Brown's the man for Carolina's plan

[jbland]

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/panthers/story/715799.html

If he keeps saying and doing the right things, I think I am really going to like this guy. Good article. GO PANTHERS!!

The soccer games were finished that Saturday for Everette Brown and his younger brother Tobias. Now it was time for their weekly treat: lunch at McDonald's on the way home.

But as their father, Odell, started the car for the short drive from Wilson to Stantonsburg in Eastern North Carolina, he turned to the boys. He was angry about what he thought was a poor effort given by Everette and Tobias – both still in elementary school – in their games that morning.

“If you can't go out there and push yourselves on the soccer field, you don't deserve McDonald's today,” he said. “If you're going to lay back like that, you can spend your Saturdays at home cutting the grass and working in the yard.”

Instead, Odell took the boys to a field next to their grandmother's house.

“Y'all ain't tired,” he said. “So get out there and run!”

Since that punishing afternoon, going all-out was never again an issue with Everette Brown. In fact, his full-force effort on every play as a defensive end at Florida State was a trait much-admired by the Carolina Panthers, who made him their top choice in April's NFL draft (in the second round, the 43rd player chosen overall).

And if hearing his named called by his home-state team two weeks ago culminated one big day in Brown's life, it had no more influence on him than that Saturday years ago.

“Oh, man, I remember it like it was yesterday,” Brown said. “My brother and I were walking around the soccer field like we didn't want to be there. It showed. My dad didn't let it go unknown that he wasn't happy.

“That's carried over for me. Every time I step on the field, I give it everything.

“No matter what.”

Cont.

[jasonluckydog]

Good read Ilike the pick more and more

[Fireball77]

I loved EB just about the second I heard him open his mouth. I was psyched when they drafted him.

[Liminy]

Great read, can't wait to see this guy in action

[PantherExpress]

Great read, thanks for the post. The more I hear, the more I get excited about him.

[Jangler]

Now to prove he's better than who he's replacing. :reddevil:

[megadeth078]

Now to prove he's better than who he's replacing. :reddevil:

all he has to do is hit the field...

[d-run]

I was really exicited when we picked him, I just hope he brings that same never stop attitude to practice as well as games so he can become an effective run stopper along with his pass rushing abilities. I don't know if he will be a 4 down lineman until that happens

[PowerlessDan]

Wow if all that's true we are in for a treat. I absolutely can't wait to see this guy get on the field.

[rayzor]

“In the long run it helped me,” said Brown. “What I'm known for now is my pursuit: coming up from behind, stripping the ball and making the tackle. When the ball goes away from me, I don't feel like I'm out of the play.”

Or out of a game.

When Beddingfield was in the process of losing a big lead against West Craven during Brown's senior season, a Bruins assistant coach worried they would lose.

Brown got in his face.

“Come on coach!” Johnson remembered Brown shouting. “Get your lip up! We're not losing this game!”

“He wasn't disrespectful about it,” Johnson said. “And we won.”

this i exactly who we are needing...going to be the beason of the front line.

i was just thinking...he is going to be our ace in the hole against romo. romo gets flustered easily. someone gets to him and he becomes an easy target and accident prone for a while. if peppers is still here i could see him always in a state of panic seeing brown coing at him so quickly and knowing that peppers is behind him somewhere. brown isn't going to let up and is going to be in his face all day.

i have a feeling that is going to be happening on a lot of sundays.

[scpanther22]

this i exactly who we are needing...going to be the beason of the front line.

i was just thinking...he is going to be our ace in the hole against romo. romo gets flustered easily. someone gets to him and he becomes an easy target and accident prone for a while. if peppers is still here i could see him always in a state of panic seeing brown coing at him so quickly and knowing that peppers is behind him somewhere. brown isn't going to let up and is going to be in his face all day.

i have a feeling that is going to be happening on a lot of sundays.

who does that sound like..lol

[jbland]

this i exactly who we are needing...going to be the beason of the front line.

i was just thinking...he is going to be our ace in the hole against romo. romo gets flustered easily. someone gets to him and he becomes an easy target and accident prone for a while. if peppers is still here i could see him always in a state of panic seeing brown coing at him so quickly and knowing that peppers is behind him somewhere. brown isn't going to let up and is going to be in his face all day.

i have a feeling that is going to be happening on a lot of sundays.

I just thought of something that may have been mentioned already but I havent seen it. If he has such a high motor, and he is always going for the QB, I wonder if he will push peppers to be even better and not take plays off. If this plays out like that our FO deserves a big hand for being ingenious. Imagine peppers with motivation...

[uptowndlo34]

Julius Peppers with motivation would be the greatest thing to come to Charlotte in a while.....If Pep stays and plays to his potential, at least like last year, and Ev. Brown and Charles Johnson continue to get to the QB, throw in Brayton on run stopping, and Taylor as a situational rusher...then we could have the best DE's in recent memory, esp if Brown is what we all expect him to be.......I also have a feeling that Charles Johnson will step up huge this year, which should motivate #90 even more.....

[rayzor]

I just thought of something that may have been mentioned already but I havent seen it. If he has such a high motor, and he is always going for the QB, I wonder if he will push peppers to be even better and not take plays off. If this plays out like that our FO deserves a big hand for being ingenious. Imagine peppers with motivation...

it depends on how incentive driven the contract is for pep. if it a simple "play another year for us and if you aren't happy you can go" there may be the temptation to be lazy. if it is go to the probowl and lead the team in sacks...i would think that would push him a bit. probably just the fact that some rookie could be showing him up might push him. who knows. it would make sense that brown giving that big effort and seeing a lot of results would make pep's job easier but also force him to produce at a higher level.