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85 days until the season officially starts (57 days if you want to start with pre-season games) The Panthers have posted their draft day Blueprint video. TMac is running routes in minicamp. Bryce grew a beard. Let's get a temperature check: Post a GIF about how you're feeling right now

For those of you concerned about whether Cam would be able to have a career after football -- he's going to be all right Monday night during the BET Awards, sports hosts Ashley Nicole Moss and Cam Newton announced they will be hosting a sports spinoff called 106 & Sports. Moss and Newton made the announcement together live on air, explaining that 106 & Sports will go beyond the game to cover the culture and community around the competition. The show will debut this fall. “106 & Sports is about more than scores and statistics,” Newton said. “It’s about the culture around the game. The players, the personality, and of course, the passion. But most importantly, it’s about the fans.” https://awfulannouncing.com/pop-culture/cam-newton-ashley-nicole-moss-announce-new-bet-show-106-sports.html

said this about a lot of TE plays. (I mean, they were good at it and the plays worked a lot, but it was comical to see how many TEs do the same thing: catch, fall down go boom)

Good. We've kept some players a bit too long waiting for them to develop. (the bad? some of those who didn't do well for us went on to do well for others. Maybe they just needed more time; maybe it was bad coaching. Hard to say)

it helps that Bryce and Tmac worked out a bit this off-season before the draft and are familiar with each other's game from way back. Sure Bryce put in a good word for him to the coaching crew ahead of time That california connection goin' work, I hope

terrific interview. Brisket and ribs as part of contract negotiations?

at the time, there was a lot of chatter of Dan being a Tepper yes-guy pick to followup when Fitterer left Dan seems to have proved otherwise, much to the fanbase' happiness

in the video, he referred to himself as a "former Carolina Panther" he left out the "player, on the field" portion of that sentence. Once a Panther, ALWAYS a Panther (well, some exceptions may apply)

Selected excerpts:

Live video of Bryce in a game:

There'll be some eyeballs for sure because of the Aaron news today

Upon a third watch, it looks like Dan is looking past Tepper to Dave, not looking at Tepper directly The edit makes it look like it's a Tepper glance, but the eye angle seems off

we all agree that he needs to stick with that beard look, though. Right?

this off-season, we were the happiest 5-12 fanbase in the league where other similar teams were drowning in their tears, we ended the season with hope and a seemingly upwards trajectory

TMac is going to bring some fun, I think

Seemed like Dan was explaining his thought process on moving up vs moving down vs staying put on each individual opportunity they wanted. Maybe he was looking for validation on the valuation of various trade ups/downs from Tep who understands value equivalency convos But it continues a narrative of the Teps being less hands-on than they were before (my timeline has the turning point being the infamous drink toss, with confirmation being the intro Dan/Dave presser)

Seth Myers and the Lonely Island podcast go deep on celebrating Will Forte's comedic style

agreed. As mentioned elsewhere, not unusual for (any team's) owner to be in the draft room. But comparing the hands-on draft style of Jerry Jones vs (what appeared to be) a more observant/less-involved Tepper this year... it seems very much like Dan was running the show and making the player decisions with his football mgmt team

The video made it seem like Tepper was there as a sounding board on pick values for trades etc (cause he does know numbers), and his opinion on specific players was not solicited A significantly more subdued Tepper in the room than in previous years' videos

Tee Dog would disagree

for SB, I got +15000 in vegas. Worth a $10 buy for a potential $1,500 payout.

SNL fans should enjoy the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. The premise is a review of every SNL Digital Short and what went into them, but the pod then deviates into general SNL episode-by-episode history and behind-the-scenes chatter in a casual, conversational way. A few running jokes from epi to epi between friends, and still amused the pods they did to discuss the movie Hot Rod ended up being longer than the movie itself

All Dan and team in the piece Tepper only mentioned once. If accurate, improvements are being made