re: Panthers fire their GM after 4 seasons...

He shouldn't have been fired at all.

frick Steve Smith's precious feelz. Dude was never anything but a locker room cancer. Only player he ever gave a flying frick about was Steve Smith.

Love Thomas Davis, but it was painfully obvious he had lost a step last year. And, at his age, its only going to get worse. Why in the world would any sane GM want to re-sign him to more money?

And Greg Olsen is the best TE in football. But, if the offense changes this year like we have been told it is SUPPOSED to change, his catches, yards, and opportunities go down with McCaffrey and Samuels catching the mid-to-short routes. That's why he wants more money than the $6.5M he's making NOW instead of at the end of next year when the output won't look as good. If the new offensive players contribute like they're supposed to, he'll just be another receiver instead of the 2nd most important person on the offense as he's been the last 2 years.

Gettleman took over a disaster of a roster in salary cap hell and rehabilitated it to a Super Bowl and made the playoffs 3 times in 4 years.

Now the owner wants to go back to the old ways and overpay veteran players. Get back up to having so much money tied up in washed up vets that the good rookies that come to the team can't get paid and will walk at first opportunity.

Hey, but the "vets" will be real happy in the locker room! (As long as they don't GAF about winning.)

Yay.