Is loosing Peppers going to be that bad?

[Peppers90 NC]

In other related news...Should Jake Delhomme be the QB next year? Panthers fans are boring! Bill Cowher is on the market - maybe we should hire him!.....FURTHER BULLETINS AS EVENTS WARRANT!!!

Also, Deangelo is the best RB in NFL. Should we draft The Golden Calf of Bristol?

[Swarly]

care to back this up?

Yeah, really.. I mean don't get me wrong, I thought the Delhomme deal was stupid, as was trading the 1st, but other than that I've been really impressed with how this team has been ran.

1) Take a look at our 1st round drafting history, we've got several pro-bowl quality players still on our roster. Not only that, we've gotten some studs from free agency/later rounds(Chris Harris from trading a 5th rounder, Ryan Kalil, etc list goes on.

2) I'm pretty sure the Delhomme deal was made to free up some cap room in case we needed to sign some FAs this season(which we obviously did)

Despite last year, Panthers are a pretty good team to be a fan of. EVERY team eventually drafts a bust, or signs a player to a big deal that ends up backfiring, etc. I know people don't like Fox, but he's a good coach and I can guarantee you that if we would have fired him he'd have been picked up damn near instantly. I have faith in our front office, and will continue until proven otherwise.

[PhillyB]

well you see what happend with the special teams coaching situation... and how we made a habbit of trading away our 1st round draft picks... the jake situation......need i go on??

1) jonathon stewart

2) deangelo williams

3) steve smith

4) muhsin muhammed

5) matt moore

6) ron meeks

7) kris jenkins

8) jon beason

9) thomas davis

10) chris gamble

11) jordan gross

12) ryan kalil

13) chris harris

14) jeff otah

15) hollis thomas

16) travelle wharton

17) brad hoover

18) john kasay

19) rhys lloyd

it's easy to focus on the bad and ignore the good, but their track record has more positives than you think. no front office is perfect; it's all about giving yourself the best chance to win. by drafting, trading, trading for, signing, scouting, extending, and developing these guys, the front office deserves a hell of a lot more credit than internet message board crusaders give them.

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

Personally, I want Peppers as a career Panther. It's very unlikely, but you don't just find athletes like that floating around everywhere. You might have 3 athletes of his quality every ten years. That's about it.

Now with that said, I think we'd be able to cope without him. We have a very solid defense as it is. Losing Peps would drop us a notch or two, but it's not like we're going to only win 5 games next season because of it.

I'd be terribly sad to see Peps go, though. He's been the defensive leader of the team as long as I can remember, considering I'm only 15 and can't recall anything before the 2003 playoff run. So I'd definitely miss him.

[OneBadassCat]

It all depends on CJ and Brown.

[Mayor Qumiby]

well that was kinda blown outta proportion.. I wasnt bashing the front office persay.. I agree our FO has been pretty damn good butttt im just saying if we let peppers go it could come back to bite us in the butt, esp if we would have to go up againist him. But on the other hand if we do resign peppers and he gets hurt on week one then we would look back and say damn we should have let him go..

Maybe I was wrong with my wording, I should have been PC and said whatever happens in retospect people could look back and say damn we should have done this and instead of that.

Remember this is a message board and not a board meeting there is a little room for sarcasim.

But being in the FO is kinda like being a cop, they do alot of good deeds but it only takes one mess up for people to lose confidence. And the bad seems to overcome the good alot of the times.

[PhillyB]

It all depends on CJ and Brown.

how does it ALL depend on them? those are two draft picks out of a decade. we can reasonably deduct an answer based on the current track record.

[PhillyB]

And the bad seems to overcome the good alot of the times.

only if you're a messageboard poster... thats why they're in the front office and we're in front of our computers

[Mayor Qumiby]

touché.. i guess if it was up to the huddle to run the FO Vick and The Golden Calf of Bristol would be competing for the starting QB spot lol

[Kakarot]

Personally, I want Peppers as a career Panther. It's very unlikely, but you don't just find athletes like that floating around everywhere. You might have 3 athletes of his quality every ten years. That's about it.

Now with that said, I think we'd be able to cope without him. We have a very solid defense as it is. Losing Peps would drop us a notch or two, but it's not like we're going to only win 5 games next season because of it.

I'd be terribly sad to see Peps go, though. He's been the defensive leader of the team as long as I can remember, considering I'm only 15 and can't recall anything before the 2003 playoff run. So I'd definitely miss him.

I agree with this. Somehow, I hope Peppers stays and ends up a career Panther.

[OneBadassCat]

how does it ALL depend on them? those are two draft picks out of a decade. we can reasonably deduct an answer based on the current track record.

Well because if CJ and Brown can't get it done then we are toast. We will have zero pass rush. And to be honest our pass rush wasn't even that good with Peppers but at least we had one.

[Peppers90 NC]

how does it ALL depend on them? those are two draft picks out of a decade. we can reasonably deduct an answer based on the current track record.

I don't think he was responding to the FO track record. He meant as long they step up the loss of Pep may not be detrimental.

[CharlotteBeer.com]

lose: fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense;

loose: not compact or dense in structure or arrangement;

I don't mean to be a grammar nazi, but come on.

It's amazing how many people make this mistake.

[lane1981]

delhome was one bad move. almost 20 mil for him

Peppers would be another 20 mil.

Anyone on this board would be nuts to think we use 40 mil for 2 players. one of them overpaid by a TON, and the other, just not worth that much $$$