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Honestly, it's simply part of the process. It's a dirty business, but they're going to reach back to high school (or even further) when evaluating a player. The rumors and poo had an effect, how much we'll never know, but the injuries were the main problem. They opened the door wider and gave people the opportunity to focus on BS while MC was on the mend. The good thing is that if he performs up to his potential, whatever financial hit he has to take on his first few years in the league will be more than offset with future earnings. It's not where you begin, but where you end up.

Not the "straight and narrow" (oh, hell no), then you wouldn't be you.

I'm just messing with you, my friend, but keeping you straight at the same time.

Yep. Of course I don't know for sure, but I think that there was a directed effort to blackball MC and destroy his career inasmuch as Gretsky (and his sphere of influence) was able. The thing is, though, is that talent and and potential dollar signs for big-time football programs is always going to take priority over past wrongs, whether they're real, imagined or fabricated. Of course it still takes a special kind of guy to overcome the obstacles and succeed. I know it may seem like a fairly normal occurrence in the dynamics of amateur football, but the fact that Corral was able to maneuver the unfairness stemming from at least one of the powers-that-be trying to cut him off at the knees, should give Panthers fans some comfort. He's not your ordinary kid.

BY the way, I also told y'all all that off-field poo was either overblown or a straight up lie. That's what it is! Sure, MC my still need to get out of him own head at times, but he's smart, and he's a winner. That winning mentality and drive to overcome is innate!

It's almost like no one, save a few, believed anything I've been saying. I only had one main question regarding MC coming into this league, & I said the same thing about CMC when he came into the league, so I am not going to jinx Matt. But, suffice it to say that CMC's position is one where the fire can't be avoided, and MC's position is about the most protected class in football. He'll take his hits, but he's smart enough to help mitigate those. As for the game, he's got it, and he's got it in spades!

Not "trouble" per se, Jon Snow, just taking the requisite time that a young QB legitimately needs become a credible pro QB while learning the necessary particulars of the job. This is but a normal part of transition.

Not buying that argument. Short fields and turnovers puts undue pressure on the defense, so of course the opposition is going to score. We had issues to be sure, but the offense was a huge one. The other huge one was getting burned on third downs. If we can change that around, our defense will be top 10. If we change both, top five.

Yes, but mostly for the top-shelf guys in the tier of Adams and Hill. McLaurin's contract is closer to Moore's than theirs. Most, outside of some Panthers fans, would likely tell you that McLaurin is 9+ mil better than Moore (over three years).

I'd blame him. He signed a good deal, and I believe it's one very much in the scope of his relative market value.

I don't even know who that is, but it's easy to be an ass online, but not necessarily so easy in someone's face. Perhaps dude just gets his rocks off on trolling across social platforms. I think there's a degree of cowardice in that, but it is what it is. Perhaps it's simply a form of entertainment. You never know what's going through people's minds.

No, nothing unscrupulous going on here. A little sloppy with the business practices by not keeping a delineation between his real estate company (set up for that particular propertyost likely) and the Panthers LLC perhaps, but nothing criminal Wells that's likely to be the claim, but I'd suapect that it's a little nebulous, and assuming @CBDellinger , a fellow huddler who responded to my original question in this thread, knows about this sort of thing, then the Panthers' legal liability is probably nominal, if not nil. Attorneys, feel free to chime in.

Any lawyers want to speak on this claim of liability based solely on association? Is there any precedent, or is it more a case of straw grasping? Even under the worst case scenario, I don't believe it will change the price of tea in China regarding Panthers operations (other than using Panthers checks for official Panthers business. Tepper may take a hit, but, "Que será será!"

It' gotta be about the money...if it's simply a lateral move. Could be about upwardly mobile opportunities as well. I would think that generally Houston would provide more opportunities for Alexander than Charlotte, but who knows? I don't think that it has anything to do with the Panthers.

There it is!

Hey, if it's at their best, then 2015 Cam is one of the best there ever was. But, we just couldn't catch a 2015 Cam in a bottle.

Pretty good. I didn't follow instructions I guess I'd have to amend mine to $3 Beuerlein, $3 D-Will, $5 Smitty, $3 Mangum and $1 Samuel. I think Smitty will be a near-unanimous pick (but there are always the haters).

