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Ross Cockrell Carolina Panthers Hats , CB - No. 47Experience: 5 yearsHeight: 6’0”Age: 26Weight: 190 lbsCollege: DukeCockrell was a popular request for Panthers fans when he went through the draft process in 2014. Being a Charlotte native the fan base saw a lot of Cockrell so he has that ‘hometown kid comes home’ feel to him. I’d like to think he is happy to be in Carolina as opposed to many other landing places that could have occurred. Plus he has essentially been handed a starting CB spot that is his to lose, something he had less chance of getting elsewhere.I’ll think that interceptions aren’t everything when it comes to evaluating CBs. You have to look at passes defensed as well. If they are at least getting their hands on the ball they are doing their job. Cockrell’s INT & PDs for the past three seasons:2017: 11 Passes Defensed, 3 INTs, 9 games started2016: 14 Passes defensed, 0 INTs Carolina Panthers Hoodie , 16 games started2015: 11 Passes defensed, 2 INTs, 7 games startedThose numbers are pretty good. What worries me is the three teams in four seasons part. I will say though the Giants have a lot of talent in their secondary in Eli Applie, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Janoris Jenkins. So getting released after a single year from NY is not a bad mark in my view. While we are keeping things positive, here’s a highlight film of Cockrell from his 2016 season in Pittsburgh titled ‘Lockdown’:Cockrell seems good at getting himself in position to make a play on the ball. He just has a hard time finishing with two hands. If he should learn how to catch in Carolina he could be a really good zone CB.I’m just ready to get things started. Keep pounding! Ed. Note - For those of you who enjoyed this series last year Cheap Customized Carolina Panthers Jerseys , we’ve decided to change it up for 2018. Instead of focusing our attention on the head coach of our opponent, we’ve opened it up to anyone affiliated with the organization. So, instead of “Dan Quinn looks like...” you’ll get a collection of jokes about other folks as well. We hope you enjoy this updated format. -BSTo get us prepared for Sunday’s game against the Atlanta Falcons, the CSR staff decided to have a little fun by borrowing the ‘looks like game’ concept from The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz on ESPN.Ed. Note 2.0 - The Looks Like Game is the best thing that anyone does at ESPN and it’s not even close. If you’ve never experienced it before I highly recommend it. Trust me.Below is a collection of our best efforts to figure out exactly what/who people from the Falcons organization look like. Feel free to discuss your favorite ones in the comments section, and you can even provide your own if you feel up to it.Disclaimer: This is all in good fun. We’re not trying to hurt anyone’s feelings here www.panthersfootballauthentic.com , so if you happen to stumble across this and find your name mentioned, we sincerely hope you understand that we’re mostly kidding.CSR looks like: Falcons edition...Matt Ryan looks like the new pastor at a small town church who steals the offering money to cover his gambling habit.Dan Quinn looks like the main heel in every knock off wrestling league.Matt Bryant looks like a character actor who always plays the background role of ‘motorcycle enthusiast’ in every movie.Matt Ryan looks like his parents told him he could be a big boy quarterback, no matter what anybody else said.Steve Sarkisian looks like a traveling salesman who swears his concoction will ‘cure all ails’.Matt Ryan looks like the guy who turns off his lights on Halloween and just leaves a bowl of candy on the front porch with a handwritten note saying ‘take ONLY one’.Matt Bryant looks like both Matt Ryan and Dan Quinn’s stunt double.Steve Sarkisian looks like he still talks about placing 2nd in his 3rd grade Spelling Bee.Matt Ryan looks like a guy who if he wasn’t playing professional football would almost certainly be selling either photocopiers or golf clubs.Vic Beasley looks like the bouncer at the newest dance club who lets girls in based on how hot they are.Arthur Blank looks like the retired lawyer who spends every Saturday playing racquetball at his local YMCA.Matt Ryan looks like a sales manger at a certified pre-owned Honda dealership.Steve Sarkisian looks like the dad who wishes his kids would put their phones down while at the dinner table in a Verizon commercial.Arthur Blank looks like a WWI fighter pilot.Matt Bryant looks like the captain of his auto shop’s bowling league team.Thomas Dimitroff looks like part of him never moved out of his freshman dorm room 40 years ago.Dan Quinn looks like he tells the waitress “light beer is for whimps” every time he orders a Budweiser with his meal.Matt Ryan looks like the guy who got arrested for breaking into an Applebee’s to steal his framed high school football photos after being banned from their bar.Steve Sarkisian looks like a guy who gets unreasonably mad at an Applebee’s hostess when a smaller party that arrived after his is seated before him.Matt Ryan looks like your buddy who got friendzoned.Arthur Blank looks like a guy, who knows a guy, who might be able to “grease up” the city council into allowing that building permit you’re having trouble pushing through.Julio Jones looks like a guy who takes basketball at the gym way too seriously.Dan Quinn looks like a guy who spends more time on his riding lawnmower than with his wife and kids.Matt Ryan looks like a dad who does his kids’ door to door fundraising for them.Thomas Dimitroff looks like an insurance salesman.Dan Quinn looks like a guy who once woke up in a Disneyworld holding cell next to a vomit covered pair of mouse ears and with synthetic white duck feathers clutched in both his palms.Matt Ryan looks like he and his wife do not share a bed. Instead they each have their own twin bed on opposite sides of the same room.Arthur Blank looks like he made his money during Prohibition.Thomas Dimitroff looks like the public persona of the villain in a superhero movie.Dan Quinn looks like a guy who will one day start an elaborate blue methamphetamine operation beneath the laundry room of Mercedes Benz stadium. . . Funded by Thomas Dimitroff. . . And assisted by Steve Sarkisian. . . With Matt Bryant as the henchman/bodyguard. . . In a remake of Breaking Bad called Breaking Atlanta.Which ones are your favorites Carolina Panthers T-Shirt , Panthers fans? Discuss.