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Coach Fox Settles on his Depth Chart

By Turd Furgeson
Roar Senior Writer

Charlotte, N.C - Coach John Fox has settled on his depth chart and there aren't many surprises.

Aside from rookie Brandon LaFell beating out perennial underachiever and former USC standout Dwayne Jarrett for the starting job opposite Steve Smith, there really wasn't anything earth rattling.

We expected Matt Moore to win the starting quarterback job, and he did. He was clearly the best quarterback in camp at the moment, and he manages the game extremely well.

On the defensive line, coach Fox has said he implement a rotation of Tyler Brayton, Charles Johnson, Everette Brown and Greg Hardy at defensive end. At the defensive tackle spot Ed Johnson and Louis Leonard will see most of the playing time, with Tank Tyler and Nick Hayden getting some snaps.

Here is how the depth chart breaks down:



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	Starter	2nd	3rd	4th
WR	Steve Smith	Dwayne Jarrett	Kenny Moore
TE	Jeff King	Gary Barnidge	Dante Rosario
LT	Jordan Gross	Garry Williams
LG	Travelle Wharton	C.J Davis
C	Ryan Kalil	Steve Justice
RG	Mackenzy Bernadau	Duke Robinson
RT	Jeff Otah	Geoff Schwartz
WR	Brandon LaFell	Armanti Edwards	Wallace Wright
QB	Matt Moore	Jimmy Clausen	Hunter Cantwell	Tony Pike
FB	Tony Fiammetta
HB	DeAngelo Williams	Jonathan Stewart	Tyrell Sutton	Mike Goodson

Carolina Panthers - 2010 Depth Chart - Base 4-3 Defense

	Starter	2nd	3rd	4th
LDE	Charles Johnson	Tyler Brayton
LDT	Ed Johnson	Tank Tyler	Derek Landri
RDT	Louis Leonard	Nick Hayden
RDE	Everette Brown	Greg Hardy
WLB	Jon Beason	Jamar Williams	Thomas Davis (IR)
MLB	Dan Connor	Nic Harris
SLB	James Anderson	Eric Norwood
CB	Chris Gamble	Captain Munnerlyn	Marcus Hudson
SS	Charles Godfrey	Jordan Pugh
FS	Sherrod Martin	Aaron Fransisco
CB	Richard Marshall	C.J Wilson

Carolina Panthers - 2010 Depth Chart - Special Teams

	Starter	2nd	3rd	4th
K	John Kasay
P	Jason Baker
H
PR	Armanti Edwards
KR	Kenny Moore
LS	Jordan Gross

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Despite winless preseason, Panthers confident

By Turd Furgerson
Roar Senior Writer

Charlotte, N.C - After finishing 0-4 in the preseason, coach John Fox and his staff weren't about to resort to gloom and doom.

Fox said after this mornings practice "Look, we start anew on Sunday and these guys know they need to show up to play. I'm not sugarcoating it for them, they know our performance in the preseason was unacceptable, they realize they need to step it up fast."

Quarterback Matt Moore added "Yea we need to take it up a notch or two, but this week in practice has been encouraging, guys are taking the preseason losses seriously and working toward correcting the issues. We have this fire about us right now we hope can carry over against the Giants"

On Sunday, the Panthers (0-0) travel to the New Meadowlands Stadium to face the Giants (0-0) in the stadiums first regular season game.

The Giants are coming off a less than stellar preseason performance, going 1-3. Both teams are relatively healthy heading into the season.

Injury Report
The Giants (0-0) will be without RG Chris Snee for the first three weeks of the season with a fracture toe, Coach Tom Coughlin said Mitch Petrus will fill in until Snee is fully healed.

The Panthers (0-0) do not have any players listed on their injury report.

Panthers at Giants - 1:00 pm - FOX
New Meadowlands Stadium

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Week One

East Rutherford, N.J - The Panthers opened their season with a 20-9 victory over the Giants, in a game where the rain came down from beginning to end.

Offense was hard to come by as both defenses created alot of pressure on the quarterback and pretty much held eachothers running backs in check.

The key for the Panthers was their redzone defense, holding the Giants to three field goals and a turnover on their four trips inside the 20.

The Panthers lost MLB Dan Connor to a torn labrum, and will miss the next four weeks.

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NFL Scoreboard - Panthers (1-0) at Giants (0-1)

