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Goodbye David Gettis

Zod

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Another thing to keep in mind is that Olsen is the #2 option on this team. Lafell is really a #3. You add in Hixon and Ginn and Even Edwards that were above him and he wasn't going to see many snaps even if he made the team.

I swear that this dude is the Real Cam Newton!

Just the way he says things...

Go ahead and laugh at me now, but I'm being for real serious. His insights are just too on point

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Not being melodramatic, just real. I don't think our receiving corps hinged upon Gettis, but he sure added a lot of good value and depth to the position.  I mean, I don't want to rely on Armanti or Hixon if we have an injury.  At least I could half way feel some hope with Ginn, Gettis and LaFell. Now if we have an injury, I am going to be thinking that we will be lucky just to hold serve.  I have heard all the preseason hype before, but I've also seen the reality when you get right down to it, and AE and Hixon (and all of them, save for Smitty, really) are going to show a whole helluva lot more than they have for our pass offense to not revert back to the broken-winged bird that it has been, and it will do so in a hurry if Smith were to be out any appreciable amount of time (and any time, really, with such small win-loss margins to earn a playoff berth).  Gettis has that rare combination of size, speed, and the ability to catch that can keep defenses honest and even off balance.  He was the X-factor that could make people pay for taken him for granted. 

 

I just got through talking with a Skins fan up here in D.C. before I got on here to get the final results, and he was talking about our need to get Cam some offensive weapons (including guards to keep him upright) and I came down to this.  SMDH.

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Not being melodramatic, just real. I don't think our receiving corps hinged upon Gettis, but he sure added a lot of good value and depth to the position.  I mean, I don't want to rely on Armanti or Hixon if we have an injury.  At least I could half way feel some hope with Ginn, Gettis and LaFell. Now if we have an injury, I am going to be thinking that we will be lucky just to hold serve.  I have heard all the preseason hype before, but I've also seen the reality when you get right down to it, and AE and Hixon (and all of them, save for Smitty, really) are going to show a whole helluva lot more than they have for our pass offense to not revert back to the broken-winged bird that it has been, and it will do so in a hurry if Smith were to be out any appreciable amount of time (and any time, really, with such small win-loss margins to earn a playoff berth).  Gettis has that rare combination of size, speed, and the ability to catch that can keep defenses honest and even off balance.  He was the X-factor that could make people pay for taken him for granted. 

 

I just got through talking with a Skins fan up here in D.C. before I got on here to get the final results, and he was talking about our need to get Cam some offensive weapons (including guards to keep him upright) and I came down to this.  SMDH.

 

The injury you refer to would most likely be Gettis based on his history.

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I swear that this dude is the Real Cam Newton!

Just the way he says things...

Go ahead and laugh at me now, but I'm being for real serious. His insights are just too on point

 

I can neither confirm nor deny

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Im sorry man, but this post is hilarious.

 

Well, plenty of people including this Skins fan thinks that our inability to protect Cam and give him some weapons is hilarious also, and then we take one of them away in lieu of some guys that many Panthers fans have never even heard of.  

 

OK. We'll see how it goes, but don't fail to recognize the humor in the situation when our passing game suffers at the first sign of injury,  just plain mediocrity, and/or lack of execution.

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Armanti "Teflon" Edwards, lives to ride another day. Lmfao@ someone saying he can play special teams. Hell, I can "play" chess...just not very well.

Heeeeeyyyyy, more random hate for Armanti. We certainly don't get enough of that around here.

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Sorry guys, when I look at our WR depth now, without Gettis it looks like a whole bunch of smoke and mirrors.

You are giving Gettis way too much credit.

3 passes in 2010 created a legend that kept growing despite him never doing anything beyond it.

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