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Can Someone Please Explain to Me Why The Carolina Panthers Always Have Minimal Cap Space to Work With for Free Agency?


Hoenheim

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I've been a fan since the 2010 season, but I've only more recently started tracking things like the draft and free agency for the past few years. Something that has been a constant source of befuddlement / frustration for me, is to see teams with 70 M + cap space every season and we are consistently one of the bottom dwellers in terms of cap space.

Why is that? Who are we over paying? We are cap strapped but we have no dominant players in the trenches, our best WRs are on their rookie deals, our RB is on his rookie deal. Our starting CBs are on their rookie deals. Somethings just not adding up here . How could we fix it so we have at least a decent ammount of space (maybe 40-60M) a year? 
 

Just quickly perusing our roster, nobody outside of Cam or Luke should have a mega deal. That is two damn players. All the other players we have that are really important contributors are young and not even expensive. Is all our money being tied up into players getting older like KK , Mario, Poe? If so then why? They didn't do diddly squat last year besides Mario who had an okay-ish performance. 

Keep in mind Cam's deal doesn't go for much longer either (I think its through 2020?).

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2 minutes ago, Hoenheim said:

if we cut Shaq then what else do we have at LB besides Luke? 

If we pay Shaq 9M who else do we have at LB besides Luke? 

  I can upgrade another position that is needed more and replace Shaq for much less. 

 Giving him 9.2M for this year just goes back to the basic misunderstanding of value this team has on a consistent basis. 

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What I don't understand is there are about 30 players on the roster worthy of 53. Around 15 million in cap space, you could easily cut a few(Smith, cap, Kalil, etc) and get to around 30 million. Now there's only 25 players plus 30 million and you need about 7 million to sign 7 rookies. That leaves 20 players for 20 million in space........ Panthers depth will be AAF level. Better hope no starter get hurt with this barebone depth. 

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