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Panthers S Colin Jones

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Khyber53 Grand Master

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Honestly, he's been a good role player for us for a long number of years. That being said, you can really only remain on a team as a special teams specialist for so long.

There's going to be younger guys who need a roster spot to develop, who can do it for cheaper vet minimums. In our rebuild/reboot, those are the kind of guys Rhule is going to be recruiting and looking to build around. Jones was looking at going into training camp and having to compete with other safeties and linebackers for his spot... young, hungry players. 

Jones can also probably find a landing spot in either Washington or Buffalo and run out a couple more years. He has skills and a lot of knowledge that's valuable, either to a contending team like Buffalo or one where a coach is looking to surround himself with many familiar faces (Washington).

Good luck to him, thanks for all the games.

 

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Everyone's going to hate on him here because he's a mediocre safety, but he's not a safety, he's a special teamer. Usually a special teamer is either your fifth or sixth receiver or some sort of backup secondary player, and we've had to pressgang into service because of awful personnel decisions in our secondary. As a special teamer, he was solid and that's basically all you can ask for. Hopefully we don't have to deal with this situation in the future.

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1 minute ago, TN05 said:

Everyone's going to hate on him here because he's a mediocre safety, but he's not a safety, he's a special teamer we've had to pressgang into service because of awful secondary personnel decisions. As a special teamer, he was solid and that's basically all you can ask for. 

No we hate on him because he's everything you described but was also a coach favorite that pushed out/kept us from improving both on special teams and backup safety.

...and then, in the end, he wanted to act like it was our fault, lol.

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2 minutes ago, Bronn said:

No we hate on him because he's everything you described but was also a coach favorite that pushed out/kept us from improving both on special teams and backup safety.

...and then, in the end, he wanted to act like it was our fault, lol.

Evidently he was a player favorite, given he's the special teams captain.

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Pretty sure that a 32yr old special teams guy doesn't have a whole lot of opportunities to get a ring, so I could understand if he thinks he has a chance to get picked up by a team with a better chance than a retooling Panthers. I could also see him taking a shot with a team with coaching staff that he's familiar with (should he end up in Washington or Buffalo).

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