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Rivera Optimistic Re Beason & Davis


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prob didn't deserve its own thread .. but I thought some may want to see this without it being buried in another thread

@CBSSportsNFLCAR: #panthers Rivera optimistic LBs Beason, Davis will return from injury http://t.co/k1myH9ed

May 11, 2012 10:02 p.m. - by Jeff Hawkins

 

Coach Ron Rivera remains optimistic ILB Jon Beason (Achilles) and OLB Thomas Davis (left ACL) will contribute this season. Beason is penciled in as a starter, flanked by veteran James Anderson and rookie Luke Kuechly. “Based on what I've seen, it's just a matter of time before they're 100 percent,” Rivera said after Friday's rookie minicamp.

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prob didn't deserve its own thread .. but I thought some may want to see this without it being buried in another thread

@CBSSportsNFLCAR: #panthers Rivera optimistic LBs Beason, Davis will return from injury http://t.co/k1myH9ed

May 11, 2012 10:02 p.m. - by Jeff Hawkins

Coach Ron Rivera remains optimistic ILB Jon Beason (Achilles) and OLB Thomas Davis (left ACL) will contribute this season. Beason is penciled in as a starter, flanked by veteran James Anderson and rookie Luke Kuechly. “Based on what I've seen, it's just a matter of time before they're 100 percent,” Rivera said after Friday's rookie minicamp.

I think they misinterpreted what Rivera said.

"We'll start out with (Kuechly) on the outside, and Jon will be on the inside," Rivera said of the Panthers' first-round draft pick. "I've talked with Jon about playing inside and outside. It will be an interesting experiment as we go through this. Quite frankly, we want to make sure we put the best combination of players on the football field."

He said start out on the outside, not that Keechly will be the starter.

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There seems to be this thought process that he's possibly not going to be the starter, among some posters here......

Much like Cam wasn't the "starter" at the beginning of camp last year, it's all irrelevant, he's going to start.

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Whoa, you are predicting a top 10 draft pick to be a starter.... don't put yourself out on a limb like that!

lol Precisely. Honestly, anyone who doesn't think Kuechly will start... is frankly a little delusional.

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He's going to be the starter.

Exactly. I love beast mode but homers need wake up and see what our new guy can do. This may be one of the best technical tacklers to ever come out and he is hands down one of the top 3 cover LB's coming out. The guy is VERY smart, reads plays quickly and brings the hammer.

I hate to break it to some, but Rivera didn't draft him 9th to back up someone.

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Exactly. I love beast mode but homers need wake up and see what our new guy can do.

Kuechly is replacing Davis, not Beason.

If Luke plays MIKE, Beason plays WILL. If Luke plays WILL, Beason plays MIKE. Davis is playing the bench.

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