Is the Carolina Panthers Offense Smoke & Mirrors?

is no guarantee of success. I’m looking at the last ten Super Bowls, here. None of the Rams or Patriots teams that made the Super Bowl could be classified in that way. Chicago, Carolina and Tennessee all got there and lost to “passing-friendly” teams.

Of course, the Ravens, the ’05 Steelers, the Bucs and the ’07 Giants all got there and won with variations on that formula.

So obviously it’s a good plan with a proven track record. And I feel good about our offense’s ability to hold up their end of things. But those four winning teams had really special defenses. And it’s our defense’s ability to be “stout” that concerns me the most. I’m looking forward to training camp so I can answer some of those questions for myself.

it was an ill-timed lowlight for all parties involved.

Fox’s formula for winning is way out dated. For him to even think that you don’t need an allstar at the QB position shows how far in the stone age he is. That’s like saying an NBA team doesn’t need a great PG to succeed or a baseball team doesn’t need great pitchers to win. Why become a one trick pony on offense and just rely on the running game? The Panthers are in serious trouble this year and that Arz game was a culmination of all the errors in Delhomme. He’s had tunnel vision all season, throwing in double coverage to Smith all year, not checking his reads and it finally caught up to him. If the o-line starts to crumble with injuries(the interior d-line as well) its all down hill from there.

Whaaaat? Can someone explain to me how going 8-2 in the last 10 games, 4-1 in the last 5 is deemed a letdown? I know our defense was less than stellar during that period but our offense was playing exceptional. With the changes we have made on the defensive side of our coaching staff do people really expect that to continue over to the next year? I have my worries too but I’m not ready to admit that our defense will perform the same as they did during the 2nd half.

I still think that had Fox and Davidson actually followed the gameplan that was a surefire win during the regular season, we could have won that game. Obviously that gameplan was run the hell outta the ball.

Instead after a terrific opening series, getting a good run into the endzone, we ran the ball once on our next possesion, and got stuffed. After that stuffed run, I cannot recall us even running the ball 5 times the rest of the half, much less the entire game.

So instead of running it, we put the game into the hands of Delhomme on his birthday (which may have had something to do with it), while it is raining mind you. At the time I felt it was Delhomme’s fault that we lost that game. But the blame also needs to be placed on Fox and Davidson for not following what had worked the entire year, and going to a pass first offense instead of a run first offense.

The panthers made a great move by releasing Ken lucas he lost us alot of games last year. i believe the injury from smith done something lucas never perform good after it. You ask if the panthers running game is for real. Yes, my predictions are that Stewart will have the big year . look at his rookie season-awesome considering he was starting second and carring less than half the balls. Our running game can beat an average team every time. Jake did cost us a couple of games last year for instance the minn game if jake would have protected the ball and took the loss we probably would have won. the arizona game was meant to be they was a great team that should have beat the steelers. If you was to ask 89 who he would rather have as QB im sure without hesitation say delhomme. so i think the panthers are for real and a dominating force this year. oh yeah heres 2 more cent i believe the reason carolina paid jake so much is a future investment to attract quarter backs to carolina. one more thing if the patriots are interested in the raiders DE draft pick that tells you it may be a good decision.

Does he look like he’s trying to prevent something from leaking out the left side of his mouth?

Did he become a Skoal man?

We are completely built on big plays. If a team can double-triple-quadruple Smitty, and prevent DeAngelo’s 30+ yard runs, then what do we have left on offense? To remain competitive we would have to dink and dunk more like we did against the Chargers last season. The only problem is, with Smitty in the game would Jake ever dink and dunk instead of tossing up jump balls to Smitty? Which brings us full circle to the Great Jake Debate ;)