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What are your favorite Hurney memories?

hepcat

By hepcat,
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jbland Rising Star

jbland

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28 minutes ago, hepcat said:

My faves....

Good:

Fleecing the Bears to get Greg Olsen for a 3rd round pick.

Drafting Cam Newton and Luke Kuechly in back to back drafts. 

Pretty much every 1st round pick Hurney has made has been money. Even Jeff Otah seemed promising at first until injuries and apathy derailed his career. 

Bad:

Hurney was so excited when he drafted Jimmy Clausen in the 2nd round of 2010, his hands were shaking. Rumor is Hurney almost traded away 2011's first round pick to trade up to get Clausen. Thank god he didn't, because who knows where the Panthers would be without Cam.

Trading away the 2010 first round pick to draft Everette Brown in the 2nd round in 2009, who was a borderline NFL prospect at best. The 2009 draft was an epic poo show for the Panthers.

Trading away a 2nd round pick in 2011 to draft local favorite Armanti Edwards, who was also a borderline NFL prospect. He was as slow as an offensive lineman.

Take away Cam Newton, the 2011 draft was one of the worst in Panthers history.

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Basically if Hurney stops re-signing players to massive contracts, and making bonehead trades in the draft and crippling the team leaving them without a 1st round pick for two consecutive years, the team *might* be okay. 

The day he was fired. 

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thefuzz Mentor

thefuzz

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Favorite Hurney memory?

Man, very few to pick from.

His best moment was pulling the trigger for Cam Newton, but I think that move was easier than many here believe.

 

Going all in with a terrible roster because it was our "core"?

Signing Stew and DWill to truly awful contracts in a changing/passing league?

Trading a 1st for Brown, and another for Otah?

Edwards, Anderson, Mare?

 

Tough tough call.

 

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Mr. Scot Grand Master

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12 minutes ago, thomas96 said:

One positive here is that we can now have the joy of seeing Hurney get fired twice...

I can't really take much joy in that.

It's tricky. By all accounts he's a nice guy, but he's a nice guy who was put in a position he wasn't qualified for by another guy who really isn't very nice at all (and is terrible at his job to boot).

Just a bad situation all around...

 

Side Note: My voice to text replaced "to boot" with "to boobs". Ironic.

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