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Captains are a locker room thing, not necessarily a compilation of the team's absolute best players. Paradis is a veteran with a lot of starting experience in the league. Not surprising at all that he's seen as a leader in the locker room.

I'm not surprised. Big QB questions on both sides. Jones is a rookie and that's always a big question mark in week one. There's literally no good NFL precedent for what to expect out of him, especially right out of the gates. With Tua, the big question is if he's going to rebound or if that hip injury has just made him a shadow of what he used to be. Last year he looked like a shadow of his former self IMO.

It's true. We usually do our best when there are no expectations and flop spectacularly when we get hyped up.

I long ago became numb to Ron Rivera saying dumb poo. I don't even notice it anymore.

I'm just saying, we're on a three year losing streak and they're the defending Super Bowl Champs. We're not exactly in a great place to be throwing shade.

I definitely missed anything to get mad about.

I think letting him walk was the correct call too, but it's just in really poor taste IMO to make a thread spiking the football about the guy missing week one due to a minor injury. We chose not to re-sign him. It's not like he forced his way out or it was an ugly breakup in any way. The Panthers made a business decision not to re-sign him. Samuel made a business decision to sign a contract to continue playing NFL football elsewhere. That's it, that's all. There's just no legit reason to be salty and this thread is saltier than the Dead Sea.

For the people screaming clickbait, you gotta be honest. If you want good clickbait, you'd target a fanbase a lot bigger than ours or a QB a lot higher profile than Darnold with your bottom ranking. The reality is that the average NFL fan just doesn't care about the Panthers and/or Sam Darnold. We've both been written off as essentially irrelevant until proven otherwise.

Overall, 7-10 seems decently reasonable.

@saX man, you were one of those kids who tried smoking banana peels back in the day because you heard it's get you high, weren't you?

We'll see, but based on past precedent there's an argument for that ranking being deserved going into the season.

He got very fortunate that CMC was injured. A lot of the screens/short passes that he was targeted on last year would have typically gone to CMC. He kind of subbed in for CMC's role in the passing game last season.

So why are you getting triggered? If the reply didn't apply to your post then it probably wasn't referencing your post.

Yikes. This is the type of thing that gets fanbases mocked for good reason.

I mean, I get it. God help us all if the Cowboys beat the reigning Super Bowl champs in week one. The media is always desperate to create a cowboys hype train and they'd all over that one.

Unless it most certainly directly effects us (as in wildcard race or playoff seeding/bye week, draft position, etc), fug divisional rivals first and foremost always.

He missed one game over the past two seasons and four games over the past three. Not seeing this massive injury proneness.

Not sure why the glee over Samuel having a minor injury. I wish him well. Would've liked to have kept him but we had bigger priorities and it didn't make sense to give our 4th offensive option big money.

Yep. Unfortunately, the narrative that it was all his poor protection, etc. just doesn't hold up. Maybe it was terrible coaching and development, but a lot of his bad plays were from a clean pocket and just terrible throws or terrible decisions or both.

If being a captain makes you play like Teddy then I certainly hope Sam isn't a captain.

Corral, Ridder, Willis, etc. are among some guys who could really jump up the board if they play well this year.

I honestly had no idea that anyone still watched ESPN for anything other than live sports. Back in college, my television was always on in the background 90% of the time on ESPN. SportsCenter was life. A play making the top 10 was like winning an Emmy. Does SC even exist anymore? YouTube and gifs basically just killed it for me.

NFL talent evaluators aren't gonna love that game from Howell. Particularly that last pick. But they're going to see some special throws too. They're gonna see numerous dropped passes. They're going to see that only one WR could create separation and actually catch a ball. They're going to see that UNC might as well have been playing a 3rd OT rather than they're TE because he was utterly useless as a recoecer. They're gonna see the 1st INT that was a perfectly thrown ball caught by a receiver who let a DB simply take it from him. They're gonna see that the second INT was a tipped pass at the LOS. The stat sheet looks a lot worse than the actual performance did if you were just looking to evaluate the QB as a prospect. That's what a lot of people got caught up in with Wilson's game vs. Coastal too. They were watching a football game instead of evaluating the prospect. You can't judge the prospect by the outcome of the play, just by what he did with the opportunity given on that play or the opportunity he outright created out of nothing.

A lot of people weren't sold on Wilson after that Coastal Carolina game either. When your OL utterly doesn't show up you're probably not gonna look good.

Howell and Rattler should be the top two. After that, who knows? I don't think it's gonna be anywhere near as strong overall as last year's class.