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Hubert, please don't do this. We are terrible at stall ball. Just play. fug the clock. I don't care.

Here comes the refs... again

I want Hubert to grow in situational coaching. We don't have anyone in our rotation as trash as #15 and #25. Anytime those two guys are in the game we need to be attacking them relentlessly. This isn't rec ball. We aren't trying to not hurt feelings. Attack the weakness with no mercy.

You have the freedom of speech but you don't have the freedom of employment. They told him to dial it back and outside of the heat of the moment he complied. That's personal growth from Smitty. But he was right.

Because his employer told him to. He was right.

It's just duke basketball.

If you play for duke you just get a stern talking to.

They let them play on one side. Called it significantly tighter on the other side... the side shooting more jumpers. Straight up, the refs floated duke in that 1st half. It should've been a 20 point game at half.

RJ for us and Filipowski for them have been just awful so far tonight.

duke is getting away with murder right now.

C'mon refs, don't keep their asses in it. That was a double dribble and a walk back to back then you send them to the FT line. Stripes are keeping them in this game.

Well, this has been thoroughly enjoyable thus far. We'll miss eventually. Maybe. LOL!

I hope. But damn man, I'm rapidly running out of hope.

Have you completely missed the Panthers entire history where one of our consistently biggest mistakes is over-investing at the RB position?

I mean, I fully expect Tepper's Panthers to fug up at every turn because that's pretty much what we've been doing for six years straight ever since he bought the team. It's gonna take awhile for them to earn back any trust from me even if they start killing it right now.

I wouldn't completely rule out trading for players but it would have to be the right situation. Think potential long-term answers caught up in a roster traffic jam elsewhere. But trading for short-term bandaids and stop gap measures? Oh hell no. Absolutely not. That's about the last thing this organization needs to be doing.

Especially as the league has evolved to be more and more pass happy. We have usually fielded what amounts to two SSs. Xavier Woods has been solid for us but he's basically a FS/SS tweener type who has played both spots during his career. What is love to have is that over the top sideline to sideline FS. It just makes everyone else's job so much easier knowing that guy is back there roaming over the top and it also allows them to play more aggressively.

I mean, I hope but I can't say I'm necessarily excited that Scott Fitterer's understudy is now calling the shots. If I'm being completely honest, if he wasn't a former player that I really liked I'd fuging hate it.

We've needed a legit FS for the entire existence of our franchise outside of those few years we had Deon Grant. Just think about that. Deon Grant is the best FS in franchise history. A guy 95% of NFL fans have completely forgotten about. As much as I loved Mike Minter, he's the caliber of SS that most fanbase would fondly remember but he certainly wouldn't be near the top of their best DBs. He'd be remembered how we remember a guy like say Will Witherspoon at LB. It's pretty wild how much we e neglected the secondary and especially the safety position and really especially FS. Deon Grant and Tre Boston might be about the only actual true FSs we've ever even rostered.

#SmittyWasRightAllAlong

Yeah, I respect it and I'm glad he's righted himself. No doubt a lot of athletes with potential get derailed simply because they're too immature to deal with adulation and when it comes to the pros, the money and the pressure. In other fields where you're going to work into your senior years you can fug off as a youngster and still have time to get your poo together and overcome it. Not in athletics. That biological clock is ticking LOUDLY. You're still going to be relatively young in life when you're washed up as an athlete.

As for Drake Maye, the Justin Herbert comp is pretty much spot on. All the same positives coming out, all the same negatives. The big difference was that Herbert played on a well rounded team for a coaching staff that protected him to the point that it felt like they didn't trust him where Maye played for a team with no defense and the coaching staff approached games with a Mike Shula "please save me elite QB" mindset.

I definitely wouldn't consider that "undersized". Less than ideal? Sure. But it's not anomalous size for a high level NFL QB. And yeah, the media will definitely completely overlook things for certain prospects and then knock other prospects for the exact same thing based on nothing other than their preconceived narratives.

If they trade Fields and he goes on to reinvent himself and resurrect his career while Williams is a bust then they may have just out-Teppered the Panthers. LOL!

It just feels like anybody they pick at QB is fuged.