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[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

how about this: i, a certified card-carrying gettleman nutswinger and apologist, will make your damn argument for you since you're apparently afraid to:

-dave gettleidiot doesn't try to strongarm jordan gross into taking another pay cut after 2013.  he doesn't get so mad he literally quits football and turns into a twig overnight and gives us one more season to groom a draft pick.  this also means no byron bell experiment.  bell isn't tendered and is let walk into FA and some other tackling dummy starts at RT opposite gross.

-the panthers coax smitty into playing another year with a reasonable contract extension that features voidable years.  dave gettledouche's mt. everest sized ego doesn't get in the way and he goes off for 1300 yards and 10 TDs capping his career in style.

-failing a smith retention, draft both benjamin and robinson in the 1st/2nd rounds of the draft.  pass on ealy.  this gives the panthers interchangeable 1A and 1B receivers of the future.  hell do it anyway.

-give munnerlyn what he wants.  he starts at nickel while bene and norman man the outside.

-say fug you to roger goodell and dare him to discipline hardy, a man who has been rendered a trial de novo which arguably means the original conviction never happened

wow that felt dirty

[aussiePanther]

So sick of people complaining about roster moves, or the lack thereof in other cases, who ignore the salary cap or the lack of suitable and available free agent replacements. I'm also sick of people wanting to turn the roster over for immediate success without any concern for building a solid core of a roster for future success; sacrificing long term success for short term "glory" gets you what the saints are and have been for 3 years. No thanks.

 

And I'm REALLY sick of people hijacking threads to constantly slag off the executive of the year (or coty at other times) who has done an INCREDIBLE job in a very tough and competitive situation, or to YET AGAIN raise the possibility of Hardy coming back as if it's not totally impossible or even a slightly good idea.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

5 hours ago, aussiePanther said:

So sick of people complaining about roster moves, or the lack thereof in other cases, who ignore the salary cap or the lack of suitable and available free agent replacements. I'm also sick of people wanting to turn the roster over for immediate success without any concern for building a solid core of a roster for future success; sacrificing long term success for short term "glory" gets you what the saints are and have been for 3 years. No thanks.

 

And I'm REALLY sick of people hijacking threads to constantly slag off the executive of the year (or coty at other times) who has done an INCREDIBLE job in a very tough and competitive situation, or to YET AGAIN raise the possibility of Hardy coming back as if it's not totally impossible or even a slightly good idea.

it's hard not to just laugh them off at this point.  most of the "duh" moves everyone wanted gettleman to make at the time have proven to be complete busts, were just infeasible, or would eventually prove to have roughly equivalent or lesser value than what we ended up going with.  so now we're left with people whose case consists of "any idiot knew that bell and chandler were terrible.  it's just unacceptable that they were starting" with no other suggestions or insight whatsoever.  the parts of that FA and draft tackle class that would have been remotely accessible to us at the time ended up pretty shitty and i'm honestly not certain that, at our price range and where our draft picks fell, we could have done much better than the tackle combo we went with for 2014.  even then remmers proved to be a late season upgrade to chandler and i'll be damned if bell wasn't playing slightly better with norwell next to him.

if you listened to these people we'd be turning the top half of the roster over every year.  competition is certainly good but, particularly with a unit like the OL, scheme fit and chemistry is tremendously important.  that's why michael oher had probably the second best season of his career as a pass protector last year.  wholesale changes on the OL are best done gradually or, failing that, if the entire unit is getting blown up and you're starting over.  cases like with norwell/turner where those two just seized the position and blew away the guys they replaced are obviously an outlier. 

point is there are a lot more saints and eagles FOs who try to win with that approach and fail than there are denver broncos who succeed at it.  a hell of a lot more.