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He bit the bullet on a couple of guys that took a chunk. Hurst, somebody else. Morgan's first year, he wanted them gone apparently. Okay. And this sort of stuff isn't really that damning, I don't think. They'll fix it without too much harm done. Maybe none.

So this guy has something on Cain.

At first I thought okay they are cutting. Now I think it is more likely to be an injured thing though. Watch them have just cut someone while I'm typing... Even though they do apparently have another TE on the practice squad I had forgotten about. Maybe he'll replace the practice squad dude in due time.

And the OL. And the coaching. And haterz. I think it's going noticeably better, just because that OL is upgraded for the run game. That's going to help. Better enough to really look like an NFL offense? Not sure... looks to me like it is going to look more like the Alabama offense.

I think they were going to be down to two TEs if they held both Tremble and Thomas out. It's probably that.

A precursor to another cap move or are we that short on TEs? Hmm.

Joe is just exhausted after that long article he posted this week. The one where he slipped in the Peyton Manning and Troy Aikman horrible rookie seasons but great careers argument for Bryce Young - while ignoring all the crap rookie seasons by people that went on to crap careers... the other side of the coin that people don't want you to remember. I did think he was less lazy.

But, but... SEC baby! It's just like the NFL! Everyone said so last year. I don't know everybody else's roster well enough but I think just having what looks like a pretty good OL in the works gets us off the bottom.

He was a star in college I guess. Are they 'cap cool' now?

Yeah I have always absolutely hated the idea of copying the Boston Red Sox and using a song written by a NYC pop songwriter about Caroline Kennedy to celebrate the victory of a football team from the south representing the Carolinas. I mean, do something ORIGINAL how about it? Doc Watson was from NC. John Coltrane was from NC. You have a lot to work with. Fact, maybe a fun fact, maybe not. Brooklyn if you were old enough to have heard Charlie Daniels' 'The South's Gonna Do it Again' Carolina is in fact referred to as Caroline lol. I remembered it when I read your post. And it was referencing SC, but same difference wth the Carolina thing It was a song about all the 'Southern Rock' bands from the early '70s. Got a cool guitar riff in it. Looked it up. The second line of the 1st verse" And the Tucker boys are cookin' down in Caroline

I guess you would after last year. Some people would have the next 9 games pencilled as a win. If they have a 4-4 stretch I suspect it would be later when the rookies get more adapted, the offense gets on the same page especially the OL.

Ahh, 2009. The year they redid Jake's deal. Tagged Peppers, oh boy.... JR put Hurney in a corner with Peppers and the tag and cap stuff. I remember that situation having a wide range of effects. Restructures under the gun lead to mistakes, Jake's being the big one. The draft got out of whack with the desperation to replace Peppers... there you go trading a future one for.... Everette Brown! that's what I took away from it back then. (I checked the year and it was 2009, while looking I saw that Everette Brown is asst LB coach on the Panthers ha ha. I did not know that.)

No telling about this week. I would like to think they avoid the interceptions and strip sacks but it is real easy to have those images in mind. Just want to see 1 of 11. Ball out in under 2.7 seconds. Win LOS on run downs both sides. Not falling apart with false starts and holding infractions. Like to see the OL pick up one stunt. Picked 6 wins when it was very optimistic, I'll stick.

Travelle was a 3rd rounder wasn’t he a Hurney pick? I remember being pretty pissed about Bruce Nelson.

We hope. And that is a lot of noise to deal with on the snap count, and yeah Corbett too. And Lewis, what's his deal? Is he up to speed and synched with his teammates? Sounded like he missed a lot. I can foresee some real wreckage happening, it isn't too hard to imagine.

It looks to me like it was All about the QB and it went sideways right at the start of putting i together. And Reich lost that one. I really believe it was doomed with Brown a first time OC from a different tree. It didn't make sense then and surely didn't work. You want want a passing game kind of guy with a rookie QB top pick, right? I know the guy in the job now is probably right there with Caldwell's program to start with, if there is one. Trying to figure all that out is over my head. Past that, improvements over last year, in theory or approach, are clear, in the staff and front office. We have alignment with the HC and the OC, which seems to be extended to the GM as well. So anyone should be at least a little hopeful long term.

They told Johnson straight up to set the edge, the night they took him. That was his job last year. I haven't focused on him at all this year, him taking a step could help. I looked at SR site and they are mostly polling between 7-10 wins I think, and I don't know a ton about them but their pass rush should be a good test.

What reason would there be that he was not included in the purge? Ahem, hmm, all that. I only have two guesses, and one is not that he showed total opposition to stuff the coaches were doing and it was known to everyone. It isn't flattering. Like you say, we can only watch.

Yeah and Caldwell dealt with Manning and stuff. That is not our model. And poo was horrible last year but he stays? Tepper advisor maybe…

Ahh, Gettleman. Gettleman with Tepper could have had a very entertaining dynamic.

Tepper, keep your ears open be the head cheerleader, try that for once.

Yeah we have waited a long time. I'm still waiting until week 3 before I look too closely at things. Early season fog over the league in general, no film of the offense really, we might be able to do a little better early. (which is just about the same thing I said last year, and what a disaster it turned out to be. Who even needed film?).

First reaction was suspicion of that being the case. Whatever, we are getting ready to see what is what soon enough.

Better than I would have thought.

Given the unpredictability of week 1, why not? Win or lose, I don't plan on using it as a barometer for the season.