Damiere Byrd may be inactive this Sunday despite being healthy

[Saca312]

Well, depending on how you take Ron's verbiage, you could deduct this might be the case.

Josh Klein from Roaring Riot gives his interpretation of Ron's coach speak.

 

[Saca312]

Of course, the better scenario would be Ron Rivera saying Samuel has kick return duties while Damiere Byrd mans the punt returns. Which would make more sense.

I don't see why we shouldn't have Damiere Byrd active given his explosive ability in the return game.

[CarolinaSamurai]

Yeah gotta stash one speedster in case you break the other. Bc our best reciever needs to be a fing PR guy.....ugh

[ncfan]

2 minutes ago, Saca312 said:

Well, depending on how you take Ron's verbiage, you could deduct this might be the case.

Josh Klein from Roaring Riot gives his interpretation of Ron's coach speak.

 

Dam

Dude looks like our best return guy

Samuel looked like our best WR  this camp

Moore shows promise oozing potential. And is a 1st rounder

 

While Smith has been hands down our worst WR and will get one of those guys jerseys just because the pure fact that he's a "vet" sucks

[RumHam]

I can't see why anyone here thinks Byrd will be active with how many receivers we have. Get rid of your hard on.

[panfanman]

Byrd, Moore, Samuel. . .none of these should be riding the pine for Smith.

[GoobyPls]

Byrd is way better returner than Samuel and should be starting. And return duties for a guy with a injury history like Samuel is dangerous 

[KillerKat]

He's the best returner we have had since Steve Smith. He needs to be active.

[Darvinsun]

Maybe he will be active,  but just doing punt returns. Rivera has got to stop limiting our guys for vets. If your not ready to do long bombs why play Smith let someone else see what they can do with his snaps tired of seeing him drop balls. He is a vet should have no problem being ready when or if his name is called.

[Darvinsun]

1 hour ago, RumHam said:

I can't see why anyone here thinks Byrd will be active with how many receivers we have. Get rid of your hard on.

Maybe bc he deserves to but looking at who we have for a coach should be no surprise.

[therealmjl]

Yet another stupid thread.

anyone that follows this team knows that Rivera is saying Samuel is on kick return duties. So that tweet is also stupid.

Samuel has never once played the role of punt returner for us. Not even preaeason.

 

That line from Rivera has no bearing on Byrd being active or not.

[Bartin]

It's hard to carry 6 active WRs without really sacrificing someplace else particularly when the 6th WR will not see the field on offense and doesn't offer anything in other parts of special teams. In our case, we would either need to make an another LB inactive which hurts us in all 4 phases of special teams rather than just the PR unit or make another DE inactive which means we would potentially have to push Peppers snaps a lot higher than is desirable this early in the season.

Now the ideal situation is to bench/cut Torrey Smith but we know that's not happening anytime soon.

[ellis]

It’s always nice to hear what peripheral media members believe a coach might or might not be inferring.

 

[RoaringRiot]

9 minutes ago, je1005 said:

It’s always nice to hear what peripheral media members believe a coach might or might not be inferring.

 

Fun Fact: Josh is one of two media members outside of Panthers.com to go to every practice, event, and game. 

Jourdan is the other.