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He looks like a QB for a movie from Central Casting. If you just needed to look like a QB, here you go. But he really doesn't have control of his body at this point, and he's 24 years old. I wish him well, but there's NO WAY the Panthers draft him, and I think whoever does has a BIG challenge on their hands.

I'm with you there! As much as I like the game play of LF, Strand, Neomuna and what not, the story development of the expansion was piss poor. We shouldn't have to be going "Geez, we know nothing!" nine years into this story. From the mcguffin like the veil to why our light powers still work in the absence of the Traveler, or even what's going on with the Traveler to why the Witness is even here to destroy the Traveler? It's all too confusing. My hope is that Destiny is able to start to rectify it. I love the seasonal stories. I feel like those are the strongest narratives in the game right now. The Witch Queen was phenomenal from a story perspective, and I think we were all hoping for more of that style. Calus would have been a great vessel for this since he has a strong relationship with us and Caital. Why not have Calus capture us and Osiris at the start of the expansion. Try to convince us to join him for the greatest party of all time, become his shadow, etc. Then the Cloud Striders could have come in and broken things up. They could have explained that the Veil has always been on Neptune, and is the source of their power and knowledge. Without it, their citizens would die. Give it a practical purpose here. Then we could have learned what the veil was thank to all of our time spent on Calus's ship. As a psycho-paracausal creation, the veil was instrumental in creating a bridge between the material and deeper realms? Maybe that the veil was the key to allow travel to the Garden where the gardener and winnower wage their eternal, primordial battle between life and entropy. The Traveler is a disciple of the gardener, and the Witness is of the winnower. That's kind of what I think is happening. It wouldn't have taken a lot to get there, but to give us enough explanations of the major things, purposes and motivation. It sucks that we're just not getting it in game right now.

The worst was seeing and hearing Zavala... Too much.

The major issue with Cam is his presence and personality. Lots of these kids grew up playing him in Madden and idolizing him. How do you trot out a young guy who is struggling when you have Cam there ready to roll, smiling like a million bucks, looking like your custom designed character, and his infectious energy? i understand that Cam wants to start, but he’s not going to be a franchise guy anymore. He could be a gadget player and backup at this point in his career. He could probably give 5-6 starts at most a year and keep you in it. But his shoulder is still a major concern. I love Cam. He is the best an we’ve ever had. But Father Time is undefeated.

Oh holy shite! This week's seasonal story.... Oh fudge!

I agree that that's probably the reason why right now, but I'm not sure it bears any fruit. Dude, I'm so stealing that when I talk about Shakespeare later this year! For me, I have no clue. I love the speculation because it's a wonderful distraction from my personal life events that suck. Keep it up! I trust this staff about a billion times more than the last staff to develop anything!

As much as I know the entertainment world is hurting, I can't imagine how bad it is for his family. He was such a nice and cool guy. Lots of stories about him just being an excellent human being. If you want to, you can make a donation in his name at his preferred charity: https://www.momcares.org/

Yep. I think that Zavala is going to go. Would be fitting as he's been here the entire time. I'm not sure they'll do an AI performance, out of respect to Reddick and their desire to not use AI. I think with the quantity of his line work, they will have something they can edit together. But Commander Zavala has to go out with a bang, something Heroic. Then does the Vanguard go away with the end of Light and Dark? Or what else happens? Oh, here's an interesting video about how lightfall was actually not in the plans, which would explain a LOT.

I saw today and was shocked. Such a cool dude, dog lover and great character actor. He was always so fun to watch. It sucks. Bungie will try their best to honor him, but you know the community will hate it, regardless of whatever it is.

That's what I thought when I saw it. DJ is not a talker at all. He's still dealing with it emotionally because he has to uproot his family to Chicago and it was very sudden. So personally, I get it. For the rest of things: it's all just football talk. Nothing too crazy there. We have some massive snowflakes in this part of the fanbase.

