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Great podcast! I think this was the best one yet. A great flow having the 2 guests!

I like this FB for the Falcons. Demarco is what we could have had in Ward? 

Man is it me or are the Eagles getting some ticky tack penalties? 

We made a ton of mistakes in the 1st half and we are still winning by 1. If we play like we can we should be able to take this. Let's start off quickly!

The replays all sucked to see the "push-off" but it was still a great opening drive. Let's keep the pressure on them

Im ready!!!!! Let's go Panthers!!!

I didn't want to start a new thread so this one will do. Given his injuries during OTAs and Training Camp, does this change your expectations for him? What role do you all see for him THIS year? 

Also to those who have attended Training Camp what have you all seen? This is the first year that I can remember that our 1st round pic has gotten next to no information about him. I know that he has been injured but everyone has been very hush hush on how we are going to use him. 

So my question to you all is how do you think we are going to use him? 

Does he play the Big Nickel but then does that mean Bene is off the field? 

I just have no idea how we are going to use him and in what combinations if any this year. 

I find this interesting. When Oher gets burned, its get talked about on the news, in papers, on the radio and online. When Chandler gets burned people are like well he didn't get burned much today. 

I am not saying Oher is a world beater but I feel like unfortunately he is our best option. 

And Im hoping Addison turns out to be a great option for us at DE. 

I see a lot of minutes for Walker, Batum and Lin. I don't see Lamb having a huge impact this year. I think they traded for him to see if they can get steal but they are not sure what they are getting. He might have some minutes. Daniels might get some spot up minutes. I don't see PJ or Roberts playing much. I still think we use one spot for Harrison and send him to the D-League. 

This would leave one more open spot for MLE for a big. 

Jeff Taylor is so much better thank MKG!!! 

This was a decision I was expecting but I was hoping that we would keep him. It seems like we have all stretch 4s and the only 5 we have is Big Al and he sucks at defense. I guess we will see what happens through FA but I hope we can get someone that can defend. 

To be fair to Frank, most of Charlotte hated the Bobcats as well. 

As for the trade opportunities: Who knows the truth? Does it really matter? Fact is we could have, should have but it doesn't matter now. I have come to terms that we are who we are. I will cheer for Frank and the team bc I will love the Hornets no matter what!

I say yes. Even for as much as we bitch about this tea, barring injuries again we will make the playoffs this year. 

Still disappointed but trying to accept that he is a Hornet.

Positives:

Depth at the bigs. We won't have to see Jason Maxiel play.

He is probably our Big Al eventual replacement but his game has a little of everything. 

How many 7 footers can shoot the 3, pass, have a post up game, etc

Future Line-up

PG: Kemba SG: Batum(resigned) SF: MKG PF: Zeller? C: Frank 

....not bad....ok I threw up a little in my mouth

so who thinks we trade??

Good to hear bc I have a feeling we are going to trade up but who knows I am usually wrong with the Hornets. 

Yeah I guess it would be trading out one project for another but in the process we pick up a starting SG that we don't have to wait on. 

So do you think Mudiay is a big upgrade to Kemba + 9? I do not know much about him. 

I agree about Porzingis. I like him for some reason but I know why. I would hope we can get rid of Zeller + 9 to get Porzingis but I don't think thats likely. 

Who do you guys want at 4 assuming Towns, Okafor and Russell are off the board? 

Also would you all be willing to trade Kemba + 9 to move up? I don't know who else the Knicks would want but I am assuming it would have to include Kemba. 

This draft is so weird for me. Usually I have some preferences but I really can't find any and my mind changes each day. But since we are talking about trades. 

TRADE BACK

1. #9 + filler to Boston for James Young + 16. Boston is rumored to want to move up so we move back pick up a nice shooter in James Young and at 16 can load up with either Grant for a PG or another shooter in RJ Hunter. 

2. #9 + filler to OKC for Lamb + 14. Rumor has it OKC wants to move up. We can get our SG or backup SG and then still be in the lottery to try and get our target player maybe Payne, Decker or Grant.

