CoastalCat

The Chicago game in 2011, the Cowboys in the 03 playoffs...

**Prepare for way too much information** 

Whether you need an antenna depends greatly on your location and your tv. Some areas have better signals, and some tv's have better built-in antennas. If the signal actually comes through, it's crystal clear. Keep in mind that there are sometimes two instances of the same channel for the locals, a standard and an HD (HD usually in the 100's). I'm in Wilmington (first city in the country to go digital-only, and we have no hills), but I'm guessing you're in the QC based on your profile. My advice, in order of time and effort commitment, would be...

1. Go online to see how many over the air channels there are in your area (here's a link for Charlotte: Link), then do an auto channel search to see how many of them you can get. Should be all the major networks (ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC), plus some randoms like 5 or 6 PBS stations. 

2. If you don't get the major ones (Fox being your main concern for Panthers), a cheap fix that works about half the time is to connect your coax (cable wire) back to the wall from your tv, even if you no longer have a cable subscription. I'm not a doctor, but my guess is that it uses the coax infrastructure all over around your house like an antenna. That could be total BS, but it usually gets me another channel or two. That is my current setup here at the beach, and it works just fine. I even have a couple of cable channels randomly(E! and Bravo, which drastically improved my chances of continuing my cheapness without my wife's head exploding). 

3. If none of that works (had this situation when I lived in VA for a bit), go to the store and buy 3 or 4 cheap digital antennas. Hook each one up and do another channel search for each one. Keep the one that gets the most channels, and return the others. Last thing: Those over the air channel guides online will usually tell you where the signal is coming from on a map (again, see link above). It sometimes does actually make a difference if you face a directional antenna toward the source (it looks like a lot of the stations are North-East from most areas of Charlotte). 

Good Luck...   

I would recommend Apple TV if you have an iPhone. Similar streaming apps as Roku, but also has a mirroring feature. That helps in two ways. First, many of the random assortment of apps that either Apple TV, Roku, Amazon FireStick, etc. don't have CAN be downloaded to a phone, so you can stream from there. Also, with mirroring you can stream just about anything else you can stream from a website, which opens up the possibilities exponentially. 

It was a struggle until I got my buddy's TWC login for a case of beer and bought an apple TV. Now I have HBO and Showtime. Teeheehee. Only thing I'm missing is NFL Network. Gotta look and see if it has an app I can mirror. 

All you need to say is....

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-gameday/0ap3000000450903/Week-17-Panthers-vs-Falcons-highlights 

Thank the internet for creating more and more "Prestons". The lighting does a good job of hiding his mom's house backdrop.

.........................TookOurJobs!!!

Might have to turn in my homer card on this one but...

I think people are way overplaying the "Drew Brees is getting rusty" story. Dude still led the league in passing yards and was #2 in passing percentage. He threw a few more picks than usual, but jeez. Their defense was horrendous. At least let him go two seasons of such "horrible" quarterback play before saying that he's even close to second in the division. 

Is Sprint still a thing?

​Let's all embrace Matt Prater's dream of no more kicking of any kind. Huzzah!

​Diggin' the flat top.

​Step 1: FIELD THE F***ING PUNT!!!

Step 2: ?

Step 3: Superbowl

​Good call. There is enough uncertainty as is. 

Who the fug cares? Seattle did it. New York did it. All it means is that we wanted it more than New Orleans and Atlanta. We showed up when it counted.

Just to play devil's advocate here, many would argue that Seattle was where it counted, rather than December against teams with a combined 22-42 record.

I'm glad the Panthers won the division, and glad that they were the first to do it back to back for the first time in our division's short history, but sometimes i wonder how different the rhetoric on this board would be right now had 7-8-1 not won the division.

I don't think anybody clamored for any of those guys.  Boy did they suck.  

I remember there being a pretty heated Newton vs. Gabbert discussion going on in the weeks going into the draft. We would have to check the archives.

