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Offseason Moves To Come REGARDLESS OF PLAYOFFS!!!!!



Good Evening,

Lets face the facts, this season has gone to hell in a hand basket; however there is still an opportunity to go to the playoffs. Now if we will take that opportunity is not up to me, but the post-season is physically possible. Regardless of what may or may not happen we can't all just sit here and say that Free-Agency hasn't already peaked our interest.

When was the last time the Panthers have made any sort of "splash" in FA? They signed Mike Tolbert in 2012, does that even count? "But we don't have any money" -Everybody. Well maybe it is about damn time we made some. Hell, if you're going to fire Smitty and morally force Gross out then maybe its time to finish the change. If you're going to do something you might as well do it right, right? So if the team now belongs to Cam and Luke then finish the job.

The bottom line is the front office needs to get some money from horribly structured contracts, especially if they aren't getting proper production. It is time to trim the DEs & RBs. Charles Johnson, a leader, a presence, a player that always needs to be accounted for and is making too much money for his production. I love the guy, honestly, but the dude is making about 12.5mil that plus Hardy who is at 13.1mil. would be a lot of money to make some changes. Then you have the RBs, now I don't fully understand their contracts because of all the guaranteed money but the fact is that they are done and injured. Now please don't take this the wrong way, yeah they are all great players and have been in our football hearts for years. BUT THIS IS A WAKE UP CALL!!!! THEYRE DONE ITS TIME TO MOVE ON.

So you can look through 2015 free agents on spotrac.com but in terms of what I think we need OL,WR,RB,CB it is reasonable to believe that if they could get a combination of players from Michael Roos (6mil a year), Mike Iupati(4.6mil a year) Jeremy Maclin (5.3) Torry Smith & Randall Cobb (1.3 mil a year), Mark Ingram(2.3mil a year) Shane Vareen 1.1mil a year) and a handful of CBs that are a little more expensive, that our team would be better. The point being almost all of these players are playing better than ours. Now I know things happen and nothing is certain in the offseason, I am just saying that we have options to exercise and why wait any longer?

Just to be fair I also know that plenty of other factors weigh in such as long term contracts that need to be settled (Cam), that not all of these numbers are 100% accurate. If it was easy we would be doing it (I hope). What it boils down to is, the time is now to make a real change. Our DEs and RBs are taking up too much money. Our CBs get abused, Our Oline gets abused and the franchise guys take all the hits. If you want to turn this organization around we need to make some real moves fast.

sincerely,

A devoted optimistic fan that is ready for a little change......oh yeah and fire Shula....

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