Khyber53

And yet, I'm still not interested in soccer.

Good luck to him!

Dang, man.

We have no idea what's going on. Maybe fired, maybe took a different job, maybe decided to get out of the game to spend more time with family. Could be anything. Let's move on. It's not like any of us were really stoked about what was going on in his office. Most of us had never given it a thought.

Oh, I agree. Just trying to put a positive spin on it.

Well, maybe he gets a shot and shows up as a new man and finally plays to his potential. Love to find out that he put all his demons behind him and a new road has opened up before him. Or, like all of us someday, we'd like one last chance to go out as the guy we once wanted to be. Best of luck to him and all the others getting their shot at summer training camp here. You won't find a place more in need of someone ascending.

It's probably best to go into the season with no expectations on Bryce -- good or bad. He, like every QB in the NFL every year will sink or swim based on what he can haul to the table on opening day. Sometimes the bad ones catch a moment of magic and take off, sometimes a mid one crumbles and finds themselves as a journeyman backup (not the worst career in the world to have), sometimes a great one hits the wall of age or injury and just can't answer the bell anymore. And with Bryce we have no idea what we have or will have. Any expectations right now are just speculations. The young guy has the weight of his entire life so far weighing down on him and defensive coordinators looking to pad their resumes with a game against a number one draft pick that they think they can rattle and reduce to nothing. Sheesh, I wouldn't want to be the kid, yanno? Still, that's a lot of money, that's a lot of potential, and that's a shot at immortality in the sports world he has by being that draft pick and a starting QB. The rewards... they're just astounding. What will be will be, though. Hoping for the best for the kid and the team. Looking at recent history here, though, and I just can't expect anything. I guess I'll just have to tune in and find out when it begins to really matter in September.

Great player, all around skillsman, great fellow. He'll be remembered for a century, maybe more.

Good for them! Wish we were heading into this season with him on the team, but he has really gone on to bigger and better things.

Honestly, we don't know what we have in Bryce at this moment. We will know by October, though. At that point with four to five games under his belt, there shouldn't be much of a question. I'm hoping we see massive improvement. Otherwise, well, how are the next class of draft-eligible QBs looking? It's a harsh situation to be in, but there's a lot of money on the table, too. And perhaps, just perhaps, we should stay away from Alabama QBs...

In a world of second chances, he's on which one? I mean, maybe it has locked into place finally, but really now?

I've long contended that Burns looks better than he actually was. He was quick with a lot of flex in his moves. Keep him engaged, though, and he wasn't blowing through anyone. YGM... never really made me sit up and go: whoa look at him. Just hoping to see something out there.

Here's my newest video. Takes place in Horry County, SC near Myrtle Beach.

Of course not. Billionaires... what ya gonna do, right?

Home Alone 5. Everyone else goes off to the meaningful late December games and then the playoffs. The Panthers, farting around as usual, get left behind when the other 31 teams of the family forget about them. Hilarity almost ensues.

Tepper bought the Panthers for almost $2.3 billion dollars in 2018. The city just plunked down a commitment for $800 million. How many other concessions and "partnerships" has Tepper gotten (including money for the failed Rock Hill, SC complex)? Ever think maybe the city should have just ponied up the money and bought the frikkin' franchise from the Richardsons?

If he threatens to leave, sue him.

November would be a good time to look at the longer term contract. Not June. Not before a single snap has been played.

Really hoping that will be the case here. And it has been a hot minute since Pittsburgh had a good QB. So, there could be something there. But let's see it before we sign the long term lease, yanno?

Pittsburgh didn't let him go because Mike Tomlin thought the guy was almost ready to hit his peak. Let's have the guy play some actual games for us. Let's not have a second Sanders on our roster soaking up the bucks and producing nothing for it.

I've tried to make the case before that last season's team was so badly coached and put together that anyone would have struggled and failed out there. As such, there's no real way to accurately gauge what Bryce actually can bring to the table. Look, he wasn't my choice for QB, but you can't look at the play calling, performance of other playmakers, lack of any cohesion or competency on the offensive line or even really any phase of the game and think that it didn't in some way just kill the kid. Stroud, and what a revelation that young man was, went to a team that the prior year had been terrible and had been so for years. But what he fell into was a first class young coach, a massive rebuild (greatly assisted by the monster trade (con job) done for Deshaun Watson), and a hell of an aggressive coaching scheme on both sides of the ball. Stroud hit the AFC South at their weakest point as a division, too. But, really, Bryce did as well. Stroud arrived in a brand new Corvette and Bryce showed up in a '72 Datsun with a flat tire and a clown behind the wheel. And yeah, perhaps the biggest take away we've got from last season that we can hang a hat on here is the kid can take a pounding and get back up. I hope we do better by him, and better by all of us, this season. Right now, we're looking up at the rest of the league from under the manure pile.

Well said and well thought.

Oh sure, it does. But I don't think the city and state(s) should be brought in as partners on such a massive project without being given a bit of a permanent stake. It would also anchor the team to the city, something I really want to see happen before Tepper the Tempestuous has another tantrum and decides to shake our dust off of his jacket and head for the next Las Vegas.

Latest one, and it's a doozy. A daughter kills her mother, both are prostitutes and well, it's just tangled and tawdry.