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​wouldn't want him to be corrupted by bspn.

but as far as a reliable source of info and solid analysis, i think i would say he had replaced david newton, but that would be under the misguided perception that newton had been one at one time.

​i'm not sayin'...i'm just sayin.

and i'm not a corey brown fanboy or faboy of any player.

still don't know why anyone pays attention to david newton. good writer but doesn't know poo. dude is worse of a source of info than person.

​wondering tis myself.

the biggest criticism that jeremy had was that hill never kept his eyes on the ball, they were always on his hands or where he wanted to go. is that something that improved?

it won't be one reason.

in no particular order and imo,

• cam being healthier and more mature (more savvy)
• OL not sucking and buying him some time and room
• increased no huddle
• addition of the funch, KB with one year under his belt, return of ginn, better idea of what corey brown can do for you.
• cam getting to work with his receivers more than last year.
• RBs healthy and more able to do something becase of increased OL play
• defense not taking a step backward
• STs not being a liability
• riverboat ron doesn't make his annual reverting to paddleboat ron

there's probably more, but that probably about covers it. everything going well helps cam out and makes him look better. if things don't go well for the team, its somehow going to be seen as cam's fault.

if we're collecting nominees i throw this one into the mix

Music has hit an all time low. I can appreciate popular music from literally every decade over the past century except for this one.

Of course there are exceptions, but in general the music reflects the youth of today, and it isn't good news. Materialistic, shallow, entitled.

i see some of the same things in the shows my daughter likes to watch that are considered kids shows. lots of over-the-top sass and disrespect. we've really started cutting back on what she's allowed to watch and trying to get her outside as much as possible. unfortunately i know that most of her friends at school have the same kind of attitudes and they are feeding off of each other....and she's only in 2nd grade.

but then, at least as far as music goes, the 80's had a lot of shallowness to them coming out of the disco drenched late 70s. and then they moved to a lot of emo crap in the 90s because they mostly had parents that were self-absorbed and more interested in their careers and their happiness than their kids. when those kids became parents i think they may have inherited their parents self-absorbing tendencies, but tried to overcompensate by spoiling their kids and created the shallow and entitled kids we see today.

i do think that there is a break in that and quite a few people are trying to go back to more what we might consider more traditional family settings or at least trying to get back to a simpler more family focused type of life. it's going to be hard because i think we've all gotten addicted to getting more and more stuff.

i don't want box cam where he's pigeonholed into one category or another. that's small/narrowminded thinking.

i want opportunistic cam who can kill it in the pocket or with his feet depending on what the defense is doing and where their strengths and weaknesses are.

what i want least is flat cam. that OL needs to give him space and time and they need to get ther poo together before week one instead of spending the first few weeks getting it figured out.

looking at that schedule i think we can realistically pull out 12 wins this year and i feel good about us not only winning the nfcs again (possibly sweeping the division), but i feel like we can make it to the nfccg.

i also think our chances of getting into the superbowl are as good as any team out there, esp. in the nfc.

i feel like we will likely go 5-1 in the division, 3-1 vs. afcs, 3-1 vs. nfce, and beat either the packers or the seahawks.

I can see the Atlanta GM asking himself, 'do we really want a LB who's that dumb?'.

you're giving that spiky haired punk waaaaayyyyy too much credit.

grow a spleen, chrissy.

grow a spleen.

the guy just seems genuinely happy. i love that. seems like the kind of person you want to be around a lot because that kind of atttude is contagious.

just remember to keep your cargo shorts always facing BoA.

Judging by what I'm hearing I don't see why he couldn't replace Corey Brown from day 1.

very real possibility. sounds like he can do everything brown can do but a lot faster.

did you know that medillinheel writes for bleacher report?

it's true: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/694994-carolina-panther-cam-newton-is-the-worst-nfl-draft-pick-ever?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=web-des-art-top-171

overrated.

If we can stabilize the OL play and Stew stay healthy, the resulting run game will cause Cam to have a hugely successful year.

totally agreed. part of stabilizing that OL play is deciding early on, as in during OTAs, who the starters are going to be and letting them get a poo ton of reps with each other and with cam all during training camp so they can be gelling when the season starts instead of using the first few weeks for them to get used to each other.

the good thing is we have the interior of that line set already.

come to think of it, i can't think of a single position that i am worried about.

i'm not even worried about OT. we've got something we didn't have last year...competition.

it eventually did fine last year without him once they and the DTs realized he wasn't coming back and guys had to step up more.

it will be the same story this year. everyone on that line knows that they have to step up and they will.

i'm not at all worried about that front 7. i wish DE deeper, but what we have is still among the best DL in the league and the best front 7 in the whole NFL.

LOL at all the Pats rage in here. 

 

I hate them too, but can we be realistic? They aren't going to get any lifetime bans or even suspensions.

They will lose a mid to late round draft pick and that will be the end of it.

i'm pissed because they always do it and they always get away with it with just a slap on the wrist.

had this been another team, there would be someone banned for a year at least.

and every time they do this, it's like reaggravating an old injury. just when you think you've gotten over it they do it again and remind you that the lombardi could have been ours.

patriots cheat and get away with it. it's what they do and it's the only way that they can get their lombardis.

what's amazing to me is the number of people in here siding with the patriots and either minimalizing what they did or defending them against the big bad nfl.

they robbed us of a superbowl win by cheating and they cheated to get themselves back to another one. they've probably been doing this kind of thing for a long time just like they were doing the videotaping. i would be shocked if there weren't other ways they had been cheating.

it's a culture thing there. win and do it in any way you can, whether it's within the rules or ethical or not. the thing that gets me is the number of people who will likely see that as an admirable trait.

fwiw, i told someone we had our own twin peaks in carolina now.

smash & dash?

shake & bake?

razzle & dazzle?

double trouble?

sorry...having a flashback.