The reason why the Panthers are not good and have not been for 4 years.

[Russian Bear]

I believe it is because the receivers are terrible. Steve Smith is more of a Wes Welker kind of a player that can wreak havoc if used properly. He is not being used properly at all this year. If you interchanged Welker and Smith the results would be off the charts for Smith. Look at Atlanta, suddenly they have a great passing attack now that they have two great receivers. When Carolina went to the Super Bowl they had Muhammad at an all-pro level and Smith was breaking out. Carolina needs to invest some high draft picks or free agent dollars in the position. Running backs are a dime a dozen. The offensive line makes a running back, not vice versa. Green Bay has got it right.

[R0CKnR0LLA]

[mwright350]

There are a lot of reasons we've been bad.

Failure to add receivers around Smith is one of them. There are enough more that calling any thing "the reason" is inaccurate.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

I believe it is because the receivers are terrible. Steve Smith is more of a Wes Welker kind of a player that can wreak havoc if used properly. He is not being used properly at all this year. If you interchanged Welker and Smith the results would be off the charts for Smith. Look at Atlanta, suddenly they have a great passing attack now that they have two great receivers. When Carolina went to the Super Bowl they had Muhammad at an all-pro level and Smith was breaking out. Carolina needs to invest some high draft picks or free agent dollars in the position. Running backs are a dime a dozen. The offensive line makes a running back, not vice versa. Green Bay has got it right.

GM Marty Hurney respectfully disagrees and don't get him started on the relative insignificance of the FS and SS positions either.

[Russian Bear]

Imagine Julio Jones in place of LaFell.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

Imagine Julio Jones in place of LaFell.

A decade of pure failure at drafting a viable complement/replacement for Smitty.

[antame]

A decade of pure failure at drafting a viable complement/replacement for Smitty.

Have we even tried free agency? I've been saying this since Moose left the first time what the f was it 8 years ago? Yeah Keshawn.

[Chimera]

Have we even tried free agency? I've been saying this since Moose left the first time what the f was it 8 years ago? Yeah Keshawn.

Does Moose count?

[antame]

Does Moose count?

I think so in 03-04 but ever since it's been Smith or bust.

[antame]

Point being I mostly agree with the Russian Bear, Smith in the slot for the Pats would be utterly frightening and we need a real WR with some size.

[antame]

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[rayzor]

yeah...that's not the reason.

[Davidson Deac II]

Over the last year and a half, the majority of games we have lost were because of mistakes during crunch time, not because of deficiencies at receiver.

[X-Clown]

Imagine Julio Jones in place of LaFell.

So we should have taken Julio instead of cam?