Top-picking Panthers looking at several prospects to fill holes

[Panthercougar68]

They way some these of stories are written you would think the Panthers have had the last 5 number one picks

[Brooklyn Bully]

Aw, ya'll mad. While the article is a stretch, we're not good. Face it. We need a lot of work.

[neverlosethefeeling]

Meh, typical media. They see 2-14 and think that team has no talent what so ever. Forget about J-Stew, Dwill, Smith, Beason, Otah, Kalil, Gross, Gamble.....ext

I'm inclined to go along with OchoNueve on this one. Stewart had about the most average year out of that lot. DeAngelo didn't play most of the season, and was relatively unproductive when he did. Otah didn't play a snap all season long, Kalil and Gross most Panthers fans even thought under performed. How soon we all forget the laughter that ensued around here after Kalil was selected to the Pro Bowl. Gamble was quiet all year, and Steve Smith couldn't stop complaining long enough to catch a pass. Beason is the only outlier in this group. The rest were sub par. Trying to deny that is homerism at its worst.

Sort of funny, Panthers fans are. We have that mentality like "I can pick on my little brother, but I'll be damned if anyone else is going to." So you'll laugh at Kalil getting selected to the Pro Bowl, laughter which was not unwarranted, mind you, but then say that him and Gross are reasons that the media should respect us more?

I didn't realize that our OL, which contains multiple probowlers, was a glaring need. I feel badly for the OLs of the rest of the league, then.

I must have missed the awesomeness that was our run game last year. Sorry, but the offensive line was a problem last year. Whether you want to blame it on the coaches, the players, or astrology, they were a problem. It took us 8 games to get a 100 yard rusher. And guess what, our first 100 yard rusher was NOT named DeAngelo Williams or Jonathan Stewart. The media is not as far off as you guys make it seem.

[Mr. Burgundy]

People dont tend to give the team with the worst record in the league the benifit of the doubt..

[sdot353]

a great qb will cover a lot of deficiency with this team so i think a qb is the panthers greatest need

[Mr. Scot]

It's not an original article to NFL.com. It's a reprint of an AP article.

Not terribly shocking that there's loads of doubt surrounding a 2-14 team, but no, they didn't do their homework.

[neverlosethefeeling]

It's not an original article to NFL.com. It's a reprint of an AP article.

Not terribly shocking that there's loads of doubt surrounding a 2-14 team, but no, they didn't do their homework.

I don't know that I see it that way. Rivera has said a bajillion times that we're looking at a myriad of guys at multiple positions, which would imply that those positions would be needs.

[JawnyBlaze]

I agree the article was a little exaggerated about our "glaring needs", but your rebuttal underneath is based off of young unproven players with "promise" (Lafell, Gettis, Barnbridge, Rosario) and "talent" (G. Hardy). I agree that they all appear to have bright futures ahead of them, but from an outsiders perspective of our team, all of these talented young players are assumed to be less than average until they pay their dues or prove otherwise.

You can't fault the media for not predicting breakout seasons for all of our young guys WE think will be good.

Having young players with some evidence (Lafell and Gettis aren't exactly "unproven", they supplied a little proof last year) means you don't have a glaring need. Glaring need is a position that is a void, hopeless and MUST be addressed. That's QB and DT. That's it. Nobody is implying that we're two players away from the Super Bowl. There is something in between "glaring holes all over the team with no positions of strength" and "one or two players from the Super Bowl"...