Mr. Scot

I grow increasingly glad every day that we did not pursue that option.

That's a fun video

Re: Payton

Jim Irsay?

John Ellis points out a fun turnaround from last season... And also quotes The Athletic's article talking about Irsay firing Reich specifically because he wanted to hire Jeff Saturday.

Jones states in the article that Johnson might be waiting to see if Shane Steichen gets a head coaching job, either so he can follow him to his new destination or follow in his footsteps as Eagles OC. It's speculation, but reasonable speculation.

Also... The article points out that Taylor was "playing through pain" all last season. I get that mitigating circumstances only apply when we're talking about Steve Wilks, but hey...

People are getting impatient

43 Toss Power Trap on OOOOOOONNNNNNEEEE!!!

It's Florio, dude. Sh-t stirring is his business. Hell, he spent years trying to get presumed top picks to sit out their senior seasons. Yet even he only states that it's something they might want to explore. And that there will be emails and documents and such to show internal communication. My guess? He knows this is bullsh-t. But hey, anything for clicks, right?

At a time when we were pursuing Ben Johnson, but we must have...nah, I'm not gonna try.

Yeah, I saw that and was like

Sorry dude, but you're being attacked not for personal reasons, but because this argument is ridiculous. There are enough holes in this theory to make Swiss cheese jealous. Frank Reich didn't conspire with the Panthers. Hell, pretty much everybody who knows Reich would tell you he's one of the most honorable men in the NFL. Reich would never be party to screwing over another coach. And suggesting his daughter's hire was part of some covert plan is just utterly ridiculous. If you're upset about being attacked, drop this silly argument.

But his heart's in Michigan

Yeah, they had a fake report on USA while back.

You're off the deep end with this stuff, dude

To be fair, Denver was confident they were getting Demeco Ryans till recently.

The analogy was pretty accurate with regard to how credible this particular conspiracy theory is. Hell, you've never even answered how all of this stuff with Reich's daughter is supposed to be relevant when Ben Johnson was the target and different members of the search committee had different preferences (including Fitterer backing Wilks). Bottom Line: There's zero credible evidence for any of this, but you're treating it like some established fact that you think the Panthers have to answer for. It's just silly.

You don't get analogies, do you? That said, this theory makes about as much sense.