Joe Bear

Maiden!

He's saying they'd be trade targets, not that they're on the block yet.

Wake lost to UL-Lafayette. I'm not even sure if that's an upset.

I understand your frustration and your negativity, because there's every chance both could finish with 5-6 wins. However, if UNC overcame a 20-0 deficit to win 21-20, I believe some of your opinions might be a bit different.

I have no expectations. I'm just glad to not be mathematically eliminated. Hell, 1-2 feels great.

Nah, it's a huge win. This Duke team has less talent than the previous two that lost to UNC. A rivalry win is a big deal when it hasn't happened in six years, and when you overcame a 20-0 deficit to make it happen. Not saying Duke's more than a lower-level bowl team, but starting 5-0 and winning your rivalry game is an accomplishment. I left a party with them down 20-7 thinking, "well, at least they didn't get shut out," and my FIL hit me up with, "well, UNC blew it," and I thought he was kidding.

But sometimes it doesn't stay like that.

Duke beating UNC was not on my bingo card today, and it definitely wasn't after they fell behind 20-0 in the second half. But that's a huge win for Duke's program and it justifies the effort they've made to become competitive. Alabama winning? Yawn. I would've preferred Georgia to win, but I'm not shocked. Miami dodged a Blacksburg-sized bullet last night, though.

"Just because you won big doesn't mean you didn't still lose, because I want you to lose and I'm going to pretend you lost again." That was basically the point there; like Ryan, more confirmation bias.

So if you lose big you're losing, but if you win big you're losing? Air-tight logic.

This weekend. but if Dalton has five more wins in him this season he deserves a parade.

I'm beginning to think David Tepper's not a good guy. But I'll need more evidence than just this.

Oh, but it was:

Hubbard is a top-15 RB. With how that position is devalued, there's every reason to believe he'll re-sign here. No sense in shipping off another above-average offensive skill player for peanuts.

The only analysts who think Young is still a starting-caliber QB are the ones who haven't seen him play this year. Now if you'd been cryogenically frozen after the Packers game last Christmas Eve and were only recently thawed, yeah, I could see you having an argument. But now? Nope.

Matt Corral led a game-winning drive for the Panthers in a preseason game.

Canales definitely deserves it.

Respect.

Some of y'all are a bit weird with your Young hatred. There's some confirmation bias in the attitude comments, because I've yet to see any tangible evidence of him being anything but supportive of Dalton and the team. There's no sense in desperation-trading him for a UFL reject. Let him ride the bench and see if he can build up value in the offseason.

Feels so good to win again!

Chuba's one of the best players on this team year-in and year-out.

Dalton, Diontae Johnson and Chuba Hubbard had brilliant games, but Mike Jackson also deserves a lot of credit. Dude came from nowhere to be a solid CB here.

No, because whoever makes a trade with the Panthers immediately becomes better and the Panthers get worse both in the short and long term. Don't take on $22 million in dead cap just to get another Stantley Thomas-Oliver.

With a name like USA there was never a doubt their colors would be red, white and blue.