Panthers Riskiest move: Trading Cornerback Daryl Worley

[Manther]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2783076-every-nfl-teams-riskiest-move-this-offseason#slide5

Worley logged 19 pass breakups and three interceptions during his Panthers tenure, but Rivera didn't see enough progression going into his third season. Carolina intended to sign cornerback Bashaud Breeland, but he failed a physical, which leaves a wide-open competition opposite James Bradberry on the perimeter.

Perhaps Ross Cockrell will fill the boundary role or rookie Donte Jackson can claim the position. Nonetheless, the Panthers went from a two-year starter to the unknown at the No. 2 cornerback spot. Quarterbacks will test that area to open the season.

OMG ROFLMAO does this guy realize the Eagles cut him, and he ended up in Oakland?  Ok, maybe I should lay off the offseason click bait.  Worely sucked...like really really sucked.

[LinvilleGorge]

If that was our riskiest move of the off-season then we played it safer than anyone else ever has in the history of the NFL.

IMO, by far our riskiest move was letting Norwell walk but given his market value and the cost of the franchise tag we really didn't have a choice on that one.

[X-Clown]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

[top dawg]

LMAO. Worley is the epitome of expendability. There was virtually no risk, and it was addition by subtraction. 

[dpm0409]

Title should read: "One of Panthers smartest offseason moves: Trading CB Daryl Worley"

I mean he was arrested within a few weeks of us trading him....and then cut by PHI....

[FugAllY'all]

Maybe you could have made that argument before he got arrested and then cut by the team we traded him to, but there's no doubting that move now.

[LinvilleGorge]

Way too much is made of being a "starter" sometimes. There's guys starting on every team in the league that the GM and coaches would love to upgrade that spot but you only have so much cap space and draft picks. Every roster is going to have some weak spots. Worley was absolutely one of ours.

[Peppers90 NC]

if thats the riskiest move we have made, we are in pretty conservative territory.

[BrianS]

We should make more risky moves like that, we might even start a dynasty!

[Moo Daeng]

I don't see any risk there. 

[Mr. Scot]

Given how it turned out, you could make an argument the riskiest move was signing Breeland.

[Saca312]

I do think Torrey Smith is a risky investment, but we got rid of Daryl Worley who would’ve been a riskier investment.

While Worley had his ups and downs (albeit it’s far better than the huddle is making it out to be), his attitude and character really was the primary factor of this trade from what I hear. He partied a lot - even before the Saints playoff game - and seemingly didn’t have that good of an attitude with the coaches or locker room. That’s a risk that’s just baiting to explode.

If trading Worley’s a risk, then heck we surely don’t have much to worry about. The biggest risk we’re taking is letting Norwell walk instead imo.

[Lumps]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

If that was our riskiest move of the off-season then we played it safer than anyone else ever has in the history of the NFL.

IMO, by far our riskiest move was letting Norwell walk but given his market value and the cost of the franchise tag we really didn't have a choice on that one.

Completely disagree. I don’t buy into the Igo’s BS about needed Kalil. In fact, we have a back up who played as well if not better than Kalil. Without him, Norwell, at the least could have been tagged. It would have been overpaying no doubt but in looking at Ryan Kalil’s recent track record, we’re overpaying him as well and for the same amount of time as a tag (one year) and at this point in their careers I’d rather have Norwell. Along with letting other non factor players go it was easily doable. These are facts.

What’s not based on fact is why we kept one instead of the other. That’s based on Hurney’s way of managing. He’s rewarding Panther panther he drafted that he sees the fan love and recognize his name. The average fan has no clue our back up did just as well let alone his name. Hurney rewarded for pst play a favored a player when he should have been let go. Long time fans know all to well this is what Hurbey does.

Sorry but again that could have easily been avoided and I’d much rather have Norwell on the line for a one year tag than a declining, one year retirement player with a backup just as good. I suspect this year losing Norwell will hurt much more that what we could have done. 

[LinvilleGorge]

19 minutes ago, Lumps said:

Completely disagree. I don’t buy into the Igo’s BS about needed Kalil. In fact, we have a back up who played as well if not better than Kalil. Without him, Norwell, at the least could have been tagged. It would have been overpaying no doubt but in looking at Ryan Kalil’s recent track record, we’re overpaying him as well and for the same amount of time as a tag (one year) and at this point in their careers I’d rather have Norwell. Along with letting other non factor players go it was easily doable. These are facts.

What’s not based on fact is why we kept one instead of the other. That’s based on Hurney’s way of managing. He’s rewarding Panther panther he drafted that he sees the fan love and recognize his name. The average fan has no clue our back up did just as well let alone his name. Hurney rewarded for pst play a favored a player when he should have been let go. Long time fans know all to well this is what Hurbey does.

Sorry but again that could have easily been avoided and I’d much rather have Norwell on the line for a one year tag than a declining, one year retirement player with a backup just as good. I suspect this year losing Norwell will hurt much more that what we could have done. 

I don't necessarily disagree with you when it comes to Kalil. I was on the cut Kalil wagon too. Statistically speaking, we saw virtually no identifiable drop off in OL play between Kalil and Larsen. I still think Kalil is a quality center, but he's not worth his cap hit and he hasn't been healthy in years. I hope he proves me wrong and bounces back and has a great year this coming season, but recent history says he's likely to miss a lot of games. Durability almost never improves with age.

But, cutting Kalil alone  still doesn't give us the flexibility to tag Norwell.  Cutting Kalil would've saved about $5.5M (about $7.5M if scheduled as post-June 1st). The OL franchise tag was a little over $14M. We currently sit about $5.5M under the cap. We'd still be short, even if we kicked $2M of Kalil's cap hit to next year.