Huddle opinion....who agrees with the complete overhaul we are seeing

[Jrock88]

everyone we lost was average at best at this point, lets face it

 

not too worried, was expecting us to get rid of some age and dead weight

 

too early to get the panties in a bunch

[pantherphan96]

What? Now you're reaching.

Bucs had a lot of talent and no coach to do anything with it. Now the have a reputable coach who's been to a Super Bowl and have added significant pieces on both sides of the ball.

Saints are dangerous as long as they have Brees and a decent D. The D was damn good last year and Brees still has weapons.

Falcons added a good run blocker, still have Julio Jones to pair with White and Douglass. They're expected to target a pass catching TE in the draft. We barely got by them in one game last season.

You don't win in March, but all we've done is go backwards so far.

 

Just because the Bucs have Lovie Smith does not mean all of a sudden young players will perform. They lack a QB, which really is the most important position in today's NFL. Every playoff team had a QB that was either top-tier or young and rising. Their offense will only go as far as the QB position will take them.

 

I agree that the Saints are dangerous, and I said that I think they will win the division, but they lost Harper, Greer, and Vilma, which will hurt their D a little. Yes, the Saints have weapons, but losing Sproles will hurt their passing attack a little.

 

The only way I will be worried about the Falcons is if they get Ebron from North Carolina. Outside of that, they lack a RB, and despite the added OLineman, they are shaky at pass protection. We barely got by them in an away game, last game of the season, send off for Tony Gonzalez game. The fact that we even won against a team with nothing to lose, a team that almost beat SF at Candlestick's last game, is impressive to me.

 

All the moves we have made in additions have been the unsexy, but necessary moves. We have gotten some solid role-players back, and still have some cap space to get guys with, and multiple draft picks to work with.

[Fox007]

Ginn/Mitchel were vastly overrated by the Huddle and Munnerlyn ironically was underrated...crazy how that works.

[pantherphan96]

Is it not too late to reduce that 13 mil? Aka, an extension?

Keeping this front 7 was a good move, I promise you.

You and many other act like the season starts tomarrow

 

Yeah Carolina has some time to negotiate an extension, hopefully in the 9-10ish million per year range and remove the tag. I am hoping for something like a 4 year- 35 million dollar deal for Hardy, with only 7 or so coming in the first year so we can get 6 million back in cap space

[FattyFatFat]

Ok

Team is gutted. Show us the plan Gettleman. Smitty, Mitchell, Ginn, gross, munnerlyn, jordan senn, hixon. Did I leave anyone out?

Surely there's a master plan. Right?

[Jackofalltrades]

Tell yourself whatever it takes to make you feel better. The entire division is leaving us behind.

[The Huddler]

Yeah Carolina has some time to negotiate an extension, hopefully in the 9-10ish million per year range and remove the tag. I am hoping for something like a 4 year- 35 million dollar deal for Hardy, with only 7 or so coming in the first year so we can get 6 million back in cap space

this dude wants CJ money. I bet that's what he turned down when we offered an extension before last season.

[Jackofalltrades]

this dude wants CJ money. I bet that's what he turned down when we offered an extension before last season.

We need to rework CJ's deal.

[The Huddler]

We need to rework CJ's deal.

Thinking long term its better to keep hardy and Axe CJ in a few seasons

[Fox007]

Since we are gutting the offense why in gods name is Shula not been canned yet?

 

It scares the hell out of me to think we may be looking for people to fit his shitty ass system rather than explosive playmakers who stand on their own.

 

 

[pantherphan96]

this dude wants CJ money. I bet that's what he turned down when we offered an extension before last season.

 

 

"The Panthers have until July 15 to sign Hardy to a long-term deal. After that date they can't discuss a contract extension until after the season is over." -Charlotte Observer.

 

 

He was offered 4 years $32 million and rejected it. Word is he could get about 11-13 million a year elsewhere, but if he stays true to his "hometown discount" he would accept something like 5 years 45 million, which is fair, and better than the deal Kruger got.

[mav1234]

trying to reserve judgment until after the draft.

 

it's not taht I expect splashes in FA...

 

but it hurts a lot when you actually get markedly worse during FA.

 

it's so early that may not hold true, so we'll see.

 

[pantherphan96]

We need to rework CJ's deal.

 

For the $$$ he gets he needs to be getting 15 sacks a year at least.

[Kurb]

Should have happened in 2011