We’ve also been sharing some resources with Jeremy Igo of Carolina Huddle, and his unique work continues to off these “Around Carolina’s Camp” segments.
Today …
- A perfect pictorial recap of Monday’s practice.
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Elsewhere …
The Charlotte Observer’s Tom Sorensen loves an underdog story, so of course he wrote about Rakim Cox:
“Cox, a defensive end, spent so much time in the Bills’ backfield it was as if he’d been invited.
I had Cox with 17 tackles and five sacks. The official statisticians were more modest and perhaps more accurate. They had him with two tackles, two assisted tackles, one sack and two quarterback hurries.”
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Meanwhile, ESPN’s David Newton is a bit more realistic:
“This is how much the defensive ends battling to start for the Carolina Panthers struggled in Friday’s exhibition opener at Buffalo.
Rakim Cox stood out.”
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Panthers.com writer Max Henson on the team’s Swiss Army Knife QB:
“It’s unusual to see a quarterback ditch the red jersey and line up for kickoff during practice, but Webb takes pride in his unique roles.
“Guys (on other teams) come to me and say, ‘What position are you playing today?’ They always say something to me in pregame. I just brush it off,” Webb said. “They probably think I’m a pushover, that it’ll be a piece of cake. I try to change their minds about that.”
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GoUpstate’s Chris Lavender profiles a former training camp cook who remains a huge Panthers fan through his fight against a life-threatening disease:
“Thompson’s days during camp would begin about 4:30 a.m. preparing breakfast for the players who would usually eat beginning at 6 a.m. He used three pans at a time to cook the omelettes. Thompson said he also had to remember how each player liked their omelette cooked.
“They could really eat a lot of food,” he said.”
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