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Truth. It wouldn't shock me if he goes undrafted.

I LOVED basketball growing up. By far and away my favorite sport to play and to watch.

Because refs weren't overturning any of the calls. I feel like this was an issue early on in the overall replay process. Felt like early on, the refs were too proud and stubborn to overturn anything but the most comically blatant errors.

Says the guy whose only purpose on this forum is to poo on other people's posts. You gotta be an absolutely miserable human.

No doubt about that. I understand it from the NFL's perspective. Football is a brutal sport even with the rules emphasizing player protection. All of the acting in basketball detracts from the game IMO and makes it difficult to officiate (coming from a former basketball ref). When you have guys comically flopping and flailing all over the place, it makes it kind of desensitizes you to make it harder to recognize fouls where the player is actually trying to play through the illegal contact.

Thank goodness. Forces us to look elsewhere.

Sure, it happens some. But watch basketball in comparison. A defender is brushed by a driving offensive player and they act like they got hit by a freight train. Drive and flail has become an actual offensive strategy. Just drive to the basket and if anyone attempts to defend just flail like you got hit by a taser and shoot FTs. It's complete bullshit.

This and it isn't a new development. This has been a trend for at least 20 years. I think a lot of younger fans don't see it because it's all they've ever known.

Every time I turn on a game, there's ridiculous flopping all over the place. They gotta reel it in. Way too much acting in the game.

It's not a Hornets issue it's what's happened to the game. The soccer-style flopping is just out of control. Hell, if I wasn't such a huge UNC fan I'd be done with basketball altogether. I very rarely watch a basketball game that doesn't involve UNC. That's a big change for me. Growing up, basketball was hands down my favorite sport, both as a participant and as a fan. The league's fuged up soft cap and max contract issue further screws up the league. Even if the game hadn't evolved into something I don't particularly care for, I probably wouldn't be much of an NBA fan these days because it basically turned into MLB.

I say Cam simply because the NBA has been dead to me for years.

Yep. Definitely looks like a situation for a buyer's market on WRs.

I think it's highly likely they draft a QB at some point. I definitely don't think it's a lock that they draft a QB in the 1st. Now they have options.

Cam very well could be in a place that he's more interested in trying to resurrect his NFL career and compete to win than he is further padding his bank account. Even if he's trying to maximize his earnings, taking a one year prove it deal packed with incentives surrounded by quality talent is probably the best long-term strategy rathet than trying to maximize guaranteed payout this year in a cap restricted environment.

That's the first thing that came to mind for me. It honestly looks like they're building a supporting cast of talent to fit Cam's strengths while he's on a "prove it" contract. I'm glad they didn't decide to toss him to the curb after putting him on the field with Arena League caliber offensive weapons.

Even if the Falcons have zero interest in taking a QB at #4, they're smart to at least posture that they're strongly considering it.

Weird day. Added some needed bodies on the OL, but created two unnecessary holes on the DL. I'll reserve judgement until we see what the final roster looks like, but we may be going DL in the draft a lot earlier than most expected.

Oh, I think Brady winning a SB without him might have pissed him off even more than that.

Makes zero sense not to tender him. He's solid depth and if someone signs him they owe you a pick.

We targeted the mid-level guys we wanted and went and got them, I just hope we prove to be right. But man, this really does reek of classic Hurney "pay a guy like he's decent maybe he'll actually be decent" signings.

Yikes. I mean, I hope you prove to be wrong but on the surface... you ain't wrong.

All I'm gonna say is man, how many times did we see literally this same post made over the years about Fox/Hurney and Rivera/Hurney after we signed some dude that proved to be trash?

There's also the reality that they may want to help talk up a teammate who hasn't been drafted/paid yet. This already went #3 overall and signed his contract.

Watson only has a cap hit in the $10M range this season for the team that trades for him.

I like it. We aren't shopping at Tiffany's as Gettleman would say, but were clearly targeting the mid-level guys we want and going and getting them.