Why do we wear white at home the first half of the year?

9/19/2011 2:47:50 PM

Yes, Dan Connor is serviceable... but Jordan Senn I do not trust... it's also time to get Darius Butler in the game.

Looks like Omar Gaither is going to fill his spot.

[Edited on September 19, 2011 at 2:53 PM. Reason : need a break out]

9/19/2011 2:49:17 PM

I think Lofa Tatupu is still out there. Former Pro Bowler for the Seahawks

[Edited on September 19, 2011 at 2:53 PM. Reason : remember, Omar Gaither (Charlotte native) isn't terrible. He led the Eagles in tackles one year IIRC]

9/19/2011 2:50:07 PM

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"Why do we wear white at home the first half of the year?"

Because black is hotter than white, and we play in the South.

Pretty simple question, a baby could have answered it.

9/19/2011 2:52:31 PM

old, but Keith Bullock still a FA.

9/19/2011 2:52:39 PM

omar gaither isn't terrible, i'm more concerned that we no longer have a true spoken leader on the field at this point. all signs point to Johnson or Anderson needing to step up, but I don't see it. I'd rather sign a veteran to the league minimum and get an experienced field general out there.

9/19/2011 2:58:46 PM

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"Might be time to make the blue the official home jersey"

9/19/2011 2:59:35 PM

Yeah. TD definitely isn't a vocal leader ... he's your classic lead-by-example guy.

We're going to miss his speed more than anything. There was one play yesterday where Rodgers broke the pocket and seemingly had a lot of room to run. Davis chased him down from behind and stopped him from getting the first down. Can't replace that.

Anyway, I actually think Connor will step up and be a leader-type out there.

9/19/2011 3:05:14 PM

yeah, Rodgers had a huge gap between himself and TD coming around the blocker and he still closed in a matter of steps. great play. it's a shame for this guy, but at this point I'm putting team needs first. I just don't think a combo of Anderson, Connor, and Gaither can handle what's coming down this season.

9/19/2011 3:08:20 PM

I feel for the man, but I'm not worried at all about what it means for the team this year. We're a 6 win team at best with everyone healthy, and losing Gettis, Beason, Davis, doesn't really change that. This year is all about Cam. His development puts everything else on the backburner. We're building a franchise, not a team. So we give up a few big plays every game, big deal. We'll win a few games and lose a few more, but wins and losses don't really matter until 2012 at the earliest. I'll miss seeing 58 and 52 run around on Sundays, but their impact doesn't really change the complexion of our season.


But hey, at least Marty had the foresight to give himself a contractual out after this year with TD. He probably never plays another down in black and blue...if he ever plays another down at all.

9/19/2011 3:15:33 PM

also Cam Newton is in a boot today, according to Person. Supposed to still practice this week.

9/19/2011 3:35:47 PM

I remember seeing him get up limping at some point, maybe early in the 4th quarter.

9/19/2011 3:47:44 PM

It's shitty for Thomas Davis, how unlucky you have to be to put in all of that hard work to come back and then to have the same exact injury three years in a row. I bet he retires, and thank god we have an option to void the contract after this season. good luck to him though. Our greatest strength as a team has now become a huge weakness less than two games into the season

[Edited on September 19, 2011 at 3:56 PM. Reason : {}]

9/19/2011 3:56:18 PM

we could always sign this guy

9/19/2011 4:12:14 PM

yeah, let's go ahead and put 3 LBs on IR in 3 weeks. dude can't even wake up in the morning without his brain slamming into the back of his skull

9/19/2011 4:13:57 PM

Panthers claim LB Jason Phillips from waivers




it was probably a curse, Thomas Davis running out of the tunnel with Jon Beason's 52 jersey held out for all to see

9/19/2011 5:05:29 PM

I think Thomas Williams is going surprise a lot of people...odd no one has mentioned him. He was all over the place during the preseason, now is his chance to make a name for himself.

9/19/2011 5:30:59 PM

^^lol at the irony (and I don't care if I'm using the term irony wrong, you bunch of twits)

9/19/2011 6:29:28 PM

Nah man, your use of the word irony is totally inconceivable

9/19/2011 6:43:46 PM

Too early to talk about draft? At this time, it looks like LB has to be top of the list.


III

9/19/2011 10:52:17 PM

Currently we are projected to take a WR in the 1st round because the Panthers probably won't pay Smitty the $7+million next year. Then a T in the 2nd round, and no 3rd rounder.

I'd think it would be smart to trade down in the 1st to get a 3rd.

9/19/2011 11:05:16 PM

gonna be tough to trade down in the 1st when we have the 32nd pick overall

9/19/2011 11:06:31 PM

Ha.. current projections are the 9th pick. I like your optimism, though. It's got to be a serious concern that Beason is just like TD.

