Panthers off season
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:22 pm
Wanted to start a discussion here about the panthers offseason losses/acquisitions.
I really don’t understand the moves made so far, especially this year so far, but starting last season too.
1) An identified area of need is the secondary.
Mike Adams is ancient and little production last year. Our young corners regressed or at least didn’t progress as much as hoped for but josh Norman took several years to reach his potential.
Solutions thus far: keep Adams, get rid of Worley and Coleman ( who was still a pretty solid safety IMO) even with suspect secondary at the end of 2015-16 season, they got rid of Boston who was a decent safety too, I thought.
2) WR- after trading our #1 receiver (kelvin Benjamin) mid season, the reason was to get younger and more speed at the WR unit, we trade Worley for Torrey Smith who is almost 30 and on the decline statistically. It’s hard to tell truly what kind of talent there is as a group due to the injuries last year, but there have been some good, proven receivers on the market that could have been targeted, but wasn’t. Why do we keep getting rid of proven play makers ( Benjamin, ginn JR) to pick up unknown and aging guys (Shepard,clay)? Bersin won’t go away and has never been a serious option.
3- O-line. After little production from the running game, and Cam taking a beating, I thought solidifying the line would be a high priority, but then we let the best rated guard (norwell) go. I know he had a high price, but he earned it. They essentially traded norwell for Matt kalil, who wasn’t great at all and certainly not worth what he gets paid.
J Stewart seemed to have plenty still in the tank last year and I would have liked to see him re-structure to retire a panther, and I thought a better o-line would have helped him be the RB he could still be.
I would feel a little better about losing some of these guys if we were replacing them with proven talent, but instead we trade for mid-round picks who will probably, at best, be a 2-3 year project to become usable.
I am obviously not an NFL scout, GM, or coach, and I know the cap is fairly small, but I just don’t understand getting rid of decent players to replace them with similar or less ability. When is the last time they have acquired a “big name” in free agency? Seems like we are always letting those “big names” get away from us and go elsewhere; usually divisional rivals that beat us in return.
Anyone else not understand the some of their recent choices?
I really don’t understand the moves made so far, especially this year so far, but starting last season too.
1) An identified area of need is the secondary.
Mike Adams is ancient and little production last year. Our young corners regressed or at least didn’t progress as much as hoped for but josh Norman took several years to reach his potential.
Solutions thus far: keep Adams, get rid of Worley and Coleman ( who was still a pretty solid safety IMO) even with suspect secondary at the end of 2015-16 season, they got rid of Boston who was a decent safety too, I thought.
2) WR- after trading our #1 receiver (kelvin Benjamin) mid season, the reason was to get younger and more speed at the WR unit, we trade Worley for Torrey Smith who is almost 30 and on the decline statistically. It’s hard to tell truly what kind of talent there is as a group due to the injuries last year, but there have been some good, proven receivers on the market that could have been targeted, but wasn’t. Why do we keep getting rid of proven play makers ( Benjamin, ginn JR) to pick up unknown and aging guys (Shepard,clay)? Bersin won’t go away and has never been a serious option.
3- O-line. After little production from the running game, and Cam taking a beating, I thought solidifying the line would be a high priority, but then we let the best rated guard (norwell) go. I know he had a high price, but he earned it. They essentially traded norwell for Matt kalil, who wasn’t great at all and certainly not worth what he gets paid.
J Stewart seemed to have plenty still in the tank last year and I would have liked to see him re-structure to retire a panther, and I thought a better o-line would have helped him be the RB he could still be.
I would feel a little better about losing some of these guys if we were replacing them with proven talent, but instead we trade for mid-round picks who will probably, at best, be a 2-3 year project to become usable.
I am obviously not an NFL scout, GM, or coach, and I know the cap is fairly small, but I just don’t understand getting rid of decent players to replace them with similar or less ability. When is the last time they have acquired a “big name” in free agency? Seems like we are always letting those “big names” get away from us and go elsewhere; usually divisional rivals that beat us in return.
Anyone else not understand the some of their recent choices?