New Pumas cautious lineman Arik Armstead invited his colleague, edge rusher Josh Allen, onto his “Third and Long” digital broadcast Wednesday for north of 60 minutes, to examine Jacksonville’s food scene, Allen’s football childhood and time with the Panthers, and among different subjects connecting with the group, what prompted its breakdown during the 2023 season.
The last discussion was provoked by Armstrong asking Allen for his assumptions for Jacksonville in 2024, driving the edge rusher to revive what was expected of the Panthers last year.
After a rush to the AFC Divisional Round in 2022-23, Jacksonville’s most memorable season finisher trip beginning around 2017-18, the Panthers started the 2023 season with a 8-3 record, at one point ripping off five triumphs in succession, just to complete 9-8 and pass up postseason activity.
“The assumption begins with how we handle our everyday. I think it begins there since, you know, as far as we might be concerned, after [head coach] Doug’s [Pederson] first year, we set an extremely elevated standard for us … that we figured we would simply keep up with,” Allen recommended.
“However at that point we hit a smidgen of misfortune and we sort of reached a stopping point. We didn’t have any idea how to escape that wall.”
The wall was as four back to back December misfortunes. The effect was like that of a lot of blocks.
Allen highlighted the group’s offseason free organization signings of veterans like Armstead, security Darnell Savage and focus Mitch Morse as instances of the Panthers’ work to support their program with players prepared to deal with misfortune.
Every giver has various seasons of season finisher experience, with Armstead having played in two Super Dishes. Beside winning everything, they’ve been to and done what the Pumas try to achieve.
Yet, it will take more than new, yet prepared countenances to get the Panthers to where they need to be. A few parts of the methodology still need not entirely settled.
“To be completely forthright with you, sibling, these are things that we, as an initiative gathering, need to in any case sort out,” Allen recognized.
Allen conceded that he was eliminated from his average administration obligations last season as he was without group chief status, in contrast to the three missions earlier. He remarkably didn’t go to Jacksonville’s willful offseason group exercises last year in the midst of hypothesis about his agreement status.
He’s since marked a five-year, $141.3 million expansion with the club, in April. Regardless of whether he recaptures his previous captainship job this season, Allen plans to be more engaged with driving his partners and having a superior feeling of their point of view pushing ahead.
