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Speaker 1: be proud because the Panthers are on a two game
Speaker 1: winning streak. They beat the Cardinals at home. It was fun.
Speaker 1: It was fun to have a home win in front
Speaker 1: of approximately fifty two hundred small but very very mighty fans. Well,
Speaker 1: I know you're used to uh to a full sold
Speaker 1: out stadium, but what did you think of the energy
Speaker 1: in there on Sunday? I thought it was pretty good.
Speaker 1: I thought that the noise I didn't know how they
Speaker 1: were going to do that. Like combined with the noise
Speaker 1: with the fans, it felt loud, It felt full like,
Speaker 1: and you could tell the people that were there they
Speaker 1: were there like they came in with a purpose that
Speaker 1: you know, we know there's only five thousand of us,
Speaker 1: were going to cheer and we're gonna get into it.
Speaker 1: And obviously that the team gave them something to cheer about.
Speaker 1: They came to go to work, Yeah, they did. I
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting in it was a third down
Speaker 1: or some sort of big play on defense, people would
Speaker 1: start banging the seats in front of them to make
Speaker 1: a little bit more noise. I thought that was kind
Speaker 1: of cool. It was just something that I think symbolize
Speaker 1: how look, there weren't that many people in the stadium,
Speaker 1: but they still were. They still were going to be
Speaker 1: heard if you will. Yeah, and I I felt it
Speaker 1: on you know, that long drive for instance, that ten
Speaker 1: play seventy five yard drive. You know, even just hearing
Speaker 1: them say first jown panthers. Wow, you know that's a
Speaker 1: good impression. CHRISTI. I've been practicing for a year, but
Speaker 1: for a long time that was awesome. It might be
Speaker 1: my head and down. I'm not gonna try mad. If
Speaker 1: you guys ever need if the p A guy ever
Speaker 1: needs help, or you ever need help recording some sounds
Speaker 1: you've never tried. Its no, and I'm not about to Nope, Nope,
Speaker 1: not playing this game, Nope, I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I've done it, but I should probably hold off because
Speaker 1: I don't know by my grain, because you didn't really
Speaker 1: well and I don't want to overshadow it. Oh this
Speaker 1: is your day, Okay, Okay, that's fine as well as
Speaker 1: I can. You say that as I'm looking at you
Speaker 1: from the booth of shame. Well, that's just because I
Speaker 1: made a concerted effort to not be late today, although
Speaker 1: both of you were actually here later than the prescribed
Speaker 1: five minutes five minutes. I'm sorry the shame I'm paying
Speaker 1: for it, But guys, I do have a good fans
Speaker 1: story for you, guys. Um At least I think so. Um,
Speaker 1: So I am in the row one operational zone and
Speaker 1: they have the tarps for you know, they have the
Speaker 1: tarps on the first of what is it, ten fifteen
Speaker 1: rows on the home side something like that, and then
Speaker 1: there are fans sitting directly behind it. So I'm, you know,
Speaker 1: following what I do as a sideline reporter, what most
Speaker 1: sideline reporters do is you follow the action. You go.
Speaker 1: You know, they're driving the ball down the field. You
Speaker 1: you follow where the ball is. And so right about midfield, um,
Speaker 1: I'm you know, kind of right behind the bench, and
Speaker 1: there happened to be two fans right behind me, um
Speaker 1: up on the first seats that don't have tarps, and
Speaker 1: I guess they were eating, and I guess someone put
Speaker 1: their beer um right on the tarp. So all the sutime,
Speaker 1: I'm just sitting there. Well, I'm just sitting there and
Speaker 1: a sudden I feel just like a missile hit my
Speaker 1: back and then all of a sudden, I'm just drenched.
Speaker 1: And this guy put he's um, it's definitely a Barry
Speaker 1: I p A because I smelled like it for the
Speaker 1: rest of the game. Barry I p A. It just
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just a missile and the entire
Speaker 1: thing spilled down my back like the back of my shirt.
Speaker 1: I was worried about it getting on. It's called an
Speaker 1: I f B. It's like my pack that I wear. Um,
Speaker 1: so I smelled like a bar or the entire game.
Speaker 1: That was like first quarter and I was just drenched.
