WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 17: First Quarter Awards 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.760 Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkis 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.680 told me to always make it easy for the customer. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.600 That's you alive person will always be here to answer 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.800 the phone. We're here till midnight, seven days a week, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.080 so you never have to take off work. And it's 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.840 the same prices in the daytime. We're the ones you 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.160 want to call. We're the ones you want to call. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.520 We're the ones you want to call. You're gonna love 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:39.320 these people. I guarantee see. Go to Morris Jenkins dot com. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.199 It's time for a Happy half Hour with your friends 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:52.800 Kristin Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Bryan. That's right, it's 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.160 that time of the week. Happy half Hour podcast presented 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.640 by Morris Jenkins with your friends Kristen, Will and Miles 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.000 and christ And Mr Jenkins told me that the Panthers 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.920 make him proud and he's honored to support the team. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.440 When you're plumbing our conditioning is acting up, called Morris 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.959 Jenkins or visit Morrish Jenkins dot com. Well, he should 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.200 be proud because the Panthers are on a two game 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:18.720 winning streak. They beat the Cardinals at home. It was fun. 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.319 It was fun to have a home win in front 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:28.080 of approximately fifty two hundred small but very very mighty fans. Well, 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.080 I know you're used to uh to a full sold 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.000 out stadium, but what did you think of the energy 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.280 in there on Sunday? I thought it was pretty good. 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.080 I thought that the noise I didn't know how they 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.160 were going to do that. Like combined with the noise 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.480 with the fans, it felt loud, It felt full like, 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.759 and you could tell the people that were there they 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.960 were there like they came in with a purpose that 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.000 you know, we know there's only five thousand of us, 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.200 were going to cheer and we're gonna get into it. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.400 And obviously that the team gave them something to cheer about. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.240 They came to go to work, Yeah, they did. I 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:02.360 thought it was interesting in it was a third down 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.360 or some sort of big play on defense, people would 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.600 start banging the seats in front of them to make 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.639 a little bit more noise. I thought that was kind 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.679 of cool. It was just something that I think symbolize 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.160 how look, there weren't that many people in the stadium, 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.680 but they still were. They still were going to be 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.680 heard if you will. Yeah, and I I felt it 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.960 on you know, that long drive for instance, that ten 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.960 play seventy five yard drive. You know, even just hearing 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:30.160 them say first jown panthers. Wow, you know that's a 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.600 good impression. CHRISTI. I've been practicing for a year, but 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.040 for a long time that was awesome. It might be 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:40.160 my head and down. I'm not gonna try mad. If 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:41.880 you guys ever need if the p A guy ever 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.239 needs help, or you ever need help recording some sounds 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.920 you've never tried. Its no, and I'm not about to Nope, Nope, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.520 not playing this game, Nope, I'm not gonna do it. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.920 I've done it, but I should probably hold off because 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.040 I don't know by my grain, because you didn't really 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:03.639 well and I don't want to overshadow it. Oh this 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:07.919 is your day, Okay, Okay, that's fine as well as 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.240 I can. You say that as I'm looking at you 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.239 from the booth of shame. Well, that's just because I 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.560 made a concerted effort to not be late today, although 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:19.600 both of you were actually here later than the prescribed 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.040 five minutes five minutes. I'm sorry the shame I'm paying 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.480 for it, But guys, I do have a good fans 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.200 story for you, guys. Um At least I think so. Um, 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:34.120 So I am in the row one operational zone and 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.720 they have the tarps for you know, they have the 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.200 tarps on the first of what is it, ten fifteen 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.920 rows on the home side something like that, and then 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:46.560 there are fans sitting directly behind it. So I'm, you know, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.080 following what I do as a sideline reporter, what most 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.040 sideline reporters do is you follow the action. You go. 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.000 You know, they're driving the ball down the field. You 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.800 you follow where the ball is. And so right about midfield, um, 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.520 I'm you know, kind of right behind the bench, and 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:06.760 there happened to be two fans right behind me, um 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.160 up on the first seats that don't have tarps, and 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.320 I guess they were eating, and I guess someone put 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.040 their beer um right on the tarp. So all the sutime, 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.600 I'm just sitting there. Well, I'm just sitting there and 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.479 a sudden I feel just like a missile hit my 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.560 back and then all of a sudden, I'm just drenched. