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The Panthers currently have the most cap space in the entire NFL

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21 minutes ago, Camp Fodder said:

I still don’t understand why retired players count against the cap.  That’s a player decision not the teams. 

Its money that has already been paid.  If dead cap hits disappeared upon a player's retirement, the system would be easy to take advantage of.  Want to pay Drew Brees 30 million to play an additional season?  Just pay him up front knowing he will retire the following year, spread the cap hit out over a few years, then when he retires, the cap hit/dead money would disappear.  

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22 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

Its money that has already been paid.  If dead cap hits disappeared upon a player's retirement, the system would be easy to take advantage of.  Want to pay Drew Brees 30 million to play an additional season?  Just pay him up front knowing he will retire the following year, spread the cap hit out over a few years, then when he retires, the cap hit/dead money would disappear.  

Thanks. Makes sense. I guess I was only looking at it from an unexpected retirement like Luke’s. 

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2 hours ago, stbugs said:

We finished 2014 5-1 with a playoff loss at Seattle that was closer than the score. Seattle was a Lynch run away from winning it all and we lost by 15 on a 90 yard pick 6. If we score a TD while on Seattle’s 10, the score is 24-24 late in the game.

Suffice it to say, the end of 2014 with the OL getting stabilized by a rock solid interior was a whole lot different than our 2-9 2020 finish and our rock solid, er, maybe pudding solid OL.

Sure the football pundits saw the 7-8-1 record and couldn’t see the potential, but saying 2021 has a chance to be 2015 is just silly. We’re so far away from gelling and we also have a SB champion blocking our division path. We were 2x division champs going into 2015.

If you remember we turned over the roster once again after 2014 so there wasn't as much carryover as you suggest. And when KB went down and we were supposed to have the worse wide receivers in the league everyone was predicting disaster. So while the reason to not get excited about 2021 is Darnold who is still unproven, the talent level in 2021 is better than 2015 with the exception of Kueckly. Even Cam did not have a good season in 2014.  And no one counted the losing season where we were the best of the worse as a division title victory in 2014 as indicative of potential. Great revisionist history there.

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3 minutes ago, Ace420 said:

Ove never quite understood how the cap works. Does all unused cap continue to roll over every year until we spend it all? Or does I only roll over once? 

It rolls over to the next year and becomes the actual cap money for that season.  So, if we roll over, say, 20 million this year, and we already have 30 mil next year, our official cap number is 50 million under.  Then we would have whatever remains after that, once we sign everybody, to roll over to the next season.

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10 minutes ago, Ace420 said:

OK cool. I knew it rolled over at least once, but I didn't know that it continued to roll over every year.

This is great news. Youngest team in the league with high potential and lots of cap room. Fitterer and rhule have a chance to build something special here. I bet we will be big players in free agency next year. We will probably ly spend heavy on the oline as known commodities are more of a sure bet on the oline than draftees. 

Yessir.  With the young talent we have all over the roster, and the cap flexibility we have moving forward, the future is VERY bright in Charlotte!

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18 minutes ago, BurnNChinn said:

Rodgers not coming here lol!

Rodgers, Russell, Watson, Stafford.

We've had our eyes on each one of these.  Shake your head if you want, but that's my feeling.

Will we get one?  Who knows, but we almost got one of them...heavy interest in another, and two more likely coming on the market next offseason.

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