Speaker 1: But I mean it was not, it was It was
Speaker 1: totally an accident. They were not, you know, overserved or
Speaker 1: anything that. I think he just honestly set it up
Speaker 1: there as like a ledge. And of course the tarp
Speaker 1: is sloping down because that's the way the seats are.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, so I got to to welcome fans
Speaker 1: back in a unique way. A Barry I p A yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: I was really confident that that was good. Give you
Speaker 1: that ten points to Griffin door anyway, yess one, they
Speaker 1: beat the Cardinals one. You know, how about that guy's
Speaker 1: how about that? I mean, how about this offense right now,
Speaker 1: up and down the field, every drive that you know,
Speaker 1: the long drive, the third down conversions, scoring touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the red zone, all the things we talked about last
Speaker 1: week that they gotta fix. They did. That was the
Speaker 1: biggest key I think started to cut you off, Christen, No,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, not only that we talked about
Speaker 1: they talked about it. You know throughout the week. It
Speaker 1: was improving third downs on offense and defense, tackling better,
Speaker 1: and making the most of red zone opportunities. They did
Speaker 1: all of those things. I was it was really incredible
Speaker 1: in my in my opinion, that they say, all right,
Speaker 1: here are the four things that we really want to
Speaker 1: focus on, and then they came in and improved markedly
Speaker 1: in every single category. Not only that, but to to
Speaker 1: do it against the team that had been first in
Speaker 1: third down defense and second in red zone defense. That
Speaker 1: that was the thing that I you know, was thinking
Speaker 1: last week, all right, if you want to improve all
Speaker 1: these things, that's maybe going to be concerning against this
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals team. But I'll say this to Arizona didn't
Speaker 1: come in looking ready to play last week. Man. They
Speaker 1: really didn't. And you know, sometimes that happens when a
Speaker 1: team goes from west to east. They gotta play in
Speaker 1: the early window and things like that. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's your job as the home team and the opponent
Speaker 1: to then take advantage of that. And I think that
Speaker 1: the Panthers executed everything that they need to needed to
Speaker 1: in order to have a complete team win. I agree,
Speaker 1: And you know, you also do have to say without
Speaker 1: their two starting safeties. DeAndre Hopkins had not practiced all
Speaker 1: week because he was banged up, So there were things
Speaker 1: that you know, maybe if this were fully healthy team,
Speaker 1: it might have looked different. I still think the Panthers
Speaker 1: would have won them. Yeah, I agree with you. So
Speaker 1: two and two, four games in. You know, Miles, we
Speaker 1: talked about breaking down the season into quarters. Always do it.
Speaker 1: First quarter is over, Let's say out some awards. Let's
Speaker 1: do it all right, First up, gentlemen, and our first
Speaker 1: quarter awards. Biggest Surprise, Miles be given that award to Well,
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily a person. Look, I'm I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: say that the biggest Surpress means that the Panthers are
Speaker 1: two and two, And I don't mean that is to
Speaker 1: disparage the team in any way. I just thought that
Speaker 1: coming into this year, it would be really, really hard
Speaker 1: to win early for this team because of the circumstances.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to think about all the things
Speaker 1: that we're going against this team, from the fact that
Speaker 1: you didn't have an off season program and you have
Speaker 1: a new head coach that that offseason program with the
Speaker 1: new head coach is so vital. I always felt in
Speaker 1: order to install systems just to get to know people,
Speaker 1: and really, we've heard about this in the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: how people don't know each other that well, and they've
Speaker 1: really made a concerted effort in order to do that.
Speaker 1: So between that and look, the coaches didn't necessarily know
Speaker 1: what the players could do. You might have some operational
Speaker 1: issues just from not being in a stadium with the
Speaker 1: coaches and players and having to go through that operation.
Speaker 1: Having no preseason games, I think it says a lot
Speaker 1: about this team that they have still been able to
Speaker 1: overcome all that to get two wins in the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, and they didn't have Christian McCaffrey. That's actually
Speaker 1: my biggest surprise, so slightly different than yours, is that
Speaker 1: the first two games that the Panthers have ever played
Speaker 1: without Christian McCaffrey in his career here does that make
Speaker 1: sense the way I said that, this is the first
Speaker 1: time he's ever missed two games in his career, So
Speaker 1: since the Panthers have had him, he's never missed a game.
Speaker 1: He misses two games the first time he's on i RM,
Speaker 1: and the Panthers win both of those games. That's my
Speaker 1: biggest surprise, and I think just a ton of credit
Speaker 1: goes to Mike Davis. Jibona Funds looked great when he's
Speaker 1: been called up the last two weeks. Um, I just
Speaker 1: think it's it's really incredible. And of course, on a
Speaker 1: football team, you know, it's not about one player, but
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey was the first two games, he was one
Speaker 1: scoring all the touchdowns, you know, and and so to
Speaker 1: see other guys step up and to see Joe Brady
Speaker 1: adjust this offense, I just think it's absolutely incredible. And
Speaker 1: by the way, it was very cool to see Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey on the sidelines in his bucket hat and his
Speaker 1: turquoise shirt, right up there with the coaches cheering on
Speaker 1: those guys. I mean, when Mike David scored his touchdown
Speaker 1: on Reggie Bond, fund scored to touchdown, He's the first
Speaker 1: guy over there to route them on. And I just
Speaker 1: absolutely love that. So you look around and you know
Speaker 1: there's so many question marks and so many guys that
Speaker 1: you just didn't know anything about until they're going to
Speaker 1: get out in the field. So you know, you could
Speaker 1: pick any one of number of these players. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with Phil Snow because you look at back
Speaker 1: at that Tampa game and obviously Carolina couldn't overcome it
Speaker 1: in the second half, but Tom Brady was shut down
Speaker 1: pretty much in the second half. This past week, he
Speaker 1: goes for five touchdowns, wins NFC Player of the Week.