STAY

1. If we decide on not resigning Biz then WCS is my guy. I am a huge fan of his versatility. 

2. Oubre and Myles Turner are my WTF picks. They are our typical WTF picks that we have and need tons of time to develop and Clifford doesn't play

3. Booker is my wow we picked a guy everybody thought we were going to pick. I don't see Mario dropping so we get our shooter

TRADE UP

1. Just don't see it happening. We don't have the pieces 

I am truly excited about the potential of the receiving core. I can't wait to see KB and Funchess on the field together with Corey Brown. This is going to be a fun year

Thanks for the update. My question is right now the unknown with Shaq Thompson. I know he will not be at OTAs but do you notice any different defensive line-ups where we might plug in Shaq when he gets on the field or do you think that we will have to wait for training camp to see any different formations? 

I am worried of course because it's impossible to replace Hardy's production BUT....

We all know that very rarely do 1st year ROOKIE DEs make a difference and are super productive in year 1. So the fact that we didn't draft one doesn't really impact this season. 

I do hope to see some progression by Ealy and Alexander this year but even last year we started to see some pressure by our front 4 without Hardy. I think we will blitz more and create pressure in other ways using Shaq and TD because I think we have more confidence in our CBs and S. 

The arrow should certainly be pointing up for the Panthers.

 

1.Cam had an ankle operation which limited his mobility

2.Cam still has not learned to slide and in his 4th preseason, got his rib broken because of it, which had an effect on his passing

3. OT's and G's did not help the running game or give Cam the time needed on a lot of passing plays

4. Cam has lazy feet, bad mechanics, whatever you want to call it, sometimes his feet look nailed to the ground and the ball comes out at a weird angle, behind receivers, over their head, etc.

5. WR's do not get separation like they should which would help and they seem to lose attention and get the dropsies

6. Cam takes too many losses instead of just throwing away the ball, needs to manage the game better.

7. His pouting/being by himself seems to have subsided and he is hanging with the players on the sidelines now, Steve Smith departure?

8. His OC is not the most creative guy we have ever seen but not sure how creative you can get when our offense cannot pick up the right blocks/blitzes and execute the basic plays. Better Oline and new WR should help

 

 

All this, and we still won our division 2 years in a row.  Lots of low hanging fruit for the Panthers to fix which will bring our performances up a great deal.  This should make the guys in our division very nervous

I agree with all you said except #2 & #6. Cam will never slide. He mentioned he prefers going down in that awkward dive for whatever reason so I do not see that changing.

He does take a lot of losses but that is what makes Cam special. He gets out of crazy losses and makes spectacular plays which makes him special. If he threw it away when there was pressure he would be like Jimmy Clausen and that drove us mad.

I do think having options on the field will help with that. And please lets not have passing patterns where 3 receiving targets are all going 20 yards down the field when we have 3rd and 1-3.  

Cam was hurt and our Oline was constantly being reshuffled. 

 

Based on what I watched last year....I really do feel that the success we saw in the final quarter of the season could be used as a better barometer of what we can expect offensively going into next season. 

 

I'm excited about our team and I think we're being built to withstand injuries.  I really do feel that our Oline is going to be a lot better then people think.  We saw more downfield passing as the season progressed as the Oline could provide better protection. 

 

There are few teams that have the sort of cohesion this team will have.  For the most part we didn't lose anyone and all we've done is add talent. 

I am excited as well. I have a strong feeling that Oher will be a big upgrade from Bell. I also like that we seem to have cohesion as well. For us the problems were not from the between the 20s, the problems were in the Red Zone! And so what do we do? We get another huge Receiver! And not only that, we get a huge road grader at Tackle that could come in on short yardage situations. 

I love Cam but I feel like the offense is becoming very predictable due to Shula and that effects him a lot. Last year when he wasn't able to run, we ran a lot of quick passes and it worked! People were even mentioning him as a potential MVP candidate. 

Then Bengals game happened and he could run! 

So Shula went exclusively Read-Option and almost 100% in the huddle not utilizing Cams strength of the No-huddle. He no longer went to Cam under center and Cam regressed as a passer. 

So basically I want some I-formation and 2 TE sets like we had with Shock and Olson. 

Lastly I do want Cam to learn touch passes a little better. That is what I want him to work on.