We’ve got Monday Night Football’s yearly Week 1 doubleheader on tap tonight Carolina Panthers Hats , so buckle up and enjoy the ride!At 7:10 p.m. ET, the Lions host the Jets, which should be a pretty good game that the Lions should win. but don’t rule the Jets out.At 10:20 p.m. ET, the Raiders host the Rams, and let me tell you somethin’ man I really like what the Rams are doing with the football. Todd Gurley is a machine, man, and I think that if Sean McVay can keep feeding the beast he’ll score lots of touchdowns this season, you know what I’m sayin’? I tell you what man Carolina Panthers Hoodie , that Sean McVay is a really good coach and I don’t know if the Raiders will be able to stop him. I just love what he’s doing over there, man. Spider 2 Y Banana. Use this space to talk about the action as it unfolds.You know the drill.This is now an open thread!The Panthers offensive line played great against the Patriots When I wrote earlier in the week about the injury to Matt Kalil being the best worst thing that could happen to the future of the offensive line, I didn’t expect to see the kind of immediate results I saw last night against the New England Patriots. I thought I might get a few glimmers of hope from guys like Taylor Moton, Jeremiah Sirles, Greg Van Roten, and even Blaine Clausell... but I didn’t expect for Cam Newton to walk away without being sacked a single time, and only pressured maybe once or twice.While the New England Patriots might not be a defensive line that causes your average offensive coach to lose a ton of sleep, the same would certainly be said about the Panthers offensive line coming into this contest. You’d expect a guy like Taylor Moton who didn’t get significant minutes last year, and has changed positions three times this preseason alone to have more growing pains... but he didn’t. Moton continued to show excellent technique like he has all preseason. He’s a patient blocker with a very good feel of where he is on the field Youth Customized Carolina Panthers Jerseys , he keeps a nice wide sturdy base, and he beats you with leverage and strength. He excels in an area that Matt Kalil has shown to struggle, which is being too upright, or over-committing to the outside speed rush. He showed a lot of people last night his NFL ceiling might be a lot higher than originally expected.Also deserving of praise is Greg Van Roten, yet another guy who didn’t have significant minutes last year but is making the most of his current opportunity. Runs off the left side tonight were very strong with him and Moton leading the way, and while there were a couple minor errors on the handling of some defensive line stunts, i was impressed to see them hold the line without a ton of help from a tight end or fullback (in several cases).Finally, we got a short look at Jeremiah Sirles as the right tackle before he left with a pulled hamstring, and then Blaine Clausell who replaced him. While I’d say both of them struggled a bit to find push in the running game www.pantherscheapshop.com , there was even less pressure off the right side in this game than there was the left.The result is, maybe the Panthers line isn’t the nuclear disaster we thought it was. Certainly we can’t afford to lose anyone else, or we’ll be signing guys off the street, but like I said before, we are learning a lot about what our younger guys are capable of. That is going to be really important as we try to survive the first few weeks of the season while guys get healthy, and vital knowledge come contract negotiation time after we win the Super Bowl. Stay tuned Panthers fans, this exciting season has only just begun.