Speaker 1: They announced the sporting the previous two games, the ones
Speaker 1: that Carolina wins. You see all these improvements of you know,
Speaker 1: Derek Brown four tackles for a loss in the last
Speaker 1: two games. You see each our ghostmatos come out and
Speaker 1: get a strip sack. You see Justin Burr's playing really well,
Speaker 1: Roswell Douglas playing really well. And this is a team.
Speaker 1: You know, Arizona was lighting it up offensively in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways. You know, like Kyler Murray. Yeah he
Speaker 1: had a one big run, but I mean he was
Speaker 1: leading the NFL in rushing arts for a quarterback. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying they're perfect, They're far from that, but from
Speaker 1: what they were at the end of last year. That defense,
Speaker 1: that was what everyone was worried about. You know, Everyone's
Speaker 1: like this offense could be really good, but you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this defense, you know, we'll see
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, he's the first one to say, oh,
Speaker 1: we got a long way to go. But to get
Speaker 1: them to two and two, I think that's a huge surprise,
Speaker 1: is what Phil Snow has been able to do. Love
Speaker 1: it alright, Next category up in our first quarter awards
Speaker 1: glue guy. I love a good glue guy reference on
Speaker 1: a football team. I think there's a number of different
Speaker 1: people you could pick from. Will let's start with you.
Speaker 1: Who are you giving the glue Guy Award? Two through
Speaker 1: the first quarter? Okay, so you guys just kind of
Speaker 1: mentioned this a little bit. I'm gonna go way out
Speaker 1: in a limb on this one. I think the glue
Speaker 1: guy most recently is Christian McCaffrey. I mean, as soon
Speaker 1: as he had that, you know, he when he was
Speaker 1: went on i R. He started a press conference with
Speaker 1: this long, you know, really really um meaningful statement about hey,
Speaker 1: we're not falling apart, We're going to come together. And
Speaker 1: he set that tone. He's setting the tone by being
Speaker 1: in here in the facility trying to work hard to
Speaker 1: get better. He's the one supporting Mike Davis supporting this offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the one on that sideline on Sunday
Speaker 1: that was the biggest cheerleader, first one out in the field.
Speaker 1: You know, like it's weird to have your glue guy
Speaker 1: be the best player on your team, but right now,
Speaker 1: that's what they need him to be. And I think
Speaker 1: that I think that he's fitting that role and that's
Speaker 1: can be hard for a superstar to do that. Well,
Speaker 1: he's living up to being captain, right I think, you know,
Speaker 1: we could see what he was able to do personally
Speaker 1: in order to get that big contract in the off season.
Speaker 1: One of the best running backs in the NFL, so
Speaker 1: much more than just a running back, and he was
Speaker 1: I think up into this year, maybe because he's still
Speaker 1: so young, he was viewed as like a great example,
Speaker 1: like you see Christian McCaffrey working hard. There's no excuse
Speaker 1: not to work that hard, first guy and last guy out,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And this year it's weird. I
Speaker 1: talked to him about it. It's kind of weird that
Speaker 1: he's almost like an elder statesman because this team is
Speaker 1: so young, and he took on that role of I'm
Speaker 1: going to be more active I'm gonna, um, you know, encourage,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be vocal, and then got voted to captain.
Speaker 1: And I think he's really lived up to that, which
Speaker 1: I absolutely love, and not that the way he was
Speaker 1: doing it was wrong at all before, but he's just
Speaker 1: added that into into his overall you know, repertoire being
Speaker 1: a player and being a teammate. And I think it's
Speaker 1: really cool. I've always heard um that, you know, the
Speaker 1: loneliest time for a professional autball player is rehabbing, and
Speaker 1: I think it's so cool to see him dealing with
Speaker 1: his first significant injury and hopefully last, making it not
Speaker 1: about himself being here. Like you said starting off that
Speaker 1: press conference by saying, look, before I talk anything about
Speaker 1: this high ankle sprain, I'm gonna talk about this team.
