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Turf strikes again. BC's foot got caught on the turf as Chubba was tackled into his leg.

Both very average.

I honestly think it's still angst from Rhule's time here combined with the shitty offseason the Hornets put together. Hiring back a loser coach we fired, punting the 13th pick, and signing no one really stunk things up for the fanbase. Then Rhule destroying the culture and running our football franchise into the ground while being brought back for a 3rd srason he shouldn't have even sniffed because we all knew he was in over his head... Us as fans, knowing both our football and basketball teams were going into shitty seasons because of shitty leadership and piss poor decisions by our front offices really bubbled up a ton of apathy, anger, and venom towards our teams. A lot of our respective fanbases have never felt more hopeless. I think that's where it's coming from.

Was Burns injured?

I think this "lacks killer instinct" stuff and "good, not great," and "solid #2" lacks some serious perspective. Was Magic the killer MJ and Kobe were? Could he have won a championship with the supporting cast Melo had had? Absolutely not. What about LeBron? Nope. He is a top-tier NBA superstar. A lot of people are jumping to these proclamations in a season in which our dumbass organization hired the coach they previously fired, in part for his archaic offense and outlook on the game, as well as his lack of meaningful development of young players during his time here previously. A season which we were blindsided by Miles DV case which resulted in our second best player, a borderline, burgeoning all-star caliber player, being absent from the team, likely for the season. A season in which Melo has been injured twice for a significant amount of time. A season in which the team essentially threw their hands up in the offseason after the Miles issues, and did nothing but punt a lottery pick for nothing, draft a big that'll rarely ever play or develop under the retread coach they brought back, and then signed scraps off the heap that were left the month before the season started. So, what exactly did you expect him to do with this roster, coach, and loser ass organization we have on a season in which they chose not to compete? You should be grateful to have him, imo, because it's one of those things where you don't know what you have until it's gone. Melo is charismatic, a young star, and the straw that stirs the drink kind of guy who other players love to play with... you want him here. Now, if we could just get the talent around him to allow him to fully play to his potential. And don't hold your breath for Victor W... even if we finish dead last, the NBA is not giving us that top pick. It'll be another Anthony Davis situation. They'll find another franchise that has a more favorable FO and coach in place where he'll get more exposure. And finally, look at Giannis' and Lebron's history with Melo. That tells you all you need to know about what his peers consider him. He needs fuging help. Period.

Isn't Marc also the guy that said Tepper loved Demeco Ryan's a week ago?

I hope they do, and that would be the perfect hire. Also hope they do it to further validate Brian Flores. Ross is a fuging imbecile.

Him and Steph are the two guys I have proudly cited that in each of their drafts, before they took place, I said I would trade whatever capital was required to move up and get them, and I still stand by that, obviously.

Careful walking around with that Hot Take there, bro.

Man this world is full of idiots. No reason for Tee to feel any responsibility or guilt on what was a very routine play for any given football game when the injury occurred. I keep thinking back, for further reference of just how crazy the game is and how rare that injury is, is the fact I remember when Steve McNair got hit and broke his fuging sternum. Like how would that not have caused something like this? And yet it didn't. Or like Mo Lewis' hit on Bledsoe that started the Brady Era. He hit him in the chest and literally almost killed him (i believe from internal bleeding)... but it didn't cause cardiac arrest. Yet, this play was very mild compared to all of them, but again, if it was commotio cortis, it was the timing in which the impact happened withing Hamlin's heartbeat cycle. Their odds of what happened actually happening were probably smaller than being struck by lightning... just a very unlucky situation to find themselves in. And yet, very lucky it happened when it where it did for Hamlin.

https://youtu.be/8XFvjkjZkqM

Beautiful. Love to hear it. And that is wild that he does indeed remember it considering how early it happened in the game, too. I read a story in the local news in Raleigh yesterday about a kid that had suffered commotio cordis as a senior in HS after getting hit in the chest with the ball during a lacrosse game and he said all he remembered after recovering was getting to school and getting ready pre-game. Love to hear he is cognitively and neurological intact.

