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The Rise and Fall of the 2012 NFL Draft

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9. Luke Kuechly, LB, Carolina

A disaster who has done nothing but brought his franchise shame since being draf— oh, wait, I got confused. What is a superstar doing in the middle of this mess? Luke Kuechly fell on draft day because teams aren’t interested in using high draft picks on middle linebackers, so give deposed Panthers general manager Marty Hurney (and head coach Ron Rivera) a ton of credit. Kuechly has turned into a franchise cornerstone, winning defensive player of the year in his second season while quickly becoming football’s best middle linebacker. It’s going to be a joy to watch him play for years to come. Let’s just hope he’s not the next victim of this miserable class.

 

 

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-2012-nfl-draft/

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Everyone was getting chubbies over Andrew Luck and RGIII and Luke has been far away the best player of the draft class. Hurney magic?

 

The man was money in the first round.  Unfortunately, he appears to have sucked at every other aspect of his job.

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why would you trade a all time pro bowl all pro cornerstone panther

 

He means trade a 3rd to the Vikings for OT Matt Kalil. Would be an absolute steal for us and would be huge for our line. No chance the Vikings bite on it though, probably wouldn't even for a 2nd. He's been struggling in Minnesota against not very great pass rushes (except St Louis week 1) and supposedly Turner and Zimmer aren't very high on him as their franchise guy. I think it'd be fuging awesome to have both Matt and Ryan as cornerstones on our line for the future. Matt is risky because he seems to have gotten worse (or stayed the same) every year instead of getting better, but I bet being with his brother would help him and despite the struggles he's been way better than what we already have.

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I think this pick had more to do with R.R then Hurney...one ex LB picking a young LB with exceptional talent.

I love how we slide credit around to fit what we want to believe.

Not calling just u out because it seems like everyone does this.

You see it with Hornets fans now too who give Cho all the credit for recent success so they can say Jordan still sucks and stuff.

Just an interesting observation

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