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If you could add one player from any team in the NFL to the 2025 Panthers to make them Super Bowl contenders, who would it be?

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PootieNunu Grand Master

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Just now, Gapanthersfan said:

Barkley? He literally drug the Eagles offense to the SB. 

Without Hurts he doesn't have that kind of year and their OL is a monster, Barkley did diddly squat for the giants. 

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3 hours ago, Jon Snow said:

No single player will make the Panthers a SB contender this season. 

This is the answer if you can't go with a QB.

But I think Mahomes, Allen, or Burrow could make the offense good enough to have a SB caliber team in spite of the defense.  Great OL with a ton of weapons, even if they're young outside of Thielen, I think those 3 could have us contending this year.

We'd basically be very similar to the Bengals last year, who just missed the playoffs because of their terrible start to the season, but if they snuck in, they'd have been as dangerous as any team in the AFC last year.  They gave up the 7th most points in the league last year but still had a positive points differential.

Chase/Higgins is better than T-Mac/XL of course, but Thielen is a crazy upgrade over Iosivas in the slot, Coker is far better than 4th WR who had 107 yards in 14 games, we have a significantly better OL, and Chuba/Rico is better than Brown/Moss last year.

So combine our offense with an improved if not yet great defense, and yea, one of those 3 QB's would win the South with us and be a contender.  Now we may not actually win a SB because of the defense come playoff time, but we'd be contenders.

So actually, maybe we'd be last year's Lions just without the injuries being why the defense wasn't good enough?

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1 hour ago, PantherBoy95 said:

I get what you mean, but we have a lot of pieces that weren't here for CMC. With CMC I feel like we rarely had a solid QB and WR duo for the offense to play around.  Now I think we have potential for that and that would open up CMC's game a lot; also opening up the offense for Bryce (who can also use his legs) and 3 good young WRs and a vet.

I mean....CMC was here with Cam and DJ for a spell. This would currently be the worst roster he has ever been on in his NFL career by a massive margin.

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14 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

That's honestly a better question. If you could take one player OR coach, who would it be?

It would still be Mahomes or Lamar.  If you can't include QBs then you go coach

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2024 showed Mahomes can't do it by himself, Kelce is getting older and can't bail him out has much, and they are thin at WR

QB is the last piece you need to win a superbowl, like the Rams and Bucs proved, they built a talented defense and offensive supporting cast, then went out and signed or traded for a proven veteran(Brady and Stafford)

So my answer is Saquon Barkley

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10 hours ago, tukafan21 said:

This is the answer if you can't go with a QB.

But I think Mahomes, Allen, or Burrow could make the offense good enough to have a SB caliber team in spite of the defense.  Great OL with a ton of weapons, even if they're young outside of Thielen, I think those 3 could have us contending this year.

We'd basically be very similar to the Bengals last year, who just missed the playoffs because of their terrible start to the season, but if they snuck in, they'd have been as dangerous as any team in the AFC last year.  They gave up the 7th most points in the league last year but still had a positive points differential.

Chase/Higgins is better than T-Mac/XL of course, but Thielen is a crazy upgrade over Iosivas in the slot, Coker is far better than 4th WR who had 107 yards in 14 games, we have a significantly better OL, and Chuba/Rico is better than Brown/Moss last year.

So combine our offense with an improved if not yet great defense, and yea, one of those 3 QB's would win the South with us and be a contender.  Now we may not actually win a SB because of the defense come playoff time, but we'd be contenders.

So actually, maybe we'd be last year's Lions just without the injuries being why the defense wasn't good enough?

You're dreaming. All 3 of those qb's need a complete team. Allen and Burrow cannot get their teams over the hump by themselves as has been proven.  So this is a fantasy that every fan clings to. "If we only had this guy or that guy we would be SB contenders", it takes more than just a top 5 qb to be a contender. It always has.

 

 

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