Hurney: Keeping Kalil a priority with obstacles

[scpanther22]

Carolina Panthers general manager Marty Hurney acknowledged the team's inability to sign a pair of young Pro Bowlers, running back DeAngelo Williams and center Ryan Kalil, to contract extensions this year because of new NFL rules, which could lead to their potential departure as unrestricted free agents next year.

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/04/29/1404391/hurney-keeping-kalil-could-be.html#ixzz0mUvCDArL

[PantherBrew]

No excuses. Make it happen.

[Peppers90 NC]

I think both enjoy it here and neither will be anxious to join another team. Doesn't mean they will both be here, but that is my sentiment.

[Pantherman]

Well they are acting like the Panthers are only team been affect by this rule. It's not just the panthers. It's the whole league. So unless the owner and the NFLPA gets a deal before next year. Then all teams in the league will lose alot of top players because of this rule. But the sad thing is Marty Hurney saw this coming last year and never bother trying to sign both Khail and Willaims to a contract extension before the rule kicked in thhis year. So pretty much Hurney is at fault here. Hurney is starting to prove is no longer able to perform his duties as GM. This is the reason he is most likly gone after this season along with Fox.:cuss::leaving:

[Murph]

Well they are acting like the Panthers are only team been affect by this rule. It's not just the panthers. It's the whole league. So unless the owner and the NFLPA gets a deal before next year. Then all teams in the league will lose alot of top players because of this rule. But the sad thing is Marty Hurney saw this coming last year and never bother trying to sign both Khail and Willaims to a contract extension before the rule kicked in thhis year. So pretty much Hurney is at fault here. Hurney is starting to prove is no longer able to perform his duties as GM. This is the reason he is most likly gone after this season along with Fox.:cuss::leaving:

Panthers were so close to the cap this time last year they couldn't sign anybody and had to rework contracts just to stay under it. DW and Kalil's extensions will be a much bigger contracts vs what they have now so there was no way to do it then.

And yes, at the time, I think keeping Peppers was the right move then.

[Urrymonster]

Well they are acting like the Panthers are only team been affect by this rule. It's not just the panthers. It's the whole league. So unless the owner and the NFLPA gets a deal before next year. Then all teams in the league will lose alot of top players because of this rule. But the sad thing is Marty Hurney saw this coming last year and never bother trying to sign both Khail and Willaims to a contract extension before the rule kicked in thhis year. So pretty much Hurney is at fault here. Hurney is starting to prove is no longer able to perform his duties as GM. This is the reason he is most likly gone after this season along with Fox.:cuss::leaving:

Don't be silly. You start off by saying every team is affected and then blame Hurney for not adapting and being prepared for it, all the whilst acknowledging that all other GMs are faced with the same dilemma.

Simple thing is, we did not have the cap room to extend them before.

[rayzor]

williams didn't want to work on contract stuff.

don't know about kalil...not sure anyone asked him about it.

[MaineManPanther]

Well they are acting like the Panthers are only team been affect by this rule. It's not just the panthers. It's the whole league. So unless the owner and the NFLPA gets a deal before next year. Then all teams in the league will lose alot of top players because of this rule. But the sad thing is Marty Hurney saw this coming last year and never bother trying to sign both Khail and Willaims to a contract extension before the rule kicked in thhis year. So pretty much Hurney is at fault here. Hurney is starting to prove is no longer able to perform his duties as GM. This is the reason he is most likly gone after this season along with Fox.:cuss::leaving:

Hurney from the article..

You deal with what you have. All 32 teams deal with the same rules.

[Peppers90 NC]

Well they are acting like the Panthers are only team been affect by this rule. It's not just the panthers. It's the whole league. So unless the owner and the NFLPA gets a deal before next year. Then all teams in the league will lose alot of top players because of this rule. But the sad thing is Marty Hurney saw this coming last year and never bother trying to sign both Khail and Willaims to a contract extension before the rule kicked in thhis year. So pretty much Hurney is at fault here. Hurney is starting to prove is no longer able to perform his duties as GM. This is the reason he is most likly gone after this season along with Fox.:cuss::leaving:

Another example of a huddler ignorantly overreacting without looking at the big picture.

[cgarsmoker]

It grinds my gears that we have to go through all this uncertainty while a new CBA is being worked out. I think it's a given the percentage of income applied to players salary will have to reduced a few percentage points but simply implementing a rookie pay scale will shift MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of dollars to veterans that have earned it instead of giving it to unproven rookies.

This thing is going to drag out until the end of the season and the players will cave right before the owners lock them out. I wish both sides would consider the fans and get something done sooner rather than later. I'm sure a lot of RFA's would love it too because they're waiting to get extended contracts but can't get paid because of that stupid 30% increase rule.

[therealmjl]

Make it happen!!!

[Panthro]

More worried about Kalil than Williams.

[PantherBrew]

Hurney has a good track record of retaining the players that we want, even if we have to over pay (besides Peppers, but he didnt wanna be here). I'm sure that Hurney gets it done.

[Baschski]

More worried about Kalil than Williams.

Agreed. If we lose Kalil I'll have a heart attack.