2012: Panthers ranked 1st in opponents yards per completion

[nickzz]

lol as many people on here that were crying how bad our secondary was last year, they were #1 in pass defense? LMFAO I love the huddlers coaching from the couch.

not at all.

opponents yards per completion is a pretty obscure stat and is far from the entire picture. if someone watches all 16 of our games and comes out saying our secondary wasn't a problem then that person is either blind or retarded.

[panther4life]

If we can learn how to cover a TE watch out. Any stats on most yards given up to TE's?

[Keep Pounding]

But we were like 15th in pass per attempt.

http://espn.go.com/n...osition/defense

Which I think was pretty good for what we had, and what we lost. And as the season got better I think those guys got better. Mix in a better the benefit of having a better DL and I think we got something here.

actually it is a 5 way tie for 11th as 5 teams give up 6.9 yards per attempt.

[Swaggasaurus]

If we can learn how to cover a TE watch out. Any stats on most yards given up to TE's?

You could probably get open against James Anderson, or juke him, or make him run around you if you are 300 lbs.

[panther4life]

Also screen plays killed us. Find me a stat on that, can pretty much guarantee we are dead last in leauge at containing screen passes.

[Dash Global]

Id go off of pass yrds per game and completion %.

We were 13th in passing yrds a game and 32nd in completion %.

So not good by any stretch. We need to play tighter and not give up the easy underneath stuff so often.

[Jackofalltrades]

Not to burst the bubble but the team also had the highest completion percentage against. Giving up the least yards per completion is kinda negated when opponents complete almost 70% of their passes. Our secondary was still bad.

It is, but it shows an ability to keep plays in front of you. Given that Naka was starting that alone is a miracle. Norman gave up a lot of catches, but the guy went down immediately.

[chef17]

It is, but it shows an ability to keep plays in front of you. Given that Naka was starting that alone is a miracle. Norman gave up a lot of catches, but the guy went down immediately.

That's fine but it's not very useful when the offense can just use shorter passes all the way down the field.

[SCP]

That's fine but it's not very useful when the offense can just use shorter passes all the way down the field.

Like the Bears did play after play in their final drive to beat us.

[chef17]

Like the Bears did play after play in their final drive to beat us.

Exactly. Giving up shorter passes is fine when you have a big lead or your defense is great at forcing turnovers. When the opponent completes 66% of their passes you are just taking time off the clock. How many games did that help us win last season? Yeah this stat looks nice alone, but looking at other stats (26th in opponent completions per game, 31st in opponent incompletions per game, last in opponent completion % per game, etc.) it shows the secondary isn't nearly as good as some people seem to think.

[Zod]

I wonder how much of that has to do with our inability to stop the run, and putting teams in a lot of 3rd and short situations. Hopefully the new DTs can help with that and really upgrade the defense.

Much of it has to do with little to no safety help and keeping the CB"s way off the receivers to compensate.

[rayzor]

I'm curious to see a quarter by quarter break down of how we did against the short stuff because it seems like late in the game is when we gave up the most.

[Dash Global]

i fuggin hate soft defenses. mix up the man and zone and play aggressive.