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Panthers Cut Delhomme

TouchMeNot97

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I feel sorry for the Panthers team shop guys. Talk about having to move excess inventory in a hurry. Surely Peppers and Delhomme are 2 of the top 3 jersey-sellers in team history with 89 thrown into the mix.

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-Pat Yasinskas

The cost of releasing quarterback Jake Delhomme, which now has been confirmed by ESPN's John Clayton, won’t be cheap for the Carolina Panthers.

As Andrew Brandt reported last season, the structure of Delhomme’s contract means the quarterback is guaranteed a $12.7 million payout if the Panthers didn’t exercise a couple of options. Apparently, they’re not doing that and they’re on the hook for $12.7 million.

Good thing there’s not a salary cap this year. Also, I think it's a safe bet that the Panthers asked Delhomme to retire and end things gracefully. But Delhomme is a competitor and apparently thinks he still can play.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id/8616/delhomme-still-will-cost-panthers-12-7-million

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this mean that any money due to him is coming straight outta JR's pocket and it won't count against us as a team?

So technically, all we did was open up spending space?

I know it's not our style, but I'm curious.

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you could look at it that way, or..

you could see that this opens up a lot of options for us to extend our current core of players(Beason, Williams, Kalil, Davis, etc.) without having to worry about Jakes yearly salary(in case a salary cap is re-implemented somewhere down the line)

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Like I asked in the other thread, it only comes out of JR's pocket b/c there's no cap?

Then why wouldn't we spend it?

If this was about locking guys up we already had we would've cut him before... I would think this was b/c we're about to go after some FAs.

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