Hurney on 610 discussing competition at various position

[jarhead]

The link to the recorded interview is below. Sounds like his biggest area of concern is the pass rush.

http://charlotte.cbs...talks-panthers/

[panther4life]

Great inteverview, shocked nobody has commented on it. Heres a recap

Host: Hows are pass defense looking and any chance we may sign a vet with all the injuries

Hurney:Josh Norman was looking good before injury, Brandon Hogan looked as good as he's looked, had to go out because of complications with knees. Gamble looks very good, Captain doing well, need 1 of these young guys steps up( Mentions that twice).Will wait and not move on a veteran corner right now.

Host:Listening alot last week, heard a lot, knows that Ron had an enthuisastic talk with Norman and Hogan

Hurney: He was just firing them up and seeing what they can do. Nobody wants to be out there than those 2 guys. Both are getting close to being healthy. Feel like we have some competetion there, feel like both can help us out. So thats an issue and then we just have to find a consistent pass rush, there have been flashes but need to be more consistent.

Host:Is Nate Ness just a camp body?

Hurney:well hes got three picks so far, certainly made a nice impression so far.

Host:Since Otahs no longer a panther feel free to let loose and let us know what happened with him. Was it injuries or lack of desire to come back from them

Hurney:Have to be careful commenting on players injuries. He couldnt give us a timetable and nobody knows how long he'g gonna take. Hes as good as there is when healthy, we have some good competetion there now. Bruce Campbell is doing good and we have Gary Williams as well. Jeff wants to play and wants to be dominant but doesen't know when he come back.

Host: Thomas Davis says his knee is fine, you see all the MRI'S whats really going on.

Hurney:Thomas wants to get out there yesterday, hopefully he'll ease in this this week. Don't think its related to the knee just his calf.

Host: What position do you look at on this team and worry about the most?

Hurney:I think we have to generate a consistent pass rush, somebody has to step up at T.E. behind Olsen. Some young guys look good at Interior lineman Amini and Hangman are doing great. Have to see who steps up behind the starters.

Third receiver competetion, we have some guys there that help the competetion with the additon of Louis Murphy.

I think that again, the competetion at the 2nd corner spot and the backups at safety. Not much concern because we feel like we have good competetion there and someone is going to step up.

Host:Trying to figure out whos gonna make the team, seems to be standard to keep 6 receviers, whats going on there,We assume Smtih, Lafell,Murphy and Gettis are say AND pilares and Adams have to be on there for returning right?

Hurney:Those numbers will be flexible again,first of all injuries always have a domino effect at each position. At wide Reciever their might be 6 or 7 probably. Depends how it flexes out, what helps us there numbers wise is at tight end/ fullback at a guy like Brockel gives you flexiblity, then you've got Tolbert that gives you some flexiblity roster wise. So we don't even know how its going to pan out yet. I do think for those last spots, 5th,6th and maybe 7 spots there is very good competetion. I think Tutu does a lot for you and can play all 3 positions, Armanti has had a very good camp, we will have to see what he does in preseson/. We have some young guys jared green, rico wallace and lamont bryant had hamstring issues so we want to see those guys back and how they develop.

[Kurb]

Needs pass rush...

Drafts 1 pass rusher...

[panther4life]

Needs pass rush...

Drafts 1 pass rusher...

Mentioned we need a more consistent pass rush. We have it, just looking for more consistency from Johnson and Hardy who were both called out by Rivera recently. We drafted a pass rusher with our 3rd pick and he hasn't even cracked the starting lineup yet, so drafting more after him and neglecting Corner and punt returner would have been dumb.

[Rubi]

Needs pass rush...

Drafts 1 pass rusher...

Hurney magic. Johnson will be double teamed all season too...

[Ivan The Awesome]

For DE's

Charles Johnson

Greg Hardy

Antwan Applewhite

Thomas Keiser

Frank Alexander

This has Pass Rush by Committee written all over it.

Pass Rush can be generated by other positions. CB, LB, S, right?

[panther4life]

For those thinking we screwed up not drafting pass rushers on the d-line, you do realize for one to have a chance at cracking the starting lineup we would have had to pass on Kuechly or Amini. Can anyone justify that?

[Ivan The Awesome]

For those thinking we screwed up not drafting pass rushers on the d-line, you do realize for one to have a chance at cracking the starting lineup we would have had to pass on Kuechly or Amini. Can anyone justify that?

Kuechly, no. Amini, maybe.

[panther4life]

Kuechly, no. Amini, maybe.

No way I give up our starting LG for the future to have sombody who has a 50% chance at unseating Hardy.

[bleys]

DTs will have to step up to help avoid our DEs being double teamed. Good to hear Hogan should be healthy soon and had a good camp prior to the swelling in his knee.

[CheeseCP]

Did Hurney really say the competition was for the BACKUP safety position?!

[Floppin]

Did Hurney really say the competition was for the BACKUP safety position?!

Yep, Godfrey and Nakamura are currently the slated starters.

[panther4life]

Did Hurney really say the competition was for the BACKUP safety position?!

Yes he did, don't know if that means Sherrod has retained his starting spot or if Nakumara has already won the starting job.

Keep in mind we may employ the "buffalo nickel" a good bit this year and the first backup could come in when we run with 3 safeties. Good news is it means(outside of injuries) we'll likely never have to see Pugh floundering around out there ever again.

[Floppin]

Nakamura has been running as a starter in camp for almost a week now. He's the starter at FS, unless he complete botches it over the next couple of weeks.