A few answers from The Athletic's mailbag

[Soul Rebel]

If we re-sign DJax over Gilmore and let Reddick walk ..... woooooo, we are fugged. 

I wanted Gilmore > Jackson, but truthfully, Gilmore is a luxury that we shouldn't pay for. Adding at least one premier OL in FA and re-signing DJ & Reddick makes way more sense than a soon-to-be 32-year old CB. Love Gilly, but we could be swimming in top-5 draft status next year...doesn't seem fiscally responsible. 

Horn/Bouye/Taylor/Henderson is solid enough to kick the tires on for a year. 

[jayboogieman]

1 minute ago, The Lobo said:

Wow, letting Rhule call the shots by himself for an OC and probably won’t re sign reddick, not looking good. How can you tell us you are serious about winning? 

Owners, players, coaches, or GMs always talk about winning in the public and should be expected. Doesn't mean they mean it though.

[jayboogieman]

2 hours ago, rippadonn said:

Yeah, um, time to really get into those Hornets.

These destructive know it all's have captured my Panthers and are determined to make them the Jets. No thanks. 

Most of us legacy huddlers are as die hard as you can get but these jackasses are killing our franchise and fandom.

F' these dummies.

GO HORNETS!

Blasted banwagon fans.  Find another team train to jump on. 

 

Just kidding.  The Hornets are a very fun team to watch most of the time.

[Mr. Scot]

16 minutes ago, Soul Rebel said:

If we re-sign DJax over Gilmore and let Reddick walk ..... woooooo, we are fugged. 

I wanted Gilmore > Jackson, but truthfully, Gilmore is a luxury that we shouldn't pay for. Adding at least one premier OL in FA and re-signing DJ & Reddick makes way more sense than a soon-to-be 32-year old CB. Love Gilly, but we could be swimming in top-5 draft status next year...doesn't seem fiscally responsible. 

Horn/Bouye/Taylor/Henderson is solid enough to kick the tires on for a year. 

Rhule is said to be a big Donte Jackson fan.

[BurnNChinn]

1 hour ago, t96 said:

He'll likely be cheaper and he's a lot younger so it actually does make sense. I'd honestly actually lean towards letting both walk for various reasons though. We still have a lot of talent at CB and could better spend that money elsewhere and take the comp picks.

It doesn’t make Jackson is pure garbage, I’m not giving that guy a huge 4 year deal lol.

[Chaos]

I couldn't be more disinterested in the Panthers than I am right now.  I log into this site everyday almost automatically just to see if Rhule is gone or find out other nuggets of sorrow to wallow in.  Misery loves company.

[Smithers]

I feel like Joe is wrong on a lot of this.

1. Gilmore will likely be retained and Jackson walks.  Gilmore will be fine with a 2-3 year deal and can mentor Horn and Henderson.  Jackson will want a 4-5 year deal and someone will overpay for him.

2. Reddick will re-sign.  No way Rhule let’s a Temple guy walk, especially when Reddick said he wants to be here.

3. cap space - not as big a deal as Joe makes it seem.  We have an insane amount of cap room next year.  Contracts will simply be backloaded to allow us to spend at will this off-season.  Look for us to go after OL and MLB aggressively.  

[tiger7_88]

LOL at the dopes that still believe that this next season will be in some sort of "vacuum" where Rhule is not allowed to have any control over the team, so the Panthers should just "keep Rhule for another year to set things up for the next coach".

Self-delusion is skrong in this here forum.

[jayboogieman]

43 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Rhule is said to be a big Donte Jackson fan.

I'm not surprised.

[tiger7_88]

2 hours ago, top dawg said:

We are behind schedule due to two wasted years in the Rhule era. The reset should've happened when they overpaid for Teddy.

Disagree.

The reset should have happened the first day Tepper walked into the owner's office as the new owner.  He should have had pink slips waiting on Rivera and his staff as well as Marty Hurney.

THEN he should have done his utmost to hire an experienced GM (or a start assistant GM ready to move up) and allow that GM to hire a coach and start building the team.

Instead of getting a new set of tires on the Panther's automobile, however, all Tepper has done for years now is invest in patches and replacing individual tires as they blew.  So right now, the Panthers organization is *severely* out of balance and alignment.

[mrcompletely11]

1 minute ago, tiger7_88 said:

Disagree.

The reset should have happened the first day Tepper walked into the owner's office as the new owner.  He should have had pink slips waiting on Rivera and his staff as well as Marty Hurney.

THEN he should have done his utmost to hire an experienced GM (or a start assistant GM ready to move up) and allow that GM to hire a coach and start building the team.

Instead of getting a new set of tires on the Panther's automobile, however, all Tepper has done for years now is invest in patches and replacing individual tires as they blew.  So right now, the Panthers organization is *severely* out of balance and alignment.

He said he couldn’t do that.  The business side was in such disarray that he had to focus on that first.  Would have been tough to do it all and run his business.   

[Khyber53]

2 hours ago, Verge said:

Signing Donte over Gilmore would make literally no sense.

I am willing to bet there are teams out there willing to overpay for each of them.

There's every chance we move on to Horn and Henderson and save some serious money.

Both Jackson and Gilmore looked great to the folks watching our games. Folks who saw other teams saw some pretty good/decent guys. Not world beaters. Still, someone is going to be willing to pony up massive amounts of money for each one in turn. And they might find themselves with two Josh Normans.

[hepcat]

Nothing novel in this article 

[mrcompletely11]

1 minute ago, Khyber53 said:

I am willing to bet there are teams out there willing to overpay for each of them.

There's every chance we move on to Horn and Henderson and save some serious money.

Both Jackson and Gilmore looked great to the folks watching our games. Folks who saw other teams saw some pretty good/decent guys. Not world beaters. Still, someone is going to be willing to pony up massive amounts of money for each one in turn. And they might find themselves with two Josh Normans.

With our luck Jackson is going to be bradbery 2.0