Gettleman is getting absolutely destroyed by national media... STILL

[TheRed]

Look man. I like Brad Hoover, but he wasn't even in the same stratosphere as a player like Steve Smith. Who's gonna flip out over cutting a fullback? 

I'm not even gonna go down the comparing failures rabbit hole anymore. There are no draft picks or acquisitions from 2010 affecting the Panthers roster for 2019. It has no relevance.

Gettleman's name is still relevant here because Matt Kalil's dead cap hit around our neck and the failure of a number of his 1st and 2nd not so long ago draft picks are affecting our abilities to field an effective roster this season. I don't think that's unreasonable, it goes with the territory of being an executive.

I won't argue at all that Greg Olsen needs to make a long term decision this season, and be done with it once and for all. He's an intelligent charismatic guy, he has a number of quality options post football. But you can only delay the inevitable for so long.

[MasterAwesome]

44 minutes ago, Icege said:

All of it is relevant to the topic you are discussing because you are asking "Why couldn't we just make salary cap room like the Saints do?" That question cannot be answered without looking at available cap space as well as future contract values. It's literally what got Hurney fired, because he fuged up the wiring in the metaphorical house you mentioned due to awful contracts and pushing the buck upon future Panthers squads. Gettleman spent almost his entire time getting the team's salary cap back in order, hence the bargain basement free agents.

Was starting two terrible OTs bad for Cam? Yea. Was that the plan? No. Gross leaving suddenly caused Bell to slide over to LT and Chandler, who had just converted from DT, converted over to RT, started because Garry Williams also broke his ankle. Chandler ended up being IR'd for the last 7 games and Mike Remmers took over at RT. Remmers, while not great and got destroyed by Von Miller, also started the entire season on the right side when we went 15-1 so he had to be at the very least a decent stop-gap.

Looking at the market place for OTs and taking into account the availability and prices, what you are adamant about being possible simply wasn't.

It’s really not relevant...again, my question was: given the circumstances at the time (i.e. us being cash-strapped with little to no cap space), would it not have been better/more responsible to restructure contracts to clear up cap space so we could sign some NFL-caliber offensive tackles to protect Cam? How is diving into the history behind why we were cash-strapped relevant in answering that? My question already incorporates the reality that we had no money. Obviously we didn’t have cap space, which is why I’m talking about restructuring contracts and kicking the can down the road. Saying we had $100M tied up in 19 players in 2015 indicates to me that we had several contracts with the potential for restructuring to clear up space in the short-term.

Also, why do you keep mentioning Gross retiring? I don’t know if your timeline is off since you seem to be implying that Gross’s retirement blindsided us and impacted our ability to sign an OT, when he retired before Free Agency even started...therefore we knew his position needed to be filled back when all FA OTs were available. We just chose to fill his position with Byron “left-handed” Bell and then fill Bell’s position with Nate “where the hell do we play this guy” Chandler. Garry Williams was injured, but let’s not pretend like he would have been some significant upgrade from Chandler...he was a career journeyman who was in competition with Chandler for that RT spot before getting injured.

You even mentioned yourself 2 of the available OTs at the time (Oher and Penn) but then say we “couldn’t afford” them...which had me scratching my head and thinking you’re not understanding my question. Are you arguing that it was legitimately impossible to restructure any contracts and clear any cap space?

[SmokinwithWilly]

None of us expected 2015. Cam needed tackles to protect but lets not forget a big part of this was Shula and RR. Part of an OCs job is to hide the weaknesses of your players. Shula's blocking schemes were ridiculously complex, and he would never change a game plan no matter how bad the Oline was performing. Denver's D laughing at Shula's ineptitude after the SB still rings in my head. He was RR's OC, and RR should have been on his ass for not doing his job. Gettleman was by no means the savior GM of this franchise, but he tried to correct the catastrophic mistakes with the cap that Hurney had made and part of that requires sucking it up and having to take what you have in front of you and not kick the can down the road any further. 

I'm not defending Gettleman, he was in a shitty situation and tried to make something out of chicken poo. He made colossal mistakes in the draft (Butler, Shaq, Funchess, KB looked good until the injury) and he did some really good things to. The Kalil contract is the albatross of his time here. The man had his flaws as GM and had his strengths. So does Hurney. If he builds a winner in NY then all of the offseason craziness will be forgotten. Winning tends to do that. 

[Icege]

4 hours ago, MasterAwesome said:

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Because if we do not understand history then folks are doomed to repeat its failures in the future. By understanding the contracts that had been signed and how they affect future cap situations (ie: $100M+ locked up in 19 players going into one season, only having $15M going into the next one) we can better understand the available options to the team. You also have to look at the OTs that were available then and the contracts they ultimately signed. When you look at all of that, then the question of "Shouldnt we have kicked the can down the road and signed two OTs for the sake of Cam's career?" isn't even a question because you see that just wasnt in the cards, no matter how much one might wax poetic on it later.

