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All I hope is this article is posted in the locker room and in the weight room at the stadium. If this can't light a flame under this team heading into the season I don't know what will. If I was Ron Rivera I would bark out quotes from this article all training camp long and in the days leading up to our season opener. There is no way we come out flat week 1 after this.

Yup he is older and the market is drying up on a lot of these guys. I really think we can upgrade some key positions with 1 year deals via free agency for cheap.

In crafting his roster and molding it to his preferences, General Manager Dave Gettleman brought in players via free agency and the draft that are able to compete for playing time right now. In years past, under John Fox, training camp seemed to be a time where the usual suspects in the starting roles got into playing shape knowing their jobs were secured while the bottom half of the roster and depth guys tried to splash an earn a roster spot. These days are long gone. Head Coach Ron Rivera has shown a tendency to make players earn their playing time. Unlike Fox whom often seemed loyal to certain players almost to a fault, Rivera has experimented with different lineups...particularly in the secondary. The days of struggling players getting the nod week in and week out are over and I believe this will be more noticeable this season as we have brought in experienced veterans at positions of need and greatly improved the bottom half our roster. Dave Gettleman, in one of his earliest press conferences with the Panthers, said this was one of his primary goals. I believe he has succeeded and am cautiously optimistic going forward. The free agents brought in coupled with the five players selected in the 2013 NFL Draft have greatly improved the roster overall even if a select few are starting week 1. Here is an inside look at some of the great camp battles that will be heating up in the following months and especially on the fields of Spartanburg: The wide receiver position will likely be the biggest battle of camp. I suspect we place six guys on the active 53 man roster. Excluding the any UDFAs, there are currently ten receivers on the roster. I'd say only four of them are locks going forward. Joe Adams Lamont Bryant Armanti Edwards David Gettis Ted Ginn Domenik Hixon Brandon LaFell Kealoha Pilares James Shaw Steve Smith Next up, the secondary. Between safety and cornerback excluding UDFAs, there are currently thirteen players on the roster. Corners are listed first. I could see another safety added in free agency, potentially. James Dockery Drayton Florence Nick Hixson DJ Moore Captain Munnerlyn Josh Norman Josh Thomas ___________________ DJ Campbell Charles Godfrey Colin Jones Mike Mitchell Haruki Nakamura Anderson Russell In Spartanburg I will have my eye on possibly the most important camp-competition that is essential to this team's success: Guard. I suspect we may bring in another veteran with some of our remaining salary cap. A name to keep in mind is Brandon Moore. Geoff Hangartner Hayworth Hicks Edmund Kugbila Amini Silatolu Justin Wells Zack Williams After our first two selections in this year's draft, the competition to get in on our defensive tackle will be worth a watch. We know several of these guys are locks to make the roster: Nate Chandler Colin Cole Dwan Edwards Sione Fua Frank Kearse Star Lotulelei Kawann Short It is no secret the linebacker position has several locks as well heading into the season. It is a strength of this roster but we cannot keep them all. Jon Beason Chase Blackburn Thomas Davis Doug Hogue AJ Klein Luke Kuechly Jordan Senn Jason Williams Carolina surprised everyone by selecting Oregon running back Kenjon Barner in the sixth round of the draft. Running back has long been a strength on this roster and this year it will be no different. Mike Tolbert is a lock at fullback. I see us keeping four going into the season and we all know the locks to make the final roster: Kenjon Barner Tauren Poole Armond Smith Jonathan Stewart DeAngelo Williams Final Word/TLDR: Gettleman is looking to improve the depth and bottom half of this roster. I believe with the pieces in place he will be successful in just that. Camp competitions should be exciting and the best man will win out and earn a spot. All season long players will be battling in practices to take one another's job and that will improve this team on its own. I really believe our special teams will see great improvements this season if Adams makes the roster along with Barner, and they both are taken under the wing of Ginn. Senn will lead the special teams unit and I am anxious to see Klein out there with him laying the boom. When this team is trimmed down to the final roster of 53, I am confident the 53 will be much better at the top...and throughout the roster to the very bottom. This team can compete right now and competition at some key positions will bring out the best in the 2013 Carolina Panthers. We are due for a healthy, and winning season and if the coaching staff has grown and bettered themselves...we are destined to do some damage. Click here to view the article

Are any of you guys familiar with baseball cards and their values? I posted a new thread in the lounge but figured I would come here as well. My uncle has every complete set, in mint condition, from 1974-2013 made by Topps. I assume this includes every player to play between those dates and many rookie cards of some hall of famers and baseball greats. Any chance you know an approximate value of the whole collection together? Are any years particularly worth more than the others? Are there rare cards that Topps would add to the complete set to possibly make it more valuable? Thanks!

RIP Gramps.

HOUSE takeover.

Man this one girl from Cali I can't get out of my head.

Someone care to explain that damn face I am seeing on every page of this thread? I. DONT. GET. IT.

I swear I saw some JC memorabilia, but then again, I think I was more focussed on the large "FREE" sign.