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Report: The Panthers are "locked on Watson"

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21 minutes ago, unicar15 said:

The front offices do not care at all about future cap ramifications. The cap in 2022 is probably going to be over $215 million. That’s almost a $40 million swing (assuming COVID restrictions are going to be gone). Watson isn’t set to be a free agent until 2026.

So you’ll basically have one of the most talented QBs in the league on one of the friendliest deals for a team. The dead cap you eat while acquiring him is a completely moot point. McCaffery’s restructure makes it more palatable for teams to acquire him in the short term while you’re cap strapped and then when the cap increases from TV money it doesn’t matter. That restructure was purely done for this year’s deals. Nothing else.
 

 

Yeah, but the cap gets larger for everyone else, as well. So while we’ll have a lot more cap space, so will other teams. It’s not like the growing cap puts us in a clear advantage over half of the league.

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15 minutes ago, MVPccaffrey said:

That win against Washington that everyone said killed our draft will actually prove opposite:  it pushed us far back enough that trading for Deshaun was the only palatable option.  Thanks Coach Rivera!

Don’t get me started on Rhule with that one   Stupid   Build that winning culture .......he needed to take a lesson from Sean Payton on how to lose end of season meaningless games in the pros 

anyway.  If you think about it, probably the way Tepper  does, to move up in the draft at least two first RD plus for something not proven vs three first plus something for a known commodity. Take short term pain for long term 

if it doesn’t work, in a couple of years he can fire his Golden boy coach   If it does work, they both can feel good about themselves 

Tepper gets what he wants 

 

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8 minutes ago, Bostonheelfish said:

Yeah, but the cap gets larger for everyone else, as well. So while we’ll have a lot more cap space, so will other teams. It’s not like the growing cap puts us in a clear advantage over half of the league.

True, but you have to look at things on a relative basis, and we're going to be at an advantage over most teams any way you slice it.

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30 minutes ago, Pup McBarky said:

Twist ending: This deal goes down, the Texans use our first round pick to select Mac Jones. In two years, they are in the SB with all the talent they've acquired, while we have managed 2 years of 8-8.

Not what I want, obviously, but the irony would be incredible.

At least we improve in that scenario.

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poo. Here is the baseline:

 

Dan Patrick reports the Bears offered three first round draft picks, a third-round pick, and two unnamed starters to the Seahawks for Russell Wilson. 

Perhaps the Wilson trade would have happened if the Bears had a top-five draft pick this year and Seattle could have started fresh with one of the draft's top QBs. Wilson going to Chicago would have likely meant late first round picks for Seattle in the coming years as well. It wasn't enough for the Seahawks to trade away their franchise player, who stays put for now. Meanwhile, Bears fans are readying themselves for the Andy Dalton era.

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1 minute ago, MVPccaffrey said:

That trade has nothing to do with Watson, as Wilson has never stipulated he'll hold out and never play for Seattle again

You think the Bears didn't make the same or similar offer for Watson? I doubt it. I can't see being seriously interested in Wilson and not being at least as interested in a similarly elite QB seven years younger.

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3 minutes ago, *FreeFua* said:

DUH.

Saw that.

McClain's been pretty adamant that they wouldn't trade him. He more recently said that he thinks they should trade him. Now he's moved to saying he thinks they will.

It's always been possible. Might now be a little more probable, or it might not. Who knows?

Still not sure it happens with us if it does, but that's possible too.

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