The Carolina Panthers are in serious cost-cutting mode according to Joseph Person of the Charlotte Observer. The Panthers are approximately $9.6 million over the salary cap and are one of four teams that have to get under the cap before March 13, that means a lot of wheeling and dealing is going to have to be done in the next three weeks to restructure contracts and/or cut the roster. A provision in the new collective-bargaining agreement allows teams to increase their cap by rolling over unused space from 2011 into the new league year, which will begin at 4 p.m. March 13, but the Panthers extended seven of their players before the 2011 season began, putting them in cap purgatory. One likely cap casualty will be quarterback Jimmy Clausen, the Panthers owe Clausen a $923,000 roster bonus in March, the Panthers then drafted QB Cam Newton No.1 overall in 2011 and signed veteran quarterback Derek Anderson to back up Newton but unless they decide Clausen is ready to be the No.2 QB, no one in the Panthers organization is likely to pay an almost $1 million to a third-string QB who was inactive for all 16 games of the 2011 season. This would be an epic fall for Clausen, who a few scouts actually rated better than No.1 overall Sam Bradford in the 2010 draft, he will probably get another chance somewhere (for minimum money) but we hope he used his initial roster bonus wisely. Source: The Redzone
At this point i doesnt make sense to have him on the roster anyway...he may be a solid developmental QB somewhere
He would be a good pickup for someone. IMO a much better pure passer then Quinn was coming out of ND. Despite how his stats looked as a JR, he came into the NFL pretty raw. He definatly needed another year
he was a 3rd string qb in carolina .......... he may be able to catch on somewhere for the league minimum to hold a clipboard.
Honestly, he wasn't really a d-bag, I love the pics though they are amusing. Anyways the kid needs a chance to develop somewhere else, as someone else (JJ I think) said Jimmy was the better pure passer coming out of Notre Dame. If given the chance to develop in a system he would be a good backup somewhere.
This His lack of turnovers his JR season was kinda funny to me. Alot of pass's that should have been picked didnt. Alot of people though he was the "NFL Ready, Accurate guy" coming out. A WCO QB. Not even close, Claussen is in the mold of a Jay Cutler, a strong armed gambler
