Releasing Tolbert is a cap savings of 1.5 million

[Jeremy Igo]

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/carolina-panthers/mike-tolbert-3530/

 

Will Gettleman give him his walking papers?

[tiger7_88]

Fingers crossed.

[KSpan]

Not re-signing him in the first place would have been a cap savings of $3.3MM and an interception savings of at least 1.

[X-Clown on 1]

$1.5 million in cap savings, and another $1.5 million in buffet savings.  Not too mention, this is one less person Gettleman has to fight to be first in line on nacho bar day.  Consider the walking papers a formality.

[manu4t]

Adios Tolbert, don't let the door hit you on either of your arses on the way out.


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[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

there is going to be another wave of "name" releases this offseason, probably including tolbert and possibly stewart.  gettleman is going to be even more popular then.

[Mvp2014]

Nope they are going to let him wobble off into the sunset after this year.  No need to embarrass him because our FO fuged up.  Its really not his fault we cant evaluate talent.

[electro's horse]

He should be given the chance to retire with some dignity. 

[Carl Spackler]

2 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

He should be given the chance to retire with some dignity. 

"Dignity" is as foreign a word to Gettleman as "leftovers"

[Kevin Greene]

 

[PhillyB]

25 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

He should be given the chance to retire with some dignity. 

i assume this is what will happen. tolbert doesn't carry himself like a guy auditioning for a job with another team.

[AndrewLaskoski]

Releasing Soliai creates an extra $2.5 million & releasing Dickson creates an extra $2.1 million. That along with Tolbert's $1.5 million would be an $6.1 cap savings. Replace them with low salary capped players at about 700k per year would yield a savings of $4 million. 

Stewart & Gano are tricky because them being cut would save $4.75 million and $3.1 million respectively but both are still solid contributors. If we replace them with low capped players there would be a savings of around $6.4 million. 

Overall we could increase the cap by over $10 million by making those moves. 

Does anyone understand how Oher retiring would affect the cap? Since he would be retiring and not getting cut?

[Dunn]

Stewart, while when healthy is one of the best backs in the NFL is one of the biggest liabilities on the offense, he is a week to week 'iffy' player when game day comes and I'd rather not have that going forward.  

We need to think long and hard about trying to invest in a solid kicker that can be with this team for 10+ years...Tucker is a rare find but we need to replace our kicker with someone more dependent when its time to get some points on the board.  

Dickson is completely replaceable and no need for him to 'contribute' further to the team.

[Untouchable]

1 minute ago, AndrewLaskoski said:

Releasing Soliai creates an extra $2.5 million & releasing Dickson creates an extra $2.1 million. That along with Tolbert's $1.5 million would be an $6.1 cap savings. Replace them with low salary capped players at about 700k per year would yield a savings of $4 million. 

Stewart & Gano are tricky because them being cut would save $4.75 million and $3.1 million respectively but both are still solid contributors. If we replace them with low capped players there would be a savings of around $6.4 million. 

Overall we could increase the cap by over $10 million by making those moves. 

Does anyone understand how Oher retiring would affect the cap? Since he would be retiring and not getting cut?

All possible candidates (maybe Gano is the safest).

Oher would save $2.5 mil as cut in the offseason and I'm pretty sure retirement would be treated the same.  Assuming Larsen says hot, Gradkowski would be a $750,000 cap savings as well.  I'd even consider looking at Anderson's $1.75 mil savings and look to start coaching up a young backup.