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Steve Smith looking forward to WR Competition. Cutting of Keiser lit a fire.

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Our receiving group is so much sicker than most of you realize. This is going to be an incredible year. So many play makers. Smith, LaFell, Gettis, Ginn, Hixon, Pilaris, Adams, Bryant

we will have a really good group of 5 or 6 receivers. Not to mention our running back group

No one outside the Carolina fanbase would call that a sick group and mean something positive by it.

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James Anderson?

Given the cap situation and Luke's emergence, I don't think this was really a surprise. While Keiser wasn't necessarily assured a roster spot he was a guy that we all assumed would at least make it to camp... that's my guess anyway.

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James Anderson?

 

 

Given the cap situation and Luke's emergence, I don't think this was really a surprise. While Keiser wasn't necessarily assured a roster spot he was a guy that we all assumed would at least make it to camp... that's my guess anyway.

 

 

James Anderson was a meat and potatoes guy at $15.99, while Thomas Keiser was a meat and potatoes guy at $1.99.  It made sense to quit paying the premium, but unless there is a viable replacement on the dollar menu out there, I still don't see why you'd give up such an adequately priced meal when you're hungry and in a jam.  G-man must know something that we don't because after our starters (and rotational guy) all I see are a can of shoestring potatoes and a pack of Slim Jims on the bench for damn near the same $1.99.

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James Anderson was a meat and potatoes guy at $15.99, while Thomas Keiser was a meat and potatoes guy at $1.99.  It made sense to quit paying the premium, but unless there is a viable replacement on the dollar menu out there, I still don't see why you'd give up such an adequately priced meal when you're hungry and in a jam.  G-man must know something that we don't because after our starters all I see are a can of shoestring potatoes and a pack of Slim Jims on the bench for damn near the same $1.99.

 

Keiser did not fit what Gettlemen likes to do on the DL.  He was a small DE/LB tweener.

 

We are stacked at LB....and Gettlemen likes his DE's bigger and stronger.

 

Keiser is a good player and an effort guy....just was not the right fit for the scheme.

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Keiser did not fit what Gettlemen likes to do on the DL.  He was a small DE/LB tweener.

 

We are stacked at LB....and Gettlemen likes his DE's bigger and stronger.

 

Keiser is a good player and an effort guy....just was not the right fit for the scheme.

 

 

Gettleman will go get some other cheap meat and potatoes that better fits what they want to do.

 

I'm hoping we can scrape the pot on the roster, but from looking at the scouting reports (that I could find) on Addison, Horton and Roh, I don't know. With all due respect to Alexander, he's still a work in progress.  Our depth at DE took a big hit, even though Keiser was a smallish DE.

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yes they would....you just wouldn't.

I swear you are not happy unless you are "doom and gloom".

Saying people outside Carolina wouldn't view our WR corp as "sick" isn't doom or gloom.

If that were true, everyone wouldn't be critical outside of Carolina for us again...failing to address WR in the draft for example. Also if our WR corp was sick....and our FO believed such Steve Smith wouldn't be the only guy under contact past this season.

Im higher on many aspects of this team than the overall view here....but neither our WR corp or secondary is "sick"

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Saying people outside Carolina wouldn't view our WR corp as "sick" isn't doom or gloom.

If that were true, everyone wouldn't be critical outside of Carolina for us again...failing to address WR in the draft for example. Also if our WR corp was sick....and our FO believed such Steve Smith wouldn't be the only guy under contact past this season.

Im higher on many aspects of this team than the overall view here....but neither our WR corp or secondary is "sick"

 

We understand your point for the 2,438 other posts you have made about the WR's.....you don't like them and think we should have broke the bank for a Wallace type FA or that we should have either passed on Star for one in the first or reached for one in the 2nd that was not worth it.

 

We get it.

 

Fact is that Smith, LaFell, Hixon, Ginn, etchave plenty of talent.

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I'm hoping we can scrape the pot on the roster, but from looking at the scouting reports (that I could find) on Addison, Horton and Roh, I don't know. With all due respect to Alexander, he's still a work in progress.  Our depth at DE took a big hit, even though Keiser was a smallish DE.

 

This is what the article emplies.  With our last GM, Keiser type guys were in the mix and were comfortable.  Gettleman has been witness to a defensive front that had arguably the best depth in NFL history.  He wants to mirror that as evidenced by our first two picks.  Keiser was a bum and we gave him respect.  They did an article on him eating seeds and he had some sacks.  The dude got blew off of the ball as bad as Fua at times.  I know it will be hard at times, but this is what real GMs do.  Our DE depth will be fine, much like last year when Keiser was on IR.

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Sorry, Hatter, I agree with CRA wholeheartedly on this one.  I don't know of one single person outside of the Panthers fanbase who would refer to our WR corps as "sick". The experts have our corps on life support, some even hinting that it's a WR corpse.  Come on, man.  

 

It's all good though. It's natural for fans to have a certain amount of optimism, especially with G-man at least throwing us a few bones in the mix this year (in Hixon, Ginn, and TE Brandon Williams). Not exactly looked at as MDs or paramedics though. But, after all, we still have hope.

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Sorry, Hatter, I agree with CRA wholeheartedly on this one.  I don't know of one single person outside of the Panthers fanbase who would refer to our WR corps as "sick". The experts have our corps on life support, some even hinting that it's a WR corpse.  Come on, man.  

 

It's all good though. It's natural for fans to have a certain amount of optimism, especially with G-man at least throwing us a few bones in the mix this year (in Hixon, Ginn, and TE Brandon Williams). Not exactly looked at as MDs or paramedics though. But, after all, we still have hope.

I agree with "sick" is too strong of a word for them.  But, they are a talented group....not the basket of scrubs that CRA has posted about 2,438 times.

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We have more than enough offensive weapons for the meantime. In a few years, not so much.

 

I agree 100%.

 

We definitely need to think about life after Smitty.

 

Hell, if Star had been off the board...I would have LOVED taking Hopkins with the pick.  He was the only WR I liked in the first.

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