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Team: Panthers Record through 8 games: 2-5 Offensive grade: B Defensive grade: D Special Teams grade: C Coaching grade: D Overall grade: D Most outstanding/surprising players(3): Andy Lee, Daryl Worley, and that's it Most disappointing players(3): heh. Kony Ealy, Kawaan Short, Mike Remmers The Panthers were counting on young players to produce. Injury compounded inexperience, and the Panthers see themselves looking up at the rest of the NFC south at 2-5. It should be mentioned they've lost three games by 9 points and could easily be 5-2 with a secondary that was quickly coming together. Instead, the season is on the brink and the Panthers are going to have to pull a rabbit out of their hats to make it back to the playoffs. Primarily they've been slaughtered by injury. They've trotted out a different set of DBs every single week. When they're mostly rookies on top of that, there's no chance for them to gel, or get experience together, or figure out what the gently caress is going on. The result is the Panthers have been forced to play basically straight up in the backfield, and the result has been QBs like Matt Ryan, Drew Brees, and others that are really good at the route tree just eating them alive. The other glaring weakness in the defense has been at DE. Charles Johnson has fallen off a cliff, and Kony Easy has dispelled any notion the superbowl was a breakout performance. Without any consistent pass rush out of their base sets, and without the ability to add any complexity into their coverage schemes, the Panthers have been gouged. On the other side of the ball, the Panthers tackle situation has been abysmal. A rough early schedule put them against two of the best defenses in the league in the first three weeks. Injury to Oher has forced Remmers to switch sides and struggle, effectively taking both tackle positions out. There's very little depth behind Stewart, which is an issue considering his relative inability to stay healthy. Cam has been obliterated, and it appears the refs are willing to allow defenders to do it with impunity, since his playing style exists legally somewhere between "NFL Quarterback" and "tackling dummy." There's reason to be hopeful. After a bye week and 2 weeks of practice, the Panthers' secondary looked good against a team you'd think would outmatch them. Daryl Williams has begun to come into his own at right tackle. Cam looks to be shaking off the cobwebs from his week 1 battle royale against Denver. Still, the hole is deep, and the Panthers are going to need some help to dig themselves out of it.
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i watched the packers - falcons game at brewhouse in little 5 and when gabriel caught that TD the bar reaction was "who the gently caress was that"
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Nov 3, 2016 16:04
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weird Asian candy posted:p much. Between Hardy, Robinson and Gabriel, they should just have WR3 on the back of their jerseys because I'm sure no one knows who the hell they are. if its wr3 add sanu
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Nov 3, 2016 16:30
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Funchess is playing very well, outside of his once a game holding penalty. Someone on reddit post a gif of every route he's run this year on all 22 and he generally runs better routes than benjamin or ginn (lol) Cam just never looks for him for whatever reason. He's the Panthers fourth option in the passing game.
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Nov 3, 2016 19:45
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lol the vikings
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