Should G-man be fired

[top dawg]

He barely played and was only a decoy when he was in because of injury, makes it difficult to have a catch.

 

And Smitty was able to still get it done.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

The mental gymnastics that people use with statistics to make up a story is baffling. 

 

how about the mental gymnastics required to think that steve was worth his 2015 and 2016 cap hits if he would have still been on this team

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

that and how people on this site are convinced somehow that dave gettleman is the first GM in NFL history to waive an injured rookie in an attempt to get him on IR

[Happy Panther]

how about the mental gymnastics required to think that steve was worth his 2015 and 2016 cap hits if he would have still been on this team

Isn't he still hitting us for like $5M next year?

 

I'm talking about the thought process that goes onto saying he has been coasting for two years and is washed up.

[t96]

Isn't he still hitting us for like $5M next year?

 

I'm talking about the thought process that goes onto saying he has been coasting for two years and is washed up.

 

We all knew he wasn't washed up. But you can't deny from watching that poo the past two years that he wasn't playing 150% and that he does not have the speed and agility that he used to. Him getting cut fueled him to play as well as he is this year. You think if we kept him and drafted KB still to be the #1 that he'd have these numbers? He'd be hindering KB's development while being merely mediocre. And then we'd have him for 2 more years as well with absurd cap hits for those 2 seasons.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

Isn't he still hitting us for like $5M next year?

 

I'm talking about the thought process that goes onto saying he has been coasting for two years and is washed up.

 

$5 million as opposed to being on the hook for $20 million+ when the non-voidable years kick in is a bargain

 

i don't even bother with the second part.  the only people who know for sure are the coaches and panthers brass and the best anyone on this site other than maybe jeremy can do is pretend they know what they're talking about.

 

i think his release was more than justifiable based on his cap figure alone.  nobody even needs to bother with the "washed up" or "he would've been damaging to the young guys" angles.

[Happy Panther]

$5 million as opposed to being on the hook for $20 million+ when the non-voidable years kick in is a bargain

 

i don't even bother with the second part.  the only people who know for sure are the coaches and panthers brass and the best anyone on this site other than maybe jeremy can do is pretend they know what they're talking about.

 

i think his release was more than justifiable based on his cap figure alone.  nobody even needs to bother with the "washed up" or "he would've been damaging to the young guys" angles.

Would his cap hit really have been $20M? I have no idea.

 

That's fine. We were going to part ways eventually and G-Man made a call. It's debatable whether we could have used Smith this year. I think we could but who knows. Maybe he is to caustic.

 

But we could have been nicer. Dude is the best player we have ever had maybe.

 

But hey it's a business.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

we have hurney robbing peter to pay paul via the extension smith signed in 2012 to thank for that.  we would have paid him $14 million between 2014 and 2015 if he would have been on the roster with a minimum of $6 million owed next season even if he retired like he said he would.  if he made it to 2016 he would have been paid a combined $23 million between 2014, 2015, and 2016.  gettleman couldn't have really pulled any accounting tricks to help that either-his contract was already leveraged all to hell and he would have had to take a straight up pay cut to get his cap number down.  the panthers would have almost no leverage in that situation either because if he retired or banged enough pots and pans and got released we'd have to pay him anyway.