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Shockey, Olsen and Tolbert.. Why did we get away from getting those level of guys?

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Jeremy Shockey.. Was considered old and a huge "locker room cancer" when we signed him.. He signs with us and contributes immensly to Cam's monster rookie year and wouldnt you know, ended up being very well liked by Cam and our locker room, go figure..

Greg Olsen, wasnt that well known of a TE at the time, we traded a 3rd rounder for him and he is now literally the best TE in the NFCs (with Graham now gone.) He is the text book high character guy and is a pro bowler.

Mike Tolbert.. You can give a huge amount of our credit in 2013 going for it on 4th down because when it was 4th and short, he would poind the rock in and make it look so easy.

I think when me and other Panther fans get upset we arent active in FA, people misunderstand that as us bashing Gettleman for not dropping mega contracts left and right Miami Dolphins or Chip Kelly style. That is not the case at all, infact I think the Fins went full retard with Suh and Chip Kelly is having some sort of mental break down.

My point is this.. Just bring in guys that have proven to be impact players in this league, thats all we want. We dont need Suh or Maclin, or players like thst, just proven impact players. I could understand completely if Shockey, Tolbert and Olsen didnt pan out, but they did and in a big way! Why dont we go after these kind of players anymore? Cap cant be an excuse because we got all three of these guys right in the middle of Hurney cap hell.

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lol we traded for Olsen

Exactly, and we dont do creative things like that. Work up a trade for a true impact player. Damn Shockey was so solid for us his short time here. He was a good blocking TE, didnt he have like a broken finger and concussion at the same time that year and still played the next week. Our offense was so bad ass then

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Yea and the third we traded for Olsen the Bears traded for Brandon Marshall I believe...could be wrong.

 

It would be nice to get players like that but you have to realize Shockey didnt care where he went he was old, Tolbert wanted to come here to the point of even taking a paycut. Olsen was quoted as saying he was blindsided by the trade and didn't understand why he couldn't stay in Chicago but will adjust (later he does say he loves it here). The main theme is FAs aren't looking at Carolina as a team they want to play for. You know, the guys have a choice who they're going to play for. When is the last time a big FA played for a decent contract going to a shitty team? Never, it's usually a big contract and more money than the winning teams would pay. That means money has to bring them here and money is not what we offer. Hopefully we will offer a winning culture in the next few years and I really believe we will.

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The point im making is ofcourse im not on the "gettledouch sucks, sign all the FAs bandwagon!" I think Gman is very solid anc his drafting is superb for the most part. I just miss us getting true mid level guys. Shockey, Tolbert and Olsen, THATS what I consider Target level guys and I miss us going after guys like that, especially seeing as how we have hit home runs on all three of them.

Kind of crazy to think we got all three of those players under Hurney

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