Panthers Trade for Rod Gardner

Economically, we did good in the Muhammad/Gardner "tradeoff". If Gardner can become what we limited Muhammad to, before we needed him for more, that is. We've certainly loaded for a year or two of top play, though, and that bothers me for the future.

 

:banginghe

 

When you're this close to having all the pieces to make a serious run at a championship I think you've got to go for it.

 

only time will tell if Gardner was a piece filler or just a piece....

 

Agreed especially on the last sentence.

And the depth was huge - I wonder whether they had true confidence in Colbert after the drops. If Smitty missed even a game or two this year, we'd be screwed. Colbert and what? I didn't necessarily need "another starter" (and lmao on whoever asked what Collin thought, since he said teams "just don't have this depth" or something), but depth was a big deal to me. We had to rely on Smith (too much IMO) in 03 early. We relied on Muhammad too much in 04 (the Saints game shows we had no other bigtime options). It'll be nice to think we at least planned not to rely on Smith 100%.

 

we've used 4 and 5 wr sets. the question seems to be how many of Smitty, Ricky, Colbert, Carter and Gardner will suit. seems to me that mags has been saying we wouldn't suit up more than 3 of those for any one game ... probing ...

 

Theoretically, yeah. If you consider Nick Goings checking in at FB and then splitting out, yeah. But Hankton saw offensive time in one game last year that I can recall, and that was emergency - we never keep more than 3 WR active for O.

 

So are you saying that either Proel or Colbert wont dress?