A perspective that makes sense from Will Brinson

[Shaqil915]

Will Brinson and the Rotoworld guys talk about the Panthers situation.

Basically saying he thinks Hurney is only still here for transition purposes.

[Your GFs favorite huddler]

I wish espn would steal josh Klein away to replace that idiot David newton...

[LinvilleGorge]

I certainly hope that's the case.

[therealmjl]

we can all hope

[mrcompletely11]

we gonna tank

[SmartyHurney]

These dipshits state that the Panthers traded up in the second to draft Clausen, hemorrhaging picks, which didn't happen. How the fug do these morons not do their homework. This is their fuging job, it's easy, just read a fuging wikipedia article before pontificating about a team.

[SmartyHurney]

Also, these idiots say "can't keep track of all the bad Marty Hurney trades". He must be reading reddit comments, and these dumbass posts on this forum.

For the record Hurney had more picks that most teams, most years, on average. From trades, and trading back. On the other hand Dave Gettleman had the fewest picks in the league while he was in Carolina, which isn't mentioned enough as to why the Panthers are having to currently rebuild.

[ellis]

Brinson and Norris are good football reporters/analysts. That said, everyone is still in a period of “best guesses” at this point. Not even February yet. Things will become clearer soon, I’m sure. They have to fill airtime. I get it.

[Mr. Scot]

Related...

If the Panthers wanted to interview Highsmith, Wolf or Dorsey, no permission needed as all are free agents.

Seems unlikely Dorsey would interview for anything less than the full time GM job, but Highsmith or Wolf might. That was actually Wolf's job title in Cleveland.

You could conceivably hire one of those guys for the assistant job and then hire Nick Caserio for the GM spot after The Draft.

[SmokinwithWilly]

22 minutes ago, SmartyHurney said:

Also, these idiots say "can't keep track of all the bad Marty Hurney trades". He must be reading reddit comments, and these dumbass posts on this forum.

For the record Hurney had more picks that most teams, most years, on average. From trades, and trading back. On the other hand Dave Gettleman had the fewest picks in the league while he was in Carolina, which isn't mentioned enough as to why the Panthers are having to currently rebuild.

Hurney's draft day trades have generally not worked out. 1st for Otah who was cut after 3 seasons (after going on IR twice). 1st for Brown the next year. The 33rd for Edwards. He did trade the 07' 1st for 3 picks that ended up being Kalil and Beason. He did well with that one. Just because he had more picks doesn't mean that he used them well. He did well with the Olsen and KB trades. Props to him for taking the Bears to the cleaners and for fleecing Buffalo. 

For the most part, he and Gettleman ended up with the same amount of players on NFL rosters. Of the players Gettleman drafted with the Panthers, 66% (18 of 27) were on NFL rosters this past year. That's not bad drafting at all. Gettleman's free agents worked out for the most part, Matt Kalil being the obvious flop. Marty has had 3 years to build around this team since Gettleman was canned right after the draft. He has not filled the gaps well. Neither one of these guys worked well here as GMs. 

Bottom line, we can do better than Hurney and Gettleman.