PleaseCutStewart

Not sure a run defending safety will be able to do much when he has a 300 pound lineman in his way because our front 7 is made of DB + 6 cones

That's a lot of money for a middle of the road safety...

Just like you think and don't know... Anyways, this is a pretty pointless back and forth. Hopefully Horn stays healthy so we don't have to regret this contract

Someone would have leaked it if they were working on a contract last year. Not a peep from anyone tells me that they didn't, and I get it. Panthers didn't want to give out a new contract if he got hurt last year and Horn was banking on staying healthy last year so he could get Surtain level money. I think both sides just played a shut up and wait and see approach. It worked out for Horn

You think an NFL team would give him a 4 year, $60 million contract if Horn played less than half of the team's games in 4 consecutive seasons due to injury? I don't think a team would even offer him a 1 year, $15 million contract unless very little of it was guaranteed and/or it was filled with injury clauses

If he had gotten hurt for the year last season, dude is playing on the club option 5th year or getting offered a cheap multi-year contract. If he gets hurt the club option year, he will be getting closer to vet minimum since he proved he couldn't stay healthy 4 consecutive seasons. Just saying that it wasn't crazy to offer him last offseason and see how close they could get on numbers. Now we paid a dude that has maybe played in 50% of our games a $100 million contract.... The dude isn't getting 15 million open market on 3 consecutive injury-riddled seasons. And just because his dad has money doesn't mean he has money...

With the rate he was getting injured, wouldn't have been the worst decision for him to accept a 4 year, $60ish million contract for financial security

Perfect, that means we probably go 10-6. ESPN is probably about the least reliable source of sports knowledge, including people that have never played or watched sports for their entire life

Should have resigned him last offseason while his value was at an all-time low...

I'm glad our front office didn't do something stupid like offer our first round pick for him

While I agree, this team has not played well the past month while other teams got better. We are at best a 1 and done playoff team

He realized nobody was paying him the 15 million he wanted and wanted to go to a safe team like Dallas where other dudes could carry him like MacKinnon did while avoiding taxes

26 won't matter because Dallas won't be a bottom 10 team. I doubt they are in 28 also. Don't think that will have much of an impact

I don't wish injury upon many athletes, but I definitely won't shed a single tear if mikko tears his acl first game for Dallas

Honestly, if this is what we need to clean house and make changes with the coaching staff, I allow it. No offense to Rod, but his system doesn't win playoff series + his assistants are all useless.

Hopefully this team just falls apart so we don't have to see them make the playoffs and get swept like they always do

Disappointing we didn't do anything else today with trades. Either trade for someone to improve or start trading away dudes. Standing pat and doing nothing is unacceptable

I don't know... I feel like all I get from this dude watching his highlights is 4th line vibes

Those draft picks are going to be useless when the Stars are going to be a stanley cup team the next few years...

Hopefully we are sending Stankoven somewhere else. Dude is a midget that can't score - something we definitely don't need on this team

Knowing our team, they will trade away other players on our team for more draft picks... It's the Carolina way

Yeah, Stankoven is pretty awful and I think Dallas doesn't have a 1st this year, so it will be future firsts. Awful value - I'd rather just keep Rantanen here the rest of the year, tie him to the goal posts, and have everyone on our team take turns spearing him

Sounds like it's going to be Stankoven and 2 future firsts from what I've seen on Reddit. Absolutely terrible return, but unfortunately we didn't have a choice

The Guentzel failure is much, much worse than this IMO. Guentzel wanted to seemingly be here and our front office tried to play hardball and it blew up in their face. Rantanen just does not want to play here unless we give him more than apparently any other team needs to

Sure, and he could say 1 thing (I'll sign for you for 13 mill AAV for 7 years) and then get here and say something different (I want 15 mill AAV for 8 years). Seems like Rantonen and his agent aren't the most trustworthy dues