Legit question, does the Saints downfall scare you at all of Cam's upcoming mega deal?

[PanthersUnited]

Before the pitch forks come out, this is a legit concern I am starting to have. With the Saints in cap hell and imploding and even the Ravens having to lose huge pieces like Smith and Ngata, both teams have one thing in common, both teams have franchise QBs signed to mega deals.

I am in no way expressing any opinion, so please don't take this as a Cam bashing thread. I just want to know your opinions. Will we go down the same road and pay for it big time if Cam gets his mega deal? I'm no cap expert so forgive me if I'm missing something

[nosuchthingasapanther]

no.

newton is only a piece of the entire puzzle that gettleman is looking at. with what he's done so far, i seriously doubt he does anything to put the team in a position to have to clean house any time soon.

[Dex]

Hahahahahahahahaha good luck man.

[hepcat]

Not as long as shrewd ass Dave Gettleman is running the finances.

[teeray]

Let's see what the final deal is first.

[Esther]

fug no. That's absolutely retarded. What would scare me is if we let Cam walk, kept spending all our high draft picks on defense.

[CarolinaCoolin]

Ravens moving ngata is more because of the emergence of Timmy Jernigan than being in cap hell. They are moving to a younger core which isn't a result of being in cap hell.

As for the saints, they had a window to win it all with Brees. You are seeing that window now closing so instead of holding on for dear life to try to make it back they are blowing it up.

Cam will get what he deserves and we luckily are so young we will be just fine. We are building the right way

[CBDellinger]

All depends on the structure.

Saints fuked themselves with not not just Brees contract but with multiple players. They had a window and went for it. Kinda the way it has to be when the opportunity arises.

[PhillyB]

nah. cam and the panthers want each other bad enough to make it happen satisfactorily for both sides.

[shreddingdefense]

So you want us to throw money at any wr on the market not knowing how the cap works, then turn around and feel scared about signing cam long term?

 

ugh hello....

 

 

 

 

[Jackofalltrades]

OP just gets worse and worse...

[mcdougal]

No what scares me is that we have had Newton on a discount now for heading on 5 years, and the best we could do was roll him out there with not a sole drafted OL men and a Rookie WR who from day one was expected to be his no. 1. The rest of the WR core was filled with guys basically no one wanted. And RBs who Newton managed to out gain consistently...

 

Wasn't the whole point of the Rookie wage scale was so you could surround young QBs with talent as they would not take up as much cap space?

 

What should we do now? Have Newton take another discount so we can manage to surround him with undrafted TEs too?

[MtnJax]

if Cam is really waiting to see how Luck and Wilson set the market, then i'll wait until that happens to pass judgment

[pantherfan49]

You have to be concerned about how much Cam's deal is going to hurt cap space.  Same for Luke and to some degree, Star.  

 

Windows open and close in the NFL all the time.  Panthers window is about to open.  It will close in a few years.