how would you rate the panthers moves so far

I thinks they couid have done much more good if they want it to

 

D:below average. kept a some good players, but didnt do what was necessary to ensure a stable 2ndary- missed some good opportunities.

 

B.........free agency is what 6 whole days old and we have signed:

Steve Smith
John Kasay
Al Wallace
Kris Managum
Jesse Armstead
Tutan Reyes
Adam Meadows

Reasonably active for this early in free agency, kept a couple key players in Smith, Kasay and Wallace, huge jump in linebacker depth with Armstead instead of Mike Caldwell and upgraded the offensive line with Meadows over James at OG. Good start to a long long process that has several months to play out.

 

Keep fooling yourself Meadows is an upgrade. He's older, been benched at two positions with the same team, and injury prone. He won't last the season without missing 5 games or ending up on IR.

 

NOT GOOD

Our front office seems to be scrambling and is making odd decisions all of the sudden. Why does it already feel like we have gotten into cap trouble again? I know that we have the priciest D-line in the league and we just handed Smitty and some OL named Meadows big cash but we shouldn’t be financially hobbled already. I’m not a big fan of the incentive thing right now since it just bit us on the ass. Davis seemed affordable when signed but the effect of his incentive rich contract surprised everyone here and not in a GOOD way. Most here also seem to agree that Steussie and Moose are costing too much now, and then there are much less useful guys like Brzezinski and Weinke who are eating up too much cap room in their own special way.
With Jake due the bigger bucks later this summer and Foster probably next now that we have a nice handful of good effective players with bright futures how are we going to keep them? I can only assume that the contracts of most of the guys mentioned above (and more) are only going to mushroom with each additional year. Wouldn’t it make since to sign the players that we want to keep long-term to more “evenly segmented” contracts? Did Gary Coleman replace Hurney in our front office or something? WTF!

 

B here too. You really skewed the poll by not offering A and B.

 

this poll is a joke....

 

You might be right about Meadows, I have not watched him play. I know about the benchings. I guess the upgrade in my eyes is that, based on the write-ups on him, Meadows offers more line flexibility in that he could move to RT and eventually replace Gross there when Gross moves to LT. If he is as capable a guard as Jeno and offers the flexibility to move to tackle then he'd be an upgrade to me. If he misses multiple games and/or ends up on the IR, that's a problem. However, looking at his history, from 1997 thru 2002 he played in 91 of a possible 96 games. That's 6 years and missed a total of 5 games???? Please explain the "injury prone" here? Last year he played in 12 games is that the sole source of the injury prone label? I'll admit I don't know a lot about Adam Meadows, but if we keep Stuessie and Gross at tackle and Meadows replaces James at guard, and gives us the flexibility to use him at tackle then its an upgrade to me.

 

Yeah Dukey, they should be given credit for signing all those scrubs when we have holes in the starting lineup. What were you thinking?

 

One can hope Meadows isn't used up by the time Steussie is.

We've got one replacement starter, a bunch of veteran backups, three gaping holes in high - dollar territory, and two pre-FA resignings that were inevitable anyway. If one would call Meadows an upgrade, which I don't know enough of him at G nor his current medical situation to comment, and Manu comes in (at a price of a pick), I'd say we upgraded merely depth and one of two TE spots.