I understand that, and feel the focus should stay on Damar as well. And I understand he was given tryouts later, but that was after the NFL tried to save face and created that coalition of handpicked guys for race-issues to co-opt what Kaep started, well after the fact. My feeling was they did initially blackball him and then quietly kind of pulled back the repeal after some time had passed and it wouldn't be likely he would make a team based off the fact that he hadn't been on a field in 2 or 3 years. It's just what I speculate from seeing everything from the outside and knowing how corrupt the NFL is. Remember how pissed off Eric Reid was with Malcolm Jenkins? IIRC, he insinuated that those coalition guys basically sold out and took hush money to make the NFL come out of it looking like they did the right thing. I will NEVER give them the benefit of the doubt. And I didn't even mention all of the crap they let go on with Snyder. They are just morally bankrupt and disgusting, corrupt, evil people. My hope is Damar can make a full recovery and live a normal, happy, healthy, productive life beyond the NFL after this, because once he's healthy again, they may promote him for a bit and have him do some appearances for their PR poo, but he's not vested and once the spotlight calms down, the NFL will treat him as just another number and try to sweep him under the rug... because to them, contractually, he is not their responsibility post-injury - and him having suffered this episode playing their game, he should be.

Oh, people can bet their ass that story is coming. I guarantee it. We all have seen it in plain sight, ESPECIALLY us as Panther fans.

For those of us who haven't been following along page by page, has there been anything else since he told that Charlotte-based media source that he prolly will be back at Michigan next season?

Little Ford Ranger energy.

He definitely grew a lot as a player after his time here, and I truly enjoy watching him play now, when he has. And yes, that was quite the classy move. But I also want to take this opportunity to share how what just took place there was so characteristic of Ron as a HC. I'm telling you, had it not been for Cam, his career win% would be hovering somewhere around .350. All they had to do was win and Ron decides to start Wentz over the guy that took them on that run to even get them in contention. Wentz proceeds to lay a fat egg against a dysfunctional team that was already well out of the playoff picture long ago as they are starting a serial sexual predator they gave up a king's ransom for and then paid the most guaranteed money in league history to, all coming off a essentially a two-year stretch of having not even been on a football field. And THEY LOST. Then, Ron admits after the game that he didn't know losing to them and the Packers winning would eliminate them that night. And THEY WERE ELIMINATED. Then he tries to go back to Heinicke, now post-elimination. So glad to be beyond that now... but I'll tell you, I saw a clip from after their game Sunday, and even their broadcast team was absolutely raging and demanding a complete reset. Something you would never hear or see here... I dont think Ron makes it out of this offseason.

Maybe just a little.

The same league that found copious amounts of evidence that exposed their budding dynasty at the time had cheated their way to multiple superbowl championships by recording other teams' practices and essentially having their entire gameplans as a result (including against us), so Goodell went to their offices, confiscated the tapes, then had his goons stomp them into pieces and bury them in an undisclosed location like they were Jimmy Hoffa? That league? The same league that saw the tape of Ray Rice hitting his wife with a haymaker so vicious that it would hospitalize most grown men and decided he would just sit out a game or two because they were the only ones that saw it, so no harm, no foul... until the tape leaked to the public and the outrage was justifiably so intense that all of a sudden, they decided it actually warranted a season-long suspension, him being released, and then being essentially blackballed from ever playing in the league again. That league? The same league that sat by quietly for years after player after player got popped for DV issues and they would just sweep it under the rug? The same league that allowed an environment to fester where Jovan Belcher could go kill the mother of his children, show up to the team facility and then blow his brains out as if there were no signs leading up to it? That league? The same league that allowed our team to ride on our MVP QBs back with the #1 offense to the Superbowl in 2015, and then decided that Peyton Manning riding off into the sunset with a second championship was a better storyline so they rigged the game with inentionally horrible officiating and gave it to the Broncos. Then after the game, in a moment I've never seen before or since, they have our QB, after just losing the biggest game of his life, mostly because he was never given a fair chance to compete, sit in an open corridor and do his post game interview and ask him what it feels like while they have Chris Harris from the Broncos 10 feet away from him bragging loudly about how they just shut him down... so loud that he actually was drowning Cam out of his own presser. Then that same league spent the next season and a half allowing teams to openly hunt Cam with blatant headshots and egregious attempts to concuss him, twist and contort him, and knock him out of games because they couldn't stop him within legal means. And the NFL was 100% okay with that. That league? The same league that quietly blackballed Kaepernick for expressing his opinions about social justice, equality, equity, and police brutality - while simultaneously deciding to double down on fakeness and force teams to participate in public gestures of police support and standing for anthems seemingly in response to Kaepernick's stated issues. That league? The same league that sat by for decades knowing their game was causing irreversible damage to its athletes, leading many to chronic illness, debilitating conditions, brain damage, declining mental health, and even death? The same league that buried and suppressed the research linking the game to those issues? The same league that sat on their hands while countless player after player committed suicide or harmed others after dealing with those health issues with no help from the league for years, all while the commish and his owner buddies counted their cash? The same league that fought the players' association tooth and nail over giving many of those retired and ill-stricken vets that built their cash cow any tangible, significant benefits or help? That league. Oh. Color me surprised. Goodell has ZERO morals, ethics, or any intestinal fortitude. The owners either. This is simply a money-making endeavor for them, and the players are nothing more than a means to that end to them. So you damn well better believe they tried to start that game up, regardless of what they say. They only care about the optics after the fact. Just like with all those other situations, Ray Rice in particular, if they can skirt by with their actions and no one calls them on it, they absolutely will do what is best for the bottom line and the bottom line only. Hamlin to them, in that moment, was no different than a warehouse employee who had a heart attack... they wanted him out of the way and to get on with business as usual. They are disgusting. Period.

