tiger7_88

Here we go 3rd and long... ?

Know how I know LBs are struggling? Kurt Coleman has about 10 tackles already.

3rd and long... smdh

Intentional grounding is a spot foul and loss of down. You fuggers forget EVERY DAMN TIME in your whining how many sacks Cam gets away from with his strength in the pocket. But yeah, God forbid Cam not perform to y'alls exacting expectations 100% of the time.

With a rush straight up the middle in his face. Easy!

So he's missing open receivers and not running the ball hard enough?

Again, he was in the pocket and between the tackles. You understand the position a QB is allowed to throw the ball away and the position he's not right?

He was between the tackles and in the pocket.

Entire Atl defense taking their shots and Cam still moving forward... lol.

These refs are total fugging cheating POS's.

Way to get your defense prepared, Ron. 3rd and long... the defense's worst down.

Yeah, I laugh when people talk about our "elite" defense. Like I pointed out earlier this week, the Panthers have won six games this year where the defense has allowed 23 or more points. Might have to do it again today at this rate.

OK can Luke and TD stop fuging whiffing on tackles please?

That Luke whiff very key right now.

BULLSHIT call by the refs.

"Got lucky" Lynch? A perfect throw over the LBs leaping hands into your receivers hands is "lucky" now?

Love discussing these things with y'all. I've been reading and studying WW2 in the Pacific (and, to a lesser extent, the ETO) since my Mom let me joint the Military Book Club back in 1974 when I was in the 7th grade. I might have a few years on y'all... lol. Edit: First book I ever got was 'The Two-Ocean War' by Samuel Eliot Morison, a one-volume abridgment of his multi-volume 'History of United States Naval Operations in WW2'.

Yamashiro. The Kirishima was sunk by the USS Washington at Guadalcanal.

Yeah, the great thing about the Surigao engagement was that several of the battleships that had been sunk at Pearl Harbor, raised, and refurbished were present at that battle, crossing the Japanese task force's "T".

The Yamato's sister ship, the Musashi, was sunk by American aircraft in the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea prior to the IJN Central Force entering San Bernardino Strait.

"Where is TF 34?... the world wonders" A fateful but fitting decoding error.

The USS Washington and the South Dakota were the primary participants (along with a group of destroyer escorts) in the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. The Japanese force in the battle was the battleship Kirishima and a group of cruisers and destroyers. The South Dakota was a hard-luck ship in that battle, taking a lot of hits and being overall ineffective. The Washington, however, using their up-to-date radar-assisted gunnery, just laid into the Kirishima. The Kirishima sank the next day. As far as I know, that battle was the only battleship vs. battleship battle in the entire Pacific war.

I wonder which Japanese soldiers family has passed down Yamamoto's sword and shoulder boards from generation to generation and kept it secret? http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/g4m/2656.html

Ironically enough, after Midway the only battles that the IJN *did* win were in and around Guadalcanal and they were... Surface ship battles. The IJN Long Lance torpedoes were deadly in the difficult navigable confines of The Slot. (Great book by James Hornfischer on this, 'Neptunes Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal'.) This coming immediately *after* Halsey takes the bait and runs north to attack IJN carriers that were carrying no aircraft. Can Halsey be condemned for his maneuver itself? Probably not. At that point in the war it was quite clear that the carrier WAS the premier strike weapon of both navies. So going for the carriers was the logical thing to do. And he had no idea and could not assume that they were just weaponless decoys. What he can be condemned for, however, is taking all the new construction fast battleships he had with him (the Iowa, New Jersey, South Dakota, Alabama, etc.) instead of leaving them as TF 34 to guard the exit to San Bernardino Straight. The IJN task force including the Yamato *had* been sighted by American forces in San Bernardino, but Halsey and his staff believed they had "turned around" and retreated. Well, they *had* turned around... but then they turned back. Bad, bad assumption by Halsey. Plus, MacArthur's admiral, Kincaid, didn't even have the chance to move assets north himself to guard the straight because Halsey and his staff had given him (and CINCPAC) every impression that TF 34 had been formed to do just that. (Oh, another great book by Hornfischer on this too, 'The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors'.)