70 million reasons to be very optimistic heading into next season.

[rmoneyg35]

We may only have 27 players on contract but the only big name players are Cam, Luke, Davis and Norman.

Tolbert, Harper and Silatolu are probably gone and the rest are back ups, special team and practice squad players.

Heres the lists of our free agents next season: http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/2016/carolina-panthers/

[CarolinaCoolin]

Im basing it on JJ Watt's contract, grant it different positions but Keek is same level and same impact player on par with Watt and Watt got 20 mill or so a year if im not mistsken

The difference in positions means everything.

[CarolinaCoolin]

I'm taking a page form ted thompson book here and dave should consider it too. When cam signs his mega deal have ALL (or 90%) of the signing bonus hits at once. Ted did that with rodgers, 40 million cap hit in one year. After that one year its just basic salary and the cap hit is around 10 million rather than 16/17 million. In a way its very smart, IF you have that one year of cap space and your true QB stud as a FA. Every other deal afterwards becomes much easier cause you have another 6 million leftd to use.

Also there is no such thing as being out of cap hell form the panthers. Sign cam and luke that's great....... guess who's next? Star should get a big deal, KK should get a big deal, then KB on a 100 million deal, then ealy, turner, bene, etc etc. Josh norman needs a new deal right now........ its the con for drafting good/great players, if you want to keep them it will cost you cap space. If you hit on ALL seven draft draft pick one year plus find 3UDFAs gems, that will be a HUGE cost the keep all 10.

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Frank alexander is not a UFA, cause of his susp during his rookie contract. The panther should hold a option to keep me for another year at a cheap rate.

I think you are confusing good for great star and kk are good but they haven't had insanely great production to warrant huge deals.

[Mad_Scientist_565]

cam is going to get a ton of upfront money from that 70. that's the only way to keep his cost manageable over the next 5 years. so one more year of scrub fa's and when we have cam and luke locked up there will be some big spending on the line and weapons

[Mad_Scientist_565]

oh and dont forget... you can exceed the cap

[MV%doe]

I think you are confusing good for great star and kk are good but they haven't had insanely great production to warrant huge deals.

Have you seen some of contracts DT are currently signing? Not just such, but all others. Nick fairly just got about 7 million for a year and outside of a couple games hasn't done nothing in 4 years. Many other getting 5 million+ per yr, who's pat williams? Plus factor in the cap going up each year too.

Wouldn't shock me to see around 50 million deals for each. Star could be had on the 5th year rook option, but KK(whom was the better of the two last yr) is UFA......

[CarolinaCoolin]

Have you seen some of contracts DT are currently signing? Not just such, but all others. Nick fairly just got about 7 million for a year and outside of a couple games hasn't done nothing in 4 years. Many other getting 5 million+ per yr, who's pat williams? Plus factor in the cap going up each year too.

Wouldn't shock me to see around 50 million deals for each. Star could be had on the 5th year rook option, but KK(whom was the better of the two last yr) is UFA......

Since when was getting 5 million a year huge deal? Those are probably reasonable contracts teams can work with. These guys aren't getting Suh type deals.

[MV%doe]

Since when was getting 5 million a year huge deal? Those are probably reasonable contracts teams can work with. These guys aren't getting Suh type deals.

5million for no-names is huge, imo. Im stating the current DT market is very high right now and it will only go higher with teams wanting to win the line of scrimmage. Totem pole looks like the DT group is moving up in value.

50 million is a big deal for anyone, which is what both star & KK could easily sign. Suhs deal did affect the DT group, the scrubs, busts, old-timers, great, and good ones.

Lastly I don't think the iants just wanted C max, cause he's good and cheap. Max put on some great tape controlling the panthers DTs and I'm sure the iants noticed.

[CarolinaCoolin]

5million for no-names is huge, imo. Im stating the current DT market is very high right now and it will only go higher with teams wanting to win the line of scrimmage. Totem pole looks like the DT group is moving up in value.

50 million is a big deal for anyone, which is what both star & KK could easily sign. Suhs deal did affect the DT group, the scrubs, busts, old-timers, great, and good ones.

Lastly I don't think the iants just wanted C max, cause he's good and cheap. Max put on some great tape controlling the panthers DTs and I'm sure the iants noticed.

They aren't getting 50 million. They will probably sign 35 million dollar 5 year deals which is currently what they deserve

[ser23vp]

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[updownsigma]

I think eventually we'll get to the point where DG's draft picks have all panned out so nicely that we won't even need to be looking at making a "splash" in FA. Look at the Packers for example...do that Packers even want to go after in FA?  They just retain their own talent (Bulaga, Cobb) at reasonable prices (not Hurney style beat the market hometown markups) and resist the urge to go all in that most teams get once every 10 or so years.

 

I'm sure huddle would continue to freak out every offseason for us not doing enough lol.