Mr. Scot

Thanks, everybody. Best from me...

Quick FYI: Been super busy this year so I haven't been online much but I'm still around and doing okay for the moment

From Mike Sando in The Athletic: Carolina Panthers Added: $53.4M (8th) | Lost: $14.9M (29th) | Differential: $38.5M (5th) With quarterback Bryce Young making strides in 2024 while the Panthers’ defense plummeted 10 spots to No. 32 in EPA per play, Carolina signed four defensive free agents from other teams to deals worth at least $7 million per year. That tied New England for the most by any team in free agency this offseason (Buffalo was third with three). “They got a little better, but they are still working from a deficit,” an exec said. “They were a three-year reset from last year, so this is just year two for them.” Carolina, like Arizona, lost out on Eagles defensive lineman Williams when New England outbid everyone, signing him to a deal worth $26 million per year. The Panthers presumably wanted to stay below the $24 million average for their own defensive lineman, Derrick Brown, and the $25 million figure for Jaycee Horn, the cornerback Carolina recently extended. The Panthers instead bolstered their defensive front with Tershawn Wharton ($15 million APY) and Bobby Brown ($7 million APY), whose combined APY was $22 million. “It was easier for New England to do that with Milton Williams than it would have been for Carolina,” another exec said. “Wharton is smaller than Williams but had similar production.” Link (subscription required)

This could be where the Raiders go for their temporary quarters solution.

Well, technically it's about us playing like sh-t, so...

Don't know how well researched this is, but if it's accurate, yikes

Not if you play for the Dolphins...

Also...

Stewart and Rhule go way back. That was discussed during his time working with us. Most recently he was the Patriots Director of Pro Personnel (had a lot of history in New England too)

Additional breakdown from Joe Person: Side Note: Lemme tell ya, it was a nightmare trying to get all of these to embed

Yikes Yes, Newton was a great teammate, or at least he became one. There were definitely some stories from his rookie season that were somewhat less than complimentary. And based on what Charles Johnson says, it sounds like there are more yet to be told. On the mic though, Newton was always that friend who made you cringe when he started talking. Lots of us have had friends and acquaintances that we knew meant well but for whom we often had to apologize and/or clarify what they meant. Unfortunately, that's Cam. When he started making his journey toward becoming a talking head, It would be one that had its fair share of bumps in the road. Looks like we've hit one And yes, Smith can certainly be one to shoot his mouth off as well, but it doesn't exactly sound like he's alone in his viewpoint here.

Nope. That season ended with the NFC Championship. The Super Bowl never happened. That's how I remember it. That's how I will always remember it

I'm hoping we get back to the Super Bowl someday. It's a shame we haven't been there since the 2003 season

Okay, so I gotta talk about what happened at our house yesterday Getting Lady Cowboy Fan's family together is always a recipe for something...interesting. Sunday was no different, and it got going with some pre Super Bowl rounds of Pictionary. Lady Cowboy Fan's daughter-in-law was given a word to try and artistically convey for her team and went right to it. Her initial concept drawing consisted of a big, horizontal, potato shape at the bottom with a thin shaft sticking up out of it that rounded at the other end. If you're picturing something a bit phallic looking, you've got the idea Her eleven year old son definitely got that idea, since right there in front of his mom, dad, grandmother (LCF), other grandmother, me and everyone else, he started shouting out "PENIS! ITS A PENIS! A PENIS!" I like to think of myself as a wordsmith, but the anguished look on his mom's face was something I doubt i could sufficiently put into words even if you paid me a trillion dollars to try. And it didn't get much better when her mom - also in attendance - yelled out "MELISSA, YOU ERASE THAT DRAWING RIGHT NOW! THERE'S CHILDREN HERE!!!" ("children repeatedly shouting the word 'penis' for all the world to hear" I thought to myself, "but okay") That wasn't the correct - or appropriate - answer though, so in an attempt to calm things down I saw her turn the whiteboard around and start furiously scribbling. No lie, I genuinely asked myself if she might perchance be attempting to add hair to the balls. When she flipped the board back around though, what I saw instead was that she had colored both the shaft and the potato shape bright red (that led to some other ideas which didn't exactly fall under the "family friendly" category either) All attempts at guessing had been replaced by laughing by that point. Any hope of an answer had vanished, so she pretty much just gave up until time ran out. Once the timer expired, all of us were waiting with great anticipation to hear what the correct answer was since we had absolutely no clue. Her word was THERMOMETER Enough rounds were played that it did come around to her turn again, but she declined to participate further after that performance. As you might imagine, a few slightly rude jokes were m made at her expense. For the record, I can neither confirm nor deny whether any of those were made by me That said, I'd be willing to bet those same jokes are likely to be brought up again the next time the whole family gets together. It'll be interesting to see if she's brave enough to attend. For my part, I'll just say that all episode was probably more fun and memorable than the Super Bowl itself was