Matt Kalil a panther in 2019?

[PantherNation123]

7 hours ago, rhyslloyd said:

Kalil is everything Rivera wants in a player - he's been in the league a while.

Meh, this rings a little hollow now with Munnerlyn, Adams, Pepp, and TD gone.  Thank GOD Munnerlyn and Adams are gone... Munnerlyn himself cost us 3-4 games

[TheSpecialJuan]

7 hours ago, RoaringRiot said:

When has he shown he can handle it? Hasnt he just played there one game? And never played there in college? 

Exactly. Moving Moton, who was a top10 RT last year to LT and hoping he can play that position would be foolish. 

[Waldo]

1 minute ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

Exactly. Moving Moton, who was a top10 RT last year to LT and hoping he can play that position would be foolish. 

Then why did we move gross from RT. He was awesome there

[TheSpecialJuan]

[TheSpecialJuan]

[LinvilleGorge]

22 minutes ago, Waldo said:

Then why did we move gross from RT. He was awesome there

This. Guys who play RT do so because they either can't play LT or because their team already has a better option at LT. Gross probably could've been a HOF RT, but instead he was a very good LT because very good LTs are more valuable than HOF RTs.

[Toomers]

   

1 hour ago, stbugs said:

None of these people seem to realize that it costs us $7m more in guaranteed money and cap space to do that. He hasn’t done anything to be worth that. Sure let’s keep him as a backup and screw up our cap so we have to start a rookie and can’t sign a better DE or C. SMH. He sucks. @Mr. Scot trying to make it seem like health is why he’s sucked for 6 straight years. 

  It’s comical how many “experts” parrot the same line about “we couldn’t do better for 7M. Seriously? We just got similar, if not better play for 800k. From a guy who was on his couch to start the season. But handing a player who missed the year with cramps is a good idea. 

 And revisit it in June? That would be 3 months too late if the author bothered to do even a monute of research. 

  There is no financial benefit to keeping him. In fact, quite the opposite. But folks are lining up to throw more money at a unanimously heralded failure. 

  Let’s see. Would I rather use 7M to sign a an uprade to a new contract. Brown, James, D. Williams. Or a C. Paradise or Morse. Or just throw it out the window on keeping Kalil who will still have the same 9.8M cap hit left after this season. No matter what. 

  Honestly, if Tepper allows this, I would be seriously concerned about the future of the team  under him. I’ve defended Hurney as not having anything to do with that horrible contract. But now he has an easy decision and  I still think he cuts Kalil. But if he doesn’t, and Tepper  does nothing, it’s going to get ugly. 

[LinvilleGorge]

8 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

If you're worth millions you can pull hot ass even when you're fat and ugly.

The guy has "earned" $55M during his very mediocre NFL career. Damn.

He's not good at football, but gotta give it up to the man, he's winning at life.

[Waldo]

I do wish we would have played morton more at LT last preseason, the fact we didn't was a giant failure

[Waldo]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

This. Guys who play RT do so because they either can't play LT or because their team already has a better option at LT. Gross probably could've been a HOF RT, but instead he was a very good LT because very good LTs are more valuable than HOF RTs.

I had hoped that the plan was similar to Gross. Let Morton play at RT and get experience and then try him again at LT. I'm sure Morton would take the risk because the pay is significantly higher on the Left side and it's not like he couldn't go back to RT and still be a stud if it didn't work out. 

[MillionDollarCam]

This is typical Rivera coach speech, I'll keep my pitchfork in the barn until post June 1st cuts are in.

[LinvilleGorge]

4 minutes ago, Waldo said:

I had hoped that the plan was similar to Gross. Let Morton play at RT and get experience and then try him again at LT. I'm sure Morton would take the risk because the pay is significantly higher on the Left side and it's not like he couldn't go back to RT and still be a stud if it didn't work out. 

If I'm him if we end up releasing Kalil I'm texting Rivera daily about how I'm ready to go at LT. The top 15 highest paid LTs average over $10M per year. Only one RT does.

[carpanfan96]

5 hours ago, stbugs said:

I don’t know why this is hard. It only costs us money if he’s on the roster. His contract is such that he’d be a post June 1st cut, which to remind folks is a designation not something you have to wait for June 2nd to do.

As a post June 1st, dead cap is $4.9m this year, $7m+ less than his cap charge if he’s on the roster. His 2020 dead cap is $9.8m regardless if he’s a post June 1st or cut after 2020.

So you are saying spending $7m more in real cash and $22m in cap is costing more than $15m and it’s not true. 

as I said a regular cut. his cap hit is nearly 15m. clear as day I explained both. his salary is nearly 13m a cost of over 2m in cap. [only thing that matters in this discussion] not cash spent or anything else. his cap hit is a combination of cash plus bonus plus ltbe bonus. 

 

if you wanna go the other way as a June 1st, it saves the team 7m this year and I believe around 6 next season in cap space. They likely aren't resigning William's, so it leaves literally nothing at LT. Meaning the team would have to go get one. With the way the team plays pass rush is more important and the 16th pick is likely gonna be edge. 

 

[DamnItJake!]

Guess we have to kick the tire if we owe him money