Thinking back to previous offseasons...

[hepcat]

43 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

So, anyone read or heard the words "Panthers interested in / talking to / visiting with Gino Gradkowski" in the last few days?

No?

That's kinda what I'm talking about.

Even if the beat writers picked that up it's hardly news.  People only care about big name free agents not a backup offensive lineman hahha

[Mr. Scot]

How many pages of discussion are there about Gradkowski in just the past few hours since we signed him?

And what super important task have our beat writers been working on in the past 24 hours that would have prevented them from checking this out?

[L-TownCat]

Well, did you guys here about the last guy that tipped off G-man's plans?

 

No, you didn't.  Think about it.

[Seltzer]

In fairness to the beat writers on Nortman, I think the Panthers made him an offer, just one they felt represented his value and one he felt didn't.  Obviously, the Jaguars had money to spend and were willing to spend it.  Don't think a punter switching teams is really on anyone's radar per se though.

Like the saying goes, at any given time, out of the 32 punters, there are 3 punters that are truly special in what they can do, 3 punters who need to be replaced, and the rest are basically interchangeable.

I don't know how Nortman could possibly fall anywhere but in the replaceable category.  He had a good year in 2013, and he hasn't been terrible, but he shanked several this year.  That punt that Peterson muffed in the NFC Championship game could have been disasterous.  Beyond that, I think most of the frustration with him has been with his propensity to outkick the coverage and give the returner a full head of steam before the coverage can get there.  A 60 yard punt with no hang time is not a good punt.

[Khyber53]

On 3/9/2016 at 2:21 PM, Mr. Scot said:

...how many times do you remember hearing of the Panthers being interested in a player before you heard the news that we had signed him?

Did you see it ahead of time or was it generally a case of "Wow, I didn't even know we were talking to him"?

Actually, sometimes it's like, "Wow, is that guy even a player on a team?" Gettleman's offseason workbook probably reads like the FBI's Witness Protection Logbook.