Grantland: Why Steve Smith is the soul of the Panthers

[wine-o and cheese-doodle]

There may never be another one like Smitty. Retire his jersey by all means, but not before he's ready to go in 3 or 4 years.

[General_Purr]

Smith really is the soul of the panthers. When he gets fired up the team gets fird up. Starting off getting the ball to him was amazing.. the stadium lit up and the team got super fired up. We need him as long as possible as he can run with 2 legs. Smitty is the man and wont be allowed to lose

[PantherPhann89]

89 is in the building...

[Monday Night Shyamalan]

Bottom Line! Best Panther ever ... and it's not even close.

[mav1234]

Am I the only one that kind of feels like Mitchell may have a bit of Smitty in him? Haha.

[mav1234]

man I fuging love Grantland lately, and I fuging love Smith.

 

It's amazing to see so many glowing posts about a Panther player from other teams fans in the comments section.  Bears fans, Rams fans both giving him tons of props...

 

 

[PhillyB]

i absolutely cannot wait to see steve smith in another playoff game.

[R0CKnR0LLA]

pretty good return for a 3rd round pick whose only suppose to be a STer

[BigHips]

lol - when I was watching the game I said to the old lady right after the foot twisting - Smitty has his man beat- hes already in Talibs head- I hope the younger and less agressive players on our team are taking notes - but honestly -  I dont think they make players like Smitty anymore.  Its fuggin sad- Smitty has a doctorate in psychological warfare in the NFL

[NanuqoftheNorth]

pretty good return for a 3rd round pick whose only suppose to be a STer

 

I remember all the criticism coming from the football pundits saying the Panthers reached on that 3rd round pick. 

 

Shows how wrong the so called "experts" can be.

[Frizzy350]

Smith's attitude has become contagious through this locker room.  We saw hints of it vs the Saints the last 2 years, but it has spread like swine flu. We don't let anyone get their cheap shots in, we get in guys heads, and we back off when the refs are looking.  We've been in a good amount of chippy games this year and have done a great job goading the zebras to flag them over us.  New England should have had about 4 or 5 more personal fouls that went uncalled, but thats typical Patriots luck with the crews.

[TrueBlackandBlue]

Spot on. When he was over there wrestling with Talib, they showed Cam jumping up and down feeding off Smittys energy. That got the Bank rocking. It set a tone. It said welcome to Charlotte, Pats, this is Primetime in our house and you are not here to win. You are here to get punked.