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Hurney is given too much credit

megadeth078

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mountainpantherfan Newbie

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Go ask fans from any team in the league and they will tell you how much they hate their GM. Even after winning a super bowl they only get about a two month window before fans start in again. Someone mentioned Ozzie Newsome up in Baltimore. My god you should hear what Raven fans say about him. And I'm like I'll take him for the Panthers if you take Hurney! And the usually respond with a hell yeah you guys have a great GM.

It's really just a matter of fans being too invested in their own team and not invested enough in other teams.

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Our main interest in free agency this offseason was special teams ace and former charger Steve Gregory. While many thought having our interests focused primarily on a special teams player during the FA period was nothing short of pathetic, people with a brain have noticed that our special teams have been consistently inconsistent for years and recognized this as Hurney's chance to finally prove to everyone that he is finally going to put some emphasis on fixing our special teams unit. After Gregory signed with us, it would have been a great situation for everyone. The haters would rejoice because they would be disappointed with signing a nobody and would have something to bitch about until the draft, and it would be great for the Hurney riders because he would be improving our team for cheap, and he would appear sensible because he's not throwing money at everything.

The result: the Patriots take all of five minutes to think about who they want and they sign who they want. I know people will say "but they gave him starter money, and we weren't looking for a new starter at safety", and I respond with "huh?". We had a chance to finally put some effort into fixing our special teams, but we bitched out because we told him we wanted him for special teams only (so we could pay him $50/game) as if our safeties are something to brag about. The Patriots don't know if he will pan out as a starter, but if things don't work out, he can always play special teams. They can do this because they actually have some money in their bank accounts. What appeared to be a low risk/high reward kind of player that can be brought in without a second thought, turns out to be a tough hurdle for Hurney to handle. Everything is a high risk situation according to poor old Hurney.

The other player we were interested in was Jason Brown (or John or whatever), the player who would help us reverse the negatives of releasing our overpaid starting OG to save ourselves the cap space (space which we'll use on something?), and when signed, would make Hurney look like a cap-saving wizard and overall sexy man. Well it turns out, Hurney lowballed the man so hard, he made Brown question his football career and maybe even question the meaning of his existence considering he had to take the weekend off to consider getting paid to play with a lemon-shaped ball. Brown has yet to call us back, not only because he was insulted and had his ego molested by Hurney, but because he was so confused that someone could actually offer him $10,000 to play an entire season in the NFL. We cut our starting OG, so we can bring in whoever else for "cheap", but football players and Hurney seem to have have two completely different ideas of the word "cheap".

Hurney isn't the magician the riders make him out to be. He's not a patient assassin lurking in the shadows waiting for the right targets to pounce on. He's not on his twitter reading Joe Person updates laughing his ass off at all the dumbasses signing players for actual money. If you don't imagine Hurney waiting by his phone facepalming every 45 minutes after agents laugh at his offers, then you got the wrong idea of our general manager. I'm not saying this proves that Hurney is incompetent though, nor am I saying that he needs to be replaced as soon as now, but face it guys, he's not a wizard, he's not a pioneer, he's not an old sage with infinite wisdom. He's not cheap either. He's broke. Talk about our cap all you want, but these are the actions of a man with no money.

Cool story bro, fact is you have no idea what you are talking about. At some point with the Pats 32nd ranked Defense anyone would be an upgrade. The bottom line is, we do not have that kind of money, and if that dude needs the weekend to decide he needs the weekend to field more offers, because I am sure ours was not very attractive, but that is the state of things. I'll take under-paying average players, but what I wont stand for is over paying for them.

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koolkatluke Newbie

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hope you never have an opinion about anything else ever

KK kiss my ass your always complaining about somthing. It's the 2nd day of FA and we all knew that our biggest addition this offseason would be getting our injuried players back and the Draft. If we get 1 starter out of FA I'll be happy.

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Yea and I think the past 4 or so years stupid poo outweighs great things

Fox left... why he still here I dont understand at all. Somebody obviously dont want to take on that role of replacing him

Richardson wants Hurney here, and thinks the world of Hurney. It would take some serious screw up for Hurney to be out (how do you think he survived last season?)

After the Big Cat fired his kids, he put Danny Morrison and Hurney in charge. If you have a problem with our GM you have take it up with J Rich.

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Hurney doesn't deserve the hate he gets.

Talk all you want about to much credit...

Most of ya have no fuging idea what hurney's and the front office plan is. Some of it is obvious, but most of you ignore that, cause it doesn't support your idea of how hurney should be doing his job.

Hurney doesn't do some things i'd do, so that must mean he's a fuging idiot.

Nevermind he has the owner to answer to.

Nevermind he works closely with the coaches and scouting department.

If we all knew hurney's plan, we'd all have a lot more understanding, but we aren't going to know, ever.

We know this. The panthers build through the draft, and use free agency for role players. That is richardson's policy.

If ya can't accept that, then find another team to root for until they don't do, or do something that ya don't agree with.

Huney isn't going anywhere. He isn't as bad as you say he is, and he ain't the best in the known universe.

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