Khyber53

I'm not sure anyone has gotten their money's worth from Nuk in a long time. Maybe it's best we just let someone else take him on.

Honestly, what happened to end the Cam Newton era, more than anything else was opposing teams realized that to stop the Panthers, you only had to stop Newton. Somehow, some way, if you could knock Cam out or tie him up for the majority of the game, we had nothing else. Our defense, even led by Luke, could only hold up for so long (the rules make sure that is the case, no matter what). All those hits Cam took, the all out efforts for jailbreak blitzes while a joker player spied Cam to try and bottle him up, just took their toll on him. Cam was a superstar player and we honestly didn't develop the team and players around him enough to let them take over the game when he would get stuck. It's bad coaching and a bad case of lacking leadership to really create team development. After Cam left, how many people did we develop here on offense that are actually any good? We had Christian McCaffrey and well, they did the same with him. We took his abilities as the ultimate Swiss Army knife and let that be our entire offense, just rotating in underperforming QBs, poorly developing an O-line and letting our one decent receiver wither on the vine. If you want and need to build a team, then sometimes the worst thing you can pick up is a superstar, especially if coaching is desperate to find a miracle cure for their woes. It's how some of the greatest players of the game were stuck on horrible teams. Barry Sanders is a fine example.

Every time they bat down one of his passes in practice it gives him an opportunity to learn how to avoid that problem. This is a good thing to be happening now and the D-line need to make it a priority in every snap of practice. And if somehow that makes our D-line better at doing it also, well, that's all for the good.

Considering how Antonio at one point was refusing to pay his players and coaching staff, it would probably be good for anyone joining that team to be independently wealthy. Sheesh, someone needs to get Antonion Brown some serious mental health assistance.

Exactly what I was going to post... this is just the appetizer season. Hopefully it will be great, but I swear I recognize this server and there's a bit of uncertainty in their eyes.

I believe this is probably the answer closest to the truth.

This coming season is a total mystery to me. On paper we should be remarkably, amazingly better than last season. On paper. On field turf... that's the real question. And we won't have an inkling of how this is going to work until say the first or second pre-season game at the earliest, if even that soon. Honestly, we won't really have a reason to consider ourselves contenders until Reich's second season. There was a lot of stink on the Rhule regime and that doesn't just air out quickly. Still, stranger things have happened. No one thought the Giants would be competitive last year, especially considering the strength of their division. And the NFCSouth is as weak as dishwater right now...

Honestly, I still hate the Thursday night games. Sure seems like the players do.

Sometimes that third QB is a necessity. A lot of teams have been running lean there for years and it hasn't bitten them. Then San Francisco gets knocked down to their 3rd stringer and he plays lights out for a considerable time and the league wakes up. And then that terrible playoff loss San Fran had when they lost all of their QBs from the bench and had to try and send CMC in... Suddenly a lot of fringe-level QBs got a second chance at life. Even if Corral doesn't end up with a jersey at the end of camp, we need to get him out there during pre-season to get an idea of whether to keep his number on file for emergencies. (And this isn't a sneaky shot at our smallish QB... just the reality of the game).

He was a legend on the field, he was a brave man during the Civil Rights movement and he successfully made the move from sports to acting. Those weren't easy things to do and he did it with so many people actively working against him. He was, however, a man with difficulties and I have a hard time reconciling my praise for him on the field with his history of domestic violence... in a time when domestic violence cases weren't taken as seriously as they are now. All our heroes, cast as statues of bronze, have feet of clay I guess.

Wow! That's great!

