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Kuechly officially joins staff as pro scout

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During the season, it'll be player evaluation and then advance scouting stuff. So if we play a team next week, we've got to get everything set up and ready to go, so when the coaches come in on Monday, they're not starting from square one," Kuechly said

https://www.panthers.com/news/luke-kuechly-joins-front-office-pro-scout

So he wil be scouting upcoming teams for the coaches, sounds right up his alley

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2 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

Bet he's watching film at this moment

Wouldn't surprise me if he already was by the time they announced it.

You pretty much had to figure this was coming when the team announced it "might" happen.

They were probably just working out the contract details.

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In his retirement announcement video, Luke said “some of my favorite memories are from this linebacker room, in the locker room and on the bus.”

 

To me it really speaks how professional and serious Luke took his job. That’s the difference between just another guy and a HOFer. If Luke even puts half the effort into scouting as he did as a player he’d be a damn good one. If anything from watching Luke the past 8 years, anything less than perfect is unacceptable for Kuechly. We’re fortunate as a fan base to have rooted and cheered for such a stand up guy. 

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He will be scouting upcoming teams and player evaluations.  This is more in line with coaching than GM duties

The article actually points up the differences. His evaluations are going to be more personnel focused than scheme focused.

There will be a few differences in what Kuechly will be looking for on film in his new gig. As a player, his studying mostly focused on trying to dissect an upcoming opponent's possible game plan.

"You were always looking at schemes and tendencies and where you think a team is going to attack you on the defensive side of the ball," Kuechly said.

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"I think it'll be different in the sense that we're not necessarily looking for scheme as we are players," Kuechly continued. "Are the players good? What's their skillset? What are they good at? What are they not good at?

"Say we're looking at a guy like Christian (McCaffrey). It's like, 'All right guys, he's really explosive, he's dangerous in the open field, he catches the ball extremely well out of the backfield, he's a matchup problem for linebackers.' I think it's going to be more like that."

It's the same kind of thing that a Director of Pro Personnel does.

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Also worth mentioning, this quote:

This role could be the first step on a front office ladder for Kuechly. But he's not yet ready to commit that kind of climb.

"I've never really done anything like this, so I'm just going to take it a day at a time and see what I think," Kuechly said. "I think it'll be fun. It's still going to be football. It's still going to be around good people. That's what matters."

People have been ready to offer Peyton Manning a GM job with no prior scouting experience. Heck, the 49ers did exactly that with John Lynch.

But Luke? He's not thinking of this as a stepping stone. I'm sure he'll be happy to work his way up and earn any promotions he gets without expecting things to be handed to him.

Gotta respect that.

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