kungfoodude

And this is precisely why you don't understand that there are three different types of guaranteed money in NFL salaries. There is Salary, Cap and Injury guarantees. It is extremely rare for all three guarantees to be in a contract, typically they are just Injury guaranteed. It is possible, although unlikely that Teddy's contract is Salary, Cap and Injury guaranteed. If it is, it would further prove how bad that contract is. I suspect, however, given the caliber of player he is that it was just an Injury guarantee. We'll find out if we cut him.

Brock Osweiler says "Hey."

Link?

Incorrect. If we cut him prior to March 13th, we owe him no new money unless his contract has a Skill Guarantee in it. I suspect that his $10 mil in guaranteed salary in 2021 is only Injury Guaranteed and not Cap or Skill Guaranteed. So, although our dead cap charge would be larger in 2021, we shouldn't owe him any more actual money. However, if it is fully guaranteed for 2021, we owe him that $10 mil, regardless and it makes more cap sense to wait until post June 1st to cut him. If it were my decision to make, I'd give up a 3rd round draft pick to a team like Jacksonville to take him.

I didn't need Twatter to show me how bad Kalil was. I just had to watch actual Panther games. If you'd take Kalil again, I question how much you are actually a Panthers fan.

Just another in a long line of idiotic moves by Bill O'Brien.

Too bad that didn't happen. fug the Bucs.

Short, Weatherly and Apple were more effective than Matt Kalil. Actually Apple was way more effective because he didn't hurt us every game he played. And to your point about cost. Matt Kalil cost us $1.52 mil/game played in his Panthers career. Short has cost us $713,000/game played, Weatherly has cost us $728,000/game played, and Teddy Bridgewater has cost us $1.6 mil/game played. Kalil's contract was horrific. It was unbelievably horrific. He wasn't even remotely capable of being an NFL starter and he was signed to a $55.5 mil deal. That is INSANE. How bad was he? Even after landing a 1 year, $7.5 mil deal with Texans, he has never played an NFL game since he left here. That is how bad he was. Teddy's contract is awful, but we can also cut bait from him this offseason and be rid of his contract. If we cut him prior to June 1st, the dead cap will be massive but we also won't owe him the $10 mil in guaranteed salary(unless it is guaranteed for more than injury which would be a rarity) for 2021. So we can walk with no more actual money going to Teddy Bridgewater. Basically the same situation as Kalil. The biggest difference is that Teddy will continue to make money in the NFL afterwards and likely be an effective backup for many years. Matt Kalil had to retire after 7 years in the NFL. Partly due to injuries but mainly due to being terrible.

Teddy was a far better QB than Kalil was a tackle.

One of the top 5 worst signings in Panthers history.

I like Kerr but he is also 30 years old. I have no issue keeping him around be we still need to draft for the future.

Nah. We need to draft a guy still. Roy is a backup, Kerr is a journeyman that will need to get replaced eventually. Still are gonna need 2-3 DT's in the next two offseasons.

Nah. He is done. There is no reason to keep him around. Kerr was a fine replacement.

We are going to have to probably sign 3-4 OL just to make the roster and that is assuming we take 3+ in the draft. I am okay with some one year rentals if they are potentially better caliber linemen. We do need upgrades in that area for our, hopefully, new QB. Also probably need to take a look at the FA QB's. We need to upgrade over Walker and Grier if we move on from Teddy with a new QB. I'd probably rather sign a Winston or Cam like discarded QB contract for one year than waste another draft pick on a QB(this is assuming we have made a first round QB selection or replaced our QB in some other way).

Let's hope we make better FA acquisitions than last year. Teddy Bridgewater - D+ Pharoh Cooper - C Robby Anderson - A+ Seth Roberts - F Tre Boston - C- Stephen Weatherly - F Juston Burris - B- John Miller - B+ Keith Kirkwood - C Seth DeValve - C Tahir Whitehead - F P.J. Walker - C Zach Kerr - A DeAndrew White - C

Unless he ends up starting for them next season(and being healthy), it is not a good deal.

I'm talking about the Heinicke deal. No other team in the NFL gives him that deal.

Maybe learn to read, that would help.

Okay, Marty. Just tell us how well that Teddy contract worked out.

No other team in the NFL makes that deal.

There is no fuging reason for us to take him OTHER than being on a cheap one year deal. We need to be preserving our cap for players that actually have a chance to be a part of our franchise in 3-4 years. Trubisky is closer to a bottom 15 QB than a top 15 QB. That is also dumb. Are you trying to set a Huddle record for the amount of dumb posts in one thread?

Yeah, it's pretty easy to justify it. Washington always makes dumb moves. Why would other teams follow them?

I think Mitch will get some traction on a moderate sized($3-5 mil) one year deal.