My opinion of panthers ownership is plummeting by the hour

[Guest Jacob3-89]

This thread makes me want pie

[Fiz]

someone make a graph comparing Panthers Appearances on ESPN vs. Fan Perception

[House]

This thread makes me want pie

Just don't eat the chocolate corn chowder pie. Chucktown put a terd in it.

[Nu Guns]

What he said ^. :dupe:

Jesus, you think people would stop posting the same stuff over and over. Naw... it doesn't look like this is someones second or third account used to post the same crap every week...

:beatdeadhorse5:

This is because week after week the Panthers do nothing to improve the team. Which is exactly what we did last off-season!

We were the only team in our division that did not add players to our roster for improvement.

Year after year AFTER year- we need to get a WR for Smitty. NEVER HAPPENS. STILL NOT HAPPENING.

These types of threads will continue to pop up every week because the only thing Richardson has done this off-season is cut players and raise the ticket prices.

Until he breaks his silence regarding his vision for the team I will not blame fans for getting restless.

[stirs]

What team in their right mind (besides the Bears) go out and spend mega bucks during a strange year that is different than normal in that only about 40% of the crop got to go into FA, and most are 30 and over. Anyone that thinks his team should be as active as in other years just is not paying attention.

If you struggle to go 8-8 as we did this season or go 6-10 with the young guys we have now, both miss the playoffs. That is the worst going into a possible lockout. If however, the young team responds to the opportunity and plays well enough to make the playoffs, it is icing on the cake.

Either way, we will be better off once the new agreement is in place and the double crop of FA come out next year. A full bounty of draft picks and much cash. FO is finally being smart.

Bears on the other hand.....

[PantherGamecock]

just as a favor to me panthergamecock, never post again

tia

Hey, let other owners like arthur blank or Jay Glazer spend the teams revenue on the team besides, somebody had to pay for all the free grand-slam breakfasts. Anyone on here who thinks the offseason moves are about making the team better and not about money is a fool. And on top of all of this JR is raising ticket prices.

Its possible the team could be better off without half of our veterans, but any rational human being can see these moves were not about on the field success.

Here are what the players that were cut made in 2009 as base salaries (basically what we are saving from last years expenditure)

Peppers - $16.7M

Maake Kemoeatu - $4M

Damione Lewis - $3.17

Landon Johnson - $2M

Tyler Brayton - $1.8M

Na'il Diggs - $1.65M

Brad Hoover - $1M

Thats $30.35M dollars that we could spend without even increasing player salary. About a 25% cut in salary about the same day that the panthers announce they will raise ticket prices.

[Fiz]

Hey, let other owners like arthur blank or Jay Glazer spend the teams revenue on the team besides, somebody had to pay for all the free grand-slam breakfasts.

Blank blew his wad on a corner who hasn't been good against the pass since his rookie year.

Jay Glazer is a beat reporter and doesn't own a team.

Anyone on here who thinks the offseason moves are about making the team better and not about money is a fool.

how did they make money by releasing jake delhomme and tendering moore and davis?

And on top of all of this JR is raising ticket prices.

like he's done 7 of the past 10 years.

Its possible the team could be better off without half of our veterans, but any rational human being can see these moves were not about on the field success.

really, because i look at a veteran like hoover and see a player breaking down that the panthers didn't need to succeed last year. I see Kemoeatu not healing from his achilles injury, probably never playing again, and who was never that good in the first place. I see Brayton and Lewis wanting or getting paid FAR more than they're worth. I see defensive line player with incredibly low ceilings that were only successful on a line with peppers.

Here are what the players that were cut made in 2009 as base salaries (basically what we are saving from last years expenditure)

Peppers - $16.7M

Ken Lucas - $9.1M

Maake Kemoeatu - $4M

Damione Lewis - $3.17

Landon Johnson - $2M

Tyler Brayton - $1.8M

Na'il Diggs - $1.65M

Brad Hoover - $1M

peppers was out of the panthers' hands. Lucas was cut last year.

none of those other guys are big losses.

Thats $39.45M dollars that we could spend without even increasing player salary. About a 35% cut in salary about the same day that the panthers announce they will raise ticket prices.

you want the panthers to spend money on whom exactly? which one of those players were worth spending money on? when have the panthers been very good at acquiring high priced free agents? why are you still posting?

[Fiz]

everyone look at this and see why im just such a dick to most people on here.

I've basically obliterated his argument. there's nothing left to it. I've left him in the tenuous position where he'll either call upon our need for overpriced "depth", or try to defend how Brad Hoover was instrumental to the team in a nebulous way that can't be argued like "team chemistry" or heart.

he literally has nothing left.

but he's going to respond. It's going to get worse. i'll get ready the Indie Music Youtube Spam Fest.

[88 Bronco]

lol

[frash.exe]

wondering what's on that indie playlist today...

that's how you know the original thread material sucks

[Fiz]

i have to write a treatment because a script i wrote is in the process of being optioned out in LA but I really want to write something effort ish about the defensive line.

basically it boils down to as long as they had peppers there giving average effort the team could put low ceiling nobodies around him and focus on the back 7 of the defense, and since peppers is gone (which they couldn't stop) there's no reason to keep a bunch of old veterans who aren't going to get any better and don't have the physical tools to succeed without julius occupying two blockers.

basically that defense line this year without julius would have been what the defensive line was when peppers didn't show up.

[Scrumtrilescent]

The new census is here! The new census is here!!

Things are going to start happening for me now!

[Fiz]

[necroplasm]

i have to write a treatment because a script i wrote is in the process of being optioned out in LA but I really want to write something effort ish about the defensive line.

basically it boils down to as long as they had peppers there giving average effort the team could put low ceiling nobodies around him and focus on the back 7 of the defense, and since peppers is gone (which they couldn't stop) there's no reason to keep a bunch of old veterans who aren't going to get any better and don't have the physical tools to succeed without julius occupying two blockers.

basically that defense line this year without julius would have been what the defensive line was when peppers didn't show up.

I have been thinking that for awhile now. People need to understand that.

Good post.