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Because they signed him to an appropriate contract. His deal is in the range of a #3 TE who is probably expected to make the roster but if he doesn't, oh well. It's not gonna hurt us much at all to cut bait on him. That's who Ian Thomas is as an NFL player. A guy who should be bouncing around the league trying to make it as a bottom of the roster type of player. Not a guy that you sign to a mid-level starter type of contract like the Panthers did.

I hope so. I liked him coming into the draft but then he hit the field and looked utterly lost and just like he flat out didn't belong and it was like "UH OH. That's not good." But he really showed improvement through the mid-portion of the season before that nasty spill seemed like it just kinda derailed the rest of his season.

Yeah, the other quote was a little odd but at the end of the day he's a football player not a public speaker. He's a veteran player who is one of the best on the league at his position and there's been no coaching or defensive scheme change so yeah, it's understandable why his goal is simply about being out there on opening day. For a guy like him OTAs and training camp aren't the goal. It's about the games that count.

Honestly it's a little odd that there seems to be any doubt that he'd be ready for the start of the season. Reasonable expectations based on normal recovery timeframe from that injury would've had him expected to be a full participant in OTAs.

Speaking of horse racing, if you don't realize how dominant Secretariat was, go back and watch his Belmont Stakes. Only four other horses even bothered to show. He won by like a quarter of a mile. He still holds the record for the fastest Kentucky Derby. He won by two and a half lengths which doesn't sound all that impressive until you realize that the the second place horse is still the second fastest Derby time ever and only other horse to finish in under two minutes. Every horse in this year's Derby was a direct descendent of Secretariat. His Kentucky Derby time would've translated to winning by about 15 horse lengths yesterday.

Cam had a natural cannon though. When you have elite talent you can get away with not doing things the "right" way. There's a lot of things elite talents do that you'd never coach because the vast majority of players can't get away with it. Bryce needs to be watching guys like Brady and Brees, not guys like Cam or Mahomes or Lamar. You don't have to have off the charts physical talent to be great but you better not be trying to do the things the guys with the off the charts talent do or it's gonna be disastrous.

I have no concerns with him on the field. All of the concern is about how much time he's had to spend off the field.

Enough about a 5th round nepo baby.

I get it. Had it not been posted here I probably wouldn't have seen it either. But if you'd seen it you'd understand how tone deaf it comes across to try to be acting like we don't actually know if Smitty even did it. Bruh, he did it. Oh boy did he ever. LOL

Sure looked that way. That draft room looked like a funeral when the pick was announced and they'd already taken a QB two rounds earlier. Did not seem like a decision made by the folks in that room. Said it during the draft.

Seems like we were gonna take T-Mac if he was available unless someone offered something crazy. I'm guessing the Walker smokescreen was them just guessing on who was going to be the most sought after guy at that spot if T-Mac was gone since he was probably out plan B if T-Mac was gone

My boy: My wife has been cheating on me and I have proof! Here, look at these texts where she's congratulating some other man on how well he pounded her out like she'd never experienced before to the point he rearranged her IUD! I'm gonna post these texts on social media for the whole world to see! Me:

Did you see the texts? Did you listen to the recording of the call? I mean... If you want to just delusionally support your hero, cool. But the writing has been on the wall about who Smitty is off the field for a long time. Loved watching the guy play ball but he's a guy I have zero desire to meet and I'm done defending him.

That's the thing. The plan is to get the money before having to go through with all that. It's a bluffing game. Smitty is going to try to force the man to go through with it to avoid or reduce a payout and the man is going to try to convince Smitty he's willing to do it and he's definitely willing. Hell, he's already done it. I cannot even imagine something more humiliating than sharing texts between your wife and another man with her praising him for knocking the bottom out of it and rearranging her IUD. I mean, oh my God... LOLOLOLOL

I don't think Smitty wants to get into the court proceedings of proving it. It would be well worth $100k to him simply to avoid that and getting an NDA out of this man and his thot of a wife. The big bill he's facing is the one his likely soon to be ex-wife is gonna extract from him and honestly, good. They've been together since before his NFL days. She's been with him every step of the way as he's accumulated wealth. I don't know poo about divorce law but getting an NDA out of these folks before that all goes down couldn't hurt.

Does it matter if neither can cover? LOL

If I'm Arthur Blank I'm going to that coach and being like "You know that $250k is coming out of your check, right?" Just on principle.

Seriously. Like bruh, I know you're hurt right now and you're mad and you want to get back at 'em, but let's just think this through first because this is NOT gonna be a good look for you. LOL

Tell me you didn't click on the link without telling me LOL

Yeah, they just happen to be teams with all-time great RBs and all-time great running QBs. The majority of the rest of the league is throwing at a 60%+ clip.

Yeah, and 19 teams are still passing at a 60% plus clip. It's never going to be '80s football again. They'll keep changing the rules if they have to.

Yeah, just from a PR standpoint on the professional front it would probably be smart of Smitty just to write this guy a check with an NDA attached to it so that he has to stop publicly squawking.

Not in a million fuging years would I have been dumb enough to allow butthurt to convince me to publicly release THAT text. LOLOLOL One of the worst self owns I've ever seen.

The NFL is never going to go back to a running league. They want high flying offense and they'll keep changing the rules to get that. Casual viewers want to see passing offense and points scored and most rule changes in the past couple of decades have been focusing on making it easier to throw the ball and score points. Over half the teams threw the ball on 60% or more of their offensive snaps last year.