news: fox sports news.comLike wendy's say's [were is the beef ] I will tell you were the beef is at, it is with the panthers front four. They got more meat than a 60 pound drum. You get the point I assume, the panthers will have the best defence in the league next year by far. They already have the best D line in football, with jenkins,kemo,rucker,lewis and thats it. No not really ,I forgot to mention the best D lineman to ever play the game( J.Peppers ). He is so versetile that he played basketball with the tarheels and was good. Any team in football will have trouble next year trying to run on the panthers. They are fast and strong at all of the D line postions. I have talked about that line enough, let me talk about the rest of the team. The secondary might again be the best in football. Lets recap, we have the best D line and secondary,yes thats what I said(mark my words says the bird). The last two years lucas and gamble have more interception than any tandom in football. Lucas found himself being a shutdown corner last year. Gamble has over 12 interceptions since he came in the league two years ago. Mike Minter is one of the hardest hitting strong safty's in the game. He gets 80 plus tackles a year. S. williams used to be a probowl type safty, and has put up great numbers. He has also been injured the last two years. Free safty and outside linebacker are the week spots in the D, just two spots that are week for the panthers. Colin Branch and Williams will be fighting for the safty spot and I think one of them will be fine a safty postion, because branch was soposed to be better than Mcree before he was injured. The last three spots are all linebacker spots, the rest of the D side is stacked. Morgan is locked if healthy as a pro bowl type linebacker, and Thomas Davis I think has the tools to be a very great linbacker, evan better than spoon was. He is a very fast and was a first round pick. That leaves one spot left and that is the other outside linebacker spot. Chris draft or a 1st or 2nd rounder will be used to fill this spot. Draft played pretty well last year for injured Dan Morgan and had some pretty good games, he will do alright and can start right off for the panthers. There is 5 or 6 linebackers coming out in the NFL draft that the panthers could get and start out at a high level. They will not get AJ hawk or Chad Greenwell, but there is 5 others that are 4 stars out of 5stars and could start out at a high level or excell quickly like T. Davis has done. Demero Ryans, Bobby Carpenter, Enrie Simms, Thomas Howard,Manny Lawson all are very good outside linebackers and could start for many NFL teams and be pretty good. The panthers will try to address this in the first or second round in the draft. Finally the defence will look top notch next year and take all the pressure off of the offence, so we can get back to the superbowl.
The defence was not the problem last year though, it was Jake throwing INT's at the wrong time. He still is a good QB and he needed a durable running back, along with a another WR to help S. Smith out. Let me add to that a week TE and week OT spot last year, and if we had those spots filled we could have been better. We needed to run more to take preasure off of Jake Delhome. We could have used the play action pass to set up alot of TD's passes ,but did not have a TE to throw too, much less a okay line. I think this year, They will draft a TE in the 1st or 2nd round, so it will be a TE or OLB; mark my words says the bird. L. Davis and L. pope will be gone in the top 25 of the draft. I think there is 2 or 3 heart stoppen TE in this years draft after Pope and Davis is gone. The next best in order are M. Lewis, J. Klopfenstein, D. Bryd and we could pick one of those guys and start as a impact player. They will then pick a WR or RB or a lineman in the next 3 to 5 rounds. They could pick up a okay backup back at the 4 or 5 pick. They could use a OT and will pick one up in the 3rd to 5th round. There is a alot of WR that is 3 stars out of 5 left. You could pick one up 3rd threw 7th because there is 23 WR with 3 stars and only two WR with just 4 stars that will be left to pick from. Caroilna picks right they will be in the mix of things next year. They stacked up and packed up with beef last year in the draft. They are built ford tough. They got more beef than TO and Any Ried and they hate each other. My point is carolina is bad to the bone and other teams better wacth out for that Beefy line and those throws to Steve Smith from Jake Delohome this year, he should have help and be dangerous if he gets the right tools. The cats will be unlished and the panthers will have a good year in 2006-2007 if they plugg those holes. If the cats do win it all next year then I will give that big fish posted on the top of the pargraph to the cats to eat for a snack!!! lol