Game 8: Panthers at Packers - 11/2/25 - Noon - FOX

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[MickeyDavis]

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[BUCKnation]

MLF is constantly playing these games like he has the worse roster. Playing into the hands of teams who want to slow the game down, muck it up and limit possessions. The Panthers and many bad teams weve played this season have wanted to do just that and thus kept games way closer than necessary.

We should be running tempo like every other drive, because we’re good at it and it’ll get us more possessions. Instead of trying to be perfect every drive and winning 21-6, like someone else said, we should be trying to win 42-20. Right now, to even get 42, we need a TD on every possession.

The lack of possessions make any turnover or missed FG that much bigger too.

I generally don’t mind WR screens but the execution was so bad yesterday with misreads by the wr in Savion’s case on the fumble or just horrible blocking on the others. The horizontal outside runs actually piss me off more because those haven’t worked all year.

Were constantly getting into 3rd and long situations with Love having to bail us out. There has been some talk about him after yesterday’s game, which make no sense to me.

[Ron Swanson]

One of my friends said that he's essentially running the "Malik Willis gameplan" against a lot of these inferior teams and I can't agree more at this point. I mean yeah, it was great that we put up more than 400 yards of rushing in those two games last season where Love was hurt, but in the long run it was terrible for his increasingly conservative offensive philosophy going forward. Even if we were effectively running the ball this year (we're not) and had a defense as good as them (we don't), you can't win games like the 2000 Ravens in the year 2025.

[Mags FTW]

And you shouldn't run the Malik Willis offense when Love isn't the running threat that Willis is either.

[Ron Swanson]

And for all the Gospel of Analytics people, it was actually the right play by the numbers to kick the FG there and make it 13-9 (96% success rate) instead of going for it on 4th and 8 with 11-minutes left. Dude is just consistently getting the most important decisions in the game wrong, whether it's listening too much to the data, or not at all.

[BUCKnation]

And for all the Gospel of Analytics people, it was actually the right play by the numbers to kick the FG there and make it 13-9 (96% success rate) instead of going for it on 4th and 8 with 11-minutes left. Dude is just consistently getting the most important decisions in the game wrong, whether it's listening too much to the data, or not at all.

Im all for being aggressive on 4th, but, even on madden or CFB, it’s essentially impossible to score a TD in that type of scenario. You’ll need the points later anyways, the kick is the right move. 8 yards to get is wildly different than even 5 yards in that part of the field.

[HKPackFan]

And for all the Gospel of Analytics people, it was actually the right play by the numbers to kick the FG there and make it 13-9 (96% success rate) instead of going for it on 4th and 8 with 11-minutes left. Dude is just consistently getting the most important decisions in the game wrong, whether it's listening too much to the data, or not at all.

Im all for being aggressive on 4th, but, even on madden or CFB, it’s essentially impossible to score a TD in that type of scenario. You’ll need the points later anyways, the kick is the right move. 8 yards to get is wildly different than even 5 yards in that part of the field.

Let's not forget it was a SHORT FIELD GOAL, not a 50yrd prayer.

It was the obvious choice. I thought the play was to get them offsides until he took the TO and lined up again.

[HKPackFan]

One thing, and it's a small thing, I usually never listen to the halftime tidbits to start the 3rd,but when MLF said the game is going exactly how they wanted.... I was like... Wtf are you talking about.

The first half was a disaster, the offense was barely unleashed and the defense was being run over.

[Profound23]

On Dowdle's last big run:

Panthers at midfield, 2nd and 10. Packers in a base defense to stop either run or pass. Bryce walks over to Dowdle and this is where it all fell apart. Bryce points at a Packer defender and tells Dowdle who he is supposed to block. Packers adjusted immediately from base defense to pass rush defense which left the middle of the field completely wide open. Parsons even acknowledged this at the end of the game saying we ran a pressure defense and they ran an inside zone to beat our pressure, it was a better call from them. Kind of annoying since Bryce only had 100 yards passing all game, you force him to pass there.