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15 hours ago, Davidson Deac II said:

My personal laptop has about a five minute lock.

My company laptop will go about a minute and it will lock.  Same with my phone (because it has a remote access connection to my employer's network and they require it).  It is annoying, but I understand why they do it.   And I work from home.  I work in cyber threat and these are pretty standard requirements now for any major corporation. I bet they will be now for NFL teams.    

You'd think that there'd be some type of league framework in place but it's mostly the burden of the teams to figure out and implement. I remember back towards the end of the Gettleman era doing a scrape and being shocked at what was discovered.

15 hours ago, tukafan21 said:

So you're saying if you are working at home and decide to go make a sandwich in the kitchen while you have family members are in the house, you lock your computer for those 5 minutes to make sure one of your own family members doesn't go and do something stupid and mess with your job?

Unless you work in the highest levels of national security or something, that would just be a bit extreme, as nobody is thinking their own son is going to do something like that (again, unless he's done things in the past to make you think he is that dumb).

Yes.

The last thing I need is one of the animals (child included) running across the keyboard or accidentally deleting an important email.

I'd rather deal with the couple of extra seconds of having to put my password back in then compromise the data I'm trusted with. That's not extreme at all. It's literally the bare minimum that somebody could do next to nothing. Instead of chalking up blame to not knowing the future, we can prevent that future with just a little personal responsibility.

Y'all ready for the start of our first ever back-to-back winning seasons? ᕦ(ò_óˇ)

59 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

Again, yes and no.

Mine is also set to an auto lock of like 10 minutes, but that's still more than enough time for a stupid college kid to go do what he did while his dad went to grab a drink from the kitchen.

Coaches aren't out in public somewhere that having a quick lock is a necessity, they likely are only using their laptop/tablet in one of 2 places, at the team facility or in their own home, so fear of someone doing this in the 2 minutes they're away from their desk is basically 0% outside of something like this happening where it was his son.

It is very, very easy for an org to set up an MDM that forces devices to lock after 5min of inactivity.

Bad opsec to not have that (nor an internal policy that requires devices be locked if not in use) especially given that there's likely access to other information like plays, limited medical info, etc

Direct link: https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/nfl-schedule/2025-important-nfl-dates/

Panthers' specific dates:

• OTA Offseason Workouts: May 27-28, May 30, June 2-3, June 5
• Mandatory Minicamp: June 10-12

12 hours ago, Jon Snow said:

Didn't like the hostile atmosphere and the personal attacks I was told in confidence. Things got out of hand for a while so a lot chose to stay away.

Some will say it was due to toxicity, some will say it was because they were whiners.

The world will never know.

(it knows )

1 hour ago, ForJimmy said:

You realize the irony of posting this on a message board in 2025?  Anyway I didn't mean anything personal about it.  Just how it highlights the post for "popular post" it would be funny to have an "unpopular" one as well.

Regardless you got a topic going with lots of responses.  

In relation to the topic.  I was kind of wanting a Leonard or some sort of project QB who can at minimum take over for Dalton for cheap after next year myself.  We did sign one that was undrafted but I'm sure that's just an arm for rookie camp...

Semi-related/unrelated?: What are you looking to see from Allar next year? I remember you being high on him this year... were there any elements to his game that you see as a glaring weakness currently? I expect him to be a day one, at worst day two selection but if he somehow is there on day three...

40 minutes ago, mav1234 said:

Eh, I don't think anyone can reasonably accuse me of wanting Bryce gone anymore and I wanted to develop a back up QB, but the total roster is more important. Just the way our holes have been patched it didn't work out well. Part of my desire is because we've got a QB guru has HC... But next year's QB class is supposed to be so, so much better, so that'll be a time to snag a backup.

There's always exceptions.  

The overall idea is more than reasonable as I mentioned... It's just hard to believe it as being sincere from some of the same people that have demanded another QB be taken ever since Bryce was announced as a Panther.

If they exercise his fifth-year bonus option while actively working on a contract extension, then going out and throwing a day three flier at a prospect to hold the clipboard makes a ton of sense. It doesn't make much sense to do that now though (imo). There aren't many teams that are built to be fine if QB1 goes down and if they are it's likely because QB2 had just as strong of a chance of winning the starting position.

Only got the intro read so far and cannot wait to read the rest instead of event logs this morning.

It's difficult to take the "we need to make sure we have a back-up QB developed just in case" claim seriously when the only posters I've seen bang that drum are the ones that want(ed) Bryce gone.

While it is a reasonable position to take, we've also seen that it's not exactly coming from a place of sensibility as much as it is hate for BY9.

If we get the same Bryce that started the first two games of last season, they have to consider making a significant investment at the position again.

If we get the Bryce that played the last seven games of the season, then take the fifth-year bonus option leading into his fourth season so that there's plenty of time to negotiate a second deal.

