Jerry's Offseason Purge

[Paintballr]

You do know that those starts are inflated due to the fact that in some games have have like 12 plays on offense in one half? I would hope you defense has a lot of tackles if your in for 22 minutes out of the 30 each half.

[cookinbrak]

So we were destined to suck no matter who played? We shoulda cut Smitty, DWill, and Stewie, too.

And if we had Hoover, Moose, and Vincent, our running game would be better. Maybe we woulda won a few games with a running game....

[MattB]

As much as we complain about John Fox, there's no doubt he can coach defense. The fact that so many young players are stepping up on defense is a credit to his coaching ability.

[cookinbrak]

As much as we complain about John Fox, there's no doubt he can coach defense. The fact that so many young players are stepping up on defense is a credit to his coaching ability.

Our defense isn't stepping up, the other team's offense is getting tired.....

[Delhommey]

P55 about our defensive replacements: Stats are for losers!

P55 about Matt Moore: Look at his QB rating against the Giants last year!

Honestly, it's 20/20 hindsight, but last year we should have jettisoned all the guys we dumped this year and gotten the rebuilding underway. The biggest mistake was trying to squeeze one last year out of them all. Easy to say that now, of course.

[R0CKnR0LLA]

you really think we'd be any better with those guys still on the team? lol.

Wasn't saying that, just think it's funny that people are trying to say we made all the right offseason moves when we're sitting at 1-6.

[Delhommey]

Wasn't saying that, just think it's funny that people are trying to say we made all the right offseason moves when we're sitting at 1-6.

Who said that? I want to mock them.

[panthers55]

P55 about our defensive replacements: Inexperience is causing indecision, which slows them down. Causes mistakes and blown coverages. Gonna take time for them to gel. Linebackers are top 5 as a unit. Wish the secondary would be more aggressive and attack the receivers instead of focus on tackling them after the catch.

P55 about Matt Moore: Wish he would throw more TDs and less picks. Needs to step it up. His counterpart will be bringing it too. Can't win without a good passing game. Not this year.

Really could have let most of the guys finish out their career here and put a much superior offense out on the field. The budget would have been the same next year as all the vets would be gone and we paid for them anyway. Bet we would have been better than 1-6.

Here is what I would say. Thanks for asking:cheers2:

[Delhommey]

We're 4th in the NFL in passing D and 6th in INT's while being 25th in the NFL in sacks.

That darn secondary...

[ed bell]

Interesting stats: 4 of 7 opponents finished the game with 20 points.

Remaining 3 teams scored 16, 23 and 31 points.

At 31 points, the Giants game is an obvious outlier and Moore threw 3 endzone INT's, also, first game with the green starting line-up.

If this team could cobble together an offense that produced a couple of solid TD drives each game, we would be quite a bit more than "good". 1-6 teams don't usually average giving up only 21 some odd points a game, do they?

[Kevin Greene]

Combined Stats of Diggs, Peppers, Lewis, Kemoeatu and Harris

87 total tackles

2 sacks

1 INT

Combined Stats of Anderson, C. Johnson, E. Johnson, Landri and Godfrey

164 total tackles

6.5 sacks

6 ints

ZOMG YOU GUYS WERE SOOOO RIGHT WE LET TOO MANY GOOD GUYS GO!11!!!!

I should have listen to y'all's offseason predictions.

James Anderson had 40 tackles and a sack last year.

2.5 sacks and 50 tackles this year

C Johnson had 17 tackles and 4 sacks last year.

3 sacks and 18 tackles this year

C Godfrey had 34 tackles last year

Has 32 tackles this year

New guys:

E johnson has 11 tackles this year, was in Indy lasyt year

D Landry has 1 sack and 20 tackles, was with jax last year

Kemo never even played a down for the Panthers last year.

Point is some of this talent was on the roster last year.

I see one key change of the personnel you have listed there.

Julius Peppers is gone and has been replaced with Everett Brown.

Of course Peppers had to go, grossly overpayed and wouldn't resign anyways.

But Mary Hurney in his infinite wisdom sent the 17th pick in the 2010 draft to the 49ers for the 43rd pick in the 2009 draft to select Everett Brown.

Brown has zero sacks and 9 tackles so far this year. This is where the Panthers Front Office true failure lays.

[frash.exe]

Honestly, it's 20/20 hindsight, but last year we should have jettisoned all the guys we dumped this year and gotten the rebuilding underway. The biggest mistake was trying to squeeze one last year out of them all. Easy to say that now, of course.

yea

too bad everybody was in drink the same team that went 12-4 the year before kool aid mode

[Mr. Scot]

Not necessarily true. Both those guys were tremendously important to our running game which coincidentally dried after up after they left. Sure you can blame in on the line but really the only thing that is missing from last year was the right guard. Even then the same line that couldn't do anything this year opened big chunks on the edges. We could run with 8 or 9 in the box last year now we can't do anything. The missing pieces in the run game besides a right tackle are a wide receiver and fullback who block for the backs and clear out the second level.

Right guard is a big part of it. No credible downfield threat is an even bigger part.

Fiammetta, LaFell and (to a lesser degree) Gettis aren't the blockers that Hoover and Moose were in their prime, but they might not be all that far from the blockers that Moose and Hoover would be now. Neither one was what he used to be, even last year.

For me it's the line woes and the lack of respect for the pass that are most killing our run game. One of those problems is at least semi-fixable if Otah gets healthy. Not sure the other gets fixed this season, but I can certainly hope it does.

[rayzor]

hoover's body was beginning to break down. fiammetta would have started half the season anyway.