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Just now, jfra78 said:

You have to add Olsen and Shockey vs Hurst and ?

not if he wants to comply with the question he asked which directly says "WR 2011 vs 2023"

6 minutes ago, MillionDollarCam said:

To be fair, we’ve always looked good in preseason.

Hell, Coghlan looked liked a damn Norris trophy winner.

Rod's system translates even when you put young kids in it when they're playing other young kids.

Things can be taken from meaningless games that don't necessarily just mean 'we're going to be trash' or 'we're winning a championship' -- my main point is only that writing that book before it starts is just praying to be quoted with receipts later regardless especially when it's just vicious, instant, emotional overreaction that goes the entire opposite way of the quotes we get from the coaching staff regarding what's happening in front of our eyes.

IMO bottom line the overreaction is abominable, irrelevant, and wholly embarrassing if literally any other fanbase puts eyes on it.  As a younger fanbase who gets flack for that against the older guard, it feels like we're consciously shooting ourselves in both feet.  Not a fun thing to put in the forefront of pairing with putting Rhule in the rear view.

using one example is irrelevant. he also joked about missing a wide open kelce when it matters zero.  Rodgers hadn't played in it in 5 years. not going to go back and forth on the internet if meaningless games have meaning. that was my whole point.

if we start talking about preseason NHL results as an indicator of future season performance that'll be my sign to walk away from this 

NFL preseason has lost more and more each year to the point where a lot of contract players don't step on the field and yet fans completely ignore that just so they can pout. i'm all set

people who don't believe bryce can lead us to the playoffs but saying the falcons with their 3rd round cincy QB who has (only) beaten trace mcsorley and kyle trask can -- and somehow that's not the like top 3 dumbest part of this thread

Perspective matters. And the people who havent been around long enough to have it love to consistently shout it from the mountaintops.

On 8/19/2023 at 4:17 PM, Smithers said:

Just curious, did Reich change his philosophy as a coach?  Because in his first year as HC in Indy, he went 3-1 and turned his starters loose in the preseason.  He then went on to a damn good season.  He said in his week 1 presser that he always approaches preseason the way he is this time around.  So he’s either lying, or our team Is just that bad 

I would assume the number of former HC dudes now on staff combined with being fired from the last sting combined with having a rookie QB / first overall guy for the first time has changed the philosophy some.

In my mind---you can do a direct comparison. The Giants threw to their best player like 4 times on their first scoring drive. It made me cringe on their behalf for a team I literally hate. That 1 is exactly what they're going to be doing in the regular season and 2 had Bell hurt Waller on that hit literally their targets would have gone from 1 to 0 and their season would effectively be over. They lucked out--but if we were going to Hurst or anyone like that just so we could prove to ourselves we could score I would be way more concerned in the moment and after than I am right now.

10 minutes ago, chknwing said:

If only YouTube TV guide wasn't terrible

it's literally completely customizable from what channels are listed and in what order

22 minutes ago, rayzor said:

i think it was kind of obvious that the jets weren't in evaluation mode to the degree that we were. they schemed. we didn't. we had no need to. 

this is one of the things i hate about preseason games. it's rare that both teams have the same objective. one of the many things that made belichick such a punk was that preseason games were treated the same way as regular season games, which isn't fair to the team who is just wanting to do some evaluating.  it was dangerous and they came after cam big time. 

repeating myself, we were shut out and blown out because the jets were in it to win and make up for a loss in the HoF game and for looking bad in the joint practices. jets also had to make it look good for hard knocks. 

we should have been better, for sure, but let's not pretend that the jets weren't much more motivated to look better than we were to look good against the other team.

quoting this just so it shows up more. 

23 hours ago, TheCasillas said:

thats a unique preseason look, you are not going to see that a lot in preseason football.

When referring to the Jets defensive scheme

a thousand times this. and we'll likely do something similar for a bounce back this week. it's all meaningless, but there's nuance beyond the struggle

I'm gonna always be optimistic until given reason not to. I'm not taking stock in our first preseason against the TV tryharding Jets in their second (they looked sloppy in their first too). Someone posted that Bills preseason shutout we had two months before Rhule was fired--enough said. Preseason is irrelevant.  

People saying that the expectation shouldn't be playoffs--I get not wanting to expect too much or too much pressure on a rookie QB, but the way I look at it is we were two officiating blunders/starting with Rhule away from making playoffs, and the whole year, we had below league average QB play (in a decent amount of games I'd say that's an understatement). 

While the saints may have gotten better, at best, they took the place of Tampa who is now aging/begging to draft a QB first or second overall. The falcons have the exact same questions as us at QB, but in my opinion a worse overall roster and there's a difference between what we can expect for Bryce and what they can expect from Ridder. He impressed me none last year and went 2-2 playing Kyle Trask/McSorley etc.

