REPORT: Panthers and Brian Burns not at all close to extension

[OnlyPantherFaninMaine]

6 minutes ago, WarPanthers89 said:

I don’t take this as a somber image post, he post things like that often with spider man.

I know he posts these types of images to his story often… but that’s a depressed and worn out Spidey right there. 

[The Lobo]

17 minutes ago, OnlyPantherFaninMaine said:

https://x.com/smccloverjr/status/1700220145438695517?s=46&t=8D9K3fmhsZfnidjWDjNm9Q
 

Burns’ brother^

It’s about to get real spicy for fitt 

[Lurk21]

Say he does play and has some ridiculous  game(like a 5 sack performance).... then things get even trickier. 

[OnlyPantherFaninMaine]

1 minute ago, Lurk21 said:

Say he does play and has some ridiculous  game(like a 5 sack performance).... then things get even trickier. 

Might get even trickier if he sits out, we get zero pressure on Ridder and get diced up on defense. This front office has no leg to stand on either way. Pay Burns. 

[tukafan21]

1 minute ago, Lurk21 said:

Say he does play and has some ridiculous  game(like a 5 sack performance).... then things get even trickier. 

I've said for a while that we can't let him play the season out, either need to get a deal done before Sunday or trade him before then.

Playing out the year is the worst case scenario for us and will hang over the team all season long like a dark cloud

[csx]

3 minutes ago, OnlyPantherFaninMaine said:

I know he posts these types of images to his story often… but that’s a depressed and worn out Spidey right there. 

[tukafan21]

1 minute ago, OnlyPantherFaninMaine said:

Might get even trickier if he sits out, we get zero pressure on Ridder and get diced up on defense. This front office has no leg to stand on either way. Pay Burns. 

If he sits out, Fitt has to trade him, honestly I'd then make him inactive in week 2 and moving forward if he sat our week 1.

If after all this and all that all about how we're building something special and he knew he needed to be there, he pulls this crap and holds out of actual games, time to trade him for whatever we can get, chalk it up as a bad mistake, fire Fitterer for not making the trade last year and just move on with our lives.

Edited September 8, 2023 by tukafan21

[Lurk21]

1 minute ago, OnlyPantherFaninMaine said:

Might get even trickier if he sits out, we get zero pressure on Ridder and get diced up on defense. This front office has no leg to stand on either way. Pay Burns. 

Oh I know! This should've been done!  

[The Lobo]

Imagine declining the trade and not able to extend him, couldn’t be this team, right? RIGHT???

[Smithers]

We went from Hurney overpaying everyone, to Fitt trading away everyone worth anything once we develop them.  Can’t we have something in the middle please?  Curious if we will even attempt to resign Brown or Luvu at this point. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

this is a catastrophe the season is over 

[Smithers]

19 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

If he sits out, Fitt has to trade him, honestly I'd then make him inactive in week 2 and moving forward if he sat our week 1.

If after all this and all that all about how we're building something special and he knew he needed to be there, he pulls this crap and holds out of actual games, time to trade him for whatever we can get, chalk it up as a bad mistake, fire Fitterer for not making the trade last year and just move on with our lives.

I’m really curious where each side stands.  Is Burns requesting something insane such as 30M with 100+ guaranteed?  Or is Fitt standing pat that Burns isn’t worth more than 20M?  Wish there were more details known.  We aren’t alone tho - Higgans and evans wont be getting new deals it appears.  And Jones doesn’t appear close.  

[mrcompletely11]

38 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

If he sits out, Fitt has to trade him, honestly I'd then make him inactive in week 2 and moving forward if he sat our week 1.

If after all this and all that all about how we're building something special and he knew he needed to be there, he pulls this crap and holds out of actual games, time to trade him for whatever we can get, chalk it up as a bad mistake, fire Fitterer for not making the trade last year and just move on with our lives.

He can’t trade him.  He would sure as poo get fired if he did that.  

[tukafan21]

3 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

He can’t trade him.  He would sure as poo get fired if he did that.  

At this point we have to look at him still being on a team as a sunk cost.  It sucks that we turned down the 2 firsts and that we didn't lock him up before last year, but unfortunately we can't change that now and have to do whatever we can do now.

I don't think him sitting out or letting him play out the contract are viable situations for the franchise, they both only have downsides.  If he balls out, he'll get the biggest defensive contract ever, from us or someone else.  If he doesn't, he'll still get a huge deal from someone else to steal him or even from us, but that would then also mean he didn't have a great season for us and thus hurt out defense this year.

There really is no upside to him playing out the year for us on this contract, none.

If I'm the team right now, he either signs an extension before Sunday or he's an inactive until we can trade him.

I've also been screaming for months to just give him what he wants and that's still by far my #1 option here.  I'm not just saying we should trade him out of spite and saltiness towards him.

But him threatening to hold out this week after an entire offseason of saying how he needed to be part of this team because of what we're building, it's not good for us and it absolutely is going to affect the players right now, there is a dark cloud over the team at the moment due to it all.