Will our FAs want to be a part of JRs org?

[SCP]

It's a simple question though. Besides the ability to overpay like the other 31 teams have, what advantages do the Panthers have in signing potential free agents that most other teams don't have?

Panthro lives in Charlotte and we have a lot of trees.

Let the bidding begin.

[monstercat]

I hope you realize that probably half the players who are on the front lines of these negotiations won't even be in the league in 3-4 years, and the players who will be replacing them probably won't care about, or even remember this one single episode that may or may not have happened exactly the way Feeley or "unnamed sources" said it did. People are getting all worked up over nothing, IMO.

[SCP]

And as far as free agency? These negotiation tactics aside, the death nail for me if I was a free agent would have been that first press conference JR put out there. Good gawd almighty that was bad.

[Happy Panther]

And as far as free agency? These negotiation tactics aside, the death nail for me if I was a free agent would have been that first press conference JR put out there. Good gawd almighty that was bad.

Rawr lemme see your tittays!

Rawr here is a pie chart!

[Sam Mills Fan]

Oh okay. so you'd trust two guys not in the biz right now with plenty of reason to talk (gets you a bigger audience the more noise you make) over a guy who not only is still close friends with many guys on this team but has a good reason to be unhappy with the owner?

meh.

The players know this is business and not personal.

You don't think Moose still has friends on the team? Is 2009 really that long ago? And anyway, he's always been a Mike Rucker/Mike Minter Panther PR guy. Almost like Charlie Dayton in terms of not saying negative things about the front office, much less Jerry Richardson himself. It was striking to hear him even have the slightest bit of criticism towards Richardson.

[Mr. Scot]

All players care about is at the end of their career they want to have as many championship rings as possible and they will play for anyone that they think can make that happen.

The don't pick teams based on whether or not Sunday dinner with the owner will be fun.

Some of you guys really are naive...

oh and cash....

They are some greedy muthers.

Seriously.

[jtnc]

I'd take an offer somewhere else. JR is gonna scare a lot of people away.

[KillerKat]

As long as Oakland continues to sign free agents with Al Davis as their owner, JR will have ZERO effect on any free agent's decision to sign here.

[Snake]

Its widely known that Jerry takes care of his players. They only have to obey one rule... Dont fug with his pie!

[rico6]

As long as Oakland continues to sign free agents with Al Davis as their owner, JR will have ZERO effect on any free agent's decision to sign here.

Pretty much this.

JR might be a dick, but all the players see (especially these days) are the $$$ signs.

If players used moral choices in where they went during free agency, the League is a very boring place.

[csx]

When contract length and money are equal will our owners actions hurt us? If it does that means we will have to overpay.

Have you heard of a single Panther player, current or previous, say anything negative about Richardson? I cant think of any of them saying anything but positive things about him......ever.

[Punisher]

Ron Rivera will be a lot bigger factor in determining whether free agents sign here or not than Jerry Richardson.

Yeah, who wants to play for a head coach who hasn't proved sh1t.

[KillerKat]

Yeah, who wants to play for a head coach who hasn't proved sh1t.

Build a time machine and ask Drew Brees if that mattered to him with his decision to sign with the Saints.

[csx]

Build a time machine and ask Drew Brees if that mattered to him with his decision to sign with the Saints.

Exactly.......this place is full of the most pessimistic, gloom and doom bullsh1t I've ever seen.