National Football Post Article

[Mr. Scot]

Panthers Risky Move

Interesting discussion. Particularly this part:

They hired Meeks to run his Tampa/Dungy style of defense, which allows them to feature their best assets -- the size of their corners and the speed of their linebackers. Meeks’ scheme is simple for the players to learn and play on the field quickly. When you study the Bucs/Dungy style of defense, the critical pieces are a right defensive end, an explosive three technique, a will linebacker, a middle backer who can run and a left end who can defeat single blocks. For the most part, the Panthers have all those pieces in place.

Do we really have those specific blocks in place?

 

[presidence99]

3 technique is the missing piece
right defensive end: Peppers, and our depth behind him is nice.
explosive three technique:I'm not seeing Kemo doing this, Lewis is obviously on my shit list, Irvin needs development, i don't see that guy on our roster right now.
a will linebacker: Davis certainly has the athletiscism to excel as a tampa 2 WOLB, maybe we see more big plays from him.
a middle backer who can run: covered
left end who can defeat single blocks: Brayton, Johnson and Brown should all be able to do this.

 

[magnus]

on Davis - I've championed him for a while, but I've heard people say if he moves here or moves there or the sun hits his helmet differently, he'll be so much better. And I don't know. This scheme will let him run a little more but overall I think he's about what he's gonna be.

At the one DT - we've got guys who can penetrate, if that's all they're being asked to do it might work out OK.

I also think that a big part of c2 defense is having two men cover so much ground back there - Harris has played c2 before, and Godfrey is athletic, but there are legit questions as to whether both can cover all that ground mistake-free.

 

[Elric]

I've never been sold on Davis at LB to be honest. He does a good enough job there that I can't really complain. Still, when they drafted him out of Georgia I had pictures in my head of him playing S and laying people out like Ronnie Lott.