I know we had quite a bit of roster turnover. I just feel like since we missed the playoffs by such a slim margin, that given we get coaching above Matt Rhule and QB play above Sam/Baker/PJ, we can easily make the playoffs. IMO you can say whatever you want about rookie QB expectations, but two very important caveats here are 1. Bryce is entering a better situation than maybe ANY first overall draft QB ever and 2. If there's anyone out there who thinks he cannot INSTANTLY do better than what we saw at the QB position last year, I have serious questions about 1. if you've seen him play a football game or 2. your ability to comprehend what happens in said football games

4 minutes ago, MillionDollarCam said:

They (Apple) have to be pretty happy with MLS Season Pass. I haven’t heard of any actual streaming issues with the product, they also make certain games free every match day to keep those with an interest intrigued, and now that Messi is in the MLS, their numbers will only go up.

they only have around 1m season pass subs right now which to me seemed really low. otherwise I agree--with Messi the numbers could explode at any moment and that is the first in a long list of huge dominoes to fall.  

I love their shows, their MLS coverage is awesome, and their MLB games are amazing.  I would drop netflix before apple at this point (course i do get mls for free being a cltfc sth)

I do ESPN+ / VPN. Works like  a charm. ACC is putting their football slate on CW that would have gone to Bally--I wonder if NBA/NHL may follow suit

4 hours ago, PantherFanInPhilly said:

So this is the Vapor Fuse Limited in the pic right? I see Dicks Sporting Goods now has them for sale now online (first/only place I've seen with them...only seen the customized ones available up until now). I'm curious about the shoulder stripes on the Limiteds because on the Dicks site, it says the stripes are screen printed even on the Limiteds which I would hate even more than the heat pressed names/numbers. Yet I see your pic of what I'm assuming is the same jersey and the shoulder stripes are the way they usually are on Limiteds...sewn together fabric. I'm hesitating placing an order for one from Dick's because I can't get a straight answer anywhere.

it is a vapor fuse pictured, yes. i see what you're saying about the pictures on dick's website--i would blame that on the way they posted it. the vapor fuse does have real sewn shoulders, logo and stripes. if that's what you want i would go ahead and buy it and you can always return it. i don't see how there's any way dicks would have a different nike fuse than the team store (which you can call and confirm with the team store--they do not currently carry elite jerseys [which is insane it's the one place on earth but])

3 hours ago, MillionDollarCam said:

If I was Karol I’d leave Charlotte at the first opportunity I got. He isn’t used correctly by Lattanzio and that can honestly be said about a lot of our players.

Swiderski is at his best when he’s playing as a second striker rather than a center forward. He looks like a different player when playing as a second striker for Poland.

There has to be some sort of disconnect between our FO and Lattanzio cause the FO consistently brings in players that can’t play in our system. And this isn’t an excuse for Lattanzio, his system sucks as well.

I do think there was a talk cause the lineups have at least been consistent the last few. I don't disagree on Swiderski, but he has had success. I'm not sure at this point what happens/how he will fit with/when Copetti returns.  We're getting closer to health and it'll be interesting with the new guys coming in where some of these players fit.

58 minutes ago, toldozer said:

We need an upgrade of designated players that's what I took from this game

they're also adding a slot next season.

I actually thought we showed decent attacking form.  Our defense is still outright swiss cheese. Miami's is too. Let's go be a team of destiny.

I really enjoyed Brecht's debut.

1 hour ago, OUCPFL said:

That should've been the motto the past few years...........hasn't happened. 

right but you can't have that cake and eat it too. the prospects we've been building because we haven't given it all up at the deadline are the tools we can use this year to beat out anyone for whoever we might want. anyone who wants to go back and demand we have retroactively acquired temo meier---did not watch the playoffs.

6 minutes ago, MillionDollarCam said:

Hopefully it’ll be Svechnikov once he’s back and a lot rides on Jarvis making a big jump.

If Svech becomes the elite goal scorer, Jarvis makes a big jump, Teravainen has a rebound season, and Bunting gets us 20 or so goals, then we’ll be in fine shape.

Obviously a lot of if’s there.

I think there's obviously chance that if any of this is taking shape that we will be making extreme moves at the trade deadline this time. In retrospect not making the move last year was the right thing--we kept everything while all other teams that gave up future assets were eliminated. This year, if we're healthy and on a course--it's time to press go and say F them picks

14 hours ago, USDepartmentOfSavagery said:

I can’t really blame Pitt for this. In fact, it was probably a smart move on their part. A massive rebuild is on the horizon with or without this move. Might as well give your aging stars a little help before the window is closed shut. 

