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Yep. In addition to week 1 weirdness… There will be no real film on the Jets to study.

you know what? Tepper isn't actually in the Panther memorabilia I got up. My bad. But I got Steve Smith looking over my shoulder if you got any questions.

you don't have a picture of David Tepper hanging on your wall? I'll just call you are semi-fan from now on.

Bad news. He didn't answer.

Do you guys need me to call Tepper and clear all this nonsense up for you two? I can easily put a call in. I didn't say anyone would answer the call to BOA customer service though...

Pretty much. He just never landed at a power 5 where he wasn't looking for better opportunity. Nowhere for Dabo or Saban to go in college really. I guess you could argue Dabo could look to the SEC but the current College Football Playoff construct probably makes Clemson the best gig in the land in some respect.

If he stayed at those other schools for more than 1 or 2 years.....I suspect there would have been issues there too. But yeah, his gimmicky college offense does work. No doubt about it. The major Urban knock is the environments he creates and problems. Saban and Dabo have created elite and long term programs and cultures. I don't consider them elite scheme and X and O guys. I consider them good big picture leaders for college programs. I mean they both get their hate and some of it is just. That wasn't Urban though. I don't put him with those type college coaches.

Saban is just a great college coach. His approach IMO just works better there. But Saban doesn't create clusterfugs in house. That's Urban's thing. Urban might of won in college (at universities that could pull in and give him insane talent edges).... but he left them all in a mess. No reason to think this is any different. And he is off to a predictable start. Young lockerroom and immediately brings in a circus clown.

Nothing about it works IMO. Nothing about it makes any sense. Urban remains a horrible hire and it will predictably end horribly. I firmly believe what Urban will do is get Tim into the endzone.....and then people will act like that is something. The Golden Calf of Bristol isn't a TE. The Golden Calf of Bristol isn't a RB. He isn't even in the ballpark in terms of being an actual RB as the Jags #3 tailback. The Golden Calf of Bristol only works as a wildcat QB and even that is debatable at this stage. Urban just can't come out and say that. So the talk is well, maybe we will have him play something else. In a max of 3 years, Urban will have to go take time off from football to see about his health.

he hasn't touched a football field in 8 years. And he has never played TE. That isn't going to work. I fully believe Urban is going to take Trevor off the field and insert The Golden Calf of Bristol short yardage package on offense. Which is stupid, yet predictable.

The problem with The Golden Calf of Bristol was more so Skip Bayless/ESPN than The Golden Calf of Bristol himself. The Golden Calf of Bristol could of bounced around the league as a backup QB. ESPN/Skip prevented The Golden Calf of Bristol from just being a bad QB that racked up big money from the sidelines.

Rodgers isn't coming to the NFC would I take a 2 year run with Aaron Rodgers? Sure. He has been to the post season 8 of the last 10 seasons. One of the two that he didn't he was hurt and only played 7 games. So basically, if he plays...you go to the postseason. And generally when Rodgers goes to the playoffs, you aren't one and done. And Green Bay's roster around Rodgers hasn't been good. So the argument we aren't built for Rodgers doesn't really fly....given GB hasn't been build for Rodgers to compete. So would I take him? Sure. But it isn't realistic. Better odds to win a Super Bowl renting Rodgers than whatever Rhule builds without him IMO.

basically. Guy needed to some clicks, just named a bunch of NFC teams that need a QB. Then frames it as potential spots IF Rodgers were dealt to an NFC team. Which the Packers wouldn't do.

looking more like Big Worm lol

and Cam set the world on fire as a rookie rewriting the record books. At that point, he really couldn't' change. Wouldn't be worth the money/cost and little kids across the country knew #1 was Cam.

So are we calling this guy Cornbread or making up a new nickname?

Jimmy also wouldn't give him the #2.

Actually, Verge has confirmed post draft the Fields talk was real and there were people inside the org that wanted Fields. The Horn side won the decision on the 8th pick. ...as have other insiders and reporters. and it’s a safe bet the Seattle GM was a strong Horn guy. And he is the most important vote.

Plenty of reports that the Fields talk/debate was real. And yes, Fields being there did make our position more attractive to others if they wanted to our spot. Verge said the talk was real on Fields. So have local guys like Ellis and a lot of traditional NFL insiders (like MoveTheSticks and others) I lean there way over the picture a Panther employee is painting after the draft.

The GM doesn’t speak for what everyone else thought. so when you say we thought Sam was better than Fields simply because we drafted him...that doesn’t actually mean everyone thought that. We just don’t who exactly the pro Fields people were. Got to think they were on the offensive staff/side though.

Depends on how you define “we”. we know from reporting that some wanted Fields over Horn. And that was Fields was debated until the end. Which means it likely wasn’t just Tepper given he voiced he was going to stay out of it and let his staff do whatever.

Can Shi Smith have 89 then? Cam Newton, the former league MVP, was the most impactful player in our franchise’s history. No other player expanded our fanbase or brought national eyes and conversation to this org in the manner Cam did. If Cam isn’t a Panther GOAT. Panther GOATs don’t exist. I fully support the staff keeping that number on the shelf in the same manner they have done for other players. You can pull it out when Cam retires.

Where do you think they had Wilson on their BPA board? I assume they would have Trevor #1.

yeah, based on top prior corners drafted that high....I think the bar is by year 2 to be playing at a Pro Bowl level (even if not selected). But as I said, I'll give him year 1 to take some lumps. Bar is raised on Brown this year too.