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Gettleman Q&A with Joe Person

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Good interview by Joe Person with Gettleman.  He asked some decent questions.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article84194792.html

Here's the section I found most interesting....  I really hope KK starts to think about the difference in cost of living between Charlotte & Philly and recognizes that he might not need Cox kind of money to live really well here....

 

Q. But you know what I’m asking, if guys around the league might start saying, ‘Well, they might not pay you there.’

A. The other thing that guys have got to take into consideration is where am I going or where am I at? Is it a great place? Do you feel comfortable? Is your family happy? What kind of standard of living do you have? You think about it this way. When St. Louis got the OK to move to L.A., just for the heck of it we’re all talking one day. And one of our guys is really close friends with a guy that works for the Rams and is going to move with them. If you’re making 100 grand in St. Louis, just to break even you need to make 152 for LA. Fifty-two percent. Is his salary going up 52 percent? I don’t know.

So that’s something ...

Q. Charlotte has cheap cost of living.

A. You’re going to laugh at this. So come down here, I buy the house. I have about a third more house than I have in New Jersey. I’m paying less taxes than I am in Jersey. You’ve got to be kidding me. And you just keep going down the line. But that’s part of it. It’s understanding that ... you’ve got to look at the whole picture. I’m going to get Biblical on you. People say, ‘Money is the root of all evil.’ No, it’s not. The love of money is the root of all evil. That’s the entire scripture. So it’s one of those deals where you hope they take the whole picture.

Q. A lot of people are comparing Kawann Short’s contract situation to Josh Norman’s. But I’ve written that it’s a different deal because Short plays a position that you value. Is that a fair assessment?

A. Of course it is. Look at the way we’ve built this thing. We were talking about the way we’ve built the O-line and the D-line. The behind-the-scenes beauty of that is when you build strong fronts they make each other better because they’re practicing against each other. What better center are our defensive tackles going to work against than Ryan Kalil? What better guard are they going to work against than Trai (Turner)? And Andrew (Norwell) is a damn good player.

And obviously the O-linemen are going to be made better by working against KK and Star (Lotulelei) and Charles (Johnson) and Kony (Ealy). So everybody gets better. I’ve been very open about how we’ve built this team. And so obviously I love my hog mollies.


Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article84194792.html#storylink=cpy

 

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Gman's intelligence far surpasses any human. He needs to write a book. It'd sell out quickly in the NFL.

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I think as long as there’s an honest and open line of communication, you just keep going. As long as you’re talking, you can come to an agreement. If you don’t talk, you’ve got no chance. You know that. When you and your wife are mad at each other, if you stop talking you ain’t fixing it. It’s not until a day later you look at each other and say, ‘OK, this is stupid.’

 

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26 minutes ago, Saca312 said:

Gman's intelligence far surpasses any human. He needs to write a book. It'd sell out quickly in the NFL.

 

Every year during the draft my friends and I build blanket forts, get drunk, and eat chicken wings. Half the people that attend don't even care about the draft or football, they just want to get drunk. One of those guys was staying at my house and when the draft was over, I put on the post draft presser that Gettleman did that was roughly a half hour long. My friend sat there and watched the whole thing. When it was over he turned to me and said "I don't even really care that much about football but I could listen to that guy talk about it for days".

I feel the same way. 

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David Newton offered some other tidbits of insight of how hard of a negotiator Gettleman is.

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Joanne Gettleman came home from a shopping trip once frustrated over the price of women's clothing.

Her husband didn't hesitate to offer his two cents.

"I said, 'It's simple. Just don't buy them. Get your girlfriends together and don't buy it, and the prices will come down,' " Carolina Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman said.

This gives you an idea of how tough it might be for Carolina defensive tackleKawann Short to get the type of money the Eagles gave Pro Bowl tackle Fletcher Cox earlier this week.

Dave Gettleman seems like the kind of guy who'd be able to drop a $1 trinket at the dollar store to the price of a dime. He's freaking amazing.

http://espn.go.com/blog/carolina-panthers/post/_/id/21185/from-womens-clothing-to-kawann-shorts-contract-dave-gettleman-is-a-tough-negotiator

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2 hours ago, KB_fan said:

I really hope KK starts to think about the difference in cost of living between Charlotte & Philly and recognizes that he might not need Cox kind of money to live really well here....

 

 

I know for a fact that this is a consideration.

 

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Because of the culture we’ve established here, we talk about family all the time here and we live it. We get involved in their lives and we know who’s married, who isn’t married, who has kids, what the kids’ names are and what’s going on in their lives. We know this stuff. And you get personally involved with these guys.

I.e., you have to find ways to "beat" the salary cap.  Everyone is playing in a vacuum; those who find a way to out maneuver in non-monetary way, automatically have a leg-up on the rest of the league.

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Great article. He made some excellent points in that interview and since he was hired in '13:

  • Holding out doesn't do anything but make the athlete look bad
  • Some athletes are given ridiculous contracts mainly so they can afford the cost of living (i.e. NYC, Philly, Miami)
  • A strong D-line helps you build a strong D-line, a powerful RB/FB helps you build excellent LBs via practicing together
  • No locker room drama = lots & lots of success

 

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