Is Scott Fowler an idiot or am I just crazy?

[Marguide]

He orchestrated 2 nice 4th qtr drives lately, 1 against Minn, and then yesterday to tie it up. He will be fine.

Unfortunately, he is being put in a position that is ripe for int's, down late in the game, have to pass to tie it up or win, and the defense licking their lips. It is not exactly a formula for success with a young QB.

[Mother Grabber]

Maybe a little of both?

[Seltzer]

he had one yesterday.

it's just that the couple minutes left on the clock was more than enough time for the defense to let the lions offense score.

TRUTH. You can not expect anything more of your QB than to do what Cam did tying the game up. Led a great drive, capped it off with a 2 pt conversion.

Defense holds, you get the ball back, and drive for the game winning FG.

Nothing more demoralizing than having your defense put up less effort than Lindsey Lohan in rehab.

Newton is put in can't win situations week after week. Even Brady/Manning/Brees would have trouble trying to bail the defense out AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN.

[SOJA]

Scott Fowler gets a lot of flack, some of it is warranted......like this for example

[Dpantherman]

Maybe a little of both?

Id say alot of both

[Mr. Scot]

Yeah, I'm not sure this was really an "either-or" question :sosp:

(sorry DP; had to) :D

[Seltzer]

Fowler coaches in the youth basketball league I coach in. He's an alright guy in person, but I think it's funny how some people who know he works for the Observer are in awe of him or something.

He coaches in the same age group I do and Fowler is the assistant coach to the biggest hole in the league. My happiest moment as a coach last year was beating that guy's team.

We had evaluations last week and as I was standing beside him I thought about making a remark about how I was going to beat him worse than Smitty did in his interview last week but I figured it would just fuel his "quasi- celebrity" status and I wanted to treat him like the nobody he truly is.

Btw, Paul Silas taught in an older age group a couple of years ago before he got the Bobcats head gig and I used to see him at the gym. He is a big dude, and he still has a sweet jump shot.

[Hotsauce]

Its sad that all we have is the observer.

espn.go.com/carolina/

duh.

[Chaos]

Fug some fourth quarter game-winning drives, I want to see Cam in the victory formation every Sunday. Winning games without the stress should be the goal.

[Upper Deck West End Zone]

Scott Fowler is brilliant. The obvious logic...

One of the 'top' owners in the league, our very own JR, believes Marty Hurney is brilliant--or he would have fired Marty Hurney.

Marty Hurney is a former journalist.

Scott Fowler is a journalist.

Therefore, Scott Fowler is brilliant.

...and is fully qualified to be our next GM.

THERE YOU GO!

:D

[TrueDat]

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/11/20/2793066/panthers-newton-still-not-good.html#ixzz1eMMLq600

I specifically remember Cam scoring the game winning touchdown w/ about 4 minutes left in the 4th quarter vs. Jacksonville.

Does it need to be 1 minute left? Or because it was in a monsoon does it not count?

You can consider that a comeback win, certainly, and you are not crazy, it's counted as such, but I'm not sure most people would call that a signature 4th quarter win though, which is what Scott Fowler is saying. He's considering the nature of the game, not just the fact it was the defense that closed out the game for us and saved the real game winning touchdown from taking place.

In reality what he's really referring to is the fact he's also 1 out of 8 opportunities to win the game in the 4th quarter(most QB's don't get 8 chances a year to do that) and people are beginning to notice, so he's being nice about it. He's not saying Cam Newton is a total choke artist in 4th quarter comebacks and only 1 out of 8. He's saying he hasn't had a signature comeback win yet.

Capiche?

Even though most here want to discount it as "it doesn't matter, it's the defense's fault for not stopping them earlier", it does matter and people do freaking notice it. It 2-8 matters.