We have traded for Andy Lee from the Browns

[Peppers90 NC]

31 pages for a punter. I imagine a lot of waded panties in here by all the small picture fantasy nerds.

[JawnyBlaze]

We just spent a 4th round pick to get one of the best players in the league at a position of weakness for us.  JFC what more do you people want.  Who cares if it's the least important position, or the second least important position.  It was a position of weakness, and a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.  Need an example?  Our first Super Bowl.  Not saying Kasay was our weakest link, and he's a Kicker, but it's still relevant.  A kick/punt mistake cost us a chance at winning the Super Bowl.

[Floppin]

10 minutes ago, JawnyBlaze said:

We just spent a 4th round pick to get one of the best players in the league at a position of weakness for us.  JFC what more do you people want.  Who cares if it's the least important position, or the second least important position.  It was a position of weakness, and a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.  Need an example?  Our first Super Bowl.  Not saying Kasay was our weakest link, and he's a Kicker, but it's still relevant.  A kick/punt mistake cost us a chance at winning the Super Bowl.

Or Nortman punting four times for an average of like 35 yards against the seahawks in the 2013-14 playoff loss. Two of them barely crossed midfield.

[davos]

3 minutes ago, Floppin said:

Or Nortman punting four times for an average of like 35 yards against the seahawks in the 2013-14 playoff loss. Two of them barely crossed midfield.

Yeah, it was weird with Nortman.  He had a stretch where he actually looked good but then regressed again.  Lee is proven and an established legit punter.  

[top dawg]

Yeah I didn't realize that he'd been in the league for so long.  He isn't the best, but he's solid.  He's known for his directional punting, and is still one of the best directional punters in the league. That was likely the key tipping point for his signing.  We had to give up a 4th, not really a huge deal.  We'll likely use some of our trade capital in the future to get it back. 

[uncfan888]

But, according to razeyfingers, I'm the only one in here that thought this guy sounded like CPK.. these past ten pages are all my alts calling him out.. smh at this dude singling me out for not liking this pessimistic bullshit 

[Semaj]

It's just a 4th rounder all you negative Nancy's. Besides games and possibly super bowls can be won and lost with your kicking / punting games. Genius move by General Gettleman.

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[NanuqoftheNorth]

Special Teams has been the Panthers Achilles Heel for several years now

Nortman was not getting the job done

Answer was not on the roster

No guarantee we'd win in a battle to snag one of the cuts

Panthers are poised to make another SB run, wasn't worth being penny wise and pound foolish.

Our fourth may likely amount to only one or two picks prior to the fifth round, add in the fact that it isn't till 2018, and it amounts to the equivalent of a sixth round pick.  

Who really wants to take a chance of yet another special teams error costing us a SB win like in 2003?

Apparently not Ron or G-Man.

If they're cool with it, I'm on board.

[Razeyfingers]

3 hours ago, uncfan888 said:

But, according to razeyfingers, I'm the only one in here that thought this guy sounded like CPK.. these past ten pages are all my alts calling him out.. smh at this dude singling me out for not liking this pessimistic bullshit 

I said you do it in about every other post. Youre still emotional and defensive. This has nothing to do with everyone else. Just you. You could try calming down and not letting him bother you so much

 

try decaf

[Norway]

I'm glad they addressed the issue, but I'm not too thrilled about giving up a fourth. However, the punter situation needed to be solved, and given that it's only 2 weeks to the opener, I'm not surprised that the trade came with a extra cost. Hopefully that was the missing piece to make this team extremely hard to beat - field position is massive the way we play the game

[d-dave]

@NanuqoftheNorth, so true!  

[Davidson Deac II]

Having a poor punter can cost a team 30-40 yards a game, not to mention a couple of td's throughout the season.  We are a superbowl contender and this trade shores up a vital position for us.  Its easy to see why they would be willing to give up a 4th to resolve the issue.

[Toker Smurf]

14 hours ago, TheMostInterestingMan said:

Relax. Is it a bad move? For 28 teams in the league it is. But we are one of maybe four legit Super Bowl contenders. We are going for it. Do I love it? No. Do I get it? Of course.

If we did this because we think we can win the SB this year, that doesn't fit Gettleman's philosophy, of not believing in windows. 

 

14 hours ago, Kuhndog94 said:

He averaged over 46 yards a punt last year... His age isn't a problem...

You don't know that. It wasn't last year. Maybe it won't be this year. The average career of a player who makes a pro bowl is 11.7 years. This will be Lee's 13th. We are giving up a pick that could have been on the roster until 2021 or used to trade up. I'm not saying it was wrong but I am concerned about trading a pick for a player on the tail end of his career.

[Cat]

6 hours ago, Semaj said:

It's just a 4th rounder all you negative Nancy's. Besides games and possibly super bowls can be won and lost with your kicking / punting games. Genius move by General Gettleman.

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Every move by Gettleman is a genius move according to all his jock sniffers.