The NFL Shield At Midfield

lmao it never gets old, David Tepper is a silly clown. Please keep posting this

The only logical conclusion that can be drawn is that Ickey Ekownu has forgotten how to play football between January and August of the year of our Lord 2023

This is without Aaron Rodgers and the power of his healing crystals and copy of Atlas Shrugged on his bookshelf and the guidance of Joe Rogan FYI

Really wish I wouldn't have bet my house on the Panthers winning the Super Bowl this year

He looked poised and is an extremely fast decision maker. Keep his jersey clean and we have nothing to worry about.

I'm literally shaking right now, I don't see how we win a single game this season

Obviously all 22 isn't available but that didn't look like jack poo on that PI

I was a freshman at App State the year we won our first FCS (then I-AA) national title with Richie Williams, and then the next year I think Trey Elder got one start with Armanti taking over permanently after that. Every time he had the ball in his hands it felt like you were about to see something unbelievable. Buuuut then he got to the NFL, where everybody is like that. And most of them played against way better college competition than he did. Those were long odds not even considering he was playing a new position.

I looked it up and it was in fact Jeremy Leman I was thinking of. My memory was a little off though as he was a Panther in 2009 and then bounced around the league for a few years. As far as I can tell, though, he never compiled an NFL stat. I remember when we drafted Mayo and you're right, he actually got a fair amount of snaps here. He's still in the league too. Was Boulware the guy who was like "yeah at the bottom of the pile I like to shove my finger in dudes' asses" or was that someone else. If that was him, that's the only thing I remember about him.

I forget the guy's name but he was a middle linebacker with a blonde mullet in the 2010s. Classic "sneaky athletic gym rat great kid from a great family nonstop motor" type player who was just all over the field. I don't think he ever played a snap in a regular season game.

I'd imagine the Texans reddit is having a fun night right about now

I remember Cam looking raw but completely fearless and like he belonged. idk I was a recent college grad that had moved cities and was in like week 2 of my first big boy job, it's all a blur

Rookie QB getting his first NFL action against Bill Belichick RIP in peace

hoo boy

Yeah Von, we know

Yeah this is why "would (insert year) Alabama team beat (insert worst team in the NFL)?" is at best just a thought exercise. They're almost like two different sports.

Players who are physical freaks with every measurable on earth end up getting dumpstered when they get to the NFL every single year. Guys drafted by Scott Fitterer are no exception, and afaik Deonte Brown was kind of a middle-late round dart throw who got drafted because he's huge. The step up from even the top college programs to the pros is exponential, and he might just not be able to hack it. Sucks but hopefully he's been smart with what he made on his rookie contract.

That wasn't terrible. He's obviously not tone deaf but there were a ton of flat notes. Oh well, singing is fuging hard and a lot more physical than people think. I couldn't do better.

I was waiting to finally see this. Bojangles got acquired by a private equity firm a few years ago and their CEO recently said something about "wanting to get out of the chicken business" and "into the experience business". I had read an article somewhere that they were going to start opening restaurants without bone-in chicken. So there we go. It's so stupid. Bojangles had a simple formula: you go into some dingy dimly lit restaurant with wood paneling everywhere and you sit at a rickety table and eat greasy fried chicken and biscuits and drink sweet tea and then you go home and irradiate your toilet. I guess there aren't enough business press buzzwords that can be affixed to that so somebody had to go fug it up.

After Matt Rhule I would have taken him in Carolina in a second. I guarantee his acting like a dick running up the score on a beaten opponent with his Zoolander facial expression pacing the sidelines would have been a lot more charming if he was wearing process blue while doing it. That said, in the real world, yeah fug sending multiple high picks to the Saints for him. I'm much happier with where the chips fell for the Panthers.

They should have stuck with Washington Football Team. That was a unique name in the NFL and is something they could have built on.

I just referenced Bradford because iirc he signed the richest rookie deal in league history. I think that was the last year before the rookie wage scale.

The version of "Bleed The Freak" from this is one of my favorite AiC tracks

The rookie wage scale and fifth year option is one of the few recent developments in the NFL that is actually pretty good and makes the game better imo. High picks get their guaranteed money while the teams that drafted them aren't hamstrung with Sam Bradford type rookie deals.

Bojangles was acquired by private equity a few years ago. I think their dumbass CEO was quoted recently that he wanted to "get out of the chicken business" and "into the experience business". imo Bojangles hasn't been good since they had ashtrays on every table