Moton extension. 2 more years, $44M

[Icege]

Solid cap move as it frees up cap space and locks down the most consistent Panther on the roster.

Even better culture move for taking care of guys that took care of the team.

This also gives the team the luxury of not having to spend a day one pick on an RT. Can still take a swing tackle on day two or three to replace BC while developing him to take over for TMo.

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, PantherChris said:

You are such a childish poverty poster lol.

Hmmmm seems to have freed us to about 30m in cap space.... interesting 

At the expense of cap space down the road. Straight out of Hurney 101 school of NFL GMing. Kick that can. Just don't have Moton kick it himself, gotta watch those knees.

[mrcompletely11]

1 minute ago, ECHornet said:

Unsure, but that’s the exciting part. You can be excited, you know?

wait, I should be excited about signing some scrub off the street after preseason has ended?  Did I read that right?

[PantherChris]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

At the expense of cap space down the road. Straight out of Hurney 101 school of NFL GMing.

Cap rolls over, lets hope its not anything about a certain bengal 

[carpanfan96]

4 minutes ago, Icege said:

New deal brings this year's cap hit down from $31.3M to $23.7M which gets us close to $30M in cap space...

WHO ARE WE ABOUT TO SIGN!?!?

Where did you see that at? Cause if that's the case... He's going to have void years and count against the cap til 2030 probably 

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, PantherChris said:

Cap rolls over, lets hope its not anything about a certain bengal 

Oh wee mayne. That would be peak Panthering. LOL

[ECHornet]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

At the expense of cap space down the road. Straight out of Hurney 101 school of NFL GMing. Kick that can. Just don't have Moton kick it himself, gotta watch those knees.

Do you think the cap space required for a top RT just disappears if we don’t extend Moton? You have to pay the RT either way. I’m satisfied with the money going to Moton vs some random or a dice roll with a draft pick. 

[tukafan21]

1 minute ago, PantherChris said:

Cap rolls over, lets hope its not anything about a certain bengal 

Exactly, creating cap room through extensions for the current season is only needed when you're already over the cap or barely above it and want to sign a few players.

What we did here is just about the extension as any unused cap just gets rolled into next year's cap space.

[csx]

I honestly  dont worry about the cap one bit now. We haven't had issues with that in a while. 

[Icege]

55 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

If we're as concerned about that knee as rumors made it out then I would've definitely wanted to see how it held up this year before giving him a bunch of new money.

I mean, there were retirement rumors this off-season due to that knee.

This is my hesitation as well because there was a loooooot of smoke about that knee at the end of last season. My hope is that they've got enough data on it to be comfortable enough to keep the good times rolling while having the flexibility in the draft to grab a replacement to develop at any point next offseason or the one after.

Fingers crossed that they're being smart with his strength & conditioning to get the most mileage out of it while still keeping him in top playing shape.

[mrcompletely11]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

At the expense of cap space down the road. Straight out of Hurney 101 school of NFL GMing. Kick that can. Just don't have Moton kick it himself, gotta watch those knees.

https://www.panthers.com/news/combine-notebook-morgan-on-long-range-plan-canales-on-learning-new-roster 

Morgan on Feb 27  - Sigh

 

"I think we're going to be a little smarter when it comes to the restructuring," Morgan said. "We're going do things the right way, not kind of kick the can down the road. We want to evenly distribute and pay year-to-year as opposed to kicking the can down the road.

[ECHornet]

2 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

wait, I should be excited about signing some scrub off the street after preseason has ended?  Did I read that right?

Trades are a possibility, Eeyore

[carpanfan96]

I need to see the 2026-2028 numbers, because he was already owed 4.8m in signing bonuses from the rework. 

Edited 6 hours ago by carpanfan96

[mrcompletely11]

1 minute ago, ECHornet said:

Do you think the cap space required for a top RT just disappears if we don’t extend Moton? You have to pay the RT either way. I’m satisfied with the money going to Moton vs some random or a dice roll with a draft pick. 

For like the 10th time on this thread, he is signed for the 2025 season to a tune of 31 million.  Why the fug wouldnt you simply wait and see?