Speaker 1: We're oh intwo but I really believe in this culture,
Speaker 1: this atmosphere, and I believe that we can win, no
Speaker 1: doubt that. Kristen, who's your Google guy, you really could
Speaker 1: go quite a few ways. Um. I thought about Russell
Speaker 1: Douglas after the O and two start. He's the one
Speaker 1: that came in and said we gotta have a meeting.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that just shows major confidence. We
Speaker 1: talked about that two weeks ago, and I think he's
Speaker 1: been a huge part. I think you could go Teddy Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go Trey Boston. I think that he
Speaker 1: is someone, especially over the last two or three weeks
Speaker 1: that you see I mean he's standing beside Matt Rule
Speaker 1: on the field. I mean, I mean the offense was
Speaker 1: on the field for like thirty seven minutes in the
Speaker 1: last game, so we had plenty of time to be
Speaker 1: out there and encourage. But you see him in the
Speaker 1: Sweet Carolines. I mean, he's leading stuff. He just has
Speaker 1: that energy and he's such a veteran and I think
Speaker 1: it's really showing right now. And I've heard teammates talk
Speaker 1: about him, Att Rule, talk about him just what he
Speaker 1: is bringing, those intangibles, and we've always known that that's
Speaker 1: who he is, and I think he's really stepped up
Speaker 1: and I think it's showing, you know, in the way
Speaker 1: that this team is playing for each other, no doubt. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's so. My glue guy would be somebody that you
Speaker 1: actually just mentioned, and it is Russell Douglas because I
Speaker 1: think those teamings that they had with guys coming up
Speaker 1: and speaking and telling their stories so that people could
Speaker 1: get to know one another better. I think it has
Speaker 1: been a real catalyst in getting this Carolina Panthers team
Speaker 1: to their last two wins. And I mean these guys
Speaker 1: have talked about it. The more you know somebody, the
Speaker 1: better you're going to play for them because you understand
Speaker 1: their why. And I think Douglas having been through what
Speaker 1: he's been through with the Philadelphia Eagles, these playoff runs
Speaker 1: that they've been on them in the the last few years,
Speaker 1: he was on the team that won the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: over the New England Patriot. He knows what it takes
Speaker 1: to win and that is one of the things that
Speaker 1: he identified that was missing here. So I think when
Speaker 1: somebody can come in off waivers right before the season starts,
Speaker 1: identify that, do that, and then go out and play
Speaker 1: as well as he's played, I think that really says
Speaker 1: a lot about him. Yeah, those are all uh three
Speaker 1: great choices. So let's go now to top feel good moment, Miles.
Speaker 1: What you got um? I would say that it's Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater's eighteen yard touchdown run uh in in this last
Speaker 1: game over the Arizona Cardinals. And it's interesting because he's
Speaker 1: not necessarily thinking of it like this, and at least
Speaker 1: if he is, he's not saying so publicly, so more
Speaker 1: power to him on that. But when you think about
Speaker 1: everything that Teddy Bridgewater has been through, I mean that
Speaker 1: devastating knee injury that he suffered right before the sixteen
Speaker 1: season to now becoming a backup and then winning games
Speaker 1: as a backup for New Orleans last year. Now he
Speaker 1: is a starting quarterback again in the NFL, and he
Speaker 1: as a run like that. I think media wise, we
Speaker 1: want to say it symbolizes him being all the way back,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't necessarily think of it that way, but
Speaker 1: I think we can think of it that way because
Speaker 1: it's true. Ye, Kristen, I'm gonna go with Mark's Saints
Speaker 1: getting the first sack of the season out in l A.
Speaker 1: That was if it wasn't the first defensive series, it
Speaker 1: was the second. But it was right at the start
Speaker 1: of that Chargers game. And you know, the defense up
Speaker 1: until that point to games in they were owing to
Speaker 1: the defense had not played the way they wanted to play.
Speaker 1: They were still putting things together, and that was really
Speaker 1: the start of and that was the big the big talk,
Speaker 1: right was no sacks. They weren't able to get pressure
Speaker 1: in those first two weeks. And I just thought that
Speaker 1: was an incredible moment because not only did it get
Speaker 1: kind of you know, they could put that to bed,
Speaker 1: they could put the Sacks storyline to bed. It also
Speaker 1: set the tone for that game, and since that time,
Speaker 1: that defense has looked a lot more confident, a lot
Speaker 1: more aggressive. And you know, I also just love that
Speaker 1: it was Marquis says, I. I just remember we were
Speaker 1: here in Charlotte and everyone kind of like looks around
Speaker 1: and stands up or like, oh my gosh, there it is.
Speaker 1: And then right after that series after series, we saw
Speaker 1: you know, Brian Burns get back there, we saw Derek
Speaker 1: Brown makes some great play. So I think that that
Speaker 1: was just kind of felt like a turning point right there.
Speaker 1: And I think it also gave the defense a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence going forward in that game. So that's my
Speaker 1: field good moment, will what's yours? So mine also comes
Speaker 1: from that game, and and that's the touchdown of that game.
Speaker 1: Mike Davis. You know, we found out afterwards, you know,
Speaker 1: he talked about his father dying nearly one year to
Speaker 1: the day for that game, and just you know, you
Speaker 1: no one really knew that in that moment, but when
Speaker 1: you saw him, you know, when he spiked that ball,
Speaker 1: there's just so much emotion for him and so much
Speaker 1: emotion for this team of like all the question marks
Speaker 1: about Chris McCaffrey and Mike's like I got this, guy's
Speaker 1: I got this, Like it's okay, Like we're good. And
Speaker 1: for him, his story, you know, the things that he's
Speaker 1: learned from his brother James Davis. You know, the way
Speaker 1: that he continued to persevere through practice squad, from practice squad,
Speaker 1: from you know, potentially not having a future here in
Speaker 1: Carolina and and just to persevere through all of that
Speaker 1: and to really kind of harness that I'm doing this
Speaker 1: for you, Dad, and like for me, I mean, that
Speaker 1: was just an incredible moment. Well, you're gonna make me
Speaker 1: tear up over here. That was That's very well said.
