1of10Charnatives

I have never used twitter in my life and I'm convinced my life is better that way. Also yes on game days you'll notice I'm never on here til after the games. I enjoy the debate and discussion that goes on here, but not during the actual game. My friends even know not to call or text about the game before halftime.

Because you're watching the games in 1993 without DVR capability that will let you pause while you take your break, and then catchup after with FF? I haven't watched halftime or a commercial of any Panthers games in years. If kickoff is at 1, I start watching at 2. That's 17 hours a year of my life I get back from corporate america and whatever chuckleheads are doing the halftimes these days.

Dalton's a 12 year veteran on a new team, in a new offense, with receivers he's never thrown to. He needs the snaps to develop timing and chemistry with his new teammates. Dalton is likely to see the field at some point this season. Corral should only see the field in a worst case disaster scenario (any scenario where you're playing your day 2, second year 3rd string qb is by definition a disaster). This team has a new coaching staff, rookie qb and FA backup that are both new to the team, and multiple FA receivers expected to be mainstays. Every available snap should be invested in preparing said group, who are going to be on the field, to play together. But go ahead, keep insisting that it's a good idea to invest finite snaps in a longshot whose odds of ever making a meaningful contribution to an NFL team history says are minute at best. While we're at it, let's bring back David Gettis. I really don't think he got a fair shot the first time around. He might have something to contribute. We should get him a uniform and some reps.

Thank you for skimming the first sentence of my post and then responding without reading the rest of it, where I addressed injuries. If you're going to respond to a post, please read the whole post. It wasn't even a long one.

I'll do you one better. Why in the world does the NFL insist demanding that every game, each team must designate seven players, all of whom are under contract, being paid, and presumably practiced and attended meetings just like all their teammates, who cannot participate in the game? Forget just the 3rd string qb, the whole concept of the inactive list has always struck me as pointless. Yes the NFL has injuries, lots of them, but since the inactive list doesn't alter your overall roster size in any way, it's still 53, it serves no useful purpose.

Not strange. You have a finite number of snaps. Those limited snaps can be divided any way you choose to prepare the number one pick in the draft (whom you mortgaged a meaningful chunk of future draft capital to get) for his rookie season as you anticipate he will be the face of your franchise for the foreseeable future. Every snap that goes to Corral is a snap of preparation Young will not have. It's not that Corral can't be developed, it's that organizational priorities rightly regard developing him as a low enough priority in the grand scheme of things that his share of the finite snaps should be trivial. None of this is any comment on Corral's potential beyond the obvious fact he's a third round drafted qb in his second year who looked god awful in the only action he's seen to date. HIs ceiling and odds of success are extremely low compared to Young, therefore he shouldn't be invested in through finite snaps. Arguments to the contrary fly in the face of the weight of historical evidence regarding later round drafted qb's vs number one picks. No one is a guaranteed success, but the number one pick has far greater odds than any random third rounder, so that's where your focus is as an organization. Nothing strange to see here.

This is where you lost me. Unrelated: has anyone seen 4Corners lately?

You're suggesting that the Number one pick in the draft, the player currently by a wide margin most likely to be the face of the franchise for the next decade if all goes well, should get fewer reps so that a former third round pick who has endured less than optimal conditions be given " a fair chance"? I am fine with him getting any meaningless exhibition game snaps that Young and Dalton don't need to get ready for the season, which should be zero, otherwise no. Making sure Corral gets a fair shake is not my priority as a fan, winning is, and the odds of this improving the teams wins are long indeed.

Couldn't decide between these two responses: A) Apparently not. B) Giselle, is that you?

I stopped with the NBA because of stretch 4's, one and dones being half the rosters, so I never knew the kids from college ball, and the new work requirement that everyone be covered in tattoos all the time. Okay the last one I just threw in to make myself look even older and crotchetyier. I don't really care that much about tats, but a league full of "power forwards" that all average about five rebounds a game makes my stomach turn. The NFL feels like it's very much trying to go down a similar path of making me not care.

Yeah...No. You're not in the HOF discussion with zero rings, and your only SB appearance was the biggest choke of all time. You're just not.

Preach it brother.

Part of the reason could be we actually ask them to tackle more than most teams. Deon was amazing with his ball skills, and despite playing two sports, he was healthy most of his career, but if you go back and watch, he actually shied away from contact and tackling a LOT.

I loved that he had an immediate reply to pretty much every question. The kind of questions you're going to get asked at your first press conference after your first practice with the team are pretty predictable, so to some extent, as a player if you plan ahead mentally, you know what you're going to say. However the quick responses also lend credence to the notion of a sharp mind that can process the information rapidly and come up with a cogent answer. Came across as a focused young man and a straight shooter who doesn't have to think up his bs answer for a moment after the question. (Like many coaches I could think of) My only nitpick is a a little more time in the NFL and more media savy training from teammates and he'll drop the uh and you know verbal pauses, otherwise the young man was on point.

God's Waiting Room™ also it's not part of the South, legally it's a suburb of New Jersey.

I found myself watching this video not just for the commentary, but just to see if the kid's voice would ever break. Puberty is awkward.

So many NSFW spam ads have claimed.

Did he bulk up to 6'3" from some other height? I'd love to bulk up to 6'3"

The only thing I disagree with in this post is the notion that a lack of intelligent insight and analysis by national pundits is shocking. If you've been paying attention over time, and NAS I'm pretty sure you have, it's not shocking. It's expected.

but with meaningfully fewer assets than yesterday.....

it is what it is has to be the most quintessential bit of coachspeak of all time. i'm opening my mouth, and noises are coming out, and the noises even form words, but i'm not saying anything.

The thing to keep in mind is that while your statement is true, any QB will not be stepping into an offense dripping with talent and needing only himself as the last piece. A quality O-line appears to be in place, but offensive weapons are hard to point to, thus how much we gave up in trade matters in whether we hit on the qb or not, becuase that qb's long term success will depend to some degree on surrounding him with talent, and the more you give up in trade, the fewer assets you have to do that with.

Yeah, honestly I just hate giving up that much draft capital no matter what, but i'll admit, it's not nearly as bad as it could have been, and if the pick pans out, it'll be completely worth it. Cautious optimism might be a bridge too far to describe my reaction, but i'm at least hopeful, and the quality of the assembled coaching staff bolsters that hope to make good on this move.

I agree with this idea in the sense that this weird notion of "true number one WR" doesn't seem to correlate very strongly at all with deep playoff success, wheras qb play correlation is so obvious even Jerome Boger couldn't get it wrong. Okay it's Boger, he'd probably still find a way to screw it up despite all evidence to the contrary, but you get my point.

I suspect the reason we didn't have to pay through the nose to move up is twofold: 1. Chicago was in the unusual position of having the first pick while having recently drafted a qb prospect they still have some confidence in. 2. The league wide consensus view is none of the QB prospects in this draft project as perennial pro bowlers. There's just not the excitement over them as a group or any one of them as an individual that creates a bidding war for that top pick.