Panthers Release Boykin

[Zaximus]

1 minute ago, RoaringRiot said:

Right....it's like these dudes think GMan woke up today and decided to cut Boykin with no plan. Good God....can we not wait until at least camp to see how this plays out? 

Oh people are so fast to forget the Chandler/Bell GMan idea.   I worry Norman combined with this release could be just as bad.  I hope not though, but GMan hasn't been mistake free either.

[RoaringRiot]

1 minute ago, Zaximus said:

Oh people are so fast to forget the Chandler/Bell GMan idea.   I worry Norman combined with this release could be just as bad.  I hope not though, but GMan hasn't been mistake free either.

That was a result of not reaching for an OL in a draft. Apples and oranges. 

Come on.....how do people have such a hard time understanding that still?

[Mr. Scot]

4 minutes ago, RoaringRiot said:

Right....it's like these dudes think GMan woke up today and decided to cut Boykin with no plan. Good God....can we not wait until at least camp to see how this plays out? 

 

Neither do smart GMs.

 

[The Huddler]

Who knows. Maybe he was in the building for a few weeks and we realized how much of a dick jhe was. Maybe he wasnt "all in" . Maybe he wasnt going to be good for the rookies to be around. Maybe he might have tried to slow them down for his own personal gain. Who knows. I think he had problems being "one of the guys" im past locker rooms. 

 

Im just thinking of different situations to where this makes more sense. Not saying this IS what happened. Just connecting the dots and think its for the long term betterment of our secondary. Boykin may have the smitty effect as far as young development. Building a team is so much more that OVR madden ratings. So ducking complicated and no wonder so many people get confused when they try to be window lickers and understand it at that simple level

[thefuzz]

21 minutes ago, Sam Mills Fan said:

If Gettleman cut Boykin because of how great our 3 rookies looked, that's absurd. He would have had to have based that off one short rookie minicamp. Is that enough to make an impression? Maybe, but that also means he would have had to have thought a veteran like Boykin was also straight up garbage based off one short minicamp. The two do not compute.

 

It is asinine for Gettleman to say 3 rookies are better than Boykin based off one rookie minicamp when Boykin has played very well in actual NFL games. I don't care if Boykin was literally falling over his feet this month.

Again, I don't love the move, but I do understand it.

Boykin was brought in for very little money to act as insurance if we couldn't get a couple of our top rated corners.  We got them for cheap for 4 years.  In turn, that makes him a little more expendable.

 

[jdpanther5]

New thought: What if Bene's injury forced our hand with this move?

Last year we went into the season with only 4 CBs (you could even argue 3, as Teddy Williams was almost exclusively a special teamer). Even after injuries cost us Bene and Peanut, we never carried more than 5 (and again, one was Teddy).

So assuming they stick with 5, prior to this move those would seemingly have been Bene, Boykin, and the rookie trio. Now let's say Bene still isn't ready to go at the start of the season. Now you're looking at starting 2 rookies on the outside while having two different guys that are strictly nickels.

Now they've got room for another outside corner as a contingency plan for Bene, and Boykin has a head start on finding a new team.

[KJ89]

You all panicked last year when we cut the other Boykin, too.

[top dawg]

1 minute ago, KJ89 said:

You all panicked last year when we cut the other Boykin, too.

LOL. That is perhaps the greatest hyperbole ever posted on the Huddle.

[jdpanther5]

It's also worth noting that this Shaq Richardson kid also fits the mold of Bradberry and Worley. 5th round pick from a couple years ago.

[Jangler]

[Growl]

10 minutes ago, beastson said:

I'm confused by this

I understand it and don't understand it. We haven't even got to OTA's yet, training camp, just to see how he look. I'm not saying Ron turns every player into a productive player after being written off, but his track record is good

It doesn't matter what you think, there's a plan and other unquantifiable cliches that don't actually convince anybody of anything but serve to play out the string and keep people from having to confront their actual thoughts on the decision to hand the reigns over to multiple rookies because of how they looked in gym shorts doing combine exercises.

[bleedsgreenandgold]

[TheSpecialJuan]

The Teflon Don Dave strikes again.  He's really something isn't he. So unpredictable. I love it.

[AceBoogie]

I'm drafting Julio in fantasy this year