The NFL Shield At Midfield

5 minutes ago, DJ feed me moore said:

oy vey that would hurt the bottom line alot!

Hmm

Well we'll see who's laughing in February when-haha I can't do it.

I would take 4 or 5 wins with 6 or 7 being sit up and pay attention territory.  If we somehow make the playoffs I'll offer Bryce Young a soft drink of his choice.

Great Descendents track

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I wasn't a fan of the pick but the guy is going to be easy to root for. Hometown kid who seems like a legitimately good guy and he's country as fug. I like him even if I didn't like the pick.

I could listen to him read the phone book, love that accent he's got.

3 hours ago, cardiackat88. said:

Skibidi skibidi skibidi

rizz ohio

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/arts/music/steve-albini-dead.html

He was highly controversial, politically incorrect, and a self-described asshole early in his career before mellowing out, but he's an absolute icon of music engineering/production (although he disliked the label of "producer").  He recorded Nirvana's In Utero, Surfer Rosa by the Pixies, and countless other artists including The Breeders, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Helmet, The Stooges, and so on.  He famously refused to take residuals on albums he recorded, passing up what would have been millions of dollars because he considered the practice unethical.  His own bands Big Black and Shellac were also influential in their own right.

His later efforts focused on running his studio in Chicago, Electrical Audio, which catered to both independent and major label bands and artists until his death.

"Haha, you won 7 championships, what a loser"

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE

Darrell Green looks like he could suit up and teach these youngsters a lesson or two right now

Can you imagine the reaction in the Grits household if Washington drafts a white cornerback

lol what the hell, did they unfreeze a tattoo artist from 1993 to design that helmet logo or something?  I thought the Broncos' new uniforms were generic and boring but this is straight trash.

On 4/10/2024 at 7:40 PM, Lame Duck said:

Never grow up

 

This kid in middle school was just going off one morning about this group he had seen on MTV that he called "The Bloody Monkeys".  I was 13 then and watched about a thousand hours of MTV a week, but I had no idea what I was talking about.  He gave me nonstop poo for probably three weeks because I hadn't heard of "The Bloody Monkeys".

Years later I put it together that he must have seen that they were called Blood something or other, and then conjugated that into The Bloody Monkeys because they were wearing monkey costumes in the video.  Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

17 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

Oh yeah I also forgot another reason im so scared, my older cousins would drag me in the deep water and laugh when I was struggling to stay above water. Of course they were playing, but that stuff plays with your mind. I would hate going to the Lake just because I knew they would force me in the deeper water.

There's always going to be some horseplay with kids but some poo like that can turn tragic easily.  If we were doing that and some adults saw it they never tolerated it for good reason.

I remember getting into a fight with a bigger, stronger kid who was older than me at a public pool once.  He overpowered me and had me in a chokehold underwater in the shallow end.  I still remember the sensation of not being able to escape and not being able to breathe no matter how much I was struggling to.

Just now, CamWhoaaCam said:

I thought swimming involved arm and leg movement?

 

I had a bad experience as a teen at the beach. Stepped in what felt like a sinkhole almost drowned. Lucky my uncle was nearby and saw me struggling to stay above water. Ever since then I haven't really been a fan of deep water. I'm 34 now and I still get goosebumps going past knee deep water. I usually stay out the water on my trips to the beach.

Your body has a natural tendency to float, so if you get free of the vehicle/whatever and let go you'll float to the surface.  Then there are a few different techniques you can use to float until help arrives:

https://aceboater.com/en-us/in-water-survival

Trust me though I get it.  My grandmother on my mom's side was a young child in Wyoming back in the era when a lot of rural people still got around by horse, and there was some kind of incident where the family tried to cross a river and she almost drowned.  She was terrified of water her entire life.  Like wouldn't even get into the shallow end of a pool at the beach.

8 hours ago, Admiral Ackbar said:

Social Media destroyed the need for a 24/7 news channel. Them and the rest of legacy media can go kick rocks as far as I am concerned. We are better off without them

Just look at the demise of Sports Illustrated.  I used to comb through a hundred thousand words about coffee, airports, and other random bullshit in Peter King's column every week hoping to find a precious sentence or two about the Panthers.

Now you just to go to YouTube or Twi-uh, X, and find hours upon hours of guys breaking down our film in absurd detail.  And it's free... ish.

2 hours ago, Panthero said:

My aunt is sixty. She keeps bitching about how the cable company keeps creeping the price up. I cut her costs by 2/3s in 10 minutes. Cable is doomed. Now what we will have are services you can start stop at will. That will enforce a price point that is reasonable. People have learned that we live in a scam nation. The younger people are quick to drop services they think are overpriced. 

I have YouTube TV and cancel it after the draft until the preseason pretty much.  With us not having a 1st round pick this year I might even dip after the NCAA tournament is over.

Hell even my boomer parents have cut the cord and use a FireStick now.  Cable TV won't really be a thing in 10 years imo, if even that.

2 hours ago, jayboogieman said:

I wouldn't even consider that trash talk. It's soft and you're having a fit over it.

For someone that said they didn't care about winning the tournament, you're taking the L badly. As you said, State wanted it more and they handled business unlike the Heels. They, like their fans, seemed to think the game was in the bag before it was even played.

I'm not a big college basketball guy but NC State palpably had something going into that game, you could feel it.  UNC seemed kind of loose in the pre game whereas NC State looked torqued up to about 11.

Big ups to Duke, Carolina, Utah State, and Wake Forest for completely fuging up my parlays this week

6 minutes ago, Ornias said:

Grok must have dipped into Elon's stash. 

Looking into it

2 hours ago, Khyber53 said:

Actually, he's a really good analyst. And I think that a lot of what gives his words weight is the terrible journey he had as an NFL QB and the wreckage after it. You either come through something like that either wiser or dead. 

The guy earned his right to say what could be wrong in the NFL for a player.

He went from a top of the world type situation to the kind of junkie you find sawing off catalytic converters for drug money, and then all the way back to a professional career in sports media.  He'll tell you himself that he had every physical trait and measurable you could ever want, but he was an arrogant asshole with a massive ego and that's what destroyed him.

Yeah biggest bust in NFL history and so on, and he might be wrong about Caleb Williams, but I don't think his opinion is worth dismissing out of hand.

Brown is going to get a bag, hopefully from us.

29 minutes ago, HardcoreHokie said:

Don’t need a pass.  That’s why I posted it.

Kinda hilarious to hear a strong take on the #1 QB from one of the biggest QB busts in NFL history.

 Hearing the guy tell his story about exactly how and why he fuged up, including the embarrassing details about him getting arrested for breaking into houses and stealing pills out of old ladies' medicine cabinets and poo, leads me to give his opinion at least some weight.

e: that's not to exonerate the trainers and medical staff who carelessly pumped him and other players full of opioid painkillers in the slightest

33 minutes ago, Rags said:

I peep in to see what's up and ofc the Huddle would have a 10 page thread about Nicole Tepper.

 

Even the r/Panthers threads aren't this circular anymore.

Assuming we ever definitively find out whether the claims in the OP are true, it's not like it's going to drop tomorrow.  There won't be a memo from the desk of David Tepper that says "yeah Nicole wanted Stroud".

For better or worse Bryce is probably going to be here for a while.  I mean he could always turn out to be a serial arsonist or something and get sent on his way, but I doubt that.

34 minutes ago, The Lobo said:

No way… was he sick?

Seems like he was battling cancer for the past several years based on Wikipedia.  RIP.