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Yes, the subtitle is not a typo. NFL.com has been crying about how the sky is falling for a solid month now. Carolina's WR corps is, right now, better than it was at the start of the 2013 season. People talk about how we've lost weapons and how they don't understand what Gettleman is doing. Let me lift the veil from your eyes. WR corps at this point last year: Steve Smith Brandon LaFell Ted Ginn JR Domenik Hixon Greg Olsen (TE) WR corps at this point this year: Kelvin Benjamin Jerricho Cotchery Jason Avant Tavarres King Marvin McNutt Greg Olsen (TE) Ed Dickson (TE) Clearly, there has been a lot of shuffling around. But I am tired of hearing about how much worse we got at the WR position. First off, we were 29th in the league in passing last year. 29th. Yet we went 12-4 and won the South. Steve Smith was the #2 pass-catcher last year, Olsen was #1. We have two proven vets, who yes, are not more than #2 options, but they are there with three young guys to teach them and they will hopefully do just that. (The WR lineup- the actual WRs- is how I'd predict the depth chart to look at the beginning of the season). Last year we had Brandon LaFail, who tipped more balls into opponent's arms than I have ever seen. Ted Ginn was considered a bust before he came to us. Domenik Hixon was a #3 veteran WR. The only reliable option we knew we had going into 2013 was Smitty and Olsen. Let's not rewrite history and act like the Panthers WRs were this awesome bunch of dudes last year. None of them broke 800 yards. The defensive front seven is still intact and has a great addition in Kony Ealy. The secondary is once again a mish-mash of people that Gettleman got for cheap, kinda like last year when he got this guy named Mike Mitchell for 1 million dollars. Charles Godfrey is back and he took a heck of a paycut to do so. We don't need world-beaters in the secondary when we have, (IMO ofc, but I do believe it to be true), the best front seven in the NFL. QBs should not have all that much time to throw. The only real place we have regressed is at the tackle positions, and we are looking at a guy right now to fill that need, (and no, not referring to J'Marcus Webb). With the salary-cap hell we are in, Gettleman is doing a great job getting value out of whatever he can.