Plagiarism is indeed highly unethical, and I'm foursquare against it, but does that mean that everyone associated with an organization is a plagiarizer? Moreover, does that mean that the information that's plagiarized is untrue? Seriously. And let's stop pretending that there are organizations, companies, courts that consist of wholly nonpartisan-minded individuals. People are people with their own beliefs and opinions, and they make up any institution that you can think of. Does that make them all liars about the facts of a situation? It's like dumbasses who deny climate change for example. There is sound science behind it--a lot of it straight facts and not theory--and see and experience the increasing effects of it, but still deny it. I have little patience for it. I'd respect them more if they'd just say, "Yes, it exists, but I don't give a damn, because I don't want you upsetting my applecart now." I'd respect you more if you just say, "I don't value Snopes because I feel it's made up of people with liberal political leanings, regardless if the facts or true or not." That's a lot more accurate than expressing or intimating, "Snopes is a trash site, and everything Snopes says is a lie."

Just a useless summer exercise. I'm too lazy to try and post a bunch of junk that may not play nice with the app, so hit the link if interested. https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/lists/build-panthers-offense-newton-mccaffrey-smith-olsen/ I got Beuerlein, D-Will, Smitty, and Walls. I don't think y'all are touching me.

That's pretty stupid reasoning as far as I'm concerned, because they divulge information based upon facts they dig up. They are not "saying things [I] disagree with." They are just presenting neutral information. Now if you say that sometimes the truths that they bring up are in line with my general suspicions on a matter, then fine. But, if you say that they and others bring facts to light that don't disavail my suspicions on certain matters as well, things that I didn't think were in no way true, that were true, then you're absolutely wrong. I could care less whether an organization is so-called conservative or liberal, but don't spread misinformation--even worse, disinformation. Just tell the fuging truth about whatever it is!

I find some of the responses in this thread ludicrous regarding Sheena Quick, as it was simply an update. No more, no less. I also find it ludicrous that it appears like some people think that good journalism, not that Twitter is necessarily that or journalism at all, begins and ends with breaking a story (or simply guessing correctly). But, whatever.

Sorry, "ancestors", most likely of the Scottish Lowland. Probably some slavemasters no doubt, but mentioned as passing thoughts at family reunions. I'm going to try and verify by a DNA test one day. I just would like to know what my bloodlines actually are, American & African-American history being what it is. I've pretty much confirmed my English and Cherokee bloodlines. On an off note, my maternal great great great grandfather was a very rich man named William Montfort Boylan in Raleigh. He was married to Elizabeth McCulloch. Some McCulloughs (coincidentally of the Rock Hill area) are on my other side. You'd probably like Outlander. It is a fantastical tale, that uses science fiction, in order to tell a loose tale of the Highland Scots with some accurate historical elements. You'd probably like it (for that reason alone), as well as your wife because it's largely a love story. It may begin just a little slow, but gets really interesting by the third episode. If you have Netflix, I'd suggest it.

Hey, if it ain't on Fox News, it has to be wrong, right? Political views? Do you not think it would be bad for business for a fact checking organization that shares the apolitical facts to swing right or left? What are my political views? Not that I have to tell you, but I will. I am politically unaffiliated. I don't particularly care for Democrats or Republicans, so-called liberals or so-called conservatives, so-called neolibs or so-called neocons. I abhor the current political system in America, but I absolutely have disdain for fascist-supporting simps who are at many times racist as well. I have disdain for people who rail against truth, but devour lies without doing the first bit of research. I hate fascism, and will speak against it at every turn. If I had my way, people would vote policy over party every single time, indeed parties would be dissolved. I generally think that people whose go-to modus operandi in any thought process or argument is to immediately begin throwing around political labels, or assuming that someone is this or that are basically stupid, and are unwitting pawns of the oligarchs who rule via Plutocrats in Congress (whose goal is to become Oligarchs themselves). Believe what you want to believe, but independent journalism, inasmuch as it can be in America, still exists. Not everything is the truth, and not everything is a lie, but there are organizations that do their best to get to the truth (which is admittedly sometimes a bit tedious to uncover). Snopes and Politifacts are such organizations, whether you acknowledge it or not. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/19/viral-image/no-factcheckorg-didnt-bust-snopescom/

And Snopes is trash why? Oh, I know: because they actually put effort into telling the truth and nothing but the truth.