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What are you looking foward to in training camp?

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I know camp is two months away, but with little going on between now and then besides another mini camp or two, what part of Spartanburg are you most wanting to see?

Will it be certain individuals, positional battles or how a particular unit looks?

As for myself, I will be very focused on our rookie WRs. I know people still have faith in Jarrett, however, I want to see how the young guys step up in case Jerrett doesn't improve.

Secondly, as with everyone else, I want to see what we have in Clausen. I'll put a lot of time into read and seeing (I usually go a day or two every year) how "polished and NFL ready" he really is.

Fullbacks. I know some of you scratch your heads, but I still think one of the veteran releases that may come back to hurt our team is letting Hoover go. I'm not sold on these young guys yet.

Safeties are another area of intrigue. I want to see if Godfrey has improved his agressiveness in attacking the ball carrier and see how Martin handles the starting role.

Lastly, and most importantly, the DL. I think the effectiveness of our DL may be the difference in 3 or 4 games this year. If our pass rush has not improved or has taken a step back, that will hurt because I think our run defense will be suspect all season. In other words, if teams can run on us fairly easily and we can't generate consistent pressure on the QB, our offense will have to generate more points than they ordinarily should by getting into shootouts which is not Foxball.

Thoughts?

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For me, it is all about the defense. S, DL, CB, OLB in that order. Fullback is also a concern.

To a lesser extent I guess corner is an area I'll watch. If and when Marshall shows up, that's what I'll be looking at. Will he be motivated or pissed off and half @ss his effort? We have enough depth, but outside of Gamble, there's nothing special in that group. They just need steady play.

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To a lesser extent I guess corner is an area I'll watch. If and when Marshall shows up, that's what I'll be looking at. Will he be motivated or pissed off and half @ss his effort? We have enough depth, but outside of Gamble, there's nothing special in that group. They just need steady play.

I'm mostly just interested in Marshall in regards to CB. Just as you said, does he show up, is he even still on the team, etc.

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Receivers. I have full confidence in the defense for the most part. lets be honest, the pass rush wasn't even a big factor on the sacks. most of them were Coverage sacks. true statement. I think the D will better. I want to see if Steve Smith finally has help

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I know camp is two months away, but with little going on between now and then besides another mini camp or two, what part of Spartanburg are you most wanting to see?

Will it be certain individuals, positional battles or how a particular unit looks?

As for myself, I will be very focused on our rookie WRs. I know people still have faith in Jarrett, however, I want to see how the young guys step up in case Jerrett doesn't improve.

Secondly, as with everyone else, I want to see what we have in Clausen. I'll put a lot of time into read and seeing (I usually go a day or two every year) how "polished and NFL ready" he really is.

Fullbacks. I know some of you scratch your heads, but I still think one of the veteran releases that may come back to hurt our team is letting Hoover go. I'm not sold on these young guys yet.

Safeties are another area of intrigue. I want to see if Godfrey has improved his agressiveness in attacking the ball carrier and see how Martin handles the starting role.

Lastly, and most importantly, the DL. I think the effectiveness of our DL may be the difference in 3 or 4 games this year. If our pass rush has not improved or has taken a step back, that will hurt because I think our run defense will be suspect all season. In other words, if teams can run on us fairly easily and we can't generate consistent pressure on the QB, our offense will have to generate more points than they ordinarily should by getting into shootouts which is not Foxball.

Thoughts?

I agree with everything and look forward to the same. Only difference is I think the DL will be the difference in more than 3-4 games. I think just about all of our losses will point in that direction. 6-9 games I think the DL could decide for us.

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What part of Spartanburg training camp am I looking forward to? My annual artery clogging trip to the beacon, hearing about the annual pizza eating contest between Zod, Meat and other Huddlers at the Pizza Hut, or watching the team and players practice????

So many choices........................................:rolleyes:

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What part of Spartanburg training camp am I looking forward to? My annual artery clogging trip to the beacon, hearing about the annual pizza eating contest between Zod, Meat and other Huddlers at the Pizza Hut, or watching the team and players practice????

So many choices........................................:rolleyes:

When is this? Opening day or just an agreed to time once time gets closer?

I've always heard about the Beacon, I must give it a try.

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I want to see how Sutton has progressed. He seems to have the same knack for scraping for yards that Stewart and Williams have.

Maybe Goodson can learn some moves instead of just running 100 miles a hour into tacklers.

Hopefully Fiametta can somehow fill the massive void left by Hoover.

Maybe this year we'll finally have a solid #2 not named Muhammad.

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Well, to be honest, since I don't actually see the training camp...well...let me give you a quote from another sports "superstar" who is somtimes referenced as two letters (not named T.O.):

I mean listen, we sitting here talking about practice. Not a game, but we talking about practice...How silly is that?

Now I know that I'm supposed to lead by example and all that but I'm not shoving that aside like it don't mean anything. I know it's important. I honestly do. But we talking about practice. What are we talking about? Practice? We talking about practice. We talking about practice. We ain't talking about the game. We talking about practice.

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