My OTA Observations

[mbarbour21]

3 hours ago, top dawg said:

I didn't stutter. I know "it" when I see it. He's too good of a football player and underappreciated route runner with sticky hands.

I agree with you since we have the coaches and GM we have. But if Hurney and Ron were still here, would you still say 100%? Lol! Ron would sit him behind a vet receiver so he could learn behind a guy who couldn’t teach his new puppy to chew a dog toy.....

[CPF4LIFE]

I always love the observation threads from practice. 

[ForJimmy]

Shi Smith was a steal. He never had solid QB play at USC. Not only will he make the team, but I bet he gets some playing time this year. I think our future WR group is DJ, Marshall, and Shi in the slot.

[Zod]

16 minutes ago, ForJimmy said:

I think our future WR group is DJ, Marshall, and Shi in the slot.

Could very well be. Could be more sooner than later if Robby skips mandatory workouts. 

[*FreeFua*]

Robby was hoping he’d be with Rhule for the foreseeable future. I think it became quite clear to him after the draft that he’s not in their future plans.

The Panthers simply don’t have the money to pay Robby what he thinks he’s worth. 

[SBBlue]

4 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Yeah, you can't publicly throw that much shade at a guy and NOT part ways with him. They were DONE with Teddy after he threw Brady under the bus blaming a late play call for him missing a wide open DJ in the endzone. There was a very distinct shift in the tone and message regarding Teddy from Rhule and company after that one and honestly it's tough to blame them for it. You dialed up a play that got a WR wide ass open for an easy TD, your QB airmailed it, then somehow still tried to blame you for it? Ouch.

True.  Teddy's play also fell off a cliff for the rest of the season.  That saints game was painful too.

[GRWatcher]

3 hours ago, GRWatcher said:

Thanks for the write up. Keep it up!

I agree about Thomas. We're all hoping for an Olsen 2.0 but, heck, I'd even relish a Jenkins or Walls clone. Thomas ain't it. For a 4th year player to garner praise from the head coach about having a good offseason this early in the offseason ...... man, I'd start packing.

 

Okay. Sorry. Jenkins isn't the TE I was thinking of. It was Kris Mangum.  I couldn't edit my own post to correct it.

[rayzor]

The Robbie/Terrace situation almost reminds me of Keyshawn/Jarrett.... hopefully with better results (I'm confident it will be, though).

[frankw]

So Robby is the next huddle villain? Life comes at ya fast.

[iamhubby1]

9 minutes ago, frankw said:

So Robby is the next huddle villain? Life comes at ya fast.

 

For the folks who cannot help but find fault, yeah. For the rest of us, not so much...yet.

[SBBlue]

6 hours ago, Zod said:

Sam Darnold looked as good as any Panthers QB in OTAs I have seen.

Quite a complement considering our QB history.

[Moo Daeng]

42 minutes ago, frankw said:

So Robby is the next huddle villain? Life comes at ya fast.

Zod being Zod. Villains are good for business 

[Black&BlueBubba]

2 hours ago, Zod said:

Could very well be. Could be more sooner than later if Robby skips mandatory workouts. 

So with that comment I will take it that there is something to Robbie not being at OTA’s. 

[NorthTryon]

5 hours ago, KB_fan said:

I have really missed these write ups.  

Thanks for the comments and the pix.  Love what we're hearing about Horn, Shi and Tremble.  Cautiously optimistic about Sam.

Pretty sure I didn't know we had a guy named Sam Chandler on our roster.  It seems every recent write up by every beat reporter there's some guy where it's like "who's that? I've never heard of him, swear I've never seen that name before..."

Gone are the days when I could recite our full 90 man roster in my sleep.  I've got a lot of work to do to learn about these guys.  But thankfully I should be able to do some of that work by watching them in person at training camp!   Less than 1 month until I'm wheels up and on a plane to head Stateside for a 6 month home leave.  Very ready for a break!

It makes me angry that the Panthers' media team doesn't put a caption under each picture when showing photos from workouts. I looked at a few Patriots' photos last year because I knew looking at Cam in their garb would remind me of old Madden Franchises. There would be Peyton Manning playing for KC, Vince Young for NYG, and Sean Alexander playing for the Texans. Anyways, they would have the caption telling who was who under each photo and from two practice sessions I knew their roster better than ours. I would have to go back and forth between roster list and pictures when looking at Panthers' practice photos. Media team got to step it up.

Edited June 3, 2021 by NorthTryon