SmokinwithWilly

58 minutes ago, UnluckyforSome said:

No idea on the OL, but as for another DB, maybe Cota or Grant?

I liked Cota. I think it was his contract offer from NO that I first heard of the poison pill. 

On 5/12/2025 at 4:39 PM, hepcat said:

The NBA might be the most rigged sports league in the entire world 

Sad when the WWE is less scripted than the NBA.

40 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

There was a game many years ago, I want to say it was GB and Atl when one team went for 2 with 2 seconds to go up by 4. They converted. The only thing this did was cover the spread and saved Vegas from losing 300 million. It made no sense to the point the announcers were calling it out and were pointing out covering the spread. I was a much younger guy then, but that was my first clue that there was outside influence in this game. 

Correction. They were already up by 4 so it would have been a 5 or 6 point lead. 

There was a game many years ago, I want to say it was GB and Atl when one team went for 2 with 2 seconds to go up by 4. They converted. The only thing this did was cover the spread and saved Vegas from losing 300 million. It made no sense to the point the announcers were calling it out and were pointing out covering the spread. I was a much younger guy then, but that was my first clue that there was outside influence in this game. 

54 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Also nabbed a wild trade price for a RB. People were upset but that was far more than he was worth.

Now, if you want to talk about how terribly we squandered those resources....that is unquestionably true.

Our day 2 track record over the past 3 decades has been abysmal. We've had a couple of hits, but there has been far more head scratching than a bad case of head lice. 

On 6/6/2025 at 2:05 PM, PleaseCutStewart said:

I think most people figured that would be the case. Colts got suckered into ARs athleticism when the dude is just an awful decision maker. Not surprised he is looking like the next JaMarcus Russell 

AR was never ready to be the opening day starter, just like Bryce. These rookie QBs are rushed into service when they really need time to develop and learn without the pressure of being the immediate team savior. I liked AR with the right HC, not Frank, and always thought he'd need some time to get up to the NFL speed and competitive level. He probably would have learned over the course of the year that running repeatedly into NFL defenders as a QB is a recipe for a short career. Cam was the exception, not the rule. 

17 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

I predict Panthers will eventually sign Rasul Douglas 

I predict that if/when he does, you will begin a topic on the matter with yet another non embedded link. 

3 hours ago, shaqattaq said:

Damn! Goose was 6'3" and 340 pounds! Big man needs 2 coach seats!

When Tony played coach seats weren't designed for Calista Flockhart. 

Hopefully we become more than the skidmark of David Tepper's tenure so far. 

No matter what it gives me a reason to drink on Sundays

On 5/28/2025 at 3:52 PM, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

File another one in the "how the fug did nobody catch that" drawer.

Previous employment: Media Relations, New England Patriots 

I thought this was some random Juan post, but then I saw the tweet embedded. 

New Coke? Classic coke? Diet coke? Coke zero? Crown and coke. So many different cokes. 

I was expecting they switched from that paper thin tp you can put your finger through easily to a more robust charmin 2 ply. 

10 hours ago, Navy_football said:

Right. Look at the Texans, Philly, Bills, Ravens, KC, Dolphins, etc. 

All of these teams build or at least try to build the team around their QB. 

We had a generational talent at QB, that took a ragtag receiving group and aging backfield to the SuperBowl because the FO got lucky with a couple of FA olinemen. They really weren't even that good and got exposed in the Super Bowl. So what do we do the next draft? Use it on a DT in the 1st and CBs with the next 3 picks trying to replace a guy they fumbled the bag on because of ego. I'll never forgive them for that. Never 

Can't really put that loss wholly on the oline. Did they have problems with the defensive pressure? Sure. But when your OC doesn't change a single thing in the playbook and the defense knows every play before you run it, you're not going to stand much of a chance. 

3 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Which is completely irrelevant to the current conversation. They've doomed themselves to what we've historically been by making a really dumb call. For such an offensive guru, Shanahan sure has made some dumb calls at QB.  First the Lance debacle and now the Purdy contract. I don't give them much credit for "finding" Purdy with the last pick in the draft, same as I don't really credit the Pats for "finding" Brady in the 6th. Everyone in the league passed those guys up over and over again. It was just horse poo luck.

Not really. Year after year they find a way to win, even with bad decisions. Maybe its a good contract, maybe its a bad one. The only way to determine if the contract is good is by the results. You're saying its a horrible contract but if he leads them to 3 SBs, I'd call it a great contract. Time will ultimately determine the value. 

We haven't had back to back winning seasons as a franchise in 3 decades. Im not going to criticize another team that's making the playoffs on a regular basis. There isn't anyone on this board who wouldn't be thrilled if we had done what the 9ers have done the past few years. I'd take the mediocrity the 49ers have experienced over the slog through the sewer that has been the Panthers since Tepper bought the team. 

Bears won because its a trade we didn't need to make, at least with the pieces we sent. If Fitts had half a brain, he would have completed the Burns trade and use the 2 Rams 1sts to swap 1sts and we would still have had the overall 1st to trade or swap out for picks. 

2 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

The traveling is ludicrous. They need to fix that.

The flopping has been cleaned up for a while because they had to start suspending players over it. This is literally years old, which tells me you haven't watched in a long time.

I've tried, but its still happening. At least the games I've tried to watch. The product is still atrocious. 

2 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Yes, but that was how they accomplished it. They made it MEAN something. Have you ever seen an NHL All Star game? It's fuging unwatchable.

Yeah, the NHL all star game is bad. I do enjoy the skills challenge tho

1 minute ago, kungfoodude said:

I mean....the NHL just did this too. 

The NFL turned the Pro Bowl into just a series of games.

The MLB had to make some playoff implications for the All Star winners.

All the sports had to do this because ultimately it doesn't make sense to try hard for exhibitions that are utterly meaningless.

The 4 countries tournament was one of the greatest sporting events I've ever seen in pro sports of any genre.

It had no bearing on the season but those guys played playoff level hockey for an exhibition.  

It's almost sickening to watch games now. How many steps constitute traveling? 3, 7, 15? And the flopping is ridiculous. I thought Vlade Divac was bad, but now they're right up there with soccer. No defense. Everyone is tossing up 3s. The product is terrible. 

PK Subban summed up the NBA and fan experience pretty well. 

8 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2025/story/_/id/45025476/2025-nfl-draft-ranking-rookie-year-impact-mid-late-rounders

 

Full disclosure, was not at all a fan of this pick in the 2nd BECAUSE I generally view him as being very limited in his pass rush ability. 

That said, he does have the makeup to be very capable of replacing Clowney, long term.

I'm not a big fan of the sack statistic over actually being disruptive. Burns showed us that. Yeah, he'd get sacks, but he wasn't a consistent disruptive force on the edge. I'd rather see 0 sacks and causing problems on drop back half of the time. 

On 5/1/2025 at 12:55 PM, Fox007 said:

Why do guys even want to sleep with another married person instead of a single person if you are going to cheat in the first place? so bizarre to even want sloppy seconds like ooof lost respect for Smitty on that one

Married women are going to be less likely to want to get pregnant. There are lots of single women that would view Smitty as a cash cow. Get pregnant, have the baby, get 50k a month in child support for the next 18 years. It's Hoenomics 101. 

Not worded strangely. I take it as if he's ready by week 1 great, but week 5 to 8 could just as likely be in the cards.