Rocky Davis

You didn't answer my question: Do you know what a fact is vs. an opinion?

No, Duke had played in the NCAAs before and 2 National Championships before K arrived. They weren't Gonzaga or a Connecticut type program with little to no success before a coach arrived and made them an annual contender. I think most Carolina fans despise Duke because he did make Duke a successful program on an annual basis, he took Dean out of the spotlight and outperformed him as well....5 National Titles to 2 (Roy even did better than Dean). Anyways Carolina fans can keep spewing their garbage and opinions and feel good about being the National runner up....it's another meaningless banner they can hang up in their dome. What they can't live down is the fact that they lost a 15 point lead in the National Championship game. I bet if Roy was still coaching he would have won that dad gummit. Just like the Failcons Super Bowl collapse Duke fans rejoice: Never Forget 4/4/2022:

Do you know what fact vs. opinion is? This is your opinion: Fact: the most memorable thing about this year's college basketball season in the long run will be UNC completely derailing K's farewell tour. It can be your opinion, but it's not factual at all. Here's a fact: Carolina blew the biggest halftime lead ever in the National Championship game.

Why would he want to move the Panthers when he just got a MLS franchise in Charlotte and now has BoA as an entertainment ready facility? Along with the fact he'll ask for a new stadium soon, Tepper sees all the $$$ he can make in Charlotte.

Never forget: Maybe you guys can bring back the entire team except Manek and avenge your collapse against Kansas.

Your boys lost, deal with it. Duke lost....we deal with it. The world goes on......Carolina fans act like they killed Coach K and Duke. It's extremely funny to read that all this makes you guys so happy. Carolina didn't get the job done, maybe some committee can be put together and give you guys an honorable mention National Championship.

Imagine living in the glory of 2 games in the history of Duke vs. Carolina. I won't mention y'all didn't win the Natty.......I feel terrible for you.

2015 was a decade ago? You must have gone to Carolina!!

I believe taking a 2 game sample of a rivalry is a bad take. Carolina beat Duke and Coach K in the last two games, which happened to be K's last games against Carolina so congratulations. What doesn't change is the fact that K has 5 National Championships of his own, I believe Carolina has 3 coaches who won National Championships. I also believe that the all time record for K vs. Carolina is 50-50. Carolina had a great year and vastly improved over the course of it. I think Hubert is going to be a good coach. At the end of each season there is only one champion so congrats for the runner up finish and the wins that meant so much, but never forget:

Never forget......

The story is Marty ate a pile of meatballs this high before he left Matt's house, Rhule knew he was out at least $10 million in meat so he had to either get the Giants to match Tepper's offer or get to work fuggin the Panthers.

We need our defensive interior to also not crumble against the run game. We still have Burns coming off the edge so I am hopeful Ioannidis, Brown, and company can help us be better against the run.

Oh yeah, if we get Armstead we aren't getting Honey Badger. Only so much $$$ to go around. Masterful job so far by Fitts and Morgan.

Cleveland mortgaging their future on Watson with limited offensive options and the shackles they just placed on themselves to get better in the future.

With all due respect to what you know, the Saints and Falcons both could have made it happen. In fact, if you look at all the restructuring the Saints were/are doing they were doing it implicitly to land Watson. The big hurdle for the Failcons was Matt Ryan, his contract, and bonus. All of which could have been handled with a trade (excluding the bonus payment which Atlanta could have made), and some waiving and restructuring of some of their players. To simply say the Saints and Falcons couldn't make it happen are just not correct. In the end though, they couldn't make that extra $230 million happen. DW is all about that $$$ because he's got some civil suits to settle.

@Toomersyou have to be pretty thrilled with this news?

Verge has sources just like Ellis does - different but from the same sphere of the organization/NFL personnel. Some people just have relatives that give them tidbits here and there. I trust Verge and Ellis over the relatives. BTW, Honey Badger isn't off the table.

It is obvious this is now Fitterer and Morgan's team to put together, I think Rhule may have been put in his place. Not saying he doesn't have some input, but it isn't his calls. Maybe he's learned something......and Tepper has too.

This - wouldn't come here last year, wanted Miami. Didn't want to come here this year because he initially wanted New Orleans and things got better when Atlanta called and he can play the whole "coming home" narrative. Watson wants a "home" that has a more particular nightlife than Charlotte could offer - oh and the fact that maybe ownership and the head coach hadn't treated QBs like a turnstile at the fair. (Yes, if he ends up in Atlanta Matt Ryan will know that feeling.) I am more on the side of this situation where I didn't think the cost was worth the gain. Mortgaging our future for an unknown return isn't always the best idea....ask the Vikings about it. Would Watson have made us better? Maybe offensively, not terribly sure about defensively since we'd be shipping out a couple of our best D players in return for him. Does he get us to where we want to be as franchise? Again, I don't think Watson on the Panthers gets us anything more than a playoff game or two if that. I am glad that we retained our draft picks and our promising young guys. Now's the time to refocus, move past this embarrassment, build our team up and things will work out like they should if the people who have been hired are allowed to do THEIR SPECIFIC JOBS (owner doesn't go after new shiny toy, head coach coordinates staff and allows his coordinators to work in their specialty areas, head coach learns not to put his foot in his mouth every press conference). Free agent signings this off season have been so much better than last season. Maybe keep the kids occupied with shiny toys and legos and let Fitts and Morgan build this team like it should be. (Worst move was releasing Morgan Fox - he was a bright spot on the team last year and I have to believe was let go just to make space for DW)

I don't think the media is to blame here. Are the Panthers disrespected in other ways? Sure. Should we use that disrespect as motivation? Yes. Do we have the head coach that has been able to channel that? Nope.

I just hope everyone maintains composure and hate the ever loving crap out of DW when he chooses the Aints or Failcons later today. Things work out like they are supposed to folks....on the bright side hopefully Rhule gets fired.

Just a note here on something I read somewhere on Twitter about the deal with Houston: If they pick up Darnold in the trade then Carolina will include another 2nd and 5th round pick in 2024 or 2025 (I can't remember). So Houston would come out with 3 1st round picks, 2 2nd rounders, a 5th rounder, and possibly Burns, Brown or Horn (if Chinn is really off the table). Would Houston really take a 2nd and 5th rounder to take Darnold off our hands and do we really need to sweeten the deal that much???

Rated higher than Tomlinson in pass protection, and hopefully it's a short deal since he is getting older. Of course, getting older doesn't make him any less meaner.....