kungfoodude

I remember my opinion on Cam Newton being drafted by us. I have mentioned it in here many times. "Biggest mistake in franchise history." Pretty happy to have been proven so wholly wrong and watched arguably the best player in franchise history. Same with Luke. Wasn't against the player, just didn't see it as a "need." Loved every moment of his career. None of us are right all the time. But very few own up to their incorrect opinions when they are faced with hindsight. Especially when they have such strong opinions they fought so vehemently about. That's a class of people that I simply cannot understand. IMO, there is likely less than a 5% chance this Sam Darnold experiment works out and I am being VERY generous. However, I am not gonna come on here throwing out the "I told you so's" if we are taking losses as he fugs it up left and right. Nor am I going to shy away from that view if he lights it up and becomes a true franchise star. The point of being a fan is to want the best for your team. If you want the best for your argument or opinion just to score points with anonymous people on the internet OVER the success of your team.....well......you really aren't a fan at all, are you? Those people deserve to be highlighted and scorned.

I don't see a big reason for concern. Is it possible that they don't see him in the future plans? Yes. Is it likely? No. The biggest question will be what DJ wants and will we be willing(or really should we) pay it. I don't think we should infer anything about their intentions for DJ Moore from the Robby deal.

Wait....is PFF good again?

No doubt. I just did a big West Coast trip(WA, OR, CA) so I saw the good and the bad. No place is as homogenous as people left, right and center like to stereotype.

Well said but @ladypanther has a point. We've called them out and none have shown up to at least admit they were incorrect, so let them pretend they didn't start or repeat that ignorant poo. This is one dead horse that can stop being beaten. As you are well aware, by the first 10 minutes of Friday's game there will be declarations of "best football team ever" and "worst football team ever" and "start this guy" and "cut that guy." Plenty of other ignorant poo to harp on. I'm gonna let this issue go after I have gotten to vent about it for the past couple of days.

Time will tell. They seem to be quick to remedy their mistakes, so we don't have to go into each offseason KNOWING that some things will never change, like the Rivera years.

I'll believe it when I see it. For better or worse, these guys have their own ideas about how they want to build this team, what is a priority and the direction they want to take. I don't care if they don't do it the way I would have, as long as the results are what we want them to be.

At this point it's repeating it to call them out on their idiocy. I will let it go after this thread, as only one of them had the nuts to show their faces in any of the post-signing Robby threads and not a single one of them had the nuts to say they were wrong. /rant I don't get upset about most of the Huddle nonsense but watching our own fans start that rumor and spread it pissed me off.

I have lived and worked all over the country for the past couple of decades. It never ceases to amaze me that wherever you are in the country, you can find some backwards people that still exist like that. Some places are a little more "special" than others......

I wish I could believe that. I wish I could believe that too.

It wasn't just him, poo.....there were a lot of them. Most of them crawled away into their little corners to pretend they never said that poo. The hysteria over missing optional workouts was classic Huddle overreaction. OPTIONAL

Yeah, that's obviously the ideal scenario. But it would be nice to just be one of those teams that if we wanted to make that kind of splash signing at the most important position in football, we could get an elite QB to come here because we are a contender. That's why I want to see. Players WANT to come here because they see an opportunity to get a ring.

The thing that pissed me off so royally about all that poo was that it was a rumor primarily started by our own fanbase, based on no factual/verifiable or even reasonable rumor mill information. We had rumblings from a lot of areas about Cam's last year and him potentially wanting a new deal. There was some media smoke and inside sources that at least spoke to that. This Robby nonsense was 100% self inflicted wounds. It was our fanbase creating an issue where none existed at all. Even worse, you still have people doubling down on this after it was so thoroughly proven incorrect over the past couple of days. Edit: Even worse, was some of the Sunshine Squad that cry from thread to thread in this forum about all the negativity that kept perpetuating this idiotic and harmful narrative. What the fug kind of fan pushes some poo like that?

This is the correct perspective to have.

Yeah, he took a beating at times while he was in Detroit so I don't think I would want to step in here behind this OL either. Not to mention, the Rams have championship pedigree and a track record of recent success. We can't offer up 4 straight winning seasons, three playoff appearances, two division titles, and a Super Bowl berth in our last four years. That's a pretty easy decision for me if I am Matt Stafford. That's why when people talk about a guy like Rodgers or Rivers wanting to come here, I just chuckle. I get the fantasy but this isn't the 2015/2016/2017 Panthers. All our luster is gone, however much it was in the first place. We just have to grind each season and offseason to build back up to being a team that a veteran QB wants to come to. Maybe in 5, 6, 7 years we can be the win now destination for someone like Russell Wilson, Dak Prescott, Deshaun Watson, etc. Someone in a similar position career wise as those guys are now.

My anger was having to sit in a sports bar in the asshole, middle of fuging nowhere in southern Georgia Cam's HOME STATE and listen to a bunch of racist fuging rednecks trash him and root for the "Great White Hope" in Peyton Manning. You want to talk about raging anger. The only reason I didn't get into a fight was I had a couple of work buddies there with me. I'm not that type at all but the poo I had to listen to while we were taking the screwing of the decade from those refs and our coaching staff......boy I was fighting mad.

Those comments were still here a few days ago and even in the signing thread yesterday.

I figured that is what you meant.

Yeah, that moment is forever seared into my brain. He was instantly transformed from being this larger than life figure, playing one of the toughest positions in football into looking like a scared little kid. That poo was rough to watch.

I think that was something that was suspected at the time. It sucks for us as a franchise that we missed out on a potential franchise QB but I don't blame any long term veteran QB for not wanting to come to a rebuilding team. The Rams are built to win now, we are building to be that team in a few years. It is what it is.

There is no source. I keep hounding these dumb fugs for sources and no one has ever produced one. As I said in the signing thread, this was a conspiracy invented out of thin air that our lower life forms latched on to. I get it when the media rumor mill starts swirling but with the Robby not wanting here schtick I have never seen from anyone but social media trolls and Huddlers. I'd love to see a single credible source that said he was unhappy here or planning to leave. I'm all ears.

I have a buddy that is a lifelong Broncos fan that was needling me about the game last week. I wanted to slug him. I am still sore about that game. It's also the game that made Georgia one of my most hated states.

But....but...but....teh Huddle told me he was a malcontent that we needed to jettison because he was secretly holding out.

I think you could basically see that this seemed to be their plan(keeping our drafted guys and not spending wildly in free agency) with the moves we made in the offseason. I somewhat agree with that strategy, although if you need to make a move to get a critical position in a "win now" mode, I think you spend the money if it puts you over the top. I am glad to hear that he is always open to talk about new deals. That alone makes us a more attractive spot for both our drafted guys and potential free agents.

I don't think who plays for the Steelers will have much impact on us. Darnold is likely to play this game. I suspect how much will be determined by how much of our offense is playing, as well.