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I don't know that I would necessarily attribute it to his attitude. He was largely the same player as he was beforehand. I think they(and the bulk of the fans) just had unrealistic expectations for him. We wanted him to be something he is not. That is my big fear for Sam Darnold. People are really setting their expectations very high for a player that has really shown almost no ability to be that. In a similar vein, I am not going to jump all over Darnold if he does just keep being the same player he was in NY. He didn't trade for him, he didn't draft him and I don't think he is mailing it in any less than Teddy was. Not every QB prospect is a franchise player.

Jilted lover syndrome. I don't actually dislike him anymore for what he said. For all we know it was accurate.

Great article but they could expand that to actually include actual performance and that would probably change the results substantially. From the "positional value" aspect, it hits the mark. But, not all draft decisions are that simple. I would say it is a dramatic oversimplification of the process to break it down that way. Great data but not necessarily something you could run a draft based on.

Funny how those of us that warned people about him in the offseason have so much company on the anti-Teddy train now. It just took a season of watching him mainly be the problem and then throwing people under the bus.

Nah, he was definitely lashing out. I think he obviously feels jilted about the whole situation.

So much is going to depend on our division games. Are we the 2nd best team? 3rd? Worst? That will be the difference between us and maybe being .500 or better. The NFC South is going to be pretty hard to handicap.

I did want Fields or Slater instead of Horn. And, in hindsight, I do think Horn is the safest pick of the three. But LT and QB are higher value positions that we also really had a great need for. I hope that we chose the right horse in that race. It will hurt if we didn't. Sewell going one before us was soul crushing. So close. I have to believe since we have gone through multiple staffs and not moved Moton over, he just isn't the guy at LT. I honestly think we won't have a guy that starts more than 8 games at LT. It will be shuffling around to see what works, IMO. 100% okay of any of the guys we are going to attempt prove me wrong. It's a lot easier to discover your coaches/front office are geniuses than find out they are fools.

No doubt. Yet we continue to not make it a priority or make smart personnel decisions at the position.

We'll just be revisiting the same hole we have had since Gross left. We just don't prioritize it or make smart decisions. It's amazing.

Notice the "Triangle" statement. Wake County is larger than Mecklenburg but also the Triangle(which is admittedly a much larger geographical footprint) has actually been bigger than the Charlotte metro area for a while. Charlotte itself is larger than Raleigh but the RDU sprawl is much larger than the Charlotte sprawl.

That is older census data. The Triangle area is bigger now.

I don't care about baseball but adding the Durham Bulls to the MLB should honestly be a wild success.

Also, as a 40 year old male with zero experience, I am pretty sure I could pole dance better than that. Weak.

Came here for shirtless CMC pics and left disappointed. @TheSpecialJuan do better.

I actually 100% agree with this take.

Not super surprising because quite a bit of Charlotte sprawl is people fleeing across the border to SC. The sprawl in the Triangle is pretty ridiculous. I think the surrounding counties makes it far and away the most populous area of NC, even if you expanded the CLT sprawl to SC and the surrounding counties.

Nah. I went on strike from MLB in either 98 or 99 for what I perceived to be issues with the sport that would hurt it's popularity and competitiveness in the long term. Some of them came to pass, while others actually improved. Either way, once you don't watch for years and years, you don't even recognize the names or faces anymore, so there isn't much of an attachment. Especially not having a home team. I have always hated watching soccer because of the flopping and extra time nonsense. Even if they fixed all those issues, I am not sure that I would be interested in watching after not being a fan for so long.

He definitely has an uphill battle after being drafted by a previous regime and not playing in 2020. He's really sort of a UDFA in terms of status, I would imagine.

That is a pretty fair assessment.

Yeah, and I am not saying that can't be successful but it does have a shelf life.

He seems to be more of a players coach than either of those guys. TBD how it all works out.

I don't think he would have has sustained success. His attitude and style of coaching is more likely to be successful in college than the NFL. Guys with that style(like Tom Coughlin) have a limit on how long the players can stand them. Once the losing starts, all that military dictatorship style coaching starts to wear thin.

Yeah, well Bill built that team. He has carried some sorry ass rosters to deep playoff runs. The difference is that he doesn't have the greatest QB of all time bailing him out with his greatness. Make no mistake, right now it is looking very much like that ratio is heavily tilted in Brady's favor.

He isn't likely to be alright because he is going to be learning new positions in his mid-30's. Had he been making this switch when he was drafted, we might be looking at him as an elite player winding down a successful career, rather than a sideshow career buoyed by media hype.