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20 hours ago, NAS said:

Smitty is a legendary footballer player but this has really damaged his reputation as a person. You don’t cheat on a woman who has been with you through everything and gave you children and especially not with another man’s wife. He doesn’t even have any remorse about it, acting like nothing happened.

Trump banged a playboy model when the first lady was pregnant and then a porn star four months later and got elected president of the united states with this as public knowledge

29 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

 

Why?

He's been #4 throughout HS and College, I'd have been more surprised if he went with a different number having worn it for 7 years now.

Also, you can do this with either nickname.... 

N4LO or T-M4C

Pretty sure if you order from Fanatics, you get 1 year from purchase date to where if they change their number, they will swap it out for you anyways.  So if you wait to get one until just before the season and then next offseason he were to change his number, you might still be able to get it swapped out.

N4LO is pretty cool

2 hours ago, NAS said:

Is he exaggerating that accent just a little bit or is that really really how he talks?

 Saw some clip of him talking to one of his ranchers and they sounded alike. He is that country.

36 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

Here is a question to ask if you are looking for ways to muddy the waters even further:  Does the Homewrecker Law apply to common law wives?  In NC, common law marriages were abolished in 1989, but in South Carolina, they are still recognized, but they have no alienation of affection laws.  However, one state--Utah, recognizes common law wives and alienation of affection.  That would be something--you are sued for having sex with a woman who has never been officially married.  I imagine that infidelity would nullify the common law marriage, but if the party who was faithful was not aware of the infidelity....

OK, back to sports.

Looks like in Utah common law marriage just means couples can be married retroactively if they apply for it. I'm with you though the alienation thing seems scammable. Fake marriage where the couple tries to extort the wealthy person.

1 hour ago, Jon Snow said:

Maybe you should do your research before telling someone to lighten up. They even mentioned it on nfl network last night.

I don't need another clip, he said Tet was ok. I get that it's not his preference but ask Smitty or Kevin "The Slim Reaper" Durant; nicknames are mostly given to you. It can't be disrespectful to shorten his name if he likes T-Mac.

I called the man King and you're acting like I'm deadnaming Muhammad Ali. Get the pylon out your ass.  

7 hours ago, Super Grateful said:

$100K is chump change to Smitty.

Marriage is stupid for reasons like this and excessive alimony. You sign a paper and all of the sudden you're trapped under all of these archaic laws that are designed to fug males.

I'll play devils advocate and say this, sex is the most addictive drug in the world and pussy can make men do things that most may not consider to be normal. these two obviously had some sort of sexual chemistry and she was obviously not happy in her marriage, and perhaps Smitty was bored in his now that the kids are grown and he's having a mid life crisis - he got caught slippin.

he'll pay this fine and that dude will live the rest of his life not feeling like he's enough. The chick will prob strike again or be ready to settle down, who knows or cares. Smitty will prob go through a hoe phase for the first time in a long while and then settle down with a young chick that he can ride into the sunset. 

everyone makes mistakes, everyone loses in this situation, life goes on, do what makes you happy. 

Yeah I've realized that marriage does more harm than good to a lot of relationships. You get so interwined that staying married becomes more important than being honest with your partner and yourself. There's more honesty and effort put in when both people are free to walk away whenever.

It's always been funny to me that "never stop dating your partner" is typical marriage counseling advice. I think the healthiest relationships you'll ever find are the unmarried couples who have been together for many years.

20 hours ago, Jon Snow said:

Tet is a name that is disrespectful to the kids mother. If you guys are fans as you claim to be you would know that already and would have stopped using it already. 

Respectfully, that's ridiculous. And in the video he's clearly not taking it as seriously as you are. Lighten up.

17 hours ago, cvlngnir said:

Shouldn't she have like six breasts? I mean, she's a panther, so I'm confused.

Never looked at panther tits myself but I'll take your word for it

On 4/29/2025 at 4:00 PM, Captain Morgan said:

King Tet talking to Jaycee already.

"King Tet" is the winner I'm rolling with that 

On 4/29/2025 at 4:48 PM, rodeo said:

Julius Peppers was criticized for taking plays off too. In the long run it means nothing and has no impact on the game. When he's catching clutch 3rd down passes you won't care that he "took off" a 1st down pass that went to Thielen.

It'll come down to Young. If he regresses back to rookie form a bunch of guys will check out and McMillian may be the first. I'll probably be right behind him. 

If you think Smith's hating on McMillian or tall recievers you didn't watch the video. He may have been guilty of that in the past but he says outright that his problem is people see a tall reciever and tend to overlook everything else about him. He was complimentary and believes the guy will pan out.

His only real criticism was comparing Tetairoa to himself actually, saying like he felt like he took plays off when he wasn't the primary target. 

EDIT: The AJ Green comp they made is way better than Evans. Small finesse reciever in a tall frame.