Speaker 1: It was an incredible moment um and one of those
Speaker 1: moments where it's like, you know, it's sports, but it
Speaker 1: has a higher meaning, and you know that moment was
Speaker 1: just so special for him. Um alright, next up in
Speaker 1: our first Quarter Awards ceremony, weird just COVID related things.
Speaker 1: So just the way I kind of thought about this
Speaker 1: is like if you told me this time last year,
Speaker 1: this would be happening, that kind of thing. So, so Miles,
Speaker 1: let's start with you. What's your weirdest COVID related thing
Speaker 1: of the first four weeks covering games on television, away
Speaker 1: games on tell I I can't stand it, man, And
Speaker 1: I understand that. I understand why it is. I and
Speaker 1: I think that it's the safe thing to do, the
Speaker 1: safe route to do if you can't get there um
Speaker 1: efficiently via car and whatnot. But like, man, it's it's
Speaker 1: a struggle because I've never done it before, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm covering this league for six years, in my
Speaker 1: seventh season doing this, and I've been to pretty much
Speaker 1: every game for the team that I cover, and I
Speaker 1: can go to the way press box. You sit there,
Speaker 1: you have a hot dog at halftime, you put mustard
Speaker 1: on it. It's great, and like just so to not
Speaker 1: from though that standpoint, like that's weird and not being
Speaker 1: on planes and everything, but like sitting in this press
Speaker 1: box and watching television so that I can cover the
Speaker 1: team that I cover is just it blows my mind
Speaker 1: and I don't like it. I mean, Christen, that's got
Speaker 1: to be like the same for you. I mean calling
Speaker 1: a game on radio. Yeah, the the only one I
Speaker 1: have called on via television, I guess is the best
Speaker 1: way to put it. Was the Chargers game. Um. We
Speaker 1: took a bus van down to Tampa, um miles. You
Speaker 1: could there are plenty of seats if you wanted to
Speaker 1: have jumped in, uh in a nice little ten and
Speaker 1: a half hour drive down and ten and a half
Speaker 1: hours back. But you know, yeah, yeah I didn't see
Speaker 1: you there, so uh. But it was It was strange
Speaker 1: because just as a sideline reporter, I go, okay, you
Speaker 1: know someone's out of the game, like what's happening and
Speaker 1: you can't see it. You know, those are just your
Speaker 1: instincts to try to gather that that information. But I
Speaker 1: think it really taught me a lot. It's stretched kind
Speaker 1: of um where I'm comfortable and trying to find ways
Speaker 1: other ways to contribute. Um. So I think it was
Speaker 1: a good learning experience. I would like to keep it
Speaker 1: at a minimum going forward. Um. But yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: the way it is. But my weirdest COVID related thing
Speaker 1: is that first home game coming in here with no fans.
Speaker 1: It was weird to me And now this is that
Speaker 1: was my first NFL game to cover ever. So um,
Speaker 1: but like driving up here, we come to work every day.
Speaker 1: You go in the same security, you know, you have
Speaker 1: the same procedures, you park in the same place, and
Speaker 1: all of that was the same. But then they were
Speaker 1: like seven more layers of security. But then there are
Speaker 1: no fans around. It just was a strange kind of
Speaker 1: not you know, fully a game, but not fully a
Speaker 1: normal day of work. And I just kind of thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is maybe the only time that there will be
Speaker 1: a game with no fans at Bank of America. And
Speaker 1: I kind of just sat there and said, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I'm really lucky to be here. So that was kind
Speaker 1: of my weirdest COVID related thing of this season so far.
Speaker 1: Will it's not getting hit in the back with the Verry,
Speaker 1: I p a no, because that's a normal that's a normal. Look.
Speaker 1: We've covered a lot of college football games. It's not
Speaker 1: that abnormal. Okay, well what's yours? So mine? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think just just working from home, you know, I've
Speaker 1: never worked from home in my life. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: there are a couple of days where we come in
Speaker 1: the statem we do different things. But you know, for
Speaker 1: the large part, I'm working from home, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's just the weirdest thing. Um And it's it's taken
Speaker 1: a long time to get used to and even now
Speaker 1: I'm still not sure I want to get used to it.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I mean that's something that all you so
Speaker 1: all of us are doing in some way, shape or form,
Speaker 1: you know, around the country, or at least a lot
Speaker 1: of people are. Um So just being being at home
Speaker 1: when the different things that that creates, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just I mean that's kind of it for me.
