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The Carolina Panthers 5 keys to victory against the Chicago Bears · C3 Panthers Podcast: Carolina Panthers

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Tell your darling, and not to it, but to do it, brother, let's roll!
• 0:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is between every podcast.
• 0:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you want the Carolina Panthers to win their first opening week since 2021?
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, they have their first home opener since 2022, where they're hosting the Chicago Bears.
• 0:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've got five keys to victory.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Five requisites.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: requirements for Carolina to pull this out.
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: They are three point dogs last time I checked the spread and we're going to look at five keys to victory and some critical matchups to be watching on Sunday.
• 1:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: My name's Tony Dunn, it's the C3 Panthers podcast.
• 1:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is my wheelman Cody Lack.
• 1:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: How you doing my friend?
• 1:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Aaron, he's done.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I am wonderful because the start of the pantu season is upon us and all of our attention.
• 1:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's focused on the Chicago Bears.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And what we need to do,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: to rob some ass and defend our dirt in the bank this Sunday, Tony, and I'm too able to do a brother, let's roll, let's jump right into this.
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is some five keys to victory and these are, you know, this is something that we've thought about on for a while and some of it is self-evident and some of it is, you know, it's a little
• 2:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the number one for me that I was thinking about going into this, not only this game, so you have to kind of think about the opponent we're facing, but also the team and the team we are in the style we played last year.
• 2:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we have to kind of look at who we were last year.
• 2:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: how we won and look, the Carolina Panthers, what they really need to do is number one key to victory is to establish the run and to control time of possession.
• 2:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ben Johnson's come out and said he wants to have the most prolific, highest scoring office offense in
• 2:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: NFL history, Caleb Williams is on the cover of Madden, he is a star by many, by many people.
• 2:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if he's completely proven, but Ben Johnson, he is wanting to make this, he wants that offense to rock.
• 2:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: So how do you do it?
• 3:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Carolina Panthers need to set a heavy
• 3:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: That means this, Chuba Hubbard getting the business done.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Jonathan Brooks contributing and getting the Panthers into manageable third-down situations, third and short to that clock up and shield the defense from the Bears, potentially, or what was last year, a very high-paid fast-paced, high volume.
• 3:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: offense, Cody, I think, establishing the run is a number one key for the Carolina Panthers this Sunday.
• 3:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Tony, remember that this pair's defense gave up the most yards allowed by any NFL defense against the rush at 2,500 rush yards of giving up.
• 3:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Tony, this is bread and butter.
• 3:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Keep Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson off the field likely related to run the ball down their neck.
• 4:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think this is going to be the key for us on a bunch of funds to be able to establish an aggressive passing attack.
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: But once we get that run going, everything else falls in place.
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're able to run the football, get to the rubber and go in, get Jonathan Brooks and on the action, get something of a two back set going, two bell cows, just punishing that bear's defense running the ball.
• 4:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: down there, that's going to be the way that we control the time of possession and keep the ball in the hands of the Carolina Panthers and not on the Chicago Bears offense.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty self-evident Tony.
• 4:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: The number two key to victory is the Carolina Panthers need to avoid a high scoring shootout.
• 5:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: This team does not want to get into shootouts.
• 5:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: While you have statistics that says this team has had come back victories, this team needs to keep it close and they need to keep it the point low.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: We don't want that offense forcing the Carolina Panthers to play a different type game.
• 5:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Chicago Bears were last year were five and one when scoring over 30 points.
• 5:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: But if they were kept under 25 codey, they dropped down to the coin flip, 6 and 5 record.
• 5:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: So keeping the bears under that 25 points is paramount for the Carolina Panthers.
• 5:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: So what I think is the second key avoiding the high scoring shootout requires what we said in
• 5:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: and controlling time of possession, but this also requires the Carolina Panthers to get some business done when their number is called, and particularly early in this game, let's bog it down, let's make it a slug fest.
• 6:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and Tony, you brought up Brent Coleman, where he said on that football podcast is that the Carolina Panthers were so good at limiting the possessions that a team got, but this is going to require our defense to step up in a big way and make it a bar fight.
• 6:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: We talked about inside one, you have to limit the amount of times that that offense against the ball.
