Panthers get another WR, Robby Anderson

[4Corners]

I like this signing a lot. Good move as long as he stays out of trouble and panthers fans don’t expect too much out of him. 

[4Corners]

3 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

yeah i have no idea what the plan is here

Me either. Who the hell knows what’s going on. Much like the US Government is doing with Covid19, just sit back and buckle up and see where this takes us. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

Bill Barnwell:

Robby Anderson, WR, Carolina Panthers

The deal: Two years, $20 million
Grade: B-

Mr. December seems to get better as the season goes along, as Anderson has gone from averaging 30.9 receiving yards per game in September to 62.4 yards per game in the final month of the season. After spending four seasons in New York with four different offensive coordinators while catching passes from six different quarterbacks, the Panthers hope that a more stable combination of offensive coordinator and quarterback could get Anderson feeling comfortable before Thanksgiving. Anderson will see a couple of familiar faces in Carolina from his days at Temple in coach Matt Rhule and quarterback P.J. Walker.

I would think of Anderson as a much-healthier but less-effective DeSean Jackson. On pass plays, Anderson's average max speed hit 15.01 miles per hour, which was the 12th-fastest mark for any wideout in football and right alongside players like Tyreek Hill, Ted Ginn and Marquise Brown. That can be a product of the routes each player is running, but route trees are going to naturally select for speed, and as you can see from Anderson's catch grid, last season saw the Temple product work the middle of the field far more frequently. In 2018, just 28% of his catches came between the numbers. In 2019, that number jumped to 48%. Anderson is always going to be at his best stretching teams vertically, but if he can threaten teams over the middle of the field, that's going to add significant value.

Anderson was the most appealing wide receiver in this free-agent crop, but with a deep draft class of wide receivers coming in April, his market was softer than expected. I thought he might end up as an overpay from a team paying him like a No. 1 or 1A receiver, but this isn't quite at that level. He has nominally been the Jets' No. 1 wideout for stretches over the last two seasons, but he's not going to get the sort of workload to support that usage rate in Carolina. With the Panthers likely able to get out of this deal after one year and $12 million, there's not a ton of risk, though they'll likely lose the fourth-round compensatory pick they were projected to receive for Mario Addison as a result of this signing.

This is an interesting move from the Panthers, who are in the middle of what looks to be a rebuild and weren't really in need of another receiver with DJ Moore, Curtis Samuel and Christian McCaffrey combining for 382 targets last season. The oft-injured Samuel is the most likely to suffer with the addition of Anderson; it's not impossible to imagine the Panthers shopping Samuel as a result of this deal.

[t96]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Good signing in a vacuum. In reality, we just signed a deep threat with Teddy "dink and dunk" Bridgewater at QB.

He’s not only a deep threat, that’s how the Jets utilized him but he’s a contested catch master. He fights for the ball, has some size and can clamp his hands on it like we used to wish guys like KB and Funch would. He’s a great compliment To DJ even if we can’t utilize him down the field (and I think we’ll be able to). We needed a receiver like Anderson to round out the group with some size and contested catch ability. Also has the wheels for YAC when he can get into some space—Brady can probably scheme him some nice screen passes that he takes 80 yards, like they used to do in Denver when Peyton was playing well there.

[kungfoodude]

20 minutes ago, CanadianCat said:

Because the Panthers still need to compete. Honestly what do you want? Are you so scared of the division that we should not sign players and allow the team to be so bad that the good players regress? Should we willing suck so badly that we can never sign free agents? 

You're thinking about this as if in the 2021 draft has a savior that only we can draft and will single handily turn this organization around. 

Remember the 'suck for luck' year. Well Luck stayed in school. There is no guarantee in future drafts. You play to win now.

 

I actually think the Panthers are going a good job of taking the cap hit this year. signing RA to a 2 year deal is a good signing. We are setting up well for future years.

I was not on board with the tanking idea but they stripped the roster of essentially the bulk of the talent, signed a bunch of JAGs to 1 and 2 year deals and then made some ultra head scratching moves like Bridgewater and Anderson. 

So, we went from potentially being a really bad team but with an outside shot at a high level QB next season in the draft to being a slightly better really bad team with less of a shot at those elite QB prospects and also less cap to roll over. 

None of this makes any sense. None of it.

[stbugs]

11 minutes ago, Growl said:

oh no not a 4th rounder

The Saints have had 3 4th rounders in the last 4 years. This year, 2 of those 3 are starters on the D. One of them just signed a 3 year $27M deal a week ago.

You guys who bag on extra draft picks are honestly just ignorant on the draft. Just because our current GM misses a lot with picks after the 1st round doesn’t mean all GMs do and it doesn’t mean that you can’t find good starters in the 4th round or later. It’s not as easy but the reasons why the Saint have been kicking our asses since 2016 is because they’ve been very effective in rounds 2-4 lately and we haven’t. We just lost two of those picks due to FA signings that will at best gett is to .500 the next few years. Yeah team!

[kungfoodude]

4 minutes ago, stbugs said:

The Saints have had 3 4th rounders in the last 4 years. This year, 2 of those 3 are starters on the D. One of them just signed a 3 year $27M deal a week ago.

You guys who bag on extra draft picks are honestly just ignorant on the draft. Just because our current GM misses a lot with picks after the 1st round doesn’t mean all GMs do and it doesn’t mean that you can’t find good starters in the 4th round or later. It’s not as easy but the reasons why the Saint have been kicking our asses since 2016 is because they’ve been very effective in rounds 2-4 lately and we haven’t. We just lost two of those picks due to FA signings that will at best gett is to .500 the next few years. Yeah team!

Well they aren't wrong about saying 4th rounders are valueless. Remember it's a PANTHERS fourth rounder, so it's automatically less valuable.

[KatsAzz]

With todays signing of WR Robby Anderson the Panthers present offense just got a lot better. Now we need to start improving the defense and we will go from rebuilding to the retooling mode. 

[top dawg]

I knew it was a possibility. Now waiting to draft all defense.

 

[Untouchable]

Please go Anderson and Samuel on the outside and Moore in the slot. 

[Harbingers]

1 minute ago, Untouchable said:

Please go Anderson and Samuel on the outside and Moore in the slot. 

Why? Why Moore in the slot. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

[Untouchable]

2 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

Why? Why Moore in the slot. 

Easier to get open there. The other two are better route runners.

[Harbingers]

2 minutes ago, Untouchable said:

Easier to get open there. The other two are better route runners.

Moore should be #1 anything else and he should be asking for a trade.