Adam Theilen said he came back to play with Bryce, and he expects the Panthers to surprise some people

[Captain Morgan]

also says Bryce sucks at golf 

https://youtu.be/W2cuaodQisI?t=310

[jfra78]

He came back for 1 million dollars.  I think the Panthers knew they were going young and wanted him as a mentor.  

[frankw]

Money talks.

[CRA]

AT had 6 million reasons to play as many of the 17 games as he can. 

our 2025 Ricky Prohel is a bit expensive. 

[mrcompletely11]

14 minutes ago, Captain Morgan said:

also says Bryce sucks at golf 

https://youtu.be/W2cuaodQisI?t=310

I am sure the 9 million he is making had little to no effect as well

[TD alt]

7 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

He came back for 1 million dollars.  I think the Panthers knew they were going young and wanted him as a mentor.  

Maybe he can be a Panthers' coach one day.  Charlotte's not that bad of a city to live comparatively. Of course he has a home in Orlando as well, but I wouldn't be surprised to see him settle down in The Queen City.

[PNW_PantherMan]

I'm not surprised that he questioned retirement at points last year.  The team looked hopeless early on and he suffered a pretty severe hamstring injury.

[frankw]

14 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

I am sure the 9 million he is making had little to no effect as well

With the positive press the team has been getting I've forgotten we are paying AT $9 million for the one season. That's fuging insanity. And in 2023 when he eclipsed 1k yards we had the worst passing offense in the league lmao.

Then we're paying Dalton $8 million hoping we never have to watch him throw a football again under any circumstances.

Yeah let's hope these young guys are ready to elevate the team so we don't have to think about these issues.

[LinvilleGorge]

23 minutes ago, CRA said:

AT had 6 million reasons to play as many of the 17 games as he can. 

our 2025 Ricky Prohel is a bit expensive. 

He's absolutely necessary though. With nothing but inexperienced unproven youth outside of him we need that veteran presence on the unit both on and off the field. Overall, I bet we have one of the cheapest receiver units in the league because outside of Thielen at WR and Tremble at TE virtually everyone else is on rookie contracts.

[mrcompletely11]

2 minutes ago, frankw said:

With the positive press the team has been getting I've forgotten we are paying AT $9 million for the one season. That's fuging insanity. And in 2023 when he eclipsed 1k yards we had the worst passing offense in the league lmao.

Then we're paying Dalton $8 million hoping we never have to watch him throw a football again under any circumstances.

Yeah let's hope these young guys are ready to elevate the team so we don't have to think about these issues.

The AT deal (ext) I can kindof wrap my head around.  Kindof.  But the dalton deal is fuging bananas for numerous reasons.  The main couple is that he was completely shot last year and his arm is fuging done and secondly if Canalas is this wonder coach of qbs why in the hell wouldnt we be utilizing that and bringing in other young talent whether is a rookie or young vet to try and turn them around while canalas is here?

[mrcompletely11]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

He's absolutely necessary though. With nothing but inexperienced unproven youth outside of him we need that veteran presence on the unit both on and off the field. Overall, I bet we have one of the cheapest receiver units in the league because outside of Thielen at WR and Tremble at TE virtually everyone else is on rookie contracts.

And AT absolutely fuging leveraged that into a few more million dollars and hell credit to him for doing that cannot blame him a bit.  He took advantage of his situation and everyone on here would do they same

[LinvilleGorge]

5 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

And AT absolutely fuging leveraged that into a few more million dollars and hell credit to him for doing that cannot blame him a bit.  He took advantage of his situation and everyone on here would do they same

We have about $21M in cap space dedicated to WR this year. There are 8 individual WRs with higher cap hits than that by themselves.

*Oops, that didn't include T-Mac. Make that $26M. There's still two guys over that number with four more right at it.

[frankw]

5 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

The AT deal (ext) I can kindof wrap my head around.  Kindof.  But the dalton deal is fuging bananas for numerous reasons.  The main couple is that he was completely shot last year and his arm is fuging done and secondly if Canalas is this wonder coach of qbs why in the hell wouldnt we be utilizing that and bringing in other young talent whether is a rookie or young vet to try and turn them around while canalas is here?

I just don't view Thielen as that consequential to our season.

Absolutely if Canales is the QB guru he has been hyped to be he should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time by developing more than one QB. At the end of the day the Dalton contract is for our starting QB's comfort level whether we like it or not. Let's just hope our #1 pick makes us all forget about these little things with at least a fringe elite season.

[BlazeCarolina]

11 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

The AT deal (ext) I can kindof wrap my head around.  Kindof.  But the dalton deal is fuging bananas for numerous reasons.  The main couple is that he was completely shot last year and his arm is fuging done and secondly if Canalas is this wonder coach of qbs why in the hell wouldnt we be utilizing that and bringing in other young talent whether is a rookie or young vet to try and turn them around while canalas is here?

He is here for Bryce's comfort and development.  When a guy gels with your main asset, his price goes up.