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Torry Holt on Norv Turner hire

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Fox007 Grand Master

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1 minute ago, Eazy-E said:

Don't listen to this. Bob the Huddler, who's sisters ex cousin-in-law is a vikings fan, told him that Norv is terrible and will ruin our offense.

And people elsewhere on the internet are blaming Cam for getting Shula fired and are saying Cam is uncoachable.....rofl

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Just now, Eazy-E said:

They must listen to Colin Cowherd.

Not even Panther fans or NFL fans probaly....just flat out hate Cam....it's unreal how some cloths and press conferences has people....you fugin go out and about with these people BTW....unreal.

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2 minutes ago, Fox007 said:

Not even Panther fans or NFL fans probaly....just flat out hate Cam....it's unreal how some cloths and press conferences has people....you fugin go out and about with these people BTW....unreal.

I'm a bartender and talking sports now a days is almost as bad as talking religion or politics. I mean poo just look how many threads on this forum get moved to the tinderbox.

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Guys on here have been over-reacting like crazy in a negative way to Norv.  IMO, I think he's gonna be good.  Goal isn't #1 offense, it's top 5 rush and top 15 pass, which both are completely doable with tweaks to our personnel and an intelligent approach to our offensive play calling.  First, lets remember why Shula got hired.  He wasn't the most qualified, he was the only one that would take the job since it was perceived that "Ron was a lame duck coach" going into his contract year after Chud left if I remember correct.  Good for him to be serviceable, but it's time to go.

As for Norv, Cam has experience with Air Coryell, don't throw out his understandable concepts just to "change" things.  Norv will ask him to be more judicious in the run game, but his pass concept will be the same, but maybe he won't run an aging stewart on a goddamn go-route and think he's being innovative.  He's also better and getting Cam to work on his timing of his throws.  If Cam wants to improve as a passer (which I think he does), Norv will be a guy to help take him to the next level.  In Minn, Zimmer conflicted with him so there were mixed signals, it's better to just let one or the other just run the show, and in this case, Norv will run the show, Ron will focus on the Defense with wilks.

FWIW, Norv helped make both V-Jax and Josh Gordon, helped Antonio Gates, and helped Darren Sproles, so he has experience with all the kind of weapons we have, aside from the athletic freak we have at QB in Cam Newton.  I think this can be dominant, and FWIW, I think the only reason he came back to coach was to help mentor his son to eventually take that position in a few seasons, so he knows his success will eventually be his son's success, giving him more motivation to succeed.

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