I don't disagree with you here, but only because of the way the league works. If they were smarter, they would be selling off their vets, including crosby, right now and starting the rebuild.  Because of the fact that Crosby will likely only wear one jersey in his career--it makes the Caps and Pens do these ridiculous moves that further delay and set back their rebuild starting to always cycle years of 'this run' when last year's team for both Caps/Pens couldn't get WC2 in a very deep division.  I understand not wanting Crosby in any other jersey, but as a small market baseball fan/thinking about it from what happened to the Canes in 09...it's a pretty big price to pay on the back end of their careers as we see with Chicago right now (and they even let Kane/will let JT go)

I just don't see EK changing much. I guess if their goaltending puts together a tandem that performs better than we've seen either of those guys perform--it's possible if you're thinking that FL probably has a huge injury hangover/Bob is probably literally going to drop off the face of the planet. IDC about the pedigree of EK/Crosby/Malkin. The thought of getting Jarry/Ned in the playoffs makes me salivate.

13 hours ago, MillionDollarCam said:

LMAO. That contract could be brutal in just two years time. Guys that play like Wilson just don’t last until they are 37.

feels like the Dwill/CJ contracts for Hurney where we outbid ourselves. Wilson's contract was 5.2 AAV---who were they bidding against to give him that kind of raise at that term? absolutely nuts.

I'd take Tuch from the Sabres too.

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/38133176/capitals-sign-tom-wilson-7-year-455-million-extension

whew. gross overpay for a longgg time

update...the fanatics sale is still going on. it's a fairly good deal all things considered for elite customization. they have most sizes in black. blue is only one size.

https://www.fanatics.com/nfl/carolina-panthers/carolina-panthers-nike-classic-custom-elite-jersey-black/o-1394+t-36260213+p-5755225532077+z-9-3284042469?_ref=p-TLP:m-GRID:i-r0c2:po-2

https://www.fanatics.com/nfl/carolina-panthers/carolina-panthers-nike-classic-elite-custom-jersey-blue/o-7994+t-70932424+p-13997992985+z-7-4034843565?_ref=p-DLP:m-GRID:i-r1c1:po-4

35 minutes ago, t96 said:

Very disappointing, thanks for the heads up as I was gonna order one once available. Now I'll have to decide whether to shell out for the Elite or just get a cheap regular game jersey. The old Nike Limited were perfect, no annoying sleeves like the Elite, embroidered name and numbers, reasonable price, high quality all around. The game jerseys are ok but nowhere near that and really not worth $130. And not sure why anyone would even buy the Limited then...

i agree--and i ended up making the decision to get the elite because of it. i hit it on a 25% off sale (they never include jerseys in the sale esp stitched) on fanatics so i got the black bryce elite for ~277. they also upped the price of this fuse to 200 at the team store at least. IMO if you're someone who buys the game jerseys, you should be pleased. they are nicer and closer to the limited/fuse. if you're someone like us who likes stitched..it's elite or nothing and very disappointing. it made more financial sense to me to buy a jersey in all 3 colors when i could get a stitched one for 140ish/even 120 on sales. now i'll likely just have the one. 

i bought a limited Horn blue jersey last year and was upset when the color changed but now i'm glad i got a limited when they still existed. obviously they have some of the older limiteds of horn/chinn etc that you can still get, but make sure you're not buying a fuse.

11 hours ago, t96 said:

Wait are “Limited” jerseys really not embroidered names and numbers any more??? That’s such bullshit. The last jersey I got was a white McCaffrey Limited in 2018 and it’s such a great quality jersey for the price, the screen printed ones suck. Was planning to get a Bryce limited one once they came out but if they’re not embroidered fug that

correct. the only difference that i could see between the new limited (it's now called "Fuse") is a better collar/NFL shield and that the LOGO on the arms is stitched. the name/number is raised heat press, as it is now on the Game. So they improved the Game jerseys a little but IMO went way backwards on the limited/fuse. I ordered an elite when fanatics had 25% off.  I'll add a picture of the raised heat press on the Fuse jersey

On 7/14/2023 at 6:23 PM, shaq said:

Yeah same I’m gonna trust factual medical information over a random on the internet. It’s ok to take the rose tinted glasses off every once in a while, every team has flaws and it’s beyond evident our cornerback room is an issue. Honestly sad that your argument is name dropping a few WRS in the division, like we don’t play other teams? I pray for us when we have to face Tyreek and Waddle with this corner room outside of Jaycee. Come on man, this is just childish we do not need to be ignorant to our genuine weaknesses.

Looks like he was right about himself