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Said he’s not worried about the secondary, Panthers were loading the box and receivers were making plays.

Said Cam isn’t on the sidelines because the staff doesn’t want him there for health reasons. Only idiots have a problem with this.

Said he has changed his mind about Allen and if we win against the Bucs Ron should stay with him after the bye regardless of how Cam is doing.

Admitted he was wrong about CMC not being able to run between the tackles.. definitely a MVP candidate

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34 minutes ago, mc52beast said:

Said he has changed his mind about Allen and if we win against the Bucs Ron should stay with him after the bye regardless of how Cam is doing.

Have any of the other analysts said that publicly? I don't remember hearing anyone else say it.

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33 minutes ago, mc52beast said:

Said he has changed his mind about Allen and if we win against the Bucs Ron should stay with him after the bye regardless of how Cam is doing.

Only part I don't agree with (saw Steve Smith weirdly change his tune on this too).  It's like the Broncos keeping The Golden Calf of Bristol instead of going out and signing Manning because they went to the divisional round of the playoffs.

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36 minutes ago, mc52beast said:

Said he’s not worried about the secondary, Panthers were loading the box and receivers were making plays.

Said Cam isn’t on the sidelines because the staff doesn’t want him there for health reasons. Only idiots have a problem with this.

Said he has changed his mind about Allen and if we win against the Bucs Ron should stay with him after the bye regardless of how Cam is doing.

Admitted he was wrong about CMC not being able to run between the tackles.. definitely a MVP candidate

Sounds reasonable. We've all seen Cam get hype and run up and down the sidelines when he's not on the field. It would be hard to keep him from doing that and tweaking something, especially the way the team has been playing lately. 

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8 minutes ago, TheRumGone said:

Smitty said the playbook is open more with Allen? Gotta disagree big time there. 

Yeah, caught that.

There are definitely plays you run with Newton that you would not want to run with Allen (designed runs and such).

What Smitty is saying would indicate he thinks the flipside is also true, that there are plays Allen can run which don't work as well with Newton. You'd assume them to be pass plays because if it was just handoffs, hell anybody can do that.

I'd agree it's hard to imagine, though I grant that Steve Smith knows a lot more about the playbook than we do.

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7 minutes ago, TheRumGone said:

Smitty said the playbook is open more with Allen? Gotta disagree big time there. 

I tend to agree. I think the playbook has shifted but not necessarily opened.

Unless he was referring to the fact cam has been injured so there are certain plays that wouldn’t have been called because cam cant do them right now?

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2 minutes ago, jbland said:

I tend to agree. I think the playbook has shifted but not necessarily opened.

Unless he was referring to the fact cam has been injured so there are certain plays that wouldn’t have been called because cam cant do them right now?

Possible.

Given the context that he's saying they might want to stick with Allen even if Newton comes back healthy though, that would make me think his statement isn't injury related. If it were, then it would stop being true once Newton was healthy again.

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9 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Yeah, caught that.

There are definitely plays you run with Newton that you would not want to run with Allen (designed runs and such).

What Smitty is saying would indicate he thinks the flipside is also true, that there are plays Allen can run which don't work as well with Newton. You'd assume them to be pass plays because if it was just handoffs, hell anybody can do that.

I'd agree it's hard to imagine, though I grant that Steve Smith knows a lot more about the playbook than we do.

I think Smitty is in media mode. Healthy cam can make the same passes as Allen without a doubt. And cams last game he threw the ball almost 50 passes. So I don’t think they closed the playbook for him at all even with a bum foot. So I think him saying that is hyperbole.
 

what is kind of interesting is that he changes his tune after being in the building. He may have heard some rumblings from the org that this might be the case that we roll with allen until we lose or he shows he can’t manage the game anymore. I’m not sure what to think of that. I wouldn’t even say Allen is a hot hand anymore but I get winning streaks and vibes are real and you don’t wanna mess that up. But if Cam comes back 100% he definitely gives us the best chance to win purely from an ability standpoint. It’s gonna be realllllly interesting to see what happens.

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