Panthers Making Some Changes

The Panthers made a couple of big moves. They hired Brian Baker as defensive line coach recently. He will replace Sal Sunseri, who left last month to become an assistant at Alabama. Baker has plenty of experience, his resume includes working with St. Louis  the past three years. He also worked for Minnesota, Detroit, and San Diego by coaching the defensive line and linebackers.

Panthers have also hired Ron Meeks as defensive co-ordinator, Richard Smith, the linebacker coach and Ron Milus to coach the secondary. The Panthers will try and regroup and rebuild a team that allowed 30 or more points in 6 of its final seven games, which included that horrendous and surprising loss to Arizona in the playoffs (33-13).

As for changes made in the lineup. Carolina agreed to trade cornerback Ken Lucas to the Detroit Lions. This move relieves the Panthers in salary cap by $2.37 million. They desperately needed to move Lucaus since sources are reporting the Carolina Panthers “are going to be dead in free agency. They simply don’t have any money to spend.” The Panthers were very busy this past weekend, as they found themselves scrambling to get under the NFL-mandated $127 million salary cap by half the night.

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