Panthers should rebuild? (espn article)

[rmoneyg35]

I'm sorry I dont have espn insider but I noticed it said Panthers should rebuild. heres the article I dont know what it says if someone has the espn insider please let me know what they are saying.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/insider/news/story?id=4927236&addata=2009_insdr_mod_nfl_xxx_xxx&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fnfl%2finsider%2fnews%2fstory%3fid%3d4927236%26addata%3d2009_insdr_mod_nfl_xxx_xxx

So espn thinks we should rebuild? wow.

[CatMan72]

We should rebuild at QB, WR - that's it.

ESPN really has no clue who we are and what we do, so you can't blame them for being ignorant about what we need.

They think Peppers is the only talented player we have and losing him will bring us to our knees, I think not. Losing Peppers may actually open the door for a guy like Charles Johnson to prove that he can be a double-digit sack guy. In a reserve role, he had 6 sacks in 2008 and 4 in 2009. If this guy was a full-time starter it's easy to imagine him getting into double-digits.

[Swarly]

yeah, rebuild one of the youngest teams in the league.. let's see:

Secondary: all under the 28, with the exception of Diggs.

D-line(not including Peppers): both Brown/Johnson are under 23, Brayton is what? 27? Tank Tyler is 25, and we will probably be drafting another DT.

O-line: Otah, and Kalil are under 25, Gross is 29, Wharton is 28, and our backups are all very capable of being starters and all under 30.

WRs: no argument there, need to rebuild that group, even though Smitty still has a good 4-5 years left of high level play.

HB's: 26 & 22

QB: Moore is 25..

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man I can't stand ESPN in the off-season lol. a team has a bad season and they need to rebuild? sigh. it's like they didn't even look at the roster.

[Fiz]

Carolina Panthers: Is it time to rebuild?

After a 12-win season in 2008, the Panthers had high hopes for 2009. Alas, Jake Delhomme's season-opening spurt of interceptions was a sign of bad things to come; the Panthers finished 8-8, but needed wins over an absent New York Giants team in Week 16 and the Saints' backups in Week 17 to get there. DVOA has them at 10.2 percent over the season -- 14th in the league -- but it underestimates the level of effort they faced against an otherwise-excellent Saints team in Week 17. It's fair to say that Carolina was a below-average team in 2008.

That difficult year yields challenging questions for this offseason. Defensive end Julius Peppers is an unrestricted free agent, and because he was tagged as the team's franchise player a year ago, he'd cost an absurd $21.8 million to keep around for 2010. Chances are that he won't be, costing the team its best player without any compensation. To fit Peppers into the cap a year ago, the Panthers signed Delhomme to a cap-friendly contract extension that guarantees him nearly $12 million in 2010; of course, Delhomme was alternately average and terrifying in 2009, and was essentially benched onto injured reserve. The team is stuck with him for one more year.

With Peppers leaving, Delhomme gnawing at owner Jerry Richardson's pocketbook, and a host of veterans that are unlikely to survive a rebuilding period as Panthers, Carolina should take the uncapped year to shed as many of its onerous contracts as possible and start over. With a talented draft class (especially at OT/DT) entering the league, they have assets that could result in valuable draft picks, including wide receiver Steve Smith and left tackle Jordan Gross.

Their best trading chip, though, is All-Pro halfback DeAngelo Williams. Williams turns 27 in April, has only 754 NFL carries on his odometer, and is signed for one more year at the price of $725,000. With budding (albeit injury-prone) star Jonathan Stewart waiting in the wings, a Williams deal is the Panthers' best shot at getting back the first-round pick they traded to the San Francisco 49ers to move up and draft Everette Brown a year ago. The San Diego Chargers, who pick 28th, seem like a logical landing point if the Panthers head in that direction. With a team not good enough to make it to the Super Bowl, it makes sense for them to start over.

i own the internet

[X-Clown]

It's saying that we should rebuild during this uncapped year and get rid of some bad contracts and start over (specifically naming Steve Smith and Jordan Gross). They mention that the talent of of these valuable assets should net them draft picks in a stacked class. Says our best trading chip is DeAngelo Williams due to his low number of carries and small contract that we should consider trading him for a 1st rounder, mentioning San Diego as a destination. The last line says that we are not good enough to make a SuperBowl and that it makes sense for us to start over.

EDIT: I missed Fiz's post. I would have cut and pasted but since it's copyrighted content I just paraphrased.

[Fiz]

a host of veterans that are unlikely to survive a rebuilding period as Panthers, Carolina should take the uncapped year to shed as many of its onerous contracts as possible and start over. With a talented draft class (especially at OT/DT) entering the league, they have assets that could result in valuable draft picks, including wide receiver Steve Smith and left tackle Jordan Gross.

this is really the worst part of the article right here.

[Fiz]

well they had one of the best defenses in the league last year, best running game, one of the best wide receivers, and a young QB who had one of the best five games stretches in nfl history to finish the season.

yeah, not good enough to make the superbowl. blow it up. trade everyone

[Sultan33g]

espn has some smart insiders

[CatMan72]

this is really the worst part of the article right here.

Yeah, LOL lets trade away Gross and Smith for draft picks... brilliant idea.

[Fiz]

Yeah, LOL lets trade away Gross and Smith for draft picks... brilliant idea.

think of who we could get with the picks though

maybe a franchise LT and a WR!!!

[Big Ed]

So Panthers get rid of their talent in order to draft OT's & DT's

[CatMan72]

think of who we could get with the picks though

maybe a franchise LT and a WR!!!

Hell, let's trade away both DeAngelo and Stewart while we're at it so we can draft Jimmy Clausen.

[X-Clown]

I love how the Giants were "absent" though in Week 16, as if they had nothing to play for. Revisionist history is awesome.

[Matt Foley]

Speaking of revisionist history, a lot of you guys were saying the same things last year. Blow this team up. Only way we'll get to .500 is if teams like the Vikings and Saints take it easy on us. Etc. etc.