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That is how many players from last year's season-opening 53 man roster remain.

We're replacing at least 23 players on the active roster from September of 2019. Let that sink in.

I can't recall a bigger one-season difference in the entire history of the Carolina Panthers. Maybe in '95 when we assembled our entire first roster from scratch?

I'll have to go back and do some digging, but this season is still probably second place to that first roster.

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Just now, jfra78 said:

We wont have any clue how bad or good this team is until we play

I agree. I actually think they have the potential, even before the draft, to be better than most think.

However, this is definitely a new era of Panthers football.

Aside from McCaffrey and maybe Moore and Samuel, this team will be unrecognizable week one.

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Last year's personal management was straight bizzaro world. We went from an aging roster that could no longer complete, to a nursing home roster on fat contracts that was going to need a huge prayer in the health department to even think about the playoffs.

What did we get for playing that stupid game? Stupid prizes in the form of being a year farther behind the rebuild and stupid amounts of dead cap space.

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Honestly I’m not so sure that’s a huge number for a non-playoff team. I feel like we have had other off seasons with more change than that... Maybe someone can find numbers from past seasons and also other teams around the league to compare?

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43 minutes ago, Madwolf said:

Last year's personal management was straight bizzaro world. We went from an aging roster that could no longer complete, to a nursing home roster on fat contracts that was going to need a huge prayer in the health department to even think about the playoffs.

What did we get for playing that stupid game? Stupid prizes in the form of being a year farther behind the rebuild and stupid amounts of dead cap space.

Sounds like another Hurndawg special

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I'm honestly starting to wonder if Tepper isn't playing some really high level chess here. Maybe he's a helluva lot smarter than he looks right now and he really thinks Rhule and company are the long-term answer, but having Marty Hurney try to build a roster meant to win right now around a coaching staff nearly devoid of NFL experience is in fact one helluva covert tanking operation.

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Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

I'm honestly starting to wonder if Tepper isn't playing some really high level chess here. Maybe he's a helluva lot smarter than he looks right now and he really thinks Rhule and company are the long-term answer, but having Marty Hurney try to build a roster meant to win right now around a coaching staff nearly devoid of NFL experience is in fact one helluva covert tanking operation.

It was a stealth tank my friend!

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