Blue-Chip Cats and Penny Stock Panthers

[LinvilleGorge]

23 minutes ago, jb2288 said:

Lmao give me a room full of JAGs if that is your definition. Shaq was a dog

Yeah, a dog that are up cap space to be a poodle. I joke, I'm not trying to poo on Shaq. My issue with Shaq is really just an issue with Panthers decision making because it's solely around the fact that we spent a 1st round pick on a tweener player we planned to play at our position of deepest depth and we then turned around and paid him like a Luke or TD successor when that's just not what he was. He was a check the box starter. A guy that if he's penciled in on the depth chart your not concerned about it but you shouldn't be building a defense around the guy and you definitely shouldn't be playing him like he's an All-Pro.

[jb2288]

14 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Yeah, a dog that are up cap space to be a poodle. I joke, I'm not trying to poo on Shaq. My issue with Shaq is really just an issue with Panthers decision making because it's solely around the fact that we spent a 1st round pick on a tweener player we planned to play at our position of deepest depth and we then turned around and paid him like a Luke or TD successor when that's just not what he was. He was a check the box starter. A guy that if he's penciled in on the depth chart your not concerned about it but you shouldn't be building a defense around the guy and you definitely shouldn't be playing him like he's an All-Pro.

That’s fair but I can’t knock him for accepting the money our FO offered him. 

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, jb2288 said:

That’s fair but I can’t knock him for accepting the money our FO offered him. 

Me neither. That's why I said my entire issue with Shaq all along really wasn't about Shaq, it was about the outsized resources the Panthers chose to invest in him. 

[Khyber53]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

To be fair, Shaq was a JAG.

I gotta disagree with this. Shaq was a very good LB. He just stood in the shadows of two greats. 

And this team has felt his loss from the injuries and now his moving on. We were better against the run with him here.