LinvilleGorge

Well, that'll be enough of that. You're clearly just here to troll and pick fights.

Tepper wishes he could clone you tens of thousands of times. He needs fans that embrace the suck.

Imagine being such a terrible fan that you'd rather your team continue to suck ass just to spite other fans you don't like.

Regardless of reality, I would expect this to be the message from the organization as long as we're still in contention for the playoffs.

And occasionally one is so far ahead of the curve that being a piss poor leader doesn't even matter until the rest of the NFL finally starts catching up. Mike Martz.

It's hard to be good at QB on an atrocious team. Really hard. The entire opposing D is keying on him every week.

Absolutely agreed with this. Sucks watching a DB in good position get flagged simply because a WR tries to fight his way through him to get to a poorly thrown ball. The defender has a right to his space and that ball too.

Let him and Zane kick it out in camp next year. If someone offers him more than vet min then wish him all the best and mean it.

Let me translate that for the original questioner. That would be "no".

You can't criticize a fanbase for not showing up to support a shitty product. Sorry. You don't see the team offering the fans a discount on the seats. You don't see players and coaches offering to take pay cuts. Wanna charge a premium price, put forth a premium product. But don't guilt trip the fans to try to get them to continue to financially support you.

Give me 5-13 and a top 5 pick over 7-10, a home playoff blowout loss, and a barely top 20 pick all day everyday. Winning this putrid division is losing. Someone is going to cost themselves 10 spots of draft position just to get brutally mocked on the national stage for making the playoffs on a technicality while better teams are left sitting at home because they play in divisions with actual NFL caliber teams in them.

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A lot easier to play CB when you can just grab a guy by the facemask as the ball arrives

Holy poo, what an INT.

There very well could be multiple teams with winning records miss the playoffs and some shitty NFC South team is gonna go.

They screwed themselves. That hold looked like a rear naked choke in the UFC.

Oh wow. The Bengals just got bailed out massively. Went for it on 4th and 3 and Burrow took a 23 yard sack. But the call was legit. That was a very blatant hold.

I've probably watched maybe a quarter of Panthers football over the past 4 games or so. My Sundays have become much more enjoyable. I was catching redfish in the Hunting Island lagoon during today's game occasionally checking in on ESPN gamecast to ensure we secured the needed L.

Feelings from yesteryear are irrelevant. If you were on a college team, how many kids were sitting out of bowl games back then? Yeah... exactly. That's my point. Bowls as they currently exist under the current system simply don't matter.

This. Simply going to a bowl carries no meaning now. That's why all the bowls that aren't playoff games simply don't matter. If you still had to actually be a good team to qualify they'd still matter. Evidently this hurts some people's feelings. Oh fuging well.

No. I want to get away from this massively bloated bowl system where simply making a bowl is irrelevant because anyone who isn't absolutely awful goes to a bowl game of some sort. It's not "for the kids". That's why so many of the draftable guys end up sitting out. If you want to watch the shitty bowls, go for it. But the bloated bowl system is the reason the bowls are shitty.

Above .500 usually means beating roughly 3 P5 teams. You gotta be terrible. In an NFL type system where those teams would be playing nothing but P5 teams those .500 teams would be significantly underwater.

I probably haven't watched an NBA game of any sort in at least a decade. I used to be a massive college basketball fan and still religiously watch UNC basketball but they have really fuged up the sport of basketball in the past 20 years. If I wasn't such a huge Heels fan I would've completely stopped watching the sport by now. If the Heels aren't playing I'm not watching basketball. And that's coming from a guy who used to be a college basketball over anything else fan.

I'd prefer the bowl games go back to being quality. Yeah, for the most part I don't watch. Hence why I'd like a change. I thought I made that fairly clear.