WarPanthers89

Totally agree with everything said especially the QB position. I still believe we are about the same position as last year when it comes to holes to fill. Sure we will be in better shape with dead cap along with promising young talent, but look at the starter positions we have to fill. (minimum one LB position, 2 CB’s -we have Jackson alone who is on his last year, DT - even if you stick with Kerr we have zero depth, LT, G, G, C - that is in the last year of his contract and play has been middle of the road at best and RT that will take up the majority of our cap space if we tag Moton. We are really one year away from having our team in decent shape even if we find our QB of the future this offseason. the future looks bright but we need to make good decisions this season and have one hell of a draft then the following year we will be in much better position cap wise

True and I agree that’s a must, but that leaves very little to fill the other 6 starting spots and depth/draft picks. Our new GM has his hands full this year. Hurney left us in rough cap shape yet again with very little talent under contract that is not on a rookie wage scale.

Agreed. Moton should be our one and only big signing in my opinion but we still have a lot of holes to fill even with signing cheap starters (two G spots, LT, CB x2 and MLB minimum. Along with DT depth) Side note: Luke Kuechly and Gano count for over 9 million in dead cap this upcoming season

The Carolina Panthers will rollover around $4.27 million in salary cap room for the 2021 season, according to Field Yates at ESPN. While that’s not enough to go out and make any real splash signing in free agency, every little bit helps. General manager Scott Fitterer is inheriting a challenging salary cap situation. His team needs more depth on the back end defensively and four of five starting offensive linemen are about to become free agents. Fitterer is also stuck with a mediocre quarterback on the books for at least another year and a history-making contract for a running back. Panthers fans currently asking for the franchise to mortgage the future in order to trade for Deshaun Watson need to be patient and understand it’s going to take more than one big move to turn this thing around. https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/2021/01/21/panthers-cap-space-rollover-2021-season/?fbclid=IwAR0n5yq_2zuzbNyGfXC092c6r3quPrleOZAA371crp-2KXt4H0ubOdqTiyo

Lol dude is 24 years old but will “never be the same”. You have lost your mind.

He is 5-7 in the playoffs all time.

FYI post June 1st cut numbers (then I am done blowing up this thread with post)

Luke still has a 7.5 million dollar dead cap hit this year, Gano 1.5 million

I totally agree. Dude is solid and gets too much hate, however I would strongly argue that he is not an impact pro bowl type player. That is who should be #3 on your highest cap hit for your team.

The bad thing is that: Teddy is #1 with 12.84% of our total cap KK is #2 with 11.63% Shaq is #3 with 7.91% All players who are not impacting the game for us.

We hate to see ya go! The bad thing is that he will still impact us for a few years even *WHEN cut

Hey...my rep points didn’t go down!

As long as we come away with one of the top 5 QBs at ANY point in the draft, I’ll be thrilled

We need to extend him now to save money in the future. He is the exact type of player Rhule wants. Anderson and Moore can be building blocks for our offense for years to come. We haven’t had talent like this at WR in a long time. CMC in the slot will be lethal next year.

The team goes off of true leadership. If they couldn’t get over the hump with Brees, no way they perform better with his goofy ass eating W’s

No way. He is what he is at this stage of his career

I know that’s what you would do but it’s not reality. I can see the opposite opinion on a lot of things, and I agree that RBs don’t have as long of a shelf like as other positions, but it is crazy to have that argument at this point in CMCs career. He’s not even close to the age of breaking down..... he’s 24 years old. He had one season this year where he has been injured but has improved every year he has been in the league. Next year he will be a top 1-3 back yet again and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. If he were to switch to a slot WR later in his career he would be one of the best in the league in that role also.

Lol come on man. CMC is 24 years old. His best days are not behind him, and he is going nowhere.

Touché. I’ll be extremely happy if we pulled off a miracle and landed him, I just see too many things (like literally not having an O line) holding us back from being competitive if we pulled it off, but time will tell.

Dude...he is still going to get top QB money. You cannot write a contract at that will not pay him top 3 QB money at this point no matter how you want to front load it. It’s going to be a huge portion of the cap with massive guaranteed money. We still have to field a competitive team around him in order to compete, and we have no starters in 9 roles going into next season and that’s not counting keeping Boston at S, keeping Thomas at TE even though he’s got one year left and terrible, and not counting 3rd WR being that Samuel is gone.

My point is that it wouldn’t be open with a 40.4 million dollar cap figure the following year. You can extend but he is still going to want top QB money, and that figure going down could only be had by kicking the can down the road like with Brees (which is fine, he should be paid that amount because he is a top talent QB) The issue I am bringing up is fielding a competitive TEAM around him in order to compete. The talent level and holes we have is actually worse than the Texans currently if we give up that capitol, so how do you field a team that can compete for a championship with all the other holes. Again I would be thrilled to have him, I just don’t see how we compete with the situation we are currently in now.

It’s not a wide open salary cap with the contract he signed. Look at my post right below your post that I jusy quoted and tell How you would fill these holes with his contract this year or in the future along with Teddys 20+ million and be able to compete (because that’s the entire goal).

This team is currently built to draft a rookie QB and utilize his rookie wages to build a complete team around him. People keep acting like we don’t have to completely replace our entire O line and that Paradis is the only one returning and on the last year of his deal (LT,G,C,G,RT), a starting DT across from Brown, get a starting Lb (Shaq is it), figure out what the hell we are doing at CB (Jackson is our only returning starter and on the last year of his deal) and eventually safety (literally everyone agrees Boston could be easily upgraded)

That doesn’t even work in Madden Dood.