Captroop

No, and it's only partly to do with his personal life. Let's see what Sam's got.

17 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Looks at roster and sees "Tshimanga Biakabutuka"

Man, I've been a Panthers fan so long, that rolls off the tongue as easily as John Smith.

41 minutes ago, Zod said:

The real reason is that the Panthers want themselves to be the only Panthers media outlet, so they can control the narrative. They used to have 3 people in that department. Now it is up to 20. 

Lately it seems like corporations are cracking down HARD protecting their IP. I think it's been exacerbated by COVID, and everyone consuming their media virtually.

We got the highest paid actress suing Disney because her contract stipulated her movie wouldn't be streaming. We got the a new subscription streaming service coming out every 12 seconds because aggregating content on a few streaming services is too convenient for consumers. We got every professional sports team trying to start up their own media empire. And I don't know if you're following what's going on with Games Workshop, that they announced a zero tolerance policy towards fugging fan animations. 

A lot of good will being squandered to net these pigs a couple extra percentage points.

56 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

Conundrum is a large snare, if I am not mistaken, made popular by Barbarians in the Mink dynasty.  I am pretty sure.

You're thinking of a Conandrum. And it's not a snare drum, but a bongo made from the skull of his enemies.

12 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Darnold throws a laser in that clip

And check out the release point. After all the grousing I heard earlier this week that his release point is too low and he was gonna have his passes batted. I guess he's smart enough to throw over D-Linemen, and not just throw casually from the ear like he does in 1-on-1 drills. 

Whodathunkit?

9 minutes ago, TheCasillas said:

I hope Trevor Lawrence continues to think he has 7 seconds in the pocket. He is in for a rude awakening

Right? He retreats from the monoliths from 2001: a Space Odyssey, spends 5 seconds thinking about "Industry Baby," and then inexplicably rolls out of the pocket unpressured before making his throw.

I wouldn't mind seeing these two teamed up.

2 hours ago, Mother Grabber said:

worst case is that he gets hurt early, maybe even in camp, and we don’t know what we have for another year.

Yup. Exactly this. Purgatory of a middle of the road performance is bad. Not even getting to see him this year and basically leaving us paralyzed for another year is the absolute worst case.

Maybe it's just me, but I didn't get the feeling he's suggesting that's CMC in the photo at all. I mean, it says he arrived "last night." That's clearly not a picture taken at night time.

Seems like it's just two separate thoughts in one tweet. "Here's a picture of Panthers arriving to camp." And, "CMC arrived last night."

Call me crazy, but I put more stock into the talent evaluation capabilities of Fitterer and our scouting department than AceBoogie.

What is this strange modality? Retaining talent we've developed? Investing in our offensive line? Securing talent to protect our QB?

What team is this, even?

Wifey and I are just getting over something. I felt crappy for 3 days, it's knocked her out for a week, although she's improving. She did two BinaxNow kits and came back negative, but I'm still wondering. Maybe it doesn't work on the Delta Variant? If it's a summer cold, it's a bitch. Anyway, even though we're both vaxxed, I bet she'll stop teasing me for wearing my mask in the grocery store.

Say, "Ian Thomas won't make the roster" without saying it.

13 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Last year's lack of TE production was more personnel than scheme. They just didn't have the players to do some of the things they wanted.

4 hours ago, SBBlue said:

I think during this time of year, we can be a little freer with the main posts.  We've had posts on other teams lineman, superbowl 50, bold and meek predictions.   There isn't a ton of news so when a newscaster gives us some love, I thought it might generate some discussion.  I really didn't see it posted on this thread.

Hey, I'd never disparage you. You're a quality poster. 

Frankly that's a good bellwether post. Some posters on here would start a thread to share a pundit's tweet and would just get Poo'd into oblivion. Others would post the same and get praised. Comes down to their track record. You should feel flattered, because it speaks to the Huddle's high opinion of you. Rock on.

1 hour ago, SBBlue said:

Oops sorry I didn't see it posted here.

On 6/28/2021 at 9:46 AM, Captroop said:

This doesn't deserve it's own thread, but still worth sharing.

