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How can ONE injured DT change the whole season.

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Forget Delhomme for a second. Anyone notice the attitude toward the season changed once Kemoeatu got hurt? That's one guy! Look how many players have been injured for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Stewart Bradley, out for the year

Jamaal Jackson, out for the year

Shawn Andrews, out for the year

Cornelius Ingram, out for the year

Ellis Hobbs, out for the year

Omar Gaither, out for the year

Brian Westbrook, out most of the year

Kevin Curtis, out most of the year

Todd Herrimans, out 6 games

Akeem Jordan out 4 games

Joselio Hanson, out 4 games

Donovan McNabb, Desean Jackson, Jason Peters, Jeremy Maclin, etc... all missing games

Yet the Eagles are 11-4 and the Panthers are 7-8?

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Fwiw, Mcnabb was only out two games, and they were 1-1. Lost to New Orleans and beat a bad Kansas city team.

The problem with Kemo going out is that we knew even before Kemo went out that Dline was a weakspot for us. I will say though that the front office did a fine job replacing him. By the end of the season, I felt our dline was adequate, much better than last year. I wish Hollis Thomas was a few years younger, and could stick around for a while.

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Fwiw, Mcnabb was only out two games, and they were 1-1. Lost to New Orleans and beat a bad Kansas city team.

The problem with Kemo going out is that we knew even before Kemo went out that Dline was a weakspot for us. I will say though that the front office did a fine job replacing him. By the end of the season, I felt our dline was adequate, much better than last year. I wish Hollis Thomas was a few years younger, and could stick around for a while.

I wish Ho-T was younger too.

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The defensive injuries were not as heralded but just as disasterous.

Not only did they lose their only nt, they effectively lost hayden when they needed him to play out of position. On top of that, they went through tc and the preseason without davis, beason, and Harris while installing a new defense. It was just one more thing on top of everything else.

I've thought a lot about what was different between this year and 2004, and I think the answer is that the injuries happened all at once as opposed to spread out over the season. In 2004, it was just a really bad three week span where they lost fields and jenkins, and dan Morgan got his annual nagging injury, then remained relatively healthy.

This year, it was just something new every fuging week. They couldn't get their feet under them.

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We set a fuging team record for consecutive weeks with a different starting lineup. (was it an NFL record as well? not sure.) If that doesn't say something, I don't know what does.

This is all while we're installing a new defense, and experiencing the Jake fiasco. We're going to finish 8-8 or 7-9, not too shabby I'd say, especially considering nearly every game we played that we lost was close, discounting Philly.

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The Chargers put their Pro Bowl Nose tackle on IR, one of 9 on IR. And are currently on a 10 game win streak.

Hell even the Aints have 14 players on IR.

both of those teams have top five qbs and elite offenses as a whole

their margins of error are much larger than a jake delhomme led panthers

on top of that, regardless of their record the saints look like rubbish

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both of those teams have top five qbs and elite offenses as a whole

their margins of error are much larger than a jake delhomme led panthers

on top of that, regardless of their record the saints look like rubbish

That is a good point.

And a good arguement why the Panthers need a Franchise QB.

Does Matt Moore fill that need?

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