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That reads like a 3rd grader wrote it, I wouldn’t pay it much attention. The whole premise is based on Joe Person (calls him Joseph, lol) saying that Tmac is adjusting to the physicality of NFL corners. Also says Tmac was picked #12. These summer breaks are too long for these kids, get him back in school.

TMJ was terrible and straight up quit on routes. That definitely loses you games. You may not see it the same from the couch as the guy who actually put in effort to get open and dropped a pass, but not running your route and the QB taking a sack or giving up on a would be touchdown loses games just the same. Just saying. For all his faults, XL is light years better than TMJ.

Not surprised at all at you trying to force that conclusion. I’m extremely over this conversation or whatever it is. Can we agree on a Go Panthers? Hope they crush the Browns.

Yep, and tell me how many posts I made pooing the pick in the “Kon Knueppel Looks Terrible” summer league thread. ZERO. Having opinions is ok, it’s the constantly raging about them. But keep demonstrating your complete lack of understanding of anything I’m saying. Again, when you live in a world of absolutes…

I don’t know why you keep responding to me it’s like you’re having a totally separate conversation with somebody saying completely different things. I’m not mad, I was responding to somebody other than you and didn’t mention you at all. Since you’re so enlightened you really didn’t have to stoop to my level and start quoting me and trying to tell me what I think. I’m trying to live in my world of sunshine and rainbows I can’t handle all this reality.

I have my doubts, tbh. Any new bandwagon fans who are on the younger side probably won’t be looking for internet message boards. We’ll probably lose a lot of old huddlers who may have otherwise returned because the password recovery doesn’t work. Many won’t return who left for reasons other than the team sucking. Others will be driven off by the ads and system drag. But maybe somebody actually comes along and takes care of the place, that could help.

You saying Dalton was better or is there somebody I missed?

You’re just reinforcing everything I said. It’s these posters who live in the world of absolutes that have dragged the huddle into to the mud over the past few years. Not wanting to dwell in constant negativity = shooting sunshine and rainbows from your ass 24/7. Not constantly whining about Tepper = being a mouthpiece for Tepper. No in-between. There is no room for normal conversation in that world. We shouldn’t have to explain such simple concepts, it is a complete drag, but there’s just not enough huddlers left who are sick of that poo because they all just left once this nonsense got empowered.

Lol who you talking to? I was very anti forcing Richardson to sell, very anti sell the team to rich Steelers guy who has no connection to the area, and pretty much against every move Tepper has made. See, if you don’t just constantly whine on this board and try to tell people how right you were whenever a move doesn’t work out (and never mention anytime you were wrong), you’ll just have some ideology foisted upon you. If you dare to say sports and fandom is about hope and enjoyment rather than telling everybody how much better you would run the franchise and playing Madden gm, somebody will say you live in a bubble lol. Case in point why this board has gone to hell.

I didn’t know he was parked when I created the thread, but it doesn’t change my opinion that if you’re body is your livelihood and you have that much money, then you should hire a driver. He may have been practicing today and playing against the Browns if he was sitting in the back seat you never know.

Agreed. Whenever we get to the point of everybody on fully automated and don’t need traffic lights, etc. that will be amazing. No more traffic jams. Doubt I’ll be alive to see it and maybe we’ll be flying cars by then anyways, but it’s really cool to think about.

I personally think it has more to do with the few constantly negative posters and those who really only care about being right about draft/player evaluations. Those were unfortunately empowered so much that it drove away people who wanted to have hope and talk about more than “x player sucks”. The board has become overrun by a sense that it’s cool to be negative just because the team has been bad for a few years. We can’t even band together in mutual hatred and disrespect for other teams, players, or division rivals because somebody will inevitably try to harsh the vibe by reminding you that the Panthers have been bad so we have no room to talk about anybody. Reading about our own team on this forum often feels no different than if you were reading about the Panthers on a Saints or Falcons forum. It’s cool to hate your own team, owner, gm, coach, qb, wrs, etc. If you want to do something else, we’ll create a separate thread for you so you don’t interrupt our whining.

Seems like it’s getting pretty bad everywhere. Doesn’t help that there’s different rules everywhere and places where it’s more dangerous to follow the actual law. I forget the name of the highway around Miami but I’ve driven it a few times and if you don’t go like 90 you’re in actual danger and causing a hazard for others. Or some places at 4-way stop lights U-turn yields to right turns and other places right turns yield to u-turns and now everybody is confused every time and it’s a cluster fug. And then there is zero requirement for anybody to prove any sort of competence on an ongoing basis to drive.

I don’t make anything close to what these athletes do and have contemplated it myself. I really never understand when I see the photos/videos of some of these top paid guys rolling into camp, game days, etc. personally driving their own vehicles.

Lest “they should hire drivers” keep being subjected to absolutely insane interpretations, here’s a few thoughts I have on the subject: 1. There is value in a professional who is better trained and more emotionally detached. 2. These athletes bodies are their livelihood and they should mitigate risk wherever possible and/or reasonable. For somebody making as much as Jaycee Horn, Cam Newton, Andy Dalton, I personally think hiring a driver would be a reasonable expense. 3. There is value in riding in the back of a car designed for such purposes, as opposed to the drivers seat where you can get forcibly hit in the face, chest, shoulders, and arms by a drivers air bag during a minor collision. Those air bags are designed to save lives during major collisions but they can easily do more harm than good during minor ones, especially when a torn rotator, fractured orbital, cracked ribs, concussion, any of the common airbag injuries could be career altering for these guys. 4. It shouldn’t need to be said that nobody thinks hiring a driver makes anybody immune to car accidents.

I said hiring a driver makes them immune to car crashes?

Nothing. What about hiring a pilot makes you immune to plane crashes?

In what seems like a yearly occurrence at this point, yet another important Panthers player has been injured in a car accident. Canales addressed it with the media and says stitches in Jaycee’s thumb but he is otherwise ok. Day to day: will not participate in practice today or play in the first preseason game against the Browns. I have never understood why these guys don’t hire drivers.

Not even remotely close what are you talking about.

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While I don’t believe there has been a more overvalued receiver amongst Panther fans since David Gettis, I think I’d want a little more from the Jags to do this. I do like Coker but I believe his ceiling is pretty close to where he’s already at, which is why he went undrafted.

I mean he’ll get humbled at some point and realistically speaking a top 10 pick in his 4th year vs. a rookie should be capable of doing that. He’s got the right attitude though. I’m rooting for both and hope Princely is right and he’s just THAT good and Ickey is great, too.

This was like 2 pages of mostly talk about safeties and then you started spiraling because someone questioned your awful take, posting multiple times in a row before anybody even responded to you. Is this about some guy saying something on Twitter or about Princely crying in a corner because Canales “crushed his confidence” by answering a question? It’s hard to get a read when you’re making back to back posts all complaining about different things. All 32 defenses have the same rule every year. Sometimes it gets broken, then the coaches coach. I’ve seen coaches flip out on Hard Knocks over it, fights break out, etc. This is very basic stuff and nothing new and has no effect on how hard a defense plays. Nobody is destroying Princely or unhappy with the effort. It was a coachable moment that could have ruined the season and very fortunately did not. That’s it. I’m sure the team has moved on and this thread would have likely moved on as well if you weren’t so zealous in your hatred of our starting QB.

Lol some people would rather see the starting QB injured than see a 3rd round pick get coached.