10 best players on the roster right now:

[Carl Spackler]

top two are in order but from there, it’s just the next best eight.

CMC
Moore
Shaq
Anderson
Moton
Burns
Teddy
Brown
Boston
Okung

 

[kungfoodude]

I would eliminate all the rookies just because we haven't seen them play a snap yet.

CMC, Moore, Shaq, Short, Moton, Burns, Anderson, Bridgewater

I gotta be honest, can't think of any non-rookie I would put above the rest of the roster after those guys right now. 

This is actually a depressing thing to do if you don't include the rookies yet. 

[Waldo]

1 CMC, 2 Moore.

Everyone else has a lot to prove.

[DeAngelo Beason]

Oof... We suck.

[shaqattaq]

12 minutes ago, Waldo said:

1 CMC, 2 Moore.

Everyone else has a lot to prove.

I'd add Moton to your list, but that's about it. I even scrolled through the official roster, and 3/4 of the players weren't wearing panthers jerseys in their pics. what a depressing way to start the day.

[top dawg]

Samuel still gets a certain amount of disrespect after all this time, I see...

No way I'm putting a rookie who ain't done squat above any vet! And Burns has a lot to prove also.

[CRA]

4 minutes ago, top dawg said:

Samuel still gets a certain amount of disrespect after all this time, I see...

No way I'm putting a rookie who ain't done squat above any vet! And Burns has a lot to prove also.

Samuel is a very unpolished WR.  Which shouldn't be a surprise given he was basically a RB in college and is still learning how to be a WR.

But he easily is top 10 in terms of being a football player on our roster.  He arguably is the 2nd best playmaker with the ball in his hands.  3rd at worst.

[CanadianCat]

meh.. we are at the start of a rebuild.. its just too bad that we enter a rebuild with a top 3 RB as by the time we are ready to go CMC will be in his back half of his career. 

[Waldo]

29 minutes ago, shaqattaq said:

I'd add Moton to your list, but that's about it. I even scrolled through the official roster, and 3/4 of the players weren't wearing panthers jerseys in their pics. what a depressing way to start the day.

Moton is, for me, in the promosing but not good catergory still. He needs to improve his game this year or I'm thinking he should follow Bradbury in making his overpriced next contract elsewhere.

Yeah it's depressing but here we are. We need the coaches to step up and help the young guys take the next step and develop into better players. Lots of promise but those were the guys not getting playing time and being put into positions to succeed with the last regime. Hopefully this one is vastly different.

[top dawg]

10 minutes ago, CRA said:

Samuel is a very unpolished WR.  Which shouldn't be a surprise given he was basically a RB in college and is still learning how to be a WR.

But he easily is top 10 in terms of being a football player on our roster.  He arguably is the 2nd best playmaker with the ball in his hands.  3rd at worst.

My problem is that people just don't seem to realize how bad our QB play really was and how it affected the receivers, and Samuel in particular. Equally bad, for this argument's sake, was the disjointed and imbalanced play calling. There was no continuity except for CMC, and even less creativity. Our offense was uninspired on steroids! 

[Daddy_Uncle]

37 minutes ago, CRA said:

Samuel is a very unpolished WR.  Which shouldn't be a surprise given he was basically a RB in college and is still learning how to be a WR.

But he easily is top 10 in terms of being a football player on our roster.  He arguably is the 2nd best playmaker with the ball in his hands.  3rd at worst.

I have a feeling Brady will turn him into a superstar

[LinvilleGorge]

1 hour ago, DeAngelo Beason said:

Oof... We suck.

Yeah, honestly that made it really set in. Once you get past our best 3-4 players it's tough to argue that we have anyone who would start for most other NFL teams. Ouch.

[stbugs]

14 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Yeah, honestly that made it really set in. Once you get past our best 3-4 players it's tough to argue that we have anyone who would start for most other NFL teams. Ouch.

And yet we are going to spend $90M on 3 mediocre players in 2020 and 2021 and we also lost a 3rd and 4th round comp due to two of those players. Anyone here going to argue that Short, Bridgewater and Anderson are top players in the league and core to our rebuild? What a waste of a golden opportunity to get a franchise QB, load up on offense/OL in the 2021 draft and have a ton of cap space to splurge when our young D and young O have a couple years of seasoning. Oh and by 2022, when we are ready to ascend and spend all the extra FA money we have, Brady and Brees will be retired and Ryan will be 37 and still suck. What a wasted opportunity to try and compete now.

[TheCasillas]

1 hour ago, stbugs said:

And yet we are going to spend $90M on 3 mediocre players in 2020 and 2021 and we also lost a 3rd and 4th round comp due to two of those players. Anyone here going to argue that Short, Bridgewater and Anderson are top players in the league and core to our rebuild? What a waste of a golden opportunity to get a franchise QB, load up on offense/OL in the 2021 draft and have a ton of cap space to splurge when our young D and young O have a couple years of seasoning. Oh and by 2022, when we are ready to ascend and spend all the extra FA money we have, Brady and Brees will be retired and Ryan will be 37 and still suck. What a wasted opportunity to try and compete now.

Where are you getting 90m from? I counted 65m.  I dont think we can include KK short as a waste, that was a getts move, and at that time KK was the best in the game. No one could of predicted his injury fall off.

 

Also, TB has a built in out for us in his contract after this year and he is only 5million in dead cap the following year. We really are in excellent condition when it comes to cap space for years to come. Anderson is only on the books for two years. That means no dead cap space if he is released next year. These are all short term solutions that zero implications on our cap in the future. Our new cap guy knows wtf he is doing.