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should've been a day 2 pick but whatever, the falcons suck regardless (yeah I know, glass houses and all)

uhh our roster and team expectations are exactly at a point where we can afford to sit/develop players. We need to build out a core and add talented players for the future period, nobody is expecting us to compete/contend this year. Teams solidly in their window (like the Chiefs, Bills, etc.) are ones who can't afford to use high picks or cap space on players who won't contribute immediately. I'd argue the main reason the Chiefs went back to back was their ability to draft immediate impact players the last 2 years. As a team squarely in the beginning of a rebuild we don't care about immediate impact, just starting to get some damn impact players at all. If they take a few years to develop so be it, we're not losing anything right now.

The good thing is RBs don't really need training camp as much as most other positions. Would obviously be better to have him, but he's either got vision/tackle-breaking/hands or he doesn't and one training camp isn't going to change much. Hopefully he's ready by preseason

the NFL didn't even have to "force JR out." JR was probably the one who suggested the idea of him selling quickly and quietly to the league. dude only gave a poo about the league and not the team. don't get me wrong I'd gladly take him back over Tepper, but JR was pretty damn bad too. if JR had any interest in remaining owner he easily could've done so. But he knew it wouldn't be good for the league so he sold. Snyder had been fighting the rest of the owners for like a decade plus. JR would never put up any fight with the league even though he did significantly less bad things than Snyder.

"Local scum bag" Assume you're referring to Navarro? Not sure how he's a scumbag (other than existing as a billionaire)... I won't claim to know how he would be as an owner but he was a wayyyy better option at the time than Tepper. Actually committed to the Carolinas (just tried and unfortunately failed to get a huge tennis tournament moved to Charlotte from Cincinnati), a legit sports guy whose dad was a longtime cfb coach, and his kids are all athletes. No brainer over Tepper for the success of the team, but the NFL obviously was going to pick the dude with insane amount of $ who sucks and will give all the other owner's teams automatic wins every year. And JR was letting the NFL run the sale for the league to save face -- he was always shield>panthers guy

Just such a sad state of affairs that it's difficult to get rid of season tickets... Not a local but if I was I'd have absolutely loved to have season tickets during some of the good years. If I moved there tomorrow I wouldn't even remotely consider PSLs now with what Tepper has done with the team. Would go to a game here or there for cheap resale tickets with low expectations, but certainly not shell out for a full season + PSL cost. Plenty of teams out there too where people would kill to have a chance for season tickets but the waitlists are so damn long. Curious, can you keep the PSL but turn down the tickets for a season?

'18 and '19 preseasons we looked good, granted both those seasons were derailed largely due to Cam not being healthy but still.

this draft sucks ass and I find it hard to find any excitement in it whatsoever. the upside of whatever dude we wind up taking will probably be a decent 6th man, which we could use sure, but we need legit talent when we pick high like this. Miller last year kinda helps make up for this year sucking but still a bummer that after such a terrible season we have no good consolation prize. I am excited about the new coaching staff and our young talent already on the roster though, just need to stay healthy (much easier said than done for melo and mark unfortunately)

I'm totally ready to get my hopes up again and get hurt again. Happens every year as a Panthers fan

2 things can be true. we sucked all around last year and it was obvious but preseason still means absolutely nothing. we looked like poo 2015 preseason and KB went down everyone thought the season was doomed.

I think Williams will basically replace Waddell in that role. Tulsky may get the title if he wants it. Can’t see us letting him go elsewhere and if we don’t make him GM he can go anywhere that will offer him a GM title/job. realistically though, Tulsky is a dorky data guy. Extremely important to this front office, more so than Waddell IMO, but he’s not a people guy, negotiator, etc. that’ll be Willy, whatever the titles wind up being. Would be very surprised if we went outside the org to replace Don. honestly I’ll miss Don, I don’t think this alters our trajectory whatsoever but I came to like him a lot here, as skeptical as I was at first

Agreed but I’m not going to root against him or anything. Just don’t care that much and I’ve moved on from our disastrous 2023

the outcome this year sucks for sure but the Canes future is still extremely bright. great cap situation, great young players already locked up long term, and great prospect pool. we'll get over the hump eventually

Over, Rod needs to go fug him

Don’t even care. Turned it off. Goodnight, go Florida/west teams

fuging brutal. All because of Freddie softy

Ooof Freddie that’s 2 poo goals now. Bounce back boys and get the next one. Freddie worries me

And damn near just scored another. Both Marty’s have been fuging incredible

Nikishin will help us forget Skjei/Pesce lol. I think we keep Chatty long term and honestly I think we see Orlov stick around past next season on a cheaper deal. He fits in here so damn well now that he’s settled in

KokomMiami is having a hell of a game. Also Chatty and Orlov for 3rd pair (really 2nd with Pesce out) is just insane, such a huge upgrade on recent years. TDA has been great the last few games after early struggles, so we really have no weak link on D. Meanwhile the Rags have had like 4 weak links on D. Sadly this will probably be the last year we’re this deep on the blue line with the impending FAs

SEBASS RESTORES THE 2 GOAL LEAD LETS fugINGGOOOOOOOO

Bad turnover but what the fug was Freddie doing there

Ughhh putrid turnover and inability to clear there. fug rhat

2 zip!!!! Holy poo we’ve totally shifted the ST momentum and have dominated 5v5 all series.

NACHOS MY BOY!!! fuging awesome forecheck and hit to set that up