Negotiating period begins tomorrow

[Mr. Scot]

As of March 7th, teams can start negotiating with other team's free agents.

 

No contracts can actually be signed until 4pm on March 10th, but teams can legally "tamper" three days early.

 

(cause that never happened under the old system)

 

So expect the free agency news to start heating up tomorrow.

[Mr. Scot]

But don't assume this means you're gonna hear stories about the Panthers going after Randall Cobb or some other big name.  That's still as unlikely as it always was.

[Panthro]

I'm curious if we see another contact extension come out today prior to FA

[Mr. Scot]

I'm curious if we see another contact extension come out today prior to FA

 

Scott Fowler speculated on that possibility too.

[uncfan888]

Man, you and Igo love raining on people's parades. Haha. we know Cobb was a pipe dream, but hope springs eternal

[Mr. Scot]

Man, you and Igo love raining on people's parades. Haha. we know Cobb was a pipe dream, but hope springs eternal

 

 

No joy in being a downer.  I just prefer to be realistic.

 

A lot of the same folks who get their hopes up will be the ones screaming that the season is already over two hours after free agency starts

[zacka77ack]

The Panthers never do anything for a solid 3 days once FA starts. The Panther headlines will be few and far between for a few days still.

[carpanfan96]

Panthers have to spend a ton of cash the next two seasons and deal out a lot of guaranteed money to hit the minimum percentage.

Why the olsen deal has so much cash involved.

[uncfan888]

No joy in being a downer. I just prefer to be realistic.

A lot of the same folks who get their hopes up will be the ones screaming that the season is already over two hours after free agency starts

Yeah, we have a lot of those

[CarolinaNCSU]

IMO, the biggest news Panthers fans can hope for is Torrey Smith...but I wouldn't bank on that even. The sooner people come to grips with that, the happier they'll be.

 

Now next year with more cap space...then we can talk about FA splashes. 

[Mr. Scot]

The Panthers never do anything for a solid 3 days once FA starts. The Panther headlines will be few and far between for a few days still.

 

Unless it involves extensions for guys like Thomas Davis or perhaps Charles Johnson.

 

[Growl]

This is one of the better rules the NFL has cranked out over the last few years.

Ensures that the teams who arent cheating get an opportunity to contact players before they can sign with the teams who were tampering.

[O-Ther]

Can't wait to hear the crying and whining from the Huddle about how much we're gonna suck and the "Fire Gettleman" blah blah when we don't sign a nationally known free agent to a big contract that burns up all our available cap space. All because that's the only way THEY know to fix a team.

 

If you're gonna be a Panther fan, you need to be smart about the process of drafting players, developing them, and using them to replace older players, because that's what we're going to do from now on. The days of big contracts going to free agents are OVER. Big contracts are now reserved for re-signing our own star players.

 

 

[carpanfan96]

Unless it involves extensions for guys like Thomas Davis or perhaps Charles Johnson.

I would expect both, tbh. might raise some eyebrows with guranteed money.