Deangelo Williams Restructures Contract

[thefuzz]

Hey JStew, you see what DWill just did?

Get in line behind DWill and restructure.

Oh, and DWill may kick your ass on the field this season.

He already has at the bargaining table.

Step it up.

 

 

I think that he just did a restructure on his.

 

That said, thank goodness this happened.  I hope that we can do something with Beason's deal, but something tells me it's not going to happen.

[Snake]

I feel that Gettle uses rookies as leverage. Beason will be the next to be asked to restructure. If not there us a LB waiting to take his place next year.

[Taro ∆]

Wow Dwill just made my day. I love him even more now.

[CRA]

I knew DeAngelo would do it, such a great guy.

Doubtful this has anything to do with him being a great guy....that is all smoke and mirrors. This is business

[Thorrez]

Let's break it down:

If he is cut/traded

2013: $14M

2014: $10M

2015: $6M

Pay:

2013: Same

2014: Pay cut

2015: Pay cut

So basically deangelo just made himself an career panther!

What is in it for him? He makes more money than if cut and signed elsewhere and becomes almost untradable while helping his team.

Win win

[Jakob]

Doubtful this has anything to do with him being a great guy....that is all smoke and mirrors. This is business

I'm not saying he is a great guy for restructuring, he is just a really great guy.

[CRA]

Why????? everybody keep saying loaded backfield, we need 4 running backs that can play, look at the saints they got a loaded backfield and plus 1 of dese running backs going be in the return game and catching it out of da backfield.

Saints didnt pay 2 like featured RBs.

[French Navy]

I'm not saying he is a great guy for restructuring, he is just a really great guy.

 

His facebook is awesome. 

 

Half the time it's just him and his cute daughter, but he also posts some funny stuff. I swear I saw pictures of him driving ATVs with a bunch of rednecks last week.

[CatMan72]

Awesome, thank you DeAngelo and Gettleman - this puts us in a position to try to extend Hardy now, before the price goes up. 

[CatMan72]

His facebook is awesome. 

 

Half the time it's just him and his cute daughter, but he also posts some funny stuff. I swear I saw pictures of him driving ATVs with a bunch of rednecks last week.

 

You did, DeAngelo is a self-professed redneck... he bought his daughter a duck call and was showing her how to use it, LOL

[bleys]

good point and good strategy if that is what we were doing.

 

barner and klein make williams and beason expendable. that's not to say they are as good or better, but both are and will be solid players who would be able to get the job done....and save us money to improve other areas.

 

i expect beason's contract to be re-done soon. 

 

at this point I'm pretty curious why he hasn't been restructured, or won't sometime in the near future..  quite the cap hit over the years for a guy who hasn't made it onto the field.  He has examples all around him of guys helping the team out.  If anyone, Beason should be next..  However, his may require an entire renegotiation at this point.

[Cary Kollins]

When Beason restructures Zod should change the gray borders to a rainbow/unicorn theme.

[Marguide]

Somewhere in this thread it was questioned why DWill would make concessions when he could just stay home and collect a check for doing nothing. That is incorrect. Dwill would have been due nothing had we cut him, and he likely would have been disappointed in potential offers from other teams. So the Panthers had all the leverage and DWill did the smart thing.

I'm glad he's still a Panther and very happy he and Gettleman got it done.

[PantherPhann89]

I gotta say that I was and still is kinda expecting a cut at the) RB position. So we've got D Will, J Stew and the Rook from Oregon, along with Poole and Smith pulling up the rear. This has to be the best RB backfield in the league...