$26M To Fill Out Half A Roster

[MillionDollarCam]

The Panthers released the full list of their free agents and they are going to have to make a lot of changes without a lot of money.

UFA’s: Artis-Payne, Whittaker, Barner, Cadet, Funchess, Williams, Clark, Newhouse, Kalil (retiring), Silatolu, Peppers, Horton, Love, Davis, Mayo, Jacobs, Reid, Adams, Jones, and Catanzaro

RFA’s: Heinicke, Byrd, Manhertz, and Norris 

ERFA’s: Hood, Obada, Cox Jr., and Parms

Now you have $26M in cap space and 8 draft picks to fill around 20 roster spots.

You can open up more space by cutting Thompson ($9.2M), Addison ($7.3M), Smith ($5M), Searcy ($2.9M), Poe ($2.7M), Cockrell ($2.4M), Munnerlyn ($2M), Doss ($805K), and (Seymour ($720K).

Just remember, for every player you cut, you have to replace.

Note: Kalil is not included because if he is cut he will be a post June 1st cut, his $7M cap savings can only be used for draft picks and in-season signings.

You are Marty Hurney, what do you do?

And yes, the Marty Hurney who was fired for his cap management is going to have to pull a rabbit out of his ass this offseason.

[ncfan]

Smith, Searcy, Poe SHOULD be gone

Shaq should be extended which should spread out and lower the number

[Jmac]

Same ole story....different season upcoming

[Adb6368]

1 minute ago, MillionDollarCam said:

You are Marty Hurney, what do you do?

The same thing we do every night, Pinky...

Give horrendous contract extensions/restructures to overaged vets and underpeforming players that will cap-strap us for decades and let the next GM worry about it!

[Squirrel]

Good post. 

 

Add Olson as a post June 1st cut and we save close to 3 million. 

[MillionDollarCam]

1 minute ago, Squirrel said:

Good post. 

 

Add Olson as a post June 1st cut and we save close to 3 million. 

The only reason I didn’t add him was because of how post June 1st money can be used, but if you add him with Kalil theoretically we could spend to the cap and use the $10M on the draft class and minor roster tweaks throughout the year.

[Waldo]

Doesn't matter, $26 million or $100 million. When you have crap people making the decisions you will get a crap product. I'm only hoping this limits the damage Hurney can do but I know better by now.

[TheRumGone]

This is gonna be really bad

[MillionDollarCam]

12 minutes ago, ncfan said:

Smith, Searcy, Poe SHOULD be gone

Shaq should be extended which should spread out and lower the number

If you are Shaq do you sign an extension? Because of his average play I’m guessing the offer he gets may not be the one he wants.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he bet on himself. It could always backfire though (i.e. Daryl Williams).

Same with Bradberry.

I feel like Addison is the only one that may get his actual value in an extension.

[RumHam]

20 minutes ago, MillionDollarCam said:

The Panthers released the full list of their free agents and they are going to have to make a lot of changes without a lot of money.

UFA’s: Artis-Payne, Whittaker, Barner, Cadet, Funchess, Williams, Clark, Newhouse, Kalil (retiring), Silatolu, Peppers, Horton, Love, Davis, Mayo, Jacobs, Reid, Adams, Jones, and Catanzaro

RFA’s: Heinicke, Byrd, Manhertz, and Norris 

ERFA’s: Hood, Obada, Cox Jr., and Parms

Now you have $26M in cap space and 8 draft picks to fill around 20 roster spots.

You can open up more space by cutting Thompson ($9.2M), Addison ($7.3M), Smith ($5M), Searcy ($2.9M), Poe ($2.7M), Cockrell ($2.4M), Munnerlyn ($2M), Doss ($805K), and (Seymour ($720K).

Just remember, for every player you cut, you have to replace.

Note: Kalil is not included because if he is cut he will be a post June 1st cut, his $7M cap savings can only be used for draft picks and in-season signings.

You are Marty Hurney, what do you do?

And yes, the Marty Hurney who was fired for his cap management is going to have to pull a rabbit out of his ass this offseason.

It's really not too hard. Pay Shaq and Addison cut the rest. The post cut will pay for the draft picks. All those UFA's are free to go besides Mayo and Jacobs, try and keep reid. Cut Gano and keep catanzaro, he proved himself worthy. Williams should be resigned. However, Shaq wasn't even top 3 in tackles. Our secondary was behind Luke, not Shaq. I still think there's too much of a fall off so we can probably get him to restructure and if he goes out and proves himself, then he get paid by us or someone else.

This is an obese team that needs to straight up burn the fat and not trim it. This is a lot of fat (Poe). Get them all out and go young. We still need a pro bowl caliber corner, someone like Tillman to show these young players how to cover. If we lose Davis and Shaq that's too much at LB and Luke will be singled out all the time.

[Cdw]

Unfortunately, Hurney's history suggests contract rewrites lowering the cap hit temporarily, and for a GM who might not necessarily be too secure going forward I don't see much incentive for him to change his MO and actually focus on the future consequences.

I hope he'll cut several big money small performance guys and us be done with it.  All we can do is hope.

[LinvilleGorge]

Cutting Mario would be dumb. He's worth his cap hit and not part of the problem.

[LinvilleGorge]

3 minutes ago, Cdw said:

Unfortunately, Hurney's history suggests contract rewrites lowering the cap hit temporarily, and for a GM who might not necessarily be too secure going forward I don't see much incentive for him to change his MO and actually focus on the future consequences.

I hope he'll cut several big money small performance guys and us be done with it.  All we can do is hope.

This is my concern, particularly with Short. Marty is gonna be hugely tempted to kick the can down the road with that contract and it'll cripple us.

[mc52beast]

Not sure I would trust Hurney with much more than 26m...