Legislation for both situations is well within reason. The ghost guns thing is a bigger problem than anyone is really ready to admit and could turn any, and I mean any, firearms legislation into a crazy tipping point much like Prohibition had the inadvertent effect of creating organized crime through the growth of bootlegging alcohol. Ghost guns and the tool and die shops that could create them puts everything on its head. Still, I'm very much in favor of a requirement that all newly sold firearms have a permanent, integral five-round magazine for all long guns. All guns can kill in the wrong hands, but what makes for the type of mass shooting nightmares we've been having is the capability of large initial ammo capacity coupled with the ability to quick change magazines. What about the millions of guns already out there that have detachable magazines or have larger internal capacity (pretty much any .22 LR rifle)? I hate to say it, but they just have to exist out there and allow those who own them to continue to do so. The overwhelming majority of those owners pose no threat to the public anyway. You would just have to prevent the sale of such firearms (without say the federal firearms license and registration currently required for military-type automatic weapons and other large ordinance pieces), perhaps allowing for legal inheritance of the firearms within a nuclear family. It's possible for everyone to walk away from this with a better situation on our hands than what we are looking at. I think everyone can see that without some changes, things are going to get worse for everyone involved... and that could be you or I on the day we chose to go shopping when we should have stayed home.

This speaks exactly to the point of what actual commonsense gun regulation would and should look like.

Here's the latest. Neo-Nazi roommate kills two other Neo-nazi roommates, claims he saved thousands. Hmm, four young Neo-Nazis move in together, have lots of firearms, too much free time and, oh yeah, explosives in the garage. What could go wrong? And it's in... Florida, of course. I'll never run short of material as long as we still have Florida.

He's so quiet and that small stature. Here's hoping he becomes the Mouse that Roared!

We have a lot of young talent along our line and in the second string as well. We need, however, a few veteran guys like this to help mentor them along. The fact that he has experience with the team and the other guys there is a major plus in building cohesiveness. Good move, good back up, extra teacher on the practice field, too, if we're lucky.

Interesting kid, hope he can meet his dreams here. Thanks for the video and a look at who he is.

Good luck to anyone who gets a shot at making a roster.

I'm going to trust the coaching staff on this one and also realize that who is placed where on the depth chart on May 6 doesn't matter in the least.

We'll see this coming season, I guess. We were all laughing at the Niners when Lance went down and they had to eat crow and get Jimmy G back out there. And he did pretty well and then he got injured. Then we wrote the team off when Jimmy G got injured and they sent in the very last pick of last year's draft -- talk about an unsung, unknown rookie. And the guy was right there in the NFC Championship after kicking butt for the rest of the season. And then he got hurt... Yeah, I think I'm going to not poopoo on the Niners QB situation until I actually see them lose quite a few games in a row. There's something pretty incredible happening there and if they can reclaim Sam Darnold and turn him into what people had hoped he'd be... my hat's off to them and to him. The kid has had nothing but terrible, way beyond bad, coaching through his career.

He's solid, if nothing else and that can be worth a lot of money in the NFL. I'm just wondering how the shift to a 3-4 defense is going to affect him. Will we try and use him as a nose tackle or move him to one of the hands in the dirt ends? If at end, which side and which OLB will be generally working with him. How will he take to the new DC's approach? Can he take on new concepts and a totally different role from the one he had in the Snowjob powderpuff defense? We aren't going to know until the second or third game in September. I will say that the young man has held a starting spot on an NFL team and he's done that while we brought in both vets and new guys who would love to have that role. He's put in the work, he's garnered attention from other teams in the league and we really have no idea how much other teams we've played have had to scheme to keep him off of their QBs and out of the rushing lanes. I hope he can blossom in the new set up. There's something about him that makes me think we haven't seen his best stuff yet.

Show me don't tell me. This season has a lot to prove yet, right now it's just all on paper with warm, fuzzy vibes. That first real game in September is when we will begin to know and we should have a real feel by the end of October. Until then... it's all just words on the wind. A lot of folks fell for the Rhule hire from the get go, too. Show me something in the wins column and the playoffs. Then we can start saying he's learned his lessons.

Heck yeah, fifth rounder... no reason to hold out, but plenty of reasons to sign and get to working on your spot. Good luck to him!

Hehe, he probably could. Still sad we let him go, but it's probably best for him (and our cap space).

Geez man, what did Matt Corral do to you?