The Athletic reports that Marty Hurney will stay on as GM, and is negotiating contracts for Bradberry and Boston

[kungfoodude]

2 minutes ago, Smithers said:

The guaranteed money in Thompson’s contract isn’t bad at all.  Besides, the market will show that his contract was actually pretty good.  

I hope you are right. I am just not sure I buy into having $25-30 mil/year tied up in two LB's is where I am not quite on board. 

[therealmjl]

Just now, Ncpantherfan71 said:

Marty is still here because he is going to be the person to implement his vision.  Who to draft, who to activate on game day and what the coaches do.  That way he can meddle and run the team without being the face of the failure.

and this is precisely why tepper is an garbage owner

[BurnHurnBurn]

[ellis]

Marty had a first round grade on Will Grier. He had him rated higher than Kyler Murray. 

[Smithers]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Do you understand what happened? He wasn't a free agent. He was under contract. A contract inked by Gettleman. Hurney took that contract and converted base salary to bonus creating more guaranteed money in the deal and greatly reducing our cap flexibility to create additional cap space immediately. This is a big part of how he created such a cap mess in his first tenure.

I do.  A lot of players get new deals prior to becoming free agents.  That’s the NFL.

[332nd]

" For the 7th pick of the Draft, the Carolina Panthers select... Dylan Moses, LB, Alabama."

[Waldo]

2 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

Is it time to officially start calling Tepper JR 2.0?

That would be after a new contract for Hurney. 

[Toomers]

1 minute ago, Smithers said:

If that’s the case than we overpaid for Luke as well.  The entire defense was bad this season.  Shaq did his part and played hard.  He was 100 times better than Eric Reid, who some people think should be making double what he is.

Who are these people that think Reid should be making double? 

[Harbingers]

1 minute ago, ellis said:

Marty had a first round grade on Will Grier. He had him rated higher than Kyler Murray. 

From the guy who drafted Jimmy Clausen? No way. 

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, Smithers said:

I do.  A lot of players get new deals prior to becoming free agents.  That’s the NFL.

What are you taking about? He was and isn't scheduled to enter free agency until after the 2021 season. 

[Smithers]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

What are you taking about? He was and isn't scheduled to enter free agency until after the 2021 season. 

Marty’s move simply created cap space that can be rolled into next year.  Short wasn’t going anywhere.  The restructure simply allowed us a little more room to sign priority free agents.  

[Smithers]

4 minutes ago, Toomers said:

Who are these people that think Reid should be making double? 

Unfortunately they are out there.  He’s got plenty of nut huggers on this board.

[scpanther22]

55 minutes ago, Ship said:

Question: if Hurney wasn’t involved in the coach search, who else would be?? Tepper and who other football people? Of course Hurney is involved. But make no mistake this is Tepper’s final decision.

some owners hire outside committees to give them a list of potential candidates and go from there

[bobowilson]

8 minutes ago, ellis said:

Marty had a first round grade on Will Grier. He had him rated higher than Kyler Murray. 

This is one of those really silly things I keep hearing repeated, that you should know better than.

Literally after every draft, teams put out spin on all of their picks and say they were 'highest on the board', 'we had a first ground on him';  it's typical GM speak, and fans of 31 other franchises know to not take it seriously.  I can find you dozens of quotes from every draft where some executive talks about how some mid round pick was their favorite guy all along.

But Panthers fans have such an irrational animosity towards Hurney, they actually take these things literally.   If Hurney actually had Grier rated above Murray, he would have traded back into the 1st round to select him, or taken him in the 2nd.  He's never been one to gamble on waiting patiently for a prospect to fall into his lap.

People lose all sense of logic and objectivity when discussing Hurney.  Not only must Hurney be criticized for poor moves he made, they must also invent fictional moves or motives to justify their hatred.