How Panthers spend: DE's

[Captain Morgan]

Total position spending vs. cap: $23,651,995

Spending vs. league average: 4th

 

$20,020,000 of the $23,651,995 tied up in Johnson puts the spending out of whack. The next highest player against the cap is Addison, a pass-rushing specialist, at $1,020,000. Don’t be surprised if Johnson’s contract is restructured by September as it has been the past two years. No other defensive end in the NFL has a higher cap figure. As valuable as Johnson is to Carolina, his productivity doesn’t match the number.

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/carolina-panthers/post/_/id/14347/how-the-panthers-spend-charles-johnson-leads-defensive-ends

 

 

[jayflip]

Thaaaaaaaanks Hurney

[LinvilleGorge]

Pretty sure Gentleman has said in the past that CJ's contract is one you don't touch unless you have to.  If anything, CJ will get cut.  I don't think you're going to see a restructure.  An extension would be possible, but still tough because of the huge chunk of change left on that deal.  It'd be tough tobput enough new money on the table to make it feasible for him to sign it.  

[The Huddler]

CJ is in his prime and comming off injury.  Sure gettleman could sport some type of restructure or extension, but I am here to say CJ is elite at his position and worth big bucks. 

 

Look for some sort of moification at that $20 hit. Aka extension. Leader of our DL

[Frank Hollywood]

CJ is not getting cut or restructured. He could get extended, but I doubt it happens this offseason.

His pay is much lower than he's worth, it's just we've done so many damn restructures,  its now time to pay the piper. His average pay per season of 10 million has been a bargain.

[Nick_81]

The cap hit this season sucks, no doubt, but, his contract numbers overall aren't terrible.  If it were structured different from the beginning, so it wasn't back-loaded to hell, we wouldn't be complaining at all right now.  I'm sure Hurney either didn't have a choice, or thought he didn't have a choice, at the time CJ signed.  The overall numbers, guaranteed, etc. aren't horrible though.  

[R0CKnR0LLA]

 

we're set to spend about 50 million on defense, so CJ's 20 million cap hit is 40% of the entire defense budget (that includes all starters and backups as well)

 

hurneymagic 

[L-TownCat]

Yaw crack me up with the CJ stuff.

Dude was/is worth the money.  How Hurney structured it was stuffed to the brim with stupid but that's nobody's fault but our very own former "cap guru".