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The Carolina Panthers' OTAs are coming to a close this week, and in a strange twist, this is the first set of offseason workouts being run by second year head coach Ron Rivera as the NFL lockout prevented them from taking place last year.

Rivera has had to do things in reverse – having to learn the head coaching ropes without the benefit of offseason work, and that, he says, has helped him in a roundabout sort of way.