I imagine the Panthers will cut TD soon because it will save $28 million or so over the next few years.

9/19/2011 11:11:32 PM

Good read that focuses on his picks

http://nfl.si.com/2011/09/19/break-it-down-cam-newtons-interceptions/?sct=nfl_wr_a1

9/20/2011 11:29:00 AM

Smitty on Jim Rome at the bottom of the hour

9/20/2011 12:06:51 PM

How is Beason at all like Thomas Davis?

pretty sure Sunday was the first game he had missed in his career

9/20/2011 2:12:50 PM

beat me to it

9/20/2011 2:17:59 PM

9/20/2011 2:46:53 PM

dan morgan had 25 tackles in the super bowl.


that is all.

9/20/2011 3:12:36 PM

Did I miss something, where was Beas compared to TD?

9/20/2011 4:52:53 PM

CBS has the Panthers game this weekend with Spero Dedes and Steve Beuerlein on the call

9/20/2011 4:56:37 PM

^^

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"brownie27 All American 2722 Posts user info edit post Ha.. current projections are the 9th pick. I like your optimism, though. It's got to be a serious concern that Beason is just like TD."

9/20/2011 4:58:38 PM

LOL... wow

What I mean is that we just signed them both to big contracts, and Beas just shattered his achilles. If I am the Panthers front office, a fear is that it is not the last time he shatters his achilles.

TD sold himself as being ready to go 2 seasons in a row, after missing the previous. Beason is gonna do the same.

I apologize for the oversight on my comment, though.

9/20/2011 5:15:44 PM

Thomas Davis has been plagued by injuries his whole career and his contract has an out

Jon Beason had never missed a game before this achilles injury

there really is no comparison

9/20/2011 5:20:20 PM

if Beason rips his achilles again, then i will be worried. but for now, modern medicine plus Beason's ethic and drive should bring it back stronger than it was previously.

^what he said

9/20/2011 5:23:49 PM

Looks like our old friend Peter King is even coming around...

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"Five reasons I think Newton's off to such a good start: 1. His arm can make up for a lot of deficiencies. "His velocity is really good,'' Charles Woodson said Sunday, stating the obvious. Newton has thrown a couple of off-balance passes longer than 40 yards, including a 55-yarder from an awkward position under pressure against Green Bay. And it's not just the ability to throw from less than perfect positions and zip it. He's been zipping it with accuracy, as his 62.7 percent rate shows. That's terrific for a first-time pro, obviously. That's the kind of career accuracy Michael Vick would love to have. 2. He's been so well-traveled in recent years that this isn't a culture shock to him. Newton's gone from Urban Meyer's spread system at Florida in 2008 to a version of the Pistol offense at Blinn (Junior) College in Texas in 2009; in the Pistol, the quarterback stands about halfway back to where a passer would take a snap in the shotgun -- maybe four yards instead of the deeper seven -- giving him the ball faster and allowing him to make decisions quicker while still being able to analyze the defense before the snap. Then in 2010 it was on to the Auburn option offense, and now the pro style, versatile scheme of Rob Chudzinski (a big fan of throwing to the tight end and downfield). Four different worlds in four years. He's had to adjust to new offenses, new people, new cities. He's almost like a military brat, or a coach's kid, always moving. This helps him not only culturally but in learning a new system. He's had a major new system change every year for the last four. 3. Ron Rivera and Rob Chudzinski have made the learning manageable. Yes, as has been widely reported, Newton got a playbook in the one-day thaw on draft weekend, and was able to study the terminology and plays he'd be running in Carolina. He also spent time in Florida at a football camp with former pro quarterbacks Ken Dorsey and Chris Weinke, both familiar with the Chudzinski system. Dorsey played for Chudzinski when he was a Browns backup and Chudzinski was the coordinator. But as much as that, Newton hasn't been overwhelmed by the learning process because the Panthers didn't teach him everything in the playbook. That will likely come next offseason. Rivera told me what they did was teach him a base number of plays and formations that will be the bedrock of what the Panthers do every week. And then they will teach and install another handful of plays each week that will be opponent-specific. Last week against Green Bay, Rivera said it was about 75 percent from the base package and 25 percent installed for the Packers. That's a smart way to do it, I think. 4. He's not abandoning the pocket like lots of talented athletic quarterbacks have done early in their career. Sometimes he probably should choose to run; I saw a couple of those Sunday against Green Bay. Knowing the right time to stay and when to go is something he'll learn in time. Chad Pennington, who did the color on the first Newton game, at Arizona, said Newton is determined to become a strong pocket quarterback. "[Quarterback coach] Mike Shula has worked very hard with him on his pass drop, because obviously he was a shotgun quarterback most of the time in college,'' Pennington said. "He's very conscious of his footwork in the five- and seven-step drops. You can see how he wants to get it just right. And you could tell when we talked to him the day before the game how much it irks him to be thought of as a running quarterback. I could see it in his facial expression -- it bugs him that people would think he's not up to par on the mental side of the game, or will just start running as soon as anything goes wrong.'' 5. Speaking of the mental side ... Fact is, Newton has been more Peyton Manning in the first two weeks than a nervous Nelly back there. "Look at the funky defense Arizona had in there on his touchdown to Steve Smith,'' said Pennington. "They're just walking around before the snap, clearly trying to confuse him about who'd be rushing and who'd drop in coverage. At the snap of the ball, there's not anybody in a three-point stance. Then at the snap, the backside safety comes toward the line, [cornerback] Patrick Peterson blitzes, and through the confusion, Smith runs by the safety and Cam ignores everything and throws him a perfect ball for a touchdown. For a rookie to know that, to process that, is pretty special.'' Newton will learn when not to challenge a baiting corner; I'm sure Monday and today he's run the two Charles Woodson interceptions from Sunday over and over in his head -- and on digital video in the Panthers' quarterback room. It's a learning process. The one thing we've seen so far is that Newton's a very quick study, which should take him a long way in the NFL. "

