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I'm warming up to the idea of trading LaMelo but the the character concerns around him are nonsense. This goofy town gave Cam hell for wearing his frustration on the sidelines and now we're mad that LaMelo isn't. Should be more thankful that despite his closest teammate being an aspiring thug and the entire world trying to get him out of Charlotte he's not like Ja Morant.

12 hours ago, Basbear said:

Part of the conspiracy about remmers was they did give help in play calls, according to Darin Gantt. Just for whatever reason the players missed the play call numerous times. I mean until that point, they never had to shift protection that whole season. They hadn't practiced it either.

 

My biggest beef with the whole Cam era was Ron Rivera never blew a fuse by cussing out the refs or go on a epic rant that cost him 100,000 calling out the hypocrisy with player safety when defenders are head hunting my QB. I know he sent in plays and had contact with league officials, it didn't stop the blatant behavior of scrambling Cams brain when the league had great focus on protecting QBs. The nice guy routine didn't wrong RON and you just didn't want to upset the NFL by going off during and after games. 

 

I do know this as well, after Cam told the reporters " Youre not old enough for that call ". The refs had each others back worse than the cops or married folks, from that point on it was open season. Such petty BS should never happen in a professional league. 

100%. I get that being the only latino HC in the league comes with social pressure to set a good example, but I've always felt that Ron's respectability BS did the team a disservice from his stoicism on field to the tie incident to not having much to say about the protests in Charlotte. I think it's a big reason why Jerry Richardson liked Ron.

Fixing games outright would be extremely risky as it requires too many parties to be in the know and any of them could blow the whole thing up. I definitely believe the NBA draft is rigged to a degree, and the refs can certainly push an agenda to influence whatever outcome they want, but not on some Black Sox type shi with teams knowingly throwing games. 

Like I'm sorry, but we just choked SB50. Officials letting defenses tee off on Cam was just business as usual.  We lost primarily because the team because decided to play conservative for the first time all year. If we had our stuff together it would have never come down to the refs discretion. 

Boring. Maybe I was too hard on “One Carolina”.

Boo AI slop boooooooooooooo

On 6/5/2025 at 4:52 PM, frankw said:

Horrible would be an improvement. Most current female rappers are basically onlyfans thots behind a microphone.

Listen to Lauryn Hill with The Fugees and then try to listen to that. Talk about destroying a genre.

No you've just become an oldhead my brother. Most popular music is sex/money/drugs and always has been. 

The country couple is cute together but it does worry me a bit that Legette's a social media cowboy crush before he's even football famous. Like if Taylor Swift was at the beginning of Kelce's career. Normally athletes have to stay relevant in their sport to date in this sphere but Xavier has a modeling career waiting for him if his day job ends up being a bust.

Pleasantly surprised. Didn't think Bryce was the type.

I like the Teppers involvement sorry. Rather have an engaged owner and then someone falling asleep in his box seat. And I think this idea that's he's been overruling the coaches have been overblown, he's just been really bad at hiring them. Canales is his attempt at course correction by making it Dan's choice.

The "football guys" are still picked by the owner at the end of the day, there's no way around that so I'd rather the guy be into it. 

11 hours ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

Why didn't they just retire the numbers

Probably hoping the meme will blow over in time. That would just cement it. 

6 hours ago, MrBubba said:

The blunt this casting director was on must have been immaculate

Still high on XL because we saw glimpses of greatness despite the deck being heavily stacked against him. I'm not ready to raise the alarm over drops considering that the guy was a rookie with a first year coach and the top option in an offense that sucked ass for most of the season. 

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.