Speaker 1: Are you someone that like gets dressed, like full on
Speaker 1: dress for work like you normally? Would know? I need to, No,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't why. I don't know, it's like I'm supposed to.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like helps you like get into that
Speaker 1: or whatever. Alright, Uh, last up, will you had a
Speaker 1: great addition to our first quarter awards. As we look
Speaker 1: at the next quarter the next four games, who are
Speaker 1: we keeping an eye on who to watch the next
Speaker 1: four weeks? Will you start? Yeah? I think it's it's
Speaker 1: the secondary, it's the cornerbacks. Um. Eli Apple came back
Speaker 1: from Inja Reserve and went, you know, got hurt immediately
Speaker 1: within six plays on special teams. That was supposed to
Speaker 1: be some depth there to really kind of carry. You know,
Speaker 1: you look at these next four games. It's Atlanta twice,
Speaker 1: it's New Orleans, it's Chicago. Chicago has got a three
Speaker 1: on one record. You know, you have Alan Robinson now
Speaker 1: on that team. Michael Thomas is supposed to be back
Speaker 1: for New Orleans by the time Carolina plays them in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. You know, Julio Jones is questionable
Speaker 1: this week as we kind of get injury reports. But
Speaker 1: you know, Calvin Ridley has been been killing it for them.
Speaker 1: You know. So there's a lot of big passing offenses,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees, Matt Ryan, there's some big time receivers, and
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, Dante Jackson hasn't I don't think
Speaker 1: he has he played a full game yet, you know,
Speaker 1: and so it's like it's Rosale Douglas and it's hopefully
Speaker 1: Dante for a full game. You know, who's who's gonna
Speaker 1: be shutting these guys down? You know, um uh gyre
Speaker 1: for um for Green Bay, you know, shutdown Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 1: Five targets, no catches on Monday Night, football. You know
Speaker 1: who's going to be able to do that because Ridley
Speaker 1: is gonna get his looks on Sunday. So how is
Speaker 1: the secondary gonna handle what's now? You know kind of
Speaker 1: everyone talk about NFC South receivers, Well here we go. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. Um I would say over the next four weeks,
Speaker 1: I gotta watch is Brian Burns because as we look
Speaker 1: at you know, you're talking about the wide receivers, also
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. These guys are more stationary pocket guys. In
Speaker 1: terms of Matt Ryan, Nick Foles if he is still
Speaker 1: out there, who knows what's going to happen in Chicago
Speaker 1: for next week. But then also Drew Brees, all those
Speaker 1: guys are pocket passers. So you don't necessarily have to
Speaker 1: do the same things where you're doing things with Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray and Justin Herbert too in some respects where you've
Speaker 1: got to make sure your rush lanes are dictated so
Speaker 1: that you can't let those guys out of the pocket
Speaker 1: and run and things like that. Now, obviously, any quarterback,
Speaker 1: if they've got a chance, they're gonna take it, but
Speaker 1: that's not necessarily the primary concern that you have to
Speaker 1: worry about with those guys. So that being said, Brian Burns,
Speaker 1: I expect to be able to get home a little
Speaker 1: bit more and that some of that's gonna be predicated
Speaker 1: by the cornerback play and how they're able to cover
Speaker 1: guys and whether or not guys can get rid of
Speaker 1: the ball real quick. But if the Panthers get their
Speaker 1: opponents in these third, medium, third and long situations, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have a little bit more time in order to
Speaker 1: rush the passer. And Brian Burns has been real close
Speaker 1: on a lot of these things. He I think is
Speaker 1: gonna start getting home a little bit more and so
Speaker 1: I think he's definitely one to watch over the next
Speaker 1: four games. Kristen, who you got? Yeah, I'm I'm ready
Speaker 1: to see some more of those Spider Man sack poses.
Speaker 1: He said he's got some anime ones in the mix,
Speaker 1: so I know he is just dying to get those
Speaker 1: out there. Um and I would like to see it.
Speaker 1: Mine is I don't know if this is kind of
Speaker 1: a cop out because he's not on the field right now,
Speaker 1: but somebody that we've talked about a lot, Christian McCaffrey. Um, So,
Speaker 1: he just completed week two of at least the minimum
Speaker 1: three weeks of I r UM and you know that
Speaker 1: high ankle sprain. The diagnosis he said was four to
Speaker 1: six weeks, but he said he's going to take it
Speaker 1: as a as a personal challenge to come back before that,
Speaker 1: you know, to be ahead of schedule in his rehab.
Speaker 1: But I just have been so excited and so pleasantly
Speaker 1: surprised by what this offense has been able to do
Speaker 1: without him, Um that just think about adding him back
Speaker 1: into the mix as as the Panthers get into this
Speaker 1: tough part of the schedule, as we get into these
Speaker 1: division matchups. So I'm really interested to see how he's
Speaker 1: progressing over the next few weeks and if he makes
Speaker 1: it back in this four week stretch, and then what
Speaker 1: that means for the offense, because now you've got you know,
Speaker 1: Mike Davis. It's got a lot of confidence down there,
Speaker 1: and he's shown that that he's a great red zone target.
