Mr. Scot

You just said a few weeks ago that your dad was playing golf with Pat McCrory. Having trouble keeping your stories straight?

It sounds like some within the Panthers are okay with it too.

Cabot addressed that... The Browns have no plans to cut Mayfield, even if he’s still on the roster at the start of training camp in July, a league source tells cleveland.com. With Mayfield under contract for a fully-guaranteed $18.86 million, it makes no sense for the Browns to cut him and take the entire hit. They’ll subtract whatever he makes from his next team from that amount, but it wouldn’t make much of a dent. The Browns would be better off hanging onto Mayfield and seeing if a team is willing to take a sizable chunk of that salary off their hands in the event of a QB injury before the trade deadline, or the realization that their starter isn’t cutting it.

McAdoo was reported to not be a huge fan of Mayfield when he was drafted. Probably.

He used to be on here under the name Sanjay, among others.

He doesn't know anybody...or anything, for that matter. He tries to crap on others' opinions in order to prop himself up, but everybody knows not to take him seriously.

As to the actual important stuff, I'd guess Ben McAdoo might be one of the people with a lesser opinion. If he were on board I'd expect Mayfield might already be in the fold. As to who wants him, most likely suspect is gonna be Rhule.

Mary Kay Cabot is one of the better reporters in the league. The only one full of sh-t would be you.

Career advancement for Suleiman. Again, nothing against that, but that's always the double edged sword.

From Albert Breer, covering the NFL Diversity Summit (link) Vincent saw Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp bringing her assistant GM, Ray Agnew, to other owners in the room, and Bears owner George McCaskey doing the same with defensive coordinator Alan Williams. Suleiman said Nicole Tepper got him over to Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, and even commissioner Roger Goodell was helpful in that regard. It's definitely possible cap guy Samir Suleiman could wind up getting a job promotion elsewhere before Dan Morgan does. I get the point of the summit, and I respect Suleiman's career goals, but have to admit the idea of introducing one of our top guys to another team's owner makes me wince a little. Not a huge deal, just kinda

The selling of football is a business. Football itself is a sport. And I see you're already slipping into "I'm losing so I have to try and distract" mode (not at all surprising).

For those who remember The Huddle blowing up Dave Dameshek's uniform poll... Related: the author of this, Broncos website writer Andrew Mason, was (briefly) employed as the lead writer for Panthers.com before getting his dream job working for his favorite team.

A...sport. (was this really a question?)

The fact remains that football is not business. The fact also remains that others have done it in less time, but Tepper still hasn't done it at all. Heck, the team hasn't even shown improvement yet. If anything, they've gotten worse. Which means again, using the standard that you applied, Tepper is a loser. (and here I thought you liked him)

To defeat you in debate generally only takes one. As soon as you realize you have no response you start replying with stuff like this, so...

Pretty sure Sizzle is our old friend Sanjay. Same MO: gets fixated on things (two TE sets, the Appaloosa Model), wants people to think he's smarter, responds as if he's proven something when he obviously hasn't, etc.

There's definitely something current, and that's what McCoy is hinting at. The record could still be an issue for some though. I'd say it might be a combination of the two.

Plenty of teams have produced winning programs in less time. "You are what your record says you are" was your standard. By that standard (again, as applied by you) David Tepper is, after four years under his watch, a sh-tty owner. No amount of attempted spin will change that. I'd guess that he might not like hearing that you consider him terrible at his job.

To be fair, even something intended as a joke gets a lot more serious when you're surrounded and someone puts their hand on your neck. At the time it happened, the story got Bieniemy banned from the campus so I'd say they took it pretty seriously.

Also, it's not exactly unheard of for a guy to talk one way when he's part of a team and another way after he leaves them. Time frame on those comments would probably be helpful.

That's what I've heard, but I don't know anything about what Albright has actually said.

Well then I guess David Tepper is an absolute loser. Under his leadership, the Panthers can't even reach a 500 season.

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Darin's probably right