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Atlanta will be hosting the ALL STAR GAME. Charlotte North Carolina will not, by choice. $ matter folks. Paychecks matter folks.

Sooner than later this all has to stop and we can be with each other and our Hive again. Florida is booming economically(NY money and businesses). Everybody is fine. They have refused the narrative and are profiting. They"re even getting some Tepper $. Some states refuse the narrative and others are all in. Tells you everything you need to know.

I don't care what the business model behind the de-franchise QBing of the Carolina Panthers was, the results are embarrassing and has added more of a question mark as to what the heck is this Tepper guy is good at and is it at all applicable to a successful FOOTBALL operation? I have yet to see a strong football move aside from hiring Rhule, which is still an ongoing evaluation.

Success doesn't always translate over from one profession to the next, ask MJ, great at basketball, baseball is a totally different sport so much so that his "greatness" didn't translate.

All these obvious and public mistakes, including the Teddy contract doesn't exactly engender trust from the diehards. In hindsight aside from 2010 (intentional on JRs part) Ive never seen this team more out of sorts.

1 minute ago, Waldo said:

No sir. Not getting into the sewage of TB.

The biggest mistake wasn't firing Hurney. He should have been fired before Ron and replaced with the guy who wouldn't work under Hurney. It's a wasted year and we ended up with Teddy and a bunch of other contracts we need to get away from. I think if the new crew stinks it up there will be a lot of noise made to clean house again sooner than later. 

Nobody should have thought Teddy was a great idea. Everybody in that building is a dummy for thinking that including, Hurney, Brady, Tepper. 

If we on the outside could predict this failed outcome, how in the heck couldn't anybody in the building know it too?!

Kool aid! People willingly drink dirty Kool aid to feel like they're the in crowd only to later be shown as ignorant followers. So much like life and media in our great country these days.

Reject communism, don't drink it.

13 minutes ago, Waldo said:

Anyone else remember when people tried to convince us that he is a franchise QB or would be in our new O?

 Everybody knew that except the Panthers highly paid people. Does anyone believe they have a clue what to do next? Fanbase members who were furious about the total disrespectful dismissal and the ham handed tit for tat replacement in the form of TB voices were silenced and some like me banned for being absolutely correct.

Wake up and reject the cancel culture, it's Communism.

Pay him. ASAP. Jordan needs to buy out that Puma contract.

Put that man in his own pair of Jordans, that would be epic!

3 hours ago, Proudiddy said:

Yup.  And although we were getting similarly disadvantaged in SB50, a lot of these early calls actually reminded me of how the NFL jobbed us in the playoffs back in 2013 against the Niners, because the calls aimed at completely taking away our physicality so the Niners could have their way with us.  I think there was a bad personal foul call on Mitchell early, some ticky-tack def holding calls, and then I remember one of the Niners took a cheap shot and one of our guys went to confront them and Boldin instigated the whole thing and they didn't throw a flag until our guy retaliated...  from that point on, we played passive.  That's what happened last night.  As you said, it's not just taking away one team's ability to be physical, it's taking away their ability to compete altogether in a very physical sport.  And coaches can yell all day, "keep playing, we can't control the refs" but when the penalties are 9 to 1 against you and of the nature they were last night, meanwhile Brady's taunting Mathieu and Mathieu's gets flagged, they're getting 2nd and 3rd chances to score off of penalties, and on defense they aren't just holding but completely piggyback riding your receivers before the ball even gets there, it gets pretty demoralizing...  as a player, there's no way you feel you can play with the same intensity, because you know you're going to get called for it and your effort won't matter.  It really is pathetic.

49ers coronation playoff game @BofA. The exact SAME thing! The 49ers figured it out and blatantly took advantage.

I said on this here site after that game that the refs flew in on the 49ers jet.

There was also a big budget commercial that aired with the 49ers and Seahawks playing for the division.

Not the Panthers, and wouldn't you know?! The TV was correct.

Storylines. Do we have a good enough one?

25 minutes ago, rayzor said:

Legendary QB and a team of admiring refs make it possible. 

So Aaron Rodgers should be the target?

If I can earhole your QB I can shut that guy down.

As Americans we can all see, you can't beat the media, the NFL establishment, refs, and a good football team all at the same time. The Chiefs were long written out. NFL Entertainment hasn't promised anything but that. It's their products, they can do with them as they will.

1 hour ago, Tbe said:

Who’s missing?

Is that one of the Marley's? The scliff is conspicuously missing.

1 hour ago, Peon Awesome said:

The 2 games have a lot of similarities. One team getting the brunt of favorable calls but at the same time, their defense just completely manhandling the opposing team to the point it's not clear if it would've mattered. Panthers game would've been a lot more competitive than this at least.

Yeah, if their defenses could abuse Tom Brady like they abused Cam and Mahommes the game would be fair but you can't and they KNOW they can. Cam and Patrick were the bumps in the road, the sacrificial lambs at they Manning, Brady feast.

Brady again, got help in crucial situations and Tampa's defense was allowed to tee off while sht talking Brady gets you a flag and 15. AND the Panthers have NO Superbowl ring.

Meh.

Lame when you do the opposite of BUILDING a Superbowl capable roster.

7 hours ago, Harbingers said:

Why does it feel like us going after every trade is just them throwing poo at the wall until somthing sticks and not any calculated plan at all?

Preach!

Nick Richards got 6 minutes. That's a start.

No respect I tell ya! Apparently Haywood went off! Per NBA.com

If coach can coach up the two young bigs we good. Keep the chemistry.

Waaaay more Hornets games than Panthers games for sure.

I was at the Celtics playoff game when Zo tipped in the last shot. I was at a couple of the Kobe games when we kept beating them.

I was at that Bobcats game when Matt Carrol went off while we were leaving, we had to turn back around because the crowd was going crazy.

2 minutes ago, Shocker said:

Borrego doesnt play the young guys man...you know that

Not Mitch's fault, he gives you bigs and you don't use them.

He's got Riveraitis.

22 hours ago, Chaos said:

I've said it before and I'll say it a million more times.  If we had a legit big man, imagine the better looks we'd get from three playing the inside out game.  If we had someone in the middle our opponents actually considered a threat, this team would be so dangerous.  But instead we have soft, no defense Zeller, and no hands Biz.

 

But, hats off to Melo, he's must-see TV and he has earned that starting spot.  I guess Borego didn't know what to do so he started all three guards to not make waves.  Sooner or later he'll have to choose the sixth man.

I thought Vernon Carey Jr was NBA ready. We need a rotation of three solid centers like the Bulls three headed monster back with MJ. Nick Richards? Time to throw them in there, especially Carey Jr.

Imagine Watson and DJ....

Let that marinate.

Has a rookie of the year ever won MVP because if he continues to start he may become THAT guy.

LaMelo Ball led the way for the Hornets, erupting for a career-high 34 points on 14-of-27 shooting, four rebounds, eight assists, two steals and zero turnovers in the loss. Ball is the first Charlotte rookie to record a 30-point game since Walter Herrmann on April 14, 2007 and the youngest in NBA history to do so with five assists and no turnovers (previous: Stephon Marbury).

https://www.nba.com/hornets/ball-scores-career-high-34-pts-hornets-downed-visiting-jazz

34 points from a rookie AND everything he has done previously. This is your very own Kobe replacement and thank God you didn't trade him away this time around.

GO HORNETS!

These writers are reading teh huddle. Spot on though.