I'm running the big brain: I'm not touching crucible =P MAYBE next iron banner...depends on the armor. Generally I can't stand PVP in destiny since 75% of the times I'm killed, I have no idea what I could have done differently.

LOL, don't be ashamed =P I still can't bring myself to buy the silver lol. So I have some thoughts on the new difficulty curve. While I'm not a "I'll solo legendary campaign for funz" guy, I'm not a complete potato. I have builds, synergy with weapons and exotics. I guess I'm an "intense casual." Last night, I was running the new Heist Battlegrounds playlist. Well, I ran one game. It took 30 minutes to get through it. I was play with guys who died a lot. Like more than 30 times between the other two players. I kept running to rez and getting killed as well. It seemed like one play was just "there" while the other guy and I did the encounters and rezed him (and died almost immediately after). I don't mind doing hard stuff, well for me. I did solo my whole exotic pulse rifle and catalysts last season. That was pretty cool, but I think Bungie stepped too far in making us all incredibly weak. I mean, I'm running 100 resilience with various sniper/energy mods depending on what kills me. Heck, even with Woven Mail, I was getting flattened. I don't think the more casual audience than me is going to keep playing if they are going to keep getting curbstomped constantly in the seasonal playlist activity.

I can see the point: if you're a prideful alpha male, who wants to sign on to giving up your job to a kid? Very few pay well enough to do that! If our rookie is ready to rock, let them start. Cam had a LOT to learn, but still came out kicking butt his rookie year. The bridge QB sounds like a nice luxury, but I think it's up to the coaching staff to earn their paychecks and prep that first player to come out and win.

I imagine that he's testing the market, much like Bozeman did. Bozeman saw that he wouldn't make $10 million a year, and said he'd come back for a place he likes where he's going to get as good a deal as he can. Foreman is probably in the same boat. See who will pay the most because he's a runningback and knows that he's not in the CMC class of big money backs.

What are we at? 6 weeks until the draft? So yeah, this is going to be the ad nauseum talking point for a LONG time. The reality is Carolina can't get it wrong, or else everyone loses their jobs. No pressure guys.

Yep. Some people have criticized it as a preview for The Final Shape, which I get. I wish there were more answers in the campaign. But post campaign is starting to get more interesting. I'm working my way through the rebuilding of the broken servers of the Cloud Striders - which is getting pretty interesting (if the game play isn't slightly repetitive). But I have to say that I LOVE the new build system. While it doesn't have as much flexibility as the old system, it's much easier to put together a build that works well.

I'm conflicted somewhat on the main story. I finished it up last week then started some of the post campaign stuff. I feel like reviewers like IGN needed to play that in order to get more context. The game play of the campaign was really fun. But there were a LOT of important details left out. Many will get filled in over time, but I wish that had been part of the main campaign. Strand is a LOT of fun to play. On my titan, I am working on a woven mail build and it's very FUN! Synthcepts for the win!!!

While you're there, can you get me to next lottery numbers?

While it's been entertaining and occasionally educational to look through people's threads and posts about drafting versus FA Qbs; I kept going back to how do you "create" your own luck? So I was just looking at a list of QBs taken in the first round and found this article/list which includes pre-draft quotes. https://www.insider.com/nfl-draft-first-round-quarterbacks-busts-stars#39-ej-manuel-buffalo-bills-2013-1 There have been plenty of QBs who are average athletes who have reasonable NFL careers. Dynamic athletes are all over the place. Hindsight is 20/20 so we should use it to get better. What do you look for in a guy to be the QB? What is that special quality that separates a Mac Jones from Joe Burrow? How do you avoid a Zach Wilson sized bust? What are the qualities that allowed Patrick Mahomes to maximize his talent? How do you avoid a Blake Bortles or EJ Manuel? For the player - it's guts. Some will say "that dude" or "he's got that dog in him" but it all means the same thing: Do they have the special IT factor that will elevate them to superstar status. Joe Burrow probably has the most "IT" factor in the NFL. Total professional arrogance. But it helps him play better. For the 2023 Draft, which QBs have the IT factor? Who has the guts? To me, it's Bryce Young. So if a guy isn't built with that individual greatness within him, what do you need? That's where coaching comes into play. You need teachers who can mold some of these younger guys into men. Look at Mahomes. When he was drafted, everyone was like "What? It's Andy Reid high?" Well he saw the traits he wanted, and he's since molded Mahomes, allowed Mahomes a system where he can trust his talent, and he's developed the IT factor. So do you take a "safe" QB with all the size and measurables? Or do you take a chance on talent? It's going to be quite interesting to see what our Panthers do as well as how the narrative continues forward.