12 hours ago, MHS831 said:

I did some reading about Evero's defense.  On early downs, he likes to send either safety on a run blitz and sometimes slide the edge into the flat in coverage.  So we just drafted 2 safeties that are good at that (like Chinn) and can also cover.  (not like Chinn).  They are smart processors. This opens things up when you don't blitz because the OL is shifting inside when they bluff.   In addition, Evero likes DTs who can collapse the pocket, rush the passer with swim moves, bull rushes, spins--almost like Edges.  What they just did was got better at NT--because that is where it begins.  Tuttle sucked there last year.  In all, the edge rushers should get fewer double teams etc. Evero simply did not have the personnel last year, which is why they did not fire him

He really likes to slide the edge that draws the double teams in those situations to create more confusion for opposing OLs as well which makes life even easier for the blitzing LBs & safeties.

Also, with the addition of Ransom as @Basbear pointed out, that gives the team a third safety that can potentially contribute right away on both special teams and the defense. I wouldn't be surprised to see Evero march him out there in three safety personnel groupings.

I keep reminding myself that the team is one more offseason away but it's really hard to not be excited about seeing how they develop this season. As much as I want W's, I'm more interested in seeing last year's draft class take the leap that Bryce did in their second year.

It was so weird and trashy to punch down on somebody that was already being actively punished for their actions.

Ulbrich's kid will likely be shown the grace they never considered giving Shedeur.

If Caleb is the guy, then the Bears win the trade by nature of both teams getting a franchise QB but one gained additional assets.

If Caleb busts and Bryce doesn't, the Panthers clearly win the trade.

If both are the guys, then both teams win with Chicago getting extra.

13 minutes ago, Panthero said:

Shut up, nerd. 

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I only watched two Arizona games both last season and this season so I'm working off of an admittedly small sample size but Fifita really seemed to go backwards this season. You could see the limitations in his game last year but he seemed to be doing a pretty decent job of getting the most out of his abilities. He just didn't look good at all this year in the games that I watched. 

I wonder if it was a combination of size + scheme? Being a shorter QB, Fifita has to be a film junkie for when those sight-lines go missing because somebody twice his size just appeared out of nowhere. Just getting one year in an offense is tough on any QB, but then throw in having to overcome other pain points that other QBs don't deal with...

Babers' offense was also RPO-heavy and relied a lot on speed at WR but they were working with Fisch's recruits that were intended to be in an offense that used motion, personnel groupings, etc to create mismatches. Look at 2023 Fifita + T-Mac highlights and they look like different players.

That 2023 tape gives me a loooooot of good feels thinking about Bryce throwing some of those balls.

19 minutes ago, *FreeFua* said:

Much like Evans I don’t think Sanders is athletic enough to be a TE1. I’m hopeful he got into better shape this past offseason but we’ll see

I'm going to need to see a little more top end speed out of JT while he's in pads. There were times where it almost appeared like he was running in quicksand, but I also wonder if part of that is just a rookie still processing things and not at a point where he can just read and react.

If it's just a matter of comfortability, then he might look even faster on the field this season. If JT can convince Tremble to hit the sled with him after they get done on the jugs machine with Chuba...

Link to article

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Arizona won 10 games last season and finished 11th in the final Associated Press poll. Its head coach left for another job. And its starting quarterback and the All-American wideout – the two most prominent and promising players on the roster – turned down millions of dollars in Name, Image and Likeness inducements from other schools to stay instead of transferring. That loyalty is partly why they’re featured on the Bowman Chrome line, per the Topps rep monitoring the signing, and it’s the reason anyone else would be here, too. They created a rift in college sports reality.

Now, in a world with a 12-team playoff, they have a viable chance at altering a program’s history. But their decision to stay wasn’t about choosing nothing when confronted with everything. Not when you can make more than $3,000 signing collectibles for 75 minutes. It was about relationships, culture, finishing something and even how a fortune cookie can compete with the mass market.

It’s about the faith that taking a little less can lead to more. Because there’s Tetairoa McMillan, he of the ball skills that make NFL franchises swoon, walking out the front door of his buddy’s townhouse at sunset. He’d just put his signature on 400-plus Topps cards of his own.

“I always tell everybody,” McMillan says, sitting inside Arizona Stadium a few hours earlier, “I turned down seven figures to make eight.”

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Because other programs had the means and motivation to change minds. “There was life-changing money there,” Les Fifita says.

But Desert Takeover, Arizona’s NIL arm, was not idle in the hours after Fisch’s departure and before Brent Brennan’s arrival. “There was already a concerted effort to do everything they could to keep (Fifita and McMillan) here,” Brennan says. “Those wheels started to spin really fast.” However they got there, Fifita and McMillan appear to have tapped into the NIL market enough in Tucson to offset the dollar signs flashed at them elsewhere. Their podcast is sponsored by Crest Insurance. They have a deal with a private jet company, Alerion Aviation. McMillan is an ambassador for Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers and has set up a website to sell T-shirts and hoodies bearing his Nalo branding. (It stands for “Negative Attitudes Lose Opportunities.”) Fifita has stumped for SuperCuts and Tucson International Airport.

They’ve wound up doing OK right where they were.

But staying still required faith and good fortune, too.

