Jump to content

  • Welcome!

    Register and log in easily with Twitter or Google accounts!

    Or simply create a new Huddle account. 

    Members receive fewer ads , access our dark theme, and the ability to join the discussion!

     

In the past 5 years

Peppermint9030

By Peppermint9030,
in Carolina Panthers

Recommended Posts

Peppermint9030 Newbie

Peppermint9030

Posted
Posted

what do you guys think are the top 5 best and even most controversial descions the panthers organization has made that put us in the spot we are now?

1. Keeping Delhomme and extending his contract

2. Trading up to get Otah

3. Drafting Jon Beason (many didnt know who he was and wanted Greg Olsen)

4. Drafting JStew (many wanted a QB and didnt understand the pick of a rb, but now were blessed with double trouble and a team identity)

5. Its a toss up between drafting Thomas Davis or bringing back Moose, I gotta go with Moose.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
g5jamz Newbie

g5jamz

Posted
Posted

Allowing loyalty and familiarity with certain players that obscure creative and expanded playmaking decisions. AKA too conservative...give the new talent a chance. (aka holding onto Foster too long...holding onto Hampton too long...holding onto Morgan too long...etc).

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Frizzy350 Apprentice

Frizzy350

Posted
Posted

1. Letting Moose go. In '04 Moose led the league in receiving yards, left for Chicago to NOT get the ball thrown his way. Then in '05 Smith turned into Jesus and carried us to the NFC championship with a #3 rated defense and we lost because we didn't have a decent number 2 receiver. We would have been in the superbowl if we had Moose.

2. Letting Witherspoon walk and signing Dan Morgan. Imagine if we had the spoon, beason and TD right now...

3. Letting Foster start for 2 years over Dwill, Foster was pretty bad...

4. Keary Colbert...

5. Dan Henning

Link to comment
Share on other sites
panthers55 Grand Master

panthers55

Posted
Posted

The five that stand out are:

Letting Spoon go-bad

Trading Jenkins-necessary

Not locking up Peppers after 2007 season-bad

Not having a replacement for Minter when he suddenly retired-bad

Replacing the college scouting team before the 2006 draft-great

Link to comment
Share on other sites
WildBill559 Newbie

WildBill559

Posted
Posted

The five that stand out are:

Trading Spoon-bad

Meh, that's a little overblown. I don't think he was traded, we just didn't bring him back. I think he wanted pro-bowler money. I thought we made him a fair offer and he chose STL to be a MLB and have his own defense. The only way we did the wrong thing is if it's compared to Morgan getting a contract.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
panthers55 Grand Master

panthers55

Posted
Posted

Meh, that's a little overblown. I don't think he was traded, we just didn't bring him back. I think he wanted pro-bowler money. I thought we made him a fair offer and he chose STL to be a MLB and have his own defense. The only way we did the wrong thing is if it's compared to Morgan getting a contract.

Your right, we didn't trade him. I think he did feel that he could get more in SL and would be a star in that defense. He really hasn't done much but he isn't really a MLB in my mind. At Will he was much better. I wonder if he could do it all over, what would he chose if he knew how things turned out.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
bleys Newbie

bleys

Posted
Posted

worst:

1-not finding a true #2 WR after Moose left on his own.

2-not upgrading the o-line with true talent until '08

3-bringing in david carr

4-holding onto injury plagued or injured players too long (morgan, foster, hartwig, etc)

5-not firing trgo long ago.

best:

1-bring in new DC..

2-bringing in chris harris the year minter retired (not sure how we didn't plan for a leader behind him when we did)

3-focusing on our o-line for '08, one of the best.

4-nabbing stewart when he was there, and coming back to get otah. (whether you like the move or not, both players are the best choice and settling for less is ludicrous)

5-bringing moose back.

you'll notice my worst and best are simliar, but opposite... these are the reasons we suffered when we did and why we are back on track. IMO they tie into each other. Although I'm early to judge on the DC, let's just say I have a feeling and if I'm wrong, as always I'll eat crow to all the haters. =P

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Cat'sGrowl Newbie

Cat'sGrowl

Posted
Posted

Keeping Dan Morgan over Spoon turned out to be the worst move of the past 5 years I think.

We didn't have a crystal ball though, so I guess it was hard to know if Dan would start staying healthy or not.

Dan was the better LB afterall, I'll never forget his 25 tackles in the Super Bowl. That was epic.

Spoons sack on Brady was HUGE though, that'll always stick out too.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • PMH4OWPW7JD2TDGWZKTOYL2T3E.jpg

  • Topics

  • Posts

    • CRA
      Barnwell - Ranking WR, TE, RB Groups in NFL

      By CRA · Posted

      A rookie that has never played a snap and a proven 1000K NFL WR are not going to be viewed the same in these type rankings.  And calling draft picks, lotto picks, isn't some new quip I just invented.  take the big 3 Hubbard, AT, insert whatever 3rd Panther you want vs Kamara, Hill, Olave.  Most football folks outside of Carolina are picking the Saints there IMO.    
    • WUnderhill
      Barnwell - Ranking WR, TE, RB Groups in NFL

      By WUnderhill · Posted

      You didn’t really address the point, just like you ignored the point about the RBs initially, and saying “they are all lotto picks” is just a really silly reduction because you could say that about literally any player rookie or vet every snap, every game, every year. It is well known that different positions have different hit rates, and I would argue different types of prospects within position groups as well, and that hit rates change the further down in the draft you go. Everybody knows QB is different and that, for example, first round OL have a really high success rate. Using your lotto ticket analogy…again…you are saying a lotto ticket with a 1 in 100 chance of hitting is the exact same thing as a lotto ticket with a 1 in 2 chance of hitting (this is an example, don’t take these odds literally). The point was he is no more of a lotto ticket than the 31yr old receiver coming off a major knee injury, and in my opinion he is better odds with a higher potential “jackpot”. Saying one player is an “lotto ticket” while another isn’t is just not sound logic. You have no idea who will break out, regress, get injured, etc. There are safer bets than others, that’s all. I don’t think Diggs is a safe bet and even if he was, weighing him over all of the Panthers WRs plus 2 1k rushers is just dumb. You can disagree if you want. The list is stupid.
    • kungfoodude
      Barnwell - Ranking WR, TE, RB Groups in NFL

      By kungfoodude · Posted

      Yeah, this is all projections of how it will turn out. Inevitability this list will look ridiculous in a full 2025 sesson hindsight, most likely. Still, I am pretty surprised that so many bristled at being thought of as having very, very lowly ranked WR and TE units. We literally have been for years. All you have to do is just have things stay the same and those are immediately bottom 5 units. It is easy to see why one would be reticent to have lofty expectations in the preseason. Gotta show it first when you are a perennial cellar dweller. That's just life at the bottom.
×
×
  • Create New...