It's going to be really interesting to see what happens with the number 1 pick, the Panthers, or anything else. I can see both the idea of trading up, picks be damned, for a franchise changer QB. I can also see being patient and waiting for the draft to come to them. I have no clue what will happen. This is a really good staff, so I'm curious to see if they are willing to bet their jobs on CJ Stroud, Will Levis or Anthony Richardson...

Got to love this time of year. The amount of BS flying is insane. Now I will trust the staff to determine who the best QB option is for the Panthers. I have no idea who it will be.

Isn't this a fun part of the off season? For those of you who need it: remember, this is the time of ultimate BULLFECES. Tape tells you what you need to know. I'm not a QB guru myself, I'll trust the team to make that call. If the team feels like they can bet their jobs on fixing Richardson and turn him into one of the best, then that's fine with me. We know that AR looks like a manimal. Dude looks like a video game cheat code. But tape is tape. We'll see how everything turns out. But whoever we end up drafting, which I feel like is a near 100% certainty, it will be up to the coaches to figure out who will give us the best chance to be successful.

I guess I should have posted here. AR is the athlete who we thought he was: a MONSTER. Daniel Jeremiah broke down one of his games, and he did better than the stats would lead you to think. But we're in draft season. There is SO MUCH BS out there. Is he really the smartest QB in the draft? Dunno. But everyone is saying he killed the interviews. So...??? Who knows. Look, if we did end up drafting him, even if we trade up, I'd be cool with it. Our coaches are set up to build a guy like him up. I have no clue if it's a good idea right now. We still have two more months of BS... But we'll have a better idea of the Panthers' plans soon when they either trade up or sign a vet QB.

We all knew the physical stuff would be easy for him. He looks like the stud athlete we knew he was. Passing in shorts is easy so, cool. But you have to go back to the games. Daniel Jeremiah went and charted one of his lesser games, and found that there was a lot of good that AR did in spite of his team not helping. So man, he's a really intriguing player. Teams are saying he killed it in interviews, one of the smartest guys that they spoke to, etc. Part of me thinks that a lot of this is draft talk trying to play the game with other teams. Maybe get someone to overvalue AR. Or he's the real deal. I don't know. I'm excited for whoever we manage to pick, regardless of what we have to give up to get them. Good ole draft season! Edit: Just saw AR toss those long balls. Man, he's just got arm strength for days...

Welcome back Yes, get through Beyond Light (not terrible) but the grind for the Stasis shards is going to be annoying at this point in the game. Witch Queen is incredible! Best story, super fun! I'm curious how the campaign will feel with the new mod system. I'm 2 missions into Lightfall - but I've been a little spoiled by the rest of my media. Apparently I'm one of the few people who didn't take several days off to grind the campaign! I love the locale. It's really beautiful, and it changes between night and day times. Strand is cool in the missions (because you have a turbo boost for ability timers), but it kind of falls flat outside of it because of the long cool downs and not much in the way of neutral gameplay. The gameplay is still fantastic. The look and feel of the game is still great, but I'm not hearing great things about the story for LF. I'm usually more forgiving as a fanboy, but even the other fanboys are like "yeap...missed that one!" So I'll see how it goes.