tukafan21

So when someone of Polynesian heritage has a child, they should give them an everyman American name so it's easy for fans to call them by their real name just in case they become a star athlete 20 years later because American's don't like to learn how to pronounce names from other cultures?

Saw a great stat today, T-Mac was 2nd in the nation last year in 3rd down conversions without a single drop, while we didn't have a player who ranked in the Top 45 in 3rd down conversions last season.

Honestly, if he's taking #2 just to mess with Shedeur and the team is letting him since he was picked first, then I just became a huge fan of this kid, would be awesome

From what I've seen the last week, it's definitely from Waimanalo, but he's also then turned it into the acronym you have here as a personal motto type of thing.

My point isn't about being sold on Ickey as a forever LT, it was that he's already more than proven that he's not one of those guys who "has no business of being out there at all" as if he was that, we'd have either replaced him or moved him to guard last year instead of signing 2 of them. So even if they were to decide to try and move him to RT in the future when Moton is gone, you still don't move him there mid-season in the event of a Moton injury and have the backup OT play on the left side, particularly if that's just "to see how he plays on the right side" You keep your LT there, play the backup OT on the right, and then find the best solution in the offseason for moving forward. LT is the 3rd most important position in today's game after QB and DE/Pass Rusher. You play your best OT on the left side unless you have absolutely no option but to play them on the right for whatever reason.

I wasn't even crossing my fingers until 30 seconds before our pick, and I think we all know how badly I wanted T-Mac, lol. And I only came around at the end there when the guys on NFL Network using past tense multiple times that they thought we would have gone defense with out pick right before they announced it. The past few weeks of only hearing about defense had me 100% convinced we were going that way, whether it was Walker, Nolan, or a trade back for someone else, I wasn't even hoping for T-Mac once we got on the clock and he was there, I was just ready to be disappointed. I also think that's why it was so exciting for me, because I was so convinced it wasn't even a possibility, that it was a legitimate shock to me. LFG!!!!!!! bhahahahahahaha

Except we very clearly did not want to trade down, because we had the offers to do so and we didn't. The Walker smokescreen was so that teams like the Cowboys, Rams, or 49ers who all apparently wanted T-Mac, all thought we were only thinking defense so they didn't try to trade with the Jets to jump us for T-Mac.

Hell, if we're talking anything with Ramsey, I'd be more curious if they think he has the right skill set to be our Free Safety move. If he can make the Charles Woodson move from elite CB to elite S late in his career, then you might be cooking with some gas.

You still only do it if you don't have a serviceable backup RT and your only good backup OT can for whatever reason only play at LT. Protecting your QB's blindside is far more important than the other side, unless your LT really has no business being out there to begin with (which I don't see the case with Ickey), then it's just not a move I could see any team making mid season due to an injury.

Fair, but even with Ramsey and a healthy Horn for 17 games, we're still not a contender and still might not even be a playoff team anyways. So even if Horn goes down and we had Ramsey, we're still screwed. Which is why if it's make that trade or don't use the cap space, I'd rather roll it over to next offseason to have more cap room anyways. If we're talking about trading for a 26 year old with a big contract, totally different, but not someone who turns 31 this season.

He's from Waimanalo in Hawaii and I guess it's big in the either the Hawaiian or Polynesian culture that people refer to you where you're from, hence the Nalo from Waimanalo. Which while I get it, is why I'm also not a fan of it, because it just seems like a generic nickname that a lot of people from there go by, not necessarily specific to him.

Horn is better than Ramsey at this point and I'd rather not use the cap space needed for Ramsey's contract and just roll it over into our cap next offseason to use for signing a younger player who can grow with the team. If Miami wants to trade him, given them having playoff aspirations if Tua can stay healthy (even though I still don't see them as actual SB contenders), then it's a sign that he's on a strong decline right now and not worth the contract.

I get it, but you have to draw a line in the sand somewhere when you're retiring or even just not using numbers. If we're not using 4, we shouldn't be using any of 1, 58, 59, 69, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, and I could make an argument for 17, 95, 20, or 30 in there as well. For me, you can't retire a number unless the player is (or really should be) a HOFer and spent most of their career with that team. 1, 59, 89, and 90 really should be our only retired numbers, if you're going to make an argument for a non HOFer and you can only choose one, I'd go 58 over 4. But I get it, everyone has their own opinions on that stuff.

Unless you have a left handed QB, you don't move your LT to the other side if your RT gets hurt, especially if it's to see if he can be moved there full time in the future if you wanted to do that and find a new LT.

