looks like Stewart not practicing again today....

[intangiblejohnny]

This may not be popular but:

I think Stewart avoids practice because he doesn't feel it's nessecary. I also think this contibutes to why he is so injury prone.

Tolbert can do most of the things Stewart can and many he cannot. It will be a shame if we lose D'angelo next year because we can't drop Stewart.

[B.BERSIN]

Stew is not a difference maker this season....anyway....

[raleigh-panther]

I think Stewart has chronic issues and is finished.

I have always liked J Stew but can't change anatomy and bio mechanics

..also any who thinks Stewart wont be moved by Gettleman is probably mistaken. Good running backs can be found cheaply these days.and Gettleman will find a way to deal with that contract

[PantherPhann89]

 

There is very little chance he is not on the roster next year with his contract.  

Yeah I agree, even though he re-vamped his contract a little. I think he's gone. I hope that we can get something for him, instead of letting him walk...

[Camsfanclub]

we need to cut this guy

[intangiblejohnny]

  Yeah I agree, even though he re-vamped his contract a little. I think he's gone. I hope that we can get something for him, instead of letting him walk...

I hope you're right but I doubt it.

[Ken]

More touches for Tolbert = Good thing.

[Jackofalltrades]

Yeah.. I'm sorry but I disagree. Stewart is fine and isn't going anywhere. People that have watched this team for any length of time know this is the norm.

No. I have watched this team since it's inception and this is anything but the norm. For Stewart the norm WAS to miss a lot if practice time and still be highly productive during games. Such is not the case now.

There are several factors, acclimating to contact again, finding a rhythm, building endurance, regaining confidence in the ankles and...defensive scheme. However none of that really explains why he looks so bad from getting the hand off to first contact. There's little burst, minimal drive (physical), cuts aren't crisp, he's tentative.

No, this isn't the norm for Carolina or Stewart.

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

stew really hasn't done much since 2009.

 

thanks hurney

[Kevin Greene]

This would be a great game for Stew to actually lock in and contribute.

This 3.5-ish YPC stuff for 2 years now is getting old.

We need all hands on deck to properly curb stomp New Orleans.

 

I would like nothing better than a patented Stew stiff arm leaving some poor bastard Saint  Dback grasping for his ankles like Dat Alice trying to catch free Big Macs shot into a crowd through a cannon in liei of free t-shirts.

[pantherclaw]

This may not be popular but:

I think Stewart avoids practice because he doesn't feel it's nessecary. I also think this contibutes to why he is so injury prone.

Tolbert can do most of the things Stewart can and many he cannot. It will be a shame if we lose D'angelo next year because we can't drop Stewart.

I hope ya didn't hurt yourself coming up with that whopper.

[intangiblejohnny]

I hope ya didn't hurt yourself coming up with that whopper.

Someone's feeling dickish tonight.

Glad to see you could come up with a constructive critique of your own. I suppose it's always easier to be an ass to a fellow fan.

[LinvilleGorge]

I wish we could find a way to get out from under both the DeAngelo and J. Stew contracts.  Big fan of both, but those contracts are just killing our cap space and neither are coming anywhere close to justifying the cap space they're eating up.  We could likely get similar production for a lot less money.

[raleigh-panther]

Oh yeah, so many franchises out there are lining up to take a massive contract on a position that isn't valued anymore. Get real. J-Stew is sticking around because he has leverage.

 

You made an assumption that I didn't imply.

 

Nothing says he can't/won't be cut out right and the Panthers simply absorbing the hit, the demand for Stewart is not going to be there, between his contract and his inability to be on the field who appears to have lost a step... That does happen.

 

If it comes to a roster spot to hold someone who is not on the field with a ridiculous contract, or cutting him to bring in someone who can play, which do you think Gettleman will do.  The Marty Hurney era is gone.  Gettleman will find a way to put that dead money over a period of years.

 

My money says that Stewart will be riding his exercise bike somewhere else, be it his own gym or another teams' but I don't believe it will be here.

 

Having said, that, I have been a huge Stewart fan and I hope he does turn it on this year and produce; but, I don't see it.