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Yep. It's Happening: "#Panthers owner Jerry Richardson and Marty Hurney meeting today, league source said. Expected to be named interim GM."

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5 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

But can you be positive Richardson won't wind up saying, "It's great having you around again, Marty. Why don't we just keep this going for a while?"

this is exactly whats going to happen... theres enough talent on the roster for us to still do well this season. and all of a sudden you are looking at marty hurney chapter 2

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7 minutes ago, Jrock88 said:

this is exactly whats going to happen... theres enough talent on the roster for us to still do well this season. and all of a sudden you are looking at marty hurney chapter 2

In fairness though, a lot of people assumed Beane would be promoted to permanent GM when Hurney was fired, bc our organization's obsession with familiarity and "family."

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1 hour ago, SmartyHurney said:

Yeah, you're completely and utterly wrong. If anything you have it backwards. Gettleman is the horrible drafter.

Hurney found Josh Norman, Greg Hardy, Gary Barnidge, Brad Nortman in late rounds. All Pro Bowlers. He found other pieces too. Lots of players he drafted late stayed and played in the league for a long time. Just go look it up yourself. Geoff Schwartz, Nick Hayden are two that come to mind. Or how about the 7th round nickel cornerback Captain Munnerlyn the Panthers just resigned? Let's go for some more with Evan Mathis, Charles Johnson, Ryan Kalil.

This team was built on Marty Hurney's foundation. It's a lie to say otherwise. Dave Gettleman since joining the Panthers has made sure this organization has had the fewest draft day selections in the league. The antithesis of the Patriots way. His "eye for talent" netted us players such as Devin Funchess for three picks.

I'm like. 99% sure you're a troll but I'm gonna go ahead and tell you why you're wrong.

 

Josh, Greg and Captain and CJ are the *only* gems he found that panned out for us on the roster. Even then players like Greg and Captain were undeniably talented, but fell due to various reasons (Greg character concerns and mother questions, Captain his size and his play fell off the season before he was drafted.). His "eye for talent" outside of that was all misses, not even depth players could be found in later rounds, let alone key talent that would allow us to regularly compete. For every Josh or Greg, there were drafts filled with players like Corvey Irvin, Sione Fua, Terell McClain, Amini Silatolu, Tony Fiametta. And these isn't even touching players he traded up for, like Everette Brown and the infamous Armanti Edwards. You mock Devin Funchess, but we gave up the next years second round pick, for a player we couldve acquired much later, for a small school QB-to-WR who only had 6 catches his entire career. And he was still our #4 WR! 

Gettleman had his misses, sure, but his eye for talent was undeniable. Trai, Kelvin, Bradberry, Shaq all have legit talent. He's also brought in key UDFA that have helped us, either by being a stop gap or becoming a key player. Names like Melvin White, Robert Lester, Corey Brown and Andrew Norwell come to mind.

The best udfa Gurney ever brought in was Matt fuging Moore.

Oh and did I forget to mention that Hurney wanted to trade into the first round of the 2010 draft to draft Jimmy Clausen? This is before the current CBA so not only would we have gave up future picks (probably the one we used to draft Cam, lol) we would've paid him a lot more garunteed money, and would've been stuck with him a loooot longer.

Hurney's "eye for talent" went beyond that of the draft, he sucked in FA too. Our stopgaps included the likes of Legadu Nane and Haruki Nakamura. Players that ended up starting or having to be key contributors because the rest of our roster was poo. Because Hurney did not know how to draft.

You mention names like Evan Mathis and Gary Barnidge, who eventually turned into very good players. For other teams. Gettleman brought those types of players in. To our team. Kurt Coleman, Mike Mitchell, Drayton Florence, Dean Edwards, Ted Ginn. These were stopgap players that improved our team. That we brought in cheap and helped us get better.

Gettleman had his problems, sure. But he was far and away better than Hurney. You're either blinded by your hatred of Gettleman, or you weren't around for the Hurney years if you think he's better.

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