REPORT: Panthers turned down trade offers for Brian Burns from at least 5 teams

[LinvilleGorge]

Burns' camp has all the ammo in the world. Hell, I'd be shooting to be the highest paid defender in the league because the Panthers sure seems to value him like he should be.

[Dorian Gray]

Everybody in the front office would've been thrown into the fuging ocean if they traded him to Atlanta.

[Ornias]

Chicago probably offered us our 2nd back. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

https://x.com/joshnorris/status/1720921007861420113?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA

[CRA]

my money is still on Burns walking in the end. 

Panthers look foolish not trading him to Rams.  I think they are self aware they largely aren’t well viewed by fans, media, probably know other teams believe they have fleeced them, etc. 

and I think Burns keeps demanding a number they aren’t comfortable with….and to an extent I think he ensures his way out of a losing franchise by doing that.  Because all he has done is lose.  So the deal is pay me money to look stupid or I get my way out of here. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

https://x.com/mike_e_kaye/status/1720940706003292669?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA

[Castavar]

Just now, CRA said:

my money is still on Burns walking in the end. 

Panthers look foolish not trading him to Rams.  I think they are self aware they largely aren’t well viewed by fans, media, probably know other teams believe they have fleeced them, etc. 

and I think Burns keeps demanding a number they aren’t comfortable with….and to an extent I think he ensures his way out of a losing franchise by doing that.  Because all he has done is lose.  So the deal is pay me money to look stupid or I get my way out of here. 

There is no doubt in my mind Burns is going to walk and we aren't going to get sh*t back. Because that is what loser franchises do, and that is what we've become. I literally have ZERO faith in Tepper or Fitterer to actually do anything smart.

We had TWO MAIN options with this Burns mess.

1) Accept the Rams deal where the were offering two first rounders for him

2) As soon as you turned down those offers, sign Burns asap so YOU control the market.

We did neither, and now we are stuck in this weird standoff that will result in either letting him walk for nothing, or overpaying for an above average pass rusher who gets dominated in the run game. Lose lose at this point.

[PappyMay]

I want them to work out a long term deal, but if they can't i'd have to think about  a Tag and Trade to the Ravens or something at that point. Better to walk away with a pick in the late 20's then nothing at all a in a year. Spend that $30 mil on locking up Brown and Luvu.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

Let him go. He's not worth top money. We need money to get multple players. We've seen what happens when we put all of our money into a handful of positions.

[CRA]

8 minutes ago, PappyMay said:

I want them to work out a long term deal, but if they can't i'd have to think about  a Tag and Trade to the Ravens or something at that point. Better to walk away with a pick in the late 20's then nothing at all a in a year. Spend that $30 mil on locking up Brown and Luvu.

I mean if Burns has a disappointing finish down the stretch and teams know we can’t/aren’t doing a deal….we likely won’t even get a first at that point.  

Scott Fitterer is the Matt Rhule of GMs.  We still got a lot of stuff that stinks in the building.  We weren’t that bad just because of Matt Rhule.   It’s the scapegoat effect.   People always are willing to believe 1 person was the whole problem initially. 

[Aussie Tank]

Would have been low ball offers compared to the Rams. Fitt has put himself between a rock and a hard place 

[osd22]

“People love draft picks, until they become players.”

[tukafan21]

Okay, first things first, the people saying he's going to walk and we're going to get nothing/compensatory for him just need to stop, that's just flat out pure ignorance or stupidity, your which you'd rather be called.

My best guess at this point is a franchise tag and hold out until he's either traded or sits the first 8 weeks of the season and shows up when he has to in order to get credit for the season.

It just feels like the team and Burns must be too far apart to have get a deal done or it already would have been done, and I can't see him playing week 1 on the tag at this point, not with how this has all gone.

I think in the end he gets traded for a first and a good starting player, hopefully being a WR.  I could very well see it being Higgins and Bengals 1st for Burns in the end.  

I'd also very much be on board with trying to find a way to get Aiyuk out of a Burns trade, as they're going to have to trade him in the offseason with their cap issues, but they won't be able to pay Burns anyways, so not sure how we'd swing that other than Burns for 2 firsts somewhere else and then flip one of them for Aiyuk.

[CRA]

2019- Tied with 4 others for 49th  in sacks

2020 - T with 6 for 14th  in sacks 

2021 - T with 8 for 21st in sacks 

2022 - T with 3 for 8th sacks 

2023 - presently T with 8 for 21st in sacks 

For a one dimensional pass rusher that sucks against the run….his resume isn’t that strong as an elite specialist.  He has only finished 1 season as our are leading sacker as well.