Early returns for Carolina Panthers' revamped pass-rush aren't good

Pro Football Focus had a slightly better percentage for Carolina at 16.1%, but that's not great and would still place the Panthers as the worst team in the NFL at getting pressure in Week 1.

PFF credited the Panthers with five pressures, with D.J. Wonnum accounting for three of them and A'Shawn Robinson coming up with the other two.

Rookie Nic Scourton played just eight pass-rush snaps and failed to record a single pressure, and the same was the case for fellow rookie Princely Umanmielen.

Other new Panthers, Tershawn Wharton and Patrick Jones, played 10 and 24 pass-rush snaps, respectively, and were also blanked in the pressures department.

As if all that wasn't enough, head coach Dave Canales admitted that his team's tackling was "not great," and that's something Wonnum agreed with.

"A tackle is a want to," he said. "That's not nothing, you, it's not something, not schematic or anything. You just got to go tackle. We're football players and we've been playing tackle since we were in high school, middle school, so we got to come ready to go."

The fact that the Jaguars didn't have more points is surprising and is a testament to them not being very good on that side of the ball.

We shudder to think what would've happened to Carolina against a better offense.