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Mind posting a link to a scientific study that states leadership is genetically linked to one's height?

WR room is going to be interesting because no matter what, the team is keeping 6. There's just too much talent not to. Who that is will of course depend on finances, fit, and more. X: Tetairoa McMillan, David Moore, Brycen Tremayne, Ja'Seem Reed Z: Xavier Legette, Jalen Coker, TJ Luther, Kobe Hudson Slot: Adam Thielen, Hunter Renfrow, Jimmy Horn Jr, Jacolby George TMac/XL/AT/Coker/Renfrow feel like locks... Considering that, getting a guy to back up TMac that can play ST is super important. David Moore has been that guy, but Brycen Tremayne might be pushing him... Trevor Etienne looking good on returns might have been the worst thing to happen to JHJ's chances to make the roster... Personally, I'd flip the coin between Moore/Tremayne and try to stash the other on PS.

Spotrac says that Tremble's cap hit for 2025 is $3.85M with a dead cap of $6M. Next season though, he'll have a $6.5M cap hit but the dead cap number would only be $2.16M. Mitchell Evans hasn't looked good while James Mitchell has looked better (imo). Tremble is still the best guy in that room until JT0 becomes more consistent.

Would love for Crumedy to make the roster but Roberts has played pretty well. I'd be hype to keep James Mitchell.

I think week 1 is a great test for both cat teams. Jags have a surprisingly solid roster with some names on that defense. They've got a rookie HC + rookie DC, which is good for Carolina, but Evero and Coen already met twice last season and it didn't exactly go what I'd call well. Still... there's some match-ups to keep our eyes on: Campinile (Jags DC) comes from GB and was their run game coordinator on defense. The Jaguars have a stacked front seven as well. It'll be a really good test for the Panthers OL and run game. The Jaguars' offense has some guys, and Coen put up better numbers than Canales in his one season at TB, but they're going to have a similarly balanced attack that will allow the defense to rev up against a persistent ground game early. How will the secondary contain BTJ? Is Jaycee going to shadow him? That's going to give us a lot of insight into how different the scheme is from last year (if at all). Will the offense be able to get those chunk plays against a solid Jags defense that PFF graded top-5 in overall Defense, #1 in pressure, top-5 in coverage, and top-15 against the run?

There are some tough decisions that I'm eager to see the results of... Does Blackshear sneak on to the roster as RB4? Does the team go with 4 TEs or just 3 again? And has Mitchell Evans done enough to defend his roster spot from James Mitchell? Who is WR6 and is there a WR7? TMac, XL, Coker, and AT seem to be locks imo and I'm assuming Renfrow also makes it due to all of the camp praise. Who makes it between Brycen Tremayne, Jimmy Horn Jr, and David Moore? If the team goes with 7 WRs, which one of those three doesn't make it? Jacolby George and Emani Bailey both have not gotten a lot of game time. Could the Panthers be trying to hide them so that they can be stashed on the PS? Do they go with 10 OL instead of 9? Who makes it out of Walton, Carter, and Kingston? DL locks are DB, BB3, ARob, and Turk. That leaves Jaden Crumedy, Cam Jackson, Sam Roberts, Shy Tuttle, and LaBryan Ray all competing for the final 1 - 3 spots. Does DJ Johnson get IR'd and Thomas Incoom make the roster as EDGE5? What in the fuuuuuuuuuuuuck is going to happen at LB? Only locks seem to be Wallace, Rozeboom, and Cherelus (Wallace has mentioned in media how Cherelus has been big bro for him on the team). Rhattigan had some good moments against Houston, Martin-Scott is an SC guy, Krys Barnes has popped on defense and on special teams, and Windmon got time starting for the team last season. Are two of those guys going to make it or are the Panthers poaching from another team's cuts? CB5... who is it? Do they go with the 4 expected safeties or bring in a 5th? Has Ransom done enough to take the start from Nick Scott?

