52%

[CollegePanther]

I'f Charlotte were a bigger market it would be closer to 80%

yeah, Dallas was in the poll too and they got like 30%.

[jarhead]

What does twiitter think about Bigfoot?

Twitter thinks we should sign him for minimum wage and put him at LT

[Mr. Scot]

0%

The amount that this matters.

[firstdayfan]

I think it's fairly obvious that we've had the worst offseason.  I'm more surprised that the number is ONLY 52%.  No team has lost the top 4 receivers, a top 10 left tackle, and 50% of the starters in the secondary.  Not to mention the franchise quarterback wont be able to do any minicamps in order to get on the same page with his brand new receivers.  And to top all that off, we still have the same inadequate offensive coordinator and no money.

 

However, the bright side is that the offseason isn't over yet and I feel like Gettlemen will put some band aids over the weak spots in free agency, get some quality starters in the draft (hopefully 3), and add a vet or two over the summer.

[MHS831]

Who cares?  Tampa Bay has been a big player in free agency every year, and they are always "going to be tough" in March.

 

How would they have graded our free agency last year?

 

We were 12-4.

 

(Some say, 'yes, but there were a few close games we were lucky to win."  I point to the Seattle and Buffalo games, and say, "we could have/should have been 14-2.")

[Mr. Scot]

I'd probably care more if the offseason were more than nine days old.

[CatMan72]

Good to know...

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[Captroop]

We were 12-4.

 

Can we stop the 12-4 talk? We got handled in our one playoff game. So as far as I'm concerned the regular season record means nothing. We can pat ourselves on the shoulder and debate whether or not we coulda woulda won more or less regular season games. But the fact is, in the playoffs, with elimination on the line, we sucked out loud. So obviously the team we had WASN'T good enough to contend for or win a championship. So we needed to make changes to get better, we needed to take the team that was on the cusp of greatness and tweak it a little, add some weapons here or there, get deeper elsewhere, and we'd be ready to try again. What we got was a hack job. Our team that was almost a contender got ripped apart and scattered to the wind like Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz. So instead of positioning ourselves to make another run at it, we instead elect to tear down and rebuild in the hopes of "long term sustained success" or, in plain English, "sucking for several years and hoping we're ready for a championship in 3-5 years."

 

Our team last year wasn't good enough to win the Super Bowl. And we're a weaker team as it stands right now. You can't debate that. That's why we're having the worst offseason in the NFL. 52% of Twitter is right, and 48% didn't know Carolina had a team.

 

[MHS831]

Can we stop the 12-4 talk? We got handled in our one playoff game. So as far as I'm concerned the regular season record means nothing. We can pat ourselves on the shoulder and debate whether or not we coulda woulda won more or less regular season games. But the fact is, in the playoffs, with elimination on the line, we sucked out loud. So obviously the team we had WASN'T good enough to contend for or win a championship. So we needed to make changes to get better, we needed to take the team that was on the cusp of greatness and tweak it a little, add some weapons here or there, get deeper elsewhere, and we'd be ready to try again. What we got was a hack job. Our team that was almost a contender got ripped apart and scattered to the wind like Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz. So instead of positioning ourselves to make another run at it, we instead elect to tear down and rebuild in the hopes of "long term sustained success" or, in plain English, "sucking for several years and hoping we're ready for a championship in 3-5 years."

 

Our team last year wasn't good enough to win the Super Bowl. And we're a weaker team as it stands right now. You can't debate that. That's why we're having the worst offseason in the NFL. 52% of Twitter is right, and 48% didn't know Carolina had a team.

 

 

It is a process.  If you think you go from 7-9 to Super Bowl, you need to understand that there are steps in between.  Seattle was 7-9 two years ago.

 

I can't believe anyone would dismiss that kind of growth. 

 

Are you really saying that you were not on the bandwagon when we were 12-4?   No secondary, 1 short, aging WR.  An injured, make shift line.  Gettlemen brought in a ton of washed up, marginal talent to fill in the gaps so we could win.  And you are not satisfied with what he did because you cannot buy a Super Bowl Champs T shirt?

 

Gettlemen had about 10 starting roster spots to upgrade or fill.  He was $16 million over the cap.  Look at how many recent high draft picks were not contributing when he arrived---Stewart, Otah, Clausen, Everette Brown, Silatolu was hurt a few weeks into the season---tons of dead money--and you are not impressed with 12-4?

[Captroop]

I'd be excited about 12-4 if it led to something encouraging in the playoffs, or was prelude to a championship season. An isolated 12-4 season (that can just as easily be written of as a fluke if bookended by 6-10 seasons) is just masturbation.