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[Laetitia]

(By Darin Gantt, [email protected]) p/

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[Baschski]

Gantt's comment about LaFell was retarded. Yes, in the half-second of time that LaFell had to react to that throw, he consciously made the decision to catch the ball one handed in order to look more flashy. Are you kidding me? Those kind of plays are all instinctive and reactionary. The ball is up and you catch it any way that you can. You don't think about it.

DG clearly never played competitive sports.

[DickolausJ]

Why even mention DeAngelo Williams when Trent Guy, David Gettis, and Marcus Witherspoon had so much more interesting games?

I think What I wanted their was Brian, Brian Witherspoon.

[Razeyfingers]

Gantt's comment about LaFell was retarded. Yes, in the half-second of time that LaFell had to react to that throw, he consciously made the decision to catch the ball one handed in order to look more flashy. Are you kidding me? Those kind of plays are all instinctive and reactionary. The ball is up and you catch it any way that you can. You don't think about it.

DG clearly never played competitive sports.

I agree, dude. That's a fuggin ridiculous statement.

It was confidence. . . pure unadulterated ability and confidence.

From the time a ball is thrown (or where the ball is spotted by the wr) to the time its in the wr's hands is like what? 3 to 4 seconds if we're being generous right? Well it takes the human eye about a half second to a second or so when look from one object to another so that leaves 2 to 3 seconds. Figure another half second to a second to see the trajectory which leaves you with? . . . .2 seconds calculate where you need to be to make the catch. . . a diving catch.

(So this is what he sees and does in less than 2 seconds or less)

Realizing that he was a little off with his leap for the ball, LaFell knew he would be out of position for the catch. Instead of panicking and trying to contort is body and flail for the ball. . . what did he do? He camly put his hand down to hold his body in place for his other hand to make the catch.

It looked very graceful and showed he has confidence in himself.

(yes I know what unadulterated means, but I likes hows its sounds?)

[MHS831]

DB Marcus Hudson: Probably could walk through the stadium concourse without being recognized, but he’s going to play an important part this year. A standout special teams player will play more defense than first thought, and he’s smart enough to know exactly how to fill his role.

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/08/29/1653628/panthers-stock-watch.html#ixzz0y5dgOAov

I saw him get beat twice in coverage--one for a TD, if I am not mistaken.

[DickolausJ]

He did get beat for the TD bad. He also had a huge hit on the TE. He probably won't actually play any CB if he makes the team just ST.

[Lout]

I agree, dude. That's a fuggin ridiculous statement.

It was confidence. . . pure unadulterated ability and confidence.

From the time a ball is thrown (or where the ball is spotted by the wr) to the time its in the wr's hands is like what? 3 to 4 seconds if we're being generous right? Well it takes the human eye about a half second to a second or so when look from one object to another so that leaves 2 to 3 seconds. Figure another half second to a second to see the trajectory which leaves you with? . . . .2 seconds calculate where you need to be to make the catch. . . a diving catch.

(So this is what he sees and does in less than 2 seconds or less)

Realizing that he was a little off with his leap for the ball, LaFell knew he would be out of position for the catch. Instead of panicking and trying to contort is body and flail for the ball. . . what did he do? He camly put his hand down to hold his body in place for his other hand to make the catch.

It looked very graceful and showed he has confidence in himself.

(yes I know what unadulterated means, but I likes hows its sounds?)

Actually, from the time the ball is thrown to the time it hits the WRs hands is probably just over 1 second (on the route that LaFell ran). you can take a stopwatch to it, and it will be about 1.2 seconds.