Carolina quietly cleared more cap with RA

[CanadianCat]

Lets got get Armstead and bring back Gilmore

[ThPantherFan]

52 minutes ago, Toomers said:

  Rhule’s squeezing every ounce of blood out of this rock to try and save his job. No trade possible now with RA. 

They should fire rule anyway.  That's the best move for the team.

[CanadianCat]

2 minutes ago, Jackie Lee said:

Especially with the Packers just losing Adams, Robby had some trade value as it was. I can't believe Robby's little camp holdout turned into a $22M 2023 cap hit. Now it's a $9M dead cap if we cut him next year instead of $3M. Not sure it's worth it for an extra $5M to spend in a lame duck year

I think Robby will be fine this year. He will bounce back. 

[Carl Spackler]

13 minutes ago, ForJimmy said:

Screwing over the next HC to try to save his job…

Yep. Said last October that he'd do this. Wait 'til draft time.

[Carl Spackler]

Just now, CanadianCat said:

I think Robby will be fine this year. He will bounce back. 

Robby sucks. He's a WR4 making WR1 money. Once he leaves here, which will only be after Rhule is fired, he'll get a one-year deal somewhere, catch 6 passes and never get signed again.

[firefox1234]

29 minutes ago, J.B. said:

This means he is back for 2022

From what I am hearing Baker might be able to be obtained for a 2 that could turn into a 1. 
if we could offer the 2023 2 (or 1), and maybe dump Darnold as part of it - we have the makings of a pretty darn good offense 

Nothing would be dumber than giving up next years picks. If we did that then this regime has truly learned nothing. It’s this line of thinking that has brought us where we are.

[ThPantherFan]

41 minutes ago, stbugs said:

I’m sure we are in trouble because it means we are likely stuck having Robby play both years and stuff like that. It happened with Hurney and Short. That restructure added $4-5M in potential dead cap so we got the pleasure of watching him collect $26.5M for 5 games of poor play.

Restructuring is never a good thing cap wise because it means you need to spend more than your current cap space so you are stealing from the future. That is usually fine for teams competing but it’s just a sad attempt when it’s for a team with 15 total wins in 3 years.

I don't think many understands that.  

[XClown1986]

43 minutes ago, stbugs said:

I’m sure we are in trouble because it means we are likely stuck having Robby play both years and stuff like that. It happened with Hurney and Short. That restructure added $4-5M in potential dead cap so we got the pleasure of watching him collect $26.5M for 5 games of poor play.

Restructuring is never a good thing cap wise because it means you need to spend more than your current cap space so you are stealing from the future. That is usually fine for teams competing but it’s just a sad attempt when it’s for a team with 15 total wins in 3 years.

Tell that to the Saints

[Jackie Lee]

2 minutes ago, XClown1986 said:

Tell that to the Saints

They were always contending. We're in a lame duck year with Rhule, why give him an extra $5M from our 2023 cap space to gamble with this year? Just short changes the next HC's free agency if Rhule gets fired

[XClown1986]

1 minute ago, Jackie Lee said:

They were always contending. We're in a lame duck year with Rhule, why give him an extra $5M from our 2023 cap space to gamble with this year? Just short changes the next HC's free agency if Rhule gets fired

I believe Robby isn't the issue entirely. Even Steve Smith had frustrations and gave up on plays during the 2010 season with Clausen. It's a business decision sometimes, and it sounds like he wasn't going to kill himself (though at times he got close) for Sam fuging Darnold and our swinging gate of an offensive line.

[Smittymoose]

14 minutes ago, Jaxel said:

No way I'd give a 2 that could to turn into a 1. That's giving away our top 5 pick next year.

Mayfield's market is not going to be that robust. No one is trading a first for him. He's not a fit in many places. 

[Jaxel]

1 minute ago, Smittymoose said:

Mayfield's market is not going to be that robust. No one is trading a first for him. He's not a fit in many places. 

I agree, I was referencing the post of that guy that would do that.

[imminent rogaine]

1 hour ago, Smithers said:

Yeah - we are about to make some big signings the next 24-48 hours.  We now know we have the cap space - time to ensure the other 21 starters are as good as they can be while we work to address the QB situation.  

C, LOG, MLB, RDE, and DT still need to be upgraded.  

On board with that but I’m optimistic about  Nixon and YGM. It’s sink or swim time for YGM. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

Garoppolo would have a big cap hit if we would acquire him