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Yeah mr scot I've already said the fluke playoff appearance we made last year don't impress me and shania much so let's just stop beating that drum

So how many seasons are you content with losing before we are finally ready to "make a run." Couple more years and our franchise QB will be reaching the midpoint of his career. Exactly how many seasons are we willing to sacrifice for that 5-6 year window? 5 years? 6 years? Because maybe I'm dim but I don't see the point of sacrificing five years now to get a possible five years down the road, maybe, hopefully, if it all works out. No, I think I'd just rather concentrate on winning this year instead.

Rapsheet reporting the Patriots (reigning Super Bowl champions) are very, very interested in CJ Spiller and Percy Harvin

"@Cat_Chronicles: Top news in Carolina: Panthers release D. Will....heard the media found out by fax machine"

I was referring to Seattle.

Lol at today's big news being Deangelo's release.

lol that losing record we fluked into the playoffs with sure was a sign of our philosophy, I'll concede that

I mean yeah bro Bersin's deal rox how does that not tickle your jimmies

Would've made for a much better rotational player than Dwan or Cole.

Sigh.

Plot twist: he's serious

Ed Dickson bro

The NFC is going all in. Let's see if were willing to follow suit.

Look at how it's done folks. Big FA signings, big trades. This is how you rise to the top. We want to follow Seattle's lead on the field but are too scared to imitate them off of it because we can't accept that it isn't 2002 anymore.

It seems likely we had our eye on someone whom we thought we nobody else wanted and got scared when other teams showed interest. Every year we see this team try to display how "clever" it is and then we watch our free agency plan fall apart when it backfires This team will never be a perennial championship contender until it realizes that it's approach to free agency is wrong. That's the sad, unfortunate truth of the matter.

Smart to jump on the "value" (or whatever code name were giving them this year) players early rather than waiting a week or two and trying to get them then because you think you're crafty. Do that and you're competing with other teams and have to lower your standards even further to get the players nobody is talking to. It's how you get a Cotchery when you wanted a Nicks, for example.

As I've already said, the "conversation" isn't about names, it's about philosophy, and I frankly don't care to go listing out every player I'm watching this free agency period. However, I, like most everyone who thinks the team would be better off adding talented players than not, am not clamorous for the glamorous. Nobody here on this board I've seen is screaming for a "splash" but players who we are confident can come in and be strong starters and not jerricho Cotchery or Jason Avant or Tiquan underwood or whomever.

I made a post a few pages back on posters who try to isolate certain players to reinforce the notion that acquiring talent is bad where I referred to them as "willfully ignorant" that you should see Not that trent Richardson was a free agent so it's an even further reach but whatever

The losing teams that pay for elite names are the teams that have the most cap which is the reason they are a losing team to begin with. You're not going to find good teams with much cap space.

You're right, I just defer to the executives with the wins.

Incarcerated Bob is a fraud. He reposts things he's seen on twitter elsewhere or posts common sense sentiments that can't really be disproven. Would a bunch of WR-needy teams really be looking at WRs? Wow Bob you're such an insider I have no doubt Cecil Shorts is a guy we've talked to. But not because Bob said so.

This fallback "impartial mediator" quip that springs up every time the Huddle groupthink is tested is no different than the "DIS AINT MADDEN" crowd. Nobody is talking about randall Cobb or whatever in this discussion. We are discussing philosophy on team building as a whole. It doesn't have to be 4 pm for that discussion to take place. There is no mandate. We can have this discussion now, we can have it tommorow, and a week from now, and in three months too and maybe even a few months after that.

And for the record, Im not so sure the return on Gore and Johnson is going to be all that much for them anyways. But the philosophy as a whole has certainly worked for them over the years, as it has for New England, Denver, San Francisco, Seattle, Philly.

Additionally, "big spending" on this board has consistently proven to be perceived as anything over 2 million a year so that argument really doesn't hold much weight anyways 5 MIL A YEAR!! WHAAT?! GIVE ME MY VALUE INSTEAD!

The Panthers are doing neither so I'm not sure what you're trying to say.