The Panthers already know what they have in a few of the young players. Linebacker Luke Kuechly, cornerback Josh Norman, guard Amini Silatolu and punter Brad Nortman have had 12 games to audition their talents. And defensive end Frank Alexander, guard Jeff Byers and cornerback Josh Thomas have gotten a good chunk of reps and starts this season."REGIONAL NOTE "Fixing to" ranks with y'all as one of the best known markers of Southern dialects, although it occasionally appears in the informal speech and writing of nonSoutherners as well. Fixing to means "to be on the verge of or in preparation for (doing a given thing)," but like the modal auxiliaries, it has only a single invariant form and is not fully inflected like other verbs. Its form is always the present participle followed by the infinitive marker to: They were "fixing" to leave without me.

The National Football League is probably the most popular sports league in the United States.