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SB Nation The Panthers Collapse

Ricky Spanish

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Ricky Spanish

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SB Nation puts out some great content and they have an ongoing series called collapse where they chronicle the collapse of some of the best teams into obscurity. They did a really solid job giving a quick 15 minute summary of it all. Worth a watch if you want to feel more depressed about what could have been. 

 

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Watching this pisses me off in so many ways. It’s so many people to blame for this. We had an opportunity to become a consistent winner and blew it in every way imagineable. I hope that a business minded owner that was profit and respect can bring at least one SB to the team. If they can’t I feel the past few decades have been bad enough once you get to that 30th year mark and no SB Win just 2 appearances of self implosion don’t do it for me. At that point he might as well move the team to bring in more revenue because the fan base down there is horrid. I live in DC now but the first 14 years of my life between SC and NC show me that y’all care for nothing outside of college sports and its a shame. 

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i dont really think this is a good video

they talk about the "setup for a dynasty" and casually omit olsen, stewart, johnson, davis, and kalil were already towards the end of their primes during that run. 

saying it's a dynast implies that the panthers had a lot of young talent ready to take over which was clearly not true. Not including trai turner and luke, look at the roster of guys who were under 26. There aren't a lot of players there that are any good. Maybe daryl williams could have been better if not for injuries, but there is nothing on the bench there. ironically, kony ealy probably would have been super bowl mvp if they had pulled off the win. 

that team was carried by a group of veterans that just peaked at the right time. there was no dynasty in the making there as long as ron and co were still in charge. 

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39 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

i dont really think this is a good video

they talk about the "setup for a dynasty" and casually omit olsen, stewart, johnson, davis, and kalil were already towards the end of their primes during that run. 

saying it's a dynast implies that the panthers had a lot of young talent ready to take over which was clearly not true. Not including trai turner and luke, look at the roster of guys who were under 26. There aren't a lot of players there that are any good. Maybe daryl williams could have been better if not for injuries, but there is nothing on the bench there. ironically, kony ealy probably would have been super bowl mvp if they had pulled off the win. 

that team was carried by a group of veterans that just peaked at the right time. there was no dynasty in the making there as long as ron and co were still in charge. 

I disagree, a dynasty implies that you have a franchise capable of building for the future(like the Steelers which Richardson tried to emulate and Tepper's former franchise). We had a mix of experience and talent in 2015 and we just never were able to stock our coffers with talent after that. That culminated in what is now likely the least talented roster in the history of the franchise.

The most upsetting and depressing part of this slide is that it spanned multiple owners and multiple GM's. So, at the end of the day you kind of have to look at Rivera. For all of Richardson, Tepper, Gettleman and Hurney's obvious failures, Ron was the one constant during that slide.

We peaked at the right time and we couldn't capitalize when we did. I often and will probably forever wonder if we had gotten the calls in the SB or Gano hadn't missed that kick in 2016 if we wouldn't be looking at a different outcome entirely now.

 

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I think Oher’s injury was really the event that started the collapse. We had ignored LT since pushing out Gross. Finally we rolled the dice and landed a good LT. His injury hurt immediately and then forced us to find a replacement. We know how that went. Bad contract on a bad player that really set us back. We followed that up with hanging on to TD and Olsen too long. Switched to a 3-4 when you have a HOF caliber middle LB???  Then the Cam injuries obviously sealed the deal. 

new owner. New coach. New faces. The GM will be the last domino to fall and then it will be a completely new era.

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