September 12, 2010 1 2 3 4 F Panthers 0 14 3 3 20 Giants 6 0 3 0 9 Top Performers Panthers - Stats M. Moore - 12/23, 171 yds, 1 TD 0 INT Giants - Stats B. Jacobs - 25 att, 107 yds, 4.2 avg	Team Stats Comparison CAR NYG First Downs 12 13 3rd Down Efficiency 7-16(43%) 5-14(35%) 4th Down Efficiency 0-0 0-1 Total Yards 262 269 Passing Yards 167 113 Rushing Yards 95 156 Penalties-Penalty Yards 0-0 1-5 Turnovers 1 2 Time of Possession 30:41 29:19
Scoring Summary First Quarter CAR NYG NYG 8:54 L. Tynes 37 yd FG 0 3 NYG 0:04 L. Tynes 27 yd FG 0 6 Second Quarter CAR NYG CAR 5:33 J. King 3 yd TD pas from Moore (J. Kasay kick) 7 6 CAR 0:12 J. Stewart 2 yd TD run (J. Kasay kick) 14 6 Third Quarter CAR NYG NYG 9:17 L. Tynes 33 yd FG 14 9 CAR 1:20 J. Kasay 35 yd FG 17 9 Fourth Quarter CAR NYG CAR 5:57 J. Kasay 28 yd FG 20 9
Panthers Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT M. Moore 12/23 171 1 0 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD D. Williams 18 69 3.6 0 J. Stewart 15 30 1.9 1 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD B. LaFell 3 76 25.3 0 D. Williams 3 39 13.0 0 S. Smith 2 36 18.0 0 J. King 2 7 3.5 1 Defense TKL SACK INT TD C. Godfrey 6 0 0 0 E. Norwood 5 0 0 0 L. Leonard 5 1 0 0 J. Beason 5 0 0 0 Tyler Brayton 2 1 0 0 N. Hayden 1 1 0 0 Kick Returning NO. YDS TD LONG K. Moore 4 65 0 19 Kicking FGM/A XPM/A PTS LONG J. Kasay 2/2 2/2 8 36 Punting NO. YDS AVG IN 20 J. Baker 7 287 40.9 1 Giants Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT E. Manning 11/25 132 0 1 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD B. Jacobs 25 107 4.2 0 A. Bradshaw 6 42 7.0 0 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD K. Boss 3 25 8.3 0 M. Manningham 3 49 16.3 0 S. Smith 2 28 14.0 0 D. Hagain 1 8 8.0 0 Defense TKL SACK INT TD J. Alford 6 0 0 0 M. Boley 5 0 0 0 B. Cofield 4 1 0 0 C. Sintim 4 0 0 0 K. Bulluck 4 0 0 0 A. Ross 3 0 0 0 Kick Returning NO. YDS TD LONG S. Moss 3 53 0 19 D. Ware 2 32 0 16 Kicking FGM/A XPM/A PTS LONG L. Tynes 3/4 0/0 9 37 Punting NO. YDS AVG IN 20 M. Dodge 4 177 44.2 2

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Panthers look to build on week one performance

Turd Furgeson
Roar Senior Writer

Charlotte, N.C - The Panthers(1-0) are home for a week two matchup with the rival Bucacaneers(0-1), and look to get off to a 2-0 start.

Coach Fox is hoping that his running game can get it going early this week, especially Jonathan Stewart, who only averged 1.9 per carry for 30 yards against the Giants last week.

Fox said earlier today that "We live and die by the run game, we need it to be succesul if we plan on making a run this year. I have full confidence in Matt Moore's ability to put up points, but it's no secret that our bread and butter is the ground game"

When asked how the Buccaneers stack up against his run game he said "They have some solid young players on the defensive side and we should have our work cut out for us. It'll be a struggle, but our guys are up to the task."

The Buccaneers are coming off a 30-13 loss to the Browns in the opener, but held running backs James Harrison (8 att, 26 yards, 3.2avg) and James Davis (14 att, 10 yards, 0.7avg) in check all game.

Tampa Bay coach Raheem Morris did point at this week that "Without being offensive to the two talented backs from Cleveland, these two guys in that Panthers backfield are another animal. It's hard to contain one of those guys alone, but containing both is what has kept me up everynight this week"

Injury Report

Panthers - MLB Dan Connor - Out 3 weeks - Torn Labrum

Buccaneers - C Jeff Faine - Out 5 weeks - Dislocated Hip
ROLB Jon Alston - Out 7 weeks - Torn Quadricep

Buccaneers at Panthers - 1:00 PM - FOX
Bank of America Stadium

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Week Two
20 - 13

Charlotte, N.C - It was something Tampa Bay coach Raheem Morris preached all week in practice, stop the Panthers(1-1) ground attack and keep it close.

That's exactly what his team did today when the Buccaneers(1-1) held DeAngelo Williams to a measly 42 yards on 23 carries, although they did allow Jonathan Stewart to go for 70 yards on 15 carries, 21 of those coming on one rush.

Tampa Bay kept it close all game and was able to break a 13-13 tie with 1:20 left after Cadillac Williams scampered into the endzone for a 23 yard score. Carolina, behind Matt Moore managed to move the ball downfield to Tampa's 19 in the closing minute, but were unable to get the touchdown they needed to send the game into overtime.

To make it worse for the Panthers, they lost their defensive captain Jon Beason for the next 3 weeks with an abdominal tear. Coach Fox said after the game that "The tests revealed a tear and he's gonna be shelved for a couple weeks. It's tough, Jon's a great player but injuries are part of the game and every team has to deal with them. Now some of our backups will need to step it up."

The Panthers are now without LB's Dan Connor and Beason for the next two games, leaving rookie Eric Norwood and Jamar Williams as the starters alongside James Anderson.

