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Unprecedented trading action across the league.

I hope they send him to Cleveland. Or Oakland.

That makes no sense. The teams who would be 'in the Super Bowl for the next five years' can think that way because they're already laid a foundation of fiscal responsibility and sound talent evaluation. Additionally, those teams have continuity in critical leadership positions, both on the field and in the FO. Carolina is absolutely moving in that direction for the first time in team history because we might just have a guy in place who can make it happen. They don't grow on trees and it can take time to undo years of damage, and I'd argue that making the playoffs twice while suffering from the WORST of said damage is very positive.

This. I said in another thread that his value is probably more as a teacher and mentor than an every-down WR at this point, and unless the team adds a strong veteran receiver I don't see Cotchery being cut. The wild card, however, is the 'Proehl factor' and the fact that the bottom receivers (Bersin/Webb/Presley last season) play a lot of ST... Ginn will be returning kicks, but he sure won't be on the coverage teams.

Interesting collection of Panthers.

This thread is hilarious - so much hate for a guy who worked hard and produced to the best of his ability as a receiver and on ST. If he earns it again then good for him, but it's not his fault that the FO didn't/couldn't bring in a stable of blue-chip WRs last year.

Textbook throw right there. Beautiful.

Why?

Hmm... being arrested for resisting arrest seems like a circular argument. Probably a little more to that story.

It's so he won't be hurt when he bangs his head on the table after seeing the amortization table.

Moose was 3 years, 05-07. Dante Wesley was also only gone for a year, and I'm sure there are others.

Except that the quality of the last 2 drafts, inclufing UDFAs, has been head and shoulders above years past and Carolina is no longer handing out ridiculous contracts. Maybe huge FA signings aren't in the cards (history shows them to be overrated anyway), but the overall tone and philosophy of this front office couldn't be farther from 'RINSE REPEAT'.

Familiar coach in Reid and, if he cares, home state of Missouri.

Let alone Olsen and another TE (perhaps the Ed Dickson we saw at the end of the year) as well as any other receivers that we may pick up. At this point, I wouldn't rule out Cotchery's value as more of a mentor than a go-to player.

Kind of like some of us suggested when people were whining about no reports of Ginn being scheduled to meet with Carolina... imagine that. It's great that expectations of the team and the FO are up, but it's easy to tell that this organization has a new philosophy that many fans are not used to.

He has the type of name that RR has coveted during his tenure.

I assume you mean 10% less. And those states make their tax money, just in different ways. Also, professional athletes pay taxes in every state, and sometimes also city, that they play in. The intracies are well over my head,, but the lack of income tax isn't necessarily as huge a factor as it's made out to be. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2013/04/15/pro-athlete-tax-returns-illustrate-complexities-of-u-s-tax-code/

Sensible, but market value is the problem. A guy like Torrey Smith has a $7-8MM price attached to him, but 3 of his 4 years have produced less than 850 yards or so, and each of those years he has split time with a competent TE and WR (Boldin, Smitty, Pitta)... you get the idea. This is where the concept of 'over-projecting comes in and why DG isn't going to overpay for 'potential performance'. That said, I'd love to have Torrey at 6MM a year, but not 8 or 9.

Don't need a 1000 yard receiver (though it would be great to find one on the cheap). They need someone to get 600-700 yards on about 40-50 catches, which represents a deeper threat to take the pressure off of the two 1000 yard receivers already on the roster. That said, it would be great to find someone to grow alongside KB, and I'm sure the team will grab that person if the situation is right.

And Bell has minimal actual NFL-caliber talent.

Call me skeptical on the 'overpaid' factor, though some will say that even vet min is overpaying.

Interesting bit of useless trivia - in 4 career games against Carolina, he's not had more than 83 rushing yards, and the 2009 team held him to 35 yards on 12 carries.

He has 4 years of starting experience and has played both sides - someone somewhere will bring him in to compete and he'll stick on someone's roster. I personally think that he isn't coming back because Carolina told them they would be upgrading and he wants to try to find a starting job rather than becoming a backup, which is his prerogative.

Sound tactic to build a client base.

They tagged Demaryius, not Julius. Unless you meant Demaryius.