Mario Addison on pace for 21 sacks

[RelaxImaPro]

And you hardly hear a peep about this guy.  Just felt like starting an appreciation thread for one of the most underrated players in the league that has been nothing but consistent and professional during his time here.  It’s hard as hell to crack 20 sacks, and he might not, but he’s having a hell of a year.  Very real chance for him to set our all time season sack record this year.

[1of10Charnatives]

Greatly appreciate the sentiment of the thread. Addison is a guy who flies under the radar a lot because he’s not flashy. Notional media never mentions him, local media seems to only in passing. Jacks oline yesterday was successful largely in containing what had been our white hot pass rush, yet super Mario found a way to generate that strip sack that Burns ran in for the TD. Those points were the difference on the scoreboard.

[Anybodyhome]

At 32, Addison may have been the quickest DE on the roster until Burns and Obada arrived. 

As an undrafted FA, Addison bounced around to 3 different teams before joining the Panthers in 2012. He's now 4th on the Carolina all-time sack list with 45.5, passing Kevin Greene this season. He'll probably reach Rucker's 55.5 this season as well and become #3 on the Panther all-time list. 

OP is correct, one of the most underappreciated players on this roster.

[Mr. Scot]

He gave Jourdan Rodrigue a great line while describing a play where he was chasing Minshew.

“I know when I was running after him one time, I saw his mustache fall off and run the other way,” joked Addison. “So I went for the mustache while he kept running away. I had to re-direct.”

[ecu88]

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

He gave Jourdan Rodrigue a great line while describing a play where he was chasing Minshew.

“I know when I was running after him one time, I saw his mustache fall off and run the other way,” joked Addison. “So I went for the mustache while he kept running away. I had to re-direct.”

[Mr. Scot]

The mental image of a mustache running on it's own... 

[TheRumGone]

Mario is an awesome dude on and off the field. 

[ncfan]

I was skeptical about how he'd do in this new Defense.  Dude has been killing it though.

 

 

 

 

The rate he's going, we're going to get a nice comp pick for him.  

[trueblade]

Addison caused the fumble that Burns returned for a touchdown by forklifiting our old buddy Norwell into Minshew's lap.

[Mr. Scot]

Funny thing about that...

In The Athletic article, Addison describes Norwell as doing a lot of "passive" blocking. It's not "passive" by the strictest definition but it still seems to be something he wasn't expecting from Norwell.

[TheRumGone]

Couldn’t be a better person to break that record. I think he’s under contract for next year and he’s getting up there in age. Although he seems to be getting better with age so a nice two year extension would be great if it doesn’t seem like he’s slowing down. 

[bigpoppa]

17 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

The mental image of a mustache running on it's own... 

Mario be like

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, bigpoppa said:

Mario be like

Ya know I can't unsee that 

[MasterAwesome]

It’s pretty crazy that Brandon Beane of all people, during his brief stint as interim GM, was the one who provided us with that gem.