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You're thinking of a Conandrum. And it's not a snare drum, but a bongo made from the skull of his enemies.

And check out the release point. After all the grousing I heard earlier this week that his release point is too low and he was gonna have his passes batted. I guess he's smart enough to throw over D-Linemen, and not just throw casually from the ear like he does in 1-on-1 drills. Whodathunkit?

Right? He retreats from the monoliths from 2001: a Space Odyssey, spends 5 seconds thinking about "Industry Baby," and then inexplicably rolls out of the pocket unpressured before making his throw.

I wouldn't mind seeing these two teamed up.

Yup. Exactly this. Purgatory of a middle of the road performance is bad. Not even getting to see him this year and basically leaving us paralyzed for another year is the absolute worst case.

Maybe it's just me, but I didn't get the feeling he's suggesting that's CMC in the photo at all. I mean, it says he arrived "last night." That's clearly not a picture taken at night time. Seems like it's just two separate thoughts in one tweet. "Here's a picture of Panthers arriving to camp." And, "CMC arrived last night."

Call me crazy, but I put more stock into the talent evaluation capabilities of Fitterer and our scouting department than AceBoogie.

What is this strange modality? Retaining talent we've developed? Investing in our offensive line? Securing talent to protect our QB? What team is this, even?

Wifey and I are just getting over something. I felt crappy for 3 days, it's knocked her out for a week, although she's improving. She did two BinaxNow kits and came back negative, but I'm still wondering. Maybe it doesn't work on the Delta Variant? If it's a summer cold, it's a bitch. Anyway, even though we're both vaxxed, I bet she'll stop teasing me for wearing my mask in the grocery store.

Say, "Ian Thomas won't make the roster" without saying it.

Hey, I'd never disparage you. You're a quality poster. Frankly that's a good bellwether post. Some posters on here would start a thread to share a pundit's tweet and would just get Poo'd into oblivion. Others would post the same and get praised. Comes down to their track record. You should feel flattered, because it speaks to the Huddle's high opinion of you. Rock on.

Welp. Guess that shows what I know.

This doesn't deserve it's own thread, but still worth sharing.

Compare it to the write-up of one of the top 10. Clearly the fans are a factor on this particular list.

What do you expect? He's a journalist first. He's for gathering and reporting facts before spouting opinions. And considering the rate at which he breaks stories he's a damn good one at that. I think sports journalism is such a weird thing in that for some reason we expect everyone to be an incendiary prognosticator and provocateur like Skip and Stephen A. I can't believe we hold sports reporters to a standard where we expect them to make sweeping predictions with absolute certainty based on an incomplete datasets and myriad unknown variables, and to be accurate about them 100% of the time. That's an insane standard to hold fact-based journalism to. At the end of the days he's still got to reach out to player for comments and leads. And he's not going to be able to do that very well if the day before he named them on the list of "Top 10 overpaid bums whose careers I'm sure are definitely over" just to drum up clicks on some podcast. Just had to chime in because this time of year it's hilarious to see how much bashing of sports reporters goes on in these threads.

How is the kicking competition shaping up? Slye looking confident?

Sigh. Will we ever get the Battlefield sequel we've really been asking for?

Yeah, 100% agree. Which is why I think USFL might actually survive. Less baggage. But on the other hand, everyone loves a circus. And USFL just advertising themselves as a by-the-numbers Spring football league is gonna flop. XFL proved there's an appetite for a professional Spring football league. We're a content-hungry society, with a billion streaming services needed to slake our thirst for entertainment. But, if they're going to get it off the ground, they'll need some sort of hook or gimmick. McMahon is a clown, but he garnered people's attention and eventually their interest. It wouldn't last because he'd be to involved, and eventually be too annoying. But he's the hype man you need to kick off a Spring league.

I mean...

I actually was rather enjoying the XFL this time around, and I think had it not been for the pandemic, it might have actually found its footing. I love the idea of Spring football, so I'm all in on it.

My interpretation is Rhule knows he's not gonna make the team, but he's a good kid, so he's talking him up to help him eventually find a good landing spot with someone else. Steal of the draft.

Glad you enjoyed it! That boat chase at the end got my pulse pounding more than I can ever remember from reading a book.

I believe you've inadvertently gifted us with a very meme-able image.

You know, I've got a good feeling about Sam Darnold and the direction the team is headed. Funny as it sounds, you know, what we all saw on draft day is, you know, the proof that we have a really competent front office for the first time in a while. The fact that they made, you know, the move the get him in the first place, and, you know, leaving potentially starting caliber QBs on the draft board makes me all the more confident that they, you know, the front office thinks we have the QB of the future. And, you know, I don't get the idea that they would pull the trigger on him and, you know, give up that kind of draft capital if they didn't see something they can work with. Regardless of what we, you know, speculate about, or what we see in minicamp, or you know, training camp, if you don't have faith in Darnold, I think, you know, if you believe in the front office and coaching staff, then you have to believe he's the right guy.

Seeing the defensive line filling up with guys with that body type makes me very, very happy.