The NFL Shield At Midfield

there's nobody in the NFL that would be a trade partner for a tagged player with a possible suspension hanging over his head. what was the last big tag and trade anyway? matt cassel? that'd be even dumber than just letting him walk because it'd be a virtual guarantee that we'd be carrying his cap hit all year.

it's certainly a loss. his game as a 4-3 DE is about as complete as there is in the league and he's just now entering the prime of his career. remember though he pretty much exploded on to the scene in 2012 and had his 11 sacks. panther fans knew who he was but nobody else really anticipated that he'd be a breakout player that year. the same thing could happen again with a prospect like ealy. charles johnson started to come back on when he finally got healthy near the end of the year too.

they're a team that needs to get their poo together in the worst way on both lines. i'd fear them the most if hardy signed there because they'd be a lot better on defense almost automatically. it'd be similar to the kind of improvement we saw when kuechly took over the middle in 2012. the defense didn't become an elite unit overnight but we started making some of the plays that we weren't before.

did the org just pin him as a one year rental to take a shot at a title?

we're not the cowboys or patriots

i dunno it just seems like something that would happen it seems like we can't part with a star player without them deep dicking us the very next year. it happened with peppers and steve smith.

i can't shake this feeling that it's a virtual guarantee that he'll sign in the division

i wonder why people think hartline is slow. well, at least he's gritty and deceptively athletic

it's all over now, the cat is out of the bag and joe NFL fan has seen enough to be able to offer his appraisal of the situation which is that the panthers are a douchebag organization run by terrible people just like the steve smith scenario, another complicated and multi-faceted situation that nobody outside of the panthers really knows the whole truth about gets the soundbyte treatment and here we are

you misspelled "satan"

if you want to literally feel yourself getting dumber read his and shelbypanther's post history somehow shitcan teams like the browns, raiders, and jaguars can manage to field a roster and sign free agents but a back to back division champion is going to struggle to do it because of weak attendance at a player's mom's funeral

munnerlyn literally cried and lafell took some jabs mitchell and ginn didn't say poo

maybe i'm cynical but i can't disagree that the point of all this was at least partially to sway public opinion and fire one last shot at the organization to that end:

he's well entrenched as a super nice quirky fan-friendly guy thanks to his social media presence he's playing with house money right now because it's really unlikely that any of this will hurt his image in any meaningful sense. you know richardson and gettleman aren't going to say anything to the media.

either that or more people posting in the noob sandbox about what an insane ridiculous geneva convention violating burden it is to have to pay a whole dollar to post here

i like winning and playoff appearances. if you don't then that's cool i guess. it seems like you're more attracted to the tabloid TMZ side of the NFL because most of your posting revolves around what a supposed massive douche our GM is because he cut some of your favorite players. maybe you should stick to pro wrasslin.

shelbypanther is truly underrated as one of the absolute bottom rung worst posters on this site

the hell does gettleman have to do with this a bloo bloo bloo i finally got to watch the panthers go the playoffs two years in a row thanks in large part to our GM's late season personnel moves bawwwwww

we probably won't hear a peep out of gettleman about this either which i'm sure will be satisfying to everyone

i loved it in 2013 when the little babies on this site discovered the concept of an NFL team twisting the arm of a city for stadium upgrades and construction. what the panthers and the city of charlotte went through was nothing unusual whatsoever. that's right kiddos bojangles mchitler didn't invent the concept: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/how-the-nfl-fleeces-taxpayers/309448/

he's the conductor of the anti-richardson circle jerk on this site also a guy who routinely spends time around the players and has contacts inside the organization disputes the claim so...

there's smf withholding his opinion like he said he would by the way if what jeremy said is true then he's basically slandering the panthers organization but a lot of people on this site lap that poo up so it's brushed off

if only there was a board on this site where this information was shared months ago