Thinking Skins Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 Panthers | Hicks Could Become Top Backup - from www.KFFL.com Sat, 5 Jul 2003 11:55:38 -0700 Pat Yasinskas, of the Charlotte Observer, reports for the Sporting News that the Carolina Panthers RB Skip Hicks could become the top backup at running back if RB DeShaun Foster (knee) isn't fully recovered in time. Remember that Carolina is teh team that signed Stephen Davis. It seems the two are about to be together again. Wonder if Skip can finally beat him out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeSkin Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 How ironic is that. I'd bet the ranch that he doesn't beat SD out. Everything about Hicks annoys me. His name, his style of play, and the fact that he just plain sucks. He epitomizes everything that I don't like about sports. Thank God he's gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panel Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 He could be used as a good change up, if used conservitivly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldog Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 Hicks is another guy like Westbrook that flashes enough ability to warrant having someone carry him for 16 games each season But the promise is just a mirage. Hicks isn't going to become a consistent NFL player. Part of it is attitude and effort, the other part is lacking the instincts of a top shelf back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potato Sack Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 I don't know, I kind of liked his name. I think it would've been a little more annoying had his name been reversed: Hick Skips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 They' re puting the band back together All they need is Gus the Headbanger to play QB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 And then they can go on a "Mission from God"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlitzFiftySix Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 I know Skip, at least I have met him in social situations several times. He is one weird dude. I was going to ask him to autograph my father's handicap placard that he hangs from his rear view mirror. However, I don't suppose that would have gone over quite well. Remember, he was fined along with several other members from the UCLA football team for illegally obtaining and using handicapped parking permits on campus. Kind of a jerk move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldog Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 Hicks squandered his opportunities here. In some ways he reminds me of Reggie Brooks, another draft choice that fizzled after he got a fat head. At least in Brooks' case he had a 1,000 yard season before becoming impossible to deal with. Hicks never did anything. The one year he was slated to be the starter heading into camp in 1999 he sloughed off and came in out of shape and expecting to be handed a spot without putting out any effort. What this blurb says to me is that Hicks, if Davis and Foster are healthy, is destined to be a bench player that doesn't see the light of day come the regular season. Right now he is the #3 back on a team whose offense from last year on the ground was among the worst in the NFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 Hicks is very much like Brooks in that he is a breakaway back who is incapable of "keeping the chains moving." He'll have an eye popping run one down, and then gain one or two yards the next five or six carries. It makes for some highlights, but ultimately loses games. He can't make the tough yards, can't catch out of the backfield (To quote Robiskie, "Skip couldn't catch a cold wearing wet clothes on an iceberg"), and ultimately is simply not an NFL caliber RB. We should've traded him while we had the chance, but Norvo insisted on hanging on to him :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinking Skins Posted July 6, 2003 Author Share Posted July 6, 2003 I just hope that Canidate is noting like Hicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GritzRgreat Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 i live in s.c....about 20 miles south of charlotte.... i find it funny how many of the panther fans think hicks is a good pickup....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottb Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 Ahh Bulldog, you summed it up perfectly with "the promise was just a mirage". Very well put. :notworthy I agree with you GoSkins, his name sucks. It should probably be "Skipped Town". At least that would be more accurate as to his contributions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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