Message-ID: <10854259.1075853091790.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:51:59 -0700 (PDT) From: bryant@cheatsheets.net To: cheatsheets@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Footballguys] BREAKING NEWS - Seifert Names Huntley Starting RB Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Joe Bryant X-To: Cheatsheets Mailing Yahoo X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \MCUILLA (Non-Privileged)\Cuilla, Martin\Deleted Items X-Origin: Cuilla-M X-FileName: MCUILLA (Non-Privileged).pst Hi Folks, As we reported to you last night, Tshimanga Biakabutuka is out for the year with a broken foot. That brought an avalanche of "who's the starter now?" emails. Fortunately, Coach George Seifert answered that today in his weekly press conference. From the Official Panthers Website: http://www.cpanthers.com/games/index.cfm?cont_id=75023 Seifert on Sunday's Injuries: "There is significant loss as far as a couple of our players. Tshimanga Biakabutuka's right foot was operated on last night. It will be some time before he will be able to be active. By some time, I mean a number of months. He is obviously going to go on injured reserve and won't play this season. Also, an ACL tear was sustained by Kevin Donnalley in his right knee, and he is going to be placed on injured reserve as well. It will probably be a couple of weeks before he has that operated on. Hannibal Navies broke his right arm, and he is being operated on today. He will be out a minimum of six weeks. It could be longer, so there are some decisions that have to be made there, also. Those are the three most significant injuries. I don't have anything to report specifically about any others right now. Steve Smith's knee is bothering him. But I've got to wait until Wednesday when I can be more accurate about who is going to be available to us. Obviously, Biakabutuka, Donnalley and Navies won't be. Dan Morgan will not play. Kory Minor will not play. Deveron Harper will not play. We will wait and see on Jason Peter." Seifert on running back Richard Huntley: "As we go into this next game, Huntley would be our starting running back. He has progressed from the standpoint that he is now healthy. There was a period throughout camp where he didn't practice. So he has a better feel for what we are doing. He hasn't had an awful lot of opportunities, but now is the time when somebody comes to the front. Here's a golden opportunity. He came in here wanting to be the starting back. Now he is going to have his chance to do that." [ [ [ [ [ [ [ [ [ [ [ [ [ OUR VIEW ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] As Seifert said, this is Huntley's "Golden Opportunity". Not quite the "Golden Opportunity" handed to Trung Canidate as the Panthers are a struggling team, but still, Huntley gives you the chance to scoop up an NFL Starting RB and that doesn't happen very often. The injury to OL Kevin Donnalley will hurt though. Carolina gets a break this week against the Jets but they have a tough stretch after that with Miami, St. Louis, San Francisco, Atlanta and New Orleans. So I wouldn't trade the farm to pick him up, but he could be a value if the price is right. More as we hear it. Joe /**/**/**/**/**/**/**/**/**/**/**/**/**/**/**/**/ Bryant Analytics, Inc. All Rights Reserved 1999-2001 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: cheatsheets-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/