Breaking, Ian Rapoport: Fitterer Fired

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, razorwolf said:

@Keep_Pounding

@Panthers

IMO I would hire #BrandtTilis from

@Chiefs

to become Team President or VP-Football Administration! Making #KristiColeman either CFO or VP-Football Adminstration; Let

@SamirTSuleiman

go; and leave #JeffBrown as VP-Football Operations!

If you're gonna steal somebody from the Chiefs, it should be Mike Borgonzi.

[45catfan]

6 minutes ago, razorwolf said:

@Keep_Pounding

@Panthers

IMO I would hire #BrandtTilis from

@Chiefs

to become Team President or VP-Football Administration! Making #KristiColeman either CFO or VP-Football Adminstration; Let

@SamirTSuleiman

go; and leave #JeffBrown as VP-Football Operations!

Suleiman is our cap guy, correct?  Our cap space is the one of the ONLY bright spots on this team.

[fjblair]

Things will be different this time, etc. 

[WhoKnows]

12 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

Suleiman is our cap guy, correct?  Our cap space is the one of the ONLY bright spots on this team.

It really isn’t. We’ve paid out way too much for mediocre results. Our 2024 cap according to Spotrac is $40M and that doesn’t include Burns and a full roster. If we tag Burns and say sign Higgins, we are done unless we start eating into 2025. Bumping up against the cap in 2023 and 2024 is sad when you have a rookie QB contract and you win 2-5 games per year. Remember at the beginning of the 2023 offseason when our 2024 cap was lauded for have over $100M in cap (like 2025 now)? Well, that’s because we didn’t even have a full team and now we are one tag and one WR FA signing away from having to restructure deals for a 2-15 team.

[rayzor]

4 minutes ago, fjblair said:

Things will be different this time, etc. 

[45catfan]

Just now, WhoKnows said:

It really isn’t. We’ve paid out way too much for mediocre results. Our 2024 cap according to Spotrac is $40M and that doesn’t include Burns and a full roster. If we tag Burns and say sign Higgins, we are done unless we start eating into 2025. Bumping up against the cap in 2023 and 2024 is sad when you have a rookie QB contract and you win 2-5 games per year. Remember at the beginning of the 2023 offseason when our 2024 cap was lauded for have over $100M in cap (like 2025 now)? Well, that’s because we didn’t even have a full team and now we are one tag and one WR FA signing away from having to restructure deals for a 2-15 team.

That's on the GM mainly.  The GM acquires the players and the cap guy has to make the numbers work.

The next 3 years, in order, we are 13th, 8th and 1st in cap room as it stands today.  Not bad at all.  Obviously you don't remember the Hurney days when we were always at the bottom in cap space with crazy generous contracts.

[ChibCU]

4 hours ago, TheBigKat said:

for once we get a coach / GM combo coming in at the same time

Looks like we go after Bill Belichick and give him full GM control!!!!

/s

[WhoKnows]

7 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

That's on the GM mainly.  The GM acquires the players and the cap guy has to make the numbers work.

The next 3 years, in order, we are 13th, 8th and 1st in cap room as it stands today.  Not bad at all.  Obviously you don't remember the Hurney days when we were always at the bottom in cap space with crazy generous contracts.

Our numbers look good with rookie QB contract and let’s be honest, the worst roster in the NFL. Our top 11 (stretched to 11 because of who 11 is) cap hits right now in 2024 are Moron, Donte, Brown, Bell, Corbett, Hurst, Thielen, Young, Tuttle, Woods and Sanders. When that’s your top 11, you shouldn’t be 13th in cap space, you should be 1st.

Also, LOL at us being 1st in 2026. We have Young, Sanders, Mingo, DJ Johnson, Zavala and Robinson under contract. We literally have 6 guys under contract in 2026 and I wouldn’t be shocked if none of them are starters and half of them aren’t even on the team. Easy to be #1 in cap space in 2026 when you literally don’t have a real starter signed past 2025.

[scpanther22]

30 minutes ago, fjblair said:

Things will be different this time, etc. 

words that almost never precede something good lol

[Mike in Raleigh]

[45catfan]

9 minutes ago, WhoKnows said:

Our numbers look good with rookie QB contract and let’s be honest, the worst roster in the NFL. Our top 11 (stretched to 11 because of who 11 is) cap hits right now in 2024 are Moron, Donte, Brown, Bell, Corbett, Hurst, Thielen, Young, Tuttle, Woods and Sanders. When that’s your top 11, you shouldn’t be 13th in cap space, you should be 1st.

Also, LOL at us being 1st in 2026. We have Young, Sanders, Mingo, DJ Johnson, Zavala and Robinson under contract. We literally have 6 guys under contract in 2026 and I wouldn’t be shocked if none of them are starters and half of them aren’t even on the team. Easy to be #1 in cap space in 2026 when you literally don’t have a real starter signed past 2025.

You don't understand how this works and it shows.  NO TEAM has a full roster signed next year at this point, or the year after or the year after that.  Yes, we have dead money on the books, but so DOES EVERY OTHER TEAM. The 2024 roster is what it is at the top and again, other teams have under-performing players on the books too. 

Let me spell this out to you, good teams are generally cap poor because they have top players to pay.  Should be we higher? Somewhat, but just because we are a 2 win team doesn't mean we should have the top cap space either.  it's not a direct correlation.

Edited January 8 by 45catfan

[Mr. Scot]

Klein chimes in...

Seems to be a theme 

[CPF4LIFE]

So basically Fitt was a yes man who had no confidence in his own decision making. Half the draft picks were made by tepper, former players, and coaches wives.

The amount time wasted building this team the last few years is just painful to think about.

[MHS831]

We seem to have a type.