Dan Graziano: Panthers will be fairly aggressive in free-agency

[kungfoodude]

4 hours ago, GamecockSmitty4 said:

Agree with shrewd being key. And don’t disagree with the rest. But counterpoint…

if we drafted Hunt, Lewis, Williams, etc would it be an issue giving out these contracts to retain them?

As with anything, depends on price/production/market/etc.

If we were a competent franchise, we would probably have some options at OG, at least, because we did draft well.

That the very minimum, we likely wouldn't have two of of the highest paid OG's in the NFL. Only I think 4-5 teams in the NFL have two top 20 OG contracts on the roster like we do. One of the(Rams) just gave one of those guards the permission to seek a trade.

[panthers55]

42 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

As with anything, depends on price/production/market/etc.

If we were a competent franchise, we would probably have some options at OG, at least, because we did draft well.

That the very minimum, we likely wouldn't have two of of the highest paid OG's in the NFL. Only I think 4-5 teams in the NFL have two top 20 OG contracts on the roster like we do. One of the(Rams) just gave one of those guards the permission to seek a trade.

Every team is built differently. We have a cheap quarterback which saves us 30 million a year to spend elsewhere. We chose offensive line and went from bottom 10 to top 10 in one year. Good use of our money. If we bring on a stud DL in free agency with Brown back our D line instantly improves and run defense is a strength instead of a huge weakness.  Brandt has a plan to fit everything under the cap while getting rid of dead cap money like Moton's instead of kicking it down the road. I get you have been traumatized by past mistakes and that is understandable but I think we are in a better position this year than in the past. If he can do half of what KC has done while he was there we are clearly up and coming. You have to live in the present and move forward instead of living in the past which has been very rough on all of us. And bringing up past mistakes with a new regime is living in the past and not always germaine.