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Oh no quick everyone come look at all the bad things that are bad about everything

PhillyB

By PhillyB,
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PhillyB Grand Master

PhillyB

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OH WAIT THERE AREN'T ANY. Crawl back in the loser wagon and save the complaints for Yelp reviews and read this thread instead.

 

Here's the thing. I was gonna make a rah-rah thread until I realized nobody's in the mood for rah-rah threads after losses, especially playoff losses. But then I realized, hey, fudge it! The main forum is choked with trolls comparing Cam to this and that and assembling lists of quarterbacks to replace him with. Posters who everyone adores are turning each other and threatening to gun each other down with uzis at tailgates. People are typing up emotional magnum opuses like Robert E. Lee wrote tearful letters pouring out the pain of deciding to fight the Union. My debit card got stolen and I keep having problems with the replacement, and my All-Pro subscription ran out today so I can't even go swirl my glass of Macallan with the upper crust and thumb my nose at the filthy commoners and their bickerings. I mean sweet jesus I can't scroll two posts in this forum without running into the words footwork and overthrow and murder. What is wrong with this place?

 

Well I say fug all that and fug it hard. Here's a couple of things to consider tomorrow before you decide to drown yourself in a bathtub or make juvenile threads about Cam Newton (in which I'll fill up the tub for you.)

 

1) We never should've made it this far. This team was fuged early. We backed into a playoff birth. We should've been talking about the draft since November. Instead we butted our big Panther ass into the dance and kicked a fat lady in the shins. That fat lady was the Cardinals and she had it coming. Like the plot of a Tarentino movie, we cultivated six years of festering rage over being screwed and unleashed it with panache. You know the point of being a fan is watching wins, right? We got to watch a playoff win, which was even more improbably than making it to the playoffs in the first place. Complaining about that is like bitching when you win $30,000 on a scratch-off and yelling at your grandma because you probably would've won $50,000 if you'd bought the jumbo jungle bucks like you suggested. How bout you get a grip! 

 

2) Draft picks don't mean poo. All the best teams manage to win games in the postseason consistently and then restock their talent in the 20s and 30s and use them as fuel to keep the machine going. The Packers do it, the Patriots do it, the Ravens do it… etc. Know what their common denominator is? They have smart front offices. Say what you will about Gettles, but he's done a damn fine job assembling this roster well enough to get to the playoffs twice in a row despite being handcuffed to Marty Hurney's dick without the key. We found Benji in the 20s and we'll find plenty more Benjis in the 20s. So shut up about draft position.

 

3) Speaking of players, the shitty first half of this season proved to be a blessing in disguise. Having such a dearth of talent on the offense forced Rivera to shuffle players, and as I noted in another thread last week, we have nearly a dozen new players starting for this football team. By promotions and signings, this playoff-winning team has added Remmers, Norwell, Fozzy, and Benwikere, and Norman into starting positions. Those are guys who were formerly not playing for talent reasons (though Bene was injured for a while.) Between those guys being added and guys like Philly Brown and Trai Turner and Kony Ealy (all rookies!) stepping up to play roles as starters, we've basically added an entire offseason of players to the roster. Now we get to supplement that with the next round. Are you shittin me?

 

4) We could make a ton of player analyses, but the most important one is that Batman has his Robin. KB had a great rookie season and a phenomenal playoff game and he'll have a great career with Cam. Oh yeah and Cam… Cam is a high point too. Sure, he had a rough game, but as was brought up by another poster he's still working with one of the best starts to a career in the history of the NFL and looks 100000000 times better than Peyton Manning did at this point in his career. You can safely assume that anyone that tells you that there Cam Newton needs to be benched is a raging idiot barely capable of forming complete sentences. He'll be fine.

 

5) We poo on the Saints to get here. This one's the most important of all, I think. Dat Alice is decomposing in a lake of queso dip somewhere and the NFC South is pretty much on rebuild for the next couple of years. Their windows have slammed shut, and ours are just opening.

 

So nut up, douchebag, and stop making awful threads. The future's bright. Embrace it. And pray to all the gods you can think of that we cut/kill Mike Shula, because every team he's ever left has gone on to win a national championship. 2015 is going to kick ass and you had best embrace it. I can't fuging wait.

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The Huddler Veteran

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I'm just thankful and proud that my team full of rookies and JAGs went toe to toe with the defending champs in their own house tight for 3 quarters.

We were close folks... And just look at our roster and our handicaps we delt with this season. Its like we had our hands tied behind our backs. The seahawks are at their peak and we're nowhere near it and that just goes to show how bright the future is.

Ehh.. I'll edit the last part out lol

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Basically, we went a lot further than most thought that we would with a starting team chock full of rookies, second, third and fourth stringers. But still we managed to repeat back-to-back as NFC South champions (the first ever after 20 years), and got two games away from the dance two years in a row notwithstanding talent and/or experience deficiencies in a number of key areas.  We overachieved!

 

I can't be mad or sad at that.  I'm just looking forward to not only 2015, but '16, '17, and beyond.

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Is there ANYONE out there who doesn't think this defense will continue to play at the elite level next year, even if we don't make a splash on that side in the draft or FA?

 

On offense, we aren't losing anyone where there isn't a next man up already on the roster.  We have four of the OL positions solidified with young talent, which isn't something you could say in September.  We have a franchise QB.  We have a solid WR, a pro bowl TE, and a fat guy who can run, block and catch.  And we have an entire off season to add a couple more pieces to that side of the ball and make it more effective.

 

How on earth could anyone be down on this team?

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