The NFL Shield At Midfield

the last big one i can remember was matt cassell to the chiefs in 2009 tag and trades are rare. it takes a particular combination of the player being willing to sign his tender and cooperate (nobody is going to table a first round pick for a player if there's a chance he'll hold out), a realistic threat that the team tagging him might actually sign him to a long term extension before he can hit FA the next year, and the team doing the tagging willing to take the risk of possibly having to eat the contract if they can't find a trade partner. there is other stuff that can happen too. in the peppers situation we couldn't just ship him off to the browns or raiders for two first round picks and be done with it. he wouldn't sign his tender so he was technically not under the franchise tag yet and couldn't be traded. he was essentially playing chicken with the panthers as training camp approached with regard to whether it would turn into a holdout situation. he could sign the tender or the panthers could rescind the tag with no cap hit and release him to FA - those were the only options. once he signed the tender there was no turning back. he'd have to be traded or we'd be on the hook for his cap figure. tagging a player with the intention of trading him is really a tightrope and there are a lot of things that can go wrong for the team trying to pull it off. the player and his agent still have a lot of power in that arrangement.

he has major film room chops and a great understanding of football due to his complete immersion in many different aspects of it for decades. that sounds mundane but it's the difference between him and a GM like marty hurney and so many others. it leads to excellent value signings like michael oher which, as i'm sure everyone here remembers, was an absolute joke and garnered a massive wtf type reaction when it was announced. nobody was really excited about kurt coleman when was brought in either. i love reading fans of other teams discussing the guy. almost every one of them is going "where in the hell did this guy come from and how did he get passed over so many times". giants fans in particular have plenty of colorful things to say. it's nice to be on that side of things for once i have to admit.

you registered on a forum well after the game was over to try and call people out for "talking smack". do you really need how lame that is spoon fed to you? you wouldn't even be here if denver lost which means that your ability to even say anything like this is contingent on the contest being long over and the result being in your favor. even if some idiot posted about how the panthers are going to win 100-0 at least they did it before the game and didn't hide until it was safe to say something. you had nothing to lose in this scenario. you didn't expose yourself to possible ridicule by making predictions that could conceivably be wrong like everyone in this thread did no matter how crazy or unrealistic they were. you just wouldn't have shown up if the broncos had lost and nobody relevant to this thread would know or care about your existence. you'd be crying in your beer on whatever broncos site you post on cheering on your mods as they banned panthers fans showing up trying to do what you're doing right now. i mean if you don't get that then i'm not sure what else i can do to explain it.

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Dumb ass challenge

well this guy here does pretty much adhere to the saints' color pallette

So many near picks

Get ready for a Shula stall

hey man there's fanhood and then there's me putting my money down suffice it to say though i'm not starting julio against lake norman

first things first fug atlanta but i mean

i noticed luck and all his weapons getting throttled in buffalo as we were grinding jacksonville up late in the game the NFL, especially week 1, is just really hard to call

typically sloppy opening day performance the shutout in the second half and being able to grind the clock out was good to see but there is a lot that needs to be tighter on both sides of the ball. the blocked field goal was disheartening as well.

Game

About to give them the ball back on a short field

With the kind of wideouts we have we can't get in long down and distance like that The day Kelvin got injured I remember posting that the scariest factor in all of it was Shula.

ron will learn his lesson with old man harper might take like five weeks but it'll eventually happen

Ron's teams give up easy points in the two minute drill like it's his job

Time for Tolbert to get stood up at the los

Anyone else agree that we should have paid the second oldest running back in the league who is coming off missing ten games a fortune when we had a looming extension for our franchise quarterback

I have Brady and gronk on the same team in fanduel Keep it up Tommy

He'd still be here if he was getting paid what he's making in Pittsburgh It ain't rocket science people

Those are some massive holes

it happened last year too when the bucs fans rolled in here. and honestly that was potentially a more frightening matchup than this.

they seem to be alone in thinking bortles is going to go full manning on our defense i'm reading threads on other forums where people are talking about their fantasy teams and everybody is all over the panthers d/st