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We Are Missing Something On Defense

t96

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If we want to ever come close to being a team like we were last year we need this back. Nobody on our defense has this mentality anymore. They're all just collecting paychecks. Between Mike and Greg last year it rubbed off on others and those guys stepped up and played like this. Who can we bring in with this mentality? I don't even care if they can ball or not we just need this mentality back. Any FA's next year or players in the draft?

Wow! Good stuff! That is the first time I heard the whole interview. I remember Greg hardy talking about a players only meeting to get the ship turned around last season. While we are still in first, we need to have a similar type meeting. We need accountability and guys to start stepping up.

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The secondary is playing at a level so low that I sometimes have to look away from the tv. I don't want to see players in Panther jerseys playing that poorly. We signed players who had already been proven to be terrible football players. Average football fans knew these players were awful. You usually can't get away with that without racking up losses and looking like a joke in the process.

 

There are two types who are close to being out of the league all together:

 

Type 1 - the player who knows he's barely good enough to be in the league, but decides to make up for that fact by sheer physical and mental effort. He outworks other more talented players, stays extra after practice, plays mistake free football, and kills himself out there to make plays.

 

Type 2 - The player who knows he's barely good enough to be in the league, and decides to take it easy and ride out his final season in the league. He makes the same bloopers and blunders as other more talented players, and he gives the same effort as a pampered superstar who can make up for it with sheer talent.

 

The Panthers, RR and Gettle the Gut, failed this off season by signing type-2 players to our secondary. RR is furious that he was duped into signing losers in their final season, but now we're stuck with them. At the end of the season these players will be cut, and they will begin their new careers.

 

What's missing? Type-1 players. It's too late now for this season, but we have to find them for next season.

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Why do people keep thinking that Hardy was a leader? He was an enforcer if anything.

Mitchell though... my heart shattered when Pittsburgh signed him. :(

It's not always about being a leader though.  Every team, and unit, needs a couple of guys with an edge.  The "bad" attitude/bad intentions guys, if you will.  We don't have that anywhere on the field.  TD is a passionate leader, but he's not that guy either.  Luke is a crazy good player, but he doesn't have it.  Hardy has it.  Smitty and Mitchell had it(and I'm not even one of the soapbox preachers about these 2).  When you have guys like that, who are flying all over the field, getting in people's faces, knocking the poo out of someone(mostly legally), etc., most of the time the other players will feed off of it and give the same effort.

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Why do people keep thinking that Hardy was a leader? He was an enforcer if anything.

Mitchell though... my heart shattered when Pittsburgh signed him. :(

Because it was Hardy who spoke up when Matty lite told us to get off his field 2 years ago. It was Hardy who said all week before the next ATL vs. CAR game that we were going to beat the poo out of them (which we did) and the team made it happened. He the one who speaks up not CJ when the Dline needs a boost. So that's why people consider him the leader.

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Because it was Hardy who spoke up when Matty lite told us to get off his field 2 years ago. It was Hardy who said all week before the next ATL vs. CAR game that we were going to beat the poo out of them (which we did) and the team made it happened. He the one who speaks up not CJ when the Dline needs a boost. So that's why people consider him the leader.

 

I've view a leader as more than somebody who speaks up. A leader, to me at least, has strong communication skills, inspires those around them, is confident, maintains a strong work ethic, has integrity, is ethical, and makes themselves accountable for not just themselves but for those that follow them.

Luke, TD, Mitchell, Cam, and Gross are all leaders in my mind.

Hardy I agree 100% on being that guy who brings the "edge" to the team just like Smitty and Mitchell did. Hell, even Munnerlyn did to an extent.

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I was thinking about that tonight.  Hell, we extended Nate Chandler and Mario Addison.  The way he felt about this team, he would have jumped on a cheap extension.  Then Pittsburgh wouldn't have got the chance to over pay him.

 

Maybe we tried and he wanted to test FA? 

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