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Will You Still Be Talking Crap Post-Draft?


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I am just wondering if the pick is Coples, Kuechly, or Blackmon, will you still be downing the pick at this time tomorrow night? Will you still be talking all kinds of poo about the newest Panther, or will you have an epiphany and realize that you really don't know crap about scouting, or, at the very least, your evaluations and pontifications ultimately don't mean a thing (just like last year, and the year before...)? Will you actually wish for the player to be a success, or will you wait like a rabid dog and pounce at the opportunity to say "I told you so!" Will you man up and apologize for all the rude and ill conceived mudslinging at said player and your hubris in regards to thinking that you know more than Hurney, Rivera and company about how to build the Carolina Panthers? Will you?

We go through this every year, but it seems like this year has been more contentious than some (even if that isn't the case). It seems like lessons would have been learned from years past, but Is suppose that is just wishful thinking.

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The real question is...does it even matter? We also talk poo about current players, past players, preachers, each other, my neighbor, and the air.

I'll support whoever we draft but if we draft Coples at 9 in any but the most extreme circumstances I won't be thrilled...and I won't keep it to myself just because we drafted him. He has plenty of tools to be good but there will almost definitely be a better option there...

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Panthers? Will you?

We go through this every year, but it seems like this year has been more contentious than some (even if that isn't the case). It seems like lessons would have been learned from years past, but Is suppose that is just wishful thinking.

This is has been like holding hands compared to last year. Have we already forgotten the tension of the great war between the Huggers and the Haters? Some people didn't even survive that war KJDaniels, PFFL, Grits, almost TRD.

Lots of casualties.

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This is has been like holding hands compared to last year.  Have we already forgotten the tension of the great war between the Huggers and the Haters?  Some people didn't even survive that war KJDaniels, PFFL, Grits, almost TRD.

Lots of casualties.

Grits stupid ass is still around in the form of p0pc0rner or whatever he calls himself now, while TRD should have been gone anyways.

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