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Hintz and Lea: Panthers controlled the game vs. the Broncos with a balanced offense and a solid defense
Kacy Hintz and Chris Lea break down the Carolina Panthers win over the Denver Broncos on Sunday.
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Kacy Hintz and Chris Lea break down the Carolina Panthers win over the Denver Broncos on Sunday.
Welcome back into sports extra as we continue to break down the Carolina panthers 23 10 win over the Denver broncos and to help me do that, let's bring in WRL Chrisley chris thanks so much for hopping on tonight. Let's get right to it. The panthers able to control this game with their ground attack. They rack up 100 and 85 total yards rushing. Now that they've been able to establish that, how much does this help the panthers offense? It helps tremendously. We know that the panthers don't have a great quarterback, right? So you don't want to have whoever that's gonna be back there behind center, drop back and throw it over 30 times. Like the panthers were used to doing under head coach matt rule. You want to run that ball to make sure that you're controlling the tempo and then also you're controlling what, what's happening with the ball. And the panthers have done that. And if you look since christian Mccaffrey has been traded, Deontay foreman has four games where he's rushed for over 100 yards. And chris McCaffery hasn't done that this year. He's played every game this year, including with the panthers and with the san Francisco 40 niners, he has more than Jonathan. Taylor, Dalvin Cook. Alvin Kamara, joe Mixon Austin Ekeler and Leonard for that. And these are all starters that have all started this entire season. Uh, so it's hugely important for the Carolina panthers and it's a huge part of why they've gotten three wins under interim head coach steve Wilks, you mentioned they haven't had, you know, a great quarterback today. They started their third of the season, but a familiar face and Sam Donald and hey, he did enough for this Panthers offense and I think most importantly to he didn't hurt the offense today I guess, you know, he's going to get the starts next week or after the bye week. Still steve Wilks said, but does he start the rest of this season? And is he the best chance the panthers have to win? I don't know if he starts for the rest of the season, but I know that between him and P. J. Walker they have the best chance to win between those two quarterbacks. But one of the things that kind of stuck out about his performance today for me was that he was 11 of 19 throwing 19 passes, okay. I went back last year and looked at a lot of the box scores, matt rule had this guy dropping back and throwing, you know, as much as 30 35 40 42 times per game. 42 is the highest that I saw from last year, which was their last game against the Saints. There's no reason why hey Sam Donald should ever dropped back to throw it. Uh 42 times and you know, 30 is a little iffy. Um That's one of the things, I think it's been a great adjustment by steve Wilks is the fact that he's putting people in position for them to win based on their skill set. We know the limitations that Sam Donald has and we know that if he has a solid offensive line and a run game, then you don't give him an opportunity to give the ball away to the other team, which is the whole point of the game, right? You want him to be a game manager and that's exactly the position he was put in today, he managed it well. And even when he had a Sam Donald drop, he got on the ball and rolled into the end zone for probably the ugliest touchdown ever in panthers history, but it still counts for six and it still helps to contribute to a win. You know, you mentioned steve Wilks, he is now three and o at home as the interim head coach of this panthers team and I think all the wins were by double digits as well. Do you think he's done enough to remove that interim tag and become the panthers head coach for this season is over, let's look at everything I just mentioned, right, putting the panthers in position to succeed. I don't even think that rule put chris McCaffery in position to succeed. So that stat that I had about Deontay foreman earlier is not indicative of christian Mccaffrey, I think that was indicative of coaching in the position that Chris McCaffery was put in under head coach matt rule and you look at what he did with Sam Donald in the position that he put Sam Donald in to go out there and get a win. I think if you just look at that alone and how he's put this entire team to defense, uh Deontay foreman, uh you know P. J. Walker and also uh you know, Sam Donald in positions to win, he has to at least get some type of shot whether it's with the panthers or somebody else. Now we don't know if David Tepper is looking to go another direction or not, but you would think that steve Wilks has gotten the opportunity to earn the opportunity to be the head coach of a team, get a full offseason and to show what he could do to help build a roster, take them through the offseason and start the season with that team. Hopefully the panthers give him that chance, but if not some other team definitely has to come call him because he's shown that he can take something that's, he can take lemons and make lemonade. I'll just I'll just put it that way. That's the nicest way to put it. Yeah well he certainly has them rolling as kind of and executing to a certain level. We'll see if they can keep this going in two weeks against Seattle chris lee, thank you so much