Mr. Scot

There's a place I miss...

Had to go back to find this, but Ellis has chimes in...

Directly above that... The rest of the post had a pretty condescending tone as well. Also, from earlier... So...yeah This is what the complaint was about, and I'm having to engage myself to highlight it. Conversations, and even disagreement, with intelligent people can be civil and enjoyable. This? Not so much.

Wow

Pretty sure he's a coach now (Seahawks...I think)

I can sign on with pretty much all of that...

Watson basically admits he didn't mean his apology... I've worked some sh-tty jobs in my time, but I can't imagine what it's like to work in public relations for the Browns right now

I'd imagine many similar statements were made around that same time

Some serious irony here I don't know if Ekwonu will be ready or not. I do know that for a position where the transition from college to pro is difficult, giving them more reps is a far superior choice than giving them less reps.

Yep. Believe it or not, they specifically wrote the contract in a way that allows them to keep paying him.

Yeah, I spent years hearing how criticisms of Marty Hurney weren't valid either. "You just hate him" Look how that turned out... That last line is a big part of the problem. When you say something like that, you don't actually have to defend your position because you're attacking the messenger, not the message. As far as specifics, the way most pro teams get a guy ready to play his chosen position is to give him as many reps as possible at that spot, not make him "earn it". That's a college approach. Could Ekwonu be ready? I sure hope so, but I don't have a lot of faith the team as a whole will. And I've got two years worth of reasons why.

I was expecting "No means no" myself. Granted, same number of syllables

And that's just a small sample, but an accurate one. Teams have been doing this for years. Heck, even prior Panther teams had rookie quarterbacks. Newton looked awful in his third preseason game, but at least he got the reps and was ready by week one. Corral doesn't have to be ready for week one, but Mayfield does. Ekwonu does. Hell, at this point, Cade Mays might have to. Oy...

Nah, but it's hard to miss that as usual, you'd rather talk about me than football

Fair point...sadly

The Cleveland Browns, ladies and gentlemen

Kinda wondering how the league will handle it if the Jaguar fans chant of "you sick f--k" catches on in other stadiums

Rewatched some of the old highlights. I'd forgotten that we were up by 11 with about six minutes left. Marshall Faulk put that Rams team on his back and practically willed them back to life. Faulk, Torry Holt, Isaac Bruce, Az Hakim...damn, that team was loaded. Hell, I remember one analyst who predicted that weekend's games had said they'd all be close but ours. The Rams, in his words, were going to "throttle the Panthers". If I recall correctly, the other games were the ones that wound up being blowouts, whereas ours went on to be one of the greatest playoff games in NFL history. Moments like that are why you watch sports

"Brother!" - Hulk Hogan

Oh, dear Lord...

If you've never seen it or you wanna relive it... 2003 Playoffs NFC Divisional Round The late Tony Siragusa was on the sidelines for this one. Dick Stockton and Daryl "Moose" Johnston were the announcers. Right before the big play, you can hear Stockton pitching the upcoming Fox lineup of "Cops" followed by "America's Most Wanted". If you listened to Panthers radio at the time you probably recall Bill Rosinski's call of the game and the play, as well as Eugene Robinson yelling out with both excitement and relief, "It's over!"

Fair enough...

Nah. I've said why I think certain moves of his have been bad multiple times. As far as the appeal to authority thing, I'd put it this way: Let's say you build a house. It falls down after about five days. You build another. It lasts a total of nine days, but also falls down. You give it one more try, and the final one makes it for seven whole days. But yeah, still falls down. Now, chances are you didn't do everything wrong when you built these houses, but you did enough that they weren't stable and now they're all flat. Seeing that, I don't necessarily need to be a certified engineer or have twenty years of home building experience to some to a pretty simple conclusion. You're a bad house builder. That's how it works...

No. Might be, but I guess it's kinda "last in, first out" either way...

Sports seems to be a common path toward that goal...