GDT: Carolina Panthers part 2: Is Darnold good or not?

[Bunch of Jurcos]

There's somehow been .4% MORE cowardly punts? How? Did they punt in the red zone or something? And back to this punt, it was even more shitty because the Jets got the ball at like the 15 instead of inside the 5. Just failboat all around.

 

[HisIceness]

There's somehow been .4% MORE cowardly punts? How? Did they punt in the red zone or something? And back to this punt, it was even more shitty because the Jets got the ball at like the 15 instead of inside the 5. Just failboat all around.

I'm still baffled by it.

 

[Daeavorn]

How do we STILL have shit special teams? Damn I swear some things never change.

edit: special fug you to Marty Hurney for giving Graham Gano an extension and letting Harrison Butker go.

 

[Wolfpuck]

How do we STILL have shit special teams? Damn I swear some things never change.

edit: special fug you to Marty Hurney for giving Graham Gano an extension and letting Harrison Butker go.

Big sad

 

[Chrispy]

There's somehow been .4% MORE cowardly punts? How? Did they punt in the red zone or something? And back to this punt, it was even more shitty because the Jets got the ball at like the 15 instead of inside the 5. Just failboat all around.

I'm guessing anything more cowardly would be later in the game and trailing, so such a play would be a complete surrender even if it's further away from the end zone.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Even in a highly strategic game like baseball, you don't see the level of "trust me I know what I'm doing" fails that you see in the NFL. It's amazing how gameday pressure can completely short-circuit the logical functions inside a coach's brain.

 

[AD Skinner]

I used to read the Tuesday Morning Quarterback column pretty regularly and he was always railing against punts. He would frequently bring up some prep school in Texas that spent a season never punting in any situation and ended up going like 12-2. Obviously that's an anecdote and not data but its a really interesting situation to analyze

 

[tarheelhockey]

He would frequently bring up some prep school in Texas that spent a season never punting in any situation and ended up going like 12-2.

My high school team didn't have anybody who could kick worth a damn. We would punt, but we went a whole season where I want to say we didn't even attempt a field goal beyond about the 10 yard line. The next year they found a soccer player who was willing to be a kicker in his off-season.

Point being, we always went for it on 4th down in scoring range. We suuuuuuuuuucked.

 

[Unsustainable]

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

My high school team didn't have anybody who could kick worth a damn. We would punt, but we went a whole season where I want to say we didn't even attempt a field goal beyond about the 10 yard line. The next year they found a soccer player who was willing to be a kicker in his off-season.

Point being, we always went for it on 4th down in scoring range. We suuuuuuuuuucked.

Played soccer in high school and every year there was a week during tryout season where the juniors and seniors (the guys who already knew they made the team) would go over to the football field after practice and compete to be the kicker that year.

 

[Wolfpuck]

Can he make it from the opponent’s 33?

 

[Bub]

There's somehow been .4% MORE cowardly punts? How? Did they punt in the red zone or something? And back to this punt, it was even more shitty because the Jets got the ball at like the 15 instead of inside the 5. Just failboat all around.

I dunno, but this was the worst punt of 2020, apparently made worse by being a playoff game:

 

[tarheelhockey]

I dunno, but this was the worst punt of 2020, apparently made worse by being a playoff game:

If you're interested in more terrible-punt stories, this video goes into obsessive detail on the topic and somehow ends up being absolutely fascinating:



Toward the end it gets into the narrow topic of pooch punting, including a strong case that this single play by Panthers legend Jon Kasay killed the pooch punt league-wide:

(start at 0:37)



And this one, which is total insanity when you look at score, time, down/distance, and the offensive players available:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOmz5WjOfoU

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

Panthers looking good against an injury depleted Saints

 

[Tryamw]

Panthers looking good against an injury depleted Saints

On that first drive in particular the second drive not as sharp.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

Holy f*** they're punting from the Saints 43 on a 4th and 2

 

[Canes]

Granted the Saints are missing some good players and many coaches but Darnold looks pretty good so far.

 

[Tryamw]

New kicker adds a FG when we got to the 2..

 

[Tryamw]

Inside the 2 can we convert the TD...

 

[Canes]

Run blocking is abysmal on short yardage situations.

 

[Tryamw]

Run blocking is abysmal on short yardage situations.

I prefer the term non existent. You have better luck obtaining unobtanium..

 

[Tryamw]

DJ Moore TD.. Darnold's been should I jinx it? Good?

 

[Tryamw]

Int! when the Saints finally got some positive yardage. 30 seconds at the end of the half.

I'll take it but I hate the UR with a guy with 1 foot out of bounds..
Carolina penalty to end the half.

 

[HisIceness]

Int! when the Saints finally got some positive yardage. 30 seconds at the end of the half.

I'll take it but I hate the UR with a guy with 1 foot out of bounds..
Carolina penalty to end the half.

wINTston

 

[Wolfpuck]

This defense is all gas no brakes!

Darnold is looking good too.