Panthers pick up option on Torrey Smith

[Manther]

Ok.  So overpaid for Smith, overpaid for Reid, rumors on keeping Kalil.  I notice a pattern forming.

[LinvilleGorge]

19 minutes ago, Tepper's Chest Hair said:

But we'd still need multiple WRs.  Losing Funchess and Smith is losing what..1/3rd of our WR group, making us dangerously thin with no real back ups.

The same would be true with Funchess and Smith. If you're gonna suck, be cheap. $5M ain't cheap.

[Tepper's Chest Hair]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

The same would be true with Funchess and Smith. If you're gonna suck, be cheap. $5M ain't cheap.

Ok.  Smith is obviously there for things other than talent.  Look at our starting Wrs.  Incredibly young.  He is basically also there to act as an additional coach.

I guess I just dont see who would be better to replace both Funchess and Smith with.  Do I like we are spending 5m on Smith?  No.  Do I wish it was cheaper?  Yes.  Do I see a better alternative?  No.

Our WRs are NFL babies.  They need veteran/experienced people around them in the WR position.

[top dawg]

Since when is 5 mil not cheap?  That's bargain basement!

[Hoenheim]

So we're keeping kalil and torrey for whatever reason. I'm guessing they aren't going to restructure shaq either and just depend on the draft 

[PantherNation123]

Good god.  How many balls will he catch??  Maximum of 25-30?  Soooo about $200,000 per catch?  I mean what in the fugKK are we doing???

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

All aboard the 4-12 train

[Mr. Scot]

8 minutes ago, top dawg said:

Since when is 5 mil not cheap?  That's bargain basement!

How many teams do you know of that are paying their number four receiver 5 million dollars?

[LinvilleGorge]

20 minutes ago, Tepper's Chest Hair said:

Ok.  Smith is obviously there for things other than talent.  Look at our starting Wrs.  Incredibly young.  He is basically also there to act as an additional coach.

I guess I just dont see who would be better to replace both Funchess and Smith with.  Do I like we are spending 5m on Smith?  No.  Do I wish it was cheaper?  Yes.  Do I see a better alternative?  No.

Our WRs are NFL babies.  They need veteran/experienced people around them in the WR position.

That's what coaches are paid to do. You don't pay a WR $5M to be a lockerroom influence. Not if you're a well ran organization anyway.

[Tepper's Chest Hair]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

That's what coaches are paid to do. You don't pay a WR $5M to be a lockerroom influence. Not if you're a well ran organization anyway.

Come on, keeping a veteran player around is a pretty common practice, regardless of an organization being well run or not.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

That's what coaches are paid to do. You don't pay a WR $5M to be a lockerroom influence. Not if you're a well ran organization anyway.

Welp, I guess that answers the question as to why the Panthers are paying Smith $5M.

[Manther]

So much for Hurney 2.0.  

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, Tepper's Chest Hair said:

Come on, keeping a veteran player around is a pretty common practice, regardless of an organization being well run or not.

Not for the role that Torrey Smith should be fulfilling (#4 WR on the depth chart and veteran mentor). Not for $5M. Unfortunately, we all know that's not what will happen though. Ron Rivera will end up playing Torrey Smith over younger, better receivers who will suffer from not getting those snaps. If we're lucky, at some point during the season Torrey will suffer a hangnail and we'll get to see how much better that younger WR actually is.

[LinvilleGorge]

I'm curious, I wonder if those $17.5M cap space figures we'd seen tossed around for the Panthers was assuming we'd pickup Smith's option or not? If we just dropped to $12.5M in cap space to let Torrey Smith occupy $5M... good god.