The NFL Shield At Midfield

who's the top tackle that's likely to hit FA now? bulaga? i've seen chris hairston mentioned as a possibility.

it goes around and around in circles. many of the same people poo-talking the ted ginn signing and posting about what a travesty it was that brandon lafell was going to be our number two receiver in 2013 pitched a fit when both of them were let walk last offseason. i think gettleman has been impressive so far when it comes to talent evaluation, albeit with a few hiccups. if he sees something in michael oher then i'm at the point now where i trust his judgment until proven otherwise. once his OL signings started to get some playing time the panthers did vaguely resemble an actual NFL team last season.

someone can be negative while making a well reasoned argument although the endless dogpiling can get annoying what's making this forum unreadable is the avalanche of lazy zero content shitposting. popping into a thread just to say that someone sucks, posting your priceless insight about how the huddle is full of hypocrites because of what they said about xyz player last year, posting some tired bullshit about cam newton being a ferrari or the space shuttle or whatever-it's played out

it's probably a compromise between the best player on his board and team needs. like if marcus mariota were to be available when we pick somehow i doubt gettleman would select him. it's more apparent in the later rounds though. drafting ealy instead of going morgan moses or another tackle, double dipping at defensive back and actually trading up to get bene, drafting a guard in the third instead of reaching for a tackle prospect, and so on.

i'm not convinced that michael oher sucks yet if somebody could perhaps post one more article from a media outlet discussing the topic i may finally be swayed

let's not even mention that i was off by a year

this is like the tackle version of the ted ginn signing last year in 2013. let's hope for similar results.

just like some guy named john or jerry said would happen in all pro

I bet Derek Anderson was studying film

yeah i can imagine what that would sound like very easily "man i tell ya this banana (brief pause for emphasis) can play the left tackle position better than byron bell"

oh i get it it's because hawk is canadian

also he's god awful

gettlemasterofpuppets

well they're tagging demaryius

nothing is wrong how do i use this thing to buy cable knit sweaters

my wife had a friend a few years ago who was jerking her around like that-making plans and not following through, standing her up, being awkward, etc. her behavior just kind of inexplicably changed over night. she was still friendly and bordering on flirty with me which didn't sit well with my wife naturally. it seemed like she was trying to play head games and it slowly started to boil over. my wife lost her patience, there was an eventual confrontation which the friend did not take well at all, and that was the last of it. all i learned from it was that i don't understand female social dynamics at all and i just need to worry about keeping the cars running and the yard maintained.

why didn't they play him? because roger goodell would have suspended him without pay if we did. gettleman was open about the fact that discipline from the panthers wasn't on the table in the joint press conference that he gave with ron rivera after hardy was de-activated against detroit. the exempt list was a favor to hardy but he pissed all over it by barely showing his face in the building which his status allowed him to do. everything that was coming out of the panthers camp prior to the ray rice video was that they were going to let the legal process play out. we got caught up in the NFL's scramble for damage control, goodell came down with an ultimatum, and here we are.

also it's a new page with new people making shitty arguments so i suppose i'll point this out again:

between "ugh we're going to let him walk for nothing fug gettledouche and JR" and "ugh we should have let him walk for nothing last year fug gettledouche and JR" this topic is making my eyes bleed

Yeah that's it.

it was like when leroy hill was tagged by the seahawks a few years ago: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d81001a5c/article/seahawks-rescind-franchise-tag-on-hill-make-veteran-lb-a-free-agent they rescinded the tag because he refused to sign his tender so they got the cap space back. if he had signed his tender, they were locked in. it'd be like if we franchised hardy and he signed his tender but we couldn't find a trade partner. if we just cut him we would eat the cap charge for the tag-we couldn't just rescind it and walk away. sorry my wife was watching this documentary about these crazy ass fan theories surrounding "the shining" and all the symbolism and poo in it so my brain is kind of fried

i'm talking about the concept of franchising him and trading him as so many have suggested in this topic. followed by, as proudiddy suggested, rescinding the tag if we need the cap space. i know you can't tender a UFA. that argument didn't make sense to me because what i remembered from the peppers situation was that he held off from signing his tender which meant we couldn't trade him, and when he signed we already had the cap charge to deal with and were locked in and couldn't get out of it. we couldn't just rescind the tag and get the cap space back which would mean what proudiddy suggested wouldn't work.

he could also hold out and not sign his tender like peppers did which would mean we couldn't move him. did you consider that? e: somebody who knows this stuff better please educate me. we can't trade him until he signs the tender but once he signs the tender can the tag be rescinded with no penalty? that doesn't sound right. if that's the case we'd be fuged either way.

so let him walk for nothing anyway effectively accomplishing dick when nothing predictably happens with the trade? but hey at least we can say we tried which will make everyone happy. we need the space the second free agency starts. what's the time table on a trade exactly? we'd need to have him traded almost instantaneously for this to work otherwise we'd be hauling his big ass cap figure around crippling our ability to sign anyone. there's no chance and you need to let it go. you have an ideological beef with the idea of "letting an asset walk for nothing" and it makes good soapbox banter but in reality there isn't a better alternative.

strap in huddle looks like we've got another offseason of "bloo bloo bloo such and such got a raw deal i hope he crushes the panthers while i stroke my neckbeard"