Long time coming: Thomas Davis scores 1st National Football League touchdown
The well-rested Carolina Panthers take advantage of a exhausted Arizona Cardinals team to move to 2-5 on the season.
The Panthers got two more field goals in the second half from Gano, and made key defensive plays in the fourth quarter to seal the 30-20 win. Veldheer will be placed on injured reserve and is out for the season.
For Arizona, their biggest loss of the game was losing Tyrann Mathieu in the first half with a shoulder injury. The Cardinals coaches upstairs got a regular-time replay first.
Now, as unbelievable as that sounds, it’s just one of many bad calls and poor excuses we’ve all witnessed this season! Physically, we need to rest up. If you do something derogatory to somebody else, we get fined.
The New York Jets’ normally low-key coach used some profanity during his news conference after a 31-28 victory over winless Cleveland on Sunday. He was asked what is contributing to widespread complaints about officiating around the NFL.
“That’s the only good thing right now”, Arians said. The defense was the story of this game, as the top flight unit we are used to seeing in Charlotte definitely showed up with a vengeance. “We’re all very concerned with it”. Cardinals RB David Johnson had 171 scrimmage yards in Week 7 and is aiming for his eighth straight game with 100 scrimmage yards. A blocker for another signal-caller who is hit often can not find much sympathy for him, however.
“Yeah, well, we’ll get this one out of the way”.
“I don’t think there’s a person that can go through what I go through and still keep their heads”, he said.
It all started on Arizona’s opening possession of the game when Carson Palmer dropped back to pass on a third-and-6 from his own 43-yard line. What appeared to be an incomplete pass was ruled a fumble and not reviewed before the Panthers kicked the extra point. It was all five offensive linemen, coach Bruce Arians said. So there was nothing to review. If often-injured Stewart is out, the Panthers struggle to move the chains.
“That’s just tremendous athleticism by Kony Ealy”, analyst Daryl Johnston said on the FOX broadcast. “It looked like a catch”.
Sunday’s outing was a mistake-filled affair in which the Cardinals were penalized 10 times for 88 yards, allowed eight sacks, and had one situation when they wound up in a second-and-44 after quarterback Carson Palmer was flagged for an unsportsmanlike conduct for yelling at an official. The Panthers are fifth in the National Football League when it comes to running the ball right now, posting 123.9 yards per game.
On an 80-degree day, McDermott wanted to distribute the defensive end reps more evenly. “And kind of fitting that it’s somebody from that defensive line that makes the huge play at the end of the game”. Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston has never lost to the Falcons, winning both games past year and the season opener 31-24, in the Georgia Dome.