was the jared allen trade a failure?

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

likeable guy, but he really hasn't done poo since the indy and philly games, where he got a sack each of those games. since then, he's had 0 sacks, and 11 tackles. im confused as to what his role on his team is. like does he offer pass rushing tips to our young DEs who never get rotated in during practice? i figured he was brought in to be a pass rusher in place of the 20 million dollar baby's injury, but his contributions are just eh.

i feel as if we could've scooped up a guy on a practice squad and kept our pick

[PanthersGOATFan336]

Who is this Jared Allen you speak of?

[Daeavorn]

I think it was a failure only if you consider that he is taking snaps away from Ealy, who in my opinion was coming along very nicely.

[TheRed]

Is Jared Allen currently counting $20 million against our salary cap?

He's the least of our worries right now. My question is, where the hell is Charles Johnson?

[PhillyB]

i always see him flashing down at the bottom of the screen with his big sexy number and lumberjack arms splayed out wide like he's about to lop somebody's arm off for a sack fumble but then he just kind of nancies right past while the quarterback invariably tosses a great pass into a hole in the zone. he's been an incredibly disappointment.

that said, sacks don't tell the whole story and it'd be irresponsible to eschew his value without a closer look at his body of work.

[Sam Mills Fan]

He was only ever meant to be a CJ stopgap. He played his limited part fine. It's CJ that's not living up to his end of the deal.

[ecu88]

YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH ABOUT MY LUMBERJACK MAN!  Love ECU88

[BIGH2001]

I wouldn't say a failure in light of what we gave up.  He's been disappointing but as far as the trade value it's a wash. Charles Johnson on the other hand...we could do a lot with the 20 million in cap space he's wasting. 

[hepcat]

poo no, he exceeded what he was brought here to do.  If the Panthers were getting better production from the D-Line, he'd be used like Dwight Freeney is being used in Arizona.

[Doc Holiday]

For what we are paying him he is doing well, we are paying him like $400k and he's done more then CJ who is playing like he wants to get cut next year.

[Evodion]

Allen Wasn't brought in to set the world on fire, so I'd say not really. CJ needs to step up, I hear him talking, but I'm not seeing production on the field.

[Kevin Greene]

Season ain't over yet. He could run up 6 sacks in the Post Season.

[CarolinaSamurai]

This is what pisses me off about Allen. Why the fug is he starting, why the fug is he paired with CJ, why the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuug is our coaches choosing this line up that's not doing well. 

[frash.exe]

We've had injuries at DE this year and bringing in Jared was all we could do to stabilize the position. We were looking for Frank Alexander to contribute, but Big Frank can't seem to go outside and water his lawn without blowing a ligament or getting suspended for violating the substance abuse policy for the 800th time