At this point in the offseason, unless/until there are some cap casualty cuts, pretty much any signing we're going to make will be JAGs. Which is fine, you can only upgrade so many starting spots in any given offseason with long term players, I think between FA and the draft we had a really good offseason, maybe our best in a long time. Show a season of growth, particularly if Bryce can prove to be a long term solution and then next season we focus on a few more key signings, a couple DB's and LB's, with the possibility of an elite pass rusher pending how these young guys do this year and we have the makings of a solid playoff caliber team.

Well it's been used since him already, and sure, he's a Panthers legend, but he's still just a kicker and not a HOFer, so it's just not a number I'd want to see go un-used again, it's not 89, 90, 1, 59, or even 58 or 88, all numbers I think should be untouchable way before 4. I'd have said 4 is a dumb WR number 4 years ago too, but I've become so used to watching him in the number the last 3 years that it just fits for me now. With his tall but slender frame, he needs to wear a single digit number or 11, I think anything else double digit would just look wide and wonky on him. Which really means it came down to 4, 5, or 11 if he wasn't going to try and pay for a number from someone else. I could see the argument for 11, it would look good on him, but again, I'm so used to him in 4 that I now like how it looks on him, so I'm happy with it myself.

I saw the interview where he says he is fine with either but his mom doesn't like Tet, but don't remember him saying about the no hyphen. But I have seen that he doesn't use the hyphen on things like his twitter feed too, so I kinda want to stop using it myself, but I've been talking and reading about the kid for 3 years now and I've always used and seen it as T-Mac with the hyphen, hard habit to break, especially as without the hyphen it looks a little odd to me too.

Why? He's been #4 throughout HS and College, I'd have been more surprised if he went with a different number having worn it for 7 years now. Also, you can do this with either nickname.... N4LO or T-M4C Pretty sure if you order from Fanatics, you get 1 year from purchase date to where if they change their number, they will swap it out for you anyways. So if you wait to get one until just before the season and then next offseason he were to change his number, you might still be able to get it swapped out.

Just saw this cut up of the 2023 T-Mac vs Hunter game, the one where the anti T-Mac people like to say how he only had 3 catches for like 15 yards against Hunter in that game and he did his yardage damage against other CB's in that one. This shows the one PI that was called, another where it absolutely should have been called, and a handful of other routes where he torched Hunter with a great move to get wide open and either didn't even get a pass his way, or had a completely uncatchable ball thrown despite him being wide open. https://x.com/4MR_Fetti/status/1918262063660454227 And this was even from the season Fifita had a good year, it was this past year he regressed to where this was happening even more, a better QB and T-Mac flys past 1,500 yards this year and probably doesn't even get out of the Top 5.

Full honesty... I'd never even heard (or maybe more accurately noticed?) the Nalo nickname until after we drafted him and it's come up so much because people were asking him about nicknames. Arizona fans always just called him T-Mac the last few years and I have no recollection of ever seeing/hearing Nalo. If anything I saw it and didn't even realize who they were talking about or figured it was some auto correct so I just glossed over it without a second thought. So for me he'll always be T-Mac

The majority of NFL draft picks don't play all too many snaps lined up directly across from another NFL player, and I don't think many people really realize this. Unless you play a game against one of the 2-4 schools that are putting half their lineup into the NFL each season, most teams who have multiple draft picks, MIGHT only have 2-4 draft picks in any given season. Some skill positions get around 30 players drafted each year, other positions are in the teens to low 20's. With at least a handful of them coming from non power conference schools too. So the odds for any WR or CB to get too many games lined up directly against another future draft pick is pretty low. The better odds are that they get lined up against a future NFL player, i.e. a junior or senior WR getting lined up against a freshman or sophomore DB who will get drafted in a couple of years. Then if you take it one step further and look for players who actually play in the NFL and make a difference. You're basically looking at players drafted in the first 3 rounds of the draft, so a little less than 100 players a year, spread out across all the positions and conferences (which in today's massive conferences, teams have even lower odds of player the teams with more NFL players than ever before).

I think I had felt like this since the day of the CMC trade. But now......... And now after posting this I just realized the irony that I was very excited about the above, but that was short lived LOL

Worse than answering a phone call in the middle of one of the team interviews? There's a lot of dumb stuff a player could do, but that would be right up there with not even believable. Even if you're trying to tank the interview because you don't want to go there, that even seems a step too far.

And we're so much better off for it. T-Mac just turned 22 and we'll pay him about $28 million over the 4 years of the contract. DK will turn 28 late in the season, is costing the Steelers $132 million the next 4 years, plus a 2nd rounder to get him. Higgins will turn 27 in the playoffs, is costing the Bengals $115 million the next 4 years, and the Bengals probably weren't trading him for less than a 1st rounder.

I'm telling you, The T-Mac & XL Show, would be GOLD