Only 1 team in the last 18 years has won a SuperBowl with a receiving group as awful as ours. The 2000 Baltimore Ravens

[CamMoon]

Heres a painful reminder of what a terrible job the front office has done putting talent on the offensive side of the ball and why its unlikely we'll last long in these playoffs. I respect everybody that puts on an NFL uniform, much less a Carolina Panthers one but to have several UDFAs on the roster at the same position, seeing significant playing time AND expecting to make a run is ridiculous.  You can make the argument that we have the worst WR group of the 12 teams (probably about even with Buffalo), and if we were to go on some magical superbowl run it would literally buck every trend we've seen the last 18 years of NFL group. Look at the some talent on these rosters.

2000 Rams- Holt, Bruce, (Also had Hall of famers Faulk, Warner)

2001 Ravens- Dud, but that defense was historically dominate

2002 Bucs- Prime Keyshawn Johnson and Keenan McCardell was a better than average 2

2003 Pats- Branch, Troy Brown

2004 Pats- Branch, Givens, Patten

2005 Steelers- Hines Ward, Randle El

06 Colts- Reggie Wayne, Marvin Harrison (I don't know how this team didn't win more)

07 Giants - Plax, Toomer

08 Steelers- Holmes, Hines Ward

09 Saints- Colston, Henderson (Reggie Bush)

10 Packers - Donald Driver, Greg Jennings

11 Giants - Manningham, Nicks

12 Ravens - Boldin, Torrey Smith

13 Seahawks- Doug Baldwin, Golden Tate

14 Pats- Edelman, Lafell, (Gronk)

15 Broncos - Sanders, Thomas

16 Pats- Hogan, Edelman

 

 

Even some of the underwhelming names on that list are miles ahead of everybody not named Devin Funchess, and Funchess is probably a#2 WR at absolute best in this league. If Cam Newton can manage to lead the team to a W on Sunday build him a damn statue overnight in front of BOA. It is criminal what the team has surrounded him with at WR and no Coach/QB in modern history has been as successful as Cam and Rivera given the talent the front office has put on the field. In fact, look at the entirely of NFL history. What "great" QB has had any level of sustainable success without dependable targets at WR, much less made a playoff run. The sad thing is the Colin Cowherds of the world will get on TV Monday morning and talk about how bad and inconsistent Cam is. 

 

[uncfan888]

I saw a thread on here about some cryptology and codes saying it was our time to win.. We good bruh

[Jangler]

[Goondal]

So all we need is for our defense to suddenly become the greatest unit in the history of the sport and we have a chance?

Well...at least we know what we need to do.

[Donald LaFell]

It’s a little biased to include Gronk and Bush in parens but not mention Olsen and McAffery. 

We absolutely fleeced the Bears to Olsen and drafted McCaffery with out 1st pick this year. I wouldn’t say the FO is horrible because the team isn’t stacked at every position.

[TheCasillas]

Meh. Half of those teams those WR were part of the system, when they went to new teams they became below average players.

Funchess, Olsen, cmc are our receivers. I’d argue they are better than about half of those.

 

good try though.

[Mage]

Olsen, Funchess, and Mac is def as good as Manningham and Nicks. 

[Swaggasaurus]

That list just shows that you can win with scrub receivers. Wow.

[Adb6368]

[Cookie Lyon]

2 hours ago, uncfan888 said:

I saw a thread on here about some cryptology and codes saying it was our time to win.. We good bruh

LOL

[gorillamilitia13]

None of those teams had Cam Newton.

[t96]

Not so sure the '13 Hawks' receiving group was much better than ours now... Doug Baldwin was young and has improved a ton year to year, he wasn't really that good then. Tate and Funch are a wash. They had Harvin but he wasn't involved on offense at all. Great running game with Lynch. But no good TE, which is where Olsen makes our receiving group probably better than theirs that year.

[Ricky Spanish]

1999 was the Rams

2000 was the Ravens.

2001 was the Pats

You skipped a Pats Superb Owl.

 

[Cartel de Carolina]

anyone get a chuckle how OP uses Lafell as an example?