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The nice thing about going 6-9 following a 6-2 start Blue Ryan Kalil Jersey , with one more likely loss on the horizon, is that the Carolina Panthers can’t reasonably be anything but honest with themselves. While reports suggest that Ron Rivera is safe after this disappointing year, there is no amount of sources that will convince me that he has the opportunity to be complacent.The Panthers were bad this year, in spite of all of their potential. They were bad because they had noticeable talent gaps at crucial positions. We can dredge up some holiday banality to say that every player and every position on the team is important, but we can’t pretend that some guys aren’t more important than others. The positions that get paid more than the others —offensive tackle, defensive end, and, yes, quarterback— were the positions that let the Panthers down this year.Some of that was injury. OK, a lot of that was injury. But some of it was stick-in-the-mud coaching and some of it was management that failed to account for the passage of time when evaluating veterans who are closer to filing for social security than they are to registering for the draft.Rivera was loyal to a fault this year. It cost him a few games. Cam Newton was not capable of playing football at a high level during much of the Panthers losing streak. The time it took to decide to shut him down might not have cost the Panthers any games, but it didn’t put them in a better position to win them, either.This off season is an opportunity for the Panthers to more honestly evaluate their chances, their recent decisions Ryan Kalil Jersey 2019 , and how to outlive their own faults. A new owner bought a playoff team and didn’t fire the coaching staff after they turned in a losing season. David Tepper is a rare gift to the career of Rivera. His patience may be a gift to the Panthers, fans and all.Panthers were the top defense against the run on third and fourth down last season per PFF Pro Football Focus revealed their top defenses against the run in third or fourth and short situations, and the Carolina Panthers ranked at the top of the list.This information probably isn’t surprising news to Panthers fans, we do have the best middle linebacker and one of the best defensive tackles in the league after all in Luke Kuechly and Kawann Short, but it is still nice to get some statistical validation to be able to quantify just how good they were last year. The above numbers mean 48% of the time when another team attempted to run for a first down on third or fourth and two or less, we stopped them.These are the kinds of numbers that make head coaches like Ron Rivera super proud, and fortunately for us, only the most forward thinking coaches and coordinators in the league would try and use this information to do something else. Jonathan DeLong has spent the offseason using math to debunk all sorts of closely held NFL beliefs, and the information surrounding this directly validates that information.Hey, maybe some day the game will change, for now though... being really good at this metric is extremely good for us in Carolina, so keep running at us opposing teams!