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The worst part of the offseason

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3 hours ago, top dawg said:

The four to five weeks between OTAs and TC has always been the worst for me as an NFL fan, and even more as a Panthers fan. I think that it's worse when your team has had a string of recent down-years, and you don't know when or if you'll be getting off the treadmill of suck. 

This is the period on the Huddle when you have to maneuver through insignificant fluff or trite, repetitive threads about how the HC sucks, the OC sucks, or this player sucks and how the coming season is an ode to a lame duck. Sure, you try and garner something new from the  rehash of old information, and you can pay attention to whatever general soap opera is going on the NFL at the time---this year, just like last year, it's Deshaun---but even that gets old and tiresome. Without the occasional signing of a prospective, old crafty veteran, or a tainted, but possibly talented youngin (at least that's what you try and tell yourself), this period of the NFL offseaason is one big void of virtual nothingness. 

There's no more NBA finals. Hockey is over, not that anyone watches it other than the occasional playoff game. Baseball? Golf? Soccer (🤮)?How boring in comparison. Tennis, maybe! I don't know.

It's a good period to spend quality time with the family, boys and gals! Take a few trips, go for walks, the gym, the lake. Cook out on the grill, have a few beers, some good wine, and put all these worthwhile things on the forefront of your mind and that omnipresent desperation for NFL football on the back burner. It will help you get though this dry spell. 

 

Though technically there is something happening in football every month of the year the 6 weeks or so between mini-camps and training camp has to be the longest part of the year for diehards.  (most of us on this forum whether we want to admit it or not.)

I'm off to the Philippines (Olongapo City for all you Squids and Jarheads) I'll be there for a month.  So this long period before football starts won't be so long for me.

I actually have home right outside the old Subic Naval Base now known as Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority or SBMA.   

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1 hour ago, TheMostInterestingMan said:

Of course you don't like watching soccer if you only watch in the summer. The MLS is worse than a minor league baseball league. As a diehard lifelong Liverpool supporter, I can tell you that judging soccer by MLS is a joke. The Premier League is king, followed by Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga and finally League 1. 

I know this may not sway you and you probably wont watch when the season starts back (about 3 weeks before the NFL kicks off typically) but you just can't call the MLS a soccer league. I am glad Charlotte has a team but its just not comparable at all.

Can't argue with this.  It's frustrating to know our country is as big as it is and we can't put together a World Cup team that can compete with everyone.  Usually we are fighting just to make the cut for the tournament.   

I'm in a couple of bowling leagues on Friday and Saturday morning (weekend in Arab countries) and they show some of the matches while we bowl.   They can be entertaining at times. 

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9 minutes ago, Camp Fodder said:

Even if Watson doesn’t play they are far superior to us right now. 

 

9 minutes ago, Camp Fodder said:

Even if Watson doesn’t play they are far superior to us right now. 

I don’t agree they are far superior without Watson, we will find out quick enough. A lot depends on who the starting quarterbacks are for both teams.

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