![]() “Because we were against the clock, we just had to rush into it. It’s a play where we wanted to shift Robby (Anderson) to get a good man-zone read, to see what defense they were in,” Bridgewater said. We just didn’t have enough time to execute the play. Have to put those things on us.”īridgewater liked what Brady finally came up with, although he indicated he might have checked to a running play if he’d had more time. “At the end of the day, it’s our job to have simple, calm plays,” he added. At least we weren’t expecting it to be that fast. Normally, those things aren’t quite that fast. “They put the ball in play while we were still on the sideline. While Brady, Rhule and Bridgewater talked on the sideline, officials started the play clock, which was at 13 seconds when Bridgewater reached the huddle and at 7 seconds when the Panthers broke the huddle. Two Mike Davis runs sandwiched around the two-minute warning netted 6 yards, and Zimmer banged his final timeout with 1:56 left. Then Beebe gave the Panthers a gift when he fumbled Joseph Charlton’s punt and Myles Hartsfield recovered at the Minnesota 9 with 2:10 remaining. The run-vs.-pass debate nearly bit Brady on the previous series, when two incompletions allowed Vikings coach Mike Zimmer to hang on to his final timeout. “I feel like we might have panicked a little bit, trying to figure out what play call to call in that situation.” “The play to DJ, I just think we’ve gotta be better from top to bottom - from the sideline to executing on the field,” Bridgewater said. ![]() And Bridgewater didn’t do that Sunday, nor did he during the Panthers’ five-game losing streak.Īnd while the third-and-goal play looked like a fiasco from the moment offensive coordinator Joe Brady and Rhule and whoever else was involved starting talking about whether to call a run or pass, the fact is - no matter how rushed it was - Bridgewater had a chance to hit Moore in the end zone and wasn’t close. The former Viking drove the Panthers (4-8) into position to win in the final 43 seconds, only to see Slye hook his field goal try wide left - so wide he would have been playing a provisional had he been on a tee box.īut part of playing quarterback in the NFL is taking responsibility when things go sideways and deflecting praise when they go right. This loss wasn’t all on Bridgewater, by any stretch. ![]() But he also said the Panthers coaches took too long deciding what they wanted to run on third-and-goal from the Minnesota 3. Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, who misfired badly to a wide-open DJ Moore on a play that would have given the Panthers a two-score lead and likely sealed the win, wasn’t quite as direct in his self-critique.īridgewater did say his throw to Moore, who injured his right ankle on the play, could have been better. ![]()
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