2017 Salary Cap

[TylerVagyler]

Let's just say the cap is on the lower end of the above report ($166m). According to Spotrac we'd have approximately $60m in cap space entering the offseason. That's with 41 roster spots filled. While that is a large number, we also have a handful of pending free agents to think about. The players who would likely demand the most money out of those pending free agents are the following:

Kawann Short
Charles Johnson
Mike Remmers
Ted Ginn Jr
Mario Addison
AJ Klein

And out of those names, I'd guess Short, Addison and Klein would be the priorities (not saying the others won't be resigned).

You'd think Addison and Klein would be easy to resign but Addison is having somewhat of a breakout season and Klein could want to go somewhere else for a starting role. I think both are important players to keep around considering our current roster. I really have no idea what price they'll demand.

Short might be the tricky one. His franchise tag is approximately $13.4m. He will probably want a little north of that number in a long-term deal. 

With all that considered, we should have a decent amount of spending money. Hopefully there are some decent OT or DE on the market this year. It'll be interested to see how Gettleman approaches this offseason. I literally have no clue what to expect.

[Doc Holiday]

I would like to go ahead and share this http://overthecap.com/salary-cap/carolina-panthers/

that is the best website period for cap information. if you look you can see that the panthers go from $12m in dead money this year to $300k next year. 

our cap space next year, will be between $40-45m thats a lot of space folks with a projected cap space of nearly $90million in 2018. 

[AndrewLaskoski]

Increasing league cap space isn't that helpful for the Panthers. Gettlemen historically has thrived on players who weren't top tier free agents and with more money league wide, there will be more money put into that tier of free agents because other teams will have to money to do so.

Not only that but it inflates players contracts. Look at what happened in the NBA free agency this past offseason.

The only thing it does it makes the players on long-term contract relatively less and less expensive, which does favor the Panthers with Cam, Luke, Greg, and TD all signed long-term.

[TylerVagyler]

4 minutes ago, Doc Holiday said:

I would like to go ahead and share this http://overthecap.com/salary-cap/carolina-panthers/

that is the best website period for cap information. if you look you can see that the panthers go from $12m in dead money this year to $300k next year. 

our cap space next year, will be between $40-45m thats a lot of space folks with a projected cap space of nearly $90million in 2018. 

Spotrac has included the rollover money and cap adjustments from the previous season in their projection. Which is why the number is higher.

[TylerVagyler]

5 minutes ago, AndrewLaskoski said:

Increasing league cap space isn't that helpful for the Panthers. Gettlemen historically has thrived on players who weren't top tier free agents and with more money league wide, there will be more money put into that tier of free agents because other teams will have to money to do so.

Not only that but it inflates players contracts. Look at what happened in the NBA free agency this past offseason.

The only thing it does it makes the players on long-term contract relatively less and less expensive, which does favor the Panthers with Cam, Luke, Greg, and TD all signed long-term.

He also hasn't been in any position where he can go after the "top tier" guys. 

[Krovvy]

18 minutes ago, TylerVagyler said:

He also hasn't been in any position where he can go after the "top tier" guys. 

Well he did have some room this past season, as well as the season he franchised Greg Hardy.

[bigdog10]

I'm interested to see what Gettleman does with the cap space. We've learned a painful lesson about not spending money wisely, but we've also seen what a key free agent addition can mean (Stephen Davis)

[iamhubby1]

3 hours ago, Krovvy said:

Well he did have some room this past season, as well as the season he franchised Greg Hardy.

 

It is kind of a fallacy that we had money last year. By the time the tag was rescinded from Josh, all the relevant FAs were already taken. Sure we had that 14mil. We just didn't have anybody to spend it on.

 

Not sure how you can say we had money from Greg. We basically gave him 13mil to stay home. We did not get that money back, Greg got to keep it all.

 

So realistically, this will be the first year that Gman will have some money to play with. Going to be interesting to see how this will all work out. Must see tv if you ask me.

[FootballLivesMatter]

We could get JPP for 11-12 mil a year. 

[Krovvy]

1 hour ago, iamhubby1 said:

 

It is kind of a fallacy that we had money last year. By the time the tag was rescinded from Josh, all the relevant FAs were already taken. Sure we had that 14mil. We just didn't have anybody to spend it on.

