Panthers Create $5.1m In Additional Cap Space By Converting Luke's Salary Into A Signing Bonus

[Camp Fodder]

15 minutes ago, heel31ok said:

can he play LT...

Or RT

[Pup McBarky]

17 minutes ago, heel31ok said:

can he play LT...

We have a LT.

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, Pup McBarky said:

We have a LT.

A little early to say with absolute certainty, but it definitely looks that way.

[Pup McBarky]

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

A little early to say with absolute certainty, but it definitely looks that way.

I don't say anything with absolute certainty, but I'm confident in Moton 

[Trill OG]

I think we will wait to see how the first few games go. If we look bad maybe we make a trade, if not we probably just ride with what we have.

[Cpt slay a ho]

Hearing that sea wants a 2nd rounder for Thomas, i’d still give it hard consideration 

[WarPanthers89]

10 minutes ago, Cpt slay a ho said:

Hearing that sea wants a 2nd rounder for Thomas, i’d still give it hard consideration 

We had the lowest amount of cap space in the league before we restructured Luke’s contract and you really want to take on the salary that Thomas wants? You would literally cripple us from being able to sign our younger starters ending the rookie contract. Thomas is good but who cares if we let our young all pro tackle leave for nothing? 

[Toomers]

44 minutes ago, WarPanthers89 said:

We had the lowest amount of cap space in the league before we restructured Luke’s contract and you really want to take on the salary that Thomas wants? You would literally cripple us from being able to sign our younger starters ending the rookie contract. Thomas is good but who cares if we let our young all pro tackle leave for nothing? 

With Ryan Kalil, JPep, TD, Adams, Cap all expected to move on, There will be plenty to sign Williams. 

  We could pay this year by mailing Cam a 13.5M check right now. That creates 9M immediately. It kicks it down the road, but if it’s a player like Cam it doesn’t matter as much. There is almost no scenario where you would consider cutting him, so just keep kicking it down the road every year. See Drew Brees. If he cut/retires somehow, you’re probably starting over anyhow so eat it all in a year you want to suck. But no others. Too many will bite you like it did Hurney years ago. 

[coralreefer_1]

16 hours ago, Toomers said:

With Ryan Kalil, JPep, TD, Adams, Cap all expected to move on, There will be plenty to sign Williams. 

  We could pay this year by mailing Cam a 13.5M check right now. That creates 9M immediately. It kicks it down the road, but if it’s a player like Cam it doesn’t matter as much. There is almost no scenario where you would consider cutting him, so just keep kicking it down the road every year. See Drew Brees. If he cut/retires somehow, you’re probably starting over anyhow so eat it all in a year you want to suck. But no others. Too many will bite you like it did Hurney years ago. 

spoken like someone tens of thousands of dollars in debt, and very adept at kicking debt down the road. 

[mc52beast]

It’s amazing what people will do when they have an owner with no personal ties to them

 

If JR was around it would still be Hurney 1.0

[Davidson Deac II]

On 9/3/2018 at 3:34 PM, Camp Fodder said:

Or RT

Or backup qb. 

[Tepper's Chest Hair]

On 9/1/2018 at 9:39 AM, Tepper's Chest Hair said:

History has taught me not to be excited.

 

I am excited.

I feel bamboozled. 

[Davidson Deac II]

1 hour ago, WarPanthers89 said:

We had the lowest amount of cap space in the league before we restructured Luke’s contract and you really want to take on the salary that Thomas wants? You would literally cripple us from being able to sign our younger starters ending the rookie contract. Thomas is good but who cares if we let our young all pro tackle leave for nothing? 

I don't think it's as black and white as that.  Given that we might cut few people next season to free up some cap space, we could do it.  I don't think we will and I am not even saying we should, but I think we could make cap room to sign him to a longer term contract next year. 

[WarPanthers89]

23 minutes ago, Toomers said:

With Ryan Kalil, JPep, TD, Adams, Cap all expected to move on, There will be plenty to sign Williams. 

  We could pay this year by mailing Cam a 13.5M check right now. That creates 9M immediately. It kicks it down the road, but if it’s a player like Cam it doesn’t matter as much. There is almost no scenario where you would consider cutting him, so just keep kicking it down the road every year. See Drew Brees. If he cut/retires somehow, you’re probably starting over anyhow so eat it all in a year you want to suck. But no others. Too many will bite you like it did Hurney years ago. 

No way we can afford Thomas. This team is not built to pay a 29 year old safety that kind of money who would have to learn your playbook on the fly. We just drafted a safety in the 3rd round and the team would rather pay the lines. We had Roman Harper starting for us during our super bowl year....what killed us in that game was our line. We should learn from our mistakes not continue to repeat them year after year. Daryl Williams>Thomas