Yeah ..... Watt and Clowney are gonna be interesting next week.

At least our pass rush is finally getting there. Coverage sacks.

9/13/2015 3:24:21 PM

Their line is weak, but the Panthers D is really, really good, right?

9/13/2015 3:26:22 PM

Yes our defense is luckily our strong suit, even with Luke out

9/13/2015 3:26:49 PM

Secondary has been starring but we are missing Star in the middle. They could run it or throw screen passes all the way down the field.

9/13/2015 3:33:02 PM

fuck Randy Moss. Let's sign Petite Randy Moss to line up in the slot.

9/13/2015 3:41:19 PM

J-Co!!

9/13/2015 3:44:09 PM

Really nice drive here...killing clock, moving the ball after starting with bad field position. Couple of nice 3rd down pick ups

9/13/2015 3:47:31 PM

Well, uninspiring win, but I'll take it. We should have scored TDs on our first 2 drives. Defense looks in midseason form even without Star and Keeks in the second half, lets hope the offense catches up quick.

9/13/2015 3:55:35 PM

TD FTW

[Edited on September 13, 2015 at 3:57 PM. Reason : refs wouldve somehow called that a dead ball for "Tuck Rule" Brady]

9/13/2015 3:57:11 PM

Escape from New York Jacksonville

and for fucks sake, can we get someone other than Ronde "I fuck Buccaneers" barber to call these games? its like they don't even want us to watch

9/13/2015 3:58:00 PM

every veteran showed up and made plays when plays were needed

ugly, but solid road win

9/13/2015 3:58:28 PM

^^Barber is calling 2 of our next 3 games

9/13/2015 4:01:17 PM

9/13/2015 4:03:55 PM

I thought they announced announcing teams the week of?

9/13/2015 4:05:14 PM

it's amazing what you can learn when you hear former players talk on the radio

9/13/2015 4:05:43 PM

RIP Rashad Greene

9/13/2015 4:07:56 PM

?

9/13/2015 4:08:03 PM

Bortles is getting his receivers murdered. Just let us have them!

[Edited on September 13, 2015 at 4:08 PM. Reason : .]

9/13/2015 4:08:06 PM

Ronde said he was doing Panthers games 3 of the first 4 weeks of the season

9/13/2015 4:08:46 PM

good for him

but I'm pretty sure those decisions don't get made until the week of the game

9/13/2015 4:10:49 PM

yeah I'm sure the NFL is just flying by the seat of their pants and the announcers themselves have no idea how to plan their schedules

9/13/2015 4:12:35 PM

Nah, Tree is right, he's gonna be on all our Fox games this season. I read the same thing he did.

9/13/2015 4:12:37 PM

^^ they have their schedules made for them

matchups can become more (or less) intriguing as the season goes on

Fox won't have their F team call a high profile game

9/13/2015 4:16:02 PM

yeah, their work schedules

how come there aren't flex games in the first 4 weeks?

9/13/2015 4:25:34 PM

work schedules? as opposed to what?

you think they book their own flights and hotel rooms?

and flex games are entirely different. those games are able to flip networks.

[Edited on September 13, 2015 at 4:33 PM. Reason : .]

9/13/2015 4:32:43 PM

as opposed to their overall life schedules, which include work, that they don't want to be made aware of at the last minute?

http://www.bflo360.com/2015/04/2015-nfl-on-fox-schedule.html

give it a rest man

9/13/2015 4:35:15 PM

I have no idea what that site is and how reputable they are

you're acting as if they're told the night before the game

9/13/2015 4:39:35 PM

You're acting like the announcers don't know until the week of? Not sure what you're having trouble understanding. The NFL plans more than a week in advance, at least early in the season. What's the issue?

9/13/2015 4:40:51 PM

as I said before, matchups become more or less intriguing throughout the season

the networks won't lock-in broadcast teams without knowing what the game will look like/how widely broadcast the game is

it's why the broadcast teams are announced the week of

9/13/2015 4:47:32 PM

BACK ON TOPIC...

Defensively -- Is there a better set of CBs in the league than Norman, Bene, and Tilman? They made play after play today. Our pass rush wasn't great today, but our secondary made them look good.

Offensively -- Cotch made the play of the day IMO. 4th quarter, 3rd and long, backed up in our end, he catches a duck from Cam and powers through two defenders to get the 1st down. That was awesome effort. We basically grinded the game away after that play.