1 hour ago, onmyown said:

Man the panthers really hate speedy guys with hands who can run routes and stretch the field. Their obsession with big slow receiver ‘jump up specialists’ is why they haven’t had more than one receiver consistently  worth a damn in their entire history, and he was an accident.

Really don’t like the pick. Looks like opposing defenses will continue to defend 10-15 yards and succeed.

A Ted Ginn type does us little good if Bryce’s deep ball is actually weak

1 hour ago, CRA said:

imagine building this elaborate draft room in your home.....and being confused about why teams didn't rush to draft you.  Not even getting into the actual football concern of holding the ball imploding plays and how that's going to compound in the NFL when open isn't really a thing most plays. 

Sheduer Sanders bringing 2025 Cam Newton energy to the table when teams want 2011 Cam Newton energy at the table. 

Sorry, I'll never understand getting worked up over stuff like this. Athletes are like walking motivational posters from the time they're kids. I want players who are invested and treat football like a lifestyle, not a desk job.

3 minutes ago, CarolinaRideorDie said:

I was also concerned about T-Macs effort and body language when scouts talked about it. But after he was drafted, Peter Schrager on the Pat McAfee show did say that he went above and beyond to address those concerns with teams. If the Panthers brought him in for a 30 visit and they are cool with it then fine with me. 

Yes we need to fix our defense but this league is about scoring points, if you don't score, you don't win games. If our defense gives up 30 points a game, then we need to score 31 points every game!!! 

Smith didn't want speculate on his character but he did hear he was a good kid from another scout. Could just be a chill guy like DJ Moore was. 

I didn't know NALO was a nickname thought it was just a motto. Suggests that he does know what he's up against though.

giving Benjamin and Funchess 2.0 ngl, but I'm encouraged that McMillian is a much better prospect than Funchess and that we also have Coker to take the pressure off. Going to be really interesting to see how the targets go when we have no clear #1. 

42 minutes ago, Adb6368 said:

Does this make everyone feel better about Morgan? 

a lot of chatter this week about how the panthers telegraph everything and have more leaks than a faucet. Not sure many of us saw this coming even with the late report tet was a wild card for us. 

Could still be true and they were as surprised as the rest of us. Doesn't really matter though as long as it works out.

I like that Canales and Morgan seem to be on the same page.  Probably the most in sync GM/HC combo we've had. I actually believe him when they say "our guy."  I felt like Fitterer took orders or signed a former player of his most of the time, Gettleman had his own kingdom, and Hurney was somewhere in between. These two seem to have a shared vision of what this team can be and I haven't seen that out of the front office in a long time, if ever.

Love or hate Scout Smitty, 35 minutes of our franchise's best WR talking about the new guy three weeks before the draft is an interesting watch

- Steve's choosing his words more carefully now and keeping his favorites close to the chest lol

- Most teams had T-Mac as top reciever in the draft and the only one with WR1 potential.

-  Finesse player in a large body. Compares him to AJ Green. "I love AJ Green." Interestingly Green was considered speedy and Tet ran a faster 40.

- "F****** dangerous in space" per scouts around the league but has trouble getting seperation.

- Below average strength/physicality for his size. Difficulty blocking and against the press.

- Low energy when he's not the focal point.  Smitty actually saw some of himself in him there. I thought this was his best insight.

- High floor. Believes he'll be good at worst. 

Summary: A natural at wide reciever with unique athleticism for his size. Question marks around drive and physicality will be the difference between him being good or great.

7 hours ago, Basbear said:

Can someone post the tetairoa page, please?

12 hours ago, L-TownCat said:

Who keeps telling the media what we’re doing?  Could they maybe stfu?

 Fitterer rubbed off on Dan more than we'd like to admit he's probably in a NFL GM Signal chat

Perfect. There’s probably team staff who would use this as reference even

11 minutes ago, Shotgun said:

 

Yes BPA is a myth. Certain positions will always be weighted. 

 

also feel like Gettleman was just bullshitting us with it because he knew 

4 hours ago, bandu said:

if you want to be successful at the draft you have to always take BPA .if not we (Panthers) would have for example never drafted a HOF LB by the name of Luke Keuchly.

&, why do you often see the exact same teams picking at the top of the draft year in & year out year after year like clock work doing the exact same thing by ignoring BPA & instead drafting for need/fit often times never really seem to find the right players to assemble a winning football team with 

if Jalon Walker is who the Pats think is BPA at #4 then that is most defenitely who they need to draft at #4 ...just saying 

BPA is a lie and I wish we'd stop talking about it like there's a universal power ranking for the draft class. It's meaningless because "best" and "need" are both highly subjective team by team. Most media big boards had Fletcher Cox ahead of Luke.

The good teams have the luxury of low stakes picks and incrementally upgrading the roster because they don't really have needs. The bad teams have needs at critical positions that are hard to draft, as we well know. 

If he locks in he can be great I see the vision

Imagine paying $375 million to replace a guy up for his third Emmy in a row