45catfan

Is it wrong I've already started simulations, lol????

Untouchables for me: Ickey, Moore (contract mainly), Brown, Chinn and Horn. I would say Burns, but if he can net us two first rounders? Any less than that and Burns is off limits too.

Not a snowball's change in hell. Not unless he get's hurt.

Didn't like his extension. He's continuously banged up, a shoestring duster and gambles too much thinking his speed can bail him out. The only other DB I'd part ways with I'd Henderson. I'd take a 6th for him right now.

With our first four picks, we HAVE to come away with QB, TE, ILB and RB. The only negotiable position is RB, that could be DE instead. We need our defensive general, so Mike LB is imperative. If anyone questions that we need a TE at this point, they are essentially blind. QB? Well..blind, dumb and probably has never seen a snap of football in their life if anyone thinks that's not a need for the Panthers.

Man I would love another first rounder though. I can't stand the thought of losing out on Mayer.

We need a stud MLB in the draft. Shaq needs to be out of the picture. Luvu will the be veteran presence. My top 3 targets are QB, TE and MLB. Now that we have a second 2nd rounder, I'd like a bookend to Burns.

I valued them a little high, but it remains to be seen where the 49ers actually land. I'm not sure they are instant Super Bowl contenders.

The value of all the picks equals out to the value of the 19th pick in the first round. SF didn't have a first round pick, but we got the value of a mid-first rounder.

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.