Mr. Scot

You mean Sizzlebuzz / Dr. Lunkhead's favorite news source? Don't follow them so can't speak on what they reported. Who gives a sh-t about clicks?

Person's only reporting the decision. In previous articles where actual business analysis might have been needed, he's deferred to guys like Erik Spanberg and Daniel Kaplan.

On the plus side, there's stuff like this... Said it more than once. I think the saving grace of our defense is good personnel. The weakness has been in the coaching, particularly Phil Snow.

I wonder how many times God's been thanked that we didn't get this guy

Have said the same. We feasted in early games but after week 4 or 5 we really weren't very good. There are certainly good personnel on that side of the ball but defensive coaching last year was heavily overrated.

Probably a lot easier to do when you don't actually read it (as I suspect some haven't).

You know what I meant

I can't fault anybody for this deal. McLaurin is really good.

Still there in all it's glory last I saw... I think this is likely the truth. He's clearly looking for something but the way he goes about it just turns everybody off.

I wasn't even looking for him. And to be honest, don't even totally remember how I found him All I recall is one day seeing this goofy stuff on Twitter in a side bar while I was looking at something else. Thought to myself "Wow, that sounds like our resident Tepper Worshipper" so I looked closer. And yep...

I forgot Marty was up there

That thought has crossed my mind. Dad's one of the best OL coaches in the league too, though I'd prefer to keep Campen in that role and have dad be what you said.

The basic logic is that he needs time to learn the playbook, he's better than what we have and he's a better option than Garoppolo, all of which is probably valid. All that said, I'm still not on board.

NFL 40 under 40: Coaches, execs, agents and other rising stars around the league No Panther coaches or executives listed (a lot of front office and team leadership guys are over 40) but a former player, a couple of adjacent folks and an upcoming coordinator that I've pondered as a possible future head coach. Starting with... ____________________________________ Greg Olsen, Fox Sports lead analyst | Age: 37 Olsen in May was named the color analyst in Fox’s No. 1 broadcast booth, alongside Kevin Burkhardt, just two years after his 14-season career as an NFL tight end concluded. Olsen replaces Troy Aikman, who went to ESPN along with Joe Buck. The assignment means Olsen is on track to call the Super Bowl in February. Olsen started preparing for his broadcasting career while he was still playing. He joined a Fox broadcast crew as a color analyst for the first time during his bye week in 2017, and did the same in 2019. Now he has the lead gig for at least a season — or until Tom Brady retires and begins the broadcast deal he committed to with Fox earlier this year. “Even if I get one year at it, I’m going to try to kill it,” Olsen said on “The Dan Patrick Show” podcast this spring. “I’m going to try to make it a fun season, (hope) people tune in, really enjoy our broadcast, and hopefully Tom plays for a few more years.” Olsen, 49ers tight end Greg Kittle and the Chiefs’ Travis Kelce also last year founded “Tight End University,” a summer gathering for the league’s top players at the position to share tips of the trade. The second annual session was held last week at Vanderbilt University. ____________________________________ If that whole "promising the world to Brady" thing comes back and bites Fox on the ass, I won't be surprised...but I will be amused. Next, under the heading of "Panthers adjacent"... ____________________________________ Emily Leitner, NFL Films producer | Age: 32 If you’ve watched recent seasons of “Hard Knocks,” you’ve seen Leitner’s work. Producer is a broad title, she said, that covers a lot of tasks: directing, editing and writing, all on quick deadlines to produce documentary-quality episodes in a span of days. “Hard Knocks In Season” with the Colts was a particularly difficult yet rewarding challenge, shooting on location in Indianapolis for nine straight weeks. That production began almost immediately after wrapping the training camp season in Dallas. In 2019, Leitner was part of the production team that won an Emmy Award for its work on the Amazon series “All or Nothing,” featuring the Carolina Panthers. ____________________________________ Also in the "semi Panthers related" area, you'll find Bears GM Ryan Poles and Chiefs VP of Football Operations Brandt Tilis, both of whom interviewed for the Panthers GM job that eventually went to Scott Fitterer. And lastly... ____________________________________ Brian Callahan, Bengals offensive coordinator | Age: 38 Callahan was a 27-year-old entry-level offensive assistant coach with the Broncos when Peyton Manning became Denver’s new quarterback. The subsequent four years they spent together was the equivalent to earning “beyond a Ph.D. in football,” Callahan said. Now that Callahan is working with Burrow, he finds himself frequently leaning on what he learned with Manning. “(Manning) forced you to be so thorough. It taught me how to teach quarterbacks and how to give them the right information,” Callahan told The Athletic recently. “My job as a coach in that quarterback room, if you have a quarterback of Joe’s caliber, you want to empower him to have command over the whole thing. Seeing the way Peyton had control over the whole offense, that was valuable to me, and I can impart that to Joe.” Callahan, whose father is longtime NFL offensive coach Bill Callahan, said he has head-coach aspirations. For now, though, he is fulfilled being one of three offensive coaches in Burrow’s ear, along with Taylor and 35-year-old quarterbacks coach Dan Pitcher. The trio has been together since Taylor’s arrival in Cincinnati in 2019. “We all grew up together in a sense. We took our lumps, had a lot of failures and learned a lot professionally and personally. That really galvanized our staff. Everybody’s on the same page on how we want to do things,” Callahan said. “There’s an excitement here, and moments where we’re young enough, we don’t know better, we just do the things we feel are right. Hopefully we’ll look back on this staff in 10 years and say, ‘That’s a really dynamic staff, everyone’s gone on to do great things.’” ____________________________________ I don't normally go this young when I'm looking at potential head coaching options, but there's a lot to like about Callahan. Didn't include their profiles here but other potential head coach candidates found in the article include Eagles DC Jonathan Gannon, Jets OC Mike LaFleur, 49ers DC DeMeco Ryans and Colts ST Coach Bubba Ventrone.

