The NFL Shield At Midfield

Brady was compiling stats in playoff games in January 2002. It wasn't exactly the leather helmet days but Rodgers' prime was in the era following Irsay bitching to the competition committee after Manning and his WRs got shoved around by the Patriots in the playoffs a few years in a row.

I still consider sending the NFC champions on the road to open against the team they just lost to in a controversial, poorly officiated Super Bowl as a power play by the NFL to send a "fug you, this is our league and you need to know your place" message to the Panthers.

Hard Knocks is basically a hype reel for the team being filmed. That said you can just watch the game and see that they fuged us up from the opening kickoff, you don't need HBO to tell you.

I'm late replying to this but I tried that in a small town in the gameday thread and caught a suspension. I saw him around campus routinely, he was kind of a small dude for a football player and didn't really stick out much. Really low key and wasn't big on drawing attention to himself.

Bruh moment, the preseason game

I don't know how the fug I heard "Brinkley" instead of Franklin

Print the t-shirts

lmao it never gets old, David Tepper is a silly clown. Please keep posting this

The only logical conclusion that can be drawn is that Ickey Ekownu has forgotten how to play football between January and August of the year of our Lord 2023

This is without Aaron Rodgers and the power of his healing crystals and copy of Atlas Shrugged on his bookshelf and the guidance of Joe Rogan FYI

Really wish I wouldn't have bet my house on the Panthers winning the Super Bowl this year

He looked poised and is an extremely fast decision maker. Keep his jersey clean and we have nothing to worry about.

I'm literally shaking right now, I don't see how we win a single game this season

Obviously all 22 isn't available but that didn't look like jack poo on that PI

I was a freshman at App State the year we won our first FCS (then I-AA) national title with Richie Williams, and then the next year I think Trey Elder got one start with Armanti taking over permanently after that. Every time he had the ball in his hands it felt like you were about to see something unbelievable. Buuuut then he got to the NFL, where everybody is like that. And most of them played against way better college competition than he did. Those were long odds not even considering he was playing a new position.

I looked it up and it was in fact Jeremy Leman I was thinking of. My memory was a little off though as he was a Panther in 2009 and then bounced around the league for a few years. As far as I can tell, though, he never compiled an NFL stat. I remember when we drafted Mayo and you're right, he actually got a fair amount of snaps here. He's still in the league too. Was Boulware the guy who was like "yeah at the bottom of the pile I like to shove my finger in dudes' asses" or was that someone else. If that was him, that's the only thing I remember about him.

I forget the guy's name but he was a middle linebacker with a blonde mullet in the 2010s. Classic "sneaky athletic gym rat great kid from a great family nonstop motor" type player who was just all over the field. I don't think he ever played a snap in a regular season game.

I'd imagine the Texans reddit is having a fun night right about now

I remember Cam looking raw but completely fearless and like he belonged. idk I was a recent college grad that had moved cities and was in like week 2 of my first big boy job, it's all a blur

Rookie QB getting his first NFL action against Bill Belichick RIP in peace

hoo boy

Yeah Von, we know

Yeah this is why "would (insert year) Alabama team beat (insert worst team in the NFL)?" is at best just a thought exercise. They're almost like two different sports.

Players who are physical freaks with every measurable on earth end up getting dumpstered when they get to the NFL every single year. Guys drafted by Scott Fitterer are no exception, and afaik Deonte Brown was kind of a middle-late round dart throw who got drafted because he's huge. The step up from even the top college programs to the pros is exponential, and he might just not be able to hack it. Sucks but hopefully he's been smart with what he made on his rookie contract.

That wasn't terrible. He's obviously not tone deaf but there were a ton of flat notes. Oh well, singing is fuging hard and a lot more physical than people think. I couldn't do better.