K Harrison Butker Makes It To The Practice Squad. DT Eric Crume Released. Panthers Add An OT

[Hogmolliesmaht]

1 minute ago, Nails said:

Relief to get Butker back obviously, but doesn't make keeping Gano at his salary any less moronic.

It's not moronic at all if he has a good season, which is yet to be determined.

[csx]

This is the best possible outcome.

[dldove77]

Had to sign him to get niners intel. 

[KillerKat]

So now we have 10 OL. Hope Gano doesn't think he can start getting comfortable now.

OFFENSE:
WR1: Kelvin Benjamin - *Curtis Samuel* - Damiere Byrd
TE2: Ed Dickson 
LT: #Matt Kalil# - #Amini Silatolu# - #John Theus#
LG: Andrew Norwell - #Greg Van Roten#
C: Ryan Kalil - Tyler Larsen
RG: Trai Turner 
RT: Daryl Williams - *Taylor Moton*
TE1:  Greg Olsen - Chris Manhertz 
WR2: Devin Funchess - #Russel Shepard#
QB: Cam Newton - Derek Anderson - #Brad Kaaya#
RB: Jonathan Stewart - *Christian McCaffrey* - Cameron Artis-Payne - Fozzy Whittaker

DEFENSE:
LE: Charles Johnson - #Julius Peppers# - *Daeshon Hall*
UT: Kawann Short - Vernon Butler 
NT: Star Lotulelei - #Kyle Love# 
RE: Mario Addison - Wes Horton
SLB: Shaq Thompson - Jeremy Cash
MLB: Luke Kuechly - David Mayo - Ben Jacobs
WLB: Thomas Davis - Jared Norris  
LCB: James Bradberry - #Captain Munnerlyn# - #Ladarius Gunter#
RCB: Daryl Worley - #Kevon Symour# 
SS: #Mike Adams# - Colin Jones 
FS: Kurt Coleman - #Demetrious Cox#

SPECIAL TEAMS: 
K/KO: Graham Gano 
P/H: Michael Palardy
KR: Fozzy Whittaker - Damiere Byrd - *Curtis Samuel* - *Christian McCaffrey*
PR: *Christian McCaffrey* - Damiere Byrd - #Captain Munnerlyn#
LS: J.J. Jansen 

 

* = Draft Pick
# = Free Agent
() = Undrafted Free Agent
 

[KillerKat]

I wonder why we're not looking to add a 4th TE since we're using them more now.

[KB_fan]

Our PS surely is a bit interesting looking right now - pretty different to past years.

K + QB

3 DEs, no DTs (of course 1 of the 3 is Obada who can't be promoted, is just an extra)

2 S, no CBs

No RB or TE [RB is fine since we have 4 on 53, but we're not deep at TE, no developmental prospects...]

No Gs, but again we're fairly deep at G depth on the 53  (Moton, Silatolu, Larsen, Van Roten)

No LBs (but we're so deep on the 53, it hopefully won't be an issue.)

[Hogmolliesmaht]

How could Gano get too comfortable when Butker is sitting there on the PS? I don't know why people are so worried about his salary either. It's not our money and there is no cap hit after this year so it shouldn't affect Star or Norwell at all, since they will most likely be re signed or extended after the season.

[grimesgoat]

27 minutes ago, Hogmolliesmaht said:

How could Gano get too comfortable when Butker is sitting there on the PS? I don't know why people are so worried about his salary either. It's not our money and there is no cap hit after this year so it shouldn't affect Star or Norwell at all, since they will most likely be re signed or extended after the season.

People are worried about his salary because it is $4 million.  Had we cut him and went with the younger guy, we save $3 million.  That can be carried over to next year to pay guys we really want to keep - Stah and Norwell.

[Hogmolliesmaht]

22 minutes ago, grimesgoat said:

People are worried about his salary because it is $4 million.  Had we cut him and went with the younger guy, we save $3 million.  That can be carried over to next year to pay guys we really want to keep - Stah and Norwell.

OK but Gano is also playing for his next contract because this is the last year of the deal. Between that and having Butker looking over his shoulder he should be plenty motivated to do a good job. Plus, we really have no idea how good or bad Butker is based on two pre season kicks. A lot of people are just assuming that he's better but they don't actually know. As for Star and Norwell, surely there is a way to structure those contracts to fit the salary cap.

[Ivan The Awesome]

But why Crume? Ugh Hurney you nitwit.

[csx]

3 minutes ago, Hogmolliesmaht said:

OK but Gano is also playing for his next contract because this is the last year of the deal. Between that and having Butker looking over his shoulder he should be plenty motivated to do a good job. Plus, we really have no idea how good or bad Butker is based on two pre season kicks. A lot of people are just assuming that he's better but they don't actually know. As for Star and Norwell, surely there is a way to structure those contracts to fit the salary cap.

Duh....Gano wants to miss when there isn't competition.

[iamhubby1]

59 minutes ago, grimesgoat said:

People are worried about his salary because it is $4 million.  Had we cut him and went with the younger guy, we save $3 million.  That can be carried over to next year to pay guys we really want to keep - Stah and Norwell.

 

    Where does this idea that 3mil is going to cost us Norwell, or Stah? I mean c'mon man. They are going to get close to 20mil a year between them. But that lousy 3mil is going to hamper those deals from happening. lol Folks are willing to say just about anything to make a point. Damm the torpedo's, fake news ahead.

[LinvilleGorge]

2 hours ago, Saca312 said:

Eh they're decent at OT. OG is where they're garbage at.

They're more than decent at OT. You could make a legit argument that they have the best OT tandem in the NFL.

I'd trade our OTs for theirs right now. Zero hesitation. I'd beg them to do it.

[top dawg]

I would have kept Crume over Parms, Frasier and Clausell, and maybe Zach Moore, but that's me.