Gross' retirement is being mentioned because while it did occur before the start of free agency it also did not seem to be expected. Looking at his contract, aside from the added years to push a couple mil down the line (that whole can kicking business), he still had another year where he was getting paid to play. The team only had $15M in cap space, and if they had any idea it was Gross' last season then we might have seen more than David Foucault and Bruce Campbell being brought in. Break the bank on two OTs passed their 30s and then have nothing to show for it later? Or hold fast after warning everybody that this was a multi-year plan that we were only in year 2 of so that we then go 15-1 and to the Super Bowl in year 3.

Garry Williams was slated to be the starting RT before the ankle break and wasnt converting from DT. Let's not be foolish and act like he wouldn't have been an upgrade over Chandler.

You're scratching your head because you dont understand how the team's salary cap for the following season was already in dire straits due to those previously mentioned poor contracts. I addressed this in the first paragraph regarding understanding the history behind the contracts that were signed so that the team could see where its resources were allocated in the future.

At this point I'm just repeating myself. It's one of the primary reasons why topics like these never go anywhere and I opt to just not participate, because there is no point in having a discussion when facts are refuted in favor of beliefs.

It is hard for me to avoid that pity pie tho, especially when it makes some antagonistic (albeit well-meaning) folks salty af that they arent able to gaslight via politics and instead have to stick to the discussion at hand. :P

[frash.exe]

5 hours ago, TheRed said:

Look man. I like Brad Hoover, but he wasn't even in the same stratosphere as a player like Steve Smith. Who's gonna flip out over cutting a fullback? 

I'm not even gonna go down the comparing failures rabbit hole anymore. There are no draft picks or acquisitions from 2010 affecting the Panthers roster for 2019. It has no relevance.

Gettleman's name is still relevant here because Matt Kalil's dead cap hit around our neck and the failure of a number of his 1st and 2nd not so long ago draft picks are affecting our abilities to field an effective roster this season. I don't think that's unreasonable, it goes with the territory of being an executive.

I won't argue at all that Greg Olsen needs to make a long term decision this season, and be done with it once and for all. He's an intelligent charismatic guy, he has a number of quality options post football. But you can only delay the inevitable for so long.

hoover may not have played a glorious skill position, he may not have HOF stats, but he spent his entire career in charlotte and was always active in the local community as an athlete. he was so well liked to the point that whenever he got a handoff, the whole stadium would erupt by cheering hoov. they knew it was his time to shine.

and anyway he’s still a former player of ours. so as a career panther, is he not worthy of a respectful send off? i thought the point everybody was making was that we wanted players in general treated right, not just the huddle darlings.

and it’s funny how you point out the matt kalil contract as this huge hurdle that’s the only reason the team is 7-9, but gettleman spent most of his run dealing with dead money from all the contracts hurney drew up that were killing us... while the team was making the playoffs and blowing the cardinals out. even so, i don’t remember talking about marty hurney on a daily basis after 2012 like some ppl do about gettleman here. the cap situation was way worse in 2013-2015. we were like projected up to 15 mil over before any transactions were made in 2013. 

[Icege]

8 hours ago, frash.exe said:

hoover may not have played a glorious skill position, he may not have HOF stats, but he spent his entire career in charlotte and was always active in the local community as an athlete. he was so well liked to the point that whenever he got a handoff, the whole stadium would erupt by cheering hoov. they knew it was his time to shine.

and anyway he’s still a former player of ours. so as a career panther, is he not worthy of a respectful send off? i thought the point everybody was making was that we wanted players in general treated right, not just the huddle darlings.

and it’s funny how you point out the matt kalil contract as this huge hurdle that’s the only reason the team is 7-9, but gettleman spent most of his run dealing with dead money from all the contracts hurney drew up that were killing us... while the team was making the playoffs and blowing the cardinals out. even so, i don’t remember talking about marty hurney on a daily basis after 2012 like some ppl do about gettleman here. the cap situation was way worse in 2013-2015. we were like projected up to 15 mil over before any transactions were made in 2013. 

In fairness, up until 2016 Gettleman was widely supported while Hurney was dinged for being so irresponsible with the team's future because going into every offseason from 2012 - 2016 we never seemed to have any cap space until those old Hurney contracts started coming off of the books.

Now, the people that didn't like Hurney as a person or the decisions that he made didn't go out of their way to create a new thread about him every month and then act as if those that held a different opinion were intellectually inferior and/or morally compromised based off some prior Tinderbox flame war. That's something exclusive to those that hate Gettleman and/or his decisions that try to pass it off as him being a bad GM. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[kungfoodude]

46 minutes ago, Icege said:

In fairness, up until 2016 Gettleman was widely supported while Hurney was dinged for being so irresponsible with the team's future because going into every offseason from 2012 - 2016 we never seemed to have any cap space until those old Hurney contracts started coming off of the books.

