Gapanthersfan

A lineman that can backup both center and LT is worth his weight in gold. Those are 2 of the most crucial positions in the team. Please retain Brady. Hunt’s mentorship of Ickey is, and will continue to pay off in spades. In the next 1-2 years, he’ll be a top 5 LT. Mark it 8, dude.

I have 2 male cats: a 16 lb and an 18 lb. Both good mannered and tolerate each other most of the time, until something makes big guy nervous…. And he makes THAT noise. The low pitched someone’s world is about to get f-ed up. Inevitably, the 2 go at each other in a terrifying fury that you have to witness to appreciate. I idiotically got in the middle a couple weeks ago and in a blur I had 3 5” slashes on my leg and a nasty puncture on my thumb (that mo fo hurt worse than when I smashed my face in the corner of my dresser). When cats fight, you literally don’t even see the shots, you just see balls of fur flying. I don’t want to find out what that x30 would be capable of. Imagine a 500-600 lb mongoose.

anyone who has ever seen the fury and speed of a house cat when things go sideways understands why the cat is the alpha predator on this planet. A male bengal tiger is 10’ long and over 600 lbs. claws and canines can be 4” long. They can flat jump 15’ in the air. The grizzly would be completely shredded and/or bit it the face or throat. It has the power to drag a water buffalo. It’d be over quickly. So lion vs bengal tiger? Tiger is faster, lion in more broad and powerful. Siberian tiger is over 700 lbs, but that’s not an option. I respect the size and ferocity of the grizzly but you’ve got to take the tiger in 8 out of 10 fights. Lion vs tiger… not sure.

The Brown and Luvu combination covered up a lot of the stink that is this defense. The games that Horn played… I guess when 3 borderline all-pro talents are on the field at the same time, you look better than you truly are.

For a first time GM being dealt 2 7 offsuit and having Tepper as an owner? In one offseason he has solved (hopefully) our o line disaster and made games at least watchable. Draft and offseason brought in some very promising young talent. 3 promising rookie pass catchers??! He got something for mingo. Mike Jackson for peanuts. He has avoided an OMG WHY?!! Type of move. He signed our homegrown RB, and actually got him to stay, for reasonable coin. Overall positive moves. He’ll have a chance to hire his own DC in the offseason and hopefully convince Tepp to go back to a 4-3. So positions in most need: QB, D line, LB. That’s not too shabby. If we get a solid DC, go heavy in the draft on drafting DLine and roll with a bridge veteran QB, this team could be surprisingly competitive. It seems so far that he has an eye for talent. T would never of signed off on Harbaugh or Payton, so we got Canales. I can’t put that on him. Being a former player, he understands intimately, locker room culture. Players universally respect him. He knows problem children. Signing Chuba showed that we retain ‘our’ type of guys. I think he has done an admirable job, all things considered. We knew it would be a bad year, but telling me in the offseason that we’d be set on the offense except for QB? I’d still be laughing.

This. This year wasn’t a good look on his (Evero) resume, but he may be a better manager (head coach) than a true play caller.

I am the walrus.

I decided to browse how 4 consistently good teams drafted in 2023: Ravens: 3 of 7 picks on lineman Steelers: 3 of 7 Chiefs: 4 of 7 Packers: 2023 draft was weird but their 2022 draft: 6 of 11. Line. It’s how it’s done.

Maybe he goes to ATL….

The post game interviews with Deion might go longer than with the actual coach because he is such an attention whore. It’s truly a disaster in the making that the media will salivate over. God help the moment anything starts going bad for the team. So much of this is eminently predictable. Tepper, please, do not seek the treasure. It’s bushwacked.

The consistently good franchises restock linemen with every draft. They have depth. They don’t have to pray that this one guy works out and that he doesn’t get injured. It’s a frequently injured position and without depth, a single injury can tank a season. It’ll be easily exposed. Backup DT can’t play the run? Rut roh raggy. Backup LT doesn’t do well with the speed rush? Sounds like 3rd and a mile all day long. Stronger lines make skill position players look better than they really are. Teams with bad lines with bad depth almost never make deep playoff runs and they don’t win SBs. Using valuable capital in rounds 2-5 and taking linemen who aren’t necessarily positions of need… Wins championships.

I’m not convinced he’s as hot a commodity as he is being hyped to be. Every team in the league knows that it’s a package deal with him and his dad. I kind of feel sorry for the kid in that regard. Deion may actually end up costing his kid money by knocking his draft position. Sounds like a murder - suicide for a GM and coach.

The older I get, the more frequently I find my justly applied cynicism… validated. It felt like a blind man was giving me a vasectomy with a pair of bolt cutters.

Yep. Kind of what I felt like it was heading towards.

I-ran Mike Timus? Sounds like substitute teacher day

Y’all having buffering occasionally as well?

I’m trying to fade the overpowering sense that this is a farce and I’m being played. I really appreciate the commentary from former boxers, but the entertainers who don’t know poo from shinola… give me a break. This is slow torture. my chance of satiation at the conclusion of all of this is dropping by the minute.

Do Not Want. I genuinely feel sorry for the head coach of whatever team gets stuck with him. Helicopter dad with star power? No thanks.

The recipe over the last 5 years: 1. draft a guy with high athletic ability at a position of need. 2. play him out of his natural position because you have a big hole to fill. 3. watch him struggle. 4. let a young and promising talent grow depressed and apathetic because a God forsaken franchise is ruining what he has busted his ass his entire life to achieve. The only reason Luke moved to the middle was because Beason got hurt. Think about that. It’s complete arrogance of the coaching staff to tell a player where he’s better suited… or the mark of a desperate team who drafts out of need. This is what happens to teams that draft poorly and have no depth. Constantly working from behind and drafting for need.

I’m not sure the timeframe on a sprained thumb, but, maybe Andy getting the start after the bye? Loyalty has to be to the team. Not Bryce. Coach and Dan have to show the players that they got their backs. Everyone knows Bryce is not the future so don’t waste everyone’s time.

And the old boys club in the NFL, or Jerry would still be here, for better or worse. but yeeeah, Tepper’s fingerprints on everything that has failed.

I back Cam, but I’d like to know the whole picture. Hardly anything is just 100% someone else’s fault.

That has to be the fastest giant I’ve ever seen. He is gigantic.

We are the Brooklyn Brawler (for those who remember WWF from the 90s) of the NFL. He was allowed to have brief periods of success here and there to keep him relevant, but mostly he was fodder to be done with however McMahon pleased.

Guys who are not driven for football greatness frequently check out after their big payday comes. They have elite ability which carried them. But They are not true leaders. Losing is ok as long as ‘I got mine.’ It only takes signing one of these dudes to cost a GM and coach their jobs. Robert Hunt plays like he’s still in college. Horn plays like he’s still in college. Chuba plays like he’s still in college. Brown, same thing. Losing is not ok, especially to these dudes. attitude is infectious; it goes both ways. It also helps that all 3 are top 5 in the NFL at their respective positions (who would have thought?). They walk the walk. This is the core that grooms the rookies on ‘how to be a professional.’ This is our nucleus. This is also why we have to retain Horn. Dan is building a nucleus. Guys like this don’t just come along and happen in to your lap every day. He is building a team in his image. Previously, we’ve overdrafted tweeners based off combine results and signed oft injured big name has beens who look at us as a retirement home. Dan is bringing in and retaining true football players. Finally we can have something nice… hopefully. Dan didn’t just bring in a guard. He brought in Robert Hunt. Bad M’fer.