CMC extension was a great move

[*FreeFua*]

10 highest RB CAP hits last season.

Don’t think anything more needs to be said.

[PandaMan]

4 minutes ago, *FreeFua* said:

10 highest RB CAP hits last season.

Don’t think anything more needs to be said.

I understand the point, but I think CMC is more important to his team than all those guys.  I’m probably coming off as a CMC nut hugger.  He’s just that fuging good though.  If he can stay healthy, he’s a monster

[uncfan888]

4 hours ago, *FreeFua* said:

Gee maybe our horrific 5-11 record had something to do with it

Hang on.. So you're telling me the guy we just extended put up a historic year and we still only won 5 games? 

People on here are acting like this extension is going to win us a super bowl haha

[uncfan888]

1 hour ago, steven8989 said:

Linville what u got to say about this?

He didn't even say anything bad. You just take offense to it cuz you know you're one of the people he's referring to

[mrcompletely11]

7 hours ago, *FreeFua* said:

10 highest RB CAP hits last season.

Don’t think anything more needs to be said.

Oof that is brutal.  Hurney never learns

 

[mrcompletely11]

7 hours ago, uncfan888 said:

Hang on.. So you're telling me the guy we just extended put up a historic year and we still only won 5 games? 

People on here are acting like this extension is going to win us a super bowl haha

He had 2 years left with a potential franchise tag year, we win 5 games and we force fed him the ball to get the record and now we are paying for that.  Godalmighty Panthers you just cannot make this poo up.

[Harbingers]

8 hours ago, AggieLean said:

Second comment: I can respect that, and even though I don’t like the fact we gave him the contract, we are all entitled to our opinions. While I won’t argue his stats (he’s been a beast the past 2 years), I will say I’m just not comfortable with giving a RB huge contracts (based off what we’ve seen in the past). 

Im fine with the contract, even the number. If it was next year or two year down the road.

The two biggest things that stand out to me are timing, there is no way CMC would have held out this year. All i can surmise is his camp spread that as a rumor with some trade strings attached to scare Hurney and Hurney fell for it. I mean it’s quite possible in my mind his camp was just straight up floating the demand of a trade.

Secondly, this is just another marker to show Hurney hasn’t changed one bit. Always overpaying the fug out of running backs. 

[NAS]

Of course it was a great move.  We paid for two of our leading positions for the price of one.  He is also the face of our franchise and our best weapon on the team.  Only stupid people can look at CMC as just another running back.  

And  while CMC is a workhorse and leaves it all out on the field he is also a smart businessman. He would have held out from camp to protect his investments, just like he didn't play in the last bowl with Stanford and refused to do private workouts during the pre-draft process. 

His agent is also Khalil Mack's agent who would have jumped at the opportunity to take him to another team.

[Icege]

ITT people imply that because it is a passing league, a WR that gets less than 10 targets a game should be paid more than an RB that averages 15 carries and 8 targets a game simply due to position designation

It is shocking how dedicated some of y'all are to bad takes.

[mrcompletely11]

1 minute ago, NAS said:

Of course it was a great move.  We paid for two of our leading positions for the price of one.  He is also the face of our franchise and our best weapon on the team.  Only stupid people can look at CMC as just another running back.  

Nobody is saying that.  What we are saying is that the way the CBA was set up it favored the Panthers.  This was completely unnecessary.  The rookie deal was accepted by the players union so tough poo for Cmac.  we should have leaned into the advantage of having him on a rookie deal and build the team around that.  Not prematurely making him the freaking highest paid running back ever 2-3 years before it was needed.

[NAS]

Just now, mrcompletely11 said:

Nobody is saying that.  What we are saying is that the way the CBA was set up it favored the Panthers.  This was completely unnecessary.  The rookie deal was accepted by the players union so tough poo for Cmac.  we should have leaned into the advantage of having him on a rookie deal and build the team around that.  Not prematurely making him the freaking highest paid running back ever 2-3 years before it was needed.

Except I am convinced that CMC wouldn't have participated in the virtual off-season activities, maybe even the camp. It would have set the wrong signal to him and the rest of the players about the new regime not rewarding its best players.  Do you really expect CMC to touch  the ball again 400 times without a new deal?  He would have forced a trade just like Khalil Mack to protect his investment.

[mrcompletely11]

1 minute ago, NAS said:

Except I am convinced that CMC wouldn't have participated in the virtual off-season activities, maybe even the camp. It would have set the wrong signal to him and the rest of the players about the new regime not rewarding its best players.  Do you really expect CMC to touch  the ball again 400 times without a new deal?  He would have forced a trade just like Khalil Mack to protect his investment.

So effing what?  Let him sit.  The rookie deal favors the team heavily.  We squandered that 2-3 years prematurely.  You simply cannot argue that.  And we did it because hurney blinked and thought cmac would hold out. 

[chknwing]

 

[Panther'sBigD]

9 hours ago, AggieLean said:

First paragraph: I don’t want to discuss the past, so I’ll agree with your water under the bridge comment.

Second comment: I can respect that, and even though I don’t like the fact we gave him the contract, we are all entitled to our opinions. While I won’t argue his stats (he’s been a beast the past 2 years), I will say I’m just not comfortable with giving a RB huge contracts (based off what we’ve seen in the past). 

Marshall Faulk, the man himself, called McCaffrey, "a better version of me", referring to his football skills of course. He's not just a Swiss Army knife of a player, he's an elite Swiss Army knife, like Faulk was. You have to make moves to keep a guy like that. McCaffrey is obsessive about his training regimen, seems to be internally motivated and has a bland, uncontroversial persona outside of the lines. I think all of those things were attractive to this new regime, since they're looking to install their own culture, which let's be honest, will probably be a boring, corporate style culture, but one I can stomach if they start winning. The last regime squandered at least two once in a generation talents. Here's hoping the new regime learns from the old one's mistakes.