Armanti Edwards....

[Panthro]

Yep, if only you had athletic ability, you could do a job that requires athletic ability. Your logic is sound.

I jog by the Panthers practice fields hoping they call me in to play....when they don't I just continue on to bojangles

[woody]

I've been following all of the tweets, and I don't recall anyone saying Edwards was the slowest of the receivers. I'm following Reed, too, and don't remember that. Maybe I'm wrong.

Yep, if only you had athletic ability, you could do a job that requires athletic ability. Your logic is sound.

He did say that Armanti appeared to be the slowest so I looked up Guy's 40 time and it wasnt very impressive at all. And yeah his logic is pretty impressive

[Brooklyn Bully]

I don't think he's a bust, but gambling a 2nd rounder in hopes he's Steve Smith was very stupid. Many hot shot college players can't take it to the NFL. If we could've drafted him in a later round then we wouldn't even be talking about him I bet.

[trucpfan]

Yep, if only you had athletic ability, you could do a job that requires athletic ability. Your logic is sound.

[woody]

I love it ....Beaux ur pretty funny dude sounds like a damn child.....if it was so easy why are there only a handfull of players who excel at it that's all I'm wondering..??

What?? You said you could return a punt if you had the athletic ability and all Beaux said was that returning a punt requires athletic ability.

[Baschski]

Speed has little bearing on return ability. Mark Jones was the best returner we've had in years and he wasn't very fast.

[CharlotteBeer.com]

I jog by the Panthers practice fields hoping they call me in to play....when they don't I just continue on to bojangles

Good call. Win-win-win.

What?? You said you could return a punt if you had the athletic ability and all Beaux said was that returning a punt requires athletic ability.

It was actually Cat'sGrowl89 that said that. trucpfan was agreeing with us.

What he intended to say was "Beaux, you're pretty funny. Dude (Cat'sGrowl89)sounds like a damn child."

:cheers2:

[dxpanther]

no one can argue a 4.4 but edwards aint fast like chris johnson but he is more quick like bruce lee.

it's only been 5 days that he's had 250lb titans running full speed at him while trying to catch a punt.

think i'll give it a few more days to let things click for him.

[trucpfan]

My bad I meant the dude who said it Catgrowl sounds crazy to me. Not Beaux he is hilarious with that analogy. Quick clarification don't attack me I don't have enough rep power (yet).....I'm on my evo that's why it seems like I just spew out words but I enjoy all post for the last 3 years so I figured I might as well get dirty. Who's wit me???

[Proudiddy]

AE is no where near as fast as Smith is/was either.

I believe it was Gantt who tweeted the the other day that Edwards was easily the slowest person of all the returners battling for the job.

(Then again, it must've been someone else who said it, no way Gantt would do that to his boy)

Learning to catch, and run with a punt, isn't a hard thing to do.

If I had the athletic ability, I could go out there myself and try for the job.

So the question begs, what's keeping Edwards?

Sounds like we've got a tad too many App State fans on the board..

I didn't see Gantt say anything about Edwards being slow, or anyone else saying that either... Edwards ran a 4.43 at his Pro Day also, and watching him on the field against a D1 team like Michigan, he didn't appear to be lacking any speed then either...

Now applying that athletic ability to 2 new positions is the problem.

As it has been said a million times, give him time. All I've heard is that his negatives thus far have been dropping punts, his positives have been highlight-type catches and good cuts/speed out of breaks.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

I'm sorry but that is ignorance talking. Since when has a third round draft pick never made the active roster the year he was drafted. The only way Edwards does not make the roster is if he breaks both his legs and arms.

[CharlotteBeer.com]

Cat'sGrowl89 is right -- Darin Gantt did say Edwards looked to be the slowest as a returner.

The Panthers worked on kickoff returns, and they've got more fast options than in years. Brian Witherspoon, Dexter Jackson, Trent Guy and Armanti Edwards took the reps Sunday, and all have impressive burst. Put it this way, Edwards (who is no turtle) appears to be the slowest of the four.

Of course, the point he's making is that Edwards is fast, and for him to be the slowest means we've got plenty of speedy guys. Besides, like Baschski said, speed isn't everything in the return game.

[trucpfan]

Beaux u can read my craziness I see thanks.

[woody]

For all these people saying its unheard of to have a 2nd or 3rd rounder on the practice squad dont realize that weve have Dexter Jackson on our PS. He was drafted by the Bucs in the 2nd round and he really has no chance of making the active roster for us this year.