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Stanford and Wilson

Peppers90 NC

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I'm going to take last weeks game with a grain of salt, but I just want to say I was impressed with our starting corners, for what it was. Maybe the wet field conditions helped, but they both played hard and shut down two very good wr's. Both played physical, and had just enough jam on Nicks on that one play where it appears Eli overthrew him, but could it have been from lack of release?

I know in Philly, the aggressive scheme sometime exposed weak corner play, but last week it may have helped it. I watched the game on the NYC local channel so there wasn't much coverage on our team, but from my eyes, they played pretty decent for 3 and 4 corners. I'm wondering if Burney will even make the team because McClain seemed to do pretty well too. Did I miss anything to make me think otherwise?

Please, anyone help me curb my enthusiasm in thinking we might possibly not be as bad off at corner as we are all assuming.

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Looked to me like CB was not a hole at all considering Stanford and McClain are our #3 and #4 CBs. Excited to see Gamble and Munny start.

I think the Giants also just flat out sucked that night.....saw some guys get beat we just didn't pay for it.

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thats because carolina no longer practices the Bend but dont break philosiphy. In the past, our cb's would allow wr to catch the small stuff but make sure they make the tackle so they dont get a big gain. Now, our cb's have free reign to contend every pass and play the position the way it should be played.

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