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Panthers attempting to trade Steve Smith.


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might be to show him how many teams are interested in him at that cap hit.

 

i dunno.

 

writing is on the wall tho.

 

tough choice and will be a very unpopular and uncomfortable one, but given our cap it might be the right one.

 

fortunately there are a lot of very good receivers available in the draft and FA. if you are going to completly rebuild your WR corps, this is as good of a year as you will ever find to do it.

 

This is what I tend to believe.

 

Either way, hard to bring back a guy, especially a Smitty, after you've actively tried trading him. Unless of course he agreed to this to gauge his market/options as well. Going to be interesting to watch play out.

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Not so sure about that....much younger.  Smith at 34 is slowing.  WR's usually go fast when they start to fade.

 

Again...not sure what their plan is.  But, Smith is not worth $7M per season and is not the future of this team.

 

Gett is trying to clean up the cap space and get this team ready to compete consistently in the future.  Hard decisions always come in that situation.

 

I agree that Smith should rework his deal, if we decide to keep him, but Nicks has some red flags. Would I like to have him? Sure, but he will not fill the leadership void that Steve Smith will leave here, not if he can't even make team meetings for the team that drafted him.

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What an absolute embarrassment. How do you treat a guy like that? You took away any good faith to negotiate when they put him on blast to the media then they unceremoniously attempt a trade or an out right cut?

This is unacceptable. For a guy that did so much for this franchise what an absolute poo way to send him off. We didn't even get to thank him for what he meant to the fans.

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Not so sure about that....much younger. Smith at 34 is slowing. WR's usually go fast when they start to fade.

Again...not sure what their plan is. But, Smith is not worth $7M per season and is not the future of this team.

Gett is trying to clean up the cap space and get this team ready to compete consistently in the future. Hard decisions always come in that situation.

And Greg Hardy isn't worth the 13 mil tag. The only difference is we have guys that can fill that spot.

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