Should...

It's our buddy Sizzlebuzz. And if I put on the amateur profiler's hat that I earned by watching ten plus seasons of Criminal Minds, I can tell you what I see. His biggest desire is for attention / acknowledgement from people he considers "famous" or important (mostly local radio or newspaper guys). It's why if you look at his tweets, so many of them tag anywhere from one to a dozen of those people at a time. He used to do the same thing here under his current ID and previous ones, frequently tagging Igo and others, usually mods (Igo at one point just had to tell him to stop tagging him). Again, seeking attention from people that are "important" in his mind, and trying to portray himself as their equal...or better. But at least on Twitter, they don't respond to him. Heck, the only responses I've ever actually seen to any of his tweets are his own. That's probably because he's constantly telling all those folks how much smarter than them he thinks he is (see his interactions with Ellis as an example). Between that, the lies he (unsuccessfully) tells about himself and other stuff, the bottom line is he wants to be thought of as a big deal. As mentioned though, the way he goes about it just makes him a big annoyance. I've cautioned him numerous times to stop trying to act like he's King Sh-t and just be happy to be part of the conversation but he never listens. Most likely he'll end up banned again at some point, quite possibly in the not too distant future. And then later, the cycle will start all over again

Comfort does too. Some guys are just happy where they are and don't necessarily need to be the highest paid player at their position or part of the hottest team in the league. I'd guess that's probably true of DJ Moore as well.

It's been a good offseason to be an NFL wide receiver

Not sure about psychotic, but it's plainly obvious he really really wants attention. Part of his issue though is that he doesn't seem to understand just how obnoxious he comes off in the pursuit of it.

He posted his Twitter handle in our off the wall friend's most recent thread.

I agree with that. Unfortunately, I also remember just how crazy hard David Tepper tried to put us directly at the center of it Not exactly strong evidence of great wisdom, judgment or brains...

Let's just say there's a few of those I hadn't heard before

How likely see that coming from a guy who sticks other people with the dinner bill?

Damn, guys