Rewind a few months...

[RumHam]

ifthis is the last year of hurney's contract, he better be let go if we're 0-8. 

[JawnyBlaze]

What we know now, what we knew then, what we’ve always known: no. Terrible choices from the get-go. 

[jfra78]

LOL all of you were thrilled when we resigned Tre this offseason.  Even before week 1 everyone of you were exclaiming how he was the best thing we have on defense.  You're a fickle bunch

[Jon Snow]

33 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

LOL all of you were thrilled when we resigned Tre this offseason.  Even before week 1 everyone of you were exclaiming how he was the best thing we have on defense.  You're a fickle bunch

Not me brother.  I was never a Boston fan.

[mrcompletely11]

7 hours ago, jfra78 said:

LOL all of you were thrilled when we resigned Tre this offseason.  Even before week 1 everyone of you were exclaiming how he was the best thing we have on defense.  You're a fickle bunch

Boston sucks dude

[OceanPanther]

No  and  No

If we're rebuilding,  Bradberry is young enough to have signed as part of the rebuild  and can actually cover the amazing WR in our divisions.

I wonder how many of our defensive starting players would start any where else.. and in some cases, even make a team.

I've never understood all the hype over Shaq .. 
Boston,,  he's the Troy Polamalu without the talent .. but the hair man,,  " its better to look good that to be good "  lol

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

12 hours ago, gmckee1985 said:

Boston has always been average. Didn't mind him coming back considering all the other changes. Shaq has been disappointing.

I was never a Shaq fan tbh

[Captroop]

Boston, I'm fine with. $6 million per year (avg) is reasonable for a veteran safety, especially when we didn't have any other answers on the roster, and the market wasn't exactly teeming. And he's got a lot of energy that rubs off on the players around him. And our weak ass secondary could use any spark of energy we can give it.

Shaq at $12M a year? Hell no.

I think both moves were precipitated by a significant starter leaving and wanting to retain some of the corps. Again, Boston I get, because otherwise you're starting an entirely new safety duo.

Extending Shaq, I can't explain at all except sheer panic when Luke retired.

[Sgt Schultz]

1 hour ago, Captroop said:

Boston, I'm fine with. $6 million per year (avg) is reasonable for a veteran safety, especially when we didn't have any other answers on the roster, and the market wasn't exactly teeming. And he's got a lot of energy that rubs off on the players around him. And our weak ass secondary could use any spark of energy we can give it.

Shaq at $12M a year? Hell no.

I think both moves were precipitated by a significant starter leaving and wanting to retain some of the corps. Again, Boston I get, because otherwise you're starting an entirely new safety duo.

Extending Shaq, I can't explain at all except sheer panic when Luke retired.

The extended Shaq before Luke retired, which gave rise to the speculation that he talked to them about his thinking before the season ended (well, officially ended, it had long been over before then and the schedule pretended there were more games).  But timing aside, you are right....it was almost like Hurney decided if we pay him a truckload of money, he will be worth a truckload of money.

That "reality is what we say it is" thing is dangerous.  Especially to a guy like Hurney, who seems convinced he can find diamonds in the rough while there is a lot of coal piled in his office.

[Udogg]

19 hours ago, Paintballr said:

D-line covers and make the back 7 look a lot better. 
 

Front 4 are god awful. Throw in that 2 starters were/are out, we don’t have a sack in the league,  and we can’t stop the run, it’s going to make those back 7 look really really bad. 
 

Luke is one of my favorite players ever, is a HoF, but he would even look out of place and look bad this year 

This ^^^^^^^^

[Anybodyhome]

20 hours ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Knowing what we know now, should Hurney have extended Shaq and Tre?

Knowing what we know now, Hurney should have never been the person to make those decisions.

[kungfoodude]

22 minutes ago, Anybodyhome said:

Knowing what we know now, Hurney should have never been the person to make those decisions.

Yeah but we also knew that before he made those decisions.

[Khyber53]

20 hours ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Knowing what we know now, should Hurney have extended Shaq and Tre?

Shaq yeah. He'd be playing better now if Whitehead was only half as good as advertised. 

Tre... going into the season I thought we needed that continuity in secondary. He might be wise to the game and a willing tackler, but he is just way, way, way slower than he was last year. It's like something was riding on his back, perhaps its Father Time.

[Khyber53]

20 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

Plenty of people said that at the time too(I was one). In hindsight, they did actually have the length about right for a player like CMC. If injuries start robbing significant time(which they have now), then it will obviously look much, much worse.

Dude sprains an ankle and everyone is now thinking his contract will kill us and that he's worthless. Bunch of "sky is falling" pansies on the board. Jeez, panic much folks?