Speaker 1: He can get the ball into the end zone. UM.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm excited to see, hopefully within this next
Speaker 1: four weeks, if he's feeling good and ready to go, Um,
Speaker 1: how Christian McCaffrey can can add to what Joe Brady
Speaker 1: and Teddy Bridgewater and Mike Davis have been doing on
Speaker 1: this offense. All right, let's take a quick break and
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Speaker 1: a little bit about Game five and will as you said,
Speaker 1: this upcoming stretch of four games the next quarter of
Speaker 1: the season. We uh, I say we, I mean we
Speaker 1: as in Miles and I are going down to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say we, but I don't want to
Speaker 1: sound like the team we you know where. I'm like,
Speaker 1: we we gotta get out there and get tough, like
Speaker 1: we gotta play hard. Um. But now Miles and I
Speaker 1: will be going down um to the game, which I
Speaker 1: am excited about. The Panthers will be playing the Falcons
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Um and well, as we get into this
Speaker 1: next stretch, you have a great perspective on division rivalries.
Speaker 1: Now I'm a Panthers fan. I have my own kind
Speaker 1: of ranking of division opponents. Miles. You're coming in from
Speaker 1: from the West coast, and Will was kind of explaining
Speaker 1: it a little bit before we started recording. I said,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you know, save it for the air,
Speaker 1: take us through it. So so give us the version
Speaker 1: of the division rivalries. Who hates who the more? You
Speaker 1: know where Panthers fans put their energy. Well, there's a
Speaker 1: reason I'm not going to Atlanta. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: do it. Is not going to Atlanta. No no interest,
Speaker 1: no desire, not doing it. Not a fan of Atlanta.
Speaker 1: And I'll say this, I know some people that live
Speaker 1: here in Charlotte and they feel the same way, like
Speaker 1: this is this is the game that everyone both like
Speaker 1: really really wants to win and really kind of it
Speaker 1: gets your blood boiling. No one, No one enjoys playing
Speaker 1: Atlanta in Atlanta. This is a slugfest. Even when one
Speaker 1: team is not great, oh and four another team is
Speaker 1: is going on. You know, like, now you throw out
Speaker 1: the records the game, playing Atlanta at Atlanta that gets
Speaker 1: the blood boiling the most, versus like playing New Orleans
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Oh yeah, this is this is the one. Now,
Speaker 1: in the past, there was some you know some of
Speaker 1: the years in years past was you know, this was
Speaker 1: Cam going home, you know, So there's that whole layer
Speaker 1: of it. But I think even before that, I mean
Speaker 1: back in back in the John Fox days, this was
Speaker 1: there were so many epic games with Mike Vick there
Speaker 1: in overtime. I mean, it was just it was nuts.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I think if you break down the
Speaker 1: NFC South, the Panthers really hate Atlanta, really hate Atlanta. Now,
Speaker 1: Atlanta in New Orleans have their kind of thing. They
Speaker 1: see themselves as like the premier rivalry of the NFC South,
Speaker 1: and Atlanta is like, yeah, I mean we don't we
Speaker 1: don't like Carolina, but like New Orleans is like the
Speaker 1: team that we're going to hate, and the New Orleans
Speaker 1: feels the same way. And there they kind of returned,
Speaker 1: you know, they're like, yeah, New Orleans Atlanta, that's like
Speaker 1: the Duke North Carolina of you know, NFL. And it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: and then we're like, no, no, Carolina Atlanta were we
Speaker 1: we hate each other and this right, and so who's
Speaker 1: the wake Forest It's Tampa Bay because they're like, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, hold on, we watch someone to hate us.
Speaker 1: We play in the same Division two. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: we don't hate you. It's Florida. It's Florida. And you
Speaker 1: know you you go down there and you don't hate Florida.
Speaker 1: There's nothing. You just kind of like it's it's not hate.
Speaker 1: It's a different thing. Florida is a different thing. In
Speaker 1: in London I had. We had the greatest time. The
Speaker 1: Tampa people were like, oh, look at us. We're in London.
Speaker 1: We're like, hello, come on in Bucks fans, it's okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna beat you. Disrespect right now so much. I
Speaker 1: mean they they want to be rivals with us so much.
Speaker 1: In really nah, it's okay, we're good. But that's scene
Speaker 1: in Madmen. I don't think about you at all. I
Speaker 1: just think it's interesting because I feel like in recent
Speaker 1: years the Saints that feels like the team to me
Speaker 1: as a as a fan. Before coming to work for
Speaker 1: the Panthers, that was a team that I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: This just just grinds my gears. But I do know
Speaker 1: that that Atlanta long stay ending rivalry. Trump's all. But
Speaker 1: even when they're oh and four, oh yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: because especially when the Saints are almost like yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they're like the team that you know, yeah, that
Speaker 1: we got to knock them off. You know, they've got
Speaker 1: Drew Brees and you know, you really you want to
Speaker 1: beat them because they're good at football. But Atlanta, you
Speaker 1: just want to beat Atlanta. Okay, Well we'll see if
Speaker 1: the Panthers can do that. Sunday one Easter. Uh. This
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Speaker 1: honor of Atlanta and Will saying that he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to go. Although Atlanta is a beautiful city, I think
Speaker 1: it has a lot more to do with the Falcons
Speaker 1: are weird. Question of the week is what is the
Speaker 1: most popular place you'd never want to go? This is
Speaker 1: a good question, Miles, um My first instinct is to say,
Speaker 1: Disney World. Have you never been as a child, Yes,
Speaker 1: a long long time ago into galaxy far far away.
