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Hey Dillardboyz, What is the QB situation this year for the Panthers?  Sounds like whoever it is will have the benefit of a good offensive line. 

That’s great Jambun!  You should enjoy it while the Cats still have it.  I’m sure you have had plenty of time to see the Tampa Bay Lightning are on the Cup 3 times and the Cats only twice. 

The Florida Panthers are the two-time Stanley Cup Champions for about two more months! 

Man… I like how you laid that out. I really do. You supposed to feel that way about your team. If you don’t… like you said, you already lost before the bus even pull out the lot, noimsayin. But lemme tell you why I kinda tilt my head a little when I hear “look the part”… I was up in Gainesville back in ’92 at Florida Field… watched Dillard get ready to play Manatee. And I ain’t gon lie—that team? Looked like they could line up with just about anybody. Bigger, talented, uniforms sittin right… everything you’d wanna see. Then that ball got kicked. And it ain’t take long before you could feel it… somethin wasn’t right. Like when you bet on a game and by the middle of the first quarter you already lookin around like, “yeah… I might’ve misread this one.” They folded. Not ‘cause they ain’t have players… but because the other side was more disciplined, better coached, and knew exactly what they were gonna be for four quarters. That stuck with me. So now when I hear “on paper” and “look the part”… I don’t ignore it… I just don’t lean on it too hard. Remind me of this one dude at Publix… came through my line with about twelve items, real confident, talkin like he had everything under control. I ring it all up… he reach in his pocket… Card declined. Now he laugh it off, try again… Declined. Whole line behind him watchin… and you can see it start settin in—what he thought he had and what he actually had wasn’t the same thing. That’s kinda how I look at games like this. Now don’t get me wrong—I ain’t sayin Dillard can’t line up and play. You don’t get in them conversations year after year by accident. I’m just sayin… over time, I’ve seen certain programs show up expectin things to look the same every Friday. Not perfect… but consistent. And until I see that become the regular thing on the other side… I just lean toward what I’ve already seen play out. And hey… I done leaned wrong before. Just not often when it come to that part.

Northside Christian