Yea, if the team looks like hot ass the first two weeks again it's not going to be a happy time. It'll be especially frustrating if the team starts slow but finishes strong but at the same time that's probably what will happen with the new defense + young weapons getting acclimated... I expect that to take until halfway through the season, and I don't believe that extra preseason snaps would help that much to speeding up the timeline. Even if it meant they gelled a game or two sooner, there's the added risk of injury on a team that's still trying to build depth after years of bad decisions. Now if they start slow and have the same approach in 2026 with a more complete team I'm going to have some not so nice questions (and opinions) for/about the staff.

Just wanted to mention that the Bears were not doing vanilla playcalling. It was very reminiscent to Mike McDaniels' first season in Miami where he showed his hand and then in year two everything seemed to come to a halt. It's too early to make the same determination for Ben Johnson's future, but it was very apparent that he was treating preseason like the regular season. Some fans like that mentality for understandable reasons. However, one of the risks to that is exposing your tendencies to the rest of the league at the beginning. Last season was to see if Bryce could be the guy. At the beginning, it looked like the damage from his rookie season had done him in. Mid-way through, he's back and looking good. At the end, he's still ascending. This season, the focus is on rebuilding the defense while developing our young weapons. Winning is always the #1 desire, but I don't know if we're deep enough on both sides of the ball yet to demand excellence yet. 2026 we'll have cap space, some expiring contracts to make decisions on, and knowledge of whether or not there's going to need to be a change at QB.

Ooo. I didnt know that Hansen had called week 2. Now I gotta watch both again and see what the "core" plays are that they both called and if they had different styles/tendencies based on their specialization(s).

Canales confirms that Coker is playing Thursday!

Last practice of training camp today!!! Padded practice BB3, TMac, Scourton, and Tremble all working with trainers DJ Johnson not practicing today Zavala back in pads Dalton looks to be fine throwing but still has his arm in a sleeve Canales made the offense run two sprints after the first portion of team drills. Wasn't happy with the execution.

tbh, I miss when some of the more knowledgeable posters would create threads like this. I always learned something about the team or the game itself that made me a better fan. Plus the discussions that would take place (don't get me wrong, arguments always happened but there would also be rational conversations) could open up to new information that wasn't noticed before (like what happened in here after all of the back-and-forth died down). I know I won't be able to provide as much insight as those with better football knowledge than me could, but if it helps anybody else learn more the way that the Huddle used to help me then weeeeeeeeee.

MLFootball and Dov Kleinman are trash aggregator accounts that should be blocked.

Threw the preseason offensive snap counts into a spreadsheet and found some data points that I thought were interesting: Brycen Tremayne saw a snap increase of 15. The only other offensive player that saw a significant snap increase that wasn't new/returning was David Moore (11). Jimmy Horn Jr saw the largest decrease in snap counts (-12) without a major change in his circumstances. TMac (-17) is nursing a sore hamstring, Coker (-29) was sick, Dalton (-20) got hurt, and Mays (-13) saw time as a starter and was no longer competing for center. Only offensive skills' players with more snaps than Tremayne (41) is Moore (43). Very close total offensive snap counts for Etienne (37), Evans (36), Horn Jr (36), and Mitchell (35). Two of the bottom five offensive snap counts are held by Emani Bailey (11) and Jacolby George (11). That caught my eye considering the news about George getting a pretty sweet deal for a UDFA and rumbles about Bailey looking good in what few touches he had gotten in practice + preseason. Possibly hiding them to stash on the practice squad, or maybe not doing what they need to on ST? Walton (64), Kingston (59), and Carter (59) are the third through fifth highest snap counts behind Nijman (78) and BC (76). Likely all competing for that 9th spot or to make a case for the team to take a 10th OL.

Bring me Kyle Dugger (after cuts)

Maaaan.... when I went to get those caps from the broadcast it had the Texans announcers and the way they were talking up Stingley like he had impacted the play was wild.

All good mang! I've done the same thing two or three times this offseason after you've already gotten a thread up and going.

Dalton looks like he has no issues with the elbow. Threw during warm ups with a sleeve on. No DJ Johnson. Hip maybe?

Also back at practice: Zavala. Cam Jackson, Coker, and Cherelus. Carter warmed up on the side