Just about any time Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera would compliment someone for a nice play during OTAs and minicamp, he would temper his enthusiasm with some version of the following caveat:

“Well, we’ll get a better feel for things at training camp.”

It’s not that the coach known as “Riverboat” was trying to throw a wet blanket on his team’s springtime work in Charlotte.

He just knows jobs really won’t be won or lost until players put on the pads and start hitting in the Spartanburg steam bath.

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