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[PadresPanthersFan]

 

Capt Morgan- thanks!

[CarolinaLivin]

 

[CarolinaLivin]

Terrace Marshall getting some first team WR reps. 

#Eagles

https://x.com/brandongowton/status/1949125188139806763?s=46

[raleigh-panther]

On 7/26/2025 at 8:35 AM, Captain Morgan said:

Mike Kaye
@mike_e_kaye
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First on the field, Chuba Hubbard (he will also probably be the last one off as well, if history proves to be true).

 

 

Alex Zietlow
@alexzietlow05
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My view from #Panthers Day 3 training camp practice. Derrick Brown (95) is back. A 24-year-old Bryce Young is here. Let’s go.

 

Joe Person
@josephperson
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Derrick Brown is back after missing a couple of days due to personal reasons.

 

 

Thank you for doing this.  Cheers

[CPcavedweller]

On 7/26/2025 at 2:30 PM, LinvilleGorge said:

Damn go go gadget arms. LOL 

I’ve seen college players doing this in warm-ups purposefully. It shows his reach I guess but at this point I’m not sold that Horn won’t end up being more beneficial considering the type of ball Bryce likes to play. 

[CPcavedweller]

On 7/26/2025 at 7:44 PM, jb2288 said:

I am so glad we didn’t overthink our pick. Dude is a fuggin stud at WR 

Would rather have had Matthew Golden if we were going to go receiver. He’s going to go for 1,000 plus this year. Reminds me a lot of Antonio Brown. 

[tukafan21]

41 minutes ago, CPcavedweller said:

I’ve seen college players doing this in warm-ups purposefully. It shows his reach I guess but at this point I’m not sold that Horn won’t end up being more beneficial considering the type of ball Bryce likes to play. 

The difference is that T-Mac also regularly did it in games throughout his career too, he's not doing it just to be flashy in practice, he legitimately practices it because he's able to translate it to gamedays.

Also, as I've said so many times but some people still don't like to see it for some reason, T-Mac is a such a perfect fit for Bryce that it's not even funny.  Bryce excels with two things in particular, placing the ball with touch and improvising.

T-Mac is outstanding at finding holes in the coverage on broken plays and giving his QB a big target to find, it's what him and his college QB (who was also his HS QB) did best.  And because of his absurd catch radius, it allows Bryce to put those touch passes in a place that only T-Mac can catch it.

Horn is going to be great to get the ball to in space, but realistically, pure speedsters are best with strong armed QB's who can take advantage of the deep ball and throwing it past the defense for the WR to run under it, that's not Bryce.  

Edited yesterday at 01:29 AM by tukafan21

[LinvilleGorge]

48 minutes ago, CPcavedweller said:

I’ve seen college players doing this in warm-ups purposefully. It shows his reach I guess but at this point I’m not sold that Horn won’t end up being more beneficial considering the type of ball Bryce likes to play. 

I'm for having a variety of receivers with different strengths. Honestly, Horn is likely to be used primarily as a return man as a rookie. Can't see finding a lot of snaps for him in front of T-Mac, XL, Coker, Renfrow, and Thielen. I mean, he's gonna be the #6 WR/return man injuries aside.

[tukafan21]

35 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I'm for having a variety of receivers with different strengths. Honestly, Horn is likely to be used primarily as a return man as a rookie. Can't see finding a lot of snaps for him in front of T-Mac, XL, Coker, Renfrow, and Thielen. I mean, he's gonna be the #6 WR/return man injuries aside.

I actually think that as long as he has a solid camp and makes the team (which is more likely than not), that Horn will have a bigger role than some expect, because he really is just different than any of the others.

Most #6 WR's won't even be active on game days, let alone get any snaps.  But his speed/agility is unique compared to the rest of the WR unit to where they're going to have plays in the game plan every week to utilize him.  Even if at times he's just out there as a decoy to keep safeties honest by having him run some go routes, or putting him in motion for play action to force the defense to react.

[CPcavedweller]

12 hours ago, tukafan21 said:

The difference is that T-Mac also regularly did it in games throughout his career too, he's not doing it just to be flashy in practice, he legitimately practices it because he's able to translate it to gamedays.

Also, as I've said so many times but some people still don't like to see it for some reason, T-Mac is a such a perfect fit for Bryce that it's not even funny.  Bryce excels with two things in particular, placing the ball with touch and improvising.

