Jonathan Stewart to IR in New York

[Pimpdaddy]

Loved me some JS during the double trouble 'year'...

[Darvinsun]

You guys talk as if he died!

[Chaos]

8 hours ago, Carolina Cajun said:

I actually don't think so, he got REALLY paid in charlotte and unlike a certain douchebag (cough cough, deangelo williams) he was very thankful for the mountains of money we paid him.  Also, he was always loved in the community and a great presence in the locker room.

I was being sorta facetious.  I'm sure he'd be giving lots of love to his former teammates and coaches.

[My Goodness My Guinness]

Hate to hear that. Stew was an absolute beast when he was healthy and was always criminally underrated. Even up until 2016 he was still producing well. Just goes to show that the magic 30 is the killer of rb’s

[Snake]

8 hours ago, Bartin said:

At least he got $3M out of it

He fleeced them good. 

[NAS]

Sad to hear.  He has nothing left in the tank, and it just shows Rivera kept him too long as our primary back.  

[iamhubby1]

    I read that topic as Stewy was stuck rehabbing in NY. I was wondering why they wouldn't let him leave town. Maybe it might be time to hit the hay? 

[ickmule]

I feel bad for him.  He seems like a real class act and one of my favorite panthers ever.  

[LinvilleGorge]

3 minutes ago, ickmule said:

I feel bad for him.  He seems like a real class act and one of my favorite panthers ever.  

I don't. He's been paid tens of millions of dollars during his career and despite what so many Panthers fans believe, he never had the production to match his cap hit. To hear a lot of people talk, you'd think he was Adrian Peterson. In reality, he was never even close to that level. He was a decent starting RB when healthy, but he was injury prone and was being paid like a top flight workhorse RB - something he never proved to be capable of. 

Stew seems like a great guy, but I can't feel bad for him. This is life for a 30+ year old NFL RB and he always made more money than his production warranted. The guys I feel bad for are the ones who absolutely bust their ass and do everything asked of them in camp, but they just don't quite have NFL talent level. They're sooooo close to making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year but they just can't quite make it.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

Hurney and Gettleman have both been burned this year gambling on players with injury issues.

There is a reason why the better teams tend to part ways with older stars before they become a liability.

[Mage]

47 minutes ago, NanuqoftheNorth said:

Hurney and Gettleman have both been burned this year gambling on players with injury issues.

There is a reason why the better teams tend to part ways with older stars before they become a liability.

Who did Hurney gamble on that got hurt?

[NanuqoftheNorth]

22 minutes ago, Mage said:

Who did Hurney gamble on that got hurt?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-football-nfl-notebook/nfl-notebook-panthers-tight-end-olsen-re-fractures-foot-idUSKCN1LR2GM

And while this doesn't qualify as an injury, older players tend to take longer to recover/heal and PEDs offer a shortcut that is sometimes too tempting for those in the twilight of their careers.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/scott-fowler/article208206449.html 

[thefuzz]

22 minutes ago, Mage said:

Who did Hurney gamble on that got hurt?

It was a gamble that didn't even need to be played...but that's a Hurney move through and through for you...with a little nudging from big cat of course.

[Definitely Not Trolling]

Not a j stew fan. Always overrated and overpaid by management. At least deangalo was worth the money in his prime, even though he was an ass.