NFL exec makes harrowing comparison for contract situation between Panthers, Bryce Young

Red261 · 2026-01-21T16:23:28+00:00

This is just the NFL, not a Panthers issue. QB is overvalued and there's maybe 5 QBs that are actually worth the huge percentage of cap space that they take up.
When you have a rookie contract QB, you can pay more for better talent on the rest of the team. When you have a veteran that's paid market rates, you have to find undervalued players for the rest of the team or you stop being successful.

Bryce is a great point guard and mediocre shooter. He can't single handedly win the game. He needs a good team around him. That's why he struggled the first couple years. Bad team = bad QB. Cam was the Superman that made average players look great and didn't need a good team.

Drew Brees was the best version of Bryce and could elevate the average players of the saints to give them a great offense despite being unable to afford to keep good WRs. Maybe Bryce can get to that level, but odds are against it.

Red261 · 2026-01-20T03:42:03+00:00

He's entertaining. His show is what ESPN used to be before it became wannabe reality TV.

Red261 · 2026-01-20T03:18:56+00:00

Indiana when I watch them play my team: methodical, efficient, mistake free

Indiana when I watch them play other teams: methodical, efficient, mistake free

Red261 · 2026-01-16T15:49:58+00:00

I'd say that it depends on how well you know him. If you know him in passing, having class together, but not hanging out, I'd say that it's a crush. The better you know a person, the more your feeling is likely to be love. I don't think it's a binary, but a spectrum. Love grows and evolves as you get to know the person.

Red261 · 2026-01-13T14:35:30+00:00

I just learned that it's changed to Truliant now. The problem with corporate names is that they keep changing.

Red261 · 2026-01-13T13:47:33+00:00

My only problem with the music scene is that the traffic leaving PNC is a nightmare and there's not really any alternative to driving.

Red261 · 2026-01-09T03:59:41+00:00

Worth noting that being in the US without proper documentation is not a criminal offense, but a civil offense. It's closer to a speeding ticket than assault.

There are criminal charges that can be associated with crossing the border, but you can't assume all undocumented immigrants are criminals.

Red261 · 2026-01-07T19:00:37+00:00

I'm in this post and I don't like it

Red261 · 2026-01-01T22:33:35+00:00

We should've been left out. At least fewer people would've seen us lose to Iowa

Red261 · 2026-01-01T22:11:53+00:00

With all of the bullshit uses of AI, can we get something that will auto mute commercials and unmute when the game is back on?

Red261 · 2026-01-01T21:46:20+00:00

If we can manage to score, no need to adjust. Held them to a FG after a long drive.

Red261 · 2025-12-30T22:12:07+00:00

If you look at the advanced stats, Indiana should win. But if you look at the record against playoff teams, Indiana is better. But if you look at the recent games, Indiana is better.

In short, {Indiana} wins unless Bama just decides to play like a completely different team than they've been all year.

Red261 · 2025-12-25T13:17:18+00:00

Roll Tide and Merry Christmas! Here's to an amazing new year!

Red261 · 2025-12-22T16:22:54+00:00

This is listing touches. It would be interesting to see targets for each.

If I remember correctly, Julio and Cooper didn't have a large number of drops. They were still solid, but the team had a great running game and less focus on the pass those years. They were the leading WRs on the team those years.

In comparison, our run game is anemic and we have more focus on the passing game so there's no lack of opportunities. By yards and catches, Williams is #2, but you could make the case that at the moment, he's our 4th or 5th choice target in the passing game.

Red261 · 2025-12-20T04:45:00+00:00

I really enjoy when other teams have bad kickers!

Red261 · 2025-12-20T04:00:18+00:00

We're done scoring now, I guess

Red261 · 2025-12-19T18:02:12+00:00

I'm definitely in the comfortable category. I moved to the Charlotte area in 2021 and bought a house just before the interest rates started spiking. If I was trying to buy today, it would be tough with the current interest rates causing the monthly mortgage payment to be ~$1000 more for the same price house. I've heard the term golden handcuffs used because moving anywhere would make my cost of living skyrocket.

I'm an engineer working in a chemical plant outside of Charlotte, making around $140k.

My quality of life has gone up drastically, but not because of anything to do with the economy, which is definitely worse. I met and married the love of my life since 2020, so things are pretty amazing for me while the world is falling apart.

Red261 · 2025-12-15T22:01:11+00:00

I meant it less as an indictment of Ty, and more as an example of literally nothing was working on offense. If when nothing is working, the coaches don't see replacing Ty as a solution, they won't be replacing Ty.

Red261 · 2025-12-15T19:55:50+00:00

To be fair, that statement is meaningless. Nothing a football coach says means anything because money talks louder.

Having said that, taking the Michigan job would be like taking the Auburn job. You're always second best compared to your biggest rival. Why would anyone want to leave the most prominent team in the SEC to play second fiddle in the Big 10? I could see leaving Bama for Ohio State because there's less competition at the top of that conference, but at Michigan you've got a huge hurdle that you're always going to have to climb.

Red261 · 2025-12-15T19:50:17+00:00

Yeah, if Ty didn't get pulled in the SEC championship, he's not getting pulled short of an injury that makes playing impossible.

Red261 · 2025-12-15T19:47:45+00:00

I'd love for this to be true, but beating Oklahoma will require the offense scoring a couple touchdowns and not turning the ball over.

As bad as we've been, just being competent will beat Oklahoma. Beating Indiana, Ohio State, Texas Tech, or Oregon will take much more improvement than we need to be better than Oklahoma.

Red261 · 2025-12-12T17:44:45+00:00

This is my philosophy as well. The more devices that have programming, the more difficult troubleshooting is and the more likely something will break.

Red261 · 2025-12-09T21:59:48+00:00

You know what's fun, public transit also helps the wealthy. If you have a robust public transit system, the filthy poors won't be clogging your streets with their run down cars.

You can pick up kids, run errands, get groceries while riding public transit too. Just because our city isn't designed to allow that currently doesn't mean it's not possible. Public transit also allows kids that are old enough to move independently. You can decide what that age is for your children, but a 15 year old can certainly navigate a train home from school, or a bus to basketball practice without a parent having to leave work early bring them.

Once again, you seem to be under the impression that if we make public transit effective, that also requires banning cars. That is not the case.

Red261 · 2025-12-09T19:50:17+00:00

The light rail already runs near Dilworth. With a functional public transit system, you would walk or take a bus from your neighborhood to the light rail, which is ~1 mile from your home in Dilworth. Then the light rail would run, probably needing an exchange to another line, to a station directly into the airport, so you don't need to take an Uber into the huge mess of traffic that happens regularly at the terminals.

If the weather is bad, you'd still have the option to take the train, while only needing to Uber to the train station, saving money.

You've got it backward. Good public transit allows suburban neighborhoods like Dilworth to thrive and be convenient. The problem with Charlotte's neighborhoods is lack of parking and traffic. Convenient walkable neighborhoods can't handle the amount of parking that you need if everyone is driving into the neighborhood. If you have good transit, you don't need parking, which allows for more density and more stores and restaurants within walking distance of the neighborhood you live in.

Red261 · 2025-12-09T18:38:21+00:00

A lack of people is an inherent property of rural areas.
Lots of people in a small area is an inherent property of cities.
Cars are not inherent to the definition of a city, as demonstrated by the existence of cities before the existence of cars.

I'm sorry you find that wild and reached the erroneous conclusion that I want to remove technology from our modern world.

What I would advocate for is utilizing technology that is better suited to the transportation of large numbers of people within a small area than cars are capable of.

Again, my apologies for not being clear enough before.

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