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5 things to watch in Friday’s Panthers-Patriots exhibition

Ron Burgandy

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Benjamin played eight snaps in the exhibition opener at Baltimore before getting nine last week in Tennessee. Assuming Benjamin sits in the preseason finale against the Steelers, he'll have to triple his workload from last week to approach the 30-35 snaps Rivera set as his goal by the end of the preseason.

 

Am I missing something here? 8+9 = 17, so to get to 30-35 snaps, Benji needs to play 13-18 more snaps. That's nowhere near close to triple the workload of last week (9*3 = 27). Unless Rivera's goal was to get Benji 30-35 snaps in any one particular preseason game, which makes no sense either.

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11 minutes ago, UNCrules2187 said:

 

Am I missing something here? 8+9 = 17, so to get to 30-35 snaps, Benji needs to play 13-18 more snaps. That's nowhere near close to triple the workload of last week (9*3 = 27). Unless Rivera's goal was to get Benji 30-35 snaps in any one particular preseason game, which makes no sense either.

triple his workload from last week to approach the 30-35 snaps Rivera set as his goal

He played 9 snaps last week. 9 tripled = 27, which is a number approaching 30-35. Now, if Rivera said the goal was for him to get 30-35 total in the entire preseason then you're right on. I don't read it that way though.

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I hate the fact we are playing NE because IMO it won't give us an accurate portrayal of where we are at.

Brady to my knowledge isn't play.  IMO, Brady would expose how our last lineup configuration of  DBs aren't ready to be week 1 starters. 

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3 minutes ago, CRA said:

I hate the fact we are playing NE because IMO it won't give us an accurate portrayal of where we are at.

Brady to my knowledge isn't play.  IMO, Brady would expose how our last lineup configuration of  DBs aren't ready to be week 1 starters. 

This is what I was saying in the practice thread yesterday. I suspect when carolina agreed to play NE, one reasons is to play against Tom. We could have played the Bengals instead. Another AFC playoff team

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26 minutes ago, KSpan said:

triple his workload from last week to approach the 30-35 snaps Rivera set as his goal

He played 9 snaps last week. 9 tripled = 27, which is a number approaching 30-35. Now, if Rivera said the goal was for him to get 30-35 total in the entire preseason then you're right on. I don't read it that way though.

Yeah, I guess it's in the interpretation. I always thought it was 30-35 snaps over the course of the entire preseason, rather than 30-35 snaps in a preseason game, but I'm probably wrong on that.

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43 minutes ago, Hammerin'Cameron1 said:

I wan't to see more Byrd

If he can be as durable as Antonio Brown, he might just end up like Antonio Brown

Byrd's question is his durability, being that small

This.  I want to see him with Cam and the 1's a little.   Him in the slot between the KB/Funchess towers.  See what he can do

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