is completely wrong about Clausen. The guy had plenty of help in the running game and o-line late in the season, yet he still didn't improve.

Within the next year or so, Rivera will tranform Carolina into a mega passing machine. Hopefully by that time, both Williams and Stewart will be revving their engines. However, this won't happen if Clausen is still the QB.

[Darth Biscuit]

I consider Jaws to be a pretty good analyst and this is what I've been saying since Luck decided not to come out. Beef up the D, play ball control offense and run the ball with our great RBs and ask Jimmy to only be safe wit the ball. I don't think there's much choice to do otherwise anyway at this point unless some really good FA drops on us or Hurney comes up wih some great trade for a better QB.

[Punisher]

I consider Jaws to be a pretty good analyst and this is what I've been saying since Luck decided not to come out. Beef up the D, play ball control offense and run the ball with our great RBs and ask Jimmy to only be safe wit the ball. I don't think there's much choice to do otherwise anyway at this point unless some really good FA drops on us or Hurney comes up wih some great trade for a better QB.

Clausen's stock rose up fast when Luck didn't declare.

[Nicbsbll2]

Everyone that's complaining about Jaws blaming the D needs to remember that all of the expectations that were put on Clausen were put there because of our A) good running game, good oline, and C) good defense. (And Jaws did point out all of these elements as being part of the problem, not just the underachieving defense.)

None of those three parts played as good as everyone thought they would before the season, which is basically all Jaws is saying.

[CRA]

I consider Jaws to be a pretty good analyst and this is what I've been saying since Luck decided not to come out. Beef up the D, play ball control offense and run the ball with our great RBs and ask Jimmy to only be safe wit the ball. I don't think there's much choice to do otherwise anyway at this point unless some really good FA drops on us or Hurney comes up wih some great trade for a better QB.

bad FA's are better than Jimmy though.....why not put the best option you can on the field.

we made the Superbowl bringing in FA QB that nobody thought much of.....

no point just being apathetic about the QB situation b/c Luck is gone. QBs often take a step back anyway year 2......

[Punisher]

Everyone that's complaining about Jaws blaming the D needs to remember that all of the expectations that were put on Clausen were put there because of our A) good running game, good oline, and C) good defense. (And Jaws did point out all of these elements as being part of the problem, not just the underachieving defense.)

None of those three parts played as good as everyone thought they would before the season, which is basically all Jaws is saying.

If I had played QB for the Panthers, do you think those parts would have done as good as they did. Clausen sucks, but he is better than me and I would have made the run game worse, protection look bad, and stuck the defense in bad spots. Clausen played a hand in more than an anemic pass offense. When one part of your team is so bad it trickles down the whole team.