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Panthers are 24 million under the cap

Captain Morgan

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LinvilleGorge Grand Master

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Just now, The Lobo said:

Still waiting on that Shep cut...

Me too. I think it'll happen once we have signed a FA WR. I certainly hope so. We signed him to contribute at WR and be an elite special teamer. He has been neither. He isn't worth his cap hit and we'd save over $2M by releasing him. I honestly thought he'd hit the door with Stew and CJ. IMO Stew, CJ, and Shepard were the three no-brainer cuts to make.

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Just now, Mr. Scot said:

And if we really do go after a top free agent receiver, it could be significantly less than that...quickly.

Maybe but a deal for one of them could easily be a tiny cap hit this year with most of it backloaded. That's Hurney's forte...

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15 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

And that thought makes me cringe.

No me, not necessarily. It's all about the guaranteed money. I'd take a backloaded deal similar in structure (but not volume) to the contract GB gave Davante Adams. It's majorly backloaded, but backloaded with base salary. That's not dead money on the cap if he ends up getting released. The issue with Hurney is that after the first two "cheap" years of that contract, Hurney would convert big chunks of that salary into bonus to spread it out over the remaining years and that DOES create dead money on the cap and that's where he'd get himself into trouble. Robbing Peter to try to pay Paul.

 

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14 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

No me, not necessarily. It's all about the guaranteed money. I'd take a backloaded deal similar in structure (but not volume) to the contract GB gave Davante Adams. It's majorly backloaded, but backloaded with base salary. That's not dead money on the cap if he ends up getting released. The issue with Hurney is that after the first two "cheap" years of that contract, Hurney would convert big chunks of that salary into bonus to spread it out over the remaining years and that DOES create dead money on the cap and that's where he'd get himself into trouble. Robbing Peter to try to pay Paul.

It's the "kicking the can down the road" approach that scares me.

We've seen it before, and we've seen it blow up in our faces.

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