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Yeah, but Rodgers is under contract until the 2024 season. He can retire, but the Packers hold his rights until then.

...Interesting article. It almost sounds like there is a high level plan that Tepper and the city share for that area. Obviously, who pays for what will be the big fight. https://www.wbtv.com/2021/07/22/records-show-charlotte-lacks-money-new-stadium/ ——————— A WBTV Investigation shows the Queen City’s capacity to contribute to stadium projects is much lower than what’s recently been agreed upon in other NFL cities. Financial records shared by city staffers during a Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority board meeting show that the capacity to take on debt for major stadium construction is somewhat limited by other projects the city has already financed. ———————— “I don’t feel that the capacity is there at the moment in the existing tax structure,” District 7 Councilman Ed Driggs told WBTV Councilman and financial institution veteran Ed Driggs told WBTV he has doubts about the cities pot of money to pay for the deal. “Particularly because we have a pipeline of capital projects that will probably soak up a lot of that of existing capacity,” Driggs said. In addition to future potential projects like Discovery Place and Blumenthal Performing Arts, the city is already committed to $174 million in debt in the Convention Center fund, including more than $100 million for recent convention center upgrades. ———————- Economist Andrew Zimbalist told WBTV that deals between franchise owners and cities that look beyond a specific dollar contribution have proven more fruitful for taxpayers. “Cities are finding it more and more difficult to justify the expenditures as the prices go up in urban areas,” Zimbalist said. “What we’ll do is we’ll give you the land for the stadium. Not only that, but we’ll give you some acres around it for parking lots and we’ll give you some more acres for commercial and residential development and then you can make your money off of those other things that will help pay back.” That’s not to dissimilar from the plan currently unfolding between Charlotte and Tepper. The City has already reached an agreement with Tepper and a developer for new soccer fields, residential units and commercial enterprises at Eastland. The city is also still negotiating with Tepper around a mixed-use/entertainment district in the area near Bank of America Stadium and the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry property, which could be crucial to the development of a future stadium. Rezoning Pipe and Foundry and using a mixed-use/entertainment district to link it with the Gateway District, home of a future transit center for Amtrak could be crucial to plans moving forward. ———————- “More likely than not, at the end of the day, for the vast majority of these deals, they should not be looked upon as a promoter for the economy,” Zimbalist said. “They’re not going to raise overall employment. They’re not going to raise per capita income, and what you want to do as a city if you want to have a sports team, whether it’s MLS, NFL or NBA or whatever it might be, try to make a deal that is financially neutral.”

I typically like to be optimistic and take the wait and see approach, but I’m just not a believer in Sam or our OL either.

I had no idea transplanted hearts only last 17 ish years. Thats a tough thing to live with.

But can he play LT?

Looks like the Bears are threatening to move to the suburbs again over a funding fight. Will be interesting to see how that goes.

Tepper did say several times that he would like to build a sports and entertainment complex uptown. This was a few years ago. The thought was the new stadium (foundry) + BofA (soccer) with an entertainment complex built on the current practice fields and extra land around the foundry not used for parking. All this is and the baseball field would make for a pretty cool group of venues.

I just don’t think Tepper and the Panthers want to be the ones to destroy Carowinds. I personally hate that place, but the optics of a billionaire bulldozing a nostalgic landmark like that with taxpayer money wouldn’t be good. He’d make a lot of enemies doing that.

A better source on the same topic. https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/panthers-ask-york-county-help-after-rock-hill-fails-secure-infrastructure-funding/SO3DKXUX65FRVO5AFFQE33EJ3A/

That would be a long drive for players. Besides, myrtle beach is not exactly an upgrade. https://www.charlottestories.com/myrtle-beach-ranked-the-3rd-most-dangerous-city-in-america/

What’s the point? Fans don’t attend.

That’s a good ‘glass half full’ way to look at it.

Unlike last week, they’ve been doing a lot of 11 on 11. I’d love to know how he’s doing there.

So our brand new QB can check down? Nothing else stands out?

I think Grier has ‘moved on’ mentally. He prob isn’t fully accepting it yet, but his comments the other week tell me he knows he’s not going to make it at this level.

Ah...I thought they blurred it blurred it.

This is stupid. They had no issue naming a bunch of players they were thinking about taking. Why would they blur out a name unless they thought it would stir up some poo? The name was Fields and they are just covering their butts in case Fields outplays Sam.

I don’t know if we’re top 10 yet. Still a good bit of inexperience there. Next year though, we better be or Snow needs to go.

That surprised me too. He wasn’t on their list of first round options. No QBs were.

You definitely have to re-evaluate the HC after 5 years. Keeping him depends on the circumstances (was there a rebuild, what has the qb situation been, drafting outcomes, etc). Ron was one of those borderline guys. He did great things, but no back to back wining seasons was a huge red flag after year 5. Especially with the rosters he had. I think Rhule will get 7 years.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-coaches-and-qbs-should-divorce-after-five-years-of-not-winning/

The 5 year thing has to do with the HC + QB combo.

Cam is my fav player in panthers history, but his time was up. Arguably the best coach in nfl history just drafted Mac Jones to replace him. Mac Jones.

Curtis Samuel was a huge waste of a pick. So much talent that Ron only wanted to pull out for special occasions. If anything, he should have learned for Bradberry. He had no choice to play and dev that kid and look what happened. Does anyone really think James would have ever seen playing time if DG gave him a vet on that roster in 2016?