The Carolina Panthers had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day on offense in Week 14—particularly through the air. Interim head coach Chris Tabor talked about those struggles this afternoon.
Tabor, during his media availability on Monday, was asked about the shortcomings of his team’s downfield passing approach in the 28-6 loss to the New Orleans Saints.
“I think you’re always lookin’ to take shots when you can,” he replied. “They really just played man-to-man the whole game. So you’re gonna be able to take some shots. We didn’t connect when we wanted to, and that’s another area we have to improve on. Unfortunately, we didn’t convert enough on some of those third and fourth downs, and I think there’s a lot of things that go into that.”
Not a lot went into the box score for the unit, as the Panthers finished with just 99 passing yards. They converted on just eight of their 20 third-down tries and one of their seven looks on fourth down.
Following the defeat, quarterback Bryce Young told reporters that the offense was looking to be aggressive—which may explain his nine passes of at least 20 air yards. Those throws, however, resulted in just one completion for the rookie.
“We just wanna be aggressive,” Young said on Sunday. “It was kinda a reaction of a little bit of how they were playin’ us too. And be able to take what the defense gives us.”
Young ended the performance with a career-low 36.1-percent completion rate.
