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We released him. He signed a contract with a team offering him a contract. How you can hold that against Cam is baffling. I mean, Olsen signed with the Seahawks and there for awhile during his career here they were probably our most heated non-divisional rival. I don't hold that against Greg.

Some of that was due to Shula's offensive strategy. He generally chose to counter blitzes by keeping additional blockers in to protect. Those additional blockers are the guys who would generally be the check down options. It was that very tendency that Wade Phillips expertly exploited in the Super Bowl with his blue dog blitzes. He had the talent in the secondary to play straight up man coverage against our subpar WRs and if your guy stayed in to block, you blitzed to nullify the extra blocker and force one on one situations.

I don't feel sorry for him. This is the way the NFL goes. It's called the "Not For Long" league for a reason. He did himself zero favors choosing not to get vaccinated. That certainly didn't help his cause in NE and it certainly won't help his cause as a FA. Cam has made millions upon millions of dollars and he should be set for life several times over. I don't think he's someone to feel sorry for. But yeah, I'll still defend him from baseless allegations and from the trolls who begrudgingly cheered him on when we were winning and gleefully threw shade at him when we weren't.

You should be. There's a good chance some of them are better than some of the guys currently on our roster.

Most of the biggest hits he took in his career were standing in the "pocket" behind a porous OL. For such a "so so passer" I would've expected some of the receivers he played with to break out and show their worth elsewhere. Shockingly enough, virtually all of them had the best years of the careers while playing with Cam. Interesting.

The OL. All of them. There's gotta be options out there on the scrap heap that are better than some of the guys currently on our roster.

Putting the entire offense on Cam's back was Ron's fault. Playing Cam when he was obviously injured and ineffective throwing the football due to a shoulder injury was Ron's fault.

Yep. I get it. One way or the other, Belichick wants to sell this as a purely performance based decision. Completely understandable but he should probably STFU with the misinformation. Simply call it a performance based decision and move on. He's usually really good at saying as little as possible to the media. This is a great time to stick to that philosophy.

Yep. I give Darnold credit here. He clearly had reservations or at least a desire to have his decision remain private, but ultimately he did the right thing whether it was for his own benefit or for the team's. Hats off.

We hope. Creating the cap space is step one. I'll wait until we see how it gets used and what results that creates on the field before I go spiking the football.

What extensions? There's DJ and that should be the only big money extension. We could extend Jackson but he shouldn't get big money right now and he may want to try to use this season to prove he deserves big money rather than sign a middle of the road extension now. Same thing with Carter. I'm sure we'd ink him to good backup/marginal starter money right now but going into his first season as a starter he may want the opportunity to prove he deserves more than that.

I definitely don't. I mean, he even admitted himself that he couldn't say whether or not Cam's absence influenced the depth chart decision which I take as basically an admission that it did. Even if his vaccination status didn't play a direct role in the decision, missing five days and allowing Jones an opportunity to impress as the defacto starter during that time period - including a joint practice - surely played some role in determining the depth chart.

It is really getting fuging old having to lock or move these threads to the TB because dumbasses have to come in with their Tucker Carlson inspired bullshit. The next time it happens, the ban hammer is swinging wildly.

Buncombe County has a 61% vaccination rate. So, 39% of the population is responsible for 72% of the hospitalizations. Sounds like the vaccines are doing a pretty good job of preventing development of serious disease. One of the reasons for rising vaccinated hospitalization rates could be that the most vulnerable populations to developing serious disease from COVID were the first to get vaccinated, least likely to develop good immune response following vaccination, and most likely to have waning antibodies due to both factors, hence boosters. The most vulnerable populations also have a much higher vaccination rate than the overall population creating quite the stacked deck of data points.

Look at hospitalization rages and death rates for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated. Unequal indeed.

Tua looks like a shadow of his former self and I'll believe that Mac Jones will be an elite NFL QB when I see it. Allen is a stud, no doubt.

So why did you click on an obviously titled thread?

I think you missed Ron's quote. He wasn't just talking about NFL players. He went hard on everyone eligible to be vaccinated and choosing not to.

Sanjay's dream of an all 53 TE roster is close to fruition.

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The only way I'm for trading future picks for players is if they're in our long-term plans. I'm all the way out on trading future picks for bandaids.

I'm indifferent on Jones, he's not a Panther. I hope Darnold does work out, I just really don't think he will. The bust reclamation projects rarely do.

Looking for jobs on LinkedIn... LOL! It's funny because it's true. How terrible does Folk have to be these days to lose his job to that guy?

Accurate.

Gettleman used to refer to FA shopping as Tiffany's and Target. We at the thrift shop now.