Jon Beason: Most Indispensable Player?

[The_Cannon]

ESPN did a list of the most indispensable players (excluding QB's) for the NFC South and Jon Beason was ours... http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id/12285/nfc-south-most-indispensable-players

First person I thought of was Smitty, but there reasoning for picking Beason over Smith is pretty good.

[Brooklyn Bully]

I disagree. Without Smitty we have no passing game. We can survive without Beason. Connor can learn to play call, and the back-ups will fill in. We'll SUCK, mind you, but our running game needs Smitty out there to keep team's from stacking the box all the time.

[SorthNarolina]

I really like Beason but the horrible depth at WR easily makes Smitty the MVP of this team.

[Montsta]

We've seen what our team looks like without smitty. Both when he broke his leg (or was it ankle) against green bay, and when Seattle quadruple covered him, essentially taking him out of the game. It's ugly. A case can certainly be made for both of those guys though.

[Brooklyn Bully]

We've seen what our team looks like without smitty. Both when he broke his leg (or was it ankle) against green bay, and when Seattle quadruple covered him, essentially taking him out of the game. It's ugly. A case can certainly be made for both of those guys though.

True, but we had Moose did we not? Moose was better than anyone else we have now.

[rayzor]

beason on defense, smitty on offense.

we lose either one of these and we are going to be monumentally hurting.

i would also throw kalil in there as well. hard to say that we wouldn't be struggling without him in there. who is going to back him up? can't say i like any of the possibilities.

[TarPanther9180]

I agree with it. Beason is a team leader and the defense runs through him.

Remember this:

“Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.” - Vince Lombardi

[AceMan]

Steve Smith...the whole offense runs through him

[holderoftruth]

beason on defense, smitty on offense.

we lose either one of these and we are going to be monumentally hurting.

i would also throw kalil in there as well. hard to say that we wouldn't be struggling without him in there. who is going to back him up? can't say i like any of the possibilities.

This

Most Indispensable players:

1 Smith

2 Beason

3 Kalil

Teams put 8 guys in the box even with Smith in the lineup. Without Smith it would be constant blitzing and 9 guys in the box, it would probably get ugly.

[HPPantherzfan]

I disagree. Without Smitty we have no passing game. We can survive without Beason. Connor can learn to play call, and the back-ups will fill in. We'll SUCK, mind you, but our running game needs Smitty out there to keep team's from stacking the box all the time.

We didn't have a passing game last year and we seemed to do ok. :confused:

[nosuchthingasapanther]

with what ron meeks has been able to do with carolina's defense despite all the injuries since his arrival, i have no doubt that the defense would overcome a beason hiatus.

on the other hand, i can remember steve smith's 2008 suspension being an automatic 0-2 start for the panthers...

...look how that turned out.

at this point, i vote kalil for being the most indespensible player

[DickolausJ]

Our Most Indespensible players

1. Ryan Kalil

2. Jon Beason

3. Steve Smith

In no particular order.

[Davidson Deac II]

The most indepensable player is almost always the QB. Not so much in our case as Moore has limited experience.

It probably is Smith this year. In 08, we still had a veteran receiver in Moose to fall back on. We have no one to fall back on this year.

[Jangler]

This

Most Indispensable players:

1 Smith

2 Beason

3 Kalil

Teams put 8 guys in the box even with Smith in the lineup. Without Smith it would be constant blitzing and 9 guys in the box, it would probably get ugly.

That is something some people seem to be missing about this preseason so far. Two of the best defenses already did that, and I'm sure Tennessee will try and do it too. Another week and we need another receiver to step up and take some respect.