panthers leaning towards franchise tagging K Graham Gano

[Harbingers]

1 minute ago, AceBoogie said:

Did you miss the Ginn touchdown in the playoffs? 

Did you miss the fact he is a sprite flipping teams that will pay him the most?

Look at the 6 patriot rings. Their business model works. That’s what gettleman was emulating. Hurney is just a good ol boy that does what ever JR tells him too. And he loves his nut kickers. 

Bet he would hire you for pennies on the dollar to kick his said nuts.

[TheRumGone]

32 minutes ago, AceBoogie said:

Did you miss the Ginn touchdown in the playoffs? 

Dude if DG was tagging a kicker you would be losing your mind all up and down this thread.

[grimesgoat]

If Gano can get $4-5 million on the market, I let him go and take the 5th/6th round comp pick all day long.  That is a no-brainer.

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, grimesgoat said:

If Gano can get $4-5 million on the market, I let him go and take the 5th/6th round comp pick all day long.  That is a no-brainer.

You can also let him test the market and he might find out he won't get the kind of contract he's expecting.

That's a gamble of course.

[Johnny Rockets]

This is from 2016 but the 2nd most franchised position since the tag option was implemented = kicker. It's not as absurd as some want to think it is. 

5 kickers were franchised in 2012 alone and the Ravens did wind up franchising Tucker as this article was speculating they would. 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-ravens-franchise-tag-justin-tucker-nfl-kickers-20160215-story.html

[Mr. Scot]

4 minutes ago, Johnny Rockets said:

This is from 2016 but the 2nd most franchised position since the tag option was implemented = kicker. It's not as absurd as some want to think it is. 

5 kickers were franchised in 2012 alone and the Ravens did wind up franchising Tucker as this article was speculating they would. 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-ravens-franchise-tag-justin-tucker-nfl-kickers-20160215-story.html

I can't speak for anybody else, but I don't think it's the position so much as the player. A lot of folks are still big Gano critics.

Fair or not, kickers get a lot of venom. Heck, there are still people here who hate John Kasay for the Super Bowl gaffe, regardless of how many games he actually won for us.

Some of that probably has to do with our current cap situation and the thought of losing guys like Norwell and Lotulelei as well.

[Johnny Rockets]

4 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I can't speak for anybody else, but I don't think it's the position so much as the player. A lot of folks are still big Gano critics.

Fair or not, kickers get a lot of venom. Heck, there are still people here who hate John Kasay for the Super Bowl gaffe, regardless of how many games he actually won for us.

Some of that probably has to do with our current cap situation and the thought of losing guys like Norwell and Lotulelei as well.

Or it's just the the latest opportunity for unwarranted Huddle outrage.  

[grimesgoat]

39 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

You can also let him test the market and he might find out he won't get the kind of contract he's expecting.

That's a gamble of course.

This is the last cheap contract year for Funchess, Williams, and Shaq.  We will need to pay these guys or lose them in 2019 (this is the price you pay for competent drafting).  This is also Olsen's last contract year. Paying Gano instead of these guys is asinine.

In 2019, Cam, Kuechly, Turner, Short, and Addison will have a cap hit of 74m.  That leaves about 110m for 46 other guys, and that is excluding Matt Kalil's hit or 12m or his dead money hit of around 7m. 

We need to find the guy that evaluates kickers and recommended Butker, let him find Butker II, pick him in the 6th, and don't piss him away for nothing.  The thought of paying Gano 4m per in our situation gives me the sweats.

[Mr. Scot]

35 minutes ago, Johnny Rockets said:

Or it's just the the latest opportunity for unwarranted Huddle outrage.  

I get that, but...

25 minutes ago, grimesgoat said:

This is the last cheap contract year for Funchess, Williams, and Shaq.  We will need to pay these guys or lose them in 2019 (this is the price you pay for competent drafting).  This is also Olsen's last contract year. Paying Gano instead of these guys is asinine.

In 2019, Cam, Kuechly, Turner, Short, and Addison will have a cap hit of 74m.  That leaves about 110m for 46 other guys, and that is excluding Matt Kalil's hit or 12m or his dead money hit of around 7m. 

We need to find the guy that evaluates kickers and recommended Butker, let him find Butker II, pick him in the 6th, and don't piss him away for nothing.  The thought of paying Gano 4m per in our situation gives me the sweats.

...posts like this don't say "unwarranted outrage" to me.

[AceBoogie]

1 hour ago, TheRumGone said:

Dude if DG was tagging a kicker you would be losing your mind all up and down this thread.

Nah because tagging him makes sense when we aren’t going to use the tag elsewhere. It’s no different than signing him to a one year contract. 

[NanuqoftheNorth]

Welp, so much for Hurney finally figuring the GM thing out. 

I'm sure next time when he is rehired he'll do much better.

[Mr. Scot]

3 minutes ago, NanuqoftheNorth said:

Welp, so much for Hurney finally figuring the GM thing out. 

I'm sure next time when he is rehired he'll do much better.

Jerry Richardson is buying a different team?

[TheRumGone]

52 minutes ago, AceBoogie said:

Nah because tagging him makes sense when we aren’t going to use the tag elsewhere. It’s no different than signing him to a one year contract. 

Yeah right dude. You’d complain if he’d cut butker and then had to use the tag on Gano. 

[TheRed]

You don't tag a kicker that still struggles to make the gimme kicks. Matt Bryant for the Falcons is 42, and he is more consistent than Gano at this point.