Bill Barnwell on Matt Kalil roster status

[TheSpecialJuan]

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It’s breathtaking how bad the Matt Kalil signing was in Carolina. Panthers have to decide whether they want to pay him a $7 million base salary which guarantees tomorrow. If they don’t want to, they'll owe $14.7 million in dead money.

6:34 AM - 14 Mar 2019

[TheSpecialJuan]

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Replying to @robertmays

I gave it a D- before we knew the structure and the structure is impossibly bad

6:37 AM - 14 Mar 2019

[Udogg]

gettlemagic#

[*FreeFua*]

And to think a large portion of you people were happy when we signed him...

[Mage]

Terrible player

[ericr0319]

this is my take - if we do not plan on making any other moves than it is better to keep him. 

cuttin him (post june 1) saves us 7.25 mil, but cost us 9.8 next year. if we arent spending that 7.25 this year, pay him

if we cut him next year (post june 1) saves us 11 mil next year and only cost is 4.9 the following. 

 

if he is on the roster it doesn't mean he has to start. he is good DEPTH. need depth on the oline. yes i dont like paying someone that kind of money for depth, but keeping him this year is better for us next year, especially if we are done with big splashes in FA. he has no future on this team and we could still draft OL in the 1st round. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

Just now, ericr0319 said:

this is my take - if we do not plan on making any other moves than it is better to keep him. 

cuttin him (post june 1) saves us 7.25 mil, but cost us 9.8 next year. if we arent spending that 7.25 this year, pay him

if we cut him next year (post june 1) saves us 11 mil next year and only cost is 4.9 the following. 

 

if he is on the roster it doesn't mean he has to start. he is good DEPTH. need depth on the oline. yes i dont like paying someone that kind of money for depth, but keeping him this year is better for us next year, especially if we are done with big splashes in FA. he has no future on this team and we could still draft OL in the 1st round. 

With Daryl William's knee being a question mark we might wanna hang onto Matt.

[LinvilleGorge]

Matt Kalil isn't good anything on an NFL roster. Gettleman did a great job digging us out the Hurney hole but quickly created his own. The Kalil and Short contracts are killing us right now.

[Mistuh Jones]

I'll say it again, this was Gettleman's upper decker on the way out of Charlotte

[TylerDurden]

3 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

With Daryl William's knee being a question mark we might wanna hang onto Matt.

I'd rather have Chris Clark or Newhouse be the backup before Kalil steps on the field again.

[Ricky Spanish]

Just now, Proudiddy said:

I'd rather have Chris Clark or Newhouse be the backup before Kalil steps on the field again.

If we weren't on the hook for Kalil's contract then I agree.

But it honestly makes more sense to keep him financially this season as a backup rather than cut him. 

[kungfoodude]

6 minutes ago, *FreeFua* said:

And to think a large portion of you people were happy when we signed him...

I was furious from day one and unfortunately ended up being right. I could never understand why ANYONE thought that could be anything but a massive failure.

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, Cracka McNasty said:

If we weren't on the hook for Kalil's contract then I agree.

But it honestly makes more sense to keep him financially this season as a backup rather than cut him. 

How? You're still going to have to pay him an additional $7M. His dead cap is just that. There's no way to get to the it back. It'll hit us no matter what. That's a terrible excuse to throw good money after bad.

[ericr0319]

everyone is just... he sucks. he blows. get rid of him. well no poo. 

if it was that easy he would be gone. he isnt on the roster because management believes in him...he is there because they are deciding what makes financial sense.