Panthers attempting to trade Steve Smith.

[XClown1986]

 

 

Bill Barnwell ‏@billbarnwell  6m

Panthers would lose $2 million of cap space by trading Smith, which makes the idea of a deal weird. http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/carolina-panthers/steve-smith/ …

 

 

This is true but it also gives us ~10 mil cap space next season. Gets us out of the hole quicker by taking the hit up front.

[Pox 08]

2005-2011 Smith is better than Nicks

[MadHatter]

A whole two mil saved by trading our #1 receiver... Brilliant

No...it would be a $2M hit...not savings.

[CarolinaNCSU]

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.

[TheRed]

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.

[Jackofalltrades]

This suggest even further we're trying to hardball him into a paycut.

That's my thinking.

[pantherclaw]

Sure seems like they are ready to move on from this being Smith's team.

I hate to see it, but it had to happen sooner or later.

I was hoping for later.

[Matthias]

We should have let Hardy walk.  We could have had more cap space to work with.  Hardy is great, but we really do have a dominant D-line even without him.

[XClown1986]

A whole two mil LOST by trading our #1 receiver... Brilliant

 

Fixed 

[L-TownCat]

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.

[MadHatter]

This is true but it also gives us ~10 mil cap space next season. Gets us out of the hole quicker by taking the hit up front.

 

Could be.  Run with stopgaps this year (like last) and set up next offseason to be the real improvement.

[wwgd]

King, McNutt, cheap FA, + a rookie or two. That corps of receivers is sure going to scare a lot of secondaries.

[AceBoogie]

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.

[Lemory]

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