NFL Free Agency

[LinvilleGorge]

9 minutes ago, PleaseCutStewart said:

Curious if we would entertain the option of moving Moton to LT and having Yosh play RT (if we resign him) if we aren't able to get a good free agent LT or draft one. Not sure how Moton would look on the left side, but I thought Yosh looked a lot better at RT than LT last season

Most of the fanbase has been talking about Moton at LT pretty much ever since we drafted him. Pretty clear that's just not something the Panthers are going to entertain for whatever reason and at this point after playing exclusively RT for so long I'm sure it wouldn't be the plug and play switch that fans envision. Everything you've been doing for your entire NFL career now gets reversed.

[Mike2.0]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Most of the fanbase has been talking about Moton at LT pretty much ever since we drafted him. Pretty clear that's just not something the Panthers are going to entertain for whatever reason and at this point after playing exclusively RT for so long I'm sure it wouldn't be the plug and play switch that fans envision. Everything you've been doing for your entire NFL career now gets reversed.

In someways it’s best to keep Moton at RT after nine seasons because as you say, everything would be reversed, so it might not be an easy switch. Besides, Moton has consistently been one of our highest rated players at his position via PFF. So I’d keep him at RT and find an upgrade at LT via the draft or FA. 

[frankw]

When preseason rolls around this year Taylor Moton will be 32. Too far in the game now to start tinkering. Just keep him where he is.

[frankw]

14 hours ago, strato said:

I saw today where the tag for a C was something like 28 mil. Because the rules lump all OL positions together for the tag number calculations. 
 

So Baltimore will likely not be tagging Linderbaum, I mean… would you? Doesn’t mean they can’t get him back. 
 

I wouldn’t mind paying if they could make the numbers work. Because now we are gonna be weaker at LOT to start with, but beyond that we kind of half measured the interior with not upgrading C. 
 

Get stout all across the inside. 

Center should have been addressed in the draft already. Just a simple truth.

[strato]

28 minutes ago, frankw said:

Center should have been addressed in the draft already. Just a simple truth.

You can argue ‘should’. It certainly could have been. And might be this year. You gonna complain if we instead sign the best proven C out there?

[frankw]

8 minutes ago, strato said:

You can argue ‘should’. It certainly could have been. And might be this year. You gonna complain if we instead sign the best proven C out there?

Depends on the price tag.

But as another poster has noted in another thread. We are not going to be able to continue to spend our way out of our OL challenges via free agency dollars. And we certainly cannot keep shining Dan Morgan's shoes like he's the executive of the year for doing so. Any huddler here could do that. And even if we continue down that path we are going to end up in the same boat when it's all said and done. When our offense is laboring to make it anywhere near the end zone and our defense cannot save the day it's just going to be a repeat of the same scapegoating as last year. We'll blame the DC we'll blame the defense for not winning us the game etc. Anything to divert from the reality that our FO has put us in these predicaments to prop up a bad pick.

Edited 2 hours ago by frankw

[strato]

1 hour ago, frankw said:

Depends on the price tag.

But as another poster has noted in another thread. We are not going to be able to continue to spend our way out of our OL challenges via free agency dollars. And we certainly cannot keep shining Dan Morgan's shoes like he's the executive of the year for doing so. Any huddler here could do that. And even if we continue down that path we are going to end up in the same boat when it's all said and done. When our offense is laboring to make it anywhere near the end zone and our defense cannot save the day it's just going to be a repeat of the same scapegoating as last year. We'll blame the DC we'll blame the defense for not winning us the game etc. Anything to divert from the reality that our FO has put us in these predicaments to prop up a bad pick.

Well when I look at the OL I see two OTs on rookie or journeyman deals n say, 2027 maybe 2028. I think the long term deal for Icky will be off the table. At a point the Hunt deal will be nearing or at its end. 
Depending on how they decide to approach it, this OL could be 60% to 80% different than 2025 fairly soon.  
 

Edited 22 minutes ago by strato