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Jmac

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Gettleman is doing his job, and without emotion or sentiment, which is the way winning teams operate.

Yes it sucks to see it end this way, but it was a business decision, plain and simple.

yes, but imo, you can still be loyal and respectful of legacies without being Marty Hurney. There's a huge difference between signing DWill to that awful contract that will pretty much ensure he will end his career here, and ensuring Smitty, the face of the franchise, ends his career here. I know he inherited Hurney's mess, but that should've been a priority and he's still productive.

I'm not ever going to be happy about it.

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Maybe with his newest son being born soon Angie can convince him that maybe it's just time to call it a career and we can all have our selfish dream of Smitty only ever playing for the Panthers fulfilled.

Don't expect him back in the building anytime soon though as long as Gettleman is here.

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Smith is okay with it..has his family,plenty of cash and probably play one year for a contender (which what we seen so far,won't be the Panthers)....so we should let it go now.....he is okay with it now so we all should move on also

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yes, but imo, you can still be loyal and respectful of legacies without being Marty Hurney. There's a huge difference between signing DWill to that awful contract that will pretty much ensure he will end his career here, and ensuring Smitty, the face of the franchise, ends his career here. I know he inherited Hurney's mess, but that should've been a priority and he's still productive.

I'm not ever going to be happy about it.

I normally agree with you, but just can't on this one. Aside from Smitty taking his massive contract and agreeing to a pay cut, not restructure, there is no way this was going to end well. He was owed massive amounts of money with large cap hits for the next few years. This really sucks but was largely unavoidable IMO.

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