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Gettleman is cruising the other side of the highway, just chilling.

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While waiting for some of the dust to settle from the wild trades and top tier signings, Gettleman seems to be driving down the other side of the freeway during the morning rush hour---you know, opposite the side where people are rushing to work. That other side is where most of the accidents will likely take place because some people are driving much too fast and take unnecessary chances.

Gettleman is cruising down the other side, cool, calm and collected like the G(man) that he is. Like any good driver, he aims high (i.e., he looks as far up the road as he can), but he also gets the big picture, as well as keeps his eyes moving---again, like any good driver. Even though he is doing all these things at the same time, he can still focus on some priorities.

One of those priorities is the Panthers woefully lacking special teams play. While those who are dangerously speeding down the other side with their tunnel vision---their eyes fixed on star wide receivers or decent to average offensive lineman and cornerbacks that are out of G-man's price range, G-man is eyeing two relatively inexpensive players, Jarrett Boykin and Andrew Gachkar, that will not only provide some depth at the respective positions, but more importantly add some quality special teams play. That may not be your preferred way to go about improving the team via this period of free agency, but it is arguably a smart way. Even if you can't see it.

My mother-in-law says, "What you can't see will make a whole new world." Just sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. When it's time to step up in class and pick up a free agent that most of us agree will upgrade other areas of the team, Gettleman will do so. He will just be driving on the opposite side of the rush.

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OP is right though. Gettleman has had a vision the moment he was hired and hasn't deviated from that path. We haven't spent outside our means to get out of cap hell. We've hit on our draft picks and got some quality starters, we are building solid depth. We are managing the cap correctly to sign OUR premier guys.

And that last sentence is important because we all know how it feels to want to keep one of our stars but not be able to because of bad contracts. Gettleman is making it so we get to keep our stars and if that means we have to not sign some other teams super stars or guys who are going to get overpaid that is fine.

Back to back playoffs and we haven't even gotten to the real meat of gettlmans plan. We are still a year or two away from seriously dominating teams.

You know how seattle seemingly came out of nowhere to now a powerhouse of the NFL? Pretty much this exact same way. Hit your draft picks, build solid depth, excellent coaching and game planning. That's what we are doing

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