CoastalCat

Or when he decided to jump back on return duties against Seattle in the '05 NFC title game...and took it to the house.

**Prepare for way too much information** Whether you need an antenna depends greatly on your location and your tv. Some areas have better signals, and some tv's have better built-in antennas. If the signal actually comes through, it's crystal clear. Keep in mind that there are sometimes two instances of the same channel for the locals, a standard and an HD (HD usually in the 100's). I'm in Wilmington (first city in the country to go digital-only, and we have no hills), but I'm guessing you're in the QC based on your profile. My advice, in order of time and effort commitment, would be... 1. Go online to see how many over the air channels there are in your area (here's a link for Charlotte: Link), then do an auto channel search to see how many of them you can get. Should be all the major networks (ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC), plus some randoms like 5 or 6 PBS stations. 2. If you don't get the major ones (Fox being your main concern for Panthers), a cheap fix that works about half the time is to connect your coax (cable wire) back to the wall from your tv, even if you no longer have a cable subscription. I'm not a doctor, but my guess is that it uses the coax infrastructure all over around your house like an antenna. That could be total BS, but it usually gets me another channel or two. That is my current setup here at the beach, and it works just fine. I even have a couple of cable channels randomly(E! and Bravo, which drastically improved my chances of continuing my cheapness without my wife's head exploding). 3. If none of that works (had this situation when I lived in VA for a bit), go to the store and buy 3 or 4 cheap digital antennas. Hook each one up and do another channel search for each one. Keep the one that gets the most channels, and return the others. Last thing: Those over the air channel guides online will usually tell you where the signal is coming from on a map (again, see link above). It sometimes does actually make a difference if you face a directional antenna toward the source (it looks like a lot of the stations are North-East from most areas of Charlotte). Good Luck...

I would recommend Apple TV if you have an iPhone. Similar streaming apps as Roku, but also has a mirroring feature. That helps in two ways. First, many of the random assortment of apps that either Apple TV, Roku, Amazon FireStick, etc. don't have CAN be downloaded to a phone, so you can stream from there. Also, with mirroring you can stream just about anything else you can stream from a website, which opens up the possibilities exponentially.

It was a struggle until I got my buddy's TWC login for a case of beer and bought an apple TV. Now I have HBO and Showtime. Teeheehee. Only thing I'm missing is NFL Network. Gotta look and see if it has an app I can mirror.

All you need to say is.... http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-gameday/0ap3000000450903/Week-17-Panthers-vs-Falcons-highlights

Thank the internet for creating more and more "Prestons". The lighting does a good job of hiding his mom's house backdrop.

.........................TookOurJobs!!!

Might have to turn in my homer card on this one but... I think people are way overplaying the "Drew Brees is getting rusty" story. Dude still led the league in passing yards and was #2 in passing percentage. He threw a few more picks than usual, but jeez. Their defense was horrendous. At least let him go two seasons of such "horrible" quarterback play before saying that he's even close to second in the division.

Is Sprint still a thing?

​Let's all embrace Matt Prater's dream of no more kicking of any kind. Huzzah!

​Diggin' the flat top.

​Step 1: FIELD THE F***ING PUNT!!! Step 2: ? Step 3: Superbowl

​Good call. There is enough uncertainty as is.

​Really hope the team makes a good decision on this one. Looks like we will be the team to figure out whether these mobile QB's have a life cycle more like other QB's, or like RB's. If it's the latter, there's financial trouble ahead. Here's to hoping that the 2020 Panthers don't have a QB on the roster with a higher salary than the one starting.

Just to play devil's advocate here, many would argue that Seattle was where it counted, rather than December against teams with a combined 22-42 record. I'm glad the Panthers won the division, and glad that they were the first to do it back to back for the first time in our division's short history, but sometimes i wonder how different the rhetoric on this board would be right now had 7-8-1 not won the division.

I remember there being a pretty heated Newton vs. Gabbert discussion going on in the weeks going into the draft. We would have to check the archives.

Girls!! Girls!! Let's settle on down now. I will say that NCtarheel gets a little leeway simply due to the fact that he's (I'm assuming) a UNC-Chapel Hill fan who would like RW to be his NFL QB. With all that being said, can't we all just agree with the fact that we dodged 3 potential landmines named Blaine Gabbert, Christian Ponder, and Jake Locker in the first round?? That, alone, is reason to celebrate.

I take my previous post back. I was thinking that we would have very likely gone for Kaepernick or Dalton in the 2nd, having the first pick in that round. But we didn't. We had no second round pick. Assuming that we would have had the address the emergency situation at QB with the likes of Ryan Mallet, Ricky Stanzi(who?), or T.J. Yates, I'm pretty happy with the direction that we went in.

Truth!

Watt would have obviously been a good pick; but what I'd be more interested in finding out is how the QB situation would have shaken out. Would we have nabbed someone is later rounds(we would have been in place for either Andy Dalton or Colin Kaepernick in the 2nd)? Would we have let it ride, and potentially been in the running for Andrew Luck in 2012? Way too many variables.

Semi on topic question here. There is something that I don't understand at all. Why do players want the 5th year option, but hate the franchise tag? They seem like the same thing, a one-year contract with no guarantees. The only difference to me is that the franchise tag generally pays a LOT more. What am I missing? For players still on their rookie contracts that are actually any good, it seems like you'd want to get to that coveted second contract as quickly as possible. Thoughts?

Read down to that one after my reply. My bad. I didn't mean it. Sometimes I just say things in the heat of the moment. Last year, my wife got on me about not mowing the grass, and I just yelled "YOU'RE A FALCONS FAN!!!" She's still in counseling....

I think the problem is that Chris Simms was so much more recent. I remember watching Pepp politely help him up over and over.......and over. Only time I ever felt bad for a Bucs player. Probably won't be the last.

Is there some kind of dirty bird past that we don't know about? Go on, it's safe here. (it's not safe here at all)

I still consider myself life-long, especially considering the life of the franchise. I was 12, growing up in Charlotte, when the team came to town, and didn't follow football before that. I think that counts.