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Week 1 observations, rants and more

By David Fleming
Page 2

Friday, September 11, 2009

Carolina Panthers observation No. 1: NFL linemen obsess about two things: arm length (anything less than 34 inches is considered disfigured) and continuity. They will talk 'til they're blue in the face about how important it is to keep linemen together so that in the chaos of the trenches, each instinctually knows what the guy next to him will do. Well, for the first time in Panthers history, the team returned all five starters from its 2008 line. On Sunday, in one of the worst football games I' ...

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