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:28.000 And this guy put he's um, it's definitely a Barry 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:29.640 I p A because I smelled like it for the 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.640 rest of the game. Barry I p A. It just 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.440 I mean, it was just a missile and the entire 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.559 thing spilled down my back like the back of my shirt. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.560 I was worried about it getting on. It's called an 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.840 I f B. It's like my pack that I wear. Um, 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.000 so I smelled like a bar or the entire game. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.440 That was like first quarter and I was just drenched. 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.080 But I mean it was not, it was It was 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.240 totally an accident. They were not, you know, overserved or 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.280 anything that. I think he just honestly set it up 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.440 there as like a ledge. And of course the tarp 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.920 is sloping down because that's the way the seats are. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.000 And uh yeah, so I got to to welcome fans 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:15.600 back in a unique way. A Barry I p A yeah, okay. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:22.640 I was really confident that that was good. Give you 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:27.120 that ten points to Griffin door anyway, yess one, they 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.800 beat the Cardinals one. You know, how about that guy's 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.800 how about that? I mean, how about this offense right now, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.719 up and down the field, every drive that you know, 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.280 the long drive, the third down conversions, scoring touchdowns in 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.240 the red zone, all the things we talked about last 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.440 week that they gotta fix. They did. That was the 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.000 biggest key I think started to cut you off, Christen, No, 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:49.960 I was gonna say, not only that we talked about 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.039 they talked about it. You know throughout the week. It 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.479 was improving third downs on offense and defense, tackling better, 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.640 and making the most of red zone opportunities. They did 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.919 all of those things. I was it was really incredible 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.120 in my in my opinion, that they say, all right, 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:04.640 here are the four things that we really want to 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.600 focus on, and then they came in and improved markedly 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.839 in every single category. Not only that, but to to 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.919 do it against the team that had been first in 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.320 third down defense and second in red zone defense. That 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.039 that was the thing that I you know, was thinking 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.000 last week, all right, if you want to improve all 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.720 these things, that's maybe going to be concerning against this 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.039 Arizona Cardinals team. But I'll say this to Arizona didn't 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.040 come in looking ready to play last week. Man. They 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.279 really didn't. And you know, sometimes that happens when a 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.479 team goes from west to east. They gotta play in 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.040 the early window and things like that. But you know, 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.719 it's your job as the home team and the opponent 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.039 to then take advantage of that. And I think that 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.039 the Panthers executed everything that they need to needed to 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.560 in order to have a complete team win. I agree, 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.120 And you know, you also do have to say without 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.599 their two starting safeties. DeAndre Hopkins had not practiced all 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.840 week because he was banged up, So there were things 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:02.080 that you know, maybe if this were fully healthy team, 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.599 it might have looked different. I still think the Panthers 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.120 would have won them. Yeah, I agree with you. So 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.880 two and two, four games in. You know, Miles, we 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.520 talked about breaking down the season into quarters. Always do it. 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.640 First quarter is over, Let's say out some awards. Let's 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.800 do it all right, First up, gentlemen, and our first 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:26.640 quarter awards. Biggest Surprise, Miles be given that award to Well, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:30.440 it's not necessarily a person. Look, I'm I'm just gonna 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.360 say that the biggest Surpress means that the Panthers are 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:36.280 two and two, And I don't mean that is to 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.960 disparage the team in any way. I just thought that 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.120 coming into this year, it would be really, really hard 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.680 to win early for this team because of the circumstances. 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.240 I mean, you have to think about all the things 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.920 that we're going against this team, from the fact that 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:54.960 you didn't have an off season program and you have 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.920 a new head coach that that offseason program with the 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.880 new head coach is so vital. I always felt in 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.560 order to install systems just to get to know people, 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.720 and really, we've heard about this in the last two weeks, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.000 how people don't know each other that well, and they've 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.440 really made a concerted effort in order to do that. 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.040 So between that and look, the coaches didn't necessarily know 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.640 what the players could do. You might have some operational 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.800 issues just from not being in a stadium with the 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.360 coaches and players and having to go through that operation. 