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It's not even really nearly as nefarious as people make it out. These teams are a financial investment. They are just protecting their investments. Do they fug the fans and players in the end? Of course. Same way corporations always fug the employees and clients long before they ever consider fuging shareholders.

Ain't no sportsbook giving you a worthwhile line on this.

She is basically an even better example of his general incompetence. Why the fug does the owners fuging spouse have any sort of input on personnel decisions? The way the organization is structured, internal horseshit, PR, etc, etc....IDGAF if she is involved in that as long as she isn't mucking it up or has some clue. But it's very, very, VERY unlikely I am gonna believe some hedge fund billionaires wife had the foggiest notion about anything in regards to legit pro or college personnel decisions. I believe that even less than I think some fuging billionaire hedge fund manager has any clue about football decisions either. His "experience" was cosplaying as a Steelers minority owner. fug 'em both. HARD.

Also nabbed a wild trade price for a RB. People were upset but that was far more than he was worth. Now, if you want to talk about how terribly we squandered those resources....that is unquestionably true.

Yeah, I feel like that is even a stretch. I say this as a guy who argued vehemently against signing him to a big extension like we did. CMC is a great player and good person. I just believe the modern NFL is clearly anti-RB spending. We see outliers like Barkely that people like to quote but that is not reflective of the entire NFL's opinion on RB's.

I don't think he faked any injuries. He is juat injury prone due to overtraining and general makeup. There is no conspiracy here.

Same reason we get fired up about David Tepper being in involved in football decisions, neither of those two goofs have the first fuging idea what they are doing.

Tepper still thinks he can run this like a hedge fund. He's such a fuging tool.

I do think Tepper is a substantially worse owner than Mike Brown but it's a sinking versus floating turds argument. The Bengals should be ashamed of attempting to set a fuged up precendent like this with VERY affordable rookie contracts. The NFLPA should pitch a fit about this fugery.

My brothers in Christ, this fortells the coming of the four horsemen of the Teppocalypse. It's: Meddling Arrogance Incompetence Denial

Yeah, it's not necessarily about who is the best player for the moment, it's about the direction we are headed as a franchise. Seems to be that Morgan has doubled down on a youth movement, so why not see it through?

Yeah, he is leaps and bounds better than Wallace. But the question then becomes, when do you get Wallace the reps to even attempt to develop? I feel the same way about Pratt as I did Ramsey, it's a short solution for a long term situation.

I don't think it is so much how he played as that they are cash strapped with the current roster. See, Hendrickson, Trey.

Well, he would immediately be the best LB on the roster. Buuuut....he really doesn't fit the profile of what we seem to be doing. We are avoiding these older players and seem to be very attached to a youth movement.

I mean, if you literally walk down the starters for that team versus ours, it's fuging embarrassing. Then when you get to the backups, it's WAY more obvious. There is a reason we were largely regarded as the worst roster. It was very earned.

I would LOVE to have the talent that Oakland and NY(Giants) have. They were/are WAAAAAY better rosters. I think we will finally crawl out of that "worst" spot this season, even as a massive sceptic. We need it.

Agreed. Our coaches were better than some of the other dumpster fire teams and we played in the NFC South. That helped. Outside that, a simple look at the roster will very quickly reveal it to be the worst in Panthers franchise history. That was obvious before we had even played a game. It was funny that people were surprised we had a historically bad defense. It was so insanely obvious.

I really don't think it's that debatable. New England had some argument but our roster was far worse, IMO.

We weren't bottom five, we were the bottom.

We SHOULD be better overall than last year. I would say this is still, on paper, firmly a bottom 5 roster in the NFL. I definitely hope that improves over the course of the season.

It's very few proven commodities and heavy on "what if." I am not suggesting it isn't POSSIBLE we are a halfway decent roster but I also don't think it's very likely. Underwhelming is fine and understandable. I just don't want to see dumpster fire again.

I mean, we are gonna stink at some positions. We have a bad roster, so you just have to expect that on a cellar dwelling team. The hope is that it's a net improvement over last season. If we accomplish that, I am good. I don't want to see Rhule era panic and more outgoing draft capital in another foolish "a couple of pieces away" campaign.

Worse than Gabriel is insane. That's "about to be out of the league" status. That draft really will go down as the worst class in NFL history for QB's. If it wasn't for Purdy, there wouldn't be a single NFL QB in the entire thing. But, the most impressive of all is us picking the only one of them that ended up never seeing an NFL game. #TepperMagic

But also a wild d-bag, potential locker room cancer and a media circus. This might actually put the nail in Tomlin's coffin.