Thursday's Panthers Training Camp Digest

[coralreefer_1]

I know the NBA usually grants all star games to teams with newly built arenas. And since ours is the newest built, just curious if the all star game is coming back to town?

[nolatiger]

I have a feeling that the All Star game is going to permanantly move to Las Vegas after next year.

[Rello]

Well, next year is Las Vegas. Supposedly New Orleans was going to get one soon, but no one knows whether the Hornets will even be back in NOLA, Im sure that situation will have to be settled. I imagine it will be a few years before we get one.

[Buffalo3520]

i thought we were suppose to get an all star game. We should and we totally have enough hotels etc. to support it. that would bring a lot of money to Charlotte

[Veron314]

i thought we were suppose to get an all star game. We should and we totally have enough hotels etc. to support it. that would bring a lot of money to Charlotte

That's what I thought too. I hope so.

[Buffalo3520]

That's what I thought too. I hope so.

i heard what u heard to and that is total crap imo

[Rod Butsecks]

p/FAN'S GUIDE hellip;/pp/strongTODAY'S PRACTICES: /strong9:10 a.m., 6:40 p.m. /pp/strongWEATHER:/strong Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. /pp/strongWHERE: /strongWofford College, Spartanburg. /pp/strongADMISSION: /strongFree and open to public. /psubheadp/Upcoming schedule/p/subheadp/strongSaturday: /strong3:10 p.m. /pp/strongSunday: /strong9:30 a.m. /pp/strongMonday:/strong 8 p.m. at N.Y. Giants /pp/strongTuesday: /strongNo practice /pp/strongWednesday/strong: 9:10, 3:10 /pp/strongDIRECTIONS: /strongFrom Charlotte, take Interstate 85 South to Spartanburg, to Exit 72 (I-585). At the end of exit ramp, turn left toward Spartanburg, crossing over Business I-85. After I-585 becomes Pine Street, turn right on Twitty Street and into training camp at second stop light. Park at the top of the hill on the right of Twitty Street. /pp/Getting to know/pspan class=subheadstrongp/Corvey Irvin, defensive tackle/p/strong/spanp/strongBackground:/strong Taken by the Panthers in the third round of last spring's NFL draft (93rd overall) hellip; Played two seasons at Georgia after starting his college career at Georgia Military College ... Started as a senior, and might have had the best game of his brief Bulldogs career in Capital One Bowl against Michigan State, with a sack and quarterback pressure that led to an incompletion on the last play of the game. /pp/strongWhat you need to know:/strong Irvin will need to develop quickly if he is to provide depth on the defensive line. He was drafted as more of a pass-rushing tackle, though he played nose tackle in college. hellip; Irvin and Georgia Military College teammates strongVince Vance /strongand strongJarius Wynn /strongwere the first junior-college players ever signed by Georgia coach strongMark Richt/strong. /pp/Observations/pp/span class=icon icon-bullet/spanNot a great day for second-year tight end strongGary Barnidge/strong, who has been working with the first team for much of training camp. He dropped two passes, both on curl patterns. Incumbent starter strongJeff King/strong, however, made a tough catch in traffic for a touchdown in an 11-on-11 drill. King spiked the ball with feeling after the play. /pp/span class=icon icon-bullet/spanRookies strongMike Goodson /strongand strongAnthony Heygood /strongcompeted hard for a ball thrown into the end zone. Goodson, a running back, appeared to have it before linebacker Heygood knocked it away. Coach strongJohn Fox /strongcongratulated both of them and one player yelled: ldquo;Hey, good job!rdquo; /pp/span class=icon icon-bullet/spanOne-on-one passing drills aren't really fair to the defender, but linebacker strongNa'il Diggs /strongmade a nice play knocking the ball away on one of them. /pp/span class=icon icon-bullet/spanRookie strongCaptain Munnerlyn /strongof South Carolina had an acrobatic interception that he returned for a touchdown. ldquo;Why didn't you do that last year?rdquo; yelled a fan in a Gamecocks hat. Several people laughed, but the fan didn't ndash; he just glared at Munnerlyn as he trotted up the field. The fan might have had a point: Munnerlyn didn't have an interception last year. /pp/span class=icon icon-bullet/spanstrongJake Delhomme /strongfound rookie receiver strongJason Chery /strongin the end zone, but Chery couldn't get both feet inbounds. It would have been a nice connection between two former Louisiana-Lafayette players. /pp/span class=icon icon-bullet/spanWhen a deep pass fell incomplete ndash; barely ndash; in the end zone, defensive coordinator strongRon Meeks /stronghad a fit, yelling at safety strongQuinton Teal/strong: ldquo;What are you doing? Hey Quinton, knock the ball down! Don't try to catch it!rdquo; /pp/span class=icon icon-bullet/spanThe offense ended the practice working on its two-minute drill, going over little details, including Delhomme walking over to the ref (in this case special teams coach strongDanny Crossman/strong) to call timeout before the 25-second clock expired. /pp/By the numbers/pp/18 Game-winning drives orchestrated by quarterback strongJake Delhomme /strongin six seasons (putting Panthers ahead for good in fourth quarter or overtime). /pp/643 Career receptions as Panther by strongMuhsin Muhammad/strong, most in team history. /pp/1,634 Career points by kicker strongJohn Kasay/strong, 11th in NFL history. /pp/Quoting/pp/span class=icon icon-bullet/spanldquo;It's kind of like a new car. I'm getting ready to drive my new car out on the street and see how it performs.rdquo; Diggs, on his excitement at debuting the Panthers' new defensive schemes Monday in the preseason opener at the New York Giants./pp/span class=icon icon-bullet/spanldquo;That's the motivation for everything we do.rdquo; defensive end strongEverette Brown /strongon how ready he is for the Giants exhibition. /p

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