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White flashing in front is one hell of a distraction. Catchable, but understandable IMO. That said they needed that desperately.

Mahomes is simply amazing.

So the coaching did scheme properly but the players... failed to execute?

Dude is a cheap whiner. Very good player but has shown himself on the field these past years for the Chiefs

Gronk prop betters are cleaning up thus far.

Had he not bobbled it in the first place it would have been a moot point.

Nah. Indifference is a valid play here.

Probably not, because Scot appears to be smarter than I am right now and is wisely avoiding this nonsense.

The owner, just like a bunch of other NFL teams. Truly groundbreaking stuff.

Recognize that Wentz has actually been a quality player in the past and try to be open-minded about him returning to that form or something near it. How much leeway are folks really willing to give this staff/FO at this point?

It's quite fair to not only find someone a great person off the field and lacking on it, but to say as much as well. That said, I don't recall ever hearing of this award. Looks like it's been around since 2014 and Luke also won it in 2017.

Cynicism and lack of support is a symptom of the affliction of poor organizational decisions, Tepper (keeping Ron and Marty too long, Teddy being given the keys, etc.) and fan-favorite players (Olsen and TD contracts, etc) included. Even ignoring the whole '7 winning seasons in 25 years' thing, much goodwill was burned these past years and the fans don't owe the team anything. The talk has been talked, so now comes the walk to win back that support.

Absolutely. It's ignorant at best/disingenuous at worst the way many are portraying things as if Reddit/"Millenials" are solely responsible for the volatility in a few of these stocks and especially how things like the silver nonsense are being attributed.

Jordan Carstens, the Iowa pig farmer.

The biggest gains were last week. There may be some more mini rallys but there's no way that the investors on the short side will be anywhere near the position they got caught in, or at the very least they're sure going to have a lot more hedging, and the retail side has taken too many losses to recapture the momentum necessary. Call me cynical but we now also know that shenanigans can (will?) occur to short-circuit the biggest happenings. Was fascinating to watch while it was happening though. At this point it's sure possible but the original run-up was IMO lightning in a bottle, a perfect storm of over-extension by short-sellers on an undervalued stock getting caught up in an unprecedented wave of retail market participation after the abnormally large gains went mainstream. I'm not sure there was really a single misinformation campaign that could have effectively kicked that whole thing off but folks no doubt found way sot manipulate and capitalize.

The great crash of 2008, smoke screens everywhere...

Sure if SF's willing to take the whole contract off the books but that's my point - why would SF do that? Without the money off the books the only real reason for Carolina to make this trade would seemingly be because all goodwill between Teddy and the team is gone (wouldn't really surprise me at this point) and they aren't confident they'll get 'their guy' this offseason.

I don't see how/why SF takes on Teddy's whole contract hit. That would have to be a specific term of the deal - why would they get an equivalent-at-best QB that is more expensive?

Damage control after they basically publicly (not undeservedly IMO) panned Teddy the final weeks of the season and so far throughout the postseason.

Does Wilson throw to his left?

Came across this article talking about Teddy and the Stafford talks. Can't say that I really agree, and the bolded quote makes me wonder if the guy actually watched any Panthers football this year. https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/teddy-bridgewater-deserves-better-01exev7q3gk2

I see no real upside to this deal for Carolina. Jimmy is a more injured Teddy. That said, if I put a conspiracy hat on one could say that Carolina is perhaps assuming he'll get hurt again, providing a built-in excuse for sucking and getting another great draft pick next year I don't actually think that's the case. Just sayin'.

With respect to valuation I think there was a tangible driver there beyond sentiment but yeah, that driver was by nature fleeting. Those funds got caught but were not going to sit there and be bled in perpetuity. KOSS was another example of the insanity last week. Wish I would have bought into that one for a fast flip.

I think that was always an extreme scenario, but had they not interfered with retail last Thursday things may very well have exploded since it was in arm's reach of $500 a share pre-market. At this point though I think the main circumstances driving that surge have been mitigated (legitimately, illegitimately, or somewhere in between) and while some volatile short-term value can still be had, enough time has passed that the main at-risk parties have sufficiently hedged.

Indeed, and things may have played out quite differently without the chicanery. Will be interesting to see where things ultimately land.