REPORT: Panthers and Brian Burns not at all close to extension

[WarPanthers89]

24 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

https://x.com/willkunkelfox/status/1699887364661985531?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA

This is going to stretch out longer than the Watson Saga from last offseason. 

[CanadianCat]

I find it funny how worked up people get when we have to resign our own superstars. 

[CanadianCat]

This place is going to be a mad house when we resign Young to a billion dollar contract in a few years. 

[Smithers]

24 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

Burns having all the leverage is exactly why he doesn't have a deal yet, because he's really holding out for absolute maximum top dollar.  If the team had even the slightest bit of leverage, they'd have been able to get him to come down on his demands a bit and the deal would be done.

Literally the only leverage the team has is that he's under contract this year and if he sits out, he losses about $1 million per game.  But even that is only minimal leverage as he knows how important he is to the team, we can't really afford to let him do that as it would significantly hurt out chances of winning games.

Once we turned down 2 first and it went public that we did so, we never had even an ounce of leverage in this negotiation.

Sure we do.  Tell him he can sit at home all year, not get paid, not accrue a season, and rinse and repeat next year if he’d like.  Leveon Bell that dude 

[tukafan21]

13 minutes ago, Smithers said:

Sure we do.  Tell him he can sit at home all year, not get paid, not accrue a season, and rinse and repeat next year if he’d like.  Leveon Bell that dude 

That's not leverage, it's cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Bell is the only player I think that has ever done that, every other player who has held out has shown up by week 12 or whatever they need to show up by to get their season counted and generally ends up with the player walking away in FA or being traded at some point, they don't usually do that and then sign a long term deal with the team.

Burns sitting out until then and showing up is literally the worst case scenario for us as it then can only play out one of two ways.  And both of them mean we don't have him for 10-12 games this year (I'm not sure what week they have to show up by to get the season towards FA) which only hurts the team as well.

1.  He completely balls out and because of that is able to get a contract above Bosa from either us or someone else (clearly worse than just re-signing him right now for $30 million a year)

2.  He struggles a bit from being away from the game for so long but someone still offers him a monster contract because of his potential and reason he struggled because of the holdout (and they would) and we lose him for nothing

The only way we're able to sign him next offseason for less than he wants right now is if he plays 17 games and really struggles while only putting up 4-5 sacks and that seems very unlikely.

We have zero leverage on this one, none, absolutely zilch.

Edited September 7, 2023 by tukafan21

[mrcompletely11]

17 minutes ago, Smithers said:

Sure we do.  Tell him he can sit at home all year, not get paid, not accrue a season, and rinse and repeat next year if he’d like.  Leveon Bell that dude 

thats not leverage

[thunderraiden]

1 hour ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

https://x.com/willkunkelfox/status/1699887364661985531?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA

To be fair, he doesn't live in Charlotte or cover the Panthers anymore.

[Smithers]

1 minute ago, mrcompletely11 said:

thats not leverage

So keeping his 16M, plus fining him 50K per day isn’t leverage?  

[ncfan]

[Jackie Lee]

 

[frankw]

19 minutes ago, Smithers said:

Sure we do.  Tell him he can sit at home all year, not get paid, not accrue a season, and rinse and repeat next year if he’d like.  Leveon Bell that dude 

Bell played what has now become an increasingly devalued position at running back. This is not that.

[tukafan21]

4 minutes ago, Smithers said:

So keeping his 16M, plus fining him 50K per day isn’t leverage?  

No, it's not, because it hurts the team more than Burns.

First, the 50k I'm pretty sure only applies to players holding out during camp and/or only vets on their 2nd or later contract, not players who are still on their rookie deals or during the regular season.

Second, the keeping of his 16M isn't a threat as he'd always show up in time to accrue the season, so he'll still end up with 4-6 of it in the end.  Plus, he's going to sign a monster deal by next offseason regardless, he's not concerned with losing 10ish million this year when he'll then sign a deal with about $100M guaranteed.

Again, we have no leverage whatsoever here.

Edited September 7, 2023 by tukafan21

[mrcompletely11]

7 minutes ago, Smithers said:

So keeping his 16M, plus fining him 50K per day isn’t leverage?  

creating a tire fire isnt leverage

[Panthercougar68]

10 minutes ago, Jackie Lee said:

 

Is anyone ever happy when negotiating about anything?