• 6:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: but you're not going to be able to do it forever.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: When that offense does get that ball or defense needs to fly around, we need to play fast and more importantly, we have to get pressure on the quarterback.
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think if we do that, we can limit the bad decisions that care the Williams will ultimately end up making and we can make this offense far less potent
• 7:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Keeping that score below 25 points right where we wanted to be telling us at last Tuesday night Take the under on the points take the under.
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think this is going to be a shoot out like some people might think that it would
• 7:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think he probably should take the under almost on every week, one game it seems like.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if that is the case, you should go to mybookie.
• 7:27
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• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Carolina Panthers, this is really, this is, this is how you turn the ties, this is how the Carolina Panthers won games last year, force a second half turnover.
• 7:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: not only are you trying to bog this down and make it a bar fight, but you are ultimately by trying to limit time of possession through establishing a run game, avoiding the highest the shootout, your ultimate goal is to limit possessions and you get into a possession bout
• 8:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: as the game goes on.
• 8:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't get it twisted.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: A first quarter interception is far worse than a fourth quarter interception.
• 8:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Carolina Panthers, key number three, force a second half clutch turn over that flips the script in possessions and keeps the game more towards a coin flip, less towards
• 8:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely, and this is what we really did well last season Tony.
• 8:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean the total second half turn over.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was 11 Carolina produced 11 of the 21 takeaways in the second half and eight of those 11 came in the fourth quarter So when the defense needed to have it the most we were able to come away with a key interception.
• 9:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Kevin board is going to be a big part of that this year.
• 9:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have more of
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: a coverage ability at the linebacker position compared to the years past so I think they're going to have to be careful targeting that middle of the field and the bears often have a lot of weapon second utilize the middle of the field well but also Tony we've said for a long time they're we feel the Carolina Panthers have one of if not the best to corner back tandem
• 9:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: this is the moment where those guys thrive.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to get nervous.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to look at the score and they're going to want to get aggressive and put points up and that's going to allow for RDBs to be aggressive, play the football and take the ball away from the bears.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: If we can do that and continue to do that as a high pace this year in general,
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, there are good things in the way for the Carolina Panthers defense like you said last year this was critical for the up and down season that the Carolina Panthers had, but in those ups, they had some success in second half turnovers, 21 turnovers on the season 11 produced in the second half number four key for the Carolina Panthers winning their first opener.
• 10:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Since 2021, Rattle, Caleb Williams in the pocket, which I think could be the most difficult in here.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you why, not because the Carolina Panthers cannot get pressure at certain points.
• 10:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: You want to get interior pressure, Cody.
• 10:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: You've been a fan of interior pressure of how it disrupts more in this modern NFL than anything.
• 11:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: But here's the thing, is pressure and quick decision forcing mistakes great, but Caleb Williams is known for his improvisation skills.
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, pressure and contain critical to me.
• 11:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: You don't want to get pressure.
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: It looks like a great play.
• 11:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: And all of a sudden, somebody scrambling for 40 yards or an impromptu improvised play that turns out to be a 40-yard touchdown, pressure and contain.
• 11:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Rattled half a million to the pocket are fourth key to victory on some absolute and listen then can the modem's telling is the definition of the modern NFL quarterback.
• 11:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: He is not a statue like quarterbacks from the late 90s or 2000s, okay?
• 11:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: He can move around and I feel like it's easier for these quarterbacks to evade edge pressure.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Then it is that interior pressure.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you destroy the pocket for Caleb Williams, that's going to make him panic.
• 12:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's going to force him to make quick decisions.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's going to let our defensive backs play the ball more.
• 12:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: My friend mentioned in part three.
• 12:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: RDBs and our linebackers can play the ball more aggressively when RD line is getting home.
• 12:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is going to be very important.
• 12:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Carolina Panther's second round pit and Lee Hunter was named a starter on this team.
• 12:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: He has an opportunity to already make a name for himself alongside Derek Brown being physical, being aggressive, and hitting into the face of Caleb Williams.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: To me, that's that's easy.
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's football 101.
• 12:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: That is a recipe for success and the Carolina Panthers.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, this is number four on the list, Tony, but it might be number one.
• 12:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Wow, and to the pocket destroyed the interior and getting to kill those fellow Muslims in space and take his lunch money Take that lunch money
• 13:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Key number five to victory for the Carolina Panthers this Sunday.
