Khyber53

People around here are acting like this FA move is like Reggie White going to Green Bay back in the day. And it just doesn't add up. Hardy had a fair to good run here, when he was on the field. 2014 should have been his breakout year, but he spent it on the couch, collecting paychecks and working on his mix tape. Do you really think he's going to be in football shape or that he's past making dumb decisions? To get their money's worth out of him, they'll have to have round the clock babysitters with him and conditioning coaches waking him up at 5 a.m. each day. Let him go. Just wish he'd have left that $13 million on the table for us last year.

Panthro, you're still mad over Armanti? Dang man, you need a life.

Four years ago? Man, you really hold onto grudges, don't you?

Man, let it go, he's gone. He's moved on. Someone new will come along. You can make it through this, just grow from the heart ache, you'll love again someday.

I'd never heard a bad word from a teammate said about him whatsoever. The closest was when Tolbert's mom scolded him and reminded him that Tolbert was at Deangelo's mom's funeral. And there have been countless stories about the friendship between Williams and Stewart, not to mention the whole group of Panthers wrasslin' fans that go to the local matches and even hold contests for tickets to go with them. To paint him as anything but a great teammate and a positive part of the team is to take one interview taken at the time of his dismissal and use that one emotion-addled moment and paint it across the guy's whole career. That's disingenuous, small minded and petty. Williams had a long, great career with us, he was upset on the way out the door. Anything more than that and you're just sounding butthurt over a bad breakup.

Stop what? Folks are acting like Williams was a cancer on the team throughout his career, which was far from the truth. But bring up the fact that Stewart, while he is a top-tier talent at running back, has absolutely no history of durability and we need to stop mentioning that? I hope that Stewart can be the workhorse back for this team through 16 games and deep into the playoffs. I just haven't seen a bit of evidence it's going to happen. Have you?

So very much pi.

We're going to be missing him by week four when Stewart is on the sidelines with a bruised this or a sprained that. Williams always took the training camp and early season hits while Stewie kept a stationery bicycle from flying up in the air. I like Stewart, but he's always shown his best work at the end of the season when he's still fresh and and defenses have been beaten up a bit. Without Williams to carry much of the workload (running and blocking), Stewart is going to have a heck of a time making it through a full season. And while I've got a lot of hopes for Fozzy, he isn't as good as Williams by any stretch.

I expect him to hold on and get happily franchise tagged after this year. By my calculations, it should set him at about $19 million for that year, which is a king's ransom. After that he'll negotiate down to a more reasonable salary. It's not a bad gamble especially when a mobile quarterback starts looking at how hard keeping a job will be in the eighth and ninth years of his career. If he signs before the end of this season, he'll either be leaving money on the table or he'll be getting such a huge contract it'll break the team.