T-Mac is outstanding at finding holes in the coverage on broken plays and giving his QB a big target to find, it's what him and his college QB (who was also his HS QB) did best.  And because of his absurd catch radius, it allows Bryce to put those touch passes in a place that only T-Mac can catch it.

Horn is going to be great to get the ball to in space, but realistically, pure speedsters are best with strong armed QB's who can take advantage of the deep ball and throwing it past the defense for the WR to run under it, that's not Bryce.  

We didn’t need a 50/50 ball receiver. We need guys who can create separation for Bryce to pinpoint the ball to at all levels of the defense. Tet may figure it out a few years from now but he will struggle to beat man coverage due to his lack of acceleration and what seems to be relatively slim frame. 
 

The offense functioned much better with Theilen last season because of his ability to create separation from defenders. I don’t know why but that is Bryce’s go-to rather than a 50/50 ball which, in the NFL, is a throw you may make two times per game. 
 

i wanted Tyle Warren because I feel he can end up being very much like Kelci and how he operates in space and how that chemistry between he and Mahomes doesn’t need a playbook. Then you’ve got Matthew Golden who is apparently burning everyone at Packers camp right now. He is very much like Antonio Brown. 
 

We clearly made the pick we made so I should get over it. I think everyone is hoping for Mike Evans here but at best I think we may get a smaller DK Metcalf? Given what we know about his inability to break coverage at UA-Tuscon, it’s going to be even harder in THA LEAGUE. 

[shaqattaq]

On 7/26/2025 at 11:42 AM, Captain Morgan said:

One on one coverage drills against Jimmy Horn look unfair. He’s beating fellow rookies by four or five yards. Latest victim is Trevian Thomas.

This is why he was running with the 1's yesterday! I really hope he's as good as the hype.

[shaqattaq]

On 7/26/2025 at 1:55 PM, BlazeCarolina said:

What rookies are they claiming Jimmy Horn Jr is cooking?  Beating them by 4-5yards sounds crazy.  We didn't have any rookie corners?

Must be the new safeties, but still.  Trevian Thomas ran a 4.45.  I keep hearing about Jimmy's insane speed, I just don't understand it.  I know game speed is different, and I am excited to see it, but just wow.

We brought in 3 safeties and 3 CB's as UDFA. Not sure about all the moves in the last 3 months With DMo constantly churning the bottom of the roster.

[LinvilleGorge]

1 hour ago, CPcavedweller said:

We didn’t need a 50/50 ball receiver. We need guys who can create separation for Bryce to pinpoint the ball to at all levels of the defense. Tet may figure it out a few years from now but he will struggle to beat man coverage due to his lack of acceleration and what seems to be relatively slim frame. 
 

The offense functioned much better with Theilen last season because of his ability to create separation from defenders. I don’t know why but that is Bryce’s go-to rather than a 50/50 ball which, in the NFL, is a throw you may make two times per game. 
 

i wanted Tyle Warren because I feel he can end up being very much like Kelci and how he operates in space and how that chemistry between he and Mahomes doesn’t need a playbook. Then you’ve got Matthew Golden who is apparently burning everyone at Packers camp right now. He is very much like Antonio Brown. 
 

We clearly made the pick we made so I should get over it. I think everyone is hoping for Mike Evans here but at best I think we may get a smaller DK Metcalf? Given what we know about his inability to break coverage at UA-Tuscon, it’s going to be even harder in THA LEAGUE. 

We needed receivers. Period.

When your best receiver was an aging over the hill 34 year old vet you need receivers.

I think those of you expecting T-Mac to be a slow plodding soft guy like Funchess are gonna be surprised. He doesn't have the physicality of KB but he's not soft like Funchess and he's quicker and faster than both.

Expect something similar to Drake London. He had two solid seasons with trash QB play then blossomed in year three to put up nearly 1300 yards.

[BlazeCarolina]

27 minutes ago, shaqattaq said:

We brought in 3 safeties and 3 CB's as UDFA. Not sure about all the moves in the last 3 months With DMo constantly churning the bottom of the roster.

I love the roster churning.

I also heard Jimmy was talking about breaking the combine 40 record and then wasn't even close.  Just odd to me the legend of Jimmy's speed.  

He was also apparently terrible at the 3 cone.  Odd.