Week 1's "Step Into My Office"

[jtnc]

Definitely Mcdermontt the guy was going blitz crazy.

[Udogg]

Panther secondary isn't good enough to blitz like that. If McDermott is smart he'll realize that.

Don't look good enough to sit back in coverage either.. I personally will take the blitzing without the missed assignments of course.

[PantherFan52]

Panther secondary isn't good enough to blitz like that. If McDermott is smart he'll realize that.

Panther secondary also isn't good enough to cover WR's for an extended period of time either.

[chef17]

Well Im pretty sure someone was supposed to run a check there... Thats why the Beason injury was so bad... no one to command the defense.

Exactly. The DC calls the play in the huddle, BEFORE he gets to see how the offense lines up. The MLB is responsible for calling an audible if necessary.

[Vagrant]

The offensive line honestly wasn't that bad on the whole. It was just a case of when they were bad they were VERY bad, but when they were good they were VERY good. That blitz pickup on the first long play to Smith was a thing of beauty. They overload blitzed that side and Stewart picked up the excess player and they formed a nice wall to give Cam enough time to recognize Smith being wide open.

You don't have 400+ yard days through the air with a rookie QB without your offensive line playing pretty decent on passing downs. Cam held the ball too long in many instances but on the whole, they gave him time to do his work. I didn't count a ton of plays where Cam was dead meat before he touched the ball the way we saw last year for example.

Chris Gamble played a hell of a game today against one of the best WR in the game today. Props where props are due here. Additionally, props to the safeties for providing help over the top.

The defensive ends were VERY strong all game. We were getting pressure with three down linemen which I haven't seen since Rucker and Peppers were on the same unit. Our intermediate pass defense and defensive tackle play were HORRIBLE today and we allowed Beanie Wells of all people to hit the hole with a full head of steam. Our tackles were getting pushed under the boards on every running play and if our linebackers didn't clean up it was an 8-10 yard run on every play.

[Mr. Scot]

Panther secondary also isn't good enough to cover WR's for an extended period of time either.

Realistically, few secondarys are.

[Jacket60]

Surprised nobody has said Legedu. Guy didn't even look like he was trying on half of the plays. Specifically when Newton threw up a fade for him in the endzone and he was basically trotting towards it instead of running.

Edit: Just seen an entire thread dedicated to his suckiness. Good job huddle.

[JawnyBlaze]

I agree with most of what you said Vagrant. Only disagree about Wells. He had some very good hard runs, but our DTs didn't get blown up consistently like against the Bengals in preseason. Even being pretty much their only RB for the whole game I don't think he got 100 yards. He did pick up some good chunks at times, but he got stuffed a lot too. And those plays were mostly thanks to the DTs.