Shaq Thompson - RESTRUCTURED Contract**

[OldhamA]

4 hours ago, Jon Snow said:

Why? Something is getting ready to go down. 

McCaffrey trade I imagine.

[LinvilleGorge]

I told y'all that Rhule was going to leave us gutted both in draft capital and cap space. This is part of that process.

[tiger7_88]

4 hours ago, App Panther said:

Umm how much did we save?

Restructures never “save”, they merely kick the can down the road, in this case to the next sucker who chooses to be Carolina HC after Chubby Tepper *finally* sacks Fat Fhule.

[CPantherKing]

Trade with Colts incoming

Wentz and Leonard plus draft picks for Darnold and McCaffrey

restructure restructure restructure

Edited March 7, 2022 by CPantherKing

[Sgt Schultz]

People need to sit down, because this will be a shock.  We are over-reacting.  I know, that has never happened before in the history of the Huddle.

All they did with Shaq was shift some of this year’s cap hit to next ($5M+).  The concern over dead cap is pointless unless we think he was going to be cut or traded this year or next.  But it was fairly obvious neither of those things was going to happen for 2022.

The major problem with Shaq’s value vs. his contract has never been the bonus/dead cap, but the escalation in his salary the last two years.  That created a time bomb to make a decision on him, and he had his best season right before the bomb went off.  Once they figured out he was going to be on the 2022 roster, this becomes nothing more than moving cap space from 2023 to 2022.

In all honesty, the amount isn’t going to make any difference in 2023 unless they spend like drunken sailors.  You know, doing things like exercising the 5th year on a QB you believe will be good under your expert coaching, but have seen no evidence of either him being good or your expert coaching when you decide to exercise the option.

We'll have time to get upset and over-react when they do something stupid with that breathing room they created, but doing this to a contract that has only two years left is more accounting noise than anything substantive.  It is either the equivalent of castling in chess or stacking the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Edited March 7, 2022 by Sgt Schultz

[Basbear]

so tiresome

[Jon Snow]

1 hour ago, Ivan The Awesome said:

At one point, i would have told you to stop being so pessimistic, but at this point, you're being realistic. Kind of sad. 

I call it like I see it.

I've held out hope that eventually Rhule will do something meaningful to help this team. But each day that passes with him in control the outlook gets bleaker.

At this point I'm just here to witness the final breaths of the Rhule administration.  

I guess that is showing optimism, right?

[Sgt Schultz]

2 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

I call it like I see it.

I've held out hope that eventually Rhule will do something meaningful to help this team. But each day that passes with him in control the outlook gets bleaker.

At this point I'm just here to witness the final breaths of the Rhule administration.  

I guess that is showing optimism, right?

I guess that is about as optimistic as one can get right now.

But it is all in the delivery.  Compare "sh*t, that tornado is coming right at us" to "I'm optimistic that tornado will track right over us."

[Chief Keek]

Good grief just two years ago we were looking at being one of the teams with the most cap space in the league.

Edited March 7, 2022 by Chief Keek

[Basbear]

40 minutes ago, Chief Keek said:

Good grief just two years ago we were looking at being one of the teams with the most cap space in the league.

Before the start of the 2021 free agency period, panthers were scheduled to have around 110 milllion for the 2022 off-season. finessserererermagic took form the 2022 cap space in order to pay the likes of Elf, reddick, Erv, Fox, Robbie, Cam took 5 million too, etc etc...  You know that was quiet the up pay for the 5-12 season..... tiresome. 

 

Edited March 8, 2022 by Basbear

[PantherPhann89]

6 hours ago, Wes21 said:

We are freeing up space for all of the dead money we will have for the final 5 years of Rhule's contract after we fire him.

We still have to operate this year, whether Rule is fired or not...

[Carolina Cajun]

I'm so excited to go 8-9 with a playoff appearance so rhule can say he wasn't the worst coach ever.

[pantherj]

Yeah nothing shocking about the restructuring. CMC will be next.

[davos]

These were the two contracts that were mentioned before to being ideal for restructuring. Not really a surprise. They want cap to overpay—I mean outbid for guys they want.