Monday’s Carolina Panthers practice had a definite training-camp feel at Wofford College: Pads on an gnarly.
It got under way with a some inspiration from quarterback Cam Newton before the day’s first drill — “Let’s go. Don’t be going through the motions. Everybody’s hot.” — and a prediction from a circling plane with a banner that said “Super Bowl starts here.”
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u25aa Back at practice after missing Sunday’s session: DE Daeshon Hall, LB Ben Jacobs, RB Christian McCaffrey, DT Kawann Short, TE Ian Thomas. Absent: OT Matt Kalil.