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NFL Scoreboard - Buccaneers (1-1) at Panthers (1-1)

September 19, 2010 1 2 3 4 F Buccaneers 3 0 3 14 20 Panthers 3 10 0 0 13 Top Performers Buccaneers - Stats J. Freeman - 91.6 rating, 19/29, 263 yds, 1 TD, 1 int C. Williams - 15 att, 63 yds, 4.2 avg, 1 TD, 3 catches, 40 yds Panthers - Stats M. Moore - 78.5 rating, 20/39, 235 yds, 1TD J. Stewart - 15 att, 70 yds, 4.6 avg, 4 catches 44 yds	Team Stats Comparison TB CAR First Downs 16 21 3rd Down Efficiency 4-9(44%) 14/21(66%) 4th Down Efficiency 0-0 0-0 Total Yards 334 345 Passing Yards 257 235 Rushing Yards 77 110 Penalties-Penalty Yards 1-15 2-25 Turnovers 1 0 Time of Possession 22:57 37:03
Scoring Summary First Quarter TB CAR CAR 7:47 J. Kasay 25 yd FG 0 3 TB 0:34 C. Barth 35 yd FG 3 3 Second Quarter TB CAR CAR 7:11 B. LaFell 6 yd TD pass from Moore (J. Kasay kick) 3 10 CAR 0:35 J. Kasay 36 yd FG 3 13 Third Quarter TB CAR TB 2:37 C. Barth 28 yd FG 6 13 Fourth Quarter TB CAR TB 14:13 K. Winslow 11 yd TD pass from Freeman (C. Barth kick) 13 13 TB 1:20 C. Williams 23 yd TD run (C. Barth kick) 20 13
Buccaneers Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT J. Freeman 19/29 263 1 1 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD C. Williams 16 63 4.2 1 D. Ward 5 14 2.8 0 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD K. Winslow 4 71 17.7 1 M. Williams 4 85 21.2 0 C. Williams 3 40 13.3 0 R. Brown 2 28 14.0 0 E. Graham 2 20 10.0 0 Defense TKL SACK INT TD B. Ruud 5 0 0 0 Q. Black 5 0 0 0 G. McCoy 5 0 0 0 G. hayes 5 0 0 0 Kick Returning NO. YDS TD LONG C. Smith 3 57 0 24 Punt Returning NO. YDS TD LONG C. Smith 2 22 0 11. Kicking FGM/A XPM/A PTS LONG C. Barth 2/3 2/2 8 36 Punting NO. YDS AVG IN 20 B. Bowden 2 66 33.0 0 Panthers Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT M. Moore 20/39 235 1 0 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD D. Williams 23 42 1.8 0 J. Stewart 15 70 4.6 0 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD S. Smith 5 73 14.6 0 J. Stewart 4 44 11.0 0 D. Jarrett 3 39 13.0 0 J. King 2 26 13.0 0 B. LaFell 1 6 6.0 1 Defense TKL SACK INT TD J. Anderson 6 0 0 0 S. Martin 5 0 0 0 C. Johnson 1 1 0 0 R. Marshall 3 0 1 0 Kick Returning NO. YDS TD LONG K. Moore 5 92 0 24 Punt Returning NO. YDS TD LONG -None- Kicking FGM/A XPM/A PTS LONG J. Kasay 2/3 1/1 7 37 Punting NO. YDS AVG IN 20 J. Baker 4 182 45.5 0

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Carolina hopes to rebound against Bengals

Turd Furgeson
Roar Senior Writer

Charlotte, N.C - The Panthers(1-1) host the Bengals(1-1) this week in Bank of America stadium.

The Bengals arrive in Charlotte fresh off a 21-10 win over Baltimore in week 2. They managed 400 yards of offense on the day and held the Ravens to only 247 total yards.

Bengals star wide receiver Chad Ochcocinco, who had 10 catch for 111 yards last week and now has 20 receptions, 270 yards and 2 TD's through two games was quoted as saying when asked if he could keep up this kind of production against Carolina "Why wouldn't I be able to? Did the Panthers sign Deion Sanders when I wasn't paying attention? Of course I can, and will continue this production. As a matter of fact I can do more."

The Panthers on the other hand, without starting linebackers Jon Beason and Dan Connor, are coming off a heartbreaking loss to Tampa Bay (1-1) in the final minutes of the game. They hope to get their heralded running game going against a team that has only allowed 63 yards on the ground through two games, it's going to be a challenge to say the least.

DeAngelo Williams said today "I'm trying not to get frustrated, but you can't help but be frustrated when things aren't going as expected, and you know you're not playing to your full ability. I just have to keep working hard and it will come, I know it will"

Injury Report

Panthers - Jon Beason - Out 3 weeks -Abdominal Tear
Dan Connor - Out 2 weeks - Torn Labrum

Bengals - J.T O'Sullivan - Out 4 weeks - Fractured Foot
Tank Johnson - Out for season - Broken Tailbone

Bengals at Panthers - 1:00 PM - FOX
Bank of America Stadium