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What Happens if DeAngelo Williams is Cut or Traded?

ZackAttack23

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DeAngelo is such an afterthought..do defenses even gameplan shotgun handoffs?

What a Signing to scheme disaster.

This is where Hurney dropped the ball..if it was a run heavy zone block scheme than he would be way more productive and money somewhat well spent...but nope and nope.

as Dolph Lungren says..if he is cut..he's cut.

It seems to me someone said we were going to shape our schemes around the talent we had available seems to slip my mind was that hurney? oh no wait that was rivera

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they can't afford to be less than 8-8 in any year after this one. they don't have to be playoff bound next year, but they have to get up to .500 or fans are just going to quit bothering in even bigger numbers than they have been.

plus, 2013 is the year that they can start working out a new contract with cam. if we can't manage a winning season in his third year here i doubt that there is going to be much incentive for him to stay.

after this season is over, the panthers are in "win now" mode. they can't afford to take another year on the chin. that's all they've managed to do since we got embarrassed in the playoffs last time. they no longer have the luxury of trying to take time to rebuild.

more than likely, at least in my opinion, unless there is a clear benefit to the cap by letting a vet player go or an obvious upgrade available, they won't be moving on from them. they have enough holes to fill as it is without adding more.

JR's pie chart shows he has one of the most profitable professional teams in all sports......and we rarely win.

So suddenly fans are going to force JR not rebuild again to clean up Hurney's mess? Don't see the evidence supporting that.

JR needs to do what he foolishly didn't do when Fox left. Blow it up. We don't need a 3rd coach losing with a Fox built team......

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JR's pie chart shows he has one of the most profitable professional teams in all sports......and we rarely win.

So suddenly fans are going to force JR not rebuild again to clean up Hurney's mess? Don't see the evidence supporting that.

JR needs to do what he foolishly didn't do when Fox left. Blow it up. We don't need a 3rd coach losing with a Fox built team......

so start with a new QB as well? it's not like we're winning with him.

meh.....i said some players should be gone, esp. when they are easily replaceable and cutting them doesn't hurt the cap. i also said that holes should be filled with vet talent.

i also said that the culture needs to change and a lot of that has to happen by losing some older players, but that needs to be done carefully to avoid creating unnecessary holes or more problems for the cap or worse holes made in the roster with less money to work with.

that can all be done without "blowing the team up" and starting over. we need a new coaching staff (led by a HC who knows how to be a HC) to go with our new GM. that's not blowing it up. the team needs to win now. not just for the fans, but for the big cat himself.

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