Smart man. Our division is up for the taking and in a huge season of upheaval and turnover. It is just begging for a team to get their poo together and run it up for the next decade, and I'd say we're in a prime position to do so. But I'm NGL. I don't know to feel about Jim this time around. I was pounding the table for Harbaugh when he was at Stanford. And he did amazing things while a HC in the league, buy there are just some things ilaicne he's been at Michigan that are a bit off-putting to me. Idk why, I just feel a little less warm on him this time around. But, I would be excited for the hire. I think I just watched a interview with Delanie Walker a couple weeks ago and he said everyone loved Harbaugh in SF. When they brought him up, his whole demeanor changed... kind of like the same type of "I'd run through a wall for that guy" thing that Wilks has, but only an offensive-minded version, which is exactly what I want for us.

Wasn't watching live, because after we lost yesterday I just kind of zoned football out, but then I logged on Facebook and saw some posts and it seemed like much more concern than usual for an injury. From the stuff I saw posted, I figured it was a neck injury, so I googled it and saw it on Twitter almost immediately after and it was absolutely horrifying to watch. So scary to see. Prayers for complete healing and restoration for Hamlin. I really hope he's able to recover and live a long, healthy, fully functional life. Also, the NFL handled it exactly as I would expect. Complete dirtbags that treat their players as nothing more than prized cattle. Disgusting.

This. Ryans may have his own style, and may be more aggressive, but by and large, DCs are generally the same in their approach to the game. And again, the issue with hiring a DC and him getting a rockstar OC is if the OC is any good, he won't be here very long and you'll have to start all over again with your scheme and philosophy offensively, which is much harder to do than on the defensive side. I'm just tired of it. We need to dictate the game on the offensive side first. And for those saying Ryans is different, everyone was salivating over Salah for years. And I believe he is a great coach, but he is struggling with the same issues that every DC ruined HC had and does. Their offense lacks direction and identity and he seems in over his head because they haven't figured that out - namely a QB and a quality OC. He has the same connections Ryans would have. And again, ever wonder why innovators of the defensive game like Buddy Ryan, Jim Johnson, and Dick LaBeau were never superstar HCs? There are certain limitations inherent to the defensive background. No thank you.

If we let Wilks go just to hire Ryans, I will be done. What's the point? We need an OC. Period. Another DC will just bring more of the same problems we have always had with DCs. I like both Wilks and Ryans, and in any other year 10 years ago, I'd be ecstatic for either, but I do NOT want another DC.

I want them to zip it unless they've sat through the struggles and failures that come with a defensive head coach over the last 27 years (not counting Seifert because, why would we?) I know Ellis has, and he isn't necessarily vouching for him, but I just am not in the mood for the moral victories and platitudes bullshit from anyone right now. It's the same poo every year. Again, I really like Wilks. I am rooting for him and will continue to do so, but I want him to get that opportunity elsewhere. He should absolutely be a HC in the league, but after today, it just reminded me of all the issues that have plagued us for far too long. He has done an amazing job in leading these men from the dysfunction we were mired in under Rhule, but we need an infusion of offense and we need it to be the thing we hang our hat on moving forward. Yes, we need to maintain a hard-nosed, dmashmouth defense as well, but you can find someone to do that easier year in and year out than you can a stable hand to lead the offensive scheme and philosophy.

And for all the praise I've given him from his early season performance, imagine if we could actually get pressure up the middle with Derrick Brown. It doesn't even have to be a bookend for Burns... in fact, most of the best passers in the league struggle the most with interior pressure. We get absolutely zero push outside of Burns or bringing an extra blitzer from wide.