kungfoodude

Yeah, it's not necessarily about who is the best player for the moment, it's about the direction we are headed as a franchise. Seems to be that Morgan has doubled down on a youth movement, so why not see it through?

Yeah, he is leaps and bounds better than Wallace. But the question then becomes, when do you get Wallace the reps to even attempt to develop? I feel the same way about Pratt as I did Ramsey, it's a short solution for a long term situation.

I don't think it is so much how he played as that they are cash strapped with the current roster. See, Hendrickson, Trey.

Well, he would immediately be the best LB on the roster. Buuuut....he really doesn't fit the profile of what we seem to be doing. We are avoiding these older players and seem to be very attached to a youth movement.

I mean, if you literally walk down the starters for that team versus ours, it's fuging embarrassing. Then when you get to the backups, it's WAY more obvious. There is a reason we were largely regarded as the worst roster. It was very earned.

I would LOVE to have the talent that Oakland and NY(Giants) have. They were/are WAAAAAY better rosters. I think we will finally crawl out of that "worst" spot this season, even as a massive sceptic. We need it.

Agreed. Our coaches were better than some of the other dumpster fire teams and we played in the NFC South. That helped. Outside that, a simple look at the roster will very quickly reveal it to be the worst in Panthers franchise history. That was obvious before we had even played a game. It was funny that people were surprised we had a historically bad defense. It was so insanely obvious.

I really don't think it's that debatable. New England had some argument but our roster was far worse, IMO.

We weren't bottom five, we were the bottom.

We SHOULD be better overall than last year. I would say this is still, on paper, firmly a bottom 5 roster in the NFL. I definitely hope that improves over the course of the season.

It's very few proven commodities and heavy on "what if." I am not suggesting it isn't POSSIBLE we are a halfway decent roster but I also don't think it's very likely. Underwhelming is fine and understandable. I just don't want to see dumpster fire again.

I mean, we are gonna stink at some positions. We have a bad roster, so you just have to expect that on a cellar dwelling team. The hope is that it's a net improvement over last season. If we accomplish that, I am good. I don't want to see Rhule era panic and more outgoing draft capital in another foolish "a couple of pieces away" campaign.

Worse than Gabriel is insane. That's "about to be out of the league" status. That draft really will go down as the worst class in NFL history for QB's. If it wasn't for Purdy, there wouldn't be a single NFL QB in the entire thing. But, the most impressive of all is us picking the only one of them that ended up never seeing an NFL game. #TepperMagic

But also a wild d-bag, potential locker room cancer and a media circus. This might actually put the nail in Tomlin's coffin.

Well, this was a thread about rushing yardage.....

Meddling dumb owners is the classic way to ruin a franchise. Ask the Redskins.

Oh boy....this is a borderline post. What was the TE nut that posted here for years until he was banned?

Agreed. If not.....oooof. You have to assume his seat is gonna be pretty hot at this point

He didn't actually say this but he did a little bit imply it.

And then you see preseason talks about "Evero guys" like DJ Johnson when everyone can acknowledge his JAG status is pretty evident. I think the worst part about the whole Evero fiasco is that we will likely have to do a mild rebuild anyway for his eventual successor with a chunk invested already in "Evero guys."

I expect improvements but ultimately fan dissatisfaction on offense and slight improvements to the defense which leaves the fanbase loudly calling for Evero's head. That's my prediction for short term path. Which, I can be okay with that. I just need to see that we have more OBVIOUS core players emerge. If that happens, I am good.

Yeah, I am not gonna freak out if we have another losing season, depending on how it looks. People are really getting ahead of themselves with thinking this is a good roster. It COULD be a good roster, just like it could easily be mediocre or bad again. When you tear the whole franchise down below the foundation, it's bound to take a considerable amount of time to rebuild it. IMO, we still have at least two more offseasons of solid building before we are in a position to be a consistent winner. And that's assuming we have a lot of success this past offseason and some of our potential core players actually pan out(Bryce, Ikey, XL, etc).

I am not surprised. I remember looking at all-time franchise rushing in the past couple of seasons and being pretty amazed at how paltry the totals really were. For CMC, I think people just forget how injury prone he became, hence why his numbers seem low. From 2020 to 2022 he played 16 of a possible 39 games. In fact during that timespan he never again went over 500 rushing yards in a season for us. The the leaders on that list were far bigger impact players due to their longevity.