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Re: Panthers Off Season Report
« Reply #1 on: Feb 23rd, 2006, 10:06pm » |
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on Feb 23rd, 2006, 9:32pm, BarnabyWilde wrote:
With all the running back talent out there, I am not sure I totally understand this. Foster will get average of top ten salaries OR 120% of his 2005 salary, which ever is greater. Ultimately, as the transition player, the Panthers have right of first refusal if another team comes a calling. BUT, with all the injuries he has had, I thought they would of gone another direction. Edge, Alexander, and so many other good backs are available.
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Re: Panthers Off Season Report
« Reply #2 on: Feb 23rd, 2006, 10:13pm » |
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on Feb 23rd, 2006, 10:06pm, DirkDiggler wrote:
With all the running back talent out there, I am not sure I totally understand this. Foster will get average of top ten salaries OR 120% of his 2005 salary, which ever is greater. Ultimately, as the transition player, the Panthers have right of first refusal if another team comes a calling. BUT, with all the injuries he has had, I thought they would of gone another direction. Edge, Alexander, and so many other good backs are available.
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I'm glad I'm not a betting man!  I was convinced they were going after Edge. Now there's one less team in the sweepstakes?
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Re: Panthers Offseason Report
« Reply #3 on: Feb 23rd, 2006, 10:52pm » |
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Read my lips...  It's ALL about their belief in ERIC SHELTON!!! This guy's going to be a MONSTER!!!  That's why they don't want one of the even MORE expensive blue-chippers like Edge. But, in that case, with Davis on the way out, they need to keep a proven and, moreover, COMPLEMENTARY, albeit fragile, talent like Foster around, at least for one more year. Foster, though he will, all things equal, be being paid probably more than he is worth, comes cheaper than, e.g., Edge, and they'll only be married to him for one year, as opposed to one of the big-ticket guys, again, like Edge, who is going to want a multi-year deal. A Shelton-Foster one-two punch is ACTUALLY PERFECT. As Shelton is built in the mold of Davis, it just allows the Panthers to perpetuate the kind of huge success they had with the Davis-Foster backfield. Except, as we all know, Foster isn't likely to last a whole season. So, just like Davis was typically the better guy (to have for fantasy football purposes) of the two, although he too couldn't last a whole season, mind you, Shelton will be, as well, i.e., Shelton will be the next Davis, but, hopefully he won't develop the kind of injury history that Davis did, which would, again, make for MONSTER numbers and a MONSTER career... with or/and then without Foster around.
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Re: Panthers Offseason Report
« Reply #5 on: Mar 12th, 2006, 4:10pm » |
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This puts just a bit of crimp in my Shelton predictions... From "The REAL Feed":
Foster agrees to 3-year deal with Panthers
SI.com: NFL (12.03.2006 09:40)
But, still, his wages aren't "over the top". They do love that big back-slasher back (Davis-Foster) one-two punch configuration, and Davis, the bigger back, was typically the "greater" beneficiary of it. Furthermore and ultimately, the greater concern with Foster is his apparent proneness to injury. If or WHEN Foster goes down, expect Shelton to step in in a BIG way.
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