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tweet says Carolina sports legend. That's all I was going off of.

Dang, not sure I can come up with 18 Carolina legends. Probably got to go retro and throw some college jerseys in the mix. Which would be awesome. Hit some of them ACC basketball guys.

Rhule really says too much at times when trying to play mum. He over talks.

Rhule said the WRs and OL would all have to be a go...for us to see Sam for a series or two. There was nothing about the presser that makes you think Sam sees the field IMO. I think rookies and fringe starters could see some work.

Sam Darnold won't play.

I don’t think they will be good. But two thoughts. - no sure it will be good but that O will look drastically different with Hurts - I feel Bill is out for blood this year. That Brady Championship coupled with his season are going to have the Pats overachieving this year. I think Bill is super locked in this season.

Can you get cut in the middle of a preseason game?

I’m not sure that analogy is as strong as you think it is.

Well, Joe Flacco belongs in a retirement home. So it is tough to gauge. Would liked to of seen what Hurts is looking like these days. I’ve always been a fan of his given how well he handled adversity in college. I do think the Bama WR is going to be nasty pending no one breaks him in half.

Fun fact from Bomani who is about to get people worked up on Twitter with this thinking out loud about what one should look at when considering where players rank/HOF only 31 RBs in the NFL history….have more rushing TDs. If he plays this year, that will cut to 20 something.

Some nice work by Cam. Moved well in the pocket. Some good balls. Think his play action looks noticeably better in NE Bill cutting that kicker

I love Cam. He looks done. But I hope he doesn’t go out with Mac Jones taking his job out the gate. hope the football gods can just give Cam one break

Dak was on pace to throw for like 20,000 yards though before injury. I get he is a better athlete. But Dalton looked he had never seen a NFL field for big chunks of the year, It was shocking how bad he looked IMO. it was a pretty dramatic difference. I don’t fault Dalton for not winning as the D wasn’t good but….not sure a OL shakeup can explain Dalton last year. I just don’t see Dalton being to hold off the Fields train. Bears went to the playoffs with Mitch last year. They can ease Fields in

Trevor is competing with Menshew for the starting gig right now. This time during Cam’s career he was battling Jimmy Jam to earn the starting spot. Coaches talk a certain way. based on the word from those following Bears world….there just doesn’t seem to be a way for Dalton to hold Fields off long. Gotta think by midseason it will be Fields’ team. And Dalton was horrible last year with absurd talent around him.

Imagine if those Jets teams he played on had simply gone out and rented a good veteran QB. Those were some really strong teams. Talk about a wasted window.

hey, at least Rhule can get some actual crowd noise for his O to work with. He talked about having to create some artificial noise today to practice with. Every 4th seat gonna have some idiot with a yellow towel in them.

I don't really have any interest in that debate right now. Was really just giving you a heads up that I thought the thread title was misleading. I think if you wanted to catch the starters, the Pitt game really seems to be the one the starters will all show up in.

if you show up at BOA thinking you are going to see the starting units this weekend.....I would think you might be disappointed. Thread title IMO is a tad misleading based on what Matt Rhule actually said.

I don't think the people, this time last year, that said Teddy had been a checkdown QB his entire career and was really a backup at this point......were rooting for him to fail. It was just acknowledging what Teddy had proven to be as a QB in the NFL and not expecting life to be different here. Think a lot of that is at the heart of what some call "wanting Darnold to fail". I'll be rooting for him to destroy the Jets come week 1 with the best game of his career for a little 89 blood and guts revenge. But I really just feel he will be a variation of what he has always been in the NFL.

if a NFL player keeps screwing up in camp. I think the best punishment is too send him to the sidelines and let all the guys who are dying for reps take his for awhile. And then you keep sending him back to the sidelines. Best "punishement".....is the threat of losing your job and your professional stock taking hits IMO. It's professional sports. And you are dealing with a bunch of grown men who for most part know what a business oriented world it actually is in the NFL. Most know exactly how disposable they are and can be treated. The overwhelming majority of the league isn't CMC.

it's a textbook example of why people knock college coaches and the struggles they have when it comes to million dollar professionals and college kids IMO. BUT.....I think it is a great idea for the huddle. Instead of calling them bans. We can call them trips to the DBO sign. Takes about a week to get to the sign and back.

I think there are only 3 teams that have elected to stack back to back weeks scrimmaging other teams in this preseason game schedule. Panthers, Jets, and Eagles. But the other two are using the back end of the preseason schedule. Rhule and company are brand new at managing a real preseason schedule. It was all cancelled last year. Could be decent odds he might not do this again. I'm sure when all is said and done....he will take a lot from his first preseason. He probably will end up echoing similar things Ron did about the value of former NFL coaches being on the team.

Yes, but per Rhule them being available would be part of the criteria to see Darnold.

The huddle exist in part to argue bad football takes until the cows come home. if you can’t do that without name calling you are going to get a vacation. That’s the overdue warning.

his presser is up on Panther social media. Hard to listen to it and think you are going to get a look at Sam IMO this week. Reporter followed up on the criteria and he specially mentioned that being who he would throw to after they brought up Erving. And playing Moore and Robby doesn’t make sense with them nursing those type issues. but I think we see Horn and some fringe starters. Wouldn’t be surprised if he puts the healthy part of the D out there for a series vs would should be a mild group of Ravens.