Smith: New offense 'refreshing'

[rayzor]

“I respect coach Fox and I respect the offensive coordinators that have been here. But at the same time I'm a wide receiver. Run blocking is not my forte,” Smith said following the two-hour Fan Fest at Bank of America Stadium.

“It is nice to have layers, have multiple sets, not to just be stacking to one spot for 70 plays. I get to line up in different spots. It's just refreshing. It's not saying, 'Well, we're going to move you around,' and then never do it. Here they're actually saying it and it's happening. It's not just me. It's other guys as well.”

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"It's good. I'm not stationary standing like the last nine years I've been," he said. "I get to move around and play well and I've got some other receivers out there taking the pressure off me."

http://blogs.charlotte.com/panthers/2011/08/smith-new-offense-refreshing.html

i'm expecting pretty good things from smith and this offense this year. should be some growing pains along the way, but overall i think we'll be seeing an offense that is fun to watch and for players to be a part of.

interesting the comments made about fox, though. had to be frustrating for players to deal with a coach with that simple a philosophy and style.

[The Huddler]

I really like our young guys but i swear if we get another solid recieving threat opposite of Smitty our offense will be crazy. Not that it isnt crazy already lol

[frash.exe]

someone on the old board (the one that crashed a few years ago) posted an article that broke down the passing game in 2005. It was basically centered around Smith as the first option the vast majority of the time. The reason we were so successful was because Delhomme was so good at getting him the ball due to the chemistry they had. It's a strategy that once is figured out renders that gameplan useless. This is why they always say Henning had a "feed the stud" strategy. The problem is it lacks in football savvy instead relying on Smitty's talent, and relying on talent will only get you so far before someone comes up with a scheme that shuts you down, although the only reason Holmgren could afford to quadruple cover him in the NFCC game was because we had absolutely no other weapons at that point.

[Gipetto]

Somebody's a Joe person stalker......j/k

[rayzor]

I really like our young guys but i swear if we get another solid recieving threat opposite of Smitty our offense will be crazy. Not that it isnt crazy already lol

greg olsen.

[rayzor]

someone on the old board (the one that crashed a few years ago) posted an article that broke down the passing game in 2005. It was basically centered around Smith as the first option the vast majority of the time. The reason we were so successful was because Delhomme was so good at getting him the ball due to the chemistry they had. It's a strategy that once is figured out renders that gameplan useless. This is why they always say Henning had a "feed the stud" strategy. The problem is it lacks in football savvy instead relying on Smitty's talent, and relying on talent will only get you so far before someone comes up with a scheme that shuts you down, although the only reason Holmgren could afford to quadruple cover him in the NFCC game was because we had absolutely no other weapons at that point.

the biggest poblem was the philosophy that fox had which was "since it worked well enough to get us to the superbowl, there is no reason to doubt it's effectiveness. why change something that has been proven to work?"

[mj4life]

greg olsen.

i think most of us are excited about our improved passing game but let's not forget we still will probably run the ball 30 to 40 times a game, that doesn't leave alot of receptions for everybody

[raleigh-panther]

I just want a QB, any QB, to be able to get the ball to someone other than the ground or the other team.

[Highlandfire]

i'm expecting pretty good things from smith and this offense this year. should be some growing pains along the way, but overall i think we'll be seeing an offense that is fun to watch and for players to be a part of.

interesting the comments made about fox, though. had to be frustrating for players to deal with a coach with that simple a philosophy and style.

I love it! tell it Smitty!

[DickolausJ]

I'm glad Smitty is happy and its nice we will actually have a modern football approach on both sides of the ball but I'm still not picking Smitty in fantasy. I seem to tell myself every year that Smitty will bounce back and be huge but until he gets a proven qb it aint happening.

Still he should have better number then last year. Everyone should, it would be hard to have as bad an offense as we did last year.

[Ivan The Awesome]

Intriguing that his Forte isn't run blocking, but yet, he is one of the best at it.

[rayzor]

i think most of us are excited about our improved passing game but let's not forget we still will probably run the ball 30 to 40 times a game, that doesn't leave alot of receptions for everybody

agreed. i expect 25..no more than 30 passes a game. that doesn't leave alot of targets to go around. still think that olsen should be getting better than 60 catches and smitty better than 80.

[The Huddler]

greg olsen.

Thats true. But imagine a #2 receiver as well to compliment smitty and olsen.....big things. I cant wait to see what olsen can do

[Davidson Deac II]

someone on the old board (the one that crashed a few years ago) posted an article that broke down the passing game in 2005. It was basically centered around Smith as the first option the vast majority of the time. The reason we were so successful was because Delhomme was so good at getting him the ball due to the chemistry they had. It's a strategy that once is figured out renders that gameplan useless. This is why they always say Henning had a "feed the stud" strategy. The problem is it lacks in football savvy instead relying on Smitty's talent, and relying on talent will only get you so far before someone comes up with a scheme that shuts you down, although the only reason Holmgren could afford to quadruple cover him in the NFCC game was because we had absolutely no other weapons at that point.

In Henning's defense, I don't think it was a feed the stud mentality. If you look at our offense the last time we had a solid group of receivers (Proehl, Moose and Smith in 2003), we actually spread the ball around quite a bit. We had 8 guys with double figure catches, and 4 with more than 25. On a run heavy team like we were, thats very good distribution. The problem in my opinion was that the coaching staff under Fox was terrible, both at drafting and developing receivers. Not one receiver ever drafted under the Fox regime ever developed into a reliable starter.

So in 2005, after Moose left and Proehl was getting to old, Henning had little choice but to feed the stud. In fact, it was amazing to me that we made it as far as we did, because we were a running team that couldn't run the ball that well, and our passing game had one legit threat. In reality, we won that year because our defense forced some turnovers at key points in the games.

I am glad that Smith is happy, but I truly hope the new Coaching staff can develope guys like Gettis into top notch receivers.