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Addition by subtraction

Transactionally, we gave up two firsts but received one back. Incrementally, we gave up one additional first. But I quibble...

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A 2025 second is equivalent to a 2023 fourth, correct?

Point guard...

No promises…

I know the lip quiver works for some women but, it does nothing for me.

A plain ham sandwich? Please. Fittz needs to show some testicular fortitude. A ham and cheese sandwich should be our minimum demand.

I love a good dry Charbonet with a medium rare filet…

So, no source?

Hurney still screwing us over, long after he departed.

You are a wise woman…

Cap management and cap casualty. Happens when your contract is disproportionate to your on field performance. Nothing against him as a player. Nice guy. Team Captain. I blame Hurney, not Shaq. That said, team has to create some cap space. Bears have cap space in abundance, Shaq becomes a starting LB for the Bears. It’s just business.

Shaq? Addition by subtraction?

We’re the Panthers. It’s what we do.

I'm tapping out. Carry on the good fight. You're a more patient man than I.

No one put a gun to his head. Don't like it, go to the CFL or get a real 9 to 5 job like every other person. You sign the contract, you perform to the terms of the contract, just like everyone else.

Lamar was playing for free? Who knew? Poppycock. He was under contract and cashing the checks weekly. He was being paid. He owed 'performance' under the contract to the team that was paying him, and a moral obligation to his teammates to not 'mail it in'. Anyone who deals with contracts understands the 'performance' obligation. Look it up. And thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

No incentive? How about 1) you're being paid to play unless you are truly injured, which, if true, is tantamount to theft; it can also be prosecuted as compensation fraud if provable, 2) personal integrity. I'll admit that I'm old school and, apparently, honesty and integrity are no longer virtues and now considered passe'. No wonder teams won't touch him. He's destroyed his own brand.

"He has an idiot for a client"

It’s often argued that you should choose quality over quantity however, it’s also true that “quantity has a quality of its own.” History buffs may remember that in WW2, we deployed many, many more lighter duty Sherman tanks against the more heavily armored Panzers and Tigers, which were superior but fewer in number. Simply put, we had more tanks on more battle fields and engagements than the Germans. Keep the 24 and 25 draft picks. Put more tanks on the field.

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner!