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1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

His career year was almost entirely due to conveniently timed injury to CMC. He got to basically step in for CMC's role in the passing game as well as get more carries as a runner. How he was used last year is basically the blueprint for how he should be used in the NFL. There just wasn't an opportunity for him to really due that here because we had CMC. That was an issue I had with Gettleman. He tended to spend too many high value draft picks on overlapping talents. CMC/Samuel. KB/Funchess. Short/Butler. Etc.

 

To be fair, I sure wish we had an overlapping talent for CMC this year.

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3 minutes ago, TheMaulClaw said:

To be fair, I sure wish we had an overlapping talent for CMC this year.

I think Chuba will get there. He's developing into a very solid #2 RB. We've kinda been using DJ to fill I for some of CMC's role during his absence this year but that also essentially takes our #1 WR out of the play as the threat of a WR. It's not an ideal situation. I think Shi Smith would probably be filling that role if he wasn't injured.

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We didn't get worse by letting him go and we really wouldn't be any better if were still here. The move worked out great for both parties. He didn't suck dollars from our cap and He got a boat load of money by switching teams.

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8 hours ago, iamhubby1 said:

Yeah, there's not enough going on to throw shade at. Let's find an ex Panther who's having a bad year, and throw shade at him. Ah Huddle, you are a heartless place.

When was the last time you made a comment in here that wasn't some snarky commentary on what other people were posting?

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