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Reasons to feel great about next season

MHS831

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t96 Grand Master

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I'm glad we get to play Seattle next year. We'll actually field a complete team then and kick their asses. Then hopefully do it again in the playoffs in Charlotte. Keep pounding boys, we got a lot to look forward to.

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Benwikere, Ealy, Norwell, Turner, Boston, Benjamin and Philly will all have a year under their belt and a full offseason of work next season.

this will be huge going into next year.

 

plus norman has really matured.

 

and for all those calling for roman harper's head....you really need to listen to the last huddle podcast with josh norman. he really gave harper props for his and the rest of the young DBs growth this year. that's not to say that we don't need to address SS and upgrade there, but i think we definitely need to keep harper around for at least one more year.

 

i would also like to add in colin jones as someone who has really come into his own this year once we found a way to utilize him (buffalo package).

 

there were so many good things going on once we got out of our way as far as personnel goes. the answer to many issues was really on the roster, but rivera had many of them sitting behind underperformers that rivera would not move on from (which speaks to his still very much alive problem of not being a very good judge of talent).

 

one thing that at the very least needs to happen is this team needs to head into next season with a greater sense of urgency. they were far too laid back and not nearly hungry enough last year. people talk about a superbowl slump, but i think we fell into a "suddenly finding ourselves respectable" slump. we got complacent.

 

we also need to hope/pray/wish for better luck heading into and through next season. nobody getting arrersted for dumb poo. nobody we depend on retiring. cam not having surgeries, having ribs cracked, or getting in wrecks. not depending on udfas to start at LT ...the list could go on.

 

this team was snake bit this season. it seemed they could never catch a break, but they held in there and took it further than anyone of us probably could have imagined considering the circumstances. i mean sure, heading into this season, we expected to build on last year's success and actually win at least one playoff game, but when we went on that losing streak i doubt any of us rationally believed that we would take it a step further in the playoffs than we did last year.

 

we now have a playoff win under our young team's belts. it doesn't matter that it was against a QB who had no business being there to begin with. we got to taste a playoff win and that will be huge.

 

i just hope rivera can help us capitalize on it.

 

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The Panthers now are like the Seahawks in 2010 with the difference that we have our franchise quarterback already instead of Hasselbeck.

 

Had they lost, their draft picks would have been better for 2011, but their culture would be a LOSING ONE.

 

We just overachieved to win 12 games and get a home playoff game. Yes we lost because Rivera got intimidated by the Referees flagging Mitchell to death,.... but never the less a great season.

 

We could have just followed the rest of the turds down the toilet for another 6-8 pick(Atlanta I believe picks 8 now) and maybe had a better chance at a tackle(another discussion for another time),

 

But we would have the same losing culture we've had here since 1995.  5 winning seasons out of 20.  Through bizarro world circumstances we had a chance to make team history.

 

The team Rose Up and won a nice string to get in.  They made mistakes in the first game.,.. but finished it out.  They made mistakes in this second game but they did fight to the end, put another really nice drive with a stamp at the end,.. and they played it close.

 

Close not because of the score,..but take back 4 plays in that game and it was different story.

 

The Seahawks were here in 2010. Whats happened since?  What had that franchise EVER done before that( Im on a roll so dont pop the bubble with the 2005 stolen Steelers Superbowl speech,...) They still sucked after that!!!!!

 

Change the culture,..EXPECT to be in the playoffs and contend instead of HOPE or WISH.

 

That started in 2011 when we drafted Cam Newton, then Luke and Norman, then Star and Short, and now KELVIN, Ealy, Turner, Boston, Bene, Philly, and the other UDFA.

 

Expect to win the South next year, win our bye round home playoff game and be in the NFCCS. Expect a Superbowl.

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I don't think there is much sense in talking about guys that might draft, might sign, might cut. All of that is unknown and creating expectations without information. 

 

What I do know is I liked Cam's demeanor today. I liked the way he handled the offense. He was put in tons of difficult positions and he endured. It unraveled on the final interception but overall I thought the world of his attitude and performance today.

 

Put Matt Ryan or Drew Brees on this Panthers team against that defense and in that stadium. It would have been 42-3. 

 

I think there is a pretty good chance we will be favored to win the NFC South next year. 

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The Huddler Veteran

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We have too many great pieces to lose the NFC South next year.

Gettleman will work his magic and we'll be elite next year. I guarantee it.

Not too sure about elite. We will be a lot better and we will win the south, but I think we have a year or two to go until we are completly out of the woods from Hurneys bullsshit.

Hell, we might be elite considering how we played an elite team tight today.. But Seattle is at their peak, at full strength. And I feel like we were seriously handicapped this season.

poo..idk where I'm going with this bust you get the gist. I'm with you though were gunna be good. I just can't wait to see this team when gettleman has it at full steam ahead

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O-Ther Newbie

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Not too sure about elite. We will be a lot better and we will win the south, but I think we have a year or two to go until we are completly out of the woods from Hurneys bullsshit.

Hell, we might be elite considering how we played an elite team tight today.. But Seattle is at their peak, at full strength. And I feel like we were seriously handicapped this season.

poo..idk where I'm going with this bust you get the gist. I'm with you though were gunna be good. I just can't wait to see this team when gettleman has it at full steam ahead

 

1 more year of cap hell, then we're out of the frying pan AND the fire

 

Top 10 contracts for 2015 (2015 dead money cap charge if they're cut) and their contracts for 2016 (2016 dead money if cut)

 

CJ = $20 million ($14 million)        in 2016 = $15 million ($4 million)

Cam Newton = $14.7 million ($0)  in 2016 = none, free agent

Ryan Kalil = $11.8 million ($12.1 million)     in 2016 = $10.3 million ($5.9 million)

Thomas Davis = $9.9 million ($5.4 million)  in 2016 = none, free agent

Jonathan Stewart = $8.3 million ($13.6 million)   in 2016 = $9.55 million ($7.3 million)

Greg Olsen = $7.8 million ($2.7 million)    in 2016 = $1.6 million ($600k)

DeAngelo Williams = $6.33 million ($6.6 million)   in 2016 = $2.13 million ($2.26 million)

Luke Kuechly = $4 million ($4 million)   in 2016 = none, free agent

Mike Tolbert = $3.4 million ($1 million)  in 2016 = none, free agent

Graham Gano = $3.1 million ($2.25 million)  in 2016 = $3.7 million ($1.5 million)

 

So if we cut CJ, we'll gain $6 million in cap space, but cutting Jonathan Stewart will make him count an extra $5.3 million on our salary cap without him being on our roster.

 

I see us paying Cam and Luke, probably cutting Tolbert, then drafting another DE to replace CJ or at least use as leverage to bring CJ's $$ down. OLB also looks like a draftable position, since TD is in his last year and we need to start finding his replacement since he'll be 32 next season. I see an extension coming for Olsen, and DeAngelo is ripe for being cut with an After June 1st designation so his cap hit is spread over 2015 and 2016.

 

Next year's draft (2016) looks like Center will be a priority to replace Kalil's contract, with Stewie getting the axe as an After June 1st designation.

 

That's the ugly business side of it.

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It's always the next year.....then the year after that, then the year after that and so on....

 

It's that way for 30 other teams too.  What we get to enjoy is a "Next year we will go further in the playoffs" attitude rather than a "Next year we will maybe win the division or finally beat xxxxxx and sneak into the playoffs as a wild card" attitude.  Would you trade our "Next year" for Jacksonville's?  Oaklands?  For that matter, would you trade it for the 2010 Panthers' "Next year"?

 

I'm actually looking forward to the offseason to see how the final pieces are gotten.

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