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If he is what they think he is we are in great shape.

He was big loss.

We should be able to see plenty in preseason this time. I might even watch. This isn’t like watching Jake Plummer. At last I hope and think it’s not.

Plus, where is his 13-3 near MVP type season that got Darnold the Seattle deal?

The forum format has not been surpassed for organized and compartmentalization (of) discussions that could run on in a thread for years.

I am talking about this year and not picking up the option. We pretty much lost that option because of what I referred to in that post. edit: where we sit now, I couldn’t imagine anything over a Darnold deal like the Seahawks gave out. 33 mil a year on a short term extension. If he doesn’t really seriously up his game and our W-L record. He ain’t carrying this team and shouldn’t be paid like he is that guy.

I am just remember a little by reading through this and looking back. I think pantherfanz had a bus. Like a small bus all decked out for tailgates. Short bus. Someone else may come along and straighten me out or confirm. edit: the death timeline matches up, it wasn’t a real long time after the first Jake season that he passed. Couple of years sounds right.

Honestly I am not sure Pickett couldn’t step in for him. But I don’t see a clear easy upgrade and we are not KC with Alex Smith we are a team that hadn’t done poo for almost ten years and just made the playoffs. And looked good in the game. That stadium atmosphere on that day…. you know Tepper ate that poo up. Not one drink has been thrown in a while. You had better make sure if you replaced him after that that you had a sure fire upgrade.

Oh, and Kraft.. another example of leadership affecting the team top to bottom. Multiple examples over the years in that organization. He is just not a man of integrity. Don’t expect hm to hold Vrabel accountable, the coach is giving him results and that is what he values over all else.

Look at the grades for 2023 lol. I think as a fan you make your own grade and the week after a draft, all you can do is go by if you think they did logical stuff and made good decisions. You have to know that even the best make many wrong choices on college players and how they will project. And accept it.

Here is where I think you are off. WTF does what he did in college or where he was drafted have anything to do with how he plays 4 years into the league? Now, where he was drafted Does keep him on the team but it should have nothing to do with his next contract. Ancient history. And he was a very up and down 8-9 including playoffs. Mostly down to be honest, by top half of the league standards. You don’t give that top of the market. It would be much different if the team put nothing around him, and he carried them to 8-9 but that is so not the case. He is 1 of 11 at best.

I mean, the paternity lie, it is a major fraud to start with. The financial implications alone will elevate it to grand larceny level, felony fraud level. Not to mention the cruelty of the deception. I can’t find the right adjective to accurately describe the impact that has on two victims (‘father’ and child).

1st of all, it isn’t two more years, contractually. His year was guaranteed and locked up. They bought one year. However we got there (lol) we made the playoffs for the first time under Tepper. The QB held up and gave us a decent chance to win. Sorry those are facts. In reality, you kind of have to give them keeping him around this year and with the way these agents frame things, it is a bad idea to leave it like he is on a one year prove it deal by declining the 5th year. If he in fact does step up, he can then leave for the open market and likely would because of the ‘disrespect’. That or reel us in the contract. Neither is good. And when you look at the FA qb market for 2026, and the trade market in regards to a few backups with potential… it isn’t they year to jump. They really are it worried about 26.5 million which they can split up over two seasons if they want out. It is not a crippling deficit. It is the cost of doing business. So I understand why this was done.

No kidding. It is wise and appropriate to pay the 20th best qb top of the market? Sorry but the hell it is.

The game with the photo was September 14 2003 in TB. Panthers 12 TB 9. I looked for the photo for a little bit couldn’t find it. But I saw it a few years ago because I revisited that game. So it probably still exists.

That may have been the guy I just posted about. Too late for me to edit, I left that out. The van and the timeline sound like there’s a fair chance it is the same guy.

I will take a minute to remember Panthersfan or Pantherzfan, I forget his name. He passed on, and was a huge fan. He was in the stands and the photo of Jenkins blocking the gw XP at Tampa in 2003 caught him standing up right in the middle of everyone cheering. So he is immortalized in a sense, in that photo.

See, there is doubt about the finality of it. Every year a small incremental improvement seems to be enough.

We knew this was coming it is no surprise.

If he balls out, like a big boy QB I wouldn’t be pissed off. He balled out last year. A few times. It will take a lot more times than what he did to get me there though. Where I’ll be pissed off is if he has a 50/50 year and that’s considered good enough.

The whole NFL. I mean, I wonder what the league totals would be when counting dead cap for each team. https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ranking-every-nfl-team-dead-193113658.html Check out that list. Dolphins alone have 179 mil. Saints over 100mil. I am sure the league total exceeds a billion.

I believe he should be on a prove it year - for the last damned time. Lost another battle there. I suppose it could still be in prove it land, it just costs us a lot to get out of if he doesn’t. And still cheaper than what a bigger mistake would cost us.

Without looking it up the Rams made a trade and they signed a FA. It was almost Morgan like in the way they attacked it. Okay I looked it up - They imported KC’s CBs, one in FA. The trade with KC included their original 1st round pick. That is probably more aggressive than Morgan even. LBs may be bad but the plays I remember from the first meeting, it wasn’t LBs that were the problem. And I guess I am saying the proof is in the pudding, they revamped their secondary. The Simpson thing is kind of irrelevant. But the criticism there is they were one player away type of stuff. In fact they put up points on Seattle just fine, it was stopping them that was the issue. They made big upgrades towards tightening up their defense. You can argue the Rams’ approach to that 13th or 12th pick with Ram fans all day.

I’ll give him points for his playoff outing. At least he showed up and did some good things in a pressure situation. If he could play to that level every week my opinion of him would be a whole lot better, I’ll say that. Big if though. It sure earned him a ton of points with lot of people to the point that is all they need. Crown him. To them it is a given that he will fix his regular season yo yo pattern. Maybe they are still excusing him because we don’t have 10 pro bowl players around him. Yet. And yes, look at what the Rams did about their secondary when FA started. Reminds me of the Carolina Reaper stuff where the coaches get fired for losing to him.

I was watching a YouTube and it was said that scout and GM insider types were saying the NIL had killed rounds 4-7. I don’t know that I buy it, seems like it might for a year or maybe two but then those guys have to move on. NCAA is apparently about to give 5 years of eligibility. It is gonna skew those entrants older maybe.