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The game with the photo was September 14 2003 in TB. Panthers 12 TB 9. I looked for the photo for a little bit couldn’t find it. But I saw it a few years ago because I revisited that game. So it probably still exists.

That may have been the guy I just posted about. Too late for me to edit, I left that out. The van and the timeline sound like there’s a fair chance it is the same guy.

I will take a minute to remember Panthersfan or Pantherzfan, I forget his name. He passed on, and was a huge fan. He was in the stands and the photo of Jenkins blocking the gw XP at Tampa in 2003 caught him standing up right in the middle of everyone cheering. So he is immortalized in a sense, in that photo.

See, there is doubt about the finality of it. Every year a small incremental improvement seems to be enough.

We knew this was coming it is no surprise.

If he balls out, like a big boy QB I wouldn’t be pissed off. He balled out last year. A few times. It will take a lot more times than what he did to get me there though. Where I’ll be pissed off is if he has a 50/50 year and that’s considered good enough.

The whole NFL. I mean, I wonder what the league totals would be when counting dead cap for each team. https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ranking-every-nfl-team-dead-193113658.html Check out that list. Dolphins alone have 179 mil. Saints over 100mil. I am sure the league total exceeds a billion.

I believe he should be on a prove it year - for the last damned time. Lost another battle there. I suppose it could still be in prove it land, it just costs us a lot to get out of if he doesn’t. And still cheaper than what a bigger mistake would cost us.

Without looking it up the Rams made a trade and they signed a FA. It was almost Morgan like in the way they attacked it. Okay I looked it up - They imported KC’s CBs, one in FA. The trade with KC included their original 1st round pick. That is probably more aggressive than Morgan even. LBs may be bad but the plays I remember from the first meeting, it wasn’t LBs that were the problem. And I guess I am saying the proof is in the pudding, they revamped their secondary. The Simpson thing is kind of irrelevant. But the criticism there is they were one player away type of stuff. In fact they put up points on Seattle just fine, it was stopping them that was the issue. They made big upgrades towards tightening up their defense. You can argue the Rams’ approach to that 13th or 12th pick with Ram fans all day.

I’ll give him points for his playoff outing. At least he showed up and did some good things in a pressure situation. If he could play to that level every week my opinion of him would be a whole lot better, I’ll say that. Big if though. It sure earned him a ton of points with lot of people to the point that is all they need. Crown him. To them it is a given that he will fix his regular season yo yo pattern. Maybe they are still excusing him because we don’t have 10 pro bowl players around him. Yet. And yes, look at what the Rams did about their secondary when FA started. Reminds me of the Carolina Reaper stuff where the coaches get fired for losing to him.

I was watching a YouTube and it was said that scout and GM insider types were saying the NIL had killed rounds 4-7. I don’t know that I buy it, seems like it might for a year or maybe two but then those guys have to move on. NCAA is apparently about to give 5 years of eligibility. It is gonna skew those entrants older maybe.

He so is far from being what people claimed he was. What he was, is we hope and pray for consistently average in year 4. That’s what he is. We should just move on if that’s the best he can be.

I am gonna believe it wasn’t us if the 4th round pick price is accurate. We needed 225 points to get from 19 to their pick. 875 at 19 to 1100 at 14. Our 2026 4th was valued at 56 points I think. A future 4th has less value. So that wasn’t close to enough. It would have taken our third and our fourth. Comes within a point of even. Now, moving to their spot in the second round we could have done but after Miami took Rodriguez why would we?

He probably drives a Vega. You get the good ones.

If he gets fired I am going with the QB taking him down. This one or the next one.

Sad is not the word I would use. Anyway I might have something pretty insulting to say about the people who are happy about it, unless he truly earns it.

And if he did, he doesn’t have the QB to use them right. Sadiq… if we took him we would be like the guy that puts fancy rims on his Vega.

I have been doing the boards since at least the old Charlotte.com days. It was always the first place I would look for news even when I wasn’t interacting.

A man should be able to press charges on a woman who lies to him on the paternity of a child that isn’t his. And then to name it after the real father? Man she is full on narcissist. That is one of the worst things a woman could do to a man. IMO. And no it didn’t happen to me, that’s not why I think that.

I was looking at the roster and depth chart out ourladds. Yes, it has to be Mapalo Mwansa. https://www.ourlads.com/nfldepthcharts/player/54802/

That’s fair but that best ball needs to come up right out of the gate. He hasn’t cut it so far. To people saying he isn’t slow, maybe not but he plays slow. I always see him around the pile not at the bottom of it. He is late getting to the ball, or has been. I hope being around Lloyd helps him and not having the green dot definitely won’t hurt him.

On offense, QB and RB are a thing. QB needs to improve a fair amount, and the RBs have me unsure if they can match last year’s level. Brooks being the big mystery. It seems like they think he is good to go, they didn’t do that much to add insurance. You have to think the defense will be better. We are young in a lot of places and can hope for some growth from a few guys, as the season progresses. Plus Phillips and Lloyd are on another level compared to who was out there for us last year. I think other teams in our division helped themselves too though. Every single one of them picked in front of us for three days and took players we might have taken over who was there for us.

https://www.panthers.com/news/nfl-announces-2026-offseason-dates-panthers-to-begin-april-20-otas-minicamp I don’t see anything there until the end of May. I was hoping we’d get a look at them the next day or two.

We don’t know these players will succeed so I am not counting chickens but it was crazy how we met just about every pick at the intersection of needs and BPA.

Loosely related thoughts .. I really do feel for Icky but if he had been healthy no way we take Freeling. I think the big extension he was in line for and was getting, would have been an overpay. So in a way this might be a break. Depending on Freeling working out. If I were offered an even money bet on whether he returns to form or is a shadow of what he was, I am going with shadow. I just wouldn’t count on him for anything if it was going to cost market value. G, RT, whatever. To me, he needs to sign an incentive laden short term deal that doesn’t leave us on the hook if he can’t cut it. Go from there. He caught a horrible bad break but at least got 17.5 mil as a consolation prize. Or 16.5 or whatever it is.