Jump to content
  • Welcome!

    Register and log in easily with Twitter or Google accounts!

    Or simply create a new Huddle account. 

    Members receive fewer ads , access our dark theme, and the ability to join the discussion!

     

State of the Huddle Address - 2016


Jeremy Igo

Recommended Posts

Friends, Huddlers, Lurkers, 

The time has come for the annual State of the Huddle address. Each year I look back and review how we did in addition to looking forward to the challenges and opportunities ahead of us.

The Huddle had its busiest year to date. Most of this traffic was from Huddlers constantly refreshing their browsers in the hopes of having more @BlauOzean pictures from the Jacksonville pool, but that is neither here nor there. 

The day after the Superbowl the Huddle served over 2 million page views to over 500 thousand people. If you will remember, we upgraded the servers last offseason. Thankfully, the new Huddle Server performed like a champ. There is no scheduled server upgrade this offseason. 

The Huddle continues to grow and gain influence. While other media outlets are freezing wages, the Huddle is looking for new ways to innovate and expand, much like @SCP's colon 12 hours after a porterhouse dinner. 

The Huddle was represented at every game, both home and away, from Jacksonville to the Superbowl. Not many local media outlets can make this claim. 

Our admins and mods did a fine job of keeping this joint at a good balance between open discussion and rule enforcement. Big thanks to them. 

Our social media presence made great advances this season. We now have over 8 thousand twitter followers and 27 thousand facebook followers. This expands our reach and helps draw attention to important Huddle causes like black helmets and logos at midfield. 

Most of all, Huddlers displayed why this joint is what it is, with the best commentary and conversations ever to grace the interwebs. Big thanks you everyone not named @PanthersUnited(currently banned).

 

Enough review, lets look ahead to 2016.

As mentioned above, the Huddle is always looking to innovate and expand. As such, I will be looking to add staff this year. Things behind the scenes have officially gotten beyond my ability to manage by myself. I am now in the process of deciding which essential Huddle activities to delegate to Huddle staff. I don't have many details to give right now, but will be updating you throughout the offseason. 

If you have any special skills that don't involve your ability to consume alcohol or perform bodily functions, please get in touch with me. I am especially interested in hearing from folks with social media skills, video production, and/or systems administration in a linux environment. 

As staff is added, more unique content will follow. In turn, you will be able to waste even more time in this joint while pretending to work. 

 

In conclusion, the Huddle in 2015 made huge strides towards its ultimate goal. Which is.... 

giphy.gif

 

 

Love,

 

Management

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Nice! 

Jeremy, I have an idea for an offseason project. Being there are many new Huddlers, what are your thoughts on a "History of the Huddle" segment?  I have seen this place change a ton over the past what, almost 9 years since I have been a Huddler! 

Anywho, I think it would be pretty cool to feature and am glad to help. 

Love this place, thanks for making my pooping sessions and downtime that much enjoyable!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Congrats Jeremy & all who make the Huddle work.  Great season.  Incredible how well the servers handled all the extra traffic with the Super Bowl run....  Impressive.

It's fun that my inaugural season as a member and not a lurker was a 17-2 NFC Championship winning season.  It still hurts that we lost the SB in the way we did.  But I can only hope it makes the Panthers stronger as a team.  There's so much promise in this team, hard not to be excited for next season.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I've been here since the FIRST beginning.  I've witnessed all the transitions from the early crashes, locker room, bants and banns and SCP's bowl movements.  One thing about this message board is, even though we disagree sometimes, all get along with very few exceptions.  Early days saw some very unprofessional discussions but that has been handled in a very loving and effective manner.  We lost some good people because of that.

My hat is off to Jeremy, Zod, Igo, or what ever he maybe called (PU) from time to time.  You have to meet Jeremy if you haven't already.  My first face to face with him was at a tailgate.  The first words out of his mouth when we introduced ourselves was, 'Oh you're TPF, I don't agree with you but respect you'.  I'll never forget the sincerity he had with that statement.  He never explained what he disagreed about ( he may have been drunk) or what ever.  Jeremy is like a fine single malt scotch, he'll warm your heart.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.


  • PMH4OWPW7JD2TDGWZKTOYL2T3E.jpg

  • Topics

  • Posts

    • I had started typing my post hours ago and didn’t finish it and just came back to finish it, posted it, then saw yours and saw we were pretty much saying the same thing - even the games that stick out to us most.  I don’t think a lot of people remember that SF playoff game, but I felt like I had just got mugged in broad daylight.  I remember them calling Mitchell for unnecessary roughness, and then I remember watching Boldin take a super late cheap shot, dead in front of the ref and then showing him watching the whole thing in replay…  the refs let them have a fuging field day and didn’t do jack poo, but if we so much as breathed the wrong way it was fuging 15 yards.  Each team playing under two completely different sets of rules.  poo hurt.  I was enraged.  I’ve never went back to watch either that game or SB50 and never will.  fuging robbery.
    • I’ve said it a million times since, but it’s impossible to keep them from affecting the game.  In SB50, they literally took the game from us, and they did it early.  Cotchery’s no-catch?  The miraculous amount of times we converted for a first down only to have it suddenly called back make it a 3rd down and 15+ against the best defense in the league that specialized in rushing the passer and man coverage on the back end?  And you do that enough times, you kill the morale and confidence of the team you’re doing it against.  It’s telling the one team “you can do whatever with impunity” and the other “you can’t do whatever they’re allowed to do.”  It changes the aggression level.  It essentially neuters one team and allows the other to do whatever the fug they want.  Imagine you call the police for help and they get there and tell you to sit still while the other party beats the poo out of you and you can’t defend yourself.  That’s what the officials do.  There is no way to avoid them affecting the game.  And more often than not, it’s the most subjective calls they use to do so.  Even in SB50…  you saw the Broncos commit more egregious penalties than anything we did, and barely any of it was called.  Their OL was holding all fuging game and the refs did nothing.  We already had our work cut out for us against two future HOF edge rushers and the refs played to their advantage with that.  From what I remember, both Oher and Remmers were called for holding at various times and their hands were in the INSIDE of the defender.  It was garbage, but all by design. Also, if there is any video of it anywhere, go look at what the refs did against us back in 2013 against SF.  The fix was in there too.  They stepped in early and often and ensured we knew we were not allowed to play with the same aggression or intensity SF was.  It was disgusting as well. at this point, I hope Vince McMahon, errr, I mean Goodell just finally scripts us to win it, because this poo is not won via competition or off merit.
    • You can go back to the New York Knicks somehow getting Patrick Ewing.  I saw a story where they place the New York Knick card in the freezer right before the drawing.  It was simple.  Show everyone the cards are undetectable to the human eye.  All they had to do was grab the coldest card. IMO ever since Goodell took over the NFL it has been fishy.  Patriots winning the SB after 9/11, New Orleans after Katrina and Peyton Manning's going away gift against us. The terrible calls during that game were blatantly one sided.  New England should have been stripped of their first 3 SB when they were caught spying on the other team in their SB wins.  I think the evidence against the Patriots was so damning Goodell felt it could ruin football and they brushed it under the table.   In the 2004 SB, How did we go from practically no yards in the first Quarter to setting a record in the 3rd Qtr.  Dan Henning changes the game plan.  IMO probably the greatest half time adjustment of all time.  
×
×
  • Create New...