Speaker 1: But like, I don't know, it's just I don't have
Speaker 1: kids and I'm not one of those adult Disney persons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just you don't have the ears. No.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe it's because I'm single and childless, but like,
Speaker 1: I just don't Disney. I can, I can do that.
Speaker 1: It's just a bunch of like to me, but when
Speaker 1: I think of Disney, it's just like a bunch of
Speaker 1: snot nose kids all running around and like waiting in
Speaker 1: long lines. And I'm not a big amusement part guy.
Speaker 1: Any is that is that? Like you're not going to
Speaker 1: six Flags or Bush Gardens either. I'm very afraid of
Speaker 1: roller coasters, like very very afraid. Yes, yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: do it. So I guess that it's all it all
Speaker 1: factors in right. Yeah, I mean that's a big part
Speaker 1: of it. You're just not into amusement parts. You're not
Speaker 1: going to Carowin's. I don't know, I don't even know
Speaker 1: to that's wild okay, sorry, right down the road. I'm
Speaker 1: not from here, guys. I've lived here for like three months,
Speaker 1: and it's been funny those regional things that you're like,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that you wouldn't know what carolines are.
Speaker 1: Do you know what Belk is? Miles, Yes, because of
Speaker 1: the Belk Bowl. Okay, that's fair, No longer, Oh it's not.
Speaker 1: It's the Duke's Mayo Bowl. Yeah. Oh I actually you
Speaker 1: know what? I think that the best best college bull
Speaker 1: Twitter account though, was the it was awesome. All right,
Speaker 1: Well what's yours? So I don't know if I'm allowed
Speaker 1: to say this because now that like I'm no longer single, like,
Speaker 1: but Paris, Paris is the best city ever when you
Speaker 1: want to go to Paris, amazing, Thank you you guys.
Speaker 1: It's the coolest city I'd love to go to. I
Speaker 1: want to go to the luver you Kidney, No, I
Speaker 1: I prefer you know, Switzerland or Scotland or not. Love
Speaker 1: traveling France is not my thing. Have you ever been?
Speaker 1: That's what you think? Until you go. I swear it's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's not like I feel like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: like Eiffel Tower, canvas, art in bed bath beyond and
Speaker 1: stuff like. It's not that at all. It's a it's
Speaker 1: such a cool city. It's a very cool different city.
Speaker 1: It's not cheesy. What's your beef with Paris bro I
Speaker 1: mean maybe maybe Christian's right. Maybe it's just it's all
Speaker 1: stereotypes and I'm just not giving it a chance. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's a podcast and we're hot taking, so
Speaker 1: there's my hot Like you don't have a reason, Like
Speaker 1: I don't understand what the reason I mean. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've been doing this for a while. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that that you said, Miles, that I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I have a reason. Yeah, You're allowed to have
Speaker 1: your wrong opinion. That's fine, that's fine. Good, good call, Chris.
Speaker 1: I will put them all kind of in the same category,
Speaker 1: like the fun resort beach like Cancoon Cabo, all of
Speaker 1: those places. I am just someone who I want to
Speaker 1: go to bed at ten o'clock on vacation, Like I just,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to have a read a book
Speaker 1: and uh and maybe you know sip uh Dacre. I
Speaker 1: don't want to go to And this is again and
Speaker 1: in the before times, as Miles said, like I don't
Speaker 1: want to go to senor Frogs. I don't you know,
Speaker 1: want to go out all day. I don't really want
Speaker 1: to go on like an excursion, like a you know whatever,
Speaker 1: You're all on a boat and then you go out
Speaker 1: to the place with the trampoline, Like, I just want
Speaker 1: to relax, and I I think those places are awesome,
Speaker 1: but I just I'm an old lady at heart, and
Speaker 1: I you know, you guys like bachelorette parties, bachelor parties
Speaker 1: are like, oh, we're going here, and I'm like, oh god,
Speaker 1: you know that's that's like three days of just going
Speaker 1: from place to place and I just need to relax. So, man,
Speaker 1: I think that everyone that just listened between Disney World,
Speaker 1: Paris and Cancoon, they must they must think we're just awful.
Speaker 1: We're the biggest curmudgeons of all time. Sank goodness. We
Speaker 1: put this at the end of the podcast. Hope nobody
Speaker 1: got this far. Yeah, we're gonna end on a real downer.
Speaker 1: We hate all of those amazing places. Alright, your local
Speaker 1: collections are signing off. We're just a just a great
Speaker 1: way to end the podcast. Um, thank you all so
Speaker 1: much for listening. If you're still here after we just
Speaker 1: bashed all those incredible places, We'll see you next week
Speaker 1: on the Happy Half. Hour podcast,