Panthers attempting to trade Steve Smith.

[hdevonxz]

I think that's the point behind this whole thing. Its time to move on from the old and let Cam and Luke take over. That's what the FO wants. That is the only reason that makes sense to cut/trade your only offensive weapon.

But in the end it may be the right call.

I love Steve Smith but he has a strong overpowering personality and sometimes that's a good thing and sometimes that's a bad thing and this team will never be Cam's team till he is gone.

lol wtf, the team has never, and never will belong to 1 player. Smith was always the first person in cams ear, telling him to keep his head up every time he threw the towl over it. He was a great captain and leader.

[Mage]

1) Even at the age of 35 and not our first option (Olsen was), he was statistically a top 15 player per catch. So "awwww" you don't know what you are talking about.

 

What?  This is not true at all.

[lola]

Ah, emotions and football mix so well.

Maybe not but when you have been emotionally invested in someone for so long, it's acceptable to be slightly miffed at the idea that they are being thrown out the door and a don't call us we'll call you remark.

[teeray]

I'm gonna wait until something actually happens before getting up worked up. Lots of rumors float around this time of year and many of them are false.

[updownsigma]

I haven't seen this answered yet anywhere else (and maybe its been answered in this tread and if it has, sorry) but Smith's dead money is 9M for this season, but his cap hit is only 7M...this means the team would LOSE 2M against the 2014 cap by cutting him, correct?

 

I don't see how doing this accomplishes anything if thats the case, other than we lose our all time greatest player (who wasn't worth his 2014 salary, sure) and only experienced WR under contract and $2M apparently in order for Gettleman to make a point about how no one is safe?

 

Or am I seriously missing something here?

 

Edit: NVM someone actually answered the question replying to me in another thread from last time I was on here...I should probably have checked my notifications before posting.  Still not sure if I fully understand it though.

[Cary Kollins]

Anyone know of a good suicide hotline? Maybe we could pin a thread with the best ones.

[Gin and Juice]

Cutting/trading smith now makes our situation worse! Cutting him June 1st gives us 7mil in cap space this year but we eat 4mil in dead money next year! Makes no sense why now other than punking him into a lesser deal!

[Creepster]

What did I say that was wrong?

 

 

 

Just ignore the fools whining about the gm looking to the future good of the team rather than paying for past achievements.  Id rather take a chance on a young shiney number 1 wr than patch up Smitty for another season and trot him out onto the field again to slip further into mediocrity.

[KissMyConverse]

You guys act like he frees up all this money or something. You cut/trade him and your still broke with a team full of holes. I wouldn't give a damn if it was January, broke is broke.

Again its not about the $ or Smith's play but what goes on in the locker room. Smith is hot headed and overpowering. Gross is gone and the only Vet leader (besides TD) on the team is Smith, he is the only leader on the team that plays Offense. They want this to be Cam's team and it will never be Cam's team till Smith is gone.

That's really all there is to this.

[Montsta]

Steve Smith gets traded, Zod makes a billion dollars on web traffic and retires young. He sells me the rights to carolinahuddle.com for cheap so he can travel the world photographing scantily clad women, hilarity ensues.

Let's do this thing Mr. Igo.

[Carl Spackler]

Hahahaha a Hahah omg.

Dude.....just....nevermind.

 

Keep drinking the Kool Aid and being a lemming. See what comes of it.

[Ken]

I didn't know CJ, Star, and KK were scrubs.  With them, we will always get great production.  Plus, we could have gotten Allen to come in on top of that. (There's actually a couple of guys out there that could come in and play opposite CJ)  We made a dumb decision in tagging Hardy (if we weren't going to trade him).  He's not making it easy for a long term deal, which means we could enter the season paying him 13 million.

 

Who said anything about them being scrubs? So you aren't thinking about injuries? You don;t just let players like Hardy walk. Tag keeps him here with more time to get long term deal.

 

Allen is declining. Young would be a better option.  

 

Dumb? IF we can get him to sign a team friendly deal(like Bennett), it won't be one.

[MV%doe]

boldin was traded, when i thought no one would touch his contract. so smitty has a shot.

 

new era upon us.

[StoneColdET]

If Steve Smith is traded it will only be to whoop the other teams ass in their own locker room