Gather all and sample some delicious wine from my mind grapes

[frash.exe]

Just want to clarify a few different subjects concerning the team

Free Agency

When it comes to salary cap, you have enough to sign core players to some big contracts. It took a lot of money just to keep some of our own guys from leaving (notwithstanding arguments against DWill's contract. I'm not in agreement with it either but we'll see how it goes) A lot of these top FA signings will average 8-10 mil a year, and sometimes even more, and from your average panther fan's point of view, a ridiculous amount of starting spots need an upgrade in the form of a top tier FA. NT? Cofield. UT? Mebane. CB? Nnamdi. WR? Edwards. DE? Babin. FS? Weddle. So you bring in 1 or 2 FAs and give them top contracts and for the rest of the spots you hunt and peck for quality role players. When it comes to our free agency strategy, familiarity is desired. Omar Gaither and Sean Considine were coached directly by Sean McDermott. Jeremy Shockey and Anderson were signed because of his prior experience with Chudzinski in Miami U and Cleveland, respectively. This is the same way Bill Parcells rebuilds teams, only he overdoes it, at times trading draft picks for 2nd string TEs and Akin Ayodele. In our case we've got some wily vets that understand the kind of system we're running to help get the defense on its feet faster. Ron Edwards is another solid lesser-known free agent that will contribute in our Dline rotation. Besides, who cares if Philly is buying themselves a team? When they lose to the eventual NFC champion in the playoffs, like they seem to do almost every single year, their fans will hurt even worse.

The Olsen Trade

As far as Olsen is concerned, he was a player that was wanted by many of the posters on here to be our first round pick in 2007, but that was at a time where TEs were considered auxiliary run blockers in our offense. Now that he's here it will give a chance for every fan that hasn't watched a panthers game with Wesley Walls to truly appreciate the magic of the TE position at its full potential. You could argue our attention could've gone to a position of greater need with the money we spent taking his contract, but if you start Jeremy Shockey, at any time in the season you're one high ankle sprain away from sending Ben Hartsock out on 5 yard angled curl routes. And I've always been a fan of Shockey, but I think he's better off this way. Plus, on passing downs using a 2 TE set, you've got Smith, Olsen, and Shockey running routes, plus one of our young deceptive WRs. That's not a bad group of receiving options on a third and long. As far as Angelo's quote is concerned regarding Olsen, maybe Chud wants Kellen Winslow II, because Olsen has similar speed and skill to get down field and Winslow, who has been working on the field with a young rising QB in TB, was coached by Chud in college.

QB Battle

Certainly not by sitting on the bench. I think the coaching staff's plan is to get Newton to be ready to start week 1, but he needs to be challenged. Since Clausen is doing a poo job setting the bar, Anderson needs to be brought in to galvanize a competitive environment for Cam. I think it's better if we put him on the field early to get the kinks out of his game faster. Also this "thrown to the wolves" and any other one of these platitudes get slung around here way too often. For some situations (like an expansion Texans team with no supporting cast built whatsoever) this is true. But the Panthers have a very good Oline, better than most rookie QBs would get to block for them. I think it's a better idea to help Cam prepare to start a game that's over a month from now than say, 6 days away if Anderson can't hack it and Rivera benches him in mid-season.

Speaking of platitudes, lets talk about Anderson and the "mentor" role. I know a bunch of you are triumphantly pumping your arms with security now that we finally got a QB who simply played a few years in the league. As far as the AP, ESPN, NFL.com is concerned, if you have a rookie QB and a veteran QB on the same roster, in half the articles they'll mention something along the lines of "X will take pointers from Y who will mentor him", or "Y returns/is joining the team to provide depth AND mentor X". It's just a half-assed hyperbolic way of saving characters in the title and saying Derek will give Cam some minor pointers as far as play terminology/hot reads/pre-snap audibles is concerned. It's not as if we got a guy from the YMCA building futures program that also plays QB in the NFL to take Cam on a soul-searching adolescent retreat.

As far as Pike is concerned he's pretty much gone unless he clears waivers and we stash his heroin chic ass on the practice squad.

WRs

Yea, I know what you're wondering, but we're fine. Gettis and LaFell are now 2nd year players who will both get some good production with better QB play. Gettis is a guy that I think will get us some new highlights so that we have more than just 2 minutes worth of him abusing a gimp nate clements on youtube.

The epic hole at no.2 corner

I can't imagine them starting Munnerlyn due to his size. Either RJ Stanford makes strides in camp or we pick a veteran corner FA for cheap (Lito Sheppard, Roderick Hood, yea it's not great but stop gaps ppl). It's still very early.

Tits and Ass

I know some of you on here don't comprehend reading material efficiently and only understand simple joys like pussy so in order to make this a thread everybody can enjoy rather than just the bright ones I went out of my way to find this very special video just for you

[Ivan The Awesome]

Good poo. I still read everything AND saw the video. I feel accomplished.

[Kurb]

Look how pretty and clean this thread is now.

Dis trad iz cleen!

CB2 is starting to trouble me greatly.

I ill trust Rivera for now.

Can't believe we didn't go after Rodgers, maybe we did and he didn't like the price *shrug*

Feel we have to get SOMETHING tho.

[Guest helentry33]

sorry ,but cant it be shorter ?

[Kurb]

twss

[jherald]

I do like Bewb gifs though.

I agree that with our current TE and WR situation, we're fine and going to be alot more productive than TE's were in the Fox era.

[CatMan72]

Well played sir.

I had some witty response lined up as I was reading, then you threw the T&A thing at me and now I can't remember what I was going to say... LOL

[Floppin]

I'm really starting to get the sense that the plan is to hide the deficiencies in the secondary through sheer pressure. What with Beason saying they are going to be blitzing twice as much as they did last year and the apparent lack of concern over the CB hole what other explanation can there be?

I hope they work on picking up WR and RB screens if they going to be blitzing a ton.

[dksmith17]

The epic hole at no.2 corner

It's still very early.

I was thinking the opposite.

[mmmbeans]

Thats an awful lot of blitzing given the qbs we face.

[Guest]

Nice write up.

The video made it an all around well balanced post :)

[Darth Biscuit]

I like boobs.

Oh yeah, the football stuff was good too.

[Sweeneyman]

Well written, and insightful!!

:cheers2:

[teeray]

*wants to insert GIF but scared of Zod*