Now, the people that didn't like Hurney as a person or the decisions that he made didn't go out of their way to create a new thread about him every month and then act as if those that held a different opinion were intellectually inferior and/or morally compromised based off some prior Tinderbox flame war. That's something exclusive to those that hate Gettleman and/or his decisions that try to pass it off as him being a bad GM. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The only reason that didn't happen was because Hurney was not an active NFL GM. I am VERY sure that plenty of threads would have been created about his blunders had that indeed happened. There would be substantially fewer Gettleman threads had he been unemployed(which will likely be coming in the next 2-3 years) rather than with the Giants. 

I am pretty entertained by the arguments in general because the Gettleman and Hurney zealots both absolutely refuse to admit that neither of these guys is more than an average GM and likely below average. Or that both of them absolutely deserved to get fired. I just don't understand how these small groups simply refuse to see the obvious blunders and faults that both of these guys had.

[Car123]

9 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

The only reason that didn't happen was because Hurney was not an active NFL GM. I am VERY sure that plenty of threads would have been created about his blunders had that indeed happened. There would be substantially fewer Gettleman threads had he been unemployed(which will likely be coming in the next 2-3 years) rather than with the Giants. 

I am pretty entertained by the arguments in general because the Gettleman and Hurney zealots both absolutely refuse to admit that neither of these guys is more than an average GM and likely below average. Or that both of them absolutely deserved to get fired. I just don't understand how these small groups simply refuse to see the obvious blunders and faults that both of these guys had.

Literally no one says Hurney didn't deserve to get fired lol. No one claims that Hurney is some amazing GM either..  just that me and some others believe he's a better GM than Gettleman.

[kungfoodude]

4 minutes ago, Car123 said:

Literally no one says Hurney didn't deserve to get fired lol.

Lol....fair enough. I guess that is true. Even the most ardent of Hurney zealots can't say that.

[Icege]

13 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

The only reason that didn't happen was because Hurney was not an active NFL GM. I am VERY sure that plenty of threads would have been created about his blunders had that indeed happened. There would be substantially fewer Gettleman threads had he been unemployed(which will likely be coming in the next 2-3 years) rather than with the Giants. 

I am pretty entertained by the arguments in general because the Gettleman and Hurney zealots both absolutely refuse to admit that neither of these guys is more than an average GM and likely below average. Or that both of them absolutely deserved to get fired. I just don't understand how these small groups simply refuse to see the obvious blunders and faults that both of these guys had.

Very good point

[kungfoodude]

32 minutes ago, Icege said:

Very good point

Yeah, there is basically a dart board to throw butthurt darts at, in this case. Plus, who would want an ex-GM(that was fired) to be successful at another team in the same conference. fug that.

I am pumped he is deconstructing the Giants and likely dooming them to years of being atrocious. fug the damn Giants.

[frash.exe]

i’m rly not impressed by the argument that just bc he has a job means that everybody can just take unlimited shots every time the giants announce a draft pick or trade or free agent signing or <insert personnel transaction here> and don’t pretend that it’s justified just bc it’s a football discussion board bc it p much does nothing but foster a lower level of dialogue, and all you see is the same banal comments about “gettleman’s ego” and cheapness, and comeuppance. we don’t need to discuss every thing the giants do and how it’s going to be terrible just to make ourselves feel better while the offseason slowly melts away like a glacier before the 1900s.

i thought of it as an inkling but now i’m rly starting to see the clarity that it very likely is just a matter of a bunch of insecure posters periodically affirming that it was a good idea that we went back to the guy whose mess gettleman spent years cleaning up. don’t want any thought dispute going on up there in the old brain case i guess.

[bandu]

2 hours ago, frash.exe said:

i’m rly not impressed by the argument that just bc he has a job means that everybody can just take unlimited shots every time the giants announce a draft pick or trade or free agent signing or <insert personnel transaction here> and don’t pretend that it’s justified just bc it’s a football discussion board bc it p much does nothing but foster a lower level of dialogue, and all you see is the same banal comments about “gettleman’s ego” and cheapness, and comeuppance. we don’t need to discuss every thing the giants do and how it’s going to be terrible just to make ourselves feel better while the offseason slowly melts away like a glacier before the 1900s.

i thought of it as an inkling but now i’m rly starting to see the clarity that it very likely is just a matter of a bunch of insecure posters periodically affirming that it was a good idea that we went back to the guy whose mess gettleman spent years cleaning up. don’t want any thought dispute going on up there in the old brain case i guess.

meh...why don't you pull for the Giants since deep down inside you know & I know your an flaming egomaniac who would love nothing more than to see DG hoisting a Lombardi & saying ... look at me I I I told y'all so

[TheRed]

15 minutes ago, bandu said:

meh...why don't you pull for the Giants since deep down inside you know & I know your an flaming egomaniac who would love nothing more than to see DG hoisting a Lombardi & saying ... look at me I I I told y'all so