Daryl Williams re-signs with Panthers for 1 year deal!

[Mr. Scot]

Gantt understands the concern...

 

[falconidae]

7 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

To be fair, Dan Morgan was "competent" (and much more) but he had a lot of trouble staying healthy.

I agree with the signing, but it's worth remembering that "competent" doesn't help if it's on the sideline.

Understand, still seems to be a severe overreaction to me. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

1 hour ago, stbugs said:

For some reason? How about this:

 

Just in case you missed it, on Friday his 2019 salary is guaranteed and for those scoring at home that means no savings if you cut him. Also, you can designate him as a post June 1st cut, you don’t have to wait until June 1st. You get two of those every year.

I think we're keeping him......for now. 

[LinvilleGorge]

12 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

I think we're keeping him......for now. 

"For now" becomes "this season" if he's still on the roster after Friday.

[t96]

5 hours ago, pantherclaw said:

As expected.

This always seemed to be the best thing for both sides since he got injured week 1, but teams have shown recently that they are willing to hand out huge deals to all pro players even coming off injury. Based on reports I highly doubt the Panthers expected to be able to keep him. This is a surprising development, as I think most were expecting him to have a decent enough market, but fortunately for us it just never developed for whatever reason.

[NYPantherFan]

37 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Gantt understands the concern...

 

I get the concern, but I never thought Williams was going to get double what he got coming off of an injury like he had. We are talking a RT where the "value" is far less than a LT. I had figured myself around $7M would be a good price. A month ago, Jason from Over the Cap had his market at about $8M.

We probably will never know the details of other offers he may or may not have received, but its plausible he wanted to come back to Carolina on this deal to an environment he is comfortable with in order to rebuild his stock rather than going to a new organization on a 1 yr deal.

 

[t96]

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

To be fair, Dan Morgan was "competent" (and much more) but he had a lot of trouble staying healthy.

I agree with the signing, but it's worth remembering that "competent" doesn't help if it's on the sideline.

Panthers know way more than you and other teams about the status of his knee. This isn't a player who's proven to be injury prone. It was a one off injury that got hurt again after he returned too soon. With nearly a year to heal fully from it there's no reason to think he won't be fine.

[Mr. Scot]

33 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

"For now" becomes "this season" if he's still on the roster after Friday.

It's hard to imagine they won't let him go by then.  Maybe they're just waiting till the Williams signing is official.

4 minutes ago, t96 said:

Panthers know way more than you and other teams about the status of his knee. This isn't a player who's proven to be injury prone. It was a one off injury that got hurt again after he returned too soon. With nearly a year to heal fully from it there's no reason to think he won't be fine.

It's still a judgment call, and judgment calls can be wrong.

Hope this one's right.

[Mr. Scot]

7 minutes ago, NYPantherFan said:

I get the concern, but I never thought Williams was going to get double what he got coming off of an injury like he had. We are talking a RT where the "value" is far less than a LT. I had figured myself around $7M would be a good price. A month ago, Jason from Over the Cap had his market at about $8M.

We probably will never know the details of other offers he may or may not have received, but its plausible he wanted to come back to Carolina on this deal to an environment he is comfortable with in order to rebuild his stock rather than going to a new organization on a 1 yr deal.

I think Rodrigue said one of his offers was for 3 years.

There was some vague mention of other teams "not being a fit" but who knows what that means?

[DamnItJake!]

stay strong ole kne please stay healthy.. I was there when he wnet down in training camp..not pretty..,.. Just stay healthy!!

[KendrickPanther]

I don't think the cap savings of cutting Kalil is worth it. Its over the top fan hate driving that narrative. 

[pantherclaw]

45 minutes ago, t96 said:

This always seemed to be the best thing for both sides since he got injured week 1, but teams have shown recently that they are willing to hand out huge deals to all pro players even coming off injury. Based on reports I highly doubt the Panthers expected to be able to keep him. This is a surprising development, as I think most were expecting him to have a decent enough market, but fortunately for us it just never developed for whatever reason.

I expected him back based on the fact that no team knows him as well as we do. He hasn't played since his surgery. So his greatest value, was with us. No one is going to give an offense of tackle big money, when he hasn't proven that he's back from a serious knee injury.

[Snake]

Guess the market set the price. Hopefully we will draft a T high to groom for his departure next year.

[KendrickPanther]

The one thing that hurts Darryls value is he's a better run blocker than pass blocker. Fully fit I think he would only get 10 a year. There are only a few teams I could see coveting him, the Giants are one of those teams.