Pass Coverage, Run Defense & ST Coverage will hold Panthers down again

[jtnc]

How is it gonna be top 15? We tackle like pop Warner 5 year olds, No pressure at all.

You really can't blame tackling at this point, guys are getting used to tackling again.

[beastson]

Tbh, yall are overreacting a lil bit just off the first game

[Woodcookedbbq]

It's hard to say at what level Beason will be at. Seems like every time he's ready to go, another injury springs up on him.

[L-TownCat]

Beason was a Top 3 LB in the league his first three seasons... Now he's Top 10... He's still a solid asset to any team in the NFL... but he has shown signs of degression in the past 2 seasons (one being a lack luster (for Beason standards) season, the other being a season taken away by injury)

Beason isn't a former shell of himself by anymeans... but he has slipped off the ladder a bit with the likes of Patrick Willis and Clay Matthews...

I know this has already been stated time and time again but 1) beason didn't play last year and 2) the year before that he changed positions to fill the void left by TD

You can not use that year to judge Beasons production value. It's completely asinine.

[pantherclaw]

No significant changes made in the off-season, besides Kuechly, who looks like a star in the making, but the lack of talent at the DT and DB positions are going to ultimately hinder our chances at winning the big prize...and I could even see it holding us down to a 7-9/8-8 season...

Now the ST coverage? I don't even want to get into that.

But I really see a long season of runs up the middle and deep passes in the 4th quarter that will hold this Panther team back.

Rivera and Hurney need to 100% focus on the D next offseason, bringing in vet. DB talent. I'm over waiting on 3rd round picks (Godfrey, etc) to "come around"... I mean let's face it Godfrey and Martin are just average at best. Not rocket science.

Sorry to be a negative Nancy, but I just don't see how one of the worst defenses in the NFL is all of a sudden going to turn on a switch. Yes Beason is coming back along with Ron Edwards and (maybe TD) but they can't carry this defense. Beason, Kuechly, Gamble, Anderson, Johnson, those are the only sure things on that D...too many holes...too many question marks...not enough talent....not enough depth... plain and simple.

Hopefully this reloaded Offense can just stay on the field and carry the team into the playoffs, where anything can happen at that point.

(this has nothing to do with our performance in our first preseason game)

/rant and GO PANTHERS!!!!

posts like.this in preseason just shows ya are over reacting, as are most other fans.

[Keep Pounding]

Even if we could stuff 90% of the runs with Beason, Edwards, Luke, Davis, Anderson... We couldn't stop 90% of the passes with the DB's we have.....