I LOVE OUR DEFENSIVE LINE!!

[Marguide]

Mike Rucker, while a solid to good player, was never near-elite.

He was more or less equal to Addison. Both benefit(ed) from the players surrounding them.

[pantherclaw]

2 hours ago, MHS831 said:

Hall is the key.  If we can get decent run support and about 6 sacks from him, oh my.

I don't even care about run support from Hall. I just want to see him on the field in our NASCAR package.

[pantherclaw]

2 hours ago, CPF4LIFE said:

Cj, Star, Short,  Greg Hardy.

Even tho short lived, was very fun too watch to me.

I agree. That's one thing that has been consistent with this franchise. There have been many good dline that are absolutely beast lines, and such a joy to watch.

This upcoming season will be too.

[RumHam]

11 hours ago, pantherclaw said:

Strength of any defense is the line. 

It makes secondaries look better. 

It did for us in both our superbowls.

It didn't for us two years ago. We can't mask this bad a secondary. Might as well play a 4-4 at this point.

[Doc Holiday]

11 hours ago, pantherclaw said:

Do you guys realize we have the best defensive line in the history of this franchise? 

Julius Peppers, K short, D Poe, and Super Mario 

Butler and Love on the rotation in the middle, and hungry guys ready to make their names to be known bringing up the depth on the outside.

I'm excited to see what Ere Obada and Hall bring with this talent across our line. 

Exciting time to be a Panther fan. 

Your thoughts?

2003 unit was better, Peppers, Rucker, Jenkins, Buckner. And it’s not even close.

[saints4lifeagain]

10 hours ago, Nails said:

Remarkable how he’s truly humbled himself and is taking the long road back.  The viciousness on social media alone to him personally is beyond the pale, but he’s keeping his head above water and dare I say “keeps pounding”.

Remarkable? Keep pounding? Lol. These are the terms used for a cokehead who got high and beat on a woman and threatened to kill her? 

Aww. Poor millionaire lost it all and people are being mean! Dudes a POS and deserves it. 

[pantherclaw]

50 minutes ago, Doc Holiday said:

2003 unit was better, Peppers, Rucker, Jenkins, Buckner. And it’s not even close.

I love that line.

I'll take short over Jenkins. I'll certainly take Poe over Buckner. I'll take Super Mario over Rucker. Pepper's was younger for sure which also means he was playing off pure athletic ability without the vet Savvy that he has now. I'll call it a push 4 peppers. I'll also take the depth that we have at tackle over that group also.

[mc52beast]

They better be good because our secondary will probably once again be a serious weakness 

[rippadonn]

36 minutes ago, saints4lifeagain said:

Remarkable? Keep pounding? Lol. These are the terms used for a cokehead who got high and beat on a woman and threatened to kill her? 

Aww. Poor millionaire lost it all and people are being mean! Dudes a POS and deserves it. 

You're living in a glass house with your players in NO. So you think your guys aren't doing the same or worse?!? Lol

Being here in Charlotte we got a lot more of the story so I'll forgive the shortcomings in your narrative.

 

 

 

[saints4lifeagain]

17 minutes ago, rippadonn said:

You're living in a glass house with your players in NO. So you think your guys aren't doing the same or worse?!? Lol

Being here in Charlotte we got a lot more of the story so I'll forgive the shortcomings in your narrative.

 

 

 

What does who they play for have to do with anything? I'm not talking poo because he was a Panther. I'm talking poo because he's a POS. They doing the same or worse but they're not in the news. Lol. 

This isn't the 70s. The same info is available to all of us now. 

[Mother Grabber]

telling NO fan that they have POS players in no way refutes Hardy from being one.  just sayin

[Moo Daeng]

2 hours ago, Doc Holiday said:

2003 unit was better, Peppers, Rucker, Jenkins, Buckner. And it’s not even close.

Hard to compare against something that hasn't happened yet.

[Ship]

Assuming health this year, I think this is the best interior group we've ever had. Poe is like a Star/Dwan combo from 2013 in one player. Poe and Short are gonna wreck people. Having Butler and Love rotating in is gonna be huge too. Love is always solid and Butler is gonna get his chances to show why he was a 1st rounder.

Anything else is gravy. I feel like Pep will be about the same as last year and Addison will continue to be productive. Would love to see some real flashes from Hall with a year under his belt, time with Pep, and his natural athleticism. The DE group could overachieve this year just based on our DTs.

Very excited about our d-line and pleasantly surprised that we seem to have spent the most on a stud DT to fill the hole Star left.

[CRA]

I personally think we still need to add DE talent. 

I love Pep....but when you are banking on a 38 year old to be healthy and give you 10+ sacks.....more times than not, you likely will be disappointed.