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http://mmqb.si.com/2013/11/08/steve-smith-carolina-panthers-san-francisco-49ers/

 

 

What a long, strange trip it’s been. “Think about it,” Smith said. “It’s been five years since we were in this position. Cam’s in some college somewhere—Florida, Blinn [junior college], I don’t know. [Newton was a Florida sophomore in 2008.] Star’s probably just getting out of high school then. He’s probably working some after-school job. Luke’s trying to become a great college player. Those guys have become key guys for us, and they’re all so young.”

 

Smith turned into a player-coach a couple times this week. During walk-through sessions before practice he stepped across from his fellow Panthers receivers and said, “This is what I see from the film.” He showed Brandon LaFell and Ted Ginn Jr., among others, what he’d picked up from studying San Francisco’s cornerbacks. Smith said he watched every pass thrown against the Niners this year, and picked up some tips about the San Francisco corners that he passed along to his receiving mates.

 

I asked Smith if the Panthers were ready for a game of this magnitude.

“I think this team is ready to play a game like this,” he said. “The intensity of it will be good for some of our young players. It’ll wake some of them up. I think it’ll be a chippy game, which is in my element. Good old-fashioned football

 

 

 

Love Steve Smith.

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Maybe I'm reading what he's saying incorrectly but I just can't say I like this kind of talk. This isn't the super bowl. this isn't a signature win.  this is next up on our list of victims, this time with people thinking we're frauds.

 

 

I'm sure Smith gets that. Hope the rest of the team does.

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Maybe I'm reading what he's saying incorrectly but I just can't say I like this kind of talk. This isn't the super bowl. this isn't a signature win.  this is next up on our list of victims, this time with people thinking we're frauds.

 

 

I'm sure Smith gets that. Hope the rest of the team does.

 

 

What he is saying is this is a HUGE game and the first time these young players have been in this position and it will be interesting to see how they all handle it. It will be a signature win because it could be a swing game: playoffs or no playoffs. it is not just next up....is it next game up in your mind? or is it huge? in my mind its HUGE 

 

I get what your saying and I see it ...yes we are a great team but we are still pinching ourselves asking if this is for real? if we win.....it is for real. If we lose....we work harder and make it for real again

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What he is saying is this is a HUGE game and the first time these young players have been in this position and it will be interesting to see how they all handle it. It will be a signature win because it could be a swing game: playoffs or no playoffs. it is not just next up....is it next game up in your mind? or is it huge? in my mind its HUGE 

 

I get what your saying and I see it ...yes we are a great team but we are still pinching ourselves asking if this is for real? if we win.....it is for real. If we lose....we work harder and make it for real again

 

It's big. But I'm not in awe of the situation and stuff like this makes it sound like the players are. Winning is what teams are supposed to do. This isn't some rare opportunity we have been afforded, this is something we earned and the team should be pissed off at the very idea that somebody would try and take it from them, Especially after hearing outside sources downplay us and trash us all week.

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It's big. But I'm not in awe of the situation and stuff like this makes it sound like the players are. Winning is what teams are supposed to do. This isn't some rare opportunity we have been afforded, this is something we earned and the team should be pissed off at the idea that somebody wold try and take it from them, Especially after hearing outside sources downplay us and trash us all week.

 

 

Im with you...... I think we are the better team. I am worried about the dink and dunk of brady and brees. Def not as concerned about a team like ours that isnt as good. However they know this game will make us media darlings and put us on the map that we should have already been on

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Maybe I'm reading what he's saying incorrectly but I just can't say I like this kind of talk. This isn't the super bowl. this isn't a signature win.  this is next up on our list of victims, this time with people thinking we're frauds.

 

 

I'm sure Smith gets that. Hope the rest of the team does.

 

You are reading it incorrectly.

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