Welp. Guess that shows what I know.

This doesn't deserve it's own thread, but still worth sharing.

1 hour ago, L-TownCat said:

What part of this is talking about the fans?  Really, which combination of words below references them?

Compare it to the write-up of one of the top 10. Clearly the fans are a factor on this particular list.

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7. Arrowhead Stadium

It's an outdoor venue, it's grass, it's a simple video board, but the fans make Arrowhead Stadium come alive — whether it's being raucous and proud during the game, or tailgating at a world class level in the parking lot beforehand. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Chiefs fans roared to a level of 142.2 dbA on Sept. 29, 2014, when Kansas City rocked the New England Patriots 41-14 on Monday Night Football. No wonder Bill Belichick was on to Cincinnati.

10 hours ago, pantherclaw said:

Rapport. Way to go out on a limb. 

But then again, I have zero expectations for Rapport, ever.

What do you expect? He's a journalist first. He's for gathering and reporting facts before spouting opinions. And considering the rate at which he breaks stories he's a damn good one at that.

I think sports journalism is such a weird thing in that for some reason we expect everyone to be an incendiary prognosticator and provocateur like Skip and Stephen A. I can't believe we hold sports reporters to a standard where we expect them to make sweeping predictions with absolute certainty based on an incomplete datasets and myriad unknown variables, and to be accurate about them 100% of the time.

That's an insane standard to hold fact-based journalism to.

At the end of the days he's still got to reach out to player for comments and leads. And he's not going to be able to do that very well if the day before he named them on the list of "Top 10 overpaid bums whose careers I'm sure are definitely over" just to drum up clicks on some podcast.

Just had to chime in because this time of year it's hilarious to see how much bashing of sports reporters goes on in these threads.

3 hours ago, Zod said:

There was a whole lot of killing the clock and getting the field goal off very quickly. Was actually pretty impressive.

How is the kicking competition shaping up? Slye looking confident?

Sigh. Will we ever get the Battlefield sequel we've really been asking for?

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

I'm not sure the XFL could have survived long-term, primarily for one reason.

Vince McMahon is a colossal dickhead. That, plus he's starting to show signs of going down the same path as Jerry Richardson.

Can't help feeling that organization would have imploded eventually.

Hell, there's even talk now that he might sell the WWE.

Yeah, 100% agree. Which is why I think USFL might actually survive. Less baggage.

But on the other hand, everyone loves a circus. And USFL just advertising themselves as a by-the-numbers Spring football league is gonna flop. XFL proved there's an appetite for a professional Spring football league. We're a content-hungry society, with a billion streaming services needed to slake our thirst for entertainment.

But, if they're going to get it off the ground, they'll need some sort of hook or gimmick. McMahon is a clown, but he garnered people's attention and eventually their interest. It wouldn't last because he'd be to involved, and eventually be too annoying. But he's the hype man you need to kick off a Spring league.

1 minute ago, rayzor said:

Oye.

They all fail because there is only one pro league. Not enough people are interested in watching the guys who couldn't cut it in the NFL.

I mean...

I actually was rather enjoying the XFL this time around, and I think had it not been for the pandemic, it might have actually found its footing. I love the idea of Spring football, so I'm all in on it.

1 hour ago, Zod said:

Coach Rhule talked up Ian Thomas yesterday but I honestly don't know what to read into that. Rhule tends to use his words to the media for his own purposes and usually has additional motives that go along with them. Could be he just wanted to send Thomas some additional encouragement. 

I hope Thomas can develop into who we all wanted him to be, but at this point I need to see it to believe it.

My interpretation is Rhule knows he's not gonna make the team, but he's a good kid, so he's talking him up to help him eventually find a good landing spot with someone else.

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Who I was most impressed with yesterday at Tight End was Tommy Tremble. From the way everyone talked about him post draft you would think he has rocks for hands. But he caught the ball as well or better than Ian Thomas. I didn't see a single Tremble drop ( to be fair its impossible to see every snap.) Tommy turns his body nicely to the ball and has soft hands for a bruising tight end. 

Steal of the draft.