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Is this the best front 7 rotation the Panthers have ever had?

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LDE: Julius Peppers - 1st round pick / Charles Johnson - 3rd round pick

DT: Kawan Short - 2nd round pick / Vernon Butler - 1st round pick

DT: Star Lotulelei - 1st round pick / Vernon Butler - 1st round pick

RDE: Mario Addison / Daeshon Hall - 3rd round pick / Wes Horton

OLB: Thomas Davis - 1st round pick

MLB: Luke Kuechly - 1st round pick

OLB: Shaq Thompson - 1st round pick

 

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Yea I'd have to give the nod to 2013. Our pass rush that year was ferocious. We don't have that right now, on paper.  Peppers and CJ could ball out this year and we could have that pass rush again, but right now our DE spot is looking mediocre. 

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02-03 was pretty damn good too.

Peppers,Jenkins,Buckner, Rucker. With Al Wallace rotating in as well.

Jenkins was arguably the best DT in the game and Peppers was entering his 2nd year.

Dan Morgan and Will Witherspoon were playing damn good back then as well. In 02 we had Mark Fields, in 03 Greg Favors came in.

But before concussions got to him Morgan was right up there with Urlacher in terms of best MLB's.

In 02 we had 54 team sacks. 

 

96 We employed a 3-4 but that may have been the best fromt 7 we ever fielded. Team produced 60 sacks that year.

The big names were Kevin Greene and Lamar Lathon (salt and pepper). They were what Von Miller and Demarcus ware were in 2015. Deadly combo of outside rushers. Then you had Sam Mills on the inside and Carlton Bailey as the other inside backer?

The D-line I don't remember much in terms of performance but the names were 

NT- Kragen

DE- Fox and Gerald Williams.

 

 

 

 

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12 minutes ago, E CaT PanTHer 2 said:

you clearly don't remember Eric Swaan, Reggie White, Chuck Smith, and Sean Gilbert :-p

No one remembers Chuck Smith in a Carolina Panther's uniform unless you saw him in the 1 preseason game he played.

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Hard to beat young Pep, Rucker, Jenks, and Buckner with Wallace, Burton, Moorehead, and Rasmussen swapping out. Our LBs were a little weaker then, but Morgan and Witherspoon were pretty damned good starters, and the guys beside and behind them were solid too.

That said, I think we could rival that now, if not surpass it. Very likely best/deepest front 7 we've ever had.

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On paper, they're impressive, but I'm worried about how much of an impact CJ will have.  He's coming off of the same back surgery Tiger Woods has had multiple times.  I know, not really comparing apple to apples in terms of how they use thier body, but any time you start having back issues, they don't go away.

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