tarheelpride

Bought a new Tucson yesterday. Got lucky in that the dealer was only charging the sticker. No negotiating, but none of this after market adjustment. Sucks I had to buy a car in this nightmare market, but it’s over with.

The only thing I hate more than these markups is dealers not disclosing those markups until you get ready to buy.

Hoping for a CX-5 or a new Tucson

Stating the obvious here, but need a place to vent. Car shopping is an absolute tire fire right now. You’ll be lucky to find anything new at MSRP. A good number of used cars are either at or above MSRP for new cars. It’s just an overall nightmare. Anyone else having the unfortunate distinction of being in the car market suck as I? How are you coping with it?

You forgot the dash (or the word ‘to’)between the 1 and 2

This franchise’s thirst and desperation for a QB is going to set us back for years, I’m afraid.

Missed opportunity to put NAYfield in the title

If to save my job, I had to interview and hire Ben McAdoo, I’d just rather be fired

The trade itself for Darnold is indefensible. Considering what we gave up, we had no choice but to guarantee the 5th year. Otherwise, that draft capital was wasted for what would have been a one year deal. You don’t give up that kind of capital without hoping to have the player you are trading for for a few years. Problem is whatever evaluation they were doing with Darnold was awful. If they really did decide to go with that plan after seeing Fields’ pro day, then wtf were they looking at? The plan should have been to stick with Bridgewater another year and get a QB in the draft, then fix the o-line with people not named Cam Erving. This whole thing has been a colossal dumpster fire of poor decision making by Rhule and his evaluations. He isn’t cut for this at all. Wonder what Frittner and Morgan is thinking in all of this

The fact that we’ll need at a bare minimum 3 starters on the line and depth, as well as a re-designed QB room suggests this will be a multi-year rebuild. If we had the picks, or had the money, it could possibly be fixed sooner, but I’m not expecting it to be significantly better until 2023 or even 2024. But by then, the defense would have fell apart.

I have a few to add: - Not having significant, high level NFL experience on staff - The offensive line as a whole - This whole “position-less” football nonsense - Somehow thinking Dailey, Erving, and Darnold were our missing pieces on offense Pretty sure if I kept on, I’d have a sizeable novel

Trading that 2nd for Darnold is looking real bad. That basically assured we had to pick up his 5th year to justify the trade. And then he shows us he was the real Darnold and can’t be saved. So the Jets stole a pick from us. I agree with the sentiment that it’s trade down or bust for us to recoup some of that compensation. We need a 2 at the very least. in hindsight, I wish we took that Chicago trade in the past draft. Trading down that far would have hurt, but we still could have gotten an OL at that spot and had 2 1’s to play around with this year.

Fitt has to stay and have a chance at a new coaching staff. Some of the moves he went along with were very short sighted (looking at you Darnold), but I believe he needs to be given a chance. Rhule needs to go. Who knew a “charmer” wouldn’t be a good NFL coach. Can’t use college principles in the pros

The more egregious mistake was keeping Marty IMO, not Ron. Yes, we wanted Ron gone, but I feel that should have been left up to a new GM to decide, not a brand new owner. Keeping Marty alone set us back years, on top of the years he had already set us back by being incompetent outside of round 1 of the draft.

I still like to think Sewell was our #1 target and the Lions ruined it, so the Panthers are going to Panther and take a CB instead

If I’m stepping away from the ledge, it’s so I can get a running start to jump from it.

Just a few off the top of my head: Deion Grant Philly Brown Richard Marshall Brandon Weigher (sp). I just knew he'd be the next best RB with some reps. Patrick Jeffers Beuerilein Rodney Peete

Yeah I figured that out a while ago and gave up

I’ll try to not throw my shoulder out patting myself on the back

If we trade back, I really want a 2 this year and a 1 next year

I feel Carter is the Power Broker. Seems like the kind of swerve that many won't see coming but will make a whole lot of sense. There's something more there. I'm really digging this series.

If we trade back, I’d rather pick up a 1st next year to give us ammo to go get a QB (Howell). I can see that scenario if the QBs and OL are gone. What if Chase is available at 8 but lineman are gone? Does that interest anyone? Although I don’t think there’s a chance in hell he makes it past Miami

it’s a sad culture we live in. Hell, look at the backlash Jourdan Rodrigue got after the Cam comments, which was infinitely worse than anything that happened with Cam.

There’s also the question as to why did Watson not go through the team for a masseuse. I don’t see too many people asking that question.

With all of the backpedaling going on here, you’d think there were some 1st round DB’s in this topic. Pathetic honestly To actually answer the question, IF these allegations aren’t true, I’d welcome Watson with open arms. I tend to believe the women in this case, however. I can’t imagine the strength it takes to come forward with these allegations.