Interesting Paralells with Davis/Anderson and Morgan/Witherspoon.

[SorthNarolina]

Remember back in 05 when the team had to choose between the injury prone freak of nature and the less spectucular but far more consistent guy?

What a clusterfug that was.

Morgan gets resigned to a big contract only to promptly keep injuring himself so he's cut and the team has to draft his replacement almost immediately.

Morgan fails.

Witherspoon because he couldn't get the contract he wanted. So he goes to the rams for some nice dough to be the MLB even though he hasn't played there much if at all. He's also undersized for the position. He does alright himself but his 4 year career with he rams is probably the worst 4 years any team has ever had in NFL history. He floats around to the Eagles and Titans but never really does quite as well as he did here.

Didn't we have some Panthers personnel go to the Rams too?

Witherspoon does alright, not too bad a career.

But who loses the biggest in all of this? The Panthers. We get neither. Davis and Beason are certainly nice replacements but there is no denying the morgan/witherspoon thing turned out disastrous.

So now we have an injury prone OLB up for a contract and a less spectacular but more consistent OLB up for a contract. We have a ton of Panthers personnel going to a different team with plenty of cap room.

We have a ton of cap room which certainly helps but it struck me as how similar these situations are...

[PantherFanForLife]

Yes I do. And I believe our O-line is in need of some serious help. I think this is probably Fox's biggest f**k-up here. He got himself stuck in a situation where he had a bunch of injured prone guys with contracts. They were all great above average athletes but all came with the "if they can stay healthy" tag.

We went from having one of the most dominant O-lines on the field that just pushed guys around up frond to easily being the weakest link. Our O-line coach has his work cut out for him and this area has got to be the biggest area of concern for Rivera right now.

With a small nod to Special Teams too. We dropped the ball big on that as well. It's frustrating because it seems we are stuck in a vicious circle. By the time we get done building one wall of our stronghold, the other one deteriorates.

I'm wondering if we will ever have an all around solid team.

[rayzor]

we didn't have the cap room for both. we have plenty now. we are much more likely to keep these two guys than we were morgan and spoon.

[Panthro]

Witherspoon might be one of the most overrated Panthers of all time. Besides Hoover.

[Ricky Spanish]

i wouldn't call thomas davis injury prone yet. I'd say more unlucky than anything, but with morgan, it was something new every year.

[HSCBandit07]

I will be devistated if we lose most of our free agents.

[MaineManPanther]

It's a bit of a different senario.

We have money for both.

Davis's injury isn't prone to happen more (unlike Morgan's concussion problem)

[pantherclaw]

Witherspoon was definately overrated by most panther fans.

He was offered a contract to stay with us. He turned it down for the MLB contract he got from the rams. He never lived up to their expectations.

Both davis and anderson are likely to be re signed. So I fail to see the connection.

What I do see, is a fan trying to beat his chest about being right, even though he's wrong.

[SorthNarolina]

Witherspoon might be one of the most overrated Panthers of all time. Besides Hoover.

He's made plays throughout his career and has excelled on the outside. I think when he left here he was established as one of the best WLBs in the league especially in coverage.

[pantherfan49]

He's made plays throughout his career and has excelled on the outside. I think when he left here he was established as one of the best WLBs in the league especially in coverage.

Wrong. He has made tackles his whole career, but he has rarely made plays. That's why he was a solid, but unspectacular player.

[PantherFanForLife]

Wrong. He has made tackles his whole career, but he has rarely made plays. That's why he was a solid, but unspectacular player.

Well sometimes a solid consistent tackler is what you really need. Every team needs reliable grinders.

[pantherclaw]

He's made plays throughout his career and has excelled on the outside. I think when he left here he was established as one of the best WLBs in the league especially in coverage.

And there lies a problem, thinking the Panthers should have overpaid for a WLB.

[SorthNarolina]

Witherspoon was definately overrated by most panther fans.

He was offered a contract to stay with us. He turned it down for the MLB contract he got from the rams. He never lived up to their expectations.

Both davis and anderson are likely to be re signed. So I fail to see the connection.

What I do see, is a fan trying to beat his chest about being right, even though he's wrong.

Re-reading what I wrote I don't see anything that I'm beating my chest about. If it seems a little too brash for you then take this response as me trying to clarify on the chest beating.

I say right at the bottom we have plenty of cap room this time but it just struck me as to how similar the situations looked. I'm just throwing this out there as an observation I'm not trying to drive some point home about anything.

The team did what they thought was best so I'm not going to fault them in hindsight. But it did work out horribly for all the parties involved. Witherspoon's play declined, Morgan injured himself out of the league and they panthers lost two great defenders which hurt even with the eventual replacements of davis/beason.

[thunderraiden]

Wrong. He has made tackles his whole career, but he has rarely made plays. That's why he was a solid, but unspectacular player.

u tell 'em big boobs lady.