Defense may be decimated

[ForJimmy]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

We're also going to lose Gilmore, Bouye, Jackson and Reddick. If we lose Reddick and Burns there goes the majority of our pass rush. Losing Gilmore, Bouye, and Jackson would be losing three of our top 4 CBs. Losing Chinn would be losing our best all around defender.

Make no mistake about it, our D would be GUTTED.

People are obsessing over a player that never took his previous team with a better capital situation to the Super Bowl. If we land him he will get suspended then hurt behind our terrible OL. 

[PootieNunu]

1 minute ago, frankw said:

If you saw the Giants and Dolphins games you know it was already decimated.

This our D was average or worse. Snow is just as bad as the rest of these guys. 

[RJK]

They weren’t very good anyway. Sure they beat up on some trash offenses early and ended up with good pass defense, but they couldn’t stop the run and got thrown all over by good teams

[Anybodyhome]

13 minutes ago, ncfan said:

Panthers Defense from this past year

Jones ->FA
Derrick Brown -> Trade to Houston
Fox-> Cut
Reddick->FA
Shaq-> Trade to Houston
Jermaine Carter->FA
Burns-> Trade to Houston
Bouye->Cut
Djax->FA
Gilmore->FA
Burris->FA
Chinn-> Trade to Houston
Horn-> Trade to Houston

FIFY

[PootieNunu]

Just now, XClown1986 said:

No, I think the concern is that we are losing a ton of young talent that was only going to get better. There would be no foundational defensive pieces to speak of at that point, which says a lot considering the draft investment.

Burns has had 3 years and he is still the same dude.. he can get some sacks and get absolutely destroyed in the run game.  Brown was over drafted and will never live up to where he was picked. 

I would rather keep Chinn and Horn. 

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, ForJimmy said:

People are obsessing over a player that never took his previous team with a better capital situation to the Super Bowl. If we land him he will get suspended then hurt behind our terrible OL. 

Super Bowl? The Texans only won a single playoff game with Watson.

[Shocker]

The Panthers finished #2 on defense and Houston finished #31.   Basically swapping those with the trade

[XClown1986]

Just now, PootieNunu said:

Burns has had 3 years and he is still the same dude.. he can get some sacks and get absolutely destroyed in the run game.  Brown was over drafted and will never live up to where he was picked. 

I would rather keep Chinn and Horn. 

I agree, but the Texans may also feel the same way and demand Chinn and Horn to get the deal done. That would be pretty devastating in terms of building a defense going forward.

[therealmjl]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

Super Bowl? The Texans only won a single playoff game with Watson.

so he's done better than we have the last 6 seasons?

[4Corners]

Should have cut Derrick Brown over Fox. 
if they can get anything at all for bum ass brown they need to take it. 

[PhillyB]

11 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

We're also going to lose Gilmore, Bouye, Jackson and Reddick. If we lose Reddick and Burns there goes the majority of our pass rush. Losing Gilmore, Bouye, and Jackson would be losing three of our top 4 CBs. Losing Chinn would be losing our best all around defender.

Make no mistake about it, our D would be GUTTED.

last year we were the number two ranked defense.

burns and chinn's production was marginal at best and can easily be replaced in free agency without a dropoff (again, based on what their production last year contributed to the unit as a whole.)

bouye is a JAG.

horn is returning, effectively negating the loss of either gilmore or jackson.

so at most assuming we draft or sign comparable players production wise (won't be hard) we're at worst last years number two defense minus a CB.

really not as big of a deal as folks are suggesting.

[SpeedOFLight]

I mean this unit only won 5 games. We have some decent players but we are what our record was this year . Everyone is free game to get traded/cut 

[LinvilleGorge]

3 minutes ago, therealmjl said:

so he's done better than we have the last 6 seasons?

That's a loooooooong list of teams 

[Jon Snow]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

Super Bowl? The Texans only won a single playoff game with Watson.

He's going from bad to worse in every way imaginable from a football perspective.  But somehow it's going to be better here?

I can't wait to see how this works out Tepper.