Clay Matthews Got This One Wrong
Not much worked well for the Green Bay Packers’ defense against the Carolina Panthers. Case in point right here.
Packers linebacker Clay Matthews thinks he has this play figured out. He yells, “It’s that wheel route! It’s that wheel route!”
Panthers quarterback Cam Newton finds this funny, points at Matthews and says, “Oh, you’ve been watching film, huh? Let’s go. Watch this.”
Easy touchdown to Christian McCaffrey for the Panthers’ first score.
This is seriously the best moment of the 2017 NFL season pic.twitter.com/kfsDMP54hD
— NFL Retweet (@NFLRT) December 18, 2017
McCaffrey carried 12 times for 63 yards and caught seven balls for 73 yards and that touchdown on the day. It was one of four touchdowns thrown by Newton against the Packers.
Pretty pathetic.
I will give Clay credit for one thing. Unlike Nick Perry, he’s actually been able to stay on the field lately. Go out and be our entire pass rush is basically what the Packers have been saying to Matthews. To some degree, he’s had success, although Ahmad Brooks provided some help on Sunday.
A pretty bad play there, but the Packers’ overall defensive failures aren’t on Matthews.
Matthews couldn’t ke
Keep his feet yesterday* saw at least two occasions where he fell down and it led to a big play
As if this defense wasn’t embarrassing enough..
Not a Cam fan, but that was pretty fucking funny. I mean if that doesn’t capture exactly how far out of touch Dom Capers and company are, going back to their problems with the pistol and CK. Always a day late and a dollar short, one step behind, whatever analogy you want to use. Even when they allegedly emphasize something, they still look shitty during the execution phase of the defense.
The talking heads on TV made fun of the Claymaker too, but they didn’t mention that he got faked out of his jock strap a couple times.