panthers leaning towards franchise tagging K Graham Gano

[Mr. Scot]

 

[LinvilleGorge]

I've been trying to tell you guys for weeks that this very well may happen. 

 

[LinvilleGorge]

Also

 

Okay, okay... I'm done tooting my own horn on this one.

[Captain Obvious]

Norwell is gone. At least we will probably get a 3rd round comp pick for him next year.

 

Gano wouldn't get you that. 

 

 

[JawnyBlaze]

fuging Hurney. 

[Pimpdaddy]

...and so it begins....(sigh)

[LinvilleGorge]

The only thing that surprises me here is how many people seem surprised by this.

The DT franchise tag will be north of $13.5M. The OL franchise tag will be north of $14.5M. We cannot afford to tie up that much cap space in either Star or Norwell. Sorry, we just can't. Those figures are for elite disruptive three techniques and elite LTs. Star and Norwell are neither.

The franchise tag for a kicker will be in the $5M range. More than I'd want to spend on Gano, but it would keep us from being tied to him long-term.

[LinvilleGorge]

Absolutely agree that in hindsight keeping Butker was the right move. But, none of that matters at this point.

[uncfan888]

Hurney knows that we don't have to tag anyone, right? 

[jumpman910]

20 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

The only thing that surprises me here is how many people seem surprised by this.

The DT franchise tag will be north of $13.5M. The OL franchise tag will be north of $14.5M. We cannot afford to tie up that much cap space in either Star or Norwell. Sorry, we just can't. Those figures are for elite disruptive three techniques and elite LTs. Star and Norwell are neither.

The franchise tag for a kicker will be in the $5M range. More than I'd want to spend on Gano, but it would keep us from being tied to him long-term.

It truly amazes me at the amount of people who don't understand that Norwell leaving has been in motion for awhile, ESPECIALLY after he had a career year right before he was a free agent. I don't know if they really don't grasp it or they just don't want to.

Not to reiterate how much money you DON'T want to pay a guard of a franchise tag. 

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, jumpman910 said:

It truly amazes me at the amount of people who don't understand that Norwell leaving has been in motion for awhile, ESPECIALLY after he had a career year right before he was a free agent. I don't know if they really don't grasp it or they just don't want to.

Not to reiterate how much money you DON'T want to pay a guard of a franchise tag. 

Yep, pretty much when we gave Short and Turner big money deals, the odds of Star and/or Norwell sticking around plummeted. We made our choice. Butler and Moton were drafted to help backfill positions that we knew would be available and to allow them to develop in backup roles until then.

[panthers55]

Gano's cap hit the  past 2 years has been 4.6 and 4 million. So franchising him for 4.7 is no big deal and no more that Gettleman paid in 2016. Wouldn't be surprised to see us use that for leverage for a long term deal. We wouldn't franchise Norwell as that would pay him left tackle money and we can replace him with Moton who is waiting in the wings to grab a starting role. We will try and keep Norwell but not at any cost.

[jumpman910]

10 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Yep, pretty much when we gave Short and Turner big money deals, the odds of Star and/or Norwell sticking around plummeted. We made our choice. Butler and Moton were drafted to help backfill positions that we knew would be available and to allow them to develop in backup roles until then.

Bingo, I guess some people around here just aren't used to having to let talent walk out the door. Never really happened under Hurneys tenure since him and his staff never found enough of it. 

But hopefully this is something that we get accustomed to, it just means we have more hits than misses in the draft. 

[Car123]

Idiots.