FA Target: Allen Bailey

[Untouchable]

 

30 yo coming off a productive year as a pass rusher for the Chiefs, would be a 34 DE with the ability to play 3 tech or on the edge in 43 looks.  Without much wiggle room in the cap currently it's hard to see the Panthers winning the competition for him but he certainly would fill a glaring need with the hybrid defense shift.

EDIT:  Visit finally occurred 4/8:

 

[dpm0409]

Everyone knows D-Line needs help, but man it would be nice to not rely on putting stop gaps in place and actually get younger.  Fingers crossed we come away with multiple promising DE's here in a month in Nashville.

[TheSpecialJuan]

We're gonna have to overbid for this guy if we're serious about signing him. 

[LinvilleGorge]

27 minutes ago, dpm0409 said:

Everyone knows D-Line needs help, but man it would be nice to not rely on putting stop gaps in place and actually get younger.  Fingers crossed we come away with multiple promising DE's here in a month in Nashville.

Youth costs serious $$$ at those positions. Sign bandaids and draft the youth.

[musicman]

I see a restructure or some move for someone to free up cap space. Maybe sign Shaq to a long term could free up about 5-6 mil in 2019. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

Could be the reason Pats haven't made Kyle Love official yet, possibly waiting to see if they will land Bailey instead. If they do (they will) I think we re-sign Kyle Love. 

[Proudiddy]

2 hours ago, Untouchable said:

 

30 yo coming off a productive year as a pass rusher for the Chiefs, would be a 34 DE with the ability to play 3 tech or on the edge in 43 looks.  Without much wiggle room in the cap currently it's hard to see the Panthers winning the competition for him but he certainly would fill a glaring need with the hybrid defense shift.

Would be a GREAT move!  But, he seems like the perfect Patriots-kind-of-guy signing at this point in his career.

I hope we get him though.

[dpm0409]

2 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Youth costs serious $$$ at those positions. Sign bandaids and draft the youth.

Yep, that's what I was implying.  Just was saying I'm ready for the stop gap trend along the D-line to end, or in other words, draft and develop some youth, so we aren't bargain shopping at those positions any longer.  Believe me, I don't want to splurge in FA for edge guys.

Have only taken 3 DE's in the last 6 years, that trend has gotta go!

[LinvilleGorge]

14 minutes ago, black-panthers said:

Chiefs got less money than we do

This guy isn't youth, he's an aging bandaid along the lines of Bruce Irvin.

[KDawg004]

This would be a good signing for us. Can work in a 3-4 and 4-3. I hope we can lock him up.

[MasterAwesome]

Would be a good Kyle Love replacement rotational piece at minimum.

[pantherclaw]

1 hour ago, dpm0409 said:

Yep, that's what I was implying.  Just was saying I'm ready for the stop gap trend along the D-line to end, or in other words, draft and develop some youth, so we aren't bargain shopping at those positions any longer.  Believe me, I don't want to splurge in FA for edge guys.

Have only taken 3 DE's in the last 6 years, that trend has gotta go!

I don't know how close you've been paying attention in those drafts, but it's not that the Panthers have ignored the need. I don't know why you, and others, make such bogus claims. There hasn't been much good talent available where we been picking...but yes, our team likes to ignore bringing talent. 

[dpm0409]

16 hours ago, pantherclaw said:

I don't know how close you've been paying attention in those drafts, but it's not that the Panthers have ignored the need. I don't know why you, and others, make such bogus claims. There hasn't been much good talent available where we been picking...but yes, our team likes to ignore bringing talent. 

You made up the bogus claim yourself.  I never said anywhere "the Panthers love ignoring talent" or "we've passed on so many awesome edge rushers when our picks have come around" or "the Panthers have blatantly been negligent when it comes to the D-Line" .  No need to let other folks on the board drive the narrative of your responses quite so often.  I simply stated how many DE's we've drafted in the last half decade, that's all. 

Quality depth at certain positions each draft vary greatly and this years class is at minimum allegedly deep at DE.  Was simply saying that I hope we come away with some quality young players that can get after the opposing QB this year.  I'm sure you wouldn't mind that either.

[pantherclaw]

1 hour ago, dpm0409 said:

You made up the bogus claim yourself.  I never said anywhere "the Panthers love ignoring talent" or "we've passed on so many awesome edge rushers when our picks have come around" or "the Panthers have blatantly been negligent when it comes to the D-Line" .  No need to let other folks on the board drive the narrative of your responses quite so often.  I simply stated how many DE's we've drafted in the last half decade, that's all. 

Quality depth at certain positions each draft vary greatly and this years class is at minimum allegedly deep at DE.  Was simply saying that I hope we come away with some quality young players that can get after the opposing QB this year.  I'm sure you wouldn't mind that either.

Making a blanket statement such as you did, without including the facts that for the reasons we haven't drafted a DE, is the reason you got the response you did. 

I always want a good pass rusher. 

I can't even remember the last draft that was decent in 43 pass rushers, where we were in position to grab one.