9/13/2015 4:48:24 PM

sources for them being announced the week of?

9/13/2015 4:48:30 PM

Awful Announcing and 506 to name two

and Richard Deitsch of SI

[Edited on September 13, 2015 at 4:51 PM. Reason : I think you know how to google]

9/13/2015 4:50:06 PM

link?

not sure why you think the NFL, a $10 billion industry, doesn't have a plan until the week of...

[Edited on September 13, 2015 at 4:51 PM. Reason : .]

9/13/2015 4:50:35 PM

the NFL doesn't determine broadcast teams

the networks do

9/13/2015 4:52:54 PM

and i thought i was hardheaded when i was wrong

9/13/2015 4:53:13 PM

hahaha

9/13/2015 5:00:49 PM

Just got back from the game. There was a great showing of Panthers fans in Jacksonville. It was awesome.

9/13/2015 11:45:20 PM

On TV it showed the pool filled with Panthers fans the whole game

9/14/2015 1:20:28 AM

9/14/2015 2:12:36 AM

^I thought that would be a penalty for sure. I wonder if that's what he does to Cam in practice to piss him off. More power to him, he had a hell of a game.

Only thing I'm a little disappointed in was the run game, and maybe the O-line in general. I would have like to seen us line up and run over them, especially in the middle of the game (we ran well early, but later relied too much on throwing too many short dinks IMO).

Still a solid win. Lots of people picking J-ville to have a relative turnaround compared to the dumpster fire we've all come to expect.

9/14/2015 8:22:49 AM

O-Line was definitely a disappointment seein as how Jacksonville was missing some of their starters off the D-line.

9/14/2015 9:47:42 AM

Yeah pretty good game over all. The offensive line was worse than I expected, especially against a team without much front 7 talent. Oher's 2 sacks were the most glaring but in general we weren't getting much push up front. The other preseason worries manifested themselves in the early drops and weak playcalling by Shula. Defense gave up some big runs but they shut things down in the second half and picked up where they left off late last season. We'll see how the Failcons look tonight, but nothing about the Saints or Bucs (lol) gave me pause, we still look like the class of the division.

[Edited on September 14, 2015 at 9:53 AM. Reason : .]

9/14/2015 9:52:24 AM

I wish Shula could bottle up whatever magic he uses on opening drives and use it throughout the rest of the game

9/14/2015 11:01:19 AM

The o-line looked awful. I'll take the win, but we're lucky we were up against Jacksonville. If they keep playing like that we're in big trouble, especially without Benjamin to throw it up to. The WR we have need time to get open.

At some point, the Panthers front office has to do something to improve the line. They've gone in other directions over the last two drafts. I understand and largely agree with the drafting the best player available strategy. And they've been unable to go after free agents given the cap issues Hurney left them with. I understand the limitations.

But at some point, this has to be a priority. You pay Cam $20 million a year, let's protect him and give him time to do his job.

9/14/2015 11:04:01 AM

Quote :

"I wish Shula could bottle up whatever magic he uses on opening drives and use it throughout the rest of the game"

Perhaps this is a sign that the guy can come up with a good gameplan and plays for a drive, but isnt very good at calling a game on the fly. A lot of teams script their first X many plays or first drive and so everyone kinda knows what they are gonna do to start the game. I have no idea if they do or not but seems like an explanation of why teams would have good opening drives and then fall off from there.

9/14/2015 11:15:24 AM

Any word on Kuechly?

9/14/2015 11:31:24 AM

^i think so far the only thing is that he failed concussion protocol yesterday. so we probably won't know much about his status for Week 2 until later in the week.

9/14/2015 11:57:32 AM

Judging by how he looked right after the hit, I highly doubt he passes the concussion protocol to be eligible to play against Houston. Luckily, the Texans' offense is pedestrian at best (I think they're going to start Ryan Mallett at QB?), and Klein played well enough in Luke's place yesterday that our defense should be able to easily handle Houston's offense even without our best player. The big question is, is our offense going to be able to handle Houston's defense? Gonna be tough, the way we looked yesterday. But hey, we're 1-0!!

9/14/2015 12:17:52 PM

yeah...definitely gonna be interested to see how the OL holds up vs HOU

9/14/2015 12:29:24 PM

We need to copy the Chief's game plan. Short pass plays that get the ball out quick.

9/14/2015 1:36:38 PM