Player Evaluation and Core Building

[Mr. Scot]

Thinking back to this thread: John Fox is the NFL's Bobby Cox

If you looked back at Panthers history, you'd find a lot of cases where they had a choice between two guys, and invariably chose the wrong one.

- DeShaun Foster over Clinton Portis

- Tshimanga Biakabutuka over Eddie George

- Jason Peter over Vonnie Holliday

- Kerry Collins over Steve McNair (granted this choice was made for them, but Collins was their choice)

- Chuck Wylie (and Mitch Marrow) over Leonard Little

- David Carr over Joey Harrington (Yes, Harrington is bad, but Carr was worse)

- George Seifert over Mike Holmgren

Even Laurence Maroney over DeAngelo Williams. That's a choice they would have made had the Patriots not stepped in. Likewise, the team had targeted Brandon Merriweather just a few years back. Again, the Pats got their guy, and they settled for their second choice. It was some guy named Beason.

Not all of these decisions are from the Fox era, obviously, but that's not the point.

There's no single thread running through all these choices. Well, except for one. They all turned out to be wrong.

Have you ever had a friend who just always seems to be making the wrong decision? That guy is the Panthers patron saint.

Have they made good decisions too? Sure. But the sad truth is when they've had to pick between two guys, and when they've chosen players to give big money contracts, the decisions have been wrong more often than they've been right.

And that hurts

[Jangler]

"Corps" is a group of guys working together (i.e. a receiving corps)

"Core" describes the players who are the heart of your franchise (i.e. the core of the team).

Those two get misused a lot.

:cheers2:

[jramsey4]

Thinking back to this thread: John Fox is the NFL's Bobby Cox

If you looked back at Panthers history, you'd find a lot of cases where they had a choice between two guys, and invariably chose the wrong one.

- DeShaun Foster over Clinton Portis

- Tshimanga Biakabutuka over Eddie George

- Jason Peter over Vonnie Holliday

- Kerry Collins over Steve McNair (granted this choice was made for them, but Collins was their choice)

- Chuck Wylie (and Mitch Marrow) over Leonard Little

- David Carr over Joey Harrington (Yes, Harrington is bad, but Carr was worse)

- George Seifert over Mike Holmgren

Even Laurence Maroney over DeAngelo Williams. That's a choice they would have made had the Patriots not stepped in. Likewise, the team had targeted Brandon Merriweather just a few years back. Again, the Pats got their guy, and they settled for their second choice. It was some guy named Beason.

Not all of these decisions are from the Fox era, obviously, but that's not the point.

There's no single thread running through all these choices. Well, except for one. They all turned out to be wrong.

Have you ever had a friend who just always seems to be making the wrong decision? That guy is the Panthers patron saint.

Have they made good decisions too? Sure. But the sad truth is when they've had to pick between two guys, and when they've chosen players to give big money contracts, the decisions have been wrong more often than they've been right.

And that hurts

Or this year Irvin and Goodsen when Sammie Lee Hill was still available. NT was the thinner position obviously but wew decided a UT that has been inconsistent as hell in college and ditto on a RB is more valuable then a NT that had immense potential.

[err456]

Some good thoughts on this thread.

I felt at the time keeping Pep was a big mistake.

He has played much like I figured he would. (Good but not worth what he cost)

His big salary kept us from building the depth we needed.

There defiantly needs to be some accountability here for screw ups.

All teams have disappointments and bad decisions. Ours have costs us dearly.