I do recall many posters stating how you're awful.  You have brought literally nothing to this discussion.  Besides bashing someone for their opinion, and lack of understanding on what part?  Because I would take RW & Watt over Luke and Cam right now?  Okay, many other people that watch the NFL would do the same thing.  We had a discussion last year who would you rather have?  Luke or J.J. and the majority of this board took J.J.  Luke is the best LB in the game, but Watt is a game changer.  

Girls!! Girls!! 

Let's settle on down now. I will say that NCtarheel gets a little leeway simply due to the fact that he's (I'm assuming) a UNC-Chapel Hill fan who would like RW to be his NFL QB. 

With all that being said, can't we all just agree with the fact that we dodged 3 potential landmines named Blaine Gabbert, Christian Ponder, and Jake Locker in the first round?? That, alone, is reason to celebrate. 

I take my previous post back. I was thinking that we would have very likely gone for Kaepernick or Dalton in the 2nd, having the first pick in that round. But we didn't. We had no second round pick. Assuming that we would have had the address the emergency situation at QB with the likes of Ryan Mallet, Ricky Stanzi(who?), or T.J. Yates, I'm pretty happy with the direction that we went in. 

They would have won the NFC south by a game and a half

Truth!

I was reading the 2011 CBS remock and both of the writers had JJ Watt going first overall. Cam slipped to 2nd and 3rd in the redrafts, btw.

 

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25139822/nfl-draft-redux-colin-kaepernick-to-browns-or-jets

 

Knowing what we know now, would you still take Cam over JJ Watt, who is quickly becoming the best pass rusher the league has ever seen? If you spent this offseason shitposting about "BPA! BPA!" would you still think that Cam is BPA over JJ?

 

Oh yeah and please don't turn this into yet another "CAM HATER!!" witch hunt/circlejerk please, you have a bunch of other threads to valiantly defend a million dollar athlete against the legion of evil sports writers who are probably saints and cowboys fans.

Watt would have obviously been a good pick; but what I'd be more interested in finding out is how the QB situation would have shaken out. Would we have nabbed someone is later rounds(we would have been in place for either Andy Dalton or Colin Kaepernick in the 2nd)? Would we have let it ride, and potentially been in the running for Andrew Luck in 2012? Way too many variables.

http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/05/14/seahawks-bruce-irvin-falcons?xid=si_social

He was at the NBA game last night and said this:

“I’m going to be in Atlanta next season. I’m ready,” Irvin said to Black Sports Online. “Atlanta is where I want to be. Believe that.”

Semi on topic question here. There is something that I don't understand at all. Why do players want the 5th year option, but hate the franchise tag? They seem like the same thing, a one-year contract with no guarantees. The only difference to me is that the franchise tag generally pays a LOT more. 

What am I missing? For players still on their rookie contracts that are actually any good, it seems like you'd want to get to that coveted second contract as quickly as possible.

Thoughts? 

I already posted mine. Sig and I have a love/hate relationship

Read down to that one after my reply. My bad. I didn't mean it. Sometimes I just say things in the heat of the moment. Last year, my wife got on me about not mowing the grass, and I just yelled "YOU'RE A FALCONS FAN!!!"

She's still in counseling....

Chris Simms: Matt Simms doesn't get chances because of our last name http://t.co/OQ8veArTDD

These poor kids are the sons of a famous nfl QB and that's holding them back!

I think the problem is that Chris Simms was so much more recent. I remember watching Pepp politely help him up over and over.......and over. Only time I ever felt bad for a Bucs player. Probably won't be the last.

Ban OP

Is there some kind of dirty bird past that we don't know about? Go on, it's safe here. (it's not safe here at all)

Soooooo...in honor of the off season and because I think it would be cool to know, how many of you can claim to be a lifelong Panthers fan?  Don't tell a fuging lie if you are older than 26.

 

I still consider myself life-long, especially considering the life of the franchise. I was 12, growing up in Charlotte, when the team came to town, and didn't follow football before that. I think that counts.