{"id":9283,"date":"2014-02-28T00:04:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T05:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9283"},"modified":"2014-02-28T00:04:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T05:04:23","slug":"greg-hardy-and-panthers-working-on-multi-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/28\/greg-hardy-and-panthers-working-on-multi-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Hardy and Panthers working on multi-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7299\" alt=\"greghardy\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/greghardy.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/greghardy.jpg 660w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/greghardy-300x145.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/greghardy-50x24.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the Carolina Panthers will not have to use the franchise tag on defensive end Greg Hardy.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers could always tag Hardy at $13 million but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2014\/02\/27\/4728531\/carolina-panthers-still-discussing.html#.UxAW1vldXnh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Charlotte Observer<\/a> reports that the two sides have been making progress on a new deal. Carolina has until 4 pm EST on Monday to tag Hardy.<\/p>\n<p>Hardy, 25, is looking to cash in after notching 26 sacks over the past two seasons telling reporters he wanted &#8220;big money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers recently restructured the deals of center Ryan Kalil, running back Jonathan Stewart and linebacker Thomas Davis. They cleared up $7.25 million with those moves.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not a long-term deal gets worked out its hard to imagine Hardy not playing for the Panthers next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the Carolina Panthers will not have to use the franchise tag on defensive end Greg Hardy. The Panthers could always tag Hardy at $13 million but the Charlotte Observer reports that the two sides have been making progress on a new deal. Carolina has until 4 pm EST on Monday to tag Hardy. Hardy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[126,426,534,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-carolina-panthers","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-greg-hardy","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9283"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}