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If you say so chief Point is everyone's concept of how good teams are run and the kind of players they give chances to is skewed and biased. Look at the hardy situation-three teams had a confirmed interest. One of them was the defending NFC champion and they passed based on-get this-money and character concerns.

It's easy for fans because they're not writing the checks or having to answer questions at press conferences or being held personally accountable. Only one team is even going to be able to draft this guy. There are probably several good teams who would laugh at the notion of spending a first on him. There are probably a couple that don't even have him on their boards. For every Moss there are ten da'rick rogers who are physical freaks but can't hold their poo and bounce around the league until they're done. Hell the team everyone on this site considers the cream of the crop crown jewel of 'surrounding the qb with weapons' in the colts let rogers ride the bench for four weeks until they finally released him after a DUI arrest. This was shortly after Jim irsay was picked up for the same thing so whoamg teh hypocrisy1! Now he's on his third team since 2013 and nobody remembers or cares about how much the panthers were going to sorely regret passing on him. If we do draft dgb I'd actually support it all things considered. You know nippleshorts picked him apart and decided it was worth the risk in that case.

I could live with it if the author had expanded on his point. It's really the lack of effort that rubs me the wrong way. As if he's just going 'I mean come on the falcons are going to be better' and leaving it at that. Well, why?

if we don't draft nine wide receivers/offensive tackles there are going to be more of the same articles coming up too so get ready

how do i get a job writing this poo

the roster isn't filled out and ready for opening day on march 31st and the usual poo is going down

Get ready for 'kuechly released' and 'cam traded to the saints' as far as the eye can see Jeremy should just take the site down and replace the front page with one of those 'domain seized by the FBI/NSA/ATF' images for a day. The meltdown would be glorious

i mean he was found guilty

going down with his ship like any good captain

well we are on a site where people try to compare their desk jobs to being a professional athlete

oh no i just read his profile and he's welching on his bet! he's just some dumbass wal mart florida gator homer and teboner fan

oh man i love posting that article. it was on bleacher report actually: and on and on: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/694994-carolina-panther-cam-newton-is-the-worst-nfl-draft-pick-ever e: i'm dying guys

the guy you quoted makes aceboogie look like the president of the gettleman fanclub he also predicted that byron bell and nate chandler would be our starting tackle combo for the next few years because "gettleman loves them so much" so take his razor sharp insight into building an NFL roster with that in mind

hur hur i'm aceboogie and the problem with you panther fans is that you're thinking like fans i on the other hand know exactly what it's like to be a superstar pro athlete so i know what cam is thinking

i think my post did a good job highlighting the absurdity of your premise actually. can you think of a big time franchise quarterback sitting out a whole year in recent memory? i can't. probably the closest we've come recently was carson palmer demanding a trade, mike brown refusing, palmer threatening to retire then failing to report to training camp, then the trade to oakland. no i don't think cam would play under his fifth year option, then a franchise tag, then another tag. i think he'd play under the first franchise tag and if he really, really didn't want to play here anymore, gettleman wouldn't force the issue and would let him walk. because he's not stupid and he wouldn't put the team in that position.

he could threaten to leave the NFL and play minor league baseball too. would you entertain that possibility?

I'm talking about 2010-2012 They were the top seed twice in that time frame and their only real weakness was their front 4 and maybe linebacker play.

charles johnson makes way too much but the alternative was watching him go to the falcons at a point where they essentially a good pass rusher away from a lombardi so i can live with it

the panthers need somebody with a pulse to hold down the left tackle spot for a season or two while a rookie or other developmental player gets prepared to take over. i don't think he would come out and say that publicly though.

if you're just whining about some kind of grand sweeping problem with the fanbase then i don't care about that. the cleveland browns, raiders, and bills have some of the most loyal, passionate fans in the league and those teams have done less in ten years than the panthers have in the previous two. what fans expect or will "settle for" is a fart in the wind when it comes to the actual product on the field.

the whole idea isn't that we're going to be happy just winning the division and losing early in the playoffs every year forever. even then there are a lot of "model franchises" bandied about as being far superior to the panthers on this site who did just that for years before breaking through and winning titles which is how it goes in the NFL sometimes. for once this team seems to making something resembling progress and people are guardedly optimistic. actually the idea is that, as far as the panthers go, we're in an uncharted place as a franchise right now. it really is okay to let go of your internet badass persona for one nano second and be happy about back to back division titles. your dong probably won't shrivel up and fall off i promise.

i keep seeing people posting about "settling for mediocrity" and "oh good old huddle happy to go 8-8 and win a terrible division and never win a super bowl for all eternity" which i think is bullshit what would sitting around with our arms crossed all offseason talking about how pissed off we all are accomplish anyway

do you really believe this

there were only three teams that had a confirmed interest in hardy. one of them was the defending NFC champion and they passed based on character concerns in conjunction with money which i think says something interesting re: all the blathering about what "winning teams" do.