ESPN's stats guy did a recent analysis of Carolina's re-energized running game. There's some interesting stuff in it. Enough so, that Pat Yasinskas decided to blog about it yesterday. I hadn't seen anyone else post about it. But here it is...

Just what it says.

Lets help him out and vote!!!

So Jake went to the hospital to get an MRI because the team was concerned about internal injuries (remember, we were responsible for Chris Simms' potentially fatal ruptured spleen some years back), but everything checked out ok. Hoover's got X-rays on his injured ankle, but they came back negative, so he'll likely be back before the season is through. Fiammetta left the game with a concussion. It's at least the second of his career, as he sat out a game his junior year at Syracuse because of another.

Muhammad is out so Jarrett is in. Maybe he will surprise us. Shame everybody has written him off before he made his second NFL start.

I'm not saying it's unjustifiably so, I'm just saying.....

"Find out what really drives Panthers WR Steve Smith on the field, plus what he's like off it."

Steve Smith sits down with Steve Sabol for a one-on-one interview. A fascinating look behind the mask.

Trent Green and Charles Davis weigh in with their opinions on if Jake should sit for a couple weeks.

Julius Peppers stunned the team recently by giving a five-minute, written-out speech to his teammates. Centered around his own self accountability, Peppers realized it was time to look at the man in the mirror and take responsibility for his actions on the field.

He told the team he went home, put in tape of every game they've played thus far and was extremely disappointed in the man he saw on film. He admitted he needed to make a change immediately, change from the man who had disappointed himself thus far.

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