Carolina has almost $19M in dead money on the books

[AceBoogie]

Gettleman had no choice but to do away with Beason due to his outrageous contract and injurie,and due to the fact that he didn't want to play here unless it was in the middle of the defense. So how about you get your facts straight.

Did I say something false?

[AceBoogie]

can you go back on hiatus please

You're not even on my level piss off

[AceBoogie]

Dammit Ace, you were doing good... for about 3 posts.... smh...

One thing about me is that I support this team, but Im not a homer. fug popular opinion, I speak my mind.

[Sasquatch]

Not sure why they list Lester as dead money

 

We signed him and eventually waived him and signed him back to the practice squad. His original 3 yr deal gave him a $7500 signing bonus 1/3 hit last year the remainder this year.

[ncsu12engr]

How is it that Jordan Gross has almost 2 million dollars worth of dead money when he fracking retired. It isn't like we cut him. He chose to stop playing. How does it make sense that we still have to pay him when he decided to stop playing?

[jtnc]

How is it that Jordan Gross has almost 2 million dollars worth of dead money when he fracking retired. It isn't like we cut him. He chose to stop playing. How does it make sense that we still have to pay him when he decided to stop playing?

There was still a 1 year option on his contract, so, technically he was still under contract when he retired.

[PandaPancake]

There was still a 1 year option on his contract, so, technically he was still under contract when he retired.

I think it's a way to keep a team from "retiring" a player to get out of the contract with a final bonus payment.

We got enough cash to sign Incognito? That guy is itching hurt someone.

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[TheRumGone]

One thing about me is that I support this team, but Im not a homer. fug popular opinion, I speak my mind.

You're obnoxious and come across as a know it all. Guess what you don't, guess what I don't. Guess what none of us know.

The hardy tag will have ramifications whether good or bad. That's the defining move in the 2014 offseason.

It's been said over and fuging over again that smitty was gonna cost us 24 mill over the final two years if we didn't cut him THIS year. It's been stated by him that he was going to retire after this coming year if he was still a panther. Why did he not inform the front office and work out a team friendly one year deal? Probably because smitty wanted his money but we couldn't afford him for the production we were getting. That is elite money, he's not elite anymore sorry. Why didn't he pull a Gross and do a one year void contract?

Why aren't you asking these types of questions instead of a blame gettleman deal? Like gettleman is some bully out to get overpaid final tires on the tread, injury prone veterans like Beason and smitty.

For me personally it all comes down to the hardy tag. And not because of smitty or gross or Beason or whoever else had somehow been bullied by DG. It comes at the price of money, the future cap and sustaining a level of competitiveness. The tag can go either way. That was the gamble of the offseason. Not smitty or gross or Beason because they can be replaceable via the draft or the money we would have had via FA

[panthers123]

A big problem that contributed to all this dead money was all the free money JR freed up in 2010. We basically had lotto money and Marty spent it that way by overpaying every player. If Marty ever won the lotto he would be one of those guys who end up broke in a few years. 

[bleys]

How is it that Jordan Gross has almost 2 million dollars worth of dead money when he fracking retired. It isn't like we cut him. He chose to stop playing. How does it make sense that we still have to pay him when he decided to stop playing?

 

this is the result of a restructured contract..  dummy years are used to space out smaller cap hits after the player is expected to retire or get cut.

[PandaPancake]

A big problem that contributed to all this dead money was all the free money JR freed up in 2010. We basically had lotto money and Marty spent it that way by overpaying every player. If Marty ever won the lotto he would be one of those guys who end up broke in a few years.

Yeah but it would have been an awesome few years. Panthers didn't get those

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[pantherfan49]

What's crazy is we still have a few more bad contracts to unload.

[RelaxImaPro]

Sucks we never got to really take advantage of the rookie CBA with Cam, Luke, Hardy, and Star's contracts the way Seattle and San Fran have.  Nope, we were stuck being cap strapped by players that weren't even playing for us.

 

Now as that dead money comes off the books, we'll be cap strapped again just trying to afford keeping Cam, Luke, Hardy, and Star all on the same team while putting a competitive team around them.

 

Sorry, but Hurney really screwed up what probably could have been our best window ever with all these overpriced, back loaded, guaranteed contracts.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

You're not even on my level piss off

 

just look at this guy