Half way through the season, who are the Panthers O and D MVPs?

[Jeremy Igo]

Who are your offensive and defensive MVPs?

 

Defense I'm going Peppers.

Offense I'm going Cam over CMC in a close call.

 

[arbnranger]

 

Cam

Luke 

Will be interesting to see who steps up during the meat and potato’s part of the season. 

[JakeDel5674]

Defense: Julius Peppers for sure, with Luke being an honorable mention.

Offense: Daryl Williams.  He's been better than we could have ever expected.

Special Teams: Parlardy-47.1 average.  Hard to beat that.  

[Nate Dogg]

Peppers over Luke slightly and, sadly, Gano. 

[OldNorthPowell]

Peppers on defense, and nobody on offense.

[Jeremy Igo]

2 minutes ago, OldNorthPowell said:

Peppers on defense, and nobody on offense.

Fair

[simmonsab]

Defensively -- Peppers or TD. Peppers is playing out of his mind being 37 years old and still collecting 7.5 sacks. I would also argue TD because of his leadership without Kuechly being on the field and also playing through injury. His wife reported he's been playing with multiple broken ribs a few weeks ago, yet he's still playing at a high level. If that doesn't get credit, I don't know what else will..        

Offensively -- Call me crazy, but Greg Olsen. Yes, he's played one game; yes, he's been injured; yes, Cam should probably get this vote, but I think we really see what we're missing on offense. Ed Dickson has been a decent, inconsistent replacement for Greg, and Benjamin obviously didn't pan out to what we needed him to be with weight gaining, lack of being in shape, and the occasional stone hands. McCaffrey has done a decent job at filling in the "security blanket," role, but he's not Greg. Greg takes all the pressure off of Cam, knowing he's a top-notch blocker, and also being Cam's "go-to," guy when needed. We're 5-3, but if we have Greg to hold the fort down, is it possible we win an extra game or 2? The Philly game comes to mind where Greg could be the ultimate game changer.

 

Just my thoughts. Cam would get 2nd placed in the offensive voting, but I think it really shows how important Greg is for us.                                                                                                                                                                  

[AggieLean]

Cam

Peppers

[Tarheels23]

19 minutes ago, OldNorthPowell said:

Peppers on defense, and nobody on offense.

This is my vote as well.

[Mr. Scot]

Well, if you define offensive MVP as the person who makes the offense what it is, I'd vote for Mike Shula. 

[HardcoreDefense]

Funchess could be the offensive MVP. This looks to be his break out year and he has made some big plays when it mattered the most

[SOJA]

Special Teams: Palardy and Gano have both been excellent this year. I realize Butker was a better choice but can't fault Gano. 

Defense: Peppers, I'm not even factoring in his age he's just been that good when on the field. Luke had a bad game against Detroit and unfortunately with the concussion has not played enough.  

Offense: Cam. No doubt. We would be historically bad on offense without him. Yes he's thrown some picks this year but a lot of those have not been his fault.

CMC has played better as a WR than I anticipated but worse as RB. Now I think a lot of that has to do with subpar line play (Larsen and Trai suprisingly) and teams stacking the box against us. I certainly am not giving up on him as a RB like the national media has. 

Funchess has greatly improved this year but he still refuses to attack balls in the air. This is truly concerning because you need a #1 WR to do that. 

Matt Kalil has not been good, but he's been slightly better than he was in Minnesota which I suppose is a plus. 

 

This offseason our top needs are: Left Tackle, DE, C, WR, S (will not be mad if we target a top tier free agent at any of those positions or use a first round pick on them)

[Peppers90 NC]

Peppers or Luke on D. No one on offense has played MVP worthy sans Cam's two game stretch, so maybe Olsen? We see how much his presence is missed.

[L-TownCat]

Pep has absolutely crushed it this year.  Def give him the nod over Luke right now.

Whew boy, that offense, hmmm.  Searching, searching, searching...

For lack of a better answer, it has to be Cam.  He’s the only thing that can make this O go.  He goes, we go.  He falls, we hurt.