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Look ahead at the offseason

Crazydounut

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So as most of us Panther's fans rejoice the firing of Mike Shula. Its time to look ahead to the offseason which is gonna be filled with change.

Ownership situation: So since December the NFL has known that the Panther's will have new majority ownership heading into the 2018 season. Here are the prime candidates according to the forbes list https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2017/12/18/here-are-12-potential-new-owners-of-the-carolina-panthers/ The big names here are

Belk Family

Levine Family

Bruton Family

Michael Jordan

Mark Cuban

P Diddy (With Curry, Kaepernick and others as potential investors)

DC/OC Situation: With Shula gone and Wilks not too far behind. Rivera and Hurney will have to look for replacements. DC is pretty simple, bring up from within to replace Wilks (Washington would be really good.) OC is much more complicated since there isn't much if any to pick from within to replace Shula. Meaning Carolina will have to look around the league for Canidates. (Turner, Chudzinski, DeFilippo, Wade Wilson, Etc.)

Free-Agency: More then likely Norwell will be back and Star won't be back. After the 2 big names are out the way its time to look at players we could logically cut to save money

Stewart(3.75 mil saved) Charles Johnson(3.5 mil saved) Russel Shepard(2.15 mil saved) Mike Adams(2.1 mil saved) Kurt Coleman(2.75 mil saved)

IF we cut all these players we will save 14.25 million dollars in cap space. That would be HUGE and set us up nicely for FA

We'd have around 20 million in cap space for FA. FA Targets we should look at are WR's: (Landry, Robinson, Decker, Watkins, Pryor.) DE's: (Lawrence, Clayborne, Ealy, Lynch.) DT's: (Richardson, Jernigan, Kyle Williams, Hageman.) Safeties: (Bush, Vaccaro, Ihenacho, Rahim Moore, Boston, Allen, Pryor, Reid.) We should sign one from each position and save a few million extra to add onto the money already saved for in-season signings/future spending.

Looking at this year's draft. The draft could be really really good. We should draft BPA 1st round at these positions (RB, OT, DE, FS/SS, CB, WR,) Then fill out other positions by need/BPA It is a DEEP draft at ALL of these positions. This could be a franchise changing draft (Similar to New Orleans last year and Atlanta 2 years ago.) What Hurney could also do is trade players who won't play much or not play at all next season. Whom also has substantial value and use them in partnership with our 1st rounder + a 3rd or 4th rounder to trade up to the top 10 to draft a Superstar (James, Fitzpatrick, Ridley, Chubb etc.)

 

What do ya'll think we could/should do this offseason?

 

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