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

[JARROD]

Seahawks, Cowboys, Texans, Colts all have $50 million plus,.. All on the cusp or playoff teams—- they can buy themselves a championship appearance at least.

Hell— the Patriots won the Super Bowl again and even they have more cap space than we do.

pathetic

[Adb6368]

The teams that have 70M in cap space are... not... good

[TheSpecialJuan]

1 hour ago, Hoenheim said:

Torrey Smith and Captain Munnerlyn are taking 10 million dollars of cap space together. That is just so stupid 

Not for long 

[Lumps]

Simple. Bad contracts and poor personnel decisions. By who?

Easy, Hurney and Jerry Richardson.

Also, farewell tours. The Panthers never learn to save/roll over cap getting rid of player. They simply hold on years after the expiration date.

Gettle did not. M Kalil was not a Gettle signing, it was a JR signing.

Lasty, underpreformers which comes from the players. KK and Poe should not be making that much but in reality those are hindsight.

All this causes poor distribution among positions. We have Ryan Kalil a farewell tour and signed his brother with money that could have kept Norwell and Norman on the team.

That’s one example. I use it because it’s the best example of the whole ‘building a team through the draft’ that this franchise claims to do instead of FA. Clearly this isn’t true. But, the money could have also brought in quality FAs.

Hopefully this all changes under Tepper.

[OneBadCat]

It’s basically we’re Panther fans

[Car123]

28 minutes ago, Lumps said:

 

Gettle did not. M Kalil was not a Gettle signing, it was a JR signing.

 

Source?

Was Munnerlyn a JR signing too?

[TheSpecialJuan]

[TheSpecialJuan]

Base Salary Cap: $190,000,000

Team	Cap  Space	Effective Cap  Space ℹ️	#	Active  Cap Spending	Dead  Money
Colts	$107,739,175	$107,739,175	59	$130,191,388	$1,215,490
Jets	$102,445,908	$96,505,908	39	$97,798,277	$2,194,623
Browns	$79,318,880	$79,318,880	60	$162,319,820	$4,943,286
Bills	$79,175,565	$79,175,565	53	$111,986,665	$7,564,040
Texans	$77,969,917	$77,969,917	52	$129,127,882	$1,769,452
Raiders	$71,234,430	$70,739,430	50	$119,192,670	$1,497,423
49ers	$65,221,163	$65,221,163	62	$156,972,236	$2,838,175
Seahawks	$51,994,716	$50,509,716	48	$139,706,119	$884,326
Bengals	$50,399,086	$50,399,086	60	$144,911,540	$2,173,116
Cowboys	$47,882,676	$47,882,676	56	$149,546,611	$4,348,305
Titans	$41,945,158	$41,945,158	62	$172,811,445	$919,534
Cardinals	$41,499,422	$41,499,422	59	$144,342,123	$10,563,586
Broncos	$37,522,409	$37,522,409	54	$152,903,130	$7,580,577
Lions	$35,578,547	$35,578,547	57	$159,046,358	$1,835,963
Packers	$35,266,760	$35,266,760	59	$162,052,779	$565,887
Giants	$28,252,094	$27,262,094	49	$158,016,502	$9,656,400
Falcons	$28,091,456	$27,101,456	49	$158,222,727	$4,825,608
Chiefs	$26,172,985	$26,172,985	56	$163,645,013	$897,504
Chargers	$25,922,356	$25,922,356	53	$161,830,059	$3,264,089
Rams	$24,703,415	$23,218,415	48	$165,246,408	$516,743
Ravens	$21,993,514	$21,993,514	55	$171,205,165	$1,306,276
Steelers	$19,398,485	$19,398,485	59	$188,599,252	$251,183
Redskins	$17,719,921	$17,719,921	66	$175,346,578	$1,934,536
Buccaneers	$15,987,607	$15,987,607	56	$178,426,876	$94,515
Panthers	$15,638,833	$15,638,833	58	$176,438,522	$519,784
Patriots	$15,585,045	$15,585,045	57	$176,885,344	$703,034
Dolphins	$9,945,316	$9,945,316	52	$172,415,759	$13,577,419
Saints	$8,549,197	$8,549,197	53	$179,048,424	$4,207,044
Bears	$7,299,741	$7,299,741	53	$186,056,720	$336,752
Vikings	$7,252,515	$7,252,515	52	$186,486,325	$433,330
Eagles	$2,150,065	$2,150,065	63	$189,096,442	$4,854,589
Jaguars	($1,381,311)	($1,381,311)	55	$200,835,375	$2,154,669

[PantherPhann89]

Poor money management by GM's. Gettleman did a great job with the cap until he signed Matt Kalil to 55 mil. 

[Mvp2014]

kalil, torrey smith, munneelyn, cockrell, pretty much everybmove we made since oher has been a fail

[Snake]

Two words Marty Hurney.

[Khaki Lackey]

9 minutes ago, PantherPhann89 said:

Poor money management by GM's. Gettleman did a great job with the cap until he signed Matt Kalil to 55 mil. 

Yeah , the Kalil contract was Gettleman’s worst mistake by far. If I’m not mistaken though, we could have moved on from him after last season with minimal damage, but Hurney restructured it. Right?

[MHS831]

5 hours ago, Hoenheim said:

Torrey Smith and Captain Munnerlyn are taking 10 million dollars of cap space together. That is just so stupid 

Capt  and Kalil can create $10m in post June 1 cuts.

Smith---with Cam not being  able to throw 30 yards, he was worthless.

[Ricky Spanish]

The teams with all the rollover either:

Suck

Have sucked for a while

Have good young QBs on rookie deals

Or

Sucked for a few years until they fired their crappy coaches and finally took a step in the right direction last year while rolling over cap space.

The pats, Packers, Steelers, Seahawks, etc. Don't roll over cap and are constant contenders? Why is this? Good player management, moving on from guys a year early rather than a year late, solid drafting, and plugging FA in that fit their systems. 

We are a mediocre franchise with a mediocre (at best) GM who doesn't do a lot of that stuff well. 

That's why