Carolina Panthers owner Richardson to PSL owners: I take full responsibility

[DaCityKats]

bullshit.

[SCP]

It's like when you're young and you and your brothers convince your youngest brother to do something stupid and that you'll be right behind him too and then he does the stupid thing and embarrasses himself and you just stand far behind him and point and laugh.

This is the analogy I have been searching for. Nail on the head IMO.

[chknwing]

I'm just waiting for him to change the team colors to Black and Yellow and rename it the Steelers II

[chknwing]

I actually hate this letter. I dont want an apology for the season. I want reassurance that JR knows what hes doing and that the sacrifice made this season will lead to a successful franchise later down the road. To apologize for a bad season shows that he expected the team to be good, in which case, my faith in JR's decision making is shattered.

[SorthNarolina]

Going forward, our plan of attack is to build through the draft while retaining our core players. We have one of the youngest teams in the League, and a number of those younger players have shown genuine promise in this otherwise disappointing season. We won't give up on them. We also have a solid nucleus of veterans that we will seek to keep intact.

Means, I'm not paying for high priced FA's.

He's going to shell out more money for our guys that are up than many teams did in this season once the new salary cap comes in.

Charles Johnson is the only DE that has shown something while brown/hardy we are waiting for the upside. He's going to get paid.

James Anderson is almost my favorite panther for the effort he has shown. He's gonna get paid.

Ryan Kalil was one of the best centers in the league and lately he's been playing like it again. He's going to be driving a solid gold bentley that runs on champagne and grey poupon.

Jon Beason will get a massive extension that probably will be close to 7 or 8 years.

Williams I think will get a fair but not huge deal because we simply can't commit all our resources at that position. We might give him a big bonus or pay him a lot in the year that stewart/goodson won't need extensions.

Dante Rosario is a solid contriubutor, he's up. Get a lil sumtin.

Jeff King is meh but he's be a nice 3rd option. He'll get paid a back ups salary if he stays.

Richard Marshall could get paid if he wants to stay but I don't think he deserves superstar money he might pull a Dunta Robinson and go to a team that is desperate for DBs.

JR seems too idealistic and a little sentimental towards hometown guys. Theoretically it works but we will probably have some screw ups. But if it works we could be a very good team. We've been very successful with the diamond in the rough type FA's.

He will spend money on the drafted guys though(with new CBA). I can promise that.

[Snake]

Watch next week you will receive a bill for playoff tickets.

[SorthNarolina]

Watch next week you will receive a bill for playoff tickets.

He's gonna play Yahtzee with Roger Goodell at the stadium and bill us for that too.

[panthers55]

I actually hate this letter. I dont want an apology for the season. I want reassurance that JR knows what hes doing and that the sacrifice made this season will lead to a successful franchise later down the road. To apologize for a bad season shows that he expected the team to be good, in which case, my faith in JR's decision making is shattered.

Exactly,

If a casual fan like me knew we were going to suck badly then he should have known the same. Seriously I think he thought we would win 6 or 7 games and thought that was enough. He knew we would be bad but not this bad. Given we had previous 7-9 seasons with veterans he thought he would be okay doing the same on the cheap. Like he said if we couldn't have back to back winning seasons he was going to blow it up. He just didn't know to what degree. If we were 4-8 at this point we would have never gotten the letter.

[Kevin Greene]

Bullshit

Give some money back if you mean it.

[Delhommey]

The most aggravating thing about Richardson is that he is the ONLY owner that has gone THIS cheap. We're not the only team facing a lockout, the other 31 teams are also and yet we're the only team with just 1 win and we're also dead last in payroll for our guys this season.

If other teams had drastically slashed payroll, cut all of their vets, signed no one new, refused to fire coaches, it would be easier to swallow. It's been very tough looking around the league and not seeing anyone else going as drastic as we are. It's like when you're young and you and your brothers convince your youngest brother to do something stupid and that you'll be right behind him too and then he does the stupid thing and embarrasses himself and you just stand far behind him and point and laugh.

I mean, can you imagine if somebody like Tampa cut most of its vets, didn't pick up any major free agents, went to the lowest cap number it could without being penalized and promoted its defensive line coach to HC to avoid paying a high price tag?

You don't see a team like Dallas using the uncapped year to absorb some of its bad bets on contracts while letting its offensive line and secondary wither away because they didn't want to bring on new free agents do you?

Oh. Wait. You mean I'm supposed to actually do 10 seconds of research before I post?

[Delhommey]

People who think they should get something back anytime the team does poorly (without, of course, offering to give more when they do well) are the same type of people that think their doing the waiter a favor by tipping 10%.

[Kevin Greene]

I mean, can you imagine if somebody like Tampa cut most of its vets, didn't pick up any major free agents, went to the lowest cap number it could without being penalized and promoted its defensive line coach to HC to avoid paying a high price tag?

You don't see a team like Dallas used the uncapped year to absorb some of its bad bets on contracts while letting its offensive line and secondary wither away because they didn't want to bring on new free agents do you?

Oh. Wait. You mean I'm supposed to actually do 10 seconds of research before I post?

I know, Tampa Bay is in 3rd place in the NFC South and hasn't beaten a decent team this year.

They've been creamed by Pittsburgh, Atlanta twice, New Orleans and Baltimore.

They've beaten Carolina twice, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Arizona and San Fransisco.

10 seconds of research is so overrated.

[Delhommey]

I know, Tampa Bay is in 3rd place in the NFC South and hasn't beaten a decent team this year.

They've been creamed by Pittsburgh, Atlanta twice, New Orleans and Baltimore.

They've beaten Carolina twice, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Arizona and San Fransisco.

10 seconds of research is so overrated.

What does that have to do with anything?

[davos]

I mean, can you imagine if somebody like Tampa cut most of its vets, didn't pick up any major free agents, went to the lowest cap number it could without being penalized and promoted its defensive line coach to HC to avoid paying a high price tag?

You don't see a team like Dallas using the uncapped year to absorb some of its bad bets on contracts while letting its offensive line and secondary wither away because they didn't want to bring on new free agents do you?

Oh. Wait. You mean I'm supposed to actually do 10 seconds of research before I post?

Yeah those teams went cheap. We went cheaper.

I figured that out in 2 seconds