***2014 Carolina Panthers offseason/draft/season thread***

[uscfreek88]

Originally Posted by GoldenSpur7

Quarles gets pushed around by Big OL's in the straight vertical run game. Not a big stuffer like Star. OTOH, I've often thought he has the speed/game to play DE.

i think he could grow in a very good 3-4 DE with his pass rushing skills

he just needs to get some of his weight into muscle but he will once he hits NFL training program

[uscfreek88]

btw this is a rando part of an espn insider story for the panthers.....maybe we are looking at Shaw as a late round pick

[Gamecocks321]

Some talk over on the Huddle about cutting Olsen. It would save the team 9 million. Sort of makes sense. Probably would have to draft a TE, either Lynch or the guy from Colorado St.

[cockinraleigh]

Originally Posted by Gamecocks321

Some talk over on the Huddle about cutting Olsen. It would save the team 9 million. Sort of makes sense. Probably would have to draft a TE, either Lynch or the guy from Colorado St.

I would understand the move but I wouldn't like it one bit.

[Cockypantherfan]

Originally Posted by cockinraleigh

I would understand the move but I wouldn't like it one bit.

And that's the problem with being a fan, we get too attached to players.

[usc90grad]

Originally Posted by Cockypantherfan

And that's the problem with being a fan, we get too attached to players.

I'm not attached to Olsen but Cam needs a TE...two IMO. Look what he did his first year with them.

[gamecockphan]

Originally Posted by usc90grad

I'm not attached to Olsen but Cam needs a TE...two IMO. Look what he did his first year with them.

Not attached either but wed need someone who could come in and produce from day 1. Our WR corp sucks and we need TE production.

[cockinraleigh]

Originally Posted by Cockypantherfan

And that's the problem with being a fan, we get too attached to players.

Unfortunately, Hurney left us in a position to where we have to make too many of these decisions. Olsen is a very productive TE that won't last a week before being picked up.

[Spurrier_Superior_One]

We can keep Olsen by giving him an extension moving that bigger money to the back end of the contract.

[uscfreek88]

Originally Posted by Cockypantherfan

And that's the problem with being a fan, we get too attached to players.

Don't think it's an attachment here.....Olsen is literally the only offensive threat we have besides cam, smith is solid but ain't smitty and the rest of the Wrs leave much to be desired

If we lose Olsen and don't get a replacement target for cam, we will have no shot


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[GoldenSpur7]

Man, first I heard about the Olsen thing. Agree we would have to have someone come in immediately, since he's our most important receiving threat, and it would be pretty risky (to say the least) to count on getting someone in the draft (unless planning to take one in R1, which doesn't make much sense, considering other needs). Like was mentioned, hopefully, he can restructure and backload the contract, if we're trying to free up $ for Hardy.

[Cockypantherfan]

I saw a mock draft today that has us taking Kelvin Benjamin... would be sweet!

[gamecockphan]

Cam not considering holdout to force new deal.....


http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...ntract-at-all/


What a selfish thug /sarcasm.

[GoldenSpur7]

http://blogs.charlotte.com/

The Carolina Panthers general manager reiterated Thursday that Hardy, who tied a team record with 15 sacks last season, is part of the Panthers puzzle that includes 21 unrestricted free agents.

“Well basically right now we’re talking to agents. He’s part of the puzzle. We’re cap-challenged,” said Gettleman when asked about the defensive end. “Last year we started we were quite a bit over. We had to do some maneuvering to get under before the first day of the league year. The progress we’ve made this year is we don’t have to do any of that. But that doesn’t mean we’re sitting here with $35 million under the cap. So if you always go for the immediate instant gratification, you’re going to get burned.”

Should the salary cap go up to its reported $130 million, the Panthers would have $19.6 million in cap space. The cap was expected to be $126.3 million, but recent projections have pushed that number to $130 million.

The instant gratification Gettleman is referring to is either signing Hardy to a significant long-term deal or using the franchise tag, which would be approximately $12.5 million—nearly two-thirds of the team’s available cap space.

Bolds: I think we're going to need Enron's CFO, to make those add up.

[Gamecocks321]

Originally Posted by Cockypantherfan

I saw a mock draft today that has us taking Kelvin Benjamin... would be sweet!

Wouldn't surprise me one bit. Gettleman has already said his main focus was to get Cam some weapons, but I still think we need to go OT with our first pick. WR's are deep in this year's draft, not OT's.

[Spurrier_Superior_One]

Originally Posted by Gamecocks321

Wouldn't surprise me one bit. Gettleman has already said his main focus was to get Cam some weapons, but I still think we need to go OT with our first pick. WR's are deep in this year's draft, not OT's.

Gman is going to draft BPA, I don't believe he ever drafted a OL in the first round. Look for WR or CB in the first.

[GoldenSpur7]

Originally Posted by Gamecocks321

Wouldn't surprise me one bit. Gettleman has already said his main focus was to get Cam some weapons, but I still think we need to go OT with our first pick. WR's are deep in this year's draft, not OT's.

Yeah, but that's what makes it less likely that one of the elite OT's get to us. It'll be best BPA, most likely from OT/WR/CB, and I agree it will prob be one of the latter 2.

[GoldenSpur7]

Oops, nm.

[gamecockphan]

Wonder how things shake out and who we get if they cut Smitty?

Any thoughts?

[Spurrier_Superior_One]

Originally Posted by gamecockphan

Wonder how things shake out and who we get if they cut Smitty?

Any thoughts?

Smitty isn't going anywhere, there is zero scenarios of this even remotely happening.