we just voided Harper and Cotch contracts

[Rastlet]

12 minutes ago, Paa Langfart said:

Its so obvious  - Harper is secretly a pale white racist cracker

Well that explains why he is so slow!

[Bartin]

5 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

No hard number on the cap. But last report was between 151 and 155 in December.  

Correct. We won't know the official 2016 salary cap until, I think, the beginning of the league year in March, but the NFL did release a projection of $151-155M at the last owner's meetings. Typically that projection is ultra conservative so teams can start planning around a number without risk of going over. It usually ends up above the top of the range that's given. It could be as high as $160M.

[juliosantos]

Great people but we need faster and younger players to win the lombardi

[Daddy_Uncle]

2 hours ago, thebigcat said:

He's likely at the stadium with a subway party tray just munching down and calling agents t

You take him as a Subway man? I think you're wrong

[panthers34]

Damn I know Cotch is old but him and Cam always seem to be on the same page and he's a good example for the young guys 

[PanthersGOATFan336]

3 hours ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Half of the free cap space will be eaten up by franchising Josh.

Don't be too sure about that, I mean they will surely renegotiate CJ and release Allen freeing up even more than initially thought..

[CarolinaXblue]

Hate to hear this for Cotchery.

[goodoleboy]

3 hours ago, The Lobo said:

Kind of low if they were still teammates at the time, you know before this contract stuff. That's just my opinion.

Makes me wonder just how tight that locker room really was.

[ThPantherFan]

It's business and both players know that.  They both have been good mentors with their locker room presence.  Just time to go forward.

[Cuttinedge]

I hate it but it's a business. Really liked Cotch but he didn't do us any favors in the SB. For a veteran he looked like a deer in the headlights. 

Harper I ain't never been a fan. In space he's all but useless.  And why the hell they ever used him to blitz is beyond me. He was so slow he usually never made it into the backfield on a blitz.

Appreciate all they did but time to add some speed. 

[Ace_Aladdin]

3 hours ago, LUUUUUKE said:

I love how our fan base dumps on people the moment they're released. 

Harper wasn't as bad as many would have u believe. He was still a starter in the NFL even at his old age. Great veteran leadership as well.

Cotchery earned his money mentoring our young wideouts. He lost us that game if u ask me. Burnt Von Miller in the sideline, and just dropped the ball inside the 5 in a 13-7 game. I won't count the challenge play against him, because in my eyes that will always be a catch, but if his punk ass didn't bobble it initially then it wouldn't have happened.

Ron and Dave knew this was coming, which is why they were so stern and adamant that the locker room would never be the same!

Sad that we couldn't finish, but let's not throw guys that were literally " " that close to being Super Bowl champs.

We're classier than that

Amen

[jdpanther5]

This was planned the day they signed...the 3 "dummy years" were added onto the end of the contracts to save some money at the time but the deals were basically for two years. It's not like this was a surprise to them.

[setzer2030]

1 hour ago, CarolinaXblue said:

Hate to hear this for Cotchery.

I'm cool with it. Gonna be 34 by the time the season starts. 

[unicar15]

6 hours ago, R0CKnR0LLA said:

It's intentional and planned. Basically we had 2M in extra cap space over the previous 2 season (when we were really cap screwed) and shifted the cap charge into this year, when we will have much much more space to work with.

Makes sense. We have KB coming back to fill a starter WR role. Boston is more than capable of filling the starting FS role.