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I hope Malik Hooker is one of them.

I think he just couldn't find a job. I went ahead and said "two years" because he's had multiple tryouts this year too.

I'm baffled by Clinton-Dix. I mean, he's literally never missed a single game in his career. Started every game since his rookie season. But for the last two years he can't even get a backup role?

I made a comment. Y'all got triggered. It happens a lot. Toughen up. I wasn't even trying to take a shot. It was serious. The dude face planted and laid there for a decent amount of time because such occurrences are so common in that sport. That's reality. Stay mad about it.

It's not a "weird" comment. Watch the video. There's literally a good 10+ seconds before anyone reacts. What other sport would have a guy go down like he was shot by a sniper and everyone basically just stand there like, "Yep. This is totally normal."?

Yeah, the biggest difference year over year for the Bucs last year is that they went from Jameis throwing 30 INTs to Brady throwing 12. Jameis put up big numbers, he just turned the ball over waaaaay too much.

If he doesn't retire it will happen at some point. Father Time is undefeated but Brady sure is putting up a helluva fight. Done.

Different league though. Back in those days DBs could get away with murder compared to today. Ricky Manning Jr. pretty much had his career ended by the change in calling illegal contact.

Don't sully Jake's name like that. If we get prime Jake level play out of Darnold we'll all be thrilled... and we'll be heading to the playoffs.

Darnold has an MVP caliber season and we field a top 10 defense.

That's scary. But since it's soccer, it took everyone a good 10-15 seconds to realize anything was actually wrong since comically exaggerated flopping is so intrinsic to the game.

Anyone predicting Little to start anywhere - much less at LT - just hasn't been paying ANY attention to the Panthers over the past year and should refrain from making any predictions regarding lineups. It'll be a surprise if Little even makes the roster.

Outside of that one game against a faded Fitz, Shaq has been decent at best in coverage. He's definitely been a disappointment in that department having come into the league billed as a S/LB hybrid. Unfortunately, he is. He covers like a LB and run supports like a safety. He's not a bad player by any means, but he's not a guy you pay. You pay Bradberry and let Shaq walk. Just IMO.

That one game against a faded Fitzgerald is still the one thing people are hanging their hats on to convince themselves that Shaq is good in coverage. He's a decent starting LB. Nothing more, nothing less. Decent in coverage. Decent against the run. Decent blitzer. Decent. Hurney paid him to be top tier, but that's not Shaq's fault. Hurney is an idiot. Shaq is decent. He's a hard worker. He's well liked by staff and teammates. None of the issues with Shaq are Shaq's fault. He can't help that the standard of Panthers 1st round LBs is higher than he's achieved. He can't help that an idiot of a GM gave him a bloated contract. He can't help that same idiot of a GM let a better player at a higher value position walk for similar money.

It blows my mind how some people create an argument that doesn't exist in their own heads. No one argues that Shaq isn't a decent starting LB. The issues people have with Shaq is that contract. We overpaid. Significantly. Luke was retiring and Hurney panicked. Hurney has always loved paying LBs anyway, it's not like he needed much nudging. And yeah, Shaq does not measure up to the standard of 1st round LBs for the Panthers but that's not really the issue. If Shaq's contract was half of what it is like it should be that wouldn't be an issue. It just adds salt to the wound when looking at that contract. The kicker was choosing to pay Shaq over Bradberry who signed elsewhere for similar money per year while being a better player at a higher value position. That's not Shaq's fault, but again just more salt in the wound.

There's an endless list of reasons to hate that fuging guy. He's a piece of poo.

I'm not giving Aqib Talib any clicks. fug that guy.

We'll see. I was surprised we didn't draft a LB at some point. But without going back and looking at the complete draft order I can't say where or of I would've taken a LB over the pick that we actually made. If we're somewhat deemphasizing the position I'm definitely okay with that. We've historically way over-prioritized IMO. I would've just preferred to see some effort made to potentially backfill Shaq's spot to set ourselves up to part with that contract.

I said it last year with Teddy. Expect him to look pretty good early on having the advantage of no one having film of him in our offense (yes, I know it's very similar to the Saints' but it's not identical) and working with our skill position players. We'll find out the truth as teams gather relevant film to study. Yeah, we found out that truth. Expect Darnold to look pretty good early on for the same reasons. If he doesn't, woah boy. Fly the red flags. We'll probably what we have (or don't have) in Darnold by Halloween. If he's still looking pretty good by Turkey Day we can start celebrating.

Go look at James Anderson's best seasons. Basically Shaq. It wasn't an insult. Anderson at his best was a decent starting LB. Like Shaq.

Every roster has strengths and weaknesses. Acknowledging that isn't being negative.

It's reality. Being our best LB isn't saying much. It's easily our weakest positional group on D with Chinn at safety.

Yeah, he's our best LB (if we're officially considering Chinn a safety now) but LB isn't a strength of ours either. Honestly, that's why Shaq is here with that contract. Luke retired and Hurney panicked. Then he restructured an already bad contract and made it worse. Classic Hurney.

Yeah, he's not bad. He's just not a difference maker. Plug him into a good D and you still have a good D. Same with an average D. Same with a bad D. He won't create a problem but he also won't help elevate a unit.