• 13:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: If they're going to win this game against the bears, if you look at how the trajectory of these teams, Ben Johnson effect, the Caleb Williams effect in so many ways that all since put up 30 points over six times last season, Carolina Panthers don't have the luxury of kicking field goals Cody.
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's time for the Carolina Panthers to take that net step and finish drives with touchdowns.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Key number fifth key to victory.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't settle for field goals.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Time to get those thoughts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Punch the ball then.
• 13:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm in tone to this team averaged 32 points per hand last year.
• 13:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
• 13:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: When Ben Johnson says they want to break records on offense.
• 13:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: He feels like they have all the power to do so, because they damn nearly did it last year.
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you cannot be too greedy with points in this game.
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: There is no excuses when you're into wedzone, you need to save it.
• 14:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's no field goals.
• 14:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's punching it in, hit the ball into the end zone.
• 14:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it seems so rudimentary, but you cannot play hesitant against a team like this.
• 14:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Field goals are not going to win this game to incorporate the last slide.
• 14:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not only do you have to get turnedovers, and get points off of those turnedovers, but when you have the ball in that red zone,
• 14:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: complete.
• 14:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Those are your five keys to victory, but we've also got some matchups.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We're looking at right now.
• 14:47
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• 14:48
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• 14:55
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• 15:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Taking calls.
• 15:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be fun.
• 15:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: And hopefully we're celebrating a Panthers victory if those five keys are implemented.
• 15:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: But we've got some key matchups.
• 15:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we've got three, four, you're Cody, but I've got a bonus one in waiting in the wings.
• 15:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Cody, tell us the first of these matchups.
• 15:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we misspelled it as Jay, Jay Lim with a Y.
• 15:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: But that is fine.
• 15:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Jay Johnson, but tell us what you guys know.
• 15:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we didn't misspelled it.
• 15:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Rock, misspelled it.
• 15:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, we'll put the blame on them, but do T-Mac versus Jalen Johnson, Carolina's top 10 rookie wide-out offensive rookie of the year versus an elite proble corner.
• 15:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Millions of catch radius and size give Bryce Jones a true perimeter target, and Jalen Johnson rarely allows
• 15:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: This matchup is really going to be one-to-watch this Sunday and how Carolina motions a bit willing to create free releases of way from press coverage on the outside.
• 16:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's canned, Brad, Isaac, man, your factory.
• 16:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: There was easy yards and there was easy receptions for a team act.
• 16:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's going to be pivotal.
• 16:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean right now, we know that Bryson has a real real connection with one Maybe two guys if you add in jail and coker, but T-Mac is his guy and Through ran so you'll snow you're going to have to find every single way imaginable to get T-Mac at the ball And that's going to be a total order against jail and Johnson
• 16:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: not only Jalen Johnson, but we highlighted the importance of running the ball and controlling time of possession, but part of that was is to stay away from a dangerous Chicago Bear secondary who had 23 interceptions last season.
• 16:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, when in this matchup, avoiding turnovers, us turning the ball over, watch big melon,
• 17:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: This Sunday, he is Bryce Young's favorite target through Bryce's three years so far.
• 17:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's kind of been one notice when it comes to his receivers.
• 17:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: While there is some distribution, he does play a favorite.
• 17:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if Tett Macmillan can, what he wants to do is get those thousand yards, thousand yards season, Macmillan went in this matchup, is imperative for the Carolina Panthers to
• 17:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: in this game right there next matchup we should be looking for on Sunday man this one it could be scary but Tony we're going to go into this believing in our boy the 19
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Montage remains the engine of that Chicago bear's fascist and feelings ability to hold up a down constant chip block assistance from tidings or running backs is going to determine whether Bryson has a clean pocket to work through those progressions.
• 18:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is pivotal.
• 18:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Monroe has a very tall order for his first matchup of this season.
• 18:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he's playing a right tackle.
• 18:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is not even the position that we drafted him to play and he's already going to be going up against one of the better past rushing defensive ends in a long time.
• 18:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: This dude had a hundred or two hundred and seventy something pounds at the combine.
• 18:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I remember ran like a low four five The dude is a physical monster.
