Most Disappointing Panther This Year?

[Guest Irv]

The Darvin adams

[Brooklyn Bully]

I have a few issues with Olsen, but you cannot call him a disappointment. He was built up by some to be more than he is. By any measure he was very productive and that should continue.

This.

People around here were acting like we signed Gates, Finley, or Graham. He's always been just slightly above average.

Me? Otah, Double Trouble (though that is more Chud and Cam's "fault"), the lack of a solid #2 WR to step the eff up, and the entire D-Line for their low sack numbers.

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Cam for not getting us into the playoffs, which is the only thing that matters for OROTY [/sarcasm]

Mare was the most disappointing Panther for me. I expected rookies to struggle and the team as a whole to adjust to the new coaching scheme (along with the coaches to adjust to their own schemes!). The last thing I expected was for a kicker that was brought in and given enough trust to basically be guaranteed the starting gig for 2 years to come in and miss crucial kicks.

[cdandi1]

To constitute a disappointment, IMO, would be someone who we all had high expectations on and they did not live up to those expectations. I'm not sure if anyone had very high hopes for Martin.

Our hopes for Olsen were a little unfair so I wouldn't consider him a MAJOR disappointment, though I thought he had a little better hands than he showed at times.

My biggest disappointment would be Greg Hardy. After a very good rookie season I feel that everyone had high hopes for him becoming the starter and honestly I felt disappointed that he was unable to be a factor much at all. To be fair, both ends suffered by playing alongside poor DT's, but Johnson was getting more double teams. Also, Hardy struggles vs the run (something Johnson is VERY good at).

Just my two cents.

[PantherFan52]

Defense as a whole. I'd have to say the ends were pretty disappointing though. Charles Johnson is good for a sack a game a lot of the time but with the money we are paying him he should be bursting out and getting multiple sacks a game(didn't do that all year for us). Also Hardy was rather disappointing this year. I know he's batshit crazy and all but the Kraken wasn't really unleashed this year.

[PantherPhann89]

Otah b/c he can't stay healthy

Goodson b/c I really expected him to come on this year, but now, I expect him to be gone this year.

[CatMan72]

Sherrod Martin

[Carolina Husker]

Otah.

[Jackofalltrades]

Mare, nuff said.

Fua, didn't expect him to get bullied so easily

AE, never really saw the field as WR

Nannee, early on he was a disaster

D as a whole

Goodson, WTF man? Hold on to the ball

Martin, disastrous at times

ST coach and most ST players

[Jackofalltrades]

Hardy actually played very well and was disrupting QB's pretty regularly, he just didn't get the pretty sack numbers to show for it.

[Varking]

Hardy actually played very well and was disrupting QB's pretty regularly, he just didn't get the pretty sack numbers to show for it.

This. Think about how much better both Hardy and Johnson could have been with decent DTs the whole entire year. Hardy got double teamed a lot this year which is crazy because he wasn't getting sack numbers. Truth is though he was always disrupting the passing game. And again, once the Panthers figure out the whole DT thing and it helps get more sacks for the ends, it will only help make coverage that much simpler for the Panthers. It all starts up front.

[Raleighcat83]

Dan Connor. Not that he was terrible, but he represented a bigger drop off from Beason than I expected. Martin and Mare, obviously. Also, was disappointed that neither of the two rookie DTs looked very good.

[Marguide]

Defense as a whole. I'd have to say the ends were pretty disappointing though. Charles Johnson is good for a sack a game a lot of the time but with the money we are paying him he should be bursting out and getting multiple sacks a game(didn't do that all year for us).

3 players averaged over 1 sack a game in the league this year. None reached an average of 1.5, so expecting multiple sacks a game from a DE is not realistic.

Sure, some players have had multiple sack games, but then follow it up with a few games with no sacks.

Charles will do better as the rest of our D improves.

[jayflip]

Captain M was really disappointing. If they threw to the left side, you just knew it was going to be a catch.