Listened to an extended Roman Harper interview on Panthers Talk last night

[Lumps]

For an old broke down fug, Harper sure can still lay the wood. I think he is a good addition, not great but far from broke down. I like his instincts and hope playing the saints will rile him up. I'm glad he is here, and will root him on as a panther fan.

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[SOJA]

meanwhile mike mitchell is looking terrible in pittsburgh

 

 

really ? I haven't watched any of them at all. Man I liked him a lot, hope he picks it back up 

[tondi]

Guy has to have the most grey hair of anybody in the NFL.  Got to give him some props for that.

[MV%doe]

I've told tbe story of harper being a weight room junkie since the day he arrived. He stepped off the plane, two hours later thrown weights and been a mainstay since. That's what won me over.

[PantherWake]

out of position. also got completely flattened by the browns RB on a play

I knew he was just a product of our system/front 7. The jokes on the Steelers now haha

[ed bell]

We'll see Mitchell just over two weeks from now, right?

[Who Said What?]

meanwhile mike mitchell is looking terrible in Pittsburgh

 

I knew he would.  Our scheme is tailor made to help out defensive backs.  Our front seven is nice and a lot of it is just holding down your zone.  Also, all of the players we didn't bring back looked terrible last week except SS.

[TheMaulClaw]

I can honestly say it was the second time in my life I've listened to a Panthers radio show. I happened to get back to my car by 8:30pm (it's a long fuging walk from UNCC's campus) and caught the last half of Panther Talk, which evidently is a thing they do for an hour every Monday night.

 

Roman Harper was on there with Mixon and Robinson, and Jordan Gross as a guest. When I tuned in Harper was talking about the play in 2011 where he late-hit Steve Smith in the endzone. He went through it bit by bit, explaining his mindset behind it, very self-depricatingly, with a charm that I'd not have believed possible up until now. It helped that Jordan Gross was laughing the entire time at the memory, pitching in his side of the account.

 

Harper went on to talk about locker room cohesiveness, mentioning that Olsen was the first guy to come up to him, recognized that he'd spent his entire career with one team and was suddenly the new guy in the room. Said Olsen welcomed him, told him it was a great, tight-knit place, no bad apples on the team. Harper felt instantly welcome, talked about the different groups… DeAngelo the jokester, who "owned the place" along with Stew, Tolbert, and Charles Johnson. He seemed in love with the team.

 

He ended talking about the upcoming games, about being able to be a veteran leader on the field, and how he couldn't wait to go back down to New Orleans to play his original team. He mentioned that the overwhelming message he was hearing from his former teammates was "Do what you gotta do, but please just don't hurt Drew Brees!"

 

So yeah, guy is a great interview and strikes me as a class act, in complete defiance of the perception we've had of him ever since that late hit a couple years ago. I just became a huge fan and I hope we call some safety blitzes against New Orleans.

 

Roman Harper is incredibly engaging.  I was able to have a brief conversation with him right after he signed here on facebook.  Was surprised that he responded to a message congratulating him so quickly.  Nice guy.

 

[PhillyB]

I knew he was just a product of our system/front 7. The jokes on the Steelers now haha

 

i loved mitchell as much as anyone, but the truth is he was a few fingertips away from being a pariah on this board on multiple occasions. i guess you can define success or failure in fingertip lengths in the NFL because of the nature of close plays in close games, but the dude was definitely shaky in coverage and almost blew some games for us (imagine if mike wallace had caught that touchdown last year in miami.)

 

we have great memories of him, but he was average, and pittsburgh decided to pay him above-average money, and suddenly it's showing.

[Snake]

Carolina is a meal ticket for defensive backs.

[FootballMaestro]

I knew he would.  Our scheme is tailor made to help out defensive backs.  Our front seven is nice and a lot of it is just holding down your zone.  Also, all of the players we didn't bring back looked terrible last week except SS.

 

And let's be honest: Smith got 80 of his yards on one play, and supposedly had some drops.

 

It'll be very interesting to see what SS does next week and moving forward?

 

[TNPanther]

I don't know why you guys are taking pride in seeing our former players fail on other teams.

Once a panther always a panther. I wish those guys nothing but success and hope they ball out.

Well except Julius Peppers maybe

[rmoneyg35]

I wonder if Harper didn't play as many snaps because of his health/hot weather or if every game he will split the playing time.

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[2jakefansinva]

I wonder if Harper didn't play as many snaps because of his health/hot weather or if every game he will split the playing time.

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RR said the SS/FS was a three man rotation to stay fresh and scheme.....