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Blurbs on Smitty, LB Corps, and Greg Hardy

TylerDurden

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TylerDurden Grand Master

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Just as I suspected, our LB corps is beast mode this year... Too bad we lost our secondary sometime during the offseason...

Connor had 13 tackles (along with 1 sack), Beason 10, and Anderson 9. Wow.

Also of interest:

"I think Matt played good," Smith said. "I'm not his coach so I can't really give him a grade.

"Matt made mistakes. I made mistakes. There were other guys that made mistakes as well. You can't point the finger at anybody. You've just got to look at how you did and what you did and try to persevere and move forward."

Smith said he had a chance to speak to Moore after the quarterback suffered a concussion late in the game.

"It's a tough break for him, but I think he'll be fine," Smith said. "He'll be all right."

Smitty has never really held his tongue before, so I find this quote pretty interesting.

http://www.panthers.com/news/article-1/Strickly-Panthers-Smith-back-in-form/1a49a446-3e51-4fd8-9c1c-48e6681ba4f4

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Post 'em up. I don't recall. Sometimes I miss stuff living out here in CO.

Either way, with some of the QB play he's endured during his career, he's bit his tongue about it much more than most elite WRs would.

There was one sound bite with him saying to Jake I like you as a friend just not a QB. Im sure there more.

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I just spent a few minutes trying to google it, can't find them right now, but it was mainly after the Eagles game as mentioned above, along with if I'm not mistaken one time further into the season he was asked if Jake should still be the starter and he said, "That's not in my job description," or something along those lines. Then after all the veterans were released there was another quote about how that's the business of the league - it was pretty cold and didn't sound like he had any love left for Jake.

Some of that is my interpretation, but it's not hard to interpret it that way when he didn't just come out and say, "that's my QB." That's why I was surprised how upbeat he was about Matt yesterday.

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That was him joking around...I thought it was pretty obvious. PFT and some other media idiots tried to make it out like an insult and a "rift forming" but it was pretty obvious it was just Steve trying to make Jake laugh...

There was one sound bite with him saying to Jake I like you as a friend just not a QB. Im sure there more.
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Great to see Hardy making an impact with the limited reps...when a player gets a chance to get on the field and makes that kind of impact, players/coaches notice. Lots of folks on here were already optimistic about him, but now he made the most of his small amount of playing time with a couple of high impact plays in a regular season game. I hope this is the beginning of an increased role, and I suspect his confidence just ratcheted up another notch. Good for him and I hope he keeps it up.

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He is upbeat about Moore because he knows that with Clausen in there, the deep ball is gone. He remembers how his production suffered when David Carr went in there and threw everything 10 yards or shorter.

Clausen will be David Carr part 2.

Just curious, but have you been right about a quarterback yet?

I mean, I remember last season you bashing Moore and saying Delhomme should stay in as a starter. Moore wasn't a football guy, didn't have the personality and/or work-ethic. Then this season saying that Cantwell was a sleeper and had a very real chance at #2 and flipflopping on Moore. Now Clausen is terribad based on his rookie preseason?

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