Dan Connor has a twitter account (DanConnor55)

[CatMan72]

Just learned that Dan Connor has a twitter account (DanConnor55) for those of you who are interested.

Among other things, he tweeted the following response to someone asking him how he felt about Rivera:

I'm real excited for the change. Got to meet with Coach Rivera a few times over the past 2 weeks, and he's the real deal.

[CatMan72]

...and of course I misspelled his last name in the subject line, can a mod help me out?

[BountyHunter]

oh wee mayne

he dat deal

[CarolinaCatBrigade]

[Wolfcop]

That was a response to a question I asked him...cool!

[HSCBandit07]

I noticed another post saying Beason may not be the ideal MLB in a JJ d-scheme. Does Connor have the intangibles that could potentially have him come in as the ideal MLB? I'm not sure how we could get Beason, Connor, Anderson and Davis all on the field at the same time or enough reps to satisfy their potential/talent. I wonder if we may end up trading one or rotating. I'm no defensive guru but I don't see how we could efficiently run 4 LBers in certain packages that would mesh well with their skill sets.

[SOJA]

I noticed another post saying Beason may not be the ideal MLB in a JJ d-scheme. Does Connor have the intangibles that could potentially have him come in as the ideal MLB? I'm not sure how we could get Beason, Connor, Anderson and Davis all on the field at the same time or enough reps to satisfy their potential/talent. I wonder if we may end up trading one or rotating. I'm no defensive guru but I don't see how we could efficiently run 4 LBers in certain packages that would mesh well with their skill sets.

with how many injuries we suffered this year, depth is really good

[Chaos]

Someone ask him how Roseanne and the kids are doing?

[HSCBandit07]

I love our linebacker situation and I hope Connor stays, but I'm sure he wants a steady role in our defense and to not be a career backup.

[Vagrant]

Thomas Davis will probably have to come back slowly to a reduced role or to splitting snaps with James Anderson. If he wants to stay here, he's going to have to take a pay cut and a role reduction from what he could get in other places. I think his injury lead to a discovery in Anderson that may have made him expendable as much as I hate that idea. I say keep them all if we can keep them all happy, but I don't think we can. Connor played his ass off last year and deserves a chance to start here.

[Woodie]

Thomas Davis will probably have to come back slowly to a reduced role or to splitting snaps with James Anderson. If he wants to stay here, he's going to have to take a pay cut and a role reduction from what he could get in other places. I think his injury lead to a discovery in Anderson that may have made him expendable as much as I hate that idea. I say keep them all if we can keep them all happy, but I don't think we can. Connor played his ass off last year and deserves a chance to start here.

Couple of problems with this. First of all, for Connor to start, Beason would have to move back to the weakside, and I don't think anyone wants him there when he is so much better at MLB. And Anderson established himself at SLB, which was not Davis' best position. He was thriving at WLB prior to his injury. And that is the position I see him competing for again...and currently we don't have anybody established at weakside that could push him to a backup role. Of course, I have also heard that Rivera may go after a couple of his guys from SD, so that could throw a monkey wrench into the whole thing. But that's just speculation, so there may not be any teeth to it.

Also, I don't believe TD will struggle to come back like some believe. He's already shown he is a quick healer, and now he'll have more than a year to get ready...which should be more than enough time. Not to mention his rehab was on the fast track to come back by the end of this past season (until our season was lost and coming back early became pointless). And from what I understand, he hasn't had any setbacks that should prevent him from being 100% by TC.