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Peter King ranks the Panthers #18

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letha Newbie

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Why should anybody care what Peter King has to say anyway? Because everybody wants their team to be publicly touted as the best team around. Doesn't matter whether it's true or not, they just want it said aloud... :lol:

Welcome to the human world...

OMG King might be right...but lets hope not

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mr beauxjangles Newbie

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what he said was not that bad.

"Points allowed, last seven games: 45, 31, 23, 10, 34, 31, 33. So pardon me if I'm not on the Panthers bandwagon just yet."

I agree that it's not worth paying attention to preseason rankings, but it is worth pointing out that Peter King decided to include points allowed but not points scored in the last seven. He won't "jump on the bandwagon" since we crumbled defensively in the last seven games. Ummm...yeah, we didn't play great defensively, but we played pretty good offensively.

Points scored: 31, 28, 35, 38, 30, 28, 33

Record: 5-2

Oh yeah, and then there's Peter King after Week 15, ranking us third in the midst of this supposedly horrid stretch we had to close the season. So he was on the bandwagon when it was happening, but in retrospect he thinks we sucked.

"3. Carolina (11-3). The reborn DeAngelo Williams in Carolina's 6-1 run: 814 rushing yards, 12 touchdowns."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/peter_king/12/14/Week15/1.html

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Why should anybody care what Peter King has to say anyway? Because everybody wants their team to be publicly touted as the best team around. Doesn't matter whether it's true or not, they just want it said aloud... :lol:

Welcome to the human world...

Because it's the offseason and there's nothing really going on with the team right now worth discussing...plus King is probably the easiest target for criticism in terms of NFL sportswriting (and for good reason).

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scpanther22 Rising Star

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the giants defense crumbled and that didnt stop him from ranking them 2! king ranks his teams based on how well known their quarterback is then on down the line by size of market, unless there's an exception that would be egregious to ignore.

also slurp slurp slurp tom brady

You arguably say the giants did way more than us to fix there defense that and on paper at least they have a more complete defense than we do

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Rankings don't mean a thing while no one is playing football.

We know our defense faded at the end of last year. The numbers show it, but fans saw it plain as day on TV. In our home during the playoffs against familiar Arizona, we didn't or couldn't cover Larry Fitzgerald until the second half of the game. The whole team broke down, not just Jake Delhomme. He was put into a situation where he had to take passing risks, to make up lost points, and Arizona seized the opportunity well. On paper, we blame Jake. He deserves some blame, and he has the character to learn from taking it.

Where was Julius Peppers when we needed him to be a playmaker in the playoffs against Arizona? Who is going to tell me the Arizona front line is that tough?

We need some depth at QB. He was right about that. More than that though, we need the ability to locate/develop QB talent...Rams/Cinci? This team has been unable to do that. Need proof? Josh McClown. A team that signs Josh probably isn't going to know when Jake Delhomme's expiration date has passed, not that it has. We have a QB coaching problem.

Our 2009 schedule is simply BRUTAL. If we play football the same as we did last year, we lose 2 more games. If we play better football than we did last year, maybe we win 10.

In 2009, we need some combination of our various defensive ends to replace Julius Peppers on the starting field. We do not have the draft picks for next year, so we will either sign Peppers to a long term contract, and gain the money we'll need for a 2010 free agent on margin, or we'll let Peppers go, and have a ton of money for free agents. Either way, our personnel gains are deferred till 2010. That doesn't mean that Peppers is hurting us, it means we hurt ourselves a few years back, and we're just now paying for it.

Having said that, I'd much rather sign a free agent than a first round draft pick. That makes 2010 look good.

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and the Panther fans fall to pieces.

Sorry Jake wasn't praised coming off a 6TO performance at home in the playoffs. Sorry the entire game was not blamed on Play calling and Mike Trgovac. Sorry Peter did not pick us to go undefeated this season and have a 40 point average win margin.

There are some very sensitive people around here

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