 | 2008 Season Preview: Carolina Panthers
So long as Delhomme is back to his old self and the defensive back seven can make plays, this team has a great chance to win the NFC South.
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| Looking Back At Rucker
Mike Rucker isn’t a legend, and he more than likely won’t be in the Hall of Fame. He only made the Pro Bowl once, and he didn’t start for the first two seasons of his career. He isn’t a household name, but in a media climate replete with stories of drunk driving arrests and assault allegations, maybe he should be.
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| Grading The Deal: Hackett's A Panther
The Panthers signed free-agent wide receiver D.J. Hackett to a two-year deal worth $3.5 million on Monday afternoon. Carolina is hoping that the presence of Hackett will take some of the heat off of number-one option Steve Smith.
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| Disappointment Reigns In Carolina
Once flirting with contention, as they were in Week 6 when running back DeAngelo Williams and wideout Steve Smith exceeding a hundred yards and the defense allowing only ten points. The Panthers are now behind teams like the surprisingly adequate Arizona Cardinals, the last team they beat.
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| 2007 Season Preview: Carolina Panthers
The Panthers are a lot closer to the preseason Super Bowl pick of last summer than it is to being 8-8 (or worse) again. Don’t forget the Panthers swept the Saints last year and went 5-1 in the NFC South, but went 0-4 vs. the NFC East. They get the weaker NFC West this year, as well as replacing the powerful AFC North with the inferior AFC South.
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| 2007 Draft Review: Carolina Panthers
Very good value picks on the first day; filled their primary needs with NFL-ready talents. Second day picks all have needed athleticism, though they bypassed chances to get needed help at safety and tackle. A draft class that could look better, and be more helpful, now than 3 years from now.
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| Post-Draft Analysis: DeAngelo A Great Value For Carolina
At #27 you’ve got to call DeAngelo Williams one of the two or three best value picks of the first day. The fit was questioned initially, thinking that Carolina needed some muscle to go with their finesse running game, but Carolina loves to shar the load in the backfield.
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| NFL Draft Dissection 2006 – Carolina Panthers
It’s hard to believe that a team as talented as the Panthers has holes. Since making it to the 2004 Super Bowl it seems this squad has been one of the most complete out there. But as anyone who has followed the NFL knows, it’s hard to keep a talented group together. Carolina lost underrated linebacker Will Witherspoon in free agency when the Rams found some money to throw at him, leaving some shoes to fill.
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| Fox's Simple Work of Staggering Obviousness
Josh Voorhees could not believe my eyes during Sunday's NFC wild-card game. John Fox was flying around the field making more plays than the King in those BK commercials. Fox bursting into the backfield to stop Tiki Barber in his tracks, intercepting a poorly thrown ball by Eli Manning, and running right through the Giants depleted linebacking corps.
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| Who Are You?
Who are you? Fans of the Carolina Panthers really want to know the answer to that question, after Sunday’s 13-3 loss to the Bears. Granted, they lost to the best defense in the league, but some holes were exposed that have been around for a few weeks now. Time to break things down and see if Carolina can survive as is.
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| Getting To The Ball With Bad Intentions
The Carolina Panters first round pick, Thomas Davis, proposed a mission statment where he vowed to get to the ball with "bad intentions." A mentality the Panthers' defensive will need to be successful in 2005.
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| “A Team with Heart”
After starting the season 1 and 7, most teams would’ve given up. Most teams could’ve probably pulled off maybe 2 or 3 more wins and went into the post season waiting for their newly acquired early draft pick. Not the Panthers. They put together one of the best endings to a football season that most teams would dream of.
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