45catfan

At least somebody gets it. Good job! This year is obviously toast and next year is will be year-1, basement floor of the rebuild. No big FA signings required, so not a whole lot of cap room needed.

This is hardly the worst roster in the League. We lack a competent QB from being good. I said good, not great. Cap relief is enough cap space to make the necessary signings to complete your roster.

Burns, Brown and Chinn are the next ones up. Burns is the only one that gets done before the season though. I doubt Fitts restructures more than 1-2 players to get cap relief for next year. Again, we are like #9 in cap room for 2024. I'm not sweating it. If Fitts can get like $25-$30 in cap relief for 2023, that's all we need. Nobody is expecting us to go to the playoffs. So zero splash signings in free agency. With about 73% of the roster already on the books, most of them our starters and key pieces, we can round out the roster with team friendly deals for depth pieces.

It's a one-year debacle. As of now 2024 we are $101M in effective cap room. As long as we get our rookie QB, TE and MLB in the draft, the rest can be signed for cheap. Burns will get an extension sooner rather than later.

Yes and if his agent knows this he can bend Fitterer over the table. I mean most of us want Burns to remain a Panther, correct? But at what price? Also, Fitts has to get year one dirt cheap.

I'm going to see what happens first. Trading back would be an option in the right scenario. As long as we come out with a QB1, TE1 and a starting caliber MLB, I'll be happy.

Cap space or effective cap space? Cap space is 500k, effective cap space is about -16M. We have our core players outside of a QB, who will be a rookie. The rest of the contracts to round out the last 1/3 of the roster will be low end.

Look at the date. That was two days ago, obviously before the Anderson trade. True, we were about 30th in cap space for next year before the trade.

Yeah, I just went over next year's roster and honestly the defense nearly set. A few LBs and some backup safeties, that's it! The hard part is the offense. Crazy to say but our OL is really good shape, just a couple of depth pieces. This draft better be offense heavy. Obviously QB1, WR2, TE1 and a LB.

Signing Brian Burns to a long term extension is the most reasonable approach to getting some breathing room next year. He's due $16M next year. A huge signing bonus and start him out on peanuts on year 1 of his new deal gets us the most cap space. Going ahead and extending Brown frees up about $7M too. The rest of the moves frees up a couple million here and there. Extending those two alone gets us about $23M in cap.

Lol, yes you are. Remember how people keep saying the cap is a myth? Eh, it can be fudged, but at some point you have to pay the piper. That's the reason I'm not a fan of contracts with voidable years tacked on to the end just to make the money work out in the present time. The Saints mastered the technique to keep their Super Bowl window open and now they suck and their cap is a dumpster fire.. People say Sean Peyton left just because of Drew Brees retiring. That's not the ONLY reason and now you see why.

We are back in the black for next year, barley, but it's a start. As long as Fitts plays his cards right we are in decent shape for 2024.

Correct, because Luvu is still dinged. Once Luvu comes back he or Mosby will revert back to the PS.

To be fair, this is just a PS guy. Literally LB7, so nobody to get hyped over. It just amazed me that we could stay so thin at LB for this long.

Seems like it worked out fine for him, no? He got the promotion based on title even though he didn't have complete personnel control. Maybe, just maybe, he was shrewd enough to figure out Rhule wouldn't be around long and he would eventually gain full control. Sometimes on the way to the top you step over a few corpses. Now we get to see what Fitterer is really capable of...for better or worse.

True starters we have Shaq and Luvu. Then you have borderline starters like Littleton and Wilson. Then you have the rookies Smith and Mosby. Mosby is a PS guy that gets promoted when another guy is dinged. That's it. There's nobody else. That's you sign right there that you are too thin when anytime guy in a certain position group gets dinged you have to call up a PS guy.

And post Snow. I've been saying all offseason and through six games that our LB corps is really thin. Maybe Fitts realized this too.

I think Scott needs a fair shake without Rhule's funk lingering around. The GMs traditional role is to go find and sign the talent and the coaches job is to motivate/teach/develop them. Fitterer's true GM role was limited with Rhule's meddling and Matt himself couldn't even hold down his end of the job.

Strictly based on cap implications, sure we should keep him, but not because he's an untouchable player on this roster. If CMC is on the block, then really everyone could be. Dude was practically 75% of our offense yesterday. Again, if that kind of production can be traded away, then anyone could be.

Because you say so, lol? DJ is a borderline WR1 even with a good QB. He just signed his second deal and we could get a WR on a rookie deal that could be as good or better. You get so emotionally attached to some of these players. Kinda sad.

Yes, we need all the draft capital we can get. Also, it's not like we have a QB to throw him the ball anyway.

Our new mascot: plays dead at home and gets killed on the road.

Not until Baker is healthy enough to start or at least be the back up. I don't think the team is that sold on Eason to just cut PJ with Baker unable to play.

He's on IR, he's good until the offseason.

No, just traded Robbie. Once his physical is passed, the trade is complete and he's not longer on our roster.