The Carolina Panthers off-season of transition reached its apotheosis last week, with the apparent confirmation of former Pittsburgh Steelers minority-stakeholder David Tepper as the team’s new owner. On the surface, Tepper appears not to be terribly dissimilar from a plurality of his peers in a league-ownership capacity. Fans can be forgiven for seeing a sixty-year-old […]
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Super Bowl or Bust? Let’s Talk About the Panthers’ Off-Season Moves.
With the draft and free agency in the rearview mirror, the book is nearly closed on the Panthers’ off-season under officially reinstated general manager Marty Hurney. As we’ve discussed at infinite length, Hurney’s most crucial objective this off-season was finding weapons for Cam Newton, particularly the sort that could maximize the potentialities of new offensive […]
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The Carolina Panthers Take a Chance on Maryland Speedster D.J. Moore in the First Round, and That Isn’t a Terrible Choice
Last night, old/new Panthers general manager Marty Hurney inaugurated his second official tenure as the team’s Roster-Maker-In-Chief by selecting Maryland wide receiver D.J. Moore in the first round of the 2018 draft. A fast riser in recent mock drafts, Moore is a speedy, gifted receiver who thrived in his last season in College Park despite […]
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It’s Sunday at the Masters!
Jesus! Are you people watching this? So much has happened. God,I’m fried. Did you see Sergio rinse five balls and make a thirteen? Did you see Justin Thomas repeatedly chipping in from distance like a man dropping a letter in the mail? Did you see Tommy Fleetwood make six straight birdies? Voodoo. Witchery. He’s a […]
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Get Out Your Green Jackets! Here’s a Beginner’s Guide to the Masters, the Greatest Sporting Event of the Year.
Can you feel it in the air? It’s Masters Time! I love sports with the ardent, borderline indiscriminate fervor of a sailor on shore leave, so it’s no small matter when I tell you that this is my favorite sporting event of the year. And it’s no exaggeration to say this is set up to […]
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For the Turnstiles: The Panthers Free Agency Adventure Begins With Significant Signings and Departures
The first big test of Marty Hurney’ssecond tenure as Carolina Panthers GM began this week, with the commencement of the annual NFL free-agency bazaar. Hurney’s track record during hisfirst tenure, which ran between 2002 and 2012, was a mixed bag overall, and that includes his free-agency classes. In keeping with an organizational philosophy that tends […]
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Back to the Future: The Panthers End Their Search for a New GM Where It Began, with Team Fixture Marty Hurney
Last week, the Carolina Panthers search for a new general manager ended where it began, with the rehiring of longtime organization fixture and current interim GM Marty Hurney. This marks Hurney’s second official tenure as GM, although in many ways it feels like he never went away. During his first stint on the job, from […]
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The Diary of an Insomniac Olympics Junkie, Vol. 1
As part of our ongoing, comprehensive coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics, we have assigned chronic insomniac Elizabeth Nelson and brand-new, first-time father Mike V. to turn on the TV and share their reflections whenever they might happen to remember to do so, something we’re calling the INDY’s Exhausted Olympics Coverage™. For our current installment, […]
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Sorry, Haters, but the New England Patriots Are Going to Win Super Bowl LII
I’ve watched every Super Bowl for the past thirty years and I can’t remember a single one I had a stranger feeling about beforehand. I’ve made predictions, I’ve been right, I’ve been wrong, but rarely have I been so confused. There’s a lot of weird stuff happening around this game. It’s weird, the Nick Foles […]
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The Panthers Have Lost Their Second Defensive Coordinator in Two Years. Will It Matter This Fall?
An offseason of transition for the Carolina Panthers continued last week as the Arizona Cardinals hired away defensive coordinator Steve Wilks to be their head coach. The Wilks hire wasn’t a complete surprise—the longtime assistant has been considered an ascendant star in league circles for the past few years—but it also marks the second time […]
