Trim The Fat.

Goodbye Nick Goings, Jeremy Bridges, and DJ Hackett.

Hurney makes some salary cap moves after a very lucrative week where he re-signed Gross and tagged Peppers probably merely minutes before the 4 pm deadline.

if they were over by 10 million like everybody's been saying, they're pretty much under it by now between the releases which amounted to 4.75 mil, Landon Johnson's restructuring which saved 1 mil, and Gamble's salary cap move which saved 8 mil. Let's take a closer look at some of the guys we let go.


Jeremy Bridges came in 2006 2 games in because our offensive line collectively decided that, "HEY!! You know what?! This year seems like a good year to get injured!!!". He put together nothing special but as we all know anything short of completely shitting the bed buys you a roster spot in John Fox's eyes.

So the next year they tried him out at guard. ...bad idea. This guy is not an interior linemen at all. I know it's not often you see okay tackles who are awful guards instead of the more common okay guards who are awful tackles, but Jeremy was a special case. He continued his poor play there into the 2008 season when the inevitable injury bug finally arrived to help ruin yet another Panthers season, despite being Axl Rose-like late, and RG Keydrick Vincent was IRed by the dreaded groin strain. That has to be the worst kind of injury. He also ran into trouble off the field a few times.



DJ Hackett, the Wunderkind. I'm not German, but I'll take an estimated guess and translate that as Wonderkid, "Kid" as in "young player", and "Wonder" as in "I wonder when this fucker will ever heal from his weak ass injury and play a fucking game already". Hackett was highly regarded, even by me, when he left Seattle and came over here. He chose us over at least 2 other teams. At first, things were looking good, then one night, he stubbed his toe on a vanity unit and was out for like 6 weeks. He was like the Dan Morgan of WRs.

Nick Goings, AKA Mr. Fix it. This guy was a bit more than a role player/lunch pail career backup, but he also had a smile, and in Pantherland, you get a big following with a little bit of charm, I mean, because production is soooo totally overrated, right?

He had one decent year that put him on the map in 2004, when Davis's age caught up with him and DeShaun Foster broke his foot because his bones are made out of cathedral glass. He put up over 800 rushing yards which was pretty good, but one season does not make a player. Add in the fact that he was susceptible to concussions. Never good.

...something tells me I'm not going to miss these guys. Saying goodbye to an injury prone WR, a troubled OL, and a backup FB. ...Now lets go get Tony Fiammetta out of Syracuse.