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.360 Having no preseason games, I think it says a lot 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.480 about this team that they have still been able to 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.480 overcome all that to get two wins in the last 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.840 two weeks, and they didn't have Christian McCaffrey. That's actually 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.040 my biggest surprise, so slightly different than yours, is that 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.680 the first two games that the Panthers have ever played 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.280 without Christian McCaffrey in his career here does that make 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:44.640 sense the way I said that, this is the first 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.520 time he's ever missed two games in his career, So 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.880 since the Panthers have had him, he's never missed a game. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:50.960 He misses two games the first time he's on i RM, 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.120 and the Panthers win both of those games. That's my 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:58.000 biggest surprise, and I think just a ton of credit 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.440 goes to Mike Davis. Jibona Funds looked great when he's 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.480 been called up the last two weeks. Um, I just 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.559 think it's it's really incredible. And of course, on a 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.880 football team, you know, it's not about one player, but 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.920 Christian McCaffrey was the first two games, he was one 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.360 scoring all the touchdowns, you know, and and so to 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.480 see other guys step up and to see Joe Brady 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.240 adjust this offense, I just think it's absolutely incredible. And 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.240 by the way, it was very cool to see Christian 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.280 McCaffrey on the sidelines in his bucket hat and his 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.800 turquoise shirt, right up there with the coaches cheering on 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.480 those guys. I mean, when Mike David scored his touchdown 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.160 on Reggie Bond, fund scored to touchdown, He's the first 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.320 guy over there to route them on. And I just 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.400 absolutely love that. So you look around and you know 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.720 there's so many question marks and so many guys that 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.160 you just didn't know anything about until they're going to 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:46.520 get out in the field. So you know, you could 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.800 pick any one of number of these players. So I'm 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.600 gonna go with Phil Snow because you look at back 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.920 at that Tampa game and obviously Carolina couldn't overcome it 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.600 in the second half, but Tom Brady was shut down 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.040 pretty much in the second half. This past week, he 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.920 goes for five touchdowns, wins NFC Player of the Week. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.120 They announced the sporting the previous two games, the ones 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.280 that Carolina wins. You see all these improvements of you know, 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.600 Derek Brown four tackles for a loss in the last 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.959 two games. You see each our ghostmatos come out and 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.839 get a strip sack. You see Justin Burr's playing really well, 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.560 Roswell Douglas playing really well. And this is a team. 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.120 You know, Arizona was lighting it up offensively in a 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.120 lot of ways. You know, like Kyler Murray. Yeah he 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.280 had a one big run, but I mean he was 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.040 leading the NFL in rushing arts for a quarterback. I'm 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.719 not saying they're perfect, They're far from that, but from 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.679 what they were at the end of last year. That defense, 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.960 that was what everyone was worried about. You know, Everyone's 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.720 like this offense could be really good, but you know, 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.000 I don't know if this defense, you know, we'll see 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.800 and I think, you know, he's the first one to say, oh, 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.880 we got a long way to go. But to get 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.520 them to two and two, I think that's a huge surprise, 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.720 is what Phil Snow has been able to do. Love 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.199 it alright, Next category up in our first quarter awards 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.520 glue guy. I love a good glue guy reference on 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.120 a football team. I think there's a number of different 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.199 people you could pick from. Will let's start with you. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:07.920 Who are you giving the glue Guy Award? Two through 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:09.680 the first quarter? Okay, so you guys just kind of 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.319 mentioned this a little bit. I'm gonna go way out 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.760 in a limb on this one. I think the glue 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:18.120 guy most recently is Christian McCaffrey. I mean, as soon 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.320 as he had that, you know, he when he was 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.840 went on i R. He started a press conference with 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:27.880 this long, you know, really really um meaningful statement about hey, 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.400 we're not falling apart, We're going to come together. And 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.240 he set that tone. He's setting the tone by being 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.120 in here in the facility trying to work hard to 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.280 get better. He's the one supporting Mike Davis supporting this offense. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.959 I mean, he's the one on that sideline on Sunday 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.120 that was the biggest cheerleader, first one out in the field. 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.280 You know, like it's weird to have your glue guy 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.720 be the best player on your team, but right now, 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.080 that's what they need him to be. And I think 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.960 that I think that he's fitting that role and that's 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.800 can be hard for a superstar to do that. Well, 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.280 he's living up to being captain, right I think, you know, 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.760 we could see what he was able to do personally 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.720 in order to get that big contract in the off season. