[Buffalo vs. Carolina: Official Game Day Thread]

the better team won it, and even if we had been able to miraculously hold on to that lead at the end (something that a ron rivera coached team can't do) you guys would still have been the better team.

 

we were horrible.

 

good luck this season.

[Buffalo vs. Carolina: Official Game Day Thread]

panthers go with nickel packages most the time anyway and usually take one of the LBs off the field. that would be beason this game, tho they plan on him playing more snaps this game.

 

should be a good one. hopefully it's not a comedy of errors (at last not panther errors).

 

i hope you have a good game....next week. this week i hope that there is a lot of pain, but no injuries.

 

panthers offense opens up downfield taking advantage of a weak secondary on a defense that has been spread thin. the panthers defense turns into big scary monsters on the field and force a scared manuel to turn the ball over and miss receivers, giving him a proper welcome to the NFL.

 

panthers pull it out winning by 10.

 

have a good day! I'll be back this afternoon one way or the other.

[Bills O in week 2]

The best weapon against an overly aggressive front 4 is the screen play. Let them get by your O-line without making it too obvious that you're letting them by you, and sneak your RB in behind them. It keeps defenses honest, takes advantage of athletic quarterbacks, and most importantly gets CJ Spiller in space. I don't care how good Keuchly is, if its just him and CJ in the open field he's gonna get a handful of air.

 

Say what you want about Chan Gailey but he was the master at it. Hackett needs to pay more attention to how it was run last year, we have a lot of the same guys still on the offense. Screens are tricky to do the right way, it takes a solid effort from every man on the field, but they are incredibly effective and I hope to see more of them in the games ahead.

 

Overall i thought Hackett called a poor game in the opener and hope he redeems himself on Sunday. We need this win and we aren't gonna get it with 14 points

i don't know that it's them being overly aggressive. i've heard that said, but rivera has a philosophy that he actually picked up from lovie smith in chicago and has used elsewhere that is 'penetrate first, read second' in which the goal is to just get vertical and get throught he OL as quick as possible and then read what the O is trying to do. with that, they are coached to play the run on the way to the QB so they are expecting the RB to be involved and are trained to attack it. you saw that with the way they handled lynch last week.

[Dwan Lives in Buffalo]

Yeah, we live next to a creek and NC has many venemous snakes. Saw a 3-foot copperhead while out walking the dog a few years ago. I'm not scared of the snake as much as I'm scared of what they can do to a dog or small child.

 

 

 

Ha, yeah, those too. I get a few mounds in my yard each year. Found a fantastic and uber CHEAP way to deal with them though. Just boil up a huge stock/lobster pot of water, pour on the mound and voila: Fire ant soup.

lived in the carolina's for probably 30 of 40+ years on this earth.

 

spiders and snakes aren't that bad at all. i've got 40 acres and i have yet to see a copperhead in 12 years of living on this property. i've run into them them quite a bit, tho, but they aren't that big of a deal because they are pretty laid back snakes. i've rolled logs over several times startling one and all it did was take off. i've had people i was hiking with step over one accidentally and although startling, it was uneventful. now water moccasins, those are scary. i've seen several in my pond before, but even then all but two of them took off and the other two got shot. unless you are in the eastern part of the states, those are kind of rare. i'm in the northwest part of NC currently and it wasn't until last year that i saw any at all.

 

my 6 year old daughter will go for a walk around the pond by herself occassionally and i'm not worried. we go camping quite a bit and have gone to sleeping in hammocks when we do camp and spiders and snakes just aren't something that my wife and i are all that concerned with. it's kind of like living in arkansas or some other place with tornados (which i was in arkansas going to school for 6 years). from the outside you hear about tornados quite a bit and you get this impression that they are going on all the time everywhere, but the truth is that it isn't something you have to deal with a whole lot ever.