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The Carolina Panthers had a very good draft grade according to several sources. They didn't draft many flashy playmakers but they strengthened the trenches with a possible day one starter at left tackle on the offensive line in Monroe Freeland from Georgia and an All American nose tackle from Texas A/M named Lee Hunter in the second round. The third round draft pick Chris Brazzell at wide receiver is tall, fast (4.3 speed) and led the SEC in yards per game. Add a starting caliber center, a safety and help at cornerback and linebacker in the later rounds and the Panthers may have addressed many of their needs.

I just saw that the Panthers signed former GT dual threat QB Haynes King as an undrafted free agent to a deal guaranteeing him 250K. I also realize they have 2 other QB in addition to starter Bryce.

I don’t know if you watched many GT games the last 3 years. If you did you’d know that King always gave it his all and that included taking many beatings and playing with lots of pain. He was tough personified and a great leader.

His strength was keeping the ball and making very quick moves that lead to lots of rushing yards with him often being the game’s top rusher. But he had a decent arm especially later as I recalled. His total yardage was way up there. I loved watching him!

I’m reading that he, assuming he makes the team (having 250K guaranteed helps his chances), might be brought in for short yardage plays.
 
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KY Derby was amazing with the winner, Golden Tempo with jockey Jose Ortiz, coming back from being at the very back at the beginning of the last turn, to just overtake favorite Renegade, ridden by Ortiz’s bro! It was won for the 1st time by a horse with a female trainer.
The race caller didn’t even mention Golden Tempo til the last few seconds as he came out of nowhere. Watch the call here:

 
Here’s another view/call of the KY Derby. The eventual winner, Golden Tempo, ridden by Jose Ortiz with a red helmet, was dead last from the very start and remained in last until after the final turn started! He was ~20 lengths back a little before then and was so far back that the caller described him as “so far behind” at the time (~1:10 on the video link below).

I’ve seen great come from behind comebacks including Secretariat in 1973 (the first I ever saw), but this was come from dead last at a whopping 20 lengths back pretty late in the race! Just follow the red helmeted jockey, who went to the far outside in making the amazing comeback:

 
Drivers are getting tired of it being impossible to pull out and pass. How anyone can think Daytona and Talledega are anything but sleep inducing boredom is odd to me. They need to make the cars aerodynamically the same as in the late 70's. Also, all the cars are virtually identical as NASCAR has grossly over-regulated everything. Teams cant innovate or be imaginative any longer.


Because of the near impossibility to pass, teams order drivers to save fuel so they spend less time on pit road in the effort to get track position that way instead. Last weekend, when drivers first tried to race after saving fuel over the first half, it resulted in a 27-car crash.

The race was ultimately decided by the same front row that took the green flag after the final pit stops – Carson Hocevar and Chris Buescher.

“There was nothing I could do last week,” Gilliland said. “I was stick in 15th and literally couldn’t go anywhere. At that point, you leave a tiny gap so that maybe you miss the crash. Maybe you try to bait people into starting a third lane and fill the hole when they move up and try that one-by-one, but that is such a frustrating way to race.”
 
These 2 lines of artificially slow lines of 20 cars each so they can save fuel has to go. My guess is Nascar will just make things even worse instead of breaking the cars up and once again make passing possible.
 
Drivers are getting tired of it being impossible to pull out and pass. How anyone can think Daytona and Talledega are anything but sleep inducing boredom is odd to me. They need to make the cars aerodynamically the same as in the late 70's. Also, all the cars are virtually identical as NASCAR has grossly over-regulated everything. Teams cant innovate or be imaginative any longer.


Because of the near impossibility to pass, teams order drivers to save fuel so they spend less time on pit road in the effort to get track position that way instead. Last weekend, when drivers first tried to race after saving fuel over the first half, it resulted in a 27-car crash.

The race was ultimately decided by the same front row that took the green flag after the final pit stops – Carson Hocevar and Chris Buescher.

“There was nothing I could do last week,” Gilliland said. “I was stick in 15th and literally couldn’t go anywhere. At that point, you leave a tiny gap so that maybe you miss the crash. Maybe you try to bait people into starting a third lane and fill the hole when they move up and try that one-by-one, but that is such a frustrating way to race.”

I loved watching NASCAR the most mid 70s into early 80s with Petty, Pearson, Bobby, and Cale going at it and then Waltrip joining them.

Then the next golden period for me was going further through the 80s with Waltrip/Bobby continuing and then joined by Dale and Awesome Bill from Dawsonville among others.

Then Dale through the 90s later joined by Gordon, Martin, Terry, Jarrett, Rusty etc.

Fun times!
 
Braves just swept the Rockies on the road for their 2nd on the road sweep and their 8th series win in a row! They’ve yet to lose a series this season and maintain the best record in MLB. They’re a whopping 8.5 games up on the Marlins.

America’s Team is back!
 
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