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.520 One of the best running backs in the NFL, so 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.240 much more than just a running back, and he was 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.040 I think up into this year, maybe because he's still 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.800 so young, he was viewed as like a great example, 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.880 like you see Christian McCaffrey working hard. There's no excuse 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:23.800 not to work that hard, first guy and last guy out, 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.880 that kind of thing. And this year it's weird. I 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.560 talked to him about it. It's kind of weird that 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.079 he's almost like an elder statesman because this team is 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:35.120 so young, and he took on that role of I'm 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.760 going to be more active I'm gonna, um, you know, encourage, 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.320 I'm going to be vocal, and then got voted to captain. 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.800 And I think he's really lived up to that, which 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.720 I absolutely love, and not that the way he was 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.120 doing it was wrong at all before, but he's just 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:53.800 added that into into his overall you know, repertoire being 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:55.880 a player and being a teammate. And I think it's 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.560 really cool. I've always heard um that, you know, the 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.400 loneliest time for a professional autball player is rehabbing, and 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.160 I think it's so cool to see him dealing with 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:08.800 his first significant injury and hopefully last, making it not 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.920 about himself being here. Like you said starting off that 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.640 press conference by saying, look, before I talk anything about 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.960 this high ankle sprain, I'm gonna talk about this team. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.080 We're oh intwo but I really believe in this culture, 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.280 this atmosphere, and I believe that we can win, no 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.800 doubt that. Kristen, who's your Google guy, you really could 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.640 go quite a few ways. Um. I thought about Russell 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.079 Douglas after the O and two start. He's the one 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.839 that came in and said we gotta have a meeting. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.720 You know, I think that just shows major confidence. We 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:38.719 talked about that two weeks ago, and I think he's 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.760 been a huge part. I think you could go Teddy Um, 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.960 but I'm gonna go Trey Boston. I think that he 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:50.120 is someone, especially over the last two or three weeks 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.960 that you see I mean he's standing beside Matt Rule 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.200 on the field. I mean, I mean the offense was 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.599 on the field for like thirty seven minutes in the 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.160 last game, so we had plenty of time to be 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.320 out there and encourage. But you see him in the 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.360 Sweet Carolines. I mean, he's leading stuff. He just has 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:08.000 that energy and he's such a veteran and I think 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.600 it's really showing right now. And I've heard teammates talk 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.599 about him, Att Rule, talk about him just what he 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.120 is bringing, those intangibles, and we've always known that that's 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.480 who he is, and I think he's really stepped up 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.600 and I think it's showing, you know, in the way 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.160 that this team is playing for each other, no doubt. Uh. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.520 He's so. My glue guy would be somebody that you 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.480 actually just mentioned, and it is Russell Douglas because I 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.240 think those teamings that they had with guys coming up 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.120 and speaking and telling their stories so that people could 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.320 get to know one another better. I think it has 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.560 been a real catalyst in getting this Carolina Panthers team 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.200 to their last two wins. And I mean these guys 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.520 have talked about it. The more you know somebody, the 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.720 better you're going to play for them because you understand 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.360 their why. And I think Douglas having been through what 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.440 he's been through with the Philadelphia Eagles, these playoff runs 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.000 that they've been on them in the the last few years, 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:58.840 he was on the team that won the Super Bowl 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.440 over the New England Patriot. He knows what it takes 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.400 to win and that is one of the things that 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.800 he identified that was missing here. So I think when 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.560 somebody can come in off waivers right before the season starts, 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.600 identify that, do that, and then go out and play 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.000 as well as he's played, I think that really says 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.280 a lot about him. Yeah, those are all uh three 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:24.480 great choices. So let's go now to top feel good moment, Miles. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.400 What you got um? I would say that it's Teddy 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:31.320 Bridgewater's eighteen yard touchdown run uh in in this last 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.240 game over the Arizona Cardinals. And it's interesting because he's 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.080 not necessarily thinking of it like this, and at least 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.200 if he is, he's not saying so publicly, so more 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.120 power to him on that. But when you think about 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.400 everything that Teddy Bridgewater has been through, I mean that 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.440 devastating knee injury that he suffered right before the sixteen 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:55.440 season to now becoming a backup and then winning games 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.480 as a backup for New Orleans last year. Now he 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.840 is a starting quarterback again in the NFL, and he 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.480 as a run like that. I think media wise, we 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.720 want to say it symbolizes him being all the way back, 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.520 and he doesn't necessarily think of it that way, but 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.880 I think we can think of it that way because 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:17.400 it's true. Ye, Kristen, I'm gonna go with Mark's Saints 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.120 getting the first sack of the season out in l A. