Bill Barnwell: Five Moves Panthers Should Make

[ericr0319]

also by the point system if we package our 1st and 3rd we received from buffalo, we could jump to 18th in the draft. this i think is a def possibility if a premier player starts to slide. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

great stuff 

[FugAllY'all]

It's really a franchise embarrassment that we're waiting around for a crappy interim GM to finish being investigated for domestic violence when there are actual qualified candidates who want the job. This is literally wasted time that's putting us behind other teams in free agency. 

[pantherclaw]

As much as I love Norwell, it's much easier to find good guards than it is to find good NT's. 

With that being said, I don't see either being retained. 

This is absolutely the best time to sign Funchess to an extension before his value goes up any further. 

I'm  also not convinced the team sells quickly. 

[WOW!!]

I agree .. Matt Kali deal is forcing you to let Nor well and Star walk..

Sign 2 FA WR, Kenny Vacarro and a backup DT..

[RumHam]

2 hours ago, Moose Hoover said:

1. Start DA

2. Re-sign Deangelo

3. Re-sign Mare

4. Move stadium to Carowinds

5. Don't toucha somebody spaghet.

Damn it who let Hurney on here?

[RumHam]

We need more than just Funchess and extending him now would eat that cap space. We should see if Matt Kalil will restructure and have Ryan cut. Let Norwell and Star walk. We need two veteran WR or a another pass catching TE that no one has ever heard of. Cut Stew and I do like the idea of somehow getting CJ Anderson in here. Bring Kyle Fuller at CB and draft a safety high.

[LinvilleGorge]

1 hour ago, WOW!! said:

I agree .. Matt Kali deal is forcing you to let Nor well and Star walk..

I disagree. We can get out from under Kalil's contract after this season. You can structure contracts to minimize the first year cap hit if you need to due to a Matt Kalil type contract situation.

If we don't re-sign Norwell and Star (which I fully expect that to be the case), it's simply because we've decided that money is better spent elsewhere.

[Cyberjag]

First priority in righting the ship is to get the team sold.  Hurney is under contract until June, so he's going to get paid regardless of what we do there.  No sense in hiring a new GM that may not share the new Owner's vision, so we should focus on selling the team, and then replacing Hurney.

The Peppers, Funchess, and Thompson ideas were straight from Captain Obvious.  Barnwell is just trying to fill space with these.

Letting both Norwell and Star walk?  That's crazy talk, both of them are better than whatever we can replace them with, and we're not rebuilding.  Butler is more likely to replace CJ than he is Star, unless we're changing our scheme and no one told me.  Moton could potentially step in for Norwell, but if we can keep either starter we should.

What Barnwell is missing is anything about beefing up the WR position (cut Sheppard, find this year's Jericho Cotchery), preparing for life without the Kalils (Matt needs to go after this year), and finding a solution at SS rather than betting on a 37 year old to turn back the clock twice.  

Really lazy work on his part.

[Panthers8969]

lol by moves i thought he meant actual moves not obvious ****

[heel31ok]

2 hours ago, Marcogreenbush said:

I actually like this . We can replace norwell with moton or a rookie and star can get replaced by a cheaper free agent and possibly butler 

Hopefully we can draft a replacement for Kalil at tackle and move moton inside ...

[Thanatos]

Josh Sitton could be a nice replacement for Norwell if we have to let him go.

Also, who is making the decisions right now with Hurney on leave? JR?

[TheSpecialJuan]

If we don't bring back Star, DT's Haloti Ngata or Dontari Poe could be options for us as replacements.

[Toomers]

5 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I disagree. We can get out from under Kalil's contract after this season. You can structure contracts to minimize the first year cap hit if you need to due to a Matt Kalil type contract situation.

If we don't re-sign Norwell and Star (which I fully expect that to be the case), it's simply because we've decided that money is better spent elsewhere.

  Once again, I wouldn’t call a 14.7M cap hit as “getting out from under anything”. Nothing like 8M off the top(if he’s a June 1st, then 6.7M more in 2020) to help pay those 2nd and 3rd years since we went cheap on the 1st years. 

  I said it when he was signed. Matt Kalil will keep us from re-signing a key FA of ours.