 

Not sure how you can say we had money from Greg. We basically gave him 13mil to stay home. We did not get that money back, Greg got to keep it all.

 

So realistically, this will be the first year that Gman will have some money to play with. Going to be interesting to see how this will all work out. Must see tv if you ask me.

It's not like anyone forced Gettleman's hand on how he proceeded with Josh or the signing of Greg Hardy. It's his decision to not do contracts during the season, but instead deal with signing current players, free agents, and draft picks all during the short off-season.

[CPF4LIFE]

2 hours ago, iamhubby1 said:

 

It is kind of a fallacy that we had money last year. By the time the tag was rescinded from Josh, all the relevant FAs were already taken. Sure we had that 14mil. We just didn't have anybody to spend it on.

 

Not sure how you can say we had money from Greg. We basically gave him 13mil to stay home. We did not get that money back, Greg got to keep it all.

 

So realistically, this will be the first year that Gman will have some money to play with. Going to be interesting to see how this will all work out. Must see tv if you ask me.

So the fact that he CHOOSES to not to make important decisions at the correct and appropriate times and waits till the last minute to choose the best course of action to go in is an legitimate excuse for him? All the best FAs are first priority, its a GMs job to take action earlier in hoping to acquiring talent to their roster.

 

[TylerVagyler]

15 minutes ago, CPF4LIFE said:

So the fact that he CHOOSES to not to make important decisions at the correct and appropriate times and waits till the last minute to choose the best course of action to go in is an legitimate excuse for him? All the best FAs are first priority, its a GMs job to take action earlier in hoping to acquiring talent to their roster.

 

I don't think anyone is making an excuse for him. I think two different things are being argued. Everything you're saying is correct. Gettleman screwed up. But that's not the point here.

The point was, he didn't have deep pockets when the big FAs were available because it was tied up with the Norman tag (and yes, that whole situation was a debacle and he is completely the blame). It wasn't as if free agency started and we had all this money laying around and he did nothing. This offseason, even if we tag Short he will have a lot of money to potentially spend. So this will be the first time that, when free agency starts, he will have options. 

[csx]

1 hour ago, TylerVagyler said:

I don't think anyone is making an excuse for him. I think two different things are being argued. Everything you're saying is correct. Gettleman screwed up. But that's not the point here.

The point was, he didn't have deep pockets when the big FAs were available because it was tied up with the Norman tag (and yes, that whole situation was a debacle and he is completely the blame). It wasn't as if free agency started and we had all this money laying around and he did nothing. This offseason, even if we tag Short he will have a lot of money to potentially spend. So this will be the first time that, when free agency starts, he will have options. 

And maybe the reason he was frustrated was that Norman not negotiating in good faith kept them out of the FA market.

[The_Rainmaker]

10 hours ago, TylerVagyler said:

Let's just say the cap is on the lower end of the above report ($166m). According to Spotrac we'd have approximately $60m in cap space entering the offseason. That's with 41 roster spots filled. While that is a large number, we also have a handful of pending free agents to think about. The players who would likely demand the most money out of those pending free agents are the following:

Kawann Short
Charles Johnson
Mike Remmers
Ted Ginn Jr
Mario Addison
AJ Klein

And out of those names, I'd guess Short, Addison and Klein would be the priorities (not saying the others won't be resigned).

You'd think Addison and Klein would be easy to resign but Addison is having somewhat of a breakout season and Klein could want to go somewhere else for a starting role. I think both are important players to keep around considering our current roster. I really have no idea what price they'll demand.

Short might be the tricky one. His franchise tag is approximately $13.4m. He will probably want a little north of that number in a long-term deal. 

With all that considered, we should have a decent amount of spending money. Hopefully there are some decent OT or DE on the market this year. It'll be interested to see how Gettleman approaches this offseason. I literally have no clue what to expect.

Addison should be resigned, but Klein can be let go with Mayo taking over his role, 

I believe offense is taking the majority of the cap due to more  veteran players, if DG wants to create increase the cap room he needs to draft replacement  in this years draft.