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11 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

I think the biggest problem I have with them is that the sweat shows up well on them, and it's just a lot of blue

13 hours ago, 3838 said:

Kicking the Cowboys azz while sporting those god awful things ,that memorable Thanksgiving takes the ridiculousness out of them.

Still, looked like a bunch of naked Smurfs running around out there.

57 minutes ago, PantherFanInPhilly said:

What's the "ted lasso coaching model"? I see it referenced a lot on but I never saw the show..isn't it a comedy about a soccer coach? Just curious what the reference is about. 

It's a show that's good enough to buy the Apple+ subscription for. One of the best sitcoms of the last 20 years.

Sounds like a good guy and he's going to have to do a job like Carroll did with Seattle when he went into that trainwreck.

This season is about salvaging the blocks to build a foundation. I hope he can do that because from where we're sitting the cupboard is just about bare.

2003 looked like a crap team of cast offs for us, too. And 2015 we lost our leading receiver in the offseason and had an o-line and receiving corps made of cast offs and never wases. 

Maybe he'll find that old magic. Or maybe make some of his own. 

Me, I just want to see something sturdy being built, and see a gritty, mauling defense paired with a smash mouth running game. 

It's be hard to be worse than most are predicting us to be. 

That being said, nothing is impossible.

The Color Rush Electric Smurf uniforms were terrible. Embarassing.

We're going to see a lot of rugby and Aussie rules football guys being brought into the league if the new kick-off rules prove popular. Those guys can both kick and tackle, as well as receive and run.

Here's a quick one for laundry to cut back on water and electricity. Unless you have a really grimy job like masonry, carpentry, road construction, etc... you really should just be using the quick cycle on your washing machine for all loads except for whites. And set your dryer to medium heat, it will make a difference. Also, use about half of the detergent that they say for you to. 

On top of the savings, your clothes will also last longer. 

Prediction: Eddie will be the next excellent kicker we can't come to terms with and ends up in Kansas City.

5 hours ago, CRA said:

I mean, I think the people would rejoice if we could reach the level of the interim Wilks/PJ/Sam Carolina Panthers this season. 

Had we just stuck with that...

It was a bad decision from a team building decision to move on from Wilks. 

It was a bad decision from a winning games perspective to move on from Wilks.

It was a bad decision purely based on karma.

Last year, hopefully, put the karmic balance back to even, or tipped it in our favor some.

I really wanted Wilks to stay here as HC, not gonna lie.

On 5/28/2024 at 10:44 AM, CRA said:

disagree.  

going into last year....some said Frank's O and the talented we added around Bryce didn't fit very well.  And that he would likely struggle as teams sat on our pass game with Bryce.   And that was basically how the entire season unfolded.   They didn't have the talent or scheme for Bryce to get the ball out quick....and the results were going to be bad for him without it. 

It's not his fault given we drafted him...but Bryce not fitting what we wanted to do offensively, killed the O. 

Mentioning that got you destroyed on the board last year.  That's still the case IMO.  Bryce Young is not the QB that you want running a Canales O.  But again, that won't be Bryce's fault.  This is all Tepper's creation and pairing of things. 

We're just going to have to see what happens. I sure didn't like what I saw last season, but I remember seeing pretty much an entire team that stunk, sort of the whole pile of turds not just one shiny new one.

Let's hope things get better this year. Somehow.

2 hours ago, mrcompletely11 said:

you serious clark?

Yeah, I'm serious. You take all of the first year jitters any rookie QB starting will face. Then you put him behind an inept line, give him a group of WRs that features a 32-33 year old slot receiver as their only reliable guy and use him as WR1, no TEs to speak of, pay big bucks for an undersized and over-touted RB that isn't out competing practice squad players AND THEN pair it up with a dysfunctional owner/HC/OC combo that keeps running the same play concept again and again and again. (And coaches that were already at each other's backs with daggers don't develop young QBs... heck it's the hardest skill ever for any HC.. Jon Gruden never could do it and there's a case to be made that Belichick never did it (the QB developing the coach possibly there)).

Yeah, he was bad, legendarily bad, but he was in possibly the worst environment imaginable for a rookie QB. You can take away some mechanics issues that should have been worked on and still need to be worked on, but everything else was tainted by that environment. 

I wasn't impressed by him in the least for anything except for his character and willingness to go back out there and just get killed again and again. At least he wasn't running away on every play, little girly screams lifting to the cheap seats, like Pickles was. 

Will he be good this year? Honestly, the odds are stacked against him. They are on every young QB in the league, and he had more piled against him. Maybe Canales can fix him and the team. I sure hope so. If not, it's back to the drawing board and we'll have wasted two seasons.

I really don't want that to happen.

Right now, no one can know how Bryce will perform this year. There's nothing we can take from last year's work that wasn't tainted by bad coaching and bad players all around him. 

And we really don't know how the team rebuild is going.

Or how the teams we are opposing will do.

Or where a key injury to our team or others will affect the games.

We're just going to have to tune in or show up at the stadium to find out.

And that's kind of exciting. Can't wait for September and decent football to return. Hope we're playing some of it.

Karloff, Chaney, Lugosi and Chaney, Jr. Yep, that's the Mt. Rushmore! Nice paint job, too!

Have fun and hope you're feeling great!

Honestly, sports fuged up education.

And it isn't even close to be done.

Always loved Pep and I understood why he went to Chicago and cheered when he eventually came back home. 

One of the catchiest rock tunes. 

And another new one. This one was pretty astounding how someone would just flip and run. Gambling is a hard, hard drug man.

High character players will win seasons for you.

3 hours ago, bythenbrs said:

Juan or Bryce?  This conversation has taken a turn I don’t follow…

Bryce. Not that Juan isn't trying, but yanno.

He's such a good kid. I really hope he can shine this season and prove the doubters (including me) wrong. I'm really pulling for him to make it.

New story I wrote just went up. We tripled our research efforts to get this one, let me know what you think of what turned out. Powerful moments in it, particularly when the detective says, "She wasn't a very big girl."

On 5/14/2024 at 4:53 PM, LinvilleGorge said:

NIL will ultimately probably mean the end of non-revenue generating college athletics. To be able to compete in the revenue sports you're going to have to cut out all the programs that are losing money for your school.

You know, like classes outside of the business school.

Just spin off all college sports into developmental, for profit leagues and let universities and colleges get back to educating people for their careers. 

I just don't know. New coach, new system, new management, new weapons, excellent draft, great free agency pick ups. I mean, that's gotta create optimism, right?

Except we've heard this before. Like three times in the past six seasons. 

I hope Canales has the answer, but they're going to have to make me believe this time. Show me something. Anything.