JawnyBlaze

The Titans blue is closer to Carolina blue than ours, but interesting to mention the word Carolina at all....interesting indeed.

lol all these tweets from random people saying Cam's in trouble now, those people must not have watched a single down of Panther football last year. Injured Oher is still better than healthy Bell. Oher could be on IR and still be an upgrade over Bell. It was a good move and for a 2 year deal, it couldn't have been much money. Great signing. Doesn't settle the problem of our OTs, but will help. And like someone else said, helps our hands not to be forced in the draft.

lol at wanting Foles over McCoy...

Really interesting. Alonso is a really good LB (at least he was his rookie year, then he got hurt. don't know what he's been like since then). Quite possibly a good trade for all parties. You never see player for player trades. Hopefully this might help them happen more often.

Cam shoulda known what he was getting himself into. All we need to do now is franchise tag him next year, then the shooter from the club accuses Cam of assault and Cam gets put on the exempt list for all but one game and we can go back to being a squeaky clean franchise.

and telling someone who writes for a website about your team knowing full well they would write about it isn't making it public? I don't believe Voth got his speculation from Gettleman. I believe he got it from someone with the organization who believes they have their finger on Gettleman's pulse, and I don't doubt it's the likely outcome, but I also don't believe it's a done deal or even remotely close to official.

Nowhere in that article did it say that decision makers on Hardy told him flat out he won't be here. You're speculating that it was a decision maker.

I don't. I fear Hardy hitting Cam cleanly and brutally like he did Palmer a couple years ago. Outside of a miracle, whoever is out LT next year would get destroyed by Hardy.

It's not so much doubt on Voth, no question he's been solid for the past year. It's just that nobody knows and it's still nothing more than spectulation. Speculation from Voth, speculation from whoever his source is on the team (if Gettleman is giving out info like this at this juncture, he's doing it wrong...and even if the info DID come from Gettleman, anything's possible. Something could change between now and March 10-when Hardy would actually OFFICIALLY be gone), and speculation from people on this forum. Few of us will deny that the chances of him staying are remote at best, but people passing off speculation as official new is misleading.

Yea, I'm not seeing the official part...

The entire concept of the exempt list is weird. As it stands now, it's an abuse of power in my opinion. The NFL, and this commissioner in particular, is woefully lacking in a system of checks and balances. I know all the owners care about are the paychecks and account balances and they're the ones that give him his power, but the whole thing reeks of bullshit. The exempt list is just another way for the commissioner to throw his weight around and move the chess pieces on his board rather than treat people fairly and work out honest solutions to problems.

His current status would be active. edit: as the overturning of his suspension intended.

I'm pretty sure Peterson didn't consent to being put back on the Exempt list the other day after winning the suspension appeal. So yea, we all read that Hardy chose the latter of the two punishments presented to him last year, but it doesn't seem accurate that a player HAS to consent to being put on it. Since I'm pretty sure Peterson didn't agree to being put back on it.

My opinion on whether he paid her off: I think he probably did. There's nothing even remotely concrete that showing he did just the court saying they have evidence (i.e. she made the accusation, but now she's not cooperating, so obviously they reached a settlement aka circumstantial evidence), but it was probably the easiest resolution to the whole ordeal so he figured he would out a chunk of money either way, either going to lawyers or going to paying her off. Giving her what she was going for from the beginning was the quickest way to put the issue in the rear view of both himself and the team. In regards to the Big Ben case, settlement papers were filed. It was formally settled. Different than Hardy's case. And in Big Ben's case, the only reason I'm more inclined to believe he's guilty is because it had become a pattern, wasn't a first time or one time thing. Similar to the whole Bill Clinton scandal. Also because he's a Steeler.

well of the three, hardy is the only one who isn't guilty. The other two made a plea deal. They both had this little thing called evidence working against them. Hardy didn't have that problem.

I don't get how hard it is to understand that this isn't like some regular joe construction worker getting a paid vacation. Even if you discount the fact that some of these guys actually enjoy the game and stopping them from doing that for a disciplinary reason (or any reason not related to performance) is inherently a punishment, it's affecting his earning potential. In the same way an employer can't impact an employee's ability to earn if the employee is summoned for jury duty or military reservist duty an nfl employer should not impact a player's reputation or ability to perform in a way that will impact their earning potential. That's a punishment.

if saying something stupid were legitimately what the problem was and they were both guilty of that then she should have been charged too. That may be what they were trying to get him for (legally) but the reality of the situation is he got in trouble because she said he harmed her and that's what he's being held accountable for by the nfl, the public and that's how she got what she was presumably after all along - her payday.

He's likely innocent if you actually paid attention to the situation and the trial. This was one of the most obvious money grabs I've seen in the nfl. At least in recent memory that i can remember. The only thing he's even remotely possibly guilty of is saying something stupid, but I imagine that'd be hard to prove.

I don't think The Big Cat would approve this message.

hah, I had this exact same thought. funny plot twist.

They're not saying a video has been circulating, they're saying knowledge of the existence of a video has been circulating. I could see them sitting on it if they don't even know whether the video actually exists, much less what's on it. I hope it's not true, I actually like Dez as a player too despite hating the Cowboys with the fire of a thousand suns.

No

- We have a better roster than we had two years ago It's close, but I'd say yes. On the plus side, our secondary looks promising for the first time in a long time, our DT spot is rock solid and we have a promising young WR. On the negative side, our OL is MUCH worse and if Hardy is gone like most believe our DE spot is much worse. - Over the past two years, we have seen improvement from our coaching staff For about 13 games last season I saw improvement from Ron, but this year proved it was a fluke and/or him doing whatever it took to save his job. The rest of the coaching staff hasn't shown an iota of improvement. So this one's a resounding no. - Our front office has us headed in the right direction Yes. If nothing else, clawing us out of the cap hell has been a hair short of a miracle. Good drafting has been setting us up for sustained success. So this one's a resounding yes.

I could see multiple scenarios where we pass on OT in the 1st. Very possible in Gettleman's eyes there ends up being only 2 or 3 OTs worth a 1st in this draft and they're gone. If someone like Kevin White, that Parker WR (haven't done my own research on him, but I hear he's getting buzz), Landon Collins, Shaq Thompson (another guy getting buzz, I don't quite get it yet but I need to see more) or another guy at a position of need that's rated higher than the OTs is available Gettleman won't take the lower rated guy just because we so desperately need a LT. As crazy as it may sound, this is a draft I could actually see us trading back up into the late 1st or early 2nd if there's a guy available we love. If, for example, we take one of the non-OTs I just mentioned at 25 but there's an OT available at 31 or 35 or something that Gettleman didn't like better than our guy at 25 but still thinks very highly of I could see us sending next year's 1st to go get him. I know it sound like crazy talk, but this is the first year in a while I could see it actually happening.

Capt would certainly get one of my votes