• 18:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: However, Monroe Freeling is too, but this is going to be something that it's really going to be interesting to see if Brad Isaac does decide to shade some extra protection and chip block assistance over to Monroe Freeling.
• 19:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: We mentioned how imperative it was for the Carolina Panthers to score touchdowns not settled for the Ray and finding a big body in the end zone and not just being technic millen or hoping on Xavier would get to come to the show third pivotal matchup to watch or play for the Carolina Panthers and who they're playing against Cody tell us about it.
• 19:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we have a little bit of a two for in terms of the bears.
• 19:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be new and Panthers tied in former proble tied in Darren Waller versus Tremaine Edmunds and TJ Edwards that line back and core for the bears, one of the best in the NFL.
• 19:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: If Darren Waller is active and utilized over the middle, where we do anticipate he will be.
• 19:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: He becomes the safety valve on third and medium.
• 19:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Chicago's linebackers are fast, but Waller's size creates mismatch opportunities in the same, which are critical for keeping drives alive and keeping the clock moving.
• 20:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Tony, I've said this from Jump.
• 20:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Darren Waller is that big, strong presence that you want to be able to go across the middle of the field.
• 20:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: rather than a Jimmy Horn Jr. or a John Mechie who are likely to be lit up by the likes of German Edwin's and TJ Edwin's.
• 20:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it gives you more of a matchup advantage when you have a player with the skill set and the size of Darren Walder.
• 20:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: And to me, this is a new wrinkle that we're still trying to figure out.
• 20:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: the best ways to hit wall of active in this offensive passing attack.
• 20:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm really excited to see what Brad did, Jake and Dave can always have cooked up in order to do just that.
• 20:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't think Waller is a key to the game, but we're interested in seeing how much the Carolina Panthers are trying to integrate him and how fast and what type of difference it could make bonus matchup or players to watch Cody.
• 21:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: that probably, if we were looking back at our keys to victory, maybe the most important of all, that's Derek Brown and Lee Hunter are interior defense versus Joe Thunney and Jonah Jackson.
• 21:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if you want to slow down Ben Johnson's offense, rattle Caleb Williams cage, Carolina cannot rely alone on edge pressure.
• 21:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: But the bears have invested heavily in their guard positions.
• 21:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: If Derek Brown and the rookie starter, Lee Hunter can collapse this interior product, William's going to have trouble stepping up.
• 21:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: This may be the matchup to watch is those the what in the trenches that fight right there, how will Lee Hunter?
• 22:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, and his first in his debut, but we know Derek Brown's a boss.
• 22:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: But man, they're going to get some decent players right there.
• 22:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this is part of the reason why you graph to the hunter is to imagine what he does next to Derek Brown, you know, when you have Derek Brown in that three texts, like a lot of people think that he needed to be for a long time, that is potential to be nightmare fuel in the middle if Lee hunter is with the Panthers wanted him to be and drafted him to be.
• 22:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you already know, Derek Brown is the man, I mean, you could argue that he is the heart and soul of what the Carolina Panthers do on defense, and that's why I mentioned that fourth slide, that four key point, that might be number one, because Tony, I believe this about the NFL game, like I sit here, living and breathing, that interior pressure wins football games.
• 23:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: You're on the right way to win a football game in the NFL, and I think this is really going to be the key to what we have to do to win Derek Brown and Leigh on to need to be savage in the middle and create opportunities for Jail and Phillips and Prince of your man Meal and to hit after Caleb Williams.
• 23:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now Peyton asked Tony Dunn on popped man
• 23:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, Carol, the Carolina Panthers are hosting Chicago Bears on Sunday.
• 23:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're excited about it.
• 23:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're hoping that that victory comes about and we think we've identified identified some keys to that.
• 23:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll be here after the game doing the C3 Panthers post game show.
• 23:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: We hope you guys tune in.
• 23:44
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• 23:45
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• 23:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Cody like I'm excited football is back.
• 23:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm ready to hang out with you on Sunday and hopefully celebrating this victory take us out of here, my friend.
• 24:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's either going to be your celebration sessions or your therapy sessions, either way, the C3 Panthers podcast has your covered.
• 24:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Tony Donn, love your brother, seek the religion, cannot wait to experience this 2020