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Roster moves....Hood waived and more

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KillerKat Grand Master

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5 minutes ago, Glitchh said:

Grier would have to have a killer Spring to win it out right, if he doesn't and they give it to him anyway they're taking a big risk.  Maybe Kyle could make it through waivers but then how long would it take before a team took him off the PS?

I don't think we should be concerned with Allen being taken. If Cam goes down, no other QB on the roster is taking us to the playoffs and beyond this year. At least with Grier there is a future with him as we will try to build him up as a good backup at the least.

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17 minutes ago, KillerKat said:

dedicated return man I don't mind since the return game is so important for field position, but carrying 3 QBs is rough when you need more bodies for a hybrid D and you already have some guys hurting or coming off injury. NFL needs to increase roster size.

My gut instinct is to agree on the importance of the return game but with the new kickoff rules, you're generally better off taking a touchback every kickoff. So then it boils down to punts. And again, half of your punts are going to end up as fair catches so you mainly just want someone with sure hands back there. It'd be great to have a good return guy but seems more like a luxury than an absolute need. I suspect a return guy without some other value, like backup receiver or 3rd rb, isn't going to be something we can afford. But we'll see. Maybe he justifies himself as wr 6 but that we seem to have a logjam at our 5th+ wr spots as is.

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18 minutes ago, Glitchh said:

Grier would have to have a killer Spring to win it out right, if he doesn't and they give it to him anyway they're taking a big risk.  Maybe Kyle could make it through waivers but then how long would it take before a team took him off the PS?

Let's be realistic. It's not like we'd be cutting a proven NFL veteran QB to make Grier the primary backup.  Heinicke and Allen have about 600 NFL passing yards between the two of them.

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19 minutes ago, KillerKat said:

I don't think we should be concerned with Allen being taken. If Cam goes down, no other QB on the roster is taking us to the playoffs and beyond this year. At least with Grier there is a future with him as we will try to build him up as a good backup at the least.

A common idea, season over if Cam goes out, but with the other playmakers on the team we don't need an all-star QB to win game, just solid play from a back-up. My thinking at this point is Allen could give us that, we'll see over the next six weeks.

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Just now, TheSpecialJuan said:

Carolina Panthers running back Elijah Hood says goodbye to his son Elisha "JuJu," 9-mos. on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 as players reported to Wofford College for the start of training camp. Hood is a former star athlete at Charlotte Catholic and UNC

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/scott-fowler/article233085557.html

Ruthless. we cut his ass just after he arrived. 

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Good article by Scott Fowler who talked to Hood after he was cut. Hood showed such class and maturity.  Will post link and an excerpt in just a few minutes.

Fowler: Panthers cut Elijah Hood 3 hours after he got to training camp -- and it wasn’t easy for anyone

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/scott-fowler/article233085557.html

baby, goodbye. Then his family left, headed back toward Charlotte, 75 miles away. Hood headed into his dorm room at Wofford College, where the Panther players were checking in for training camp.

Three hours later, the Panthers fired Elijah Hood.

They did it as gently as they could – in fact, Hood said he had to help general manager Marty Hurney get the words out.

told me in a phone interview, “and there was just a grimace on his face. He said: ‘You know, this is hard.’ And I said, ‘You’ve got to let me go, right?’ I said it for him, because I knew he really didn’t want to say it.”

By the time I caught up with Hood on the phone at 5:40 p.m. Wednesday, he was already back in Charlotte. The Panthers had the courtesy not to make his fiancé, Ne’Shei Franklin, come back to get him. They instead had a team employee drive Hood back to Charlotte and drop him off at his house.

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I knew it was pretty strange on the first day when they said I needed to go see the GM,” Hood said. “That was not good. So I already kind of knew then.”

A cold business

Hurney has known Hood for a decade. Hurney’s son was an offensive lineman who had helped open holes for Hood when they were high school teammates at Charlotte Catholic. The elder Hurney spent many Friday nights watching both of them.

But the NFL is a cold business. Friendships sometimes have to be placed on the back burner when a team needs another wide receiver for depth more than it needs an extra running back.

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I have full confidence in my abilities as a player so I’ll just be preparing for when I get that next call,” Hood said. “This is just the way it goes. This is the business.”

But his dream of playing for his hometown team in a regular-season game? That’s over. The 2018 Carolina team photo, with Hood in it, graces one of the walls at his home. But that photo, and the memories, will have to do. Three strange hours on Wednesday took care of that.

“I’m sad about it,” Hood said. “I don’t get to play for the hometown team anymore. But I did get to suit up for the Panthers -- and I always get to say that for the rest of my life. And I know that, in my heart, I once was a Panther.”

 
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56 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Brutal, but if he got cut at this point because we needed an extra WR then he had no shot of sticking anyway. I hope some other team gives him a shot.

It sucks for Hood.  But I stayed before I thought he was on the outside looking in after the draft. But I am intrigued we will get to see more of Scarlett and Holyfield.  My hope is that CAP is gone.  It’s CMC, Scarlett, Holyfield, and Bonnafon on the PS as a pass catcher if something happens to CMC. 

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