Ricky Spanish

The Hornets were 1 game away from the playoffs this season. The Panthers have won 10 games the past two seasons. The latter is infinitely worse than the former.

I really just don't like Willis' game at all. Seems like a super nice guy though. A+ Character. I want Corral or Strong.

If Marcus Lattimore can get drafted in the 4th round at RB, Carson Strong can at QB where mobility is even less of a requirement.

Where are you seeing he is coming in for a visit? I've only seen Willis, Picket, Corral, and Ridder so far.

round 2 or later

"Happy Panther, who was recently caught jerking off to scat porn, was struck by a car and killed today" The middle part isn't really relevant and adds nothing to the statement about the person's death. If you truly did know and love the person schefter is talking about, it's pretty distasteful to talk about their recent failures when they just died, especially if said failures aren't related to their death at all.

York County Councilman Brandon Guffey's statement on the matter: York County Council Member, Brandon Guffey, releases statement (below) regarding the Panthers: All that is required for a community to be taken advantage of is for good men to do nothing. I’ve personally taken heat over suspending rules to vote on a resolution that was provided on a Saturday to vote on Monday. I’ve been criticized for supporting an alternative option for Panthers organization. I’ve labored behind the scenes urging the city of Rock Hill to pass a resolution as well. A resolution that we were told would satisfy all parties. I come on here to express my personal opinions, not trying to speak as council as a whole, to show the transparency so many have asked for. Regardless of Mr Tepper’s wealth, I have always respected his blue collar mentality and thought he was a man for the working class. I thought this is a man to model yourself afterwards due to some of his past quotes such as “I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburg and work in the steel mills”. As a kid that grew up in Rock Hill without the wealth that so many had and as a man that now digs in dirt for a living, this was a man to look up to. It appears those values I thought we shared have been tainted by the Wall Street investor mentality. I live by hard work. We rise early, stay late, and come back the next day to do it all again. To this day, my slogan is Get Dirty. If I ever act as not caring for the common man, I could only hope another will call me out as I am right now. I ran my county council race in 2020 as being the blue collar bulldog but feel as the billionaire is ignoring the calamity of the blue collar workers in my home. I now run for a seat within the SC house with the same mentality. As I said in my opening sentence, All that is required for a community to be taken advantage of is for good men to do nothing. I firmly believe that and ask that Mr Tepper and the Panthers organization simply come to the table to discuss the option they asked us to propose. Why did myself and other elected officials push so hard to issue a resolution? Everyone has their own reasons but for me it had a lot to do with the families of the local workers on that job site. We did our part to show good faith, hoping to save those jobs. So that all those equipment leases and other contracts wouldn’t be broken. Affording the Panthers organization the opportunity to truly show that we are two states, one team. I stood in the crowd as a fan, a citizen, and with no political ambition when the deal was signed. I was happy that we had a franchise owner that shared my blue collar beliefs. I wasn’t involved in that first dealing with the Panthers but our subsequent efforts were made in good faith. I was constantly defending the argument of “he is just a billionaire throwing around his weight”. I watched as the Tepper family contributed to a park for special needs children in our community, seemed to buy in to what makes our community so great, and continued to lay down their investments throughout. I thought this is a team that is going to give back to our schools, care about the local hard working families and not screw over our working class. What I have seen since getting on Council is not the organization I thought it was. The County, City, Schools and State have all fought hard to do what is best for this community and show that we want the Panthers and Mr Tepper to be a part of it. What have we seen in return? Silence. No response. The Panthers and their owner seem to have forgotten what it means to be a little guy in the business world. Meanwhile I’m questioning, have those local contractors been paid? Will this be a Wall Street deal about saving money or actually taking care of our community that knows dirty hands make the cleanest money? Will we have a road to nowhere? If the facility is not built by 2024, the Panthers stands to lose north of a hundred million in tax credits our state officials worked so hard to get. We won’t have the majority leader in Columbia should they need to come back. What we have now is a road to nowhere and nothing. We have small businesses struggling, a lack of certainty within our community and the resentment towards the Panthers organization is growing daily. We’ve got an outsider bringing in Wall Street values instead of someone that shares our values of a hard days work that so many of us do. I pray that I am wrong but have little faith in a sensible resolution. That crow appears to be coming home to roost. How do York County season ticket holders feel? How do the fans of the franchise we considered our home team feel. How do our small business owners recover from investments made on our future? How do other cities feel about having an irrational actor of the NFL coming to their area? How does Charlotte feel as they negotiate on the terms of their new stadium? How does the brand not suffer anywhere it looks to expand? More questions and more silence!

Him and Corral are my two favorites this year.

Yeah you're not wrong which is just as upsetting, if not more so.

Were they given a choice?

So all the people of Rock hill/York county were fine with giving the panthers tax breaks over the next 25 years where that money would go back to their city/county? Cool cool. Glad they're all happy to forego millions in taxes for their community and have to pay for more poo/infrastructure out of pocket as it comes to the city thanks to the facility. Great deal.

Oh no, I read it, I just don't think billionaires should be making cities foot the bill for their shrines or practice shrines when they can afford it. It does not benefit the communities like they claim it does.

Poor David Tepper and his Billions doesn't want to pay millions for his practice facility. He can fug off if he won't pay. Seriously, no fanbase should pay a dime for the stadiums of teams when Billionaires can afford it.

No idea who locked it. Don't care. I Re-read everything @thunderraidensaid in his OP and he was like 90-95% correct. It was Nostradamus levels of clairvoyance. It was great. I personally wouldn't have locked it because I personally thought he deserved his victory lap, especially when I totally disagreed with him a few months ago. But not every mod thinks like me. And that's a good thing, because then poo really wouldn't get moderated that well around here. As the Mod that does probably the least of of the entire mod team (who is actually on here regularly), this is the smallest of potatoes in terms of the daily crap that we see, and some days we see literal crap. Is the mod team perfect? No. Does locking a thread like that happen all the time? No. Can we be better as a Mod Team? Of course. Could things be way worse? Most definitely yes. I'm sorry that locking the thread upset you, but it also really wasn't that big of a deal and I would not single out this one instance of locking a thread in a questionable manner as evidence of the entire system being corrupt. We are human. It's reasonable to be a little irked, but I wouldn't go burning the place down over it. There are a few rules that we draw a hard line on, but a lot of the other stuff is a gray area, and that gray is different shades to different mods on different days at different times. TL;DR:

And we're still stuck with Matt fuging Rhule

Dude that's a stop watch. I want the guy gone just as much as anyone, but come on guys, there's nothing in that clip that suggests he's drunk or drinking. You're reaching for excuses when the only one we need is the product he puts on the field.

I joke, but the dude is quick as all hell. If he were like 10 lbs heavier those QB hits would be sacks.

Coincidentally that's how many times he bounced off the QB the past two years trying to register a sack.

Does this take into account the rollover we would get if we don't spend anymore of the 30 mil that we have available? If not, then we would be sitting at 27 million.

I have already accepted the fact that Kenny Pickett will be our QB for the next few years at the least so I'm not even worried about it.

I'm pretty sure nothing of any importance was said and anything that could even be remotely construed into a negative light will be because Rhule is viewed in such a negative light at the moment.

Tom Brady has one of the most mechanically sound throwing motions of all time. No wasted time/energy in anything he does. It's perfect. Howell, not so much.

I disagree. It's just bad. Watch Pickett, Willis, or Corral throw. As soon as they make the decision, the ball comes out. With Howell, he makes the decision, has to tap the ball, then has a long over the top delivery. He will get read by good CBs in the NFL early and often.

That slow ass delivery tho...