Panthers Have Interest In LT Matt Kalil - Official Info From A Source

[csx]

35 minutes ago, Shocker said:

Agree and who would know better about his true health level than his brother.

Doctors

[TheSpecialJuan]

19 minutes ago, csx said:

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[gorillamilitia13]

I like the name but its too risky of a move. Especially at that position. We need a proven player for LT, we don't have time to mess around with risky moves. I wouldn't mind us bringing him in if we can for the low and also bring bring someone else in.

[Hoenheim]

rather have Reiff or someone we know for certain can handle high end pass rushers like Miller and Mack. We're bound to keep encountering these players in the playoffs and/or future Super Bowls and we simply do not have an answer for them. Matt Kalil is about the furthest thing from an answer I can think of.

[Hoenheim]

4 hours ago, Estrada said:

Signing Lil Kalil is nowhere close to what I would call "attacking the LT position." We need to sign someone proven, trade for someone proven, or acquire someone in the draft who could start from day 1. I don't see much outside of Ramczyk- maybe Bolles. Robinson is out for me. Everyone after that is a project. Gettleman can talk about windows not existing all he wants. We have fugging Cam Newton and Luke Keuchly. These are their prime years. Cam has had the least amount of protection and weapons of any 1st Round quarterback I can think of. It's time to stop fugging around. Protect your assets. We need a legit LT and a legit weapon on offense outside of Olsen and maybe KB. 

Someone needs to print this message out on a poster board and super glue it on Gettleman's front door.

[CPF4LIFE]

Matt khalil is not considered fixing the damn LT position. If he was that serviceable the Vikings would want him back because there line was just as bad. We don't have time for khalil to learn had to be a competent LT. This is just another take a chance approach to me, because once we sign him we will be done trying to address  the position. 

[E CaT PanTHer 2]

1 hour ago, CPF4LIFE said:

Matt khalil is not considered fixing the damn LT position. If he was that serviceable the Vikings would want him back because there line was just as bad. We don't have time for khalil to learn had to be a competent LT. This is just another take a chance approach to me, because once we sign him we will be done trying to address  the position. 

sometimes a player just needs a change of scenery to resurrect his career. I mean look at Michael Oher in 2015. The Titans signed him to a huge 4 year contract the year before but released him after 1 year b/c he had an abysmal season. I remember everyone criticizing Dave for giving him an opportunity, but look how that turned out? The dude solidified our LT position and was a key contributor to our superbowl run. 

no one is saying break the bank for kalil, but I think bringing him on board to at least compete for the LT position is the right thing to do. 

[Navy_football]

7 hours ago, Estrada said:

Signing Lil Kalil is nowhere close to what I would call "attacking the LT position." We need to sign someone proven, trade for someone proven, or acquire someone in the draft who could start from day 1. I don't see much outside of Ramczyk- maybe Bolles. Robinson is out for me. Everyone after that is a project. Gettleman can talk about windows not existing all he wants. We have fugging Cam Newton and Luke Keuchly. These are their prime years. Cam has had the least amount of protection and weapons of any 1st Round quarterback I can think of. It's time to stop fugging around. Protect your assets. We need a legit LT and a legit weapon on offense outside of Olsen and maybe KB. 

Cam was the #1 pick in the draft. The #1 pick. He actually came into a good situation as a rookie, but as players got older and moved on, they were never replaced with solid alternatives. You don't try to make your #1 pick (not just first round) QB into a game manager, so you can win with defense. Cam ain't wired that way. In hindsight, Rivera wasn't the best HC for a talent like Cam. He really could/should be so much more polished than he is now. 

[uncfan888]

I love threads like this 

[arbnranger]

11 hours ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

On a side note, that is the Kalil bro's mom in the red. Former Miss California. 

[SOJA]

14 hours ago, KillerKat said:

Would be a very "meh" move for a GM that has always been "meh" on protecting Cam.

just curious but what would you do?

Also was Cam not protected from the LT position when Oher was healthy?

[Mage]

Some of you act like going and getting a Pro Bowl LT is easy. 

[Ship]

Yeah, look around people, there are no sure fire LTs available that we're just shaking our heads saying nope, can't pay for that.

Whitworth isn't leaving Cincinnati. Okung, Beachum, and Clady have tons of injuries and wouldn't last a full season, they might be good but they aren't necessarily shoe ins either. The draft has weak OT talent. No ones making imaginary trades for joe Thomas or staley.

We're gonna roll the dice on a cheaper FA and hope they're serviceable like Oher was. Then we're gonna take some developmental guy in the draft and hope he turns into something sooner rather than later.

this is the best plan of attack for the position that we have. It's not ideal, but we'll survive.

people need to be sifting through young players who are entering the draft early or have some kind of college based knock -- effort, not filled out frame, raw, and we need to start finding that guy who can grow into it once it's time to be a pro and train like a pro.

[CPF4LIFE]

6 hours ago, E CaT PanTHer 2 said:

sometimes a player just needs a change of scenery to resurrect his career. I mean look at Michael Oher in 2015. The Titans signed him to a huge 4 year contract the year before but released him after 1 year b/c he had an abysmal season. I remember everyone criticizing Dave for giving him an opportunity, but look how that turned out? The dude solidified our LT position and was a key contributor to our superbowl run. 

no one is saying break the bank for kalil, but I think bringing him on board to at least compete for the LT position is the right thing to do. 

Oher did not solidify our situation, he still struggled from time to time. You forget or maybe didn't know panthers ran a lot of max protect or formations to cover up our weaknesses in 2015. Went in to Last year doing tell same thing, teams finally caught on and started exposing us. It's managements job to understand this and to constantly be looking for upgrades so that we aren't dependent on stop gaps. We see where that got us last year.  Hoping a bad player can change it around on a different team is always a risk and barely happens. Considering this team hasn't had good fortune with OTs it is still lazy and cheap to think a terrible guy from another team is just gonna come in and protect ur franchise QB in the prime of his career.