Jourdan Rodrigue: Bridgewater signing means "The Panthers feel like they’ll be ready to win, like, really win"

[MHS831]

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[TheMaulClaw]

15 hours ago, Pimpdaddy said:

might have the magic for our next Delhomme.....nahhhh.

The Rodney Peete years.

[thefuzz]

Not surprising at all.

This has been Marty's MO here for a long time.  He cannot self scout....he simply loves "his guys" too much.

[Zeek]

Hahaha with what?

No Luke, no Olsen, no Cam, no Bradberry, lost Trai for an aging Okung, still a relatively bad OL, depth losses across the defense, no Reid, no Colin Jones.

The only players they’ve added are Bridgewater (F150s still gonna be butt hurt) and Okung (again a hideous trade).

Hilarious to say they’ll “really win”

 

[Tbe]

10 minutes ago, Zeek said:

 

Hilarious to say they’ll “really win”

 

The OP left off half of Jourdan’s quote. She said they think they can win in the next 3 years.

[rippadonn]

25 minutes ago, Zeek said:

Hahaha with what?

No Luke, no Olsen, no Cam, no Bradberry, lost Trai for an aging Okung, still a relatively bad OL, depth losses across the defense, no Reid, no Colin Jones.

The only players they’ve added are Bridgewater (F150s still gonna be butt hurt) and Okung (again a hideous trade).

Hilarious to say they’ll “really win”

 

Losing is the new "winning" on this site.

Lose and lose and lose and you'll build winning team.

It doesn't make sense, because it shouldn't.

Try that sht in school, or at work.

[Mr. Scot]

5 minutes ago, rippadonn said:

Losing is the new "winning" on this site.

Lose and lose and lose and you'll build winning team.

It doesn't make sense, because it shouldn't.

Try that sht in school, or at work.

My job doesn't involve me playing sixteen games against an opposing coworker.

Tanking talk aside, plenty of coaches start off with an awful season and use the draft capital from it to build winning teams.

This is how football works.

[Jorgie]

What is this bird smoking

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, Jorgie said:

What is this bird smoking

Nothing.

The story was misrepresented by the OP.

[rippadonn]

7 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

My job doesn't involve me playing sixteen games against an opposing coworker.

Tanking talk aside, plenty of coaches start off with an awful season and use the draft capital from it to build winning teams.

This is how football works.

You take Jerry Richardson for granted. Perhaps being a former player and being from the restaurant business gave him the unique outlook to run a NFL football team. All the money in the world didn't help most of Jerry's peers a build competitive teams. Jerry, although his formula was boring, put together Championships on a shoestring budget. Everything I've seen from Tepper as a leader says to me he'll have a very hard time achieving the same with seemingly more resources.

Doing bad on purpose at your job or in life is foolishness. Nothing worth anything comes from that.

 

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, rippadonn said:

You take Jerry Richardson for granted. Perhaps being a former player and being from the restaurant business gave him the unique outlook to run a NFL football team. All the money in the world didn't help most of Jerry's peers a build competitive teams. Jerry, although his formula was boring, put together Championships on a shoestring budget. Everything I've seen from Tepper as a leader says to me he'll have a very hard time achieving the same with seemingly more resources.

Doing bad on purpose at your job or in life is foolishness. Nothing worth anything comes from that.

Jerry Richardson won no championships as Panthers owner and the team under him finished at exactly 500.

That's not success. It's mediocrity.

I know people are throwing hissy fits over Tepper right now but wishing for Jerry Richardson is like pining for the ex that cheated on you and took everything you had in the divorce.

[jtm]

Why would anyone want their team to lose?  I don't think tanking for draft picks ever works in any sport and is a loser mentality.  I'm happy to hear the Panthers haven't mailed in the next couple of years.  

 

 

[Khyber53]

1 hour ago, Zeek said:

 

No Luke, no Olsen, no Cam, no Bradberry, lost Trai for an aging Okung, still a relatively bad OL, depth losses across the defense, no Reid, no Colin Jones.

The only players they’ve added are Bridgewater (F150s still gonna be butt hurt) and Okung (again a hideous trade).

Hilarious to say they’ll “really win”

 

No Luke... yeah, that hurts but injuries will do that.

No Olsen, it's been a while since Olsen played a whole season and had major effects on game outcomes... he was one of our greats but age and injury had caught him. I sure did want to see a last lap season for him here, but there's something that tells me he took the loss of Ron Rivera (and JR before that) pretty hard and it was beginning to creep over into team interactions. Good luck to him and I'll cheer for him in any game that doesn't include the Panthers as his opponent.

No Cam. Yeah, I loved watching Cam, we all did, but in a realistic look at him you have to see the past three seasons as greatly affected by injuries and disappointments all around. Sometimes you just have to look at your favorite hunting dog and realize it needs to retire to the front porch and let the younger, non-arthritic ones chase game from here on out. 

No Bradberry. Not for lack of trying, but there's no way we're spending that much on him here. He was a good, reliable and quiet coverage receiver. He went out and stayed with his assignment. Sometimes he could shut down a great receiver, but mostly he was able to just limit their impact. That's a good skill to have, but that pay level is above his play level.

No Trai. Good. He's been a low motivation guy since his follow-on contract and definitely since coming back from injury. He wasn't even the third best guy on our line last season... and that doesn't take much to be number 3 in that group of turnstiles. 

No Reid. The guy could put a big hit on someone, but he missed on those hits sooo many times. Good enforcer, non-existent tackling skills beyond the throwing a flying shoulder at someone. Coverage skills were slipping, but seemed a good leader. 

No Colin Jones. Expensive vet special teams guy with diminishing coverage skills. Glad to see he caught on elsewhere (just a great team guy) but we need his spot for some younger guys who need a chance.

They extended Shaq Thompson's contract before the end of the year and either passed on everyone else or has released anyone over the age of 27... that tells you how they feel about last season's defensive performance. 

Bridgewater can play football. He can play classical football which is what you want to build a team around and develop a younger QB behind. He's money well spent and we might be very pleasantly surprised by what he brings to the field. Okung... let's see how he holds up. If the injuries are healed, he's got skills and a couple of season's worth of tread left on those tires If not, then his contract is one that can be released and frees us up a lot more than retaining Trai would have done.

We could really have some wins next season. We could actually surprise ourselves with this addition by subtraction thing. Realistically, though, it's going to be a "we're not there yet" kind of season. We'll learn a lot not early on, but by how hard these guys are playing late in the season.

[rippadonn]

Smh. One step forward, two steps back.