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.960 That was if it wasn't the first defensive series, it 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.200 was the second. But it was right at the start 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.360 of that Chargers game. And you know, the defense up 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.800 until that point to games in they were owing to 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.280 the defense had not played the way they wanted to play. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.800 They were still putting things together, and that was really 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.000 the start of and that was the big the big talk, 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.680 right was no sacks. They weren't able to get pressure 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:45.200 in those first two weeks. And I just thought that 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.480 was an incredible moment because not only did it get 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.800 kind of you know, they could put that to bed, 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.040 they could put the Sacks storyline to bed. It also 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.720 set the tone for that game, and since that time, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.640 that defense has looked a lot more confident, a lot 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.320 more aggressive. And you know, I also just love that 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.880 it was Marquis says, I. I just remember we were 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.480 here in Charlotte and everyone kind of like looks around 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.439 and stands up or like, oh my gosh, there it is. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.400 And then right after that series after series, we saw 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.399 you know, Brian Burns get back there, we saw Derek 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.399 Brown makes some great play. So I think that that 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.880 was just kind of felt like a turning point right there. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.879 And I think it also gave the defense a lot 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:23.960 of confidence going forward in that game. So that's my 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.560 field good moment, will what's yours? So mine also comes 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.080 from that game, and and that's the touchdown of that game. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.800 Mike Davis. You know, we found out afterwards, you know, 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.080 he talked about his father dying nearly one year to 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.760 the day for that game, and just you know, you 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.320 no one really knew that in that moment, but when 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.240 you saw him, you know, when he spiked that ball, 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.120 there's just so much emotion for him and so much 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.160 emotion for this team of like all the question marks 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:54.040 about Chris McCaffrey and Mike's like I got this, guy's 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:58.239 I got this, Like it's okay, Like we're good. And 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.280 for him, his story, you know, the things that he's 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.920 learned from his brother James Davis. You know, the way 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.320 that he continued to persevere through practice squad, from practice squad, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.280 from you know, potentially not having a future here in 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.760 Carolina and and just to persevere through all of that 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.520 and to really kind of harness that I'm doing this 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.840 for you, Dad, and like for me, I mean, that 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.159 was just an incredible moment. Well, you're gonna make me 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.840 tear up over here. That was That's very well said. 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.800 It was an incredible moment um and one of those 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.520 moments where it's like, you know, it's sports, but it 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.080 has a higher meaning, and you know that moment was 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.280 just so special for him. Um alright, next up in 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:41.200 our first Quarter Awards ceremony, weird just COVID related things. 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.320 So just the way I kind of thought about this 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.520 is like if you told me this time last year, 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.760 this would be happening, that kind of thing. So, so Miles, 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.000 let's start with you. What's your weirdest COVID related thing 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.080 of the first four weeks covering games on television, away 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.280 games on tell I I can't stand it, man, And 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.359 I understand that. I understand why it is. I and 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.720 I think that it's the safe thing to do, the 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:04.840 safe route to do if you can't get there um 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:08.520 efficiently via car and whatnot. But like, man, it's it's 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.879 a struggle because I've never done it before, you know, 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.439 and I'm covering this league for six years, in my 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.159 seventh season doing this, and I've been to pretty much 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.119 every game for the team that I cover, and I 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:20.959 can go to the way press box. You sit there, 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:22.679 you have a hot dog at halftime, you put mustard 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.720 on it. It's great, and like just so to not 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.800 from though that standpoint, like that's weird and not being 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.720 on planes and everything, but like sitting in this press 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:36.000 box and watching television so that I can cover the 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.760 team that I cover is just it blows my mind 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.200 and I don't like it. I mean, Christen, that's got 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.359 to be like the same for you. I mean calling 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:47.720 a game on radio. Yeah, the the only one I 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:52.239 have called on via television, I guess is the best 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.440 way to put it. Was the Chargers game. Um. We 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.760