Gettleman's repair job on our roster.

[panther4life]

In a continued attempt to have some meaningful, somewhat fresh football conversation I decided to take a look at how our roster has changed since Hurney left and what Gettleman has been able to do while playing the card's he was dealt. 

Below is a list of holdovers from the roster when Hurney was terminated in October of 2012.

QB Cam Newton, Derek Anderson

Running Backs Jonathan Stewart, Mike Tolbert

Wide Receivers None

Tight Ends Greg Olsen, Richie Brockel

Offensive Lineman  Ryan Kalil, Amini Silatolu and Garry Williams(maybe)

Defensive Ends Charles Johnson, Frank Alexander

Defensive Tackles Dwan Edwards

Linebackers Luke Keuchly, Thomas Davis

 Corners Josh Norman

Safeties Colin Jones

Specialist Nortman, J.J Jansen

That's 18 remaining out of a possible 53 and stands a chance to be reduced down to 16(if Brockel and Garry Williams get cut). Now we all know the cap hell Hurney left behind. 

**Also should be noted that Bersin, Lester(off and on anyway) and Nate Chandler while never on the active roster under Hurney were practice squad carry over's from his tenure. So if they make it that takes the total up to 20-22.

Since then Gman has had to wade his way through the cap hell and try to rebuild this team with bargain free agents, draft picks ( minus the 2013 3rd rounder Hurney gave up in 12 to grab Frank Alexander in the 4th round in the 2012 draft) and retain the core players through extensions (i.e Cam, Davis, Olsen).

Personally I was not impressed with our final 53 heading into last year, with major concerns in the secondary, Offensive line and lack of weapons at WR. Again this is just as much Hurney's fault if not more than G'mans for the position he left him in. Now thats all in the past. We have a healthy cap and one of the best potential rosters in years. 

Added via the draft by Gettleman

2013: Star, Short,Kugbila, Klein, and Barner

2014: Benjamin, Ealy, Turner, Boston, Benwikere, Gaffney

2015: Thompson, Funchess, Daryl Williams, Mayo and Artis-Payne

That adds 12 More assuming they all make it this year.

 This brings the total players almost certain to be on the roster from Hurney's era + Gman's drafts up to 31 with a chance of to up to 33. The rest of our roster has been made up of free agent additions undrafted and unrestricted. The best of that bunch in my opinion are as follows(Due to sheer math not all will make the final 53):

QB Joe Webb

RB Fozzy Whitaker, Jordan Toddman

WR. Ginn,Brown, Cotchery and Hill. (I think only 3 of these names make the final cut and in the order I put and possibly only 2 of Bersin sticks.).

T.E  Ed Dickson, Brandon Williams

Offensive Line Norwell,Rimmers, Oher, Martin, Chris Scott, Focault

Defensive Line Mario Addison, Wes Horton

Linebackers  Adarius Glanton

Corners Tillman, White, Houston, Teddy Williams

S. Harper, Coleman, Ball, Lester

K. Gano

 

I truly only miss 4 departed players from the roster at the time of Hurney being fired: Gross, Smith, Gamble and Wharton (3 of which have retired and Smitty is knocking on that door too). Other familiar names on the huddle t that are gone but not sorely missed include. Beason, Deangelo, Lafell,Hardy,James Anderson, Godfrey and Captain. 

So to recap the current roster roughly has 8 starters left over from 2012 and and another 8-10 in decent backups a Punter and Long snapper remaining since Hurney was let go in October 2012. Aside from having no cap space Hurney left us stuck with major holes on the 0-line, defensive tackle and the secondary. Gettleman fixed the DT position in year 1 and has addressed the WR problem in the last 2 drafts. The offensive line and secondary still need a lot of work but at least we are slowly seeing improvement and maybe just maybe we have seen enough to give us a shot at a deep playoff run this year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ctrcat]

Good post.  Just give the man the key to the city already.  Pretty clear he's the architect of the greatest dynasty of the salary cap era in it's infancy.  Someday young schoolchildren will be reading about Dave Gettleman in history books as one of the greatest Americans to ever live.

[Pejorative Miscreant]

I think Gettleman has transformed (or rather is in a constant state of transforming the the team) and doing so in such a way that is also transforming the mindset of the organization.  Hurney left us in cap hell but also left us with several quality young players.to build around.  While Gettleman has expanded on the core, he has differed from Hurney in being fiscally responsible with contracts and not breaking the bank based on loyalty rewards. 

[motocross_cat]

Respect for a man of his word.  Said he would tread lightly on spending and grab hogmollies.  Done just that.  

[PoundCat]

My only wish would have been a little more attention given to the O-line in the draft, but I also recognize that there probably wasn't a lineman available that we could have gotten without reaching each time we were on the clock. I think overall he's done a great job and I hope he sticks around for the next few decades :)

[KSpan]

Solid post.  Minor detail in that Lester was a rookie in 2013 and was not a Hurney player.

[the butch]

Great post, and I'ma let you get back to it, but GMan ain't "wading" through anything.

[Davidson Deac II]

I agree with your basic premise, although I feel obligated to point out that a high rate of turnover is a common occurrence in the NFL. 

[Cyberjag]

It's good research, but you should also consider that the average career of an NFL player is 3.3 years.  If you compare the starters from the Panthers in 2005 with the ones in 2008, there were only 15 players in common on both rosters, so it's not like we had a complete and unusual overhaul here.

[dpm0409]

Hey, I'm not going to nitpick anything ya said.  I appreciate a decent thread/read during the month on July.  Love DG by the way; Hell of a job so far.

[Cary Kollins]

Gman drafts like fugin possessed Vince Lombardi and Einstein hybrid.

 

Just look at those damn draft picks. Damn.

[1989]

2013 draft kinda sucked.

[Verge]

2013 draft kinda sucked.

We filled our defensive trench with the best DT duo in the nfl for the next ten years. How exactly is that bad?

[L-TownCat]

2013 draft kinda sucked.

He hit 60% drafted, started bruh.

then followed that with 83% drafted, started. 

Dude is crushing it.