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I was thinking they would give #1 to the Spurs but now I see the brilliance. Dallas gets the #1 for keeping the Lakers relevant, and they still get to build around Wemby by giving the Spurs extra ammo to trade for Giannis.

It’s the dumbest system in North American major sports. It doesn’t stop tanking, it just gives the league the ability to put players where they want them while punishing actually bad teams that need the top pick.

Rigged as fug.

My guess is the NBA will either send Flagg back “home” to the Northeast in Brooklyn or Washington, or San Antonio so that they can keep building around Wemby. If I was a betting man I would take the odds on the Spurs. This definitely feels like a #1 pick that they will rig.

Yep no axe to grind here, just a brave journalist shaming a 70+yr old man for taking ED medication. Perfectly normal stuff.

Raise an eyebrow? Lol. Idgaf about the owner, I’m a fan of the Panthers as a team. Fully guaranteed contracts generally aren’t best for the team, I don’t want the team to pay more than they have to for a player who isn’t contributing proportionate to his pay. Now if it’s something like when Tom Brady took less than market value in total money but got his money fully guaranteed, that is something I can get on board with. There’s a give and take there. I don’t like the team taking all the risk.

I’m guessing this means they get bailed out on that albatross contract now, of course.

And he wants the you know what. I’m sure he’s smart enough to know the deal.

Something is wrong with the huddle and it won’t let me quote Canadian cat so I’ll just quote this. The way the contracts in the nfl work is actually pretty fair, not to mention that it is a system that has been collectively bargained by the players themselves. Contracts can always be breached in any system/profession. It’s not a matter of whether one side has the ability to and the other doesn’t, it is a matter of what the penalty for breaching is. Teams are penalized for cutting players before their contract is up. It is also the only recourse teams have if a player is not performing up to their contract. Players can also breach their contracts by holding out, sitting out, etc. and choose to accept whatever penalties or forfeiture of pay results. It’s not a unilateral system as some seem to believe. Yes there will always be players that outperform their contracts as well as players that don’t live up to them. Since I’m a fan of the TEAM, I like when the team makes savvy investments and gets performance under market value.

Such weird thinking honestly. I’m a fan of the team. If it is better for the team that a player can be cut and the money that would have gone to them can make the team better being spent on a different player, that’s what I want. I’m not gonna shed any tears over millionaires losing some money being cut before their contract is up due to performance/injury and I don’t see how that gets you any social brownie points among the proletariat. Aren’t you just licking the millionaire athlete boot? These guys ain’t hurting.

The school has already said this isn’t true. Just part of SECSPN’s continuing smear campaign against Belichik for dating a 24 year old. Not that I approve, and sure they are probably both using each other, but they’re both adults so whatever. Media hack Pablo Torre is defending his rumor spreading by crying that the school did not grace his information requests with a response in a manner timely enough for the ego of an SECSPN reporter, therefore it is ok in his opinion to spread rumor as fact.

Why do this? What leverage did the rook have to get an unprecedented deal? Just go status quo and stop trying to get an ESPN article written about you at your own and everybody else’s expense.

We brought him in to be a bridge and depth piece. Not sure what we can find out there with the $7m that would be better, would have preferred keeping him this year thought we would have a good rotation with him, Wonnum, and the rooks.

Finding positives in Bryce’s most recent play which constitutes over a third of his career so far = cherry picking. Obsessing over the negatives of his rookie season and first 2 games of sophomore season = the only acceptable way to form an outlook on Bryce Young. Makes total sense. Wish you guys would stop cherry picking only his NFL stats! You can call pretty much anything cherry picking it’s not hard.

Mike Wallace, Martavis Bryant, Chase Claypool, Plaxico Burress. Headcase WRs are what the Steelers do.

Not to mention his rookie year he had Gross, Kalil, Wharton, Hangartner, Williams, Stewart, 89, Olsen, and Shockey. Looking at what Bryce had his rookie season in comparison is laughable.

Cam did have Olsen, so there’s that, but yeah I’m very happy to see the FO take building the offense seriously and was somewhat worried before the draft that they thought it was good enough. Love the Tmac pick and what it does for our WRs.

It’s so weird to see people complaining about putting better players on the team when we all complained the whole time Cam Newton was here about not properly building around him. Remember that time Cam had some shitty players on OL in the Super Bowl? Go figure, MVP of the league even looks bad when he’s getting pummeled all game. And Cam never had an OL that even sniffed the incompetence of the 2023 OL. I’ve never seen so many plays with immediate free rushers up the middle. But let’s somehow make improving THAT unit and the worst WR corps in the league an indictment on the QB.

Yup, after the first couple of weeks I thought we had ruined him. Clearly zero trust in his OL and receivers and a lot of bad habits developed. Classic case of a guy that shouldn’t have started year one, not because he lacked the talent, but because the team around him was so clearly terrible and it hurt his development. I still don’t know who to blame for that debacle, I think Reich is a better coach than that even if he’s no Vince Lombardi, and nothing really got better once he was fired. Thomas Brown looks like he might have been a pretty major culprit, he didn’t appear to do Caleb Williams any favors either and that was with a far superior supporting cast. Feeling a lot more optimistic and I think this could be a fun season.

I’m hoping very early because that probably means he’s balling.

I just don’t see Nalo catching on with the general public. I’m sure it makes sense for his friends but it feels forced from my perspective. Tmac is just a natural shortening of his name. Tet feels most natural, imo, as is evidenced by basically everybody naturally just calling him that before they are told not to. Imo, mama bear should just get over that one, but hey it’s what moms do. If he is ok with Tet, as he said he is, I think it’s fair game. Either way, if you have to take a poll on a nickname, I think that is an answer in and of itself.

It was yo gabba gabba Blaine Gabbert, but yeah equally dumb. I remember him being head over heels for Jake Locker, too. I remember thinking Mallett would be a great QB and wanting the Panthers to draft him, but hey at least nobody pays me for my opinion on this stuff.

Ok but is anybody investigating the media pranking Shedeur into believing he was a top 10 pick?

Well glad that is decided, thanks!

Corbin Burns?