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Agreed. That was really textbook coverage. His back arm was touching the receiver’s back, but didn’t move the receiver. You have to reward that, not penalize it.

Terrible Call.

Panthers through a bad 4th down call And some basic game mismanagement have let the Texans right back in this game— despite outplaying them the entire game.

have you ever seen a panthers game that isn’t horrible? It’s like the ghost of Kerry Collins cursed this franchise to play 20 years of mostly boring football.

Panthers need to understand who they are playing. Kick FG’s; get some points; no turnovers, etc. You can beat a team like this 20-3. They just let the Texans hang around.

I seriously can’t believe Lovie Smith is still kicking around! And looks like Santa!

Interesting. I hadn’t heard that about him. My theories on this guy too seem to change daily. At one point, I thought the parents might have mentioned the reserve to lead the authorities off of his actual trail.

I actually think you want to kick a FG there. Being up 10 or 14 at this point has the same impact on the Texans.

reminds me of the great Merton Hanks!!

good call. I have my doubts though that he is alive at this point.

Thanks for sharing this! I have little memory of this game beyond the leap. Watching the highlights, you can see the flashed from Josh Allen. I am mostly amazed at how “lean” we were at the skill positions. Chris Ivory, Rae Rae, Croom, Kelvin Benjamin, Andre Holmes. None of those guys were more than replacement level players.

This is some serious sleuthing. Great find.

I watched his highlights/ all passes of his first two games. In game 1, he had maybe 1 downfield attempt, and had 2 in week 2. By downfield, I mean about 20 yards. He seems to Do a nice job at throwing short screens, curls, and dump downs. I suspect the way you confuse him is to run a lot of zone and take away a lot of the underneath stuff, and mix in a lot of confusing pressure looks. re pressure, he beat the blitz pretty well against Miami, by basically throwing quick dump offs. When the jets blitzed, the pats ran a lot of screens. I don’t know how he will develop, but I suspect that like any young QB, you can really rattle Him and throw him off his game.

True— that is the middle mediocre “meh” way. Floor is Trent Edwards though, for sure.

it’s a smart way to develop Him. But from this, it can go either of two ways: 1) Future Tom Brady, or 2) Future Trent Edwards.

This is pretty much the highest praise: “I’ve seen a renewed commitment to the process” -Sean McDermott on AJ Epenesa’s growth

great point. It is strange how the police had been so hands off with him. Even with this search, they looked hard, but then they sort of called it off. Now they may be back to looking.

Lot of sort of semi-amateur bloggers and podcast hosts are going to be losing money here if they don’t roll out the all-22….

i think you are right. Just go out to get lost and die in gator infested swamps. Just a messed up situation all around.

he has at least one other block that is not counted because the ball technically went like 1 yard pass the line of scrimmage

I don’t understand how they haven’t been able to find him yet. I get that this reserve is big— but they have drones, helicopters, dogs out there. You gotta wonder if he’s not there, but instead in Mexico, etc., and mom And dad basically fed the cops some bad information.

i felt like against Miami they were definitely holding back on offense. Maybe less holding back, but more like setting them up a little for the next time we play them (which is only in a few more weeks). For example, I noticed they ran a lot of motion and sort of jet sweep action, but we never did anything with it. I wonder if that’s part of the set-up to roll out some wrinkles the next time we play them.

While I have been thrilled and totally proven wrong about McKenzie as a returner, I am worried that it is taking its toll on him. He has been used very little on offense (maybe targeted only once or twice). I wonder if ST is taking up too much of his time and focus, such that they aren’t going to use him on offense.

Before I stop with the Wyatt Teller talk, the one memory I have of him is when we traded him away, his mom was super angry. She said on social media that the Bills would pay dearly for their mistake. We all laughed it off. But she’s the one laughing now. Just hope we don’t hear from Jack’s mom…