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it won't be one reason. in no particular order and imo, cam being healthier and more mature (more savvy)OL not sucking and buying him some time and roomincreased no huddleaddition of the funch, KB with one year under his belt, return of ginn, better idea of what corey brown can do for you.cam getting to work with his receivers more than last year.RBs healthy and more able to do something becase of increased OL playdefense not taking a step backwardSTs not being a liabilityriverboat ron doesn't make his annual reverting to paddleboat ronthere's probably more, but that probably about covers it. everything going well helps cam out and makes him look better. if things don't go well for the team, its somehow going to be seen as cam's fault.

brady...yes ben.....because of experience, yes. ben is very underrated, tho. flacco...in post season he's really good. luck....i dunno. luck = higher floor newton = higher ceiling. i have always thought that luck was someone that could go into any system and play at a high level. cam could play in any system, but he should be in one that is built around his skillset to get the most out of him (which is more than you could ever get with luck, imo). peyton of even 3 years ago....yes. peyton now? push and leaning towards nah. he's a lot smarter than cam (or pretty much any QB that has played the game), but he has diminished capabilities that negates the advantages his intellect might bring about. rivers...yeah, he's just good. another underrated QB like ben. wouldn't trade cam for him or anyone, tho. rodgers...yes romo....nah. very overrated and crumbles under pressure. brees...yes, but his size and devolving situation in new orleans along with increasing age is going to cause a decline in his production. i don't think he has many years left of relevancy. ryan...no way russell...nope. dude is the luckiest QB in the league. that won't last. eli....nope kap....bwhahahahahahahahahahaa NAH! stafford...leaning towards no. i like him, but he's as good as he's ever going to get. cam's still quite a ways away from peaking. palmer....nope. guy hasn't been the same since that fat steeler rolled on him and bent his knee backward. cutler....if he wasn't so emo, maybe, but i don't think he was ever as good as people made him out to be.

if we're collecting nominees i throw this one into the mix

i see some of the same things in the shows my daughter likes to watch that are considered kids shows. lots of over-the-top sass and disrespect. we've really started cutting back on what she's allowed to watch and trying to get her outside as much as possible. unfortunately i know that most of her friends at school have the same kind of attitudes and they are feeding off of each other....and she's only in 2nd grade. but then, at least as far as music goes, the 80's had a lot of shallowness to them coming out of the disco drenched late 70s. and then they moved to a lot of emo crap in the 90s because they mostly had parents that were self-absorbed and more interested in their careers and their happiness than their kids. when those kids became parents i think they may have inherited their parents self-absorbing tendencies, but tried to overcompensate by spoiling their kids and created the shallow and entitled kids we see today. i do think that there is a break in that and quite a few people are trying to go back to more what we might consider more traditional family settings or at least trying to get back to a simpler more family focused type of life. it's going to be hard because i think we've all gotten addicted to getting more and more stuff.

i don't want box cam where he's pigeonholed into one category or another. that's small/narrowminded thinking. i want opportunistic cam who can kill it in the pocket or with his feet depending on what the defense is doing and where their strengths and weaknesses are. what i want least is flat cam. that OL needs to give him space and time and they need to get ther poo together before week one instead of spending the first few weeks getting it figured out.

looking at that schedule i think we can realistically pull out 12 wins this year and i feel good about us not only winning the nfcs again (possibly sweeping the division), but i feel like we can make it to the nfccg. i also think our chances of getting into the superbowl are as good as any team out there, esp. in the nfc. i feel like we will likely go 5-1 in the division, 3-1 vs. afcs, 3-1 vs. nfce, and beat either the packers or the seahawks.

you're giving that spiky haired punk waaaaayyyyy too much credit.

grow a spleen, chrissy. grow a spleen.

the guy just seems genuinely happy. i love that. seems like the kind of person you want to be around a lot because that kind of atttude is contagious.

just remember to keep your cargo shorts always facing BoA.

very real possibility. sounds like he can do everything brown can do but a lot faster.

did you know that medillinheel writes for bleacher report? it's true: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/694994-carolina-panther-cam-newton-is-the-worst-nfl-draft-pick-ever?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=web-des-art-top-171

overrated.

totally agreed. part of stabilizing that OL play is deciding early on, as in during OTAs, who the starters are going to be and letting them get a poo ton of reps with each other and with cam all during training camp so they can be gelling when the season starts instead of using the first few weeks for them to get used to each other. the good thing is we have the interior of that line set already.

come to think of it, i can't think of a single position that i am worried about. i'm not even worried about OT. we've got something we didn't have last year...competition.

it eventually did fine last year without him once they and the DTs realized he wasn't coming back and guys had to step up more. it will be the same story this year. everyone on that line knows that they have to step up and they will. i'm not at all worried about that front 7. i wish DE deeper, but what we have is still among the best DL in the league and the best front 7 in the whole NFL.

i'm pissed because they always do it and they always get away with it with just a slap on the wrist. had this been another team, there would be someone banned for a year at least. and every time they do this, it's like reaggravating an old injury. just when you think you've gotten over it they do it again and remind you that the lombardi could have been ours.

patriots cheat and get away with it. it's what they do and it's the only way that they can get their lombardis. what's amazing to me is the number of people in here siding with the patriots and either minimalizing what they did or defending them against the big bad nfl. they robbed us of a superbowl win by cheating and they cheated to get themselves back to another one. they've probably been doing this kind of thing for a long time just like they were doing the videotaping. i would be shocked if there weren't other ways they had been cheating. it's a culture thing there. win and do it in any way you can, whether it's within the rules or ethical or not. the thing that gets me is the number of people who will likely see that as an admirable trait.

fwiw, i told someone we had our own twin peaks in carolina now.

smash & dash? shake & bake? razzle & dazzle? double trouble? sorry...having a flashback.

impressive. both guys got it, even while disagreeing.

i think that this is the WR corps heading into the season. bersin will be a numbers casualty. boykin being a legit STs guy is what will help him get a spot over bersin.

i don't care about him making the WR corps. the dude did what he was called on to do very well in that regard. it's that whole ST thing that i want him far away from. with ginn back, i don't think we have to worry there.

probably a good idea. even aceboogie is more rational than you are being.

you must be new to the falcon way of doing things. this is the team that hired a coaching staff before they hired a head coach. they are building their new stadium to resemble a sphincter and then name waste management as a primary sponsor. you can't make this poo up.