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Steve Smith: Panthers most improved after Draft

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Drk89Wng Newbie

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I agree, with the same slight bias he has to us also. The defense can't get worse than last 2 years. The jury is out on Phil Snow. If he can't field a top 10 defense by year 3 I hope Rhule doesn't have the same issue with faithful to his guys over reason that Rivera did. 

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In the end, this draft was, at least on paper, exactly what the team needed. Defense was our biggest need, especially along the line and the secondary. Did we get the right guys? I think so, but there are a few I'd never heard of before to be honest. 

Are we the most improved in the league? Well, I believe Steve Smith and also I remember how bad we were. I think that mathematically it would have been hard not to improve and still be able to field a team.

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7 minutes ago, Drk89Wng said:

I agree, with the same slight bias he has to us also. The defense can't get worse than last 2 years. The jury is out on Phil Snow. If he can't field a top 10 defense by year 3 I hope Rhule doesn't have the same issue with faithful to his guys over reason that Rivera did. 

He's been very critical of the Panthers in the past so not sure he is biased.  

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1 minute ago, JARROD said:

Panthers improve from being out of the Lawrence race to being top contender ha

FWIW, we were out of the lawrence race the day we signed Bridgewater.  He may not be an elite QB, but he's not as bad as what we fielded last year.  If we traded/cut cam and went into next year with Allen, I would have known we were tanking.  

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The Panthers are tough to gauge honestly. We weren't as bad as our record showed last year. Not only did injuries make us worse than we already where, but after Ron was gone the team just quit.

I wouldn't expect to be markedly better wins and losses wise, but I would bet that our defense is light years better by simply having a pulse.

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