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I'd wait. Nosebleeds won't be 200 later. and after glancing at tickets online just to see.....man, the fees all these ticket companies add on are criminal. Whatever the ticket would cost gets ballooned like crazy. I miss the old days where you just bought them off a dude outside the stadium.

yeah, we drafted a WR in round 1. All signs points he is going to have a development window. Just like XL (another first round WR). Neither of which are natural pairings with Bryce Young and how he plays the game. Drafting Tmac isn't going to drastically alter things this season most likely. in his final 8 games.....he was also meh/okay in 5 of the 8. Which is great given what he was, which wasn't shouldn't even be on a NFL field caliber. But the Panther passing attack as a whole or even cherry picked to only post benching......was a subpar NFL pass attack (which ranked dead last on the season). Too many IMO focus on the improvement vs where it actually stacks up vs the rest of the league. again, the defense SHOULD improve. Almost a certainty. It was historically horrific. So even a good improvement there leaves in the bottom 3rd of the league.

to an extent we still will be what we will be. We haven't drastically changed. We likely will be a bottom 3rd defense. We will likely be a bottom 3rd pass attack. I expect us to improve but we were really bad in both areas last year, so while we should improve in both areas.......I don't expect an Earth shattering change in those 2 departments.

seems like 7ish. Depending how the ball bounces, a little more or a little less.

the Colts release was actually awesome IMO. my favorite part was the one entity breaking the Minecraft grunts/sounds.....was the Jags head coach with this cringy DUUUVAAAL at the end.

people talk about how easy the schedule is but that always sort of bunk going off last year's win/loss %. I mean, it's not brutal but who knows what it really will end up. I will say, on face value, I'd rather flip flop the home vs away games and have the road teams at home. The road schedule is against the easiest teams on the schedule, so I would rather have the homefield advantage to go with that vs given it to them.

the one game Dawkins plays would be epic. So much fun. He is one of my all time non-Panther favorites. But it would only be one game because he would be suspended for the rest of the year after decapitating and folding folks up like lawn chairs.

Mahomes is the new Brady. That skews things. So, those AFC guys essentially are getting dinged when they would have the path in the NFC.

I’d say the greatest QB and greatest HC in the NFL largely answered what matters most when Brady went to Tampa. and if the HC draws a top flight QB in the end to pull it off then it’s a still a QB game in the end.

we have already seen a bad Panther team with the best RB in the NFL on it......it was a losing team. Not even a playoff sniffing team. QB is the end all be all in the NFL. You don't have the QB play.....then you need a super team essentially. Which Philly has. Finding a QB is easier than building a super team.

in 2024 KC was the #1 seed with the best record in the NFL....in the tougher AFC. They finished the year in the Super Bowl. I mean, 2024 Mahomes showed once again, QB play is the king maker in the NFL and what mattered most.....because as you said, Mahomes did all that with an ok team around him. The team from the NFC that meet him there? They had to have the #1 defense, arguably the best OL in the NFL, skill weapons coming out the ears.....because their QB isn't the level of Mahomes. KC lost a game at the end. But the season 100% showed that Mahomes is the difference maker and why getting QB right is what matters most.

Barkely is a put you over the top player. Not a make you a contender player. Which is exactly what has career has shown. Why the Giants let him go.

Allen and Burrow simply play in the AFC where the torched basically went Brady to Mahomes. They already make their teams Super Bowl "contenders". Both have proven their play is good enough to overcome all sorts of issues whether it be bad line play, bad D, weak support or whatever. And they would be in the NFC....where the Brady/Mahomes issue of the AFC doesn't exist.

There is no non-QB that would make this squad Super Bowl contenders. Mahomes, Lamar, Allen or Burrow IMO are the only options.

It's still a weird room. I mean, if you took any legit YAC slot and put him on this team....I think he would lead the team in yards if you actually repped him. It's why an old washed slow AT is our best player. It's just volume to competent. It's Young's DNA and strengths factoring in (that's where he is going to do so much of his work)......yet all our investment is on outside big bodies that got work to do in order to be open in this league. I think either Horn suprises, or Renfrow surprises or something. I still think the slot is the easy play for Bryce Young......you just need someone quick and good at that job. Not sure Renfrow got the quickness anymore.

I can think of a world where Jimmy Horn has more receiving yards this year than Tmac. End of the day, Bryce Young loves the type routes Jimmy Horn in theory would be running. Which isn't taking the top of the defense but those easy short crossing routes and has the YAC ability to go with it.

The lotto is 100% rigged. The reason you know it is....because televising a real Powerball-style lotto pull with celebrities/players/fans and all the bells and whistles would be easy eyeballs and money for the league to put on for show one evening. but they can't do that but they got to be able to rig it up to suit the league's needs each year.

there is a reason the NFL is more successful than the NBA and there is a reason they easily stole holiday games from them. The NFL model works better of making every team relevant essentially all the time. and that lottery is crooked. Can't convince me they don't rig it to aid certain teams/markets where it matters.

https://x.com/joeovies/status/1921976443069743147?s=46&t=f55N0zsNFevD-XGJBWj1-A this is the clip I was referencing

He has reported he has 2 sources at UNC high up….that claim a line basically has been drawn in the sand over the girlfriend at a recent meeting. He is calling it a “ban”. It’s not an official ban but they are done with her per him. From my understanding, that’s where he is getting this….not the buyout that we have all known about.

The real King and Queen of the ACC. Go Tigers! Together since high school. Keepin it classy. Dabo! Pray for this poor and confused old washed up lost soul!

Well, Pablo Torre isn’t really fringe media. That’s a legit dude reporting the smoke/fire at the top of the UNC world. I’d wager his reporting is largely truth based. No one gets it all right in reporting though. Plus, I concede he is more entertainment focused like all reporting now vs when he first started

In fairness, she is ensuring she is talked about. People really aren’t going out there way to bring her up. It’s some weird poo. She would end up getting talked about given her actions if she was 40. Bill realizing some of these high end “companions” got a game of their own. That’s what I don’t think Bill saw coming.

I believe the 2 and 7 guy wasn’t the best of the week. And I don’t need to use Levis. I can use all the players with a top notch completion percentage and scores that week. At some point, reality carries the day over what if and subjective PFF stuff. And keep in mind PFF isn’t one guys subjective take playing out and comparing itself. It’s a bunch of different guys doing each game with different subjective takes and grades. Think of it like boxing. Judges don’t view it all the same. That’s their subjective grading and it’s end result narrative is an outlier

I’m going to start a competitor if anyone wants to partner with me. -UberX to the airport - I welcome you to to the airport and present you with the finest of Panther polos and some custom cargo shorts - we going Spirit Air. Whatever you heard, disregard. - we taking another UberX to dinner near the stadium. A unique experience at a local food truck - guess who is going to meet you for dinner? Panthers legend Haruki Nakamura - Finish up the day at a hotel that has some stars Thinking I’ll just work off tips or possibly trade