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Nice content. Thanks for posting this.

Good point. I see us likely getting 5-6 starters / key contributors. Horn, Terrace OR Shi, 1-2 OL, Tremble, Nixon, & maybe the LS Fletcher

According to the roster in the team website, which seems current, reflecting today's transactions, we're at 88 on the roster.

Would live to hear your observations after you watch some film.

Nice research, thanks.

I'll be very surprised if we don't bring in a kicker for camp competition with Slye. He should have competition. Rhule was pretty adamant he wanted competition at every position, even the specialists. It would be absurd to have drafted competition for JJ and not have competition at kicker. That said, there are more important positions to evaluate between now and camp. So for now I'm ok with just Slye, but expect that as there is future roster churn we'll bring back Ammendola or another K.

Don't know much about him, but i like the Delano Hill signing. We needed more depth at safety, and that's a position where some experience is worth a lot. And a guy coming from Seattle which has had some pretty legendary DBs... suggests he's learned some good habits.

Hey back at you. Thanks for all your work posting these mini-camp threads.

Exactly. Basically we picked a 1st round QB from 2018 and a 1st round corner in 2021. IF (*HUGE IF*) Darnold is as good as Fields, we got good value, adding two 1st round talents to the team for a 2021 1st and 2022 second. I'm a bit skeptical and trying not to get my hopes up too high, but on one level I love that Rhule is betting big on himself and his staff to be able to coach up Sam and help him improve. It was a gutsy move. Gonna be an interesting year!

Thanks! I hope to do that. I may actually be on leave in the US most of the season, so i hope to get to some games and be much more involved!

Great comments, and thanks for this link. I was busy when he signed with the team, never listened to this.

Hey y'all. Been forever since I posted here. Last football season too much of my spare time was focused on Covid or politics. Football got squeezed out. Don't really have anything insightful to contribute about rookie mini-camp, but so glad it's happening!! Make sure to catch Matt Rhule's presser today (and yesterday was good too). He had some fascinating comments about sports science and player evaluation. Basically last year's lack of mini-camp etc. meant that they were still learning about players' abilities when the games counted. I believe it was a huge obstacle for a totally new staff. The evaluation process Rhule described today sounds really different from what we typically heard from Ron. This was the best Rhule presser I've heard...he was just so focused and so beyond just normal coach-speak platitudes. Gave me a much better feel for him, and I liked what I heard.

A few more links: Rivera post-practice comments - video: http://www.panthers.com/media-vault/videos/Rivera-Young-guys-developing/b670ca66-5ae8-4515-b33b-88b1f7a367a5 Practice Photos at Panthers.com by Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez http://www.panthers.com/media-vault/photo-gallery/Photos-OTAs-Week-2/5ffb1196-6c64-45dc-9531-7b7f53595fc1

Jonathan Jones has an interesting tidbit posted at the Observer this morning: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/nfl-blog/article80954337.html here's an excerpt: Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera had almost reached his boiling point on a hot Tuesday morning less than an hour into his team’s organized team activities session. Furious with how many times his defensive linemen were being fooled by Cam Newton’s hard counts, Rivera almost re-started the entire practice from the beginning. Defenders jumped no fewer than three times, including one from Super Bowl stud defensive end Kony Ealy that had defensive line coach Eric Washington shouting at his players. “I was real close to starting practice over again,” Rivera said. “I know we have a time limit but when the coaches stepped up and just started going right at the guys I backed off and let the coaches handle it.” Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/nfl-blog/article80954337.html#storylink=cpy

Yeah, that was my least favorite Panthers' tidbit to read today. In reality I'd assume Remmers would first get a crack at LT, with D. Williams taking over for Remmers at RT.

Bill Voth has his notes & observations posted. http://blackandbluereview.com/panthers-2nd-offseason-practice-session/

@Nick81, Oher makes Shaq look small in that pic!

He was there. Reports were that he had a pick-six of a pass from Cam to Bersin..., so seems like he's fine. So fortunate. Hope he realizes how blessed he is to be on the field today and not in a hospital bed...

I like that look for Stephen Hill. The mouth guard makes him look like a fierce and formidable competitor. Granted it's just a couple of photos, but he looks focused. Also, sounds like he wants to catch some of that J-No mojo. (Last year it was always J-No who was last off the field, IIRC, and look at the season he had!)

Was just watching the latest Panthers' video mailbag. http://www.panthers.com/media-vault/videos/Mailbag-Deep-at-wide-receiver/56ffe1d3-88c7-4e82-b407-da3843f789b1 In response to a question, Max Henson claimed Bersin still is eligible for the PS?? I wonder if that's maybe under the exemption where you can have one (or 2?) players over the normal limit? I was surprised by this news. If Bersin is indeed PS eligible, it definitely becomes hard to see him get a spot on the 53. But I could see him possibly making the PS as backup since he knows the offense so well.

A few of us asked a question I don't think I've seen answered yet in this thread. Most of us (myself included) have eliminated Teddy Williams from the roster projection. But, if we do that, who among the projected players would fill the role of Gunner in special teams? In 2014 we were hurt badly by a lack of speed on special teams. That became a BIG focus of the 2015 offseason. Can we afford to get rid of Teddy Williams and still have enough speed on ST?

By the way, I tallied up the WR vote tallies in Igo's "pick your WR" thread... Ginn, Brown, Garrett were the picks. [KB & Funchess were assumed to be automatic locks] Vote totals: 1. TED GINN JR: 61 votes 2. PHILLY BROWN: 49 votes 3. KEYARRIS GARRETT: 41 votes 4. Byrd: 22 votes 5. Hill: 12 votes 6 (tie) Bersin & Norwood with 7 votes each 8. Cobi Hamilton: 1 vote

Wow, we've got another Priority Free Agent who we reportedly gave a 20K bonus to. Devon "Rockhead" Johnson http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/nfl-blog/article78658547.html

Nice post. I think Miley could make the roster (over Horton). We certainly thought highly enough of him last season to keep him from being poached. Also, to add to you 2016 list, I think Keyarris Garrett got $9,000. Think I read that at the Observer. Obviously not in the same ballpark as Cash (I was surprised at the difference, to be honest). DG is doing a very nice job with his PFA signings! One of the reasons he is able to make some trades to move up to get players he likes... he's got confidence (and a track record) that he'll find some solid talent among the UDFAs.

Too funny. Too Typical. @jdpanther5 says clearly in 3 sentences what it takes me half a page to say! I have had too many years of needing to bloviate in writing reports & funding proposals for bureaucratic organizations. I have officially become a windbag!