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NASCAR driver Austin Dillon arrives with Panthers in tow for All-Star Race

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There were quite a few really good players that were shown the door during the Gettleman reign, and a lot of them were pretty salty about it. DWill was great when he was here, he did well in Pittsburgh when they needed him. He got upset about the whole deal and after the loss of his Mom he had some stuff to say about the organization that may have been targeted at management but hit the whole fan base. 

Up until then, he'd been the model Panther and had been a helluva running back. In truth, we could have used him the year we let him go and the year after that. 

Gettlemagic pushed DWill out before it was time, just like he did with Smitty. 

Oh yeah, NASCAR. Meh.

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45 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

There were quite a few really good players that were shown the door during the Gettleman reign, and a lot of them were pretty salty about it. DWill was great when he was here, he did well in Pittsburgh when they needed him. He got upset about the whole deal and after the loss of his Mom he had some stuff to say about the organization that may have been targeted at management but hit the whole fan base. 

Up until then, he'd been the model Panther and had been a helluva running back. In truth, we could have used him the year we let him go and the year after that. 

Gettlemagic pushed DWill out before it was time, just like he did with Smitty. 

Oh yeah, NASCAR. Meh.

D-Will overstayed his welcome. He got fat and complacent after his contract extension and did next to nothing thereafter. He even commented on how he was in the best shape in years when he went to Pittsburgh because he actually had to be held accountable for his on the field performance again. Before that year, he had spent the previous 5 getting fat and sassy never even eclipsing 850 yards over that time span while being one of the highest paid RBs in the league.

Also it came out from a few people here and there that behind the scenes Williams was a bit of a prick and hard to like within the building so there wasn't much love lost when we let him go. 

I think you're looking at his time here with rose colored glasses. Dude had 2 good years in 08 and 09, got paid, then never really did much else for us ever again. 

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