I'm still baffled by this..........

[Clicheking]

He obviously sold his soul to the dark lord Satan during the two minute warning.

 

illuminati...........I knew it

[lightsout]

the best thing shula can do as an OC is get out of cam's way during the game. 

One thing I want to see, as an experiment, is Cam call one whole offensive series himself. He knows his playbook. If we're up by 2 or 3 TDs during Sunday's game, I'd like to see Shula just tell Cam "make the calls this drive. See what you can get going. No pressure, don't eat yourself up, but you know the playbook. Call this series and let's see what happens". I have to believe it'd be an efficient drive, if only because I love Cam and therefore, my view is skewed on this, thinking that Cam is good enough to do that right now.

[PghPanther]

It baffles me that after getting burnt on the cornerback blitz once already that day, Ryan went back to it again with the game on the line, only to have it burn him again.

 

But on that last play we were so lucky that Tolbert was able to brush the Corner enough to move him from hitting Cam before he got that pass off to Hixon. It was a good gamble on the part of Ryan and damn near sunk the effort.

 

[MadHatter]

Cam is at his best when he gets out of his own head and just plays ball. I suspect that last drive took away the luxury of the long drawn out Shula play calling and clock eating offense. Cam didn't have time to overthink his play.

Sent from the Carolina Huddle App

I agree 100%.

However, everyone thinking you will see that in most no huddle possessions would be disappointed.

It was more than the no huddle. It was the situation around the drive. Pressure was on and he knew they HAD to make plays. He was on...Ginn was on....Olsen made a fantastic catch...tgen Hixon made an appearance.

They all knew the magnitude of the situation and tegu collectively refused to lose.

[PghPanther]

Cam missed 3 throws in the second half. Some of you are making it out to seem like he threw 3 int's and 10 incompletions.

2 to Olsen and 1 to Hixon. After Cam missed Hixon, the Saints took over and Brees missed a wide open Colston due to the ball being wet. Aikman even said this may have caused Cam's ball to sail high on the throw to Hixon. The conditions were crap, I wouldn't read to much into it.

 

A worthy observation....................thanks.

[USCGuardsman]

I get the concept of owning the clock with long drives, but when you have a defense like this, it may not be necessary. Seems by doing so, we have allowed more teams to remain alive and in the game until the bitter end.

[PghPanther]

I agree 100%.

However, everyone thinking you will see that in most no huddle possessions would be disappointed.

It was more than the no huddle. It was the situation around the drive. Pressure was on and he knew they HAD to make plays. He was on...Ginn was on....Olsen made a fantastic catch...tgen Hixon made an appearance.

They all knew the magnitude of the situation and tegu collectively refused to lose.

 

but wouldn't it be nice to bottle that from the first drive on in a playoff game?

[Darth Biscuit]

Zod is right and idk how the coaching staff hasn't figured this out yet...

 

Cam plays best when they just let him play.  

 

I know ball control and clock mgmt is important, but scoring points is too.  

 

We need to run the hurry-up more, and do more quick outs, screens and plays where if he gets in trouble, he can improvise.  If we would do that and put points on the board, then we could pound it with DWill and Tolbert later.

[*FreeFua*]

But on that last play we were so lucky that Tolbert was able to brush the Corner enough to move him from hitting Cam before he got that pass off to Hixon. It was a good gamble on the part of Ryan and damn near sunk the effort.

Yeah it was super close but still, more times than not I'd bank on Mr. T picking up that blitz.

Love me some Tolbert.

I realize down in the red zone, the safety doesn't have all that much ground to cover due to the corner blitzing, it's just not something I'd call. Worst case scenario Cam sees the corner and takes off. Now you have a scrambling Cam in the redzone with the game on the line.

Remember Minnesota his rookie year, although he didn't score he sure wasn't going down easy

[stirs]

I do not want us to have to wait until "Cam Time" as I don't believe in smoke and mirrors.  It is a good spin and makes us feel good, but wont get you too far in the playoffs.  I want us to capitalize on each possession as if it is our last.  The Defense played lights out all game long just to give us a shot at a win.  If they had only clicked on only one possession against the Saints, we would have lost by 40 pts and the last drive by the Panthers would not have mattered.

 

I just can't give a pass to Shula, the OLine or Cam for 3 and a half qtrs of poor football.  To get where we want to be, both sides of the ball will need to be clicking for 4 qtrs.

[MadHatter]

but wouldn't it be nice to bottle that from the first drive on in a playoff game?

Absolutely.

[IamSoClutch]

it's called being CLUTCH

[2jakefansinva]

after reading this thread you'd think our record was 4-12.

[MadHatter]

Cam and the offense need to hold a players only meeting....to resurrect that mid season offensive form that was averaging 30+ per game.

We are gonna need the offense to make a serious run in the playoffs.