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McCaffrey not expected to play Sunday

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kungfoodude Grand Master

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The curse of the big RB contract continues.

This is why you don't pay RB's big money. Short careers and some of the highest potential for injury on the field.

Let's hope this is an aberration and not the start of a trend. We can't afford to have made a bad decision on a contract of that size.....again.

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14 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

The curse of the big RB contract continues.

This is why you don't pay RB's big money. Short careers and some of the highest potential for injury on the field.

Let's hope this is an aberration and not the start of a trend. We can't afford to have made a bad decision on a contract of that size.....again.

Yeah, if he turns fragile it's going to be a killer for us. Hopefully it's just a short run of bad luck.

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36 minutes ago, Panther Believer said:

Yeah, playing damn near 100% of offensive snaps under the Rivera era in effort to salvage his job had nothing to do with it right, right? lol

I have said it 100 times on here, running him into the ground last season just so he could get the record and then paying him for it while he was still under his rookie deal in the offseason has to be one of the dumbest moves in this franchises history. 

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5 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

I have said it 100 times on here, running him into the ground last season just so he could get the record and then paying him for it while he was still under his rookie deal in the offseason has to be one of the dumbest moves in this franchises history. 

Right behind ruining Cam with Shula during his peak, while also surrounding him with bums on the O line and and wack receiving threats not named Greg Olsen (when it comes to consistency). 

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26 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Yeah, if he turns fragile it's going to be a killer for us. Hopefully it's just a short run of bad luck.

He has been extremely durable but so was Cam. The Rivera Era Keep Pounding on our star players was bound to eventually take a toll. How many of our star players from that era were literally run into the dirt?

Hell, look at KK too.

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27 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

He has been extremely durable but so was Cam. The Rivera Era Keep Pounding on our star players was bound to eventually take a toll. How many of our star players from that era were literally run into the dirt?

Hell, look at KK too.

KK was the opposite of run into the dirt. One of Ron’s biggest thing was using DL in a rotation to keep them fresh. For his career he has played in the 60s in snap percentage, once reaching 73% and another time 70%. Compare that to Fletcher Cox who I picked as a contemporary and has regularly been in the 70s and 80s in snap percentage throughout his career. Aaron Donald is another high 70s, low 80s guy and even reached 90% one year.

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David NewtonESPN Staff Writer 

Not all coaches are big on giving running backs big deals like the Panthers did with Christian McCaffrey, who got a four-year, $64 million extension in the offseason that made him the league's highest-paid back. McCaffrey may be the exception because of all the touches he gets when healthy. Said Bucs coach Bruce Arians: “If I had a guy like Christian I'd give him all I could,'' he said.

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1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

The curse of the big RB contract continues.

This is why you don't pay RB's big money. Short careers and some of the highest potential for injury on the field.

Let's hope this is an aberration and not the start of a trend. We can't afford to have made a bad decision on a contract of that size.....again.

It’s more than likely not an aberration unfortunately. History shows this happens to an extremely high number of rbs on their second contracts. There are a few freaks like AP. And even AP got injured the same season after signing his mega deal in 2011 but came back insanely quick that makes me think he’s not entirely human and was the 2012 mvp. But those are incredibly rare. The fact he’s getting this banged up already is extremely concerning. Injuries add up quick and they become shells of themselves before you can even think. It was a horrible deal but not surprising. This franchise still hasn’t learned anything from past mistakes.

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A 4 year contract to the best player on the entire team is far from the issue with the franchise...it’s irrelevant to even discuss.

Many players have been paid much more for farewell tours and sitting on the bench for multiple years. CMC gets banged up and misses a few games all you all rave lol.

That’s how football works. He’s 24 and had a sprain and no another minor injury. He is extremely young and will not be close to being done for the entirety of his contract.
 

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KK's fat ran him into the ground.

I don't believe in paying RBs big money in today's NFL. I don't care how great they play. That money should be spent on WRs/O-line, or elsewhere. Same thing with LBs. Don't pay them big money. Keep your LBs and RBs young and fresh, and then dump them when they want a big payday. And don't draft them in the 1st round either.

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