Hat tip to MMA_Pitbull:

Rivera just said on NFL Network im confident we are gonna have our guy going forward. Was referencing Hardy — MMA_PITBULL (@MMA_PITBULL) February 21, 2014

Maybe Rivera was using his Riverboat face when he said that but it's still nice when he could just have easily said something like 'well that's up to the front office, etc...'. He could easily have side stepped giving such a straight forward, positive answer. The Panthers have until March 4th to use the franchise tag on Hardy if they have too. I expect we start to see movement on this next weekend.

So is this good news?