Khyber53

You are missed @Mr. Scot! Hope everything goes well for you and you recover completely. Prayers sent up for you and yours!

Eddie is what you want from your kicker. They are meant to grab three points for you when your team bogs down between the 20 and 35 yard lines. And he does that magnificently. And they are meant to seal the seven for you on touchdowns. Those shots from 50+ are always a pull the team out of the fire thing and he's decent there, even good. A team that can boast about their kicker hitting multiple kicks from 57-63 yards each season isn't telling the full story... that their offenses bog down and their defenses aren't strong enough to make something from pinning the opponent inside the five with a good punt. You get a guy like Eddie on your team, you sign the contract and keep him comfortable while you work on the rest of the team.

Yanno, Eddie has been really good for us and if we actually got him more work, that'd be great. Right now, at least, the kicker and punter are the least of this team's worries. And last year, they were probably the only weapons the team had in the bag. I'm so hopefully for a better season this time around. The bar that has been set is not very high at all to show improvement.

Newest one.

Now talk about pure speculation...

We looked like it was the first game of the preseason in a downpour and that we were the worst team in the NFL last season with a new head coach AND that we were sitting all of our starters. In other words, that was slow and disappointing. A slop fest. A real showing of how there is no depth on the offensive line as of yet and that we had some very bad drafts over the past few years. Maybe we can see something next game. Something. Anything. Please.

It's a pre-season match up of the two worst teams in the league from last year. One team will look much better than it actually is and one team will look exactly as bad as it is. Still, that's my team and that's what I'll be watching tonight. Unless it's called on account of weather.

The Dolphins and Cowboys both let a guy they knew walk for what is a bargain price for a starting center... Wonder why if that was what they could have had him for. Perhaps they know something.

Dude is gonna run off with Tepper's wife.

That would still be a massive improvement of where we've been recently. Honestly, if Plummer shows out, he still won't start at the beginning of the season. September, and maybe deep into October, will be Bryce's opportunity to show whether he will be our franchise QB (and it will take a massively good showing to retain the job beyond this season) or whether he'll take the Colt McCoy route to journeyman QB around the league. I wish him luck.

Aw crap, naw.

Oh Lord, I hope we don't. He will suck all of the oxygen out of the region surrounding Charlotte. Let's just avoid any of the Sanders kids. They have half their Dad's talent and twice the ego problems (plus they bring their dad's along on top of that.) And let's not start on Arch Manning either. Both of those families will pull an Eli drafted by San Diego deal anyway should we throw a pick at them. Just move on.

I have been watching the NFL since the 1977 Super Bowl. I have seen a lot of great players and a lot of spectacular athletes. I have never ever, ever seen anyone who could be such a dominant force on the field of play that Julius Peppers was. He was a phenom, a force of nature. He was the greatest DE of his generation and could have been just as destructive at about five other positions on offense or defense. It hurt when he went north, but I understand. And it was wonderful that he came back and treated us to another couple of victory laps. Thanks Julius for being the great player and guy that you are.

Well, good luck to him. Life doesn't always give third chances. I hope he plays lights out with it.

So... yeah that brothers thing always works out. Probably don't need to mention the Kahlil brothers deal now, do I?

I kinda figured that was the call, but really, why even bother then? I hope the season isn't the clusterflack that "event" was.

Tried to watch some of it on TV, but wow, they couldn't keep the camera on the game or the ball or the players. Who handled the coverage, the Clemson freshman broadcasting club?

We've assembled better offensive players around him. It should give him the opportunity to thrive. If it doesn't, and we crash and burn, again, then we go back to the well and take another first round QB. We really have no other option.

Every player, even those under 30 years old, has a multitude of aches and pains that they have to work with every day. And honestly, the grind of training camp and another long season ahead of you for a lot less pay than you've been used to, and maybe retirement doesn't look so bad. I hope he does well out there and finds a lot of happiness. Thanks for coming by and sharing a cup of coffee with us man. Good luck to ya!

Run down the field, catch the ball, keep running down the field. If he can do that in every game this year, he'll get the Charlotte Nobel Prize.

Honestly, if you want to train up a rookie WR, then you get to the CB and tell him to do just that to the guy... hook him, hold him, force him out of bounds, trash talk him, hard bump him off the line, tug his jersey during the run. Just make it hell on the kid. He's caught balls before time and time again. He needs to toughen up to the harassment that DBs are going to give him on every down this season.

Give the man all of the games. He never had a fair shot last season and let's be honest he has spent his entire life working to get this opportunity. Give it to him. He might not be great right off the bat again this season. He may still be struggling by mid-season. He might finally catch on and develop by the end of the season as a very young, newly coached team gels. Or he might come out swinging right off the bat and look like a world-beater. And then struggle late in the season as teams get more tape on the new improved version. That's an important thing for us to see as well. Or he may do badly from the start, getting progressively worse as the season wears on and the games become more desperate or important for our opponents. He wouldn't be the first, or the last, highly touted young QB to just not make it. Either way, give the man the season to prove himself and for us to be able to fully evaluate him and our history. If the team just tanks again, then we can enter the QB sweepstakes yet again. If he improves but our record only touches the middling level, that's still better than we have been for a while... there is something to build on or hold to as we shore up the defense or other areas of weakness. If he just completely takes off, well, we just won't know what to do with that joy, will we?

We really dissed it back in the day but really, it was a line that did a lot of solid work. And let's face it, they were working with an incredibly unconventional QB behind them. Cam was an astounding player, but those guys in front of him had to put in a lot of work... just think of how long Cam extended some plays and think of how hard it is to make and maintain blocks for even just the regular length of plays. And man, Ryan Kalil. Dude was a first rate center who deserved a lot more credit. (Although he sure was beloved by our fanbase.)

Man, I feel bad for him there. Still, loved the guy when he played for us, really gave us his all. That one playoff run versus the Iggles where he steamrollered 12 Philly players and three fans to get into the endzone was just magic. Hope his coaching career at UCLA goes great for him.

You better believe it! We've got fiber optic here and it's amazing.