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KB is more important than any single one of our linemen, except maybe Kalil and even that's really really close.

BBR has it up. I don't think you'll have those same thoughts after you see it.

So the real question is, should we be more excited about the defense, or more concerned about the offense?

We can tell you don't know who you're talking to... Jeremy IGO is a self-proclaimed genius when it comes to Panther football.

Is Glanton PS eligible?

Huxtable?

Any idea if the Heath kid is related to the famous Heath brothers?

You're welcome.

He'll finish out his Ravens contract with another 2 1000 yard receiving years then come back to the Panthers after we've won 2 straight and add on a couple of 600-700 yarders and a pair of rings to end with the 2nd most career receiving yards and 2 rings. First ballot.

Rice's opinion has no significance. Smitty will be a first ballot Hall of Famer.

I think he's just saying that Mario and CJ will be the starters. By all indications Frank is coming along very well and could challenge for the starting spot, but it seems Mario has improved enough to have a leg up on him for now.

Should we be very concerned about the offense or very excited about the defense?

KB, Ginn, Brown and Funchess are locks. I'll venture to say Cotch is a lock because of our team wanting a vet. That leaves 1 or 2 spots open for Boykin, Bersin, Byrd to compete for. I'd say Bersin has a leg up on the other two and Byrd over Boykin based on potential, but there's still the rest of camp and preseason to decide. I'd love a WR group of KB, Funch, Brown, Ginn, Bersin, Cotch and Byrd. Not sure I want to keep 7 that seems pretty high but that group would be really solid. Or Byrd to the PS would be great but we'd have to hope no other team would s)natch him up.

That looks like a 5 foot fuging vertical. I know his must be huge but the picture has got to be helping it too.

Yeah. What's sad is as he was leaving a small crowd of people went over trying to get his autograph.

In some drills they don't snap the ball.

I watched Shaq like a hawk for a while in that practice and to me he looked extremely good in the individual drills. His movements were on par with TD and Luke's. Rivera was running one of the drills and I saw him pat Shaq on the helmet a few times, and no one else. Not sure if that means much. On the other hand though Rivera did stop the drill once to yell at Shaq. Couldn't tell what he did wrong there. Didn't notice him as much in team drills. His athleticism definitely is as elite as was advertised.

Norwell didn't have a "realistic" shot to become a starter last year and neither did Remmers. Neither of these new guys are any different from those two when they were added. I doubt either ends up being a starter like Norwell and Remmers are but to say they're just "camp bodies" is ridiculous. They'll compete.

So? Norwell came in to camp as a body trying to make the roster. He showed he could play, made the team and proceeded to become our starter of the future. These guys are coming in as bodies and will be given an opportunity to show they can play. "Camp body" implies that they have no chance at making the roster. There's really no such thing as a "camp body" but people use the word. Everybody is competing and everybody has a shot.

People said the same thing about Remmers.

Norwell was a camp body at this time last year...

Collins would be a solid swing tackle and backup for us. You really don't see him being a gain over Wallace and Foucalt at backup LT? There would be no harm at all, he wouldn't get much more than the min. He was arguably the best swing tackle in the league with the Bengals. Yeah he was truly truly terrible with the Bucs. But the rest of his work as a backup outweighs his one poor year as a starter. He's more fit to be a backup.

Just trying to tone down getting into heated arguments when others have a different opinion than me. It's happened a lot before and turned into personal arguments and it never goes anywhere with legitimate football discussion. I understand what you're saying and of course I have some amount of homerism, but I still stand by what I said. Cam played great considering what he had to work with against an all-time good defense, especially when compared with how Rodgers played and how Peyton played last year. The Brady comparison may be a stretch because he had a good game and I made it clear that I didn't think Cam played way better than him, but I do believe an argument could be made that Cam played better in the divisional game than Brady did in the Super Bowl when you consider every single factor. It's just 2 games though, I'm not saying Cam's better than Brady or anything like that. Every QB has great games and bad games. I just like how our future looks with how well Cam played against such a great D. That game was lost by our defense, not our offense when everybody thought it would be our lack of scoring that would lose us the Seattle game.

We have different opinions. No need to take this further like you're trying to do.

Thank you for providing your point of view, I truly appreciate it.