LinvilleGorge

No, I'm not. That's just how you're reading it. I'm just saying resources are finite and I'd only want to pay one of Clowney or Mack.

No, I'm not. That's just how you're reading it. I'm just saying resources are finite and I'd only want to pay one of Clowney or Mack.

No, I'm not. That's just how you're reading it. I'm just saying resources are finite and I'd only want to pay one of Clowney or Mack.

It does in a hard cap league. Every dime you spend on guys in the final years of their careers is a dime you don't have to spend on younger talent. You only have so many draft picks. I just think it should be a Clowney or Mack question, not both. That would just be too much cap tied up in aging vets at one position group. If we got Mack I'd let Clowney go.

Well, you were gonna make sure of it one way or the other so what are you even containing about? It always baffles me when posters seek to initiate the derails that they bitch about.

Yeah, when you draft poorly for multiple years it's hard to build anything. It even caught up to the Pats once Brady was gone and quality vets were no longer willing to sign at a discount to chase a ring. All those years of bad drafting got exposed pretty quickly.

It would have to be a Clowney type situation where the contract is very reasonable. Otherwise it doesn't make much sense for this team to be pursuing guys in the mid-30s. We need legit building blocks not bandaids on their last legs. These types of guys generally sign for contenders because the goals align. The contender wants a boost to get over the hump and the aging vet wants a chance at a ring and a stable organization, he's done with all the BS and drama.

Damn. That's awesome. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-matthew-stafford-sends-signed-lions-jersey-to-fan-who-sold-his-for-playoff-tickets/

Bingo. Even if you want to sell you want to get a good price. They just sold Manhattan real estate at a Charlotte price.

I could see it. I mean, if it's true that the Lakers initiated the conversation let's just play this out. News broke well into Friday evening. This honest to god feels like something where the Lakers' GM is throwing down beers with buddies and they hype him up to make the wildest trade offer he can think up just because fug it, why not? HOLY FUG THEY ACTUALLY SAID YES!!!! LOLOLOLOL

Look what they posted literally hours before trading Luka. Hot damn, what a kick in the nuts for Mavs fans. LOLOLOL https://www.facebook.com/dallasmavs/videos/1654022895200717/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

If you were entertaining trading him why not put him on the auction block? You would've definitely got way better offers than that. I mean, if you're going to trade with the Lakers at least demand a decent young building block back from them like Dalton Knecht or SOMETHING. This is just baffling unless the league brass knows something about Doncic that drastically reduces his value. Something off the court or some underlying injury issue that is going to cut his prime short or something. Because this just flat out doesn't make sense.

Trading 25 year old five time 1st team NBA PG Luca Doncic for 32 year old Anthony Smith and scraps. What in the world???

When we don't turn it over, yes. We try pretty hard to just turn it over for uncontested breakaway dunks though and we're pretty good at it.

If he ever loved Carolina basketball he has to realize he ain't it. It just keeps getting worse. We look like an unorganized intramural team out there. No semblance of coaching or running an actual system. Just guys out there winging it the best they can.

I gotta give Hubert Davis credit for one thing. He's achieved what I thought was impossible for me. He's made Tar Heel basketball unwatchable. I'm just over watching our opponents run actual offense while our offense is one guy dribbling the leather off the ball while everyone else just stands around and then we just have to jack up a bad shot at the end of the shot clock on the off chance that we don't turn it over in the meantime.

He really liked DJ Moore and Jalen Coker too. Nobody bats 1.000.

I think Jack Sawyer is gonna be a player and I think he fits Dan Morgan's "dawg mentality". I'm not saying he's going to be a star but I'll be surprised if he's not at least a solid starter in the league.

Good.

Yeah, but here in the south I really don't think it matters. It matters up north when they get a long hard freeze all winter. The south side of the tree is going to warm up and start flowing first. I just don't think we get cold enough long enough for it to really matter.

I'm still at it. This batch is about done. It's syrup at 219. Once it starts climbing above the boiling temp of water it happens fast. This is what 10 gallons of sap boils down to. Got some more sap boiling down on the turkey fryer in the deck. Got about 20 gallons of sap still to go. Taking advantage of this warm spells to do some boiling. Hope we get at least one more nice cold snap. It's on the back side of these cold snaps that the maples really start flowing.

I don't think it's that he wasn't supposed to play as a rookie more so that he wasn't expected to be a starter much less being the QB of the defense wearing the helmet with the headset. But ultimately that experienice will only help moving forward.

Uncanny valley vibes.

Kingsbury may fancy himself as the next Ben Johnson. Not so sure about that.

He was damn good in college and checked all the prototype boxes but I never bought into him being the next Andrew Luck type prospect like he was hyped. We'll see what Arch does but yeah, not beating out Ewers isn't a good look. I get it as a true freshman but as a sophomore? If he was what he's hyped as that should've been a done deal.