JccOldTime23

Just now, t96 said:

been crazy busy and barely been able to follow any pre game stuff this week and just tuned in. Is Norman active? what # is he?

Yes, number 6. I don’t think he’s been in yet.

No change 

I think it was during the '91-'92 season. We were playing the New Jersey Nets. I was only 5 or 6 years old, so the only thing I really remember is that Kendall Gill sprained his ankle during the game.

Nick Goings

Jimmy Hitchcock

Lester Towns

Kindal Morehead

Shared on facebook. Excellent as always.

How many seasons in a row does Ron have to learn to not be conservative?

I would enjoy more Hornets content.

While I'm not interested in having a blog myself I am interested in reading blogs by some of the more intelligent posters here. 

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I don't think he's soft or lazy. I just don't think his body can handle an NFL beating anymore. He's always injured. Even his first few seasons when he played every game he was always hurt. I hope he holds up because when healthy he's a beast.

Don't be a dick. No charges.

It warms my heart to see that whiny bitch CP3 lose

I had so much fun watching him get his ass kicked.

I'll be 29 this coming July and the Panthers are the only team I've ever claimed. I was born in Presbyterian Hospital in 1986 and my parents had a house off Johnston Rd (before it extended all the way to Ballantyne).

Before the Panthers the only team I was into was the Charlotte Hornets. My dad grew up a Falcons fan. I watched the 49ers/Chargers super bowl before our first season. My dad pulled for the 9ers so I did too.

On the clock. Gettemagic.

I have been detailing this for the past month. I did not want to go into it too much because the Panthers slow played this to perfection.

As for the people who understand the growth of the spread offense and hybrid TE in short yardage, they get this pick. For everyone who still thinks teams play a base 4-3 most of the time will throw out the Thomas Davis comparison from 10 years ago. The NFL has changed.

There was one position the Panthers could not fill and that was the hybrid LB/SS. Colin Jones finished the season in this spot. When you see the S or CB playing near the line and in the box this is called the Big Nickel. I have talked about it previously. Here is a link if you need to read about it.

google the articles here

Read up there are several articles on it.

Shaq Thompson is going to play OLB - not safety. He will line up in a 4-3 and when the offense spreads out Shaq becomes the Big Nickel. Spread offenses have been using this to give an edge to their QB to pre snap read the defense and know if it is in zone or man. With a hybrid OLB that is no longer an advantage. Why do you think the Seahawks do so well on defense? This throws QBs for a loop and causes more mistakes and delays.

Last season the Panthers had AJ Klein/Chase Blackburn getting caught in pass coverage, and Bene Benwikere would get caught in a run play and crossing routes from these spread formations in short yardage. Shaq instantly solves that and he frees up Kuechly and Davis on day one.

The Panthers now have the defensive personnel by adding Shaq and Tillman to run big nickel and big dime packages that will rival that of the Seahawks while neutralizing QB pre snap reads and spread offenses. For long passing downs the Panthers will still use a traditional nickel and dime which will replace Shaq with Tillman or Bene in the nickel. Shaq will be in that OLB and Big Nickel postion on all short yardage downs.

This is huge. The Patriots and Seahawks have been doing this for a few years now.

Also, keep in mind Shaq can team with Ginn on kickoff returns, and he can play gunner.

What I find interesting is this notion I have heard rumblings of that the Panthers want to select Ty Montgomery later in the draft. The idea is to pair Ty and Shaq at the RB position in a read option package with Cam Newton. Might be 6 to 10 plays a game in the red zone. You can go from having Ty and Shaq in the backfield to a spread offense in the red zone with both at receiver.

Hope this helps. If you do not understand the formations and the amount they are used, then just wait till the season and the 4 game stretch against the spreads on short yardage you will see against the Packers, Eagles, Seahawks, and Colts. You will be thrilled to have Kuechly, Davis, Shaq and Tillman then when those QBs are left guessing if it is man or zone pre snap. If it were Kuechly, Davis, Klein/Colin Jones, and Bene in the box, I guarantee you those QBs will know where they are going and if they are audibling to a run or screen 5 seconds before the snap.

I know it's been said earlier in the thread but this really should be an article on the front page.

The "Come'on man!" at the end was soundboard gold.

 

I was just coming here to post that

From what I recall, KB was almost universally and unanimously going to us in 99% of mocks out there prior to the draft. Plus, we had ZERO talent at WR going into that draft. He was projected where he went and we had no choice.

Shaq wasn't even projected in the first by most pundits and he doesn't have a natural position. With as bad as WR is for us, if we took a WR, whoever we drafted at 25 would've stepped in immediately as our #2 and made huge contributions. Instead we took a tweener that lacks instincts without a true position on an already loaded defense.

If he was the BPA, we must not have offense on our big board for the first round.

From ESPN:

 

Really? You're going to cite ESPN as a legitimate source? ESPN? The place where Mel Kiper went on a massive rant when we took Cam Newton because we already had Jimmy Clausen? That network? Where Skip Bayless works? ESPN? Yeah I'll take that opinion seriously. I also think the Hornets are going to win a championship next year and the Saints will win the South for the next 10 years.

I like the pick. I was initially surprised last night but the OT we wanted went off the board the pick before us. The WRs will still be there in round 2. If I know anything it's that Dave Gettleman knows what he's doing. The Seattle fans reactions posted here should make us all feel great about this pick.

Question, I'll be working until 8 (an hour into the draft) what pick do you guys think we'll be at by then?

Draft starts at 8.

Thank God I found a Hornets stream, I can't stand the Boston announcers.

I hate their team so much. The color announcer thinks the refs are biased against Boston every damn game.

1. Yes. Our roster now is better than at the end of the 2012 season. Receiver is weaker, the tackles are weaker. The other offensive positions I'd say are equal or better. On the defense the line is leaps above where it was, the linebackers are the same, and with the young talent in the secondary I'd say it's better.

2. This is a difficult question to answer. Ron showed improvement in 2013. There is no doubt there. But then regressed in 2014. He then said he learned a lesson about being conservative. Except he'd already learned that lesson at least once before. So has he really learned anything at all?

3. Yes. Dave Gettleman is the best GM this franchise has had and it isn't close. The talent he's gotten in his 2 draft classes alone is phenomenal. The future is very bright with Dave in charge. The only negative is his age and he doesn't look like a particularly healthy man.

Shula calls a fade to Kelvin, dropped. On second down a read option that gets nothing after Bell is blown up and takes a knee on 3rd down.

Go Hawks. This should be a great game.

Neither one of them can touch the Andy Griffith Show.

Lol Kobe, calling people soft...

I think Chris Childs has something to say about that lol.

Idc how bad of teams Jordan was on, they never sucked like this. He's a fabrication... He wants to be Jordan and isnt. Jordan took the fuging Wizards to winning records lol as an overweight geriatric with bad knees...

Technically Jordan took the Wizards to back to back 37-45 records and no playoffs. But I get what you're saying. Kobe has never been able to carry a team by himself. He always had Shaq or Pau Gasol/Andrew Bynum etc.