Mr. Scot

For the record, the NFL Rumors and Updates Twitter is pretty frequently full of bullsh-t. Unless you see it confirmed somewhere else. I wouldn't take anything they say too seriously.

Would free up the Niners to go after Watson or another quarterback. As far as connections go, Fitterer would be very familiar with Garoppolo. Plus you can figure that Adam Peters might talk to Matt Rhule. Maybe say something like I think "He'd work in your system. Perhaps we can help each other out." No idea whether there's any truth to it, but there is some possible logic.

Inactive for an entire season due to Covid... I'll be back later. I'm gonna be laughing for a while

I'm not talking about hypotheticals. Here's a tidbit from reality: Love was a healthy scratch for the Packers all through the regular season while Tim Boyle worked as the backup to Aaron Rodgers, and the same has been true during the postseason. Jordan Love: No action as a rookie

Thaaaaat's a reach.

That he's third string behind an undrafted guy is common knowledge, no exclusive access required. And the thing about third string is it means they're not giving you reps. A team taking a guy in the first round and then giving him less practice reps than an undrafted? Not a good sign. But again, the thing is that if I'm going to give a draft pick to a team for a guy, I need there to be something that makes me think we can get something out of him. There's nothing there with Love. Maybe he has a chance down the road, but right now there's nada.

Sad news about Marty Schottenheimer... Marty was one of those really good coaches who just never quite put it all together to win the big prize.

I think Payton's Hill experiment is over.

One fact I'm very certain of... Rodney Harrison is a dick.

If he's not traded by the draft, I don't think he's traded this season at all. But given that the Texans are dug in deep on this and that his agent recently denied the suggestion that he'd refuse to participate in OTAs, I don't think he's going anywhere. Frankly, that's what a lot of people in the business think.

Being beaten out by an MVP isn't an issue. Being beaten out for the backup job by an undrafted guy when you were a first round pick...that kinda is.

Luck running Frank Reich's offense would certainly be intriguing. That said, if he does come back to the Colts it isn't necessarily guaranteed it's as a player.

That Bill Voth retweeted McCaffrey's response probably doesn't say good things about how Newton is viewed inside the building.

I wouldn't hold my breath on that.

Our buddy Ellis has been arguing just the opposite. Me? I don't know. It's valid to say he had flashes last year but overall looked pretty bad. He might still be able to play but sixteen games as a starter is a rough road.

I'm not sure it matters. The Texans are pretty well dug in on their front.

You can exchange as many ideas as you want. If some of them happen to be bad ideas though, don't be surprised if they get knocked.

At this point, you can make as many offers as you want for Watson, but the Texans aren't listening to any of them. Doesn't sound like they'll be changing their mind anytime soon either. Probably wiser to pursue other avenues right now.

Your first sentence is very accurate.

Well, here's a story people are really gonna love... On a recent episode of “Patriots Talk Podcast” with Tom E. Curran, former New England safety Rodney Harrison (now an NBC analyst) vehemently disagreed with the idea of Newton getting a second season with the Patriots. “That would be the worst decision [Belichick] has ever made,” said Harrison. “Because now you’re not being fair to your team. When I saw what I saw with Cam, every time I saw Cam play pretty much I was hurt. Because I was a guy that believed in Cam, and when you see him drop back and he continues to throw the ball into the ground, throw it five feet or five yards above somebody else, you’re like, ‘What are you doing, Cam?’ “Trust me, we’re all fans,” Harrison added. “And yeah we’re Patriot fans, but we’re football fans. We want to see these young men do well in their lives and in their livelihood. And so everybody was sitting back rooting for Cam. “But yeah I would say this: You have to find a quarterback,” Harrison explained. “It would be a terrible mistake for Bill Belichick to bring Cam back because Cam can’t play football anymore. He just can’t play quarterback in the National Football League.” Rodney Harrison says it would be a terrible mistake for the Patriots to bring Cam Newton back

The phrase "never meet your heroes" is very good advice.

If I recall correctly, he was a NASCAR reporter prior to this. He doesn't even seem to know jack about football. I know back when we were making a run, they assigned a couple of female reporters to Panthers coverage. One, I think, was Josina Anderson. I forget the other but I don't think she's with ESPN anymore, whoever she was (just a vague sense). I get not putting huge resources into covering the Panthers. To be fair, what have we done to merit that? Still, I'd at least like to believe we deserve better than a guy that doesn't even know football.

"Young and on a cheap contract" probably describes a dozen or so backup QBs around the league plus a few starters. Frankly, it's a pretty low standard.

I doubt his being white has anything to do with it. ESPN generally not giving a sh-t about the Panthers probably has a lot to do with it, though. I do remember back in 2015, they had other reporters covering us for a while, but the following year it was back to just Newton.

Newton's really pissing some people off of late. When he did his presser, Fitterer said up front he wasn't gonna be answering questions about particular players. Something like three questions in, Newton asks about "a certain quarterback in Houston".