The NFL Shield At Midfield

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

I think you're forgetting about a certain wide receiver we drafted out of Colorado

He went to Canada and had himself a pretty decent career in the CFL. Looks like he was on a roster as recently as 2021, not bad.

The Nebraska fans are going to rip him to shreds if he fails there, as others have pointed out. Overall we have a fairly nascent franchise and our fanbase tends to be fairweather. I'm not surprised some jerks fuged with him or, even worse, his family, but I mean poo probably half the city just shrugged their shoulders at the Panthers sucking and put their Patriots/Giants/Packers/Cowboys beanies on and went about their lives. Now the Huskers, on the other hand, are a fallen blue chip with hardcore fans. They're a program whose history is dotted with undefeated seasons, national titles, and conference championships. In the year 2023, they've had one winning season in eight years. They've been sold Rhule as the man who is going to return them to glory, and from what I've read from the most reliable places imaginable (Twitter, random message boards, Reddit) they're buying it. Good luck Matt.

Meatball Matt, some people are calling him that. Not me, but some people.

"I don't know how it happened, it didn't look like there was much fish there but he just kept handing them out until everybody had some"

^ Juan's always good for it

Because Jim Irsay would be getting kicked out of a Dave and Busters right now if it wasn't for having a rich dad

Ric Flair Field at Dale Earnhardt Memorial Stadium

One thing I wonder about is, whether acting like a little naysaying bitch on the internet ever gets old for some people. Clearly for him it doesn't. On topic though, Cam Peoples. Next question.