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I just wrote a letter :-) Never thought i'd be one of those fans lol. Emailed it to [email protected]

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Hello Mr Richardson. My name is ******** **********.

I have been a Carolina Panthers fan for more than 20 years. I have been through the Kerry Collins shenanigans, Rae Carruth, sat through all games in 2001 when we lost 15 straight and went 1-15, as well as the agonizing 2010 season where we went 2-14. I have also been through so many other low points as a fan which for me were a result of some terrible front office decisions. Mr. Richarson, I think we have made some stupid decisions as a franchise, but in my opinion, the abrupt firing of General Manager David Gettleman two days ago with no subsequent explanation takes the cake.  

I don't think you need me to tell you that David Gettleman got us out of cap hell created by Marty Hurney. Gettleman also attacked headfirst our culture of coddling talented yet toxic personalities and instilling a team first culture where no egos were above the team. The proof is in the pudding Mr. Richardson. Only New England, Seattle, Green Bay and Denver have won more playoff games in the last four years than us. I think any objective student of the game can tell you that Gettleman was a legitimate GM that had us on our way of becoming a stable winning franchise.

In my view Mr. Richardson, the message that you just sent with the firing of Mr. Gettleman is essentially a big middle finger to most fans. For me and several fans, this decision reeks of "This is my team, I do what I please, so go to **** yourselves!". I am going to stick by that sentiment until I get what I feel is a sufficient explanation of why we got rid of the best GM in team history.

Sometimes I really wonder about the priorities of our ownership, and even staff and some of our players. Is it possible that the fans care more about winning than the ownership? That is not a rhetorical question sir. I would like to know whether you are commited to winning or if you are on some type of self-sabotage excursion.

Mr. Richardson, either you used David Gettleman as a hatchet man to clean up the mess created by people like Marty Hurney and yourself then spit him back out, or you simply have lost your mind sir. My guess is the latter as I find it unlikely that an NFL owner with all his faculties fires a GM a week before training camp.

If the firing of David Gettleman was the big middle finger from you to us fans, then the hiring of Marty Hurney on an "Interim Basis", is the subsequent sucker punch in the gut. There are rumors going around that Gettleman was fired because he took a hard line when it came to extending the contracts of players like Thomas Davis and Greg Olsen.

So let me get this straight sir. We fired Hurney because he was creating cap problems by handing out feel good contracts to aging and/or overrated players. Then a few years later, we decide to bring Hurney back to do the same exact thing for which we fired him? Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. If these Thomas Davis/Greg Olsen rumors are true, then we have essentially fired Gettleman for the same reason we hired him.

Mr. Richardson, this is your team. You can do as you please. But as a fan, I may have to reevaluate my passion until you make up your mind regarding your role when it comes to personnel decisions. If you are going to play Al Davis in his later years, Dan Snyder etc… by meddling away and running the team into mediocrity all the way to the bank, by all means do that and none of use can stop you. Otherwise, if you value the opinion of fans like me, please step back and let these GMs do the job that you hired them to do. 

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1 hour ago, Burnout189 said:

 


Oh I was, but comparing this situation, and it is a bad one, with losing our franchise QB is just moronic and ridiculous in my opinion.

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We still win with Anderson in. I'm not sure we can win long term with Hurney who though McClain and Fua would be viable starting defensive tackles. 

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