9/21/2011 9:32:34 AM

looking forward to Sunday so much already. And i've still got to get through tomorrow night.


WAR DAMN PANTHERS

9/21/2011 9:45:56 AM

500 yards and 4 TDs? JAX sucks.

9/21/2011 9:48:53 AM

After McCown's shitting of the bed last week, Jags are starting Gabbert at QB. There were a lot of people who thought Gabbert projected better in the pros than Cam (Not gonna lie -- at one point, I wanted Gabbert over Newton). Should be fun to watch

9/21/2011 9:57:34 AM

what you'll see is an overdose of MJD picking up 6-7 yards per carry and keeping Newton off the field.

9/21/2011 10:01:41 AM

http://www.sportspickle.com/news/8078/cam-newton-announces-his-retirement-from-the-nfl-theres-nothing-more-i-can-accomplish

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"Carolina Panthers rookie Cam Newton, who has broken almost every record there is for a quarterback through two games of a career, shocked the league today by announcing his retirement. “I love the sport of football, but I also want challenges in my life,” Newton said today at a press conference at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. “And I don’t know what else I can really do in this game. It’s time for me to move on.” In his first NFL regular season game, Newton set the record for most passing yards in an NFL debut. In Week 2, he set an NFL record for most passing yards to open a season through two weeks. The Heisman winner already has as many 400-yard passing games in his career as Brett Favre, Jim Kelly and John Elway, and more than Fran Tarkenton, Troy Aikman, Bart Starr and Roger Staubach. “Cam is the greatest quarterback I have ever seen live,” said Panthers third-string quarterback Jimmy Clausen. “Even better than Matt Moore and Dayne Crist.” Newton said he considered sticking around another week or two, but thought to himself: “What would that really accomplish?” “At some point you have to just rest on your laurels,” he said. “What’s the point of me going out and passing for 500, 600, 700 yards in a game? Just to prove that I can? Why? I have already shown that NFL defenses are not a match for me. Doing it indefinitely into the future would, I think, just be cruel to them. I had a good career. Let someone else have a shot now.” The 0-2 Panthers host the Jaguars on Sunday."

9/21/2011 10:53:21 AM

MJD will have a hefty dose of rushes against us, but hoping the D will have an adrenaline rush and desire to prove itself in spite of the injuries. Get a few good stops and help keep the ball with Cam and the Offense.

I think with Blane coming in for Jags, we should get more offensive possessions and Cam may be able to light up the score board and continue proving himself.

Here goes Panther's first win and start of win-streak. Cam throws for over 350, maybe not 400 bc we get solid lead and use run game. 2 Passing TDs, 1 Rushing TD.


III

9/21/2011 11:12:49 AM

good news

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"Panthers RT Jeff Otah is expected to return from his concussion and play against the Jaguars in Week 3."

9/21/2011 3:50:10 PM

http://www2.journalnow.com/mgmedia/image/0/0/158581/w0919-nunewt/

9/21/2011 4:22:11 PM

would love to see a .gif of Cam breaking Clay Matthews' ankles

9/21/2011 4:30:25 PM

^ that would be nice

9/21/2011 4:47:26 PM

9/21/2011 5:01:08 PM

everyone's on Cam's dick

9/21/2011 5:02:29 PM

9/21/2011 5:16:23 PM

would love to see a .gif of Gross knocking the shit out of Woodson

9/21/2011 5:19:11 PM