Mr. Scot

If I thought they did that, I'd say they deserve to be fired. You don't make football decisions for appearances sake. But yeah, that theory's been thrown around before, and been pretty well debunked. I know it's hard for people to accept that they didn't like Fields, but all evidence points to that being the case. Heck, even Verge said it.

FYI: The guy you're talking to was a big Marty defender, but I'm guessing he probably doesn't want to admit that now A lot of folks on here haven't been around long enough to know it, but I was pretty much the same with both Marty and Gettleman when they first started out. Might have been a little more optimistic with Gettleman given his background (and that he wasn't Marty). But yeah, I gave Marty a chance too. Was on board after the early successes, but around 2009 or so I really started to lose faith. I think it was about then that I looked back at five years or so of drafts and realized our drafting under Marty was pretty bad. And of course, it didn't get any better. As to what you call "the current crowd", they do have the "not Marty" thing going for them, and Fitterer has a pretty solid resumé. Outside of that though, still yet to be seen. I overall like the moves so far, but that's just gut feeling. We'll see what happens when it's actually put the test.

Now this is a stupid take. But then you've got a long standing pattern of spending more time talking about me than actually talking about football, so...no shock.

A little acknowledgment from the league...

Speaking of stupid posts...

Could be worse. I could offer really stupid opinions... ...like yours.

I'm on a football forum to discuss football, but that doesn't change the fact that some discussions are stupid. I know it's a big deal these days for people to act like Jim Rome, make their "bold prediction" so they can come back later and say "see, I nailed it" (or act like they never said it if it turns out to have been a dumbass idea) but that kind of silly sh-t doesn't interest me. I have ideas about what was good and what wasn't, but just like everyone else's they're just educated guesses (though truthfully, "educated" isn't a word that applies to every poster's ideas). There are times when I might feel like discussing those, but generally I don't see the point. So basically, it's not so much "afraid to go out on a limb" as it is not giving a sh-t about going out on a limb because I don't have anything to prove to anybody.

I can't think of any move that was made which I'd find dumber than trying to predict the success of the moves we made before the team even plays a down.

And yeah, it's gonna be the left tackle position battle for me.

Yeah, I could see that. "There was this one play where I couldn't remember what the free safety's assignment was, so I didn't feel like I had fully grasped the playbook yet"

Lady Cowboy Fan wants us to go this year. I haven't been able to get out of her whether or not she plans on wearing Cowboys gear

Luke's... different The line that most caught my attention was this one: "I hadn’t fully grasped the playbook." That's hard to imagine.

On a related note, it's nice to think that the last of Marty's contracts will be off the book within the next few years.

No, it's not. I don't like to pile on, but Thompson gets my vote too. Thompson's contract isn't his fault any more than McCaffrey's is his, but they exist, so...

If Hurney were just a puppet, why would you fire him? For that matter, why would you fire him and then turn around and hire a guy who's clearly not signing on to be a figurehead? Add in that it's pretty well established Tepper doesn't weigh in on personnel matters. Geez man, do you even follow the Panthers?

There have only been two perfect regular seasons in NFL history. Yes, the Dolphins had one of them, but it was in 1972. Bob Griese and Earl Morall were the quarterbacks. Dan Marino was 11 years old (Yikes !)

I'm not sure you're going to find a lot of agreement with that outside of the Panther fanbase. The biggest thing Smith needs is a Hall of Fame voter pushing for him. Given his relationship with a lot of the media guys, I'm not sure that's gonna be easy to find.

And yet those guys aren't in either, including the ones who do have Super Bowl rings. That, plus there's a list of guys who've been waiting even longer than them (Cliff Branch, Mark Clayton and Mark Duper for example). You seriously think Steve Smith is just gonna leapfrog those guys?

McCaffrey actually got even better in the following two years and had the 1000/1000 achievement in 2019. Lemme guess: You also have a different definition of "deterioration" maybe? (or perhaps you just have no clue what you're talking about)

You're probably wrong about that, but it doesn't really matter. The Hall of Fame isn't purely stat driven (nor should it be).

Nah. The actual"beginning of the end" was Newton's injury, and the later aggravation of it against the Steelers. It's the weirdest thing though. The team didn't close down after that. In fact, they're still in the process of rebuilding and a lot of us are optimistic about the future. Of course there's others that just want to be pathetic trolls, but you're always gonna have that

And yet you didn't seem to be aware that 2017 was a winning season. Heh

Well, I don't tend to be a miserable little sh-t about things, so no. Even though we lost Super Bowl 38, the highlights from it are still fun to watch. Likewise, while the 2015 season ended on an extremely sour note, there are still a lot of really fun clips from that year. Hell, I'd even watch good highlights from Super Bowl 50. (I'm just not sure any actually exist)

Oh, and to answer the dumbass question, a simple search like "McCaffrey 2017 highlights" will get you plenty. Last season may have sucked, but there were still plenty of fun highlights (Jeremy Chinn's two quick touchdowns, for example). I'm not gonna refrain from enjoying them (or whine like a little b-tch when someone else does) just because it was a losing season.