LinvilleGorge

27th in hurries, 31st in QB hits, 17th in pressures. He's good. We've been hoping he'll take the step to greatness. You ready to pay him for greatness before it happens? Plenty of players tail off after the comfort of getting paid. Hindsight being 20/20, yeah I take those picks. The main reason I defended turning them down is because I thought he was on the verge of taking that step. But then he was completely MIA vs. the Bucs in a game where we were highly competitive fighting for our playoff lives and Brady was lighting us up with deep routes that take time to develop. It's exactly these scenarios where elite pass rushers are supposed to shine and make the difference.

Where all those posters now trying to say we were jumping to conclusions? Ah, Joe Buck was just spouting off and misspoke. He said it FOUR times. He didn't misspeak. He came out later and verified he was told this by someone in direct contact with the NFL office and certain posters still wanted to try to cover for the NFL. Well, what now?

I defended turning the offer down at the time but honestly it was a great offer for a good player who we're gonna have to pay like a great player in a re-signing. Yeah... we should've taken the offer.

For sure. He isn't a starter but he's a quality backup and part of being a quality backup is being a great guy in the locker room.

Is any Panthers fan surprised by this?

Well, I guess I know what game I'm watching on Sunday.

He'll be back next Monday.

Yeah, that guy definitely never grew up around some barnyard roosters. We'll see who's weak and nervous alright.

There's literally zero chance Harbaugh doesn't follow some weird fringe fad diet. He just seems like that type of guy. He probably eats a carnivore diet or something wild like that. They'll probably sit around an open fire spit roasting emu legs or something.

Yep. That's my concern.

I hope he can bounce back from that Achilles but we shouldn't count on it from a roster standpoint. That's a brutal injury and a lot of guys are just a shadow of their former selves afterwards. You could make a decent argument that CB is our #2 need behind QB IMO.

And even that is far from perfect. Now every team in the playoffs gets a bye week before the first round except for the Bills and Bengals. And honestly if you're a team with a bye I'm not sure if you want to sit for three weeks. That's a lot of time between games.

He's still alive. Considering the circumstances on the field last night that has to be considered a positive in and of itself.

Only one side has strong incentive to lie here. Hell, Joe Buck probably has strong incentive to cover for the NFL. The NFL could definitely pressure their media partners to replace him on the commentary team.

Just a reminder, this is why Bountygate was so absolutely disgusting and it's why I said at the time and always have and always will maintain that Sean Payton and Gregg Williams should've been blackballed from the NFL for life over it. This sport is violent enough on its own without encouraging and literally compensating players for inflicting injury.

An NFL league office employee comes out with a statement that reflects positively on the NFL. I for one am shocked.

I can't blame Wilks or Tepper for this. I'll take Tepper at his word that he wanted to give Wilks a legit tryout for the HC job and Wilks was obviously trying his ass off to get that job. It is what it is. But, this is also why I personally just wanted to take our lumps and stick with Rhule through the season. I hope the move at least pays off for Wilks. Maybe he has a long shot of landing a HC job elsewhere or at least a coordinator role.

Yeah, I don't see any good options here. Being so late in the season makes it especially hard to accommodate for. They're gonna have to settle on a bad option and the tie to me feels like the best bad option. The NFL will get further drug through the mud for player safety concerns if they made these teams play tomorrow night then turn around and play again on Sunday and all those criticisms will be very valid.

Yeah, calling the game a tie kinda fugs them. But playing the game tomorrow then making them both play on a very short turnaround REALLY fugs them. Calling it a tie and moving on honestly might be the best bad option here.

I mean, that part seems pretty obvious. He had an episode immediately after receiving a hard pinpoint blow directly to the heart area. It's be one helluva coincidence for it NOT to be commotio cordis. Those types of pinpoint blows to the chest aren't common in football. Usually it's a hit spread out over a much larger surface area. Probably why this particular issue is typically more often seen in baseball. Small ball travelling really fast creates a much more pinpoint hit than what is typically seen in football.

Not sure what the answer is but I'm not sure pushing the playoffs back a week is feasible. That's 13 games to reschedule. We're not talking little league games here. NFL games are major undertakings. There's gotta be a way to simply call this a tie or something and move on. No, it's far from ideal but what else are you gonna do?

I honestly don't know enough about Demeco Ryans to have an opinion on him as a head coach candidate. I just want a great coach. If we hire him I hope he is one.

The first volley in the NFL's attempted PR barrage has been fired. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/01/03/troy-vincent-nfl-did-not-consider-giving-players-five-minutes-to-warm-up-and-continue/

So you take no safety precautions at all in life? If you truly believed that when it's your time it's your time then you wouldn't. There would be nothing you could do about it anyway so why bother?

This is just a pure copium way to go through life. So why bother to wear a seatbelt, look both ways before crossing a road, try to take care of yourself, etc? When it's your time it's your time, right? Hell, we can just go jump off a bridge and if it's not our time then I guess some miraculous intervention will save us.