this is a feel good game.

[nosuchthingasapanther]

carolina looks good. the defense looks good. special teams looks good. the offense looks good.

but this is against miami...who looks just as lost and borderline awful as they did last week against tampa bay.

[PhillyB]

and we are properly beating their asses, as it should be.

[Herbert The Love Bug]

was a feel good game until Clausen took the field. But that was to be expected

[frash.exe]

looks like the defense ate their wheaties today

[carolina-chuck]

howd Norman look?

[Guest Irv]

carolina looks good. the defense looks good. special teams looks good. the offense looks good.

but this is against miami...who looks just as lost and borderline awful as they did last week against tampa bay.

[Pejorative Miscreant]

The team looked very good tonight and this will no doubt excite a lot of people. There were lots of encouraging signs from ST and Defense. I am glad these two groups showed up to play as they seem to have improved and hopefully what we saw last night was not just because Miami really sucks.

I don't think anyone should overreact to preseason but some might use it as a barometer for the upcoming season. If that is the case, then after the first preseason game we were right to have a guarded concern. After the second there is reason for cautious optimism.

[Cape Fear Cat]

It beats hell out of the alternative, playing like crap and then feeling same for the next week.

And on another note, while I am not a Clausen fan by any stretch of the imagination, I have to give the guy props for toughness. To get nailed as often as he does, he always seems to get right back up and move on to the next play. It HAS to be disheartening to him after the success he had in college, yet he keeps on trying. If Jimmy doesn't get credit for anything else, he ought to get credit for that.

[bigdog10]

reminded me a good bit of the Washington pre-season game in 2008 (not quite the extent of domination as that one was), but we were doing anything we wanted to against them offensively and they had no answer

[redbuddha]

http://www.uhnd.com/...-jimmy-clausen/

Statistics wise, Clausen certainly filled up a stat sheet while at Notre Dame – especially in 2009. At the same time, Clausen didn’t do anything to really one up the numbers that Quinn put up over the course of his career or in any particular career. Quinn still had seasons with more touchdowns, more yards, etc.

The biggest knock on Clausen though, was his record as a starting quarterback. No matter how much of it was his fault, Clausen compiled a record of just 15-17 (2-6 in 2007, 7-5 in 2008, and 6-6 in 2009) over his three years as the starting quarterback. In some of those losses Clausen saw his defense fail him after putting the Irish ahead (see ’09 Michigan and Syracuse ’08 for example). In other losses those Clausen had a chance to put the Irish ahead at the end but came up just short (see ’09 USC and ’08 North Carolina).

Why would you want a QB who has shown nothing in Carolina, put up a mediocre record at ND, and seemed to have peeked in High School.

[panthers55]

Clausen's rating for last night was 58 and the week before 60. Newton's was 138. Nuff said,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

But the point is correct that we are not as bad as we looked last week or as good as we looked this week. Teams are not game planning or dialing up much pressure. We beat up on a rookie who looked lost as they all do and Moore who didn't play well at all. This was more about how bad Miami is as this point than how good we are.

[Guest GameDayReplay2012]

The game is ready for download: http://www.gamedayreplay.com/2012nfltorrents-preseason-week2.htm

[iamhubby1]

teh jimmyz had a couple good passes early, then pretty much jimmyzed up the place the rest of the nite. So sad really. NOT!