Panthers re-sign Efe Obada - Eli Apple to IR

[TheSpecialJuan]

36 minutes ago, WarHeel said:

Love I love Lucy 

[Captroop]

I was much more bummed about the Efe waiver than I thought I would be, and consequently am over the moon right now. Really pulling for him. But he's really got to show out now, because he knows, and I'm sure everyone else knows, if we need to make a personnel move, he's the first to get the chop to make room.

[Moo Daeng]

14 hours ago, 07579394 said:

So Kenny Robinson is really done.

No. Hes on the practice squad.

[Anybodyhome]

16 hours ago, Moo Daeng said:

Injury certainly sheds light on the Apple situation. Lots of premature conclusions were being jumped to.  

He wasn't that good before the injury.

Wouldn't have taken long for him to earn the nickname "Apple Crisp."

[Moo Daeng]

19 minutes ago, Anybodyhome said:

He wasn't that good before the injury.

Wouldn't have taken long for him to earn the nickname "Apple Crisp."

Maybe, but again all the speculation was that he was not doing well here and would be inactive due to performance. That may be true but given the situation we don't know that. 

[run-run-pass-punt]

Love seeing a guy (Efe) that seems to take things in stride and is so at peace with the inevitable changes and bumps in the road. Easy to root for him.

[Harbingers]

What was the point of cutting him if they were just going to resign him? Did they change his contract or something?

[Basbear]

1 hour ago, Harbingers said:

What was the point of cutting him if they were just going to resign him? Did they change his contract or something?

It was a rules deal. You could not claim a player, then put a current player on IR. You had to put a claim in by 1pm and you could IR players after 4pm. You had to cut a player and they must have had Efa among least valuable on the team. 

[Harbingers]

20 minutes ago, Basbear said:

It was a rules deal. You could not claim a player, then put a current player on IR. You had to put a claim in by 1pm and you could IR players after 4pm. You had to cut a player and they must have had Efa among least valuable on the team. 

True but why not just IR the player in the first place(A day or two before) instead of playing musical chairs? 

[Basbear]

20 hours ago, 4Corners said:

On paper, a week before the regular season, we have the worst secondary in the NFL, the worst LB Corp in the NFL, and the worst TE group in the NFL. Probably in the convo for worst OL group in NFL as well. 

I agree with part of this. Safety is looking fine, so I can not state DBs are bottom NFL trash. OL I feel will be better than 2019 and overall better than many believe. TEs, CBs, and maybe LBs could be the worst groups tho, have to do some research on LBs to feel firm in that statement. TEs and CBs just need everything form talent, skills, and depth.....everything. 

[Basbear]

4 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

True but why not just IR the player in the first place(A day or two before) instead of playing musical chairs? 

Then the player could not come back during the season at all. New rules this year, any player can come back after three weeks on IR. In order you had to wait until 4pm Sunday, wavier claim had to be by 1pm. 

It was the main reason they had 7 WRs on the very first roster.

[Harbingers]

18 minutes ago, Basbear said:

Then the player could not come back during the season at all. New rules this year, any player can come back after three weeks on IR. In order you had to wait until 4pm Sunday, wavier claim had to be by 1pm. 

It was the main reason they had 7 WRs on the very first roster.

Gotcha. That makes sense.