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I'm just happy to get rid of him. It would have been nice to get more compensation, but once we turned down the Rams' offer, we were screwed on that front. We were destined to take an L. But, we were able to take a substantial amount of savings with his departure and ultimately prioritize the O-line while possibly improving the D-line despite Burns' departure. On one hand wasted opportunity was a hard pill to swallow, but the savings opened up different opportunities.

Not everyone. Some people, like the Tuna, could never see Bryce excelling in the NFL due to his size. As fans, we can only evaluate talent from afar, so we can't see everything and don't know everything. Pertaining to fans, if what you say is true, it's only because it was media-driven. But, if any fan is being honest (especially Panthers fans as of late), drafting is a highly imperfect exercise. A certain amount of misses are built-in. A long history of stats don't lie. We all knew that just as much as Bryce could be a hit, there was a higher likelihood of him not working out. I mean, we're giving him a fair shot, but this is the time that he must sink or swim. This is the time for critical evaluation based upon his real professional play, not pre-draft evaluation based upon projection---in other words, "imagination." I don't think that anyone should apologize for that. The time is now. We have seen what we have seen, and we will see what we will see. Bryce must lead, or be replaced.

It's a provocative article. Could be me, but I don't think that the analyst would bet his lunch money on Bryce being the long-term answer at QB. Despite all the obvious reasons why Bryce was in a bad situation, the times that he had a clean pocket, he was decidedly mediocre at best, and that's being polite. The expectation is that he will never play to a level commensurate with what the Panthers gave up to get him. We lost on that deal. His---our "safe place"---really bespeaks of him being JAG...a backup. If we get more from him, color me shocked---pleasantly surprised. But I'm not counting on that any more than I'm counting on humanity to unify as a species and save ourselves and our planet from ourselves. We're just going through the motions until we can truly see a better future ahead. It's going to take more than Bryce to really get us to where we want to go.

The digital age was supposed to make things cheaper. The ability to stream has made things exponentially cheaper for the NFL, but yet (just like most corporations) the charge more and more for their product. I'll be damned if I start paying for their exorbitantly priced Sunday Ticket after all these years. It costs them substantially less to stream than to broadcast. The NFL is full of sh¡t!

Don't know who you are, but if you don't understand that people use the term "we," as the league, owner, coaches, players and fans as part of a team, literally and/or figuratively, then you don't understand being a fanatic or marketing, which in large part are based upon appealing to emotions. In this case, "we" are the Panthers. Keep Pounding!

You're crazy! Just answering the call. Pie for putting in the work. I suspect we'll be better, but we won't know what we really have until October. Ej has proven to be somewhat of a magician if last season is any indication. Let's see what he has cooking in 2024. I don't know what veteran rushers will be cut in August to add depth (or more), but we'll be first in waiver priority. We gotta hold on third downs (pun certainly not intended).

OK, second lowest pressures and lowest pressure rate. PFF ranks him 10th. https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-guard-rankings-top-32-2024-nfl-season

Are you forgetting about our new top five guard?

I got two tiles for ya (use your imagination or ChatGPT for the storyline): How The Tepper stole Christmas...But Brought Music to Charlotte Rudolph Breaks His Red Nose...And A Leg On Artificial Turf

I was tired of the Burns thing. Sure, I thought we could've held out for more, but we probably would've missed out on the guards while fooling around. I'm at peace with it all, as I believe that we are an overall better team.

It's just a matter of time before AI takes over the world, first figuratively and then literally.

My ex-boss, arguably the best that I ever had, used to love having discussions about where America was headed. He is a Carolina-born, white registered Republican. At the time, I was a black registered Democrat. He was roughly a decade younger than me, and he outright told me that his parents were dumb racists living out the legacy of divide-and-conquer and raised him to do the same. He told me about how some of his family used the N-word as a matter of course, and essentially lived an existence to prop up those politicians that spewed the politics of divisiveness while they lined their pockets at everyone else's expense. He said that it wasn't until he got to highschool and began to experience other people that he realized that his parents had fed him a bunch of lies and bullshit¡t about how the world is and how it should be. He used to tell me, "The only way things are going to change in America is through blood." At the time, I thought that he was just being dramatic (and you have to realize that this was during Obama's first term and pre-pandemic). But now I'm thinking that he is right. I say this because I don't think that many people are prepared to change the way of our world via blood. If this world is going to change, it's going to take the youth to do it. Us old-heads are tired. With us, the roots of Cynicism and Stoicism run deep.

Yep, corporate welfare is a thing. Homelessness is expanding, as you can imagine, especially with rents as they are, the dearth of affordable housing for sale, and high a$$ interest rates. The government, along with the Fed created artificially created all of this. We're a nation where plutocrats do the bidding of oligarchs, and the proletariat stands by and does nothing because it has been thoroughly brainwashed and manipulated by the masterful execution of divide-and-conquer by those who continue to line their pockets to the detriment of the lower and middle classes.

When I was younger and more optimistic, I used to think "diamond in the rough." Now? I don't see any way in hell that this dude makes the team.

So, it's who you know, but not what you know... I'm kidding. You've been a good Huddler FWIW. Hopefully that's inclusive of your mod responsibilities. I haven't been paying enough attention to judge. I do appreciate your insights though.

Ha ha. I was thinking, Dimbee was a Bears fan.

Honestly, I have no problems with being fixated on a player. If the FO is on board, which it sounds like it was, at least for now, then I don't see the problem. Every FO in this league develops a preference or preferences during draft season. I think that you're assuming that there were better options analytically, but X could easily be deemed the best of those options depending upon one's perspective. They loved him for specific reasons. Now, they must put their plan in action.

Bear Hands, who are you? Who were you before "Bear Hands?"

Yes, I liked it.

Damn, all that gear. My son just gave me a hoodie and a heavy sweatshirt for Father's Day...I'd be good as long as they stay in the Carolinas. Yeah, that's my first thought, so bite me, and get off my grass.

What happened to Kurb? It'd be cool if y'all could at least fix some things. I'm still unable to get into my original account because the system will not send a recovery password. From time to time, I just go and put different passwords in hoping that I'll hit. It's frustrating as hell because I signed out by mistake. Hell, I don't even know if I remember the password to this alt. It's a waste of server space.

Damn, I even forgot the Olympics were this year. Shows how much live TV I actually watch. Thanks, I plan to enjoy... especially track and field. For anyone that doesn't like Sha'Carri, bite me!

But I wouldn't call Brooks your quintessential project; he's a talented back that needs to convalescence in order to get on the field. Playing RB is honestly one of the easiest positions to learn relative to some others (even linemen). It's even easier if you already have good fundamentals as it pertains to blocking (which Brooks has displayed). I don't see Brooks as a project as much as I see him as a gamble due to his injury, and he isn't even a big gamble if NFL doctors are correct about their prognosis.

No, I'm just waiting to see what we have this year without making assumptions. Any Panthers fan, if not NFL fan, knows that you don't truly know what you have until some point after the season begins. Add in the development necessary at some positions, and it could take a few years. It wasn't so long ago that people were calling Brown a bust. I'm waiting to see what happens. That being said, if Bryce doesn't get his act together a lack of clarity will probably be cast upon many.

Not really. You're just making assumptions, but I get it. Until there is some actual improvement, lots of Panthers fans are going to be negative about everything, and all moves will be wrong...until they aren't.