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People were legitimately saying a kicker that was worse than Gano is fine as long as they are cheaper, as if a kicker contract is a problem.

Not me! I warned people that cutting a kicker this good for some random practice squad player was an awful idea. kickers are one of the easiest positions to get right and to mess up. We could have had Gano or Butker - but top-five league kickers. Instead, we have neither and it’s entirely on management.

In hindsight, getting rid of a top five kicker for Joey Slye was a bad idea

This is FAKE NEWS. GEQBUS is the GREATEST quarterback of all time.

We should never have cut Gano. When you have a top-five kicker, you don't just give that up - the downside is too great.

GEQBUS

Defense is playing lights out.

Bye Joey, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Gano has objectively been a top five kicker in the league since 2017. It was a mistake to let him go and now we’re paying for it

It’s entirely conditional on us keeping him for more than two games otherwise the pick doesn’t go

Finally ditching the worst kicker in Panthers history. Good.

Joey Slye might just be the worst kicker this time has ever put out. He should have been cut after the disaster of a game in New Orleans in 2019, instead we kept him. Paying the price now.

He never had any to begin with

But a certain user here told me a cheap bad kicker would be better than keeping Gano's contract!

College: 2014 -71% FG 2015 - 77% FG 2016 - 72% FG 2017 - 72% FG Pros: 2019 - 78% FG, 89% XP 2020 - 81% FG, 92% XP Slye consistently hits 81% or lower every season. Every one. This experiment is over. Cut him, now.

Slye is consistently worse than Gano at his worst. It's inexcusable that we've not found a better kicker. Slye is going to cost us games.

Now that's defense.

LYIN TED was the pretender. MVP-elect GEQBUS is now the #1 QB for the Panthers after four straight Super Bowl wins because he was tired of winning all the time.

We know exactly what Bridgewater is, and what he's capable of. He's the definition of a middle-of-the-pack QB that won't lose you games but is allergic to winning them. Game after game we had a chance to tie or win, and every time we failed. With Darnold, he might be bad. If that's the case, we just get a better draft pick in 2021 for a real franchise QB. Or, he might actually turn out to not be a lost cause - and with our only real glaring hole being QB, if we somehow leveraged a second, fourth, and sixth into a franchise QB, that's a pretty freaking good deal. Could take us to a playoff team I like the the trade. I like the low risk here, and I like not having to take a gamble on the fifth or sixth-best QB in the draft. Sue me.

A decent deal. Sixth this year, second and fourth next.

Thrilled about another 12 TD, 6 INT season from bridgewater

Gettlemagic

If you watched any of them last season, Cam had to carry the whole damn team on his shoulders. After Edelman went down, their receivers were as bad as our 2014 preseason lineup. Absolute dogshit - and Cam STILL managed to have a positive touchdown/turnover ratio.

It doesn’t, but Hurney bad so Shaq bad

Dave Gettleman wanted to sign Kelvin Benjamin to a massive contact extension and also singlehandedly destroyed our offensive line, receiving corps, and secondary. He signed the Matt Kalil contract, perhaps the single worst free agent signing in Panthers history - and that only happened because he forced retirements and cut players, meaning he had to repair it quickly. His tenure as Giants GM has been nothing short of a disaster. He was a terrible, terrible GM and I'm glad he's gone. The best draft class in Panthers history, as a side, is clearly either 2001 or 2002.