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A slant route across the middle against no defenders. A perfect throw from Fifita bounces off McMillan’s hands and hits the grass of Arizona’s outdoor practice field. McMillan claps in frustration. Everyone else checks the skies for locusts. “That was like the most rare moment of all time,” Stukes says. “Everyone gasped. It was like watching Larry Fitzgerald drop a pass: ‘What just happened?’”

There are few things taken for granted in any program, anywhere. Noah Fifita throwing a pass that Tetairoa McMillan catches is one of them.

Of the 241 passes Fifita completed in 2023, 68 were caught by McMillan. A full 1,010 of Fifita’s 2,869 total passing yards arrived via connections to McMillan. A relationship that began in eighth grade has developed into a sort of supernatural rapport. “How many passes has Noah Fifita thrown to T-Mac? Five thousand? Ten thousand?” Brennan says. “They’ve known each other since they were 14. You throw that many balls to one guy, there’s going to be trust. A sixth sense, so to speak.”

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The results to date are as expected, if also a bit mercurial. McMillan hauled in a school-record 304 receiving yards in a Week 1 runaway against New Mexico, but he caught just two balls as No. 20 Arizona scraped past Northern Arizona in Week 2. (The Wildcats, a 33.5-point favorite, trailed at the half.) Fifita ranks 21st nationally with an efficiency rating of 174.53 through two games, and four of his five touchdown passes have landed in McMillan’s hands. And here come back-to-back road games at No. 14 Kansas State and No. 12 Utah, a Big 12 championship favorite. These are not merely important games to define a season trajectory – Fifita and McMillan could have found those anywhere. These are opportunities they valued more than robust NIL payouts, because said opportunities can only happen where they are: games that can forge a new football paradigm in the desert.

“I guess you can call us crazy, but we like to choose the hard path,” McMillan says. “People don’t realize, with this team, we’re trying to do something different over here.”

Fun story about McMillan-Fifita's friendship and how they opted to remain in Arizona instead of taking a bunch of money to go to Washington (it helped that they were already taking a bunch of money in Arizona). Here's to hoping that all of that time with Fifita has gotten T-Mac/Nalo ready for Bryce's style of play!

Just now, Lame Duck said:

PhillyB will come back here at some point.  He’s just busy with life right now.  Many original posters are just busy with life… kids, spouse, careers…. Life happens.

Would be a lot of fun to see some of the old folks in here.

Would be even more fun to revitalize the Huddle tailgate.

12 minutes ago, Lame Duck said:

Opinions are like assholes, everyone got one.  Your definition of quality might be very different from definition on this board.  Also, I know Lin pretty well and I can tell you… he ain’t losing any sleep at night knowing there’s a discord group.

For the past 20+ years folks tried to mimic huddle and replace it, it always failed.  This discord account won’t be any different.

Oh for sure. Some folks want an argumentative mess where they can bounce around in the chaos and that's fine. Though seeing as how the numbers for the server keep going up meanwhile we don't see many new posters here that aren't alt accounts... so... idk about that last part...

I also have zero doubt that LG isn't losing any sleep over this because that's not exactly something that somebody with NPD would do (which explains why he felt justified in promoting toxic behavior while trying to make it appear as if the people that left in opposition to it were unreasonable).

13 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Why don't you just go enjoy Discord? You constantly keep bringing this stuff up. You're the only poster left here who does. Everyone else who just whines all the time left. They found somewhere else they're happier. That's good. That's how things should work. Maybe you should follow their lead.

I have enjoyed the Discord. It's been awesome getting the more stable and knowledgeable posters from the Huddle over in there as well since there's good discussions going on and a lot of good information being shared. There's a decent bit of info I bring over here from there.

There are also people that I enjoy here and engage with. Sometimes that means witnessing you ignoring information in favor of an unfettered opinion that you've taken a shine to pushing (such as "all the whiners left" when you're still right here bitching like you always have). If it hurts your feelings to know that there's a place that people have gone because of the environment you've perpetuated, that's something for you to work on.

What exactly do you contribute to the board other than running off quality posters and enabling poo posters? I don't see any analysis, breakdowns, etc from you. 

38 minutes ago, Shotgun said:

Can they trade all 5 for 1 qb worth a sh*t? haha

I don't think I've ever seen an open QB competition between five guys before... jfc it's bad up there in Cleveland

3 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

Princely will be a designated pass rusher, I suppose.  Cam Jackson is a guy I just knew they would draft late; a good backup for Brown.

Princely and Cam seemed like they were two guys that the team had zeroed in on early in the process, especially Cam Jackson. He was one of the first prospects I had heard the team was looking into.

45 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

"toxicity" meaning we didn't use mod powers to create a personal echo chamber for them.

Sure seems this place is overall considerably less toxic after most of the people whining about people having the audacity to express football opinions on a forum built to discuss football up and left. I hope they're happy at their Discord. They wanted an echo chamber and they made themselves one. It worked out best for everyone.

Toxicity meaning that you yourself were engaging in personal attacks and poo posting, so the most unstable users felt empowered to do the same. Considering that you're bitching less, it's no surprise they're following suit.

The discord was also formed loooong before you shitted things up here. You should give it a shot, you might learn something about football.