Speaker 1: We are home from training camp, and like all good
Speaker 1: training camps, there are things that everyone is overreacting about.
Speaker 1: So we're taking a look at those and maybe some
Speaker 1: things we like to overreact about. In general. Mine is
Speaker 1: the heat. I mean, I was talking about the hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen degree heat index was but little you were
Speaker 1: inside for that day. And the Panthers are taking on
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills for week two of the preseason. We're
Speaker 1: telling you what we'll be looking for. Run game, run blocking,
Speaker 1: the running backs in general. I field did have two
Speaker 1: touchdowns UM, but their yard per carry average and this
Speaker 1: their ability to get into the second level wasn't quite
Speaker 1: there the way I think round Overa wants to see it.
Speaker 1: All of this and so much more on the group chat.
Speaker 1: You've been added to the group chat with your friends Caroline,
Speaker 1: can Max Sensen, and Will Brian. We are back home.
Speaker 1: We're not in Spartanburg anymore. People, We're back in Charlotte.
Speaker 1: How does it feel, guys? The thing that was such
Speaker 1: a pause? Do you have to think about how good
Speaker 1: it is to be home? This? My just sense is
Speaker 1: that we're all pretty tired. I think we're all just
Speaker 1: still kind of like dragging a bit, so there might
Speaker 1: be some pauses just because it's our reaction time. Isn't
Speaker 1: that quick? Oh? Completely? I walking in this morning and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, welcome back, It's so great to
Speaker 1: have you back. And I'm just like, yeah, I had
Speaker 1: to scoot her into work, so I don't really have,
Speaker 1: um the energy for that. There's so many cars in
Speaker 1: our parking lot here that I came on time for
Speaker 1: work ready to get a parking spot, head on in there,
Speaker 1: took a couple of laps, went to another parking lot,
Speaker 1: went on a lap, and then went right back home
Speaker 1: and got on a scooter and came to work four
Speaker 1: dollars and thirty cents later for me to get to work.
Speaker 1: I'm not bitter about it. That's a fun little right
Speaker 1: It actually kind of was. I thought to myself, I'm
Speaker 1: not mad about this. This is just not you know,
Speaker 1: my commute this morning ended up being about thirty five
Speaker 1: minutes and I live a mile and a half away.
Speaker 1: And that was just the funny part to me was
Speaker 1: I would have been on time. Um, but yeah, that's
Speaker 1: where we are. We are a little bit tired, but
Speaker 1: we're home and we're excited about that. I always love
Speaker 1: training camp. It's fun. It's a I don't like name
Speaker 1: another job where you get to go to sleepaway camp
Speaker 1: and just watch football for like three weeks and do
Speaker 1: nothing else. There is no other responsibility that you have
Speaker 1: while you were there other than watch football. Yes, it's true,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a good It's it's like team
Speaker 1: bonding for the players. It's also for like our staff.
Speaker 1: You're all down there together. Everyone's like tired and sweaty
Speaker 1: and dealing with the same stuff. No one likes being
Speaker 1: in the dorms, but you're like, it's there's a camaraderie
Speaker 1: that comes through, like all going through that together, which
Speaker 1: I've always liked. Missery loves company. And so if you
Speaker 1: don't like the dorms, there's about a hundred other people
Speaker 1: that don't enjoy dorms as well, unless you're the lucky
Speaker 1: list of people that get to stay in the Marriott
Speaker 1: in Spartanburg. I'm trying to get on that list next year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I kind of like I like the
Speaker 1: dorm life there, you know, it's it brings you back.
Speaker 1: Although I think that my dorms and my college were
Speaker 1: better than those, well, I have. I actually cannot complain
Speaker 1: at all the women of the Panthers. Here we get
Speaker 1: like these Southern style homes that have four bedroom apartments
Speaker 1: in them, so I don't like, I cannot except for
Speaker 1: what they're extremely empty with no furniture in them except
Speaker 1: where like a table and four chairs, So everything echoes,
Speaker 1: like in the morning if you're trying to get up
Speaker 1: and be quiet, like I will get up earlier and
Speaker 1: have to do my hair and make up and get
Speaker 1: ready to be on camera, and I'm like tiptoeing around
Speaker 1: still making so much noise. So there's so many stories
Speaker 1: from Spartan that we will probably share over the course
Speaker 1: of these next few weeks. But out of Spartanburg comes
Speaker 1: over reactions. We've already named Brian Burns going to the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame for sure. His bust is being made
Speaker 1: in Canton as we speak. I think Curtis Samuel he'll
Speaker 1: be the league MVP. If if our fans have anything,
Speaker 1: if we have anything to say about your kidding, like
Speaker 1: where it wasn't it just you were talking about it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a top five receiver. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: I'm on it. I'm on it. Let's go no, But
Speaker 1: we do love Spartinberg for many reasons, and one is
Speaker 1: the over reaction. So welcome to the group chat. That's
Speaker 1: what we're talking about today. We're gonna talk about some
Speaker 1: overreactions that always come out of camp, and then we're
Speaker 1: just going to turn the table to what are some
Speaker 1: other things that we like to overreact about? And if
Speaker 1: you as always want to join this conversation, hit us
Speaker 1: up on Twitter. We always love to hear what you
Speaker 1: guys have to say. So let's go first with you guys,
Speaker 1: whoever wants to go first. What was an overreact shin
Speaker 1: that came out of Spartanburg. I'll go back to the
Speaker 1: beginning of camp, and I felt like one of the
Speaker 1: big overreactions was everybody's thoughts on Greg Little. Early on.
Speaker 1: You know, here was this rookie second round pick thrown
Speaker 1: into the fire. Uh and in the one on one drills,
Speaker 1: things didn't always go great. And of course we're out
Speaker 1: there with our phones sharing the video five second video
Speaker 1: on Twitter and everyone's making all these judgments. You said,
Speaker 1: Brian Burns getting his bust me in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Everybody was saying Greg Little was a bust period, and
Speaker 1: it just wasn't the case. Um as you as we
Speaker 1: saw by the end of training camp, I thought he
Speaker 1: made some real strides. Uh, particularly in these joint practices
Speaker 1: with Buffalo, going up against Jerry Hughes, who's a really
Speaker 1: good veteran edge rusher. I thought he held his own.
Speaker 1: Uh So, yeah, everybody just kind of had to cool
Speaker 1: it a little bit on Greg Little, give him some time.
Speaker 1: But for all these young guys, they're not all going
Speaker 1: to come out the gate making plays left and right.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it takes some little bit of adjustment, adjustment period.
Speaker 1: And I thought Greg definitely by the time we got
Speaker 1: to the end of camp, it was like, Okay, he's
Speaker 1: he's coming along. I think you look at most of
Speaker 1: this rookie clows us all kind of put into places
Speaker 1: where um, they've they've really had a lot to learn
Speaker 1: in systems, you know. For for Christian Miller, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot to learn in the position that he's playing.
Speaker 1: Greg Little, i mean left tackle. You don't just slide
Speaker 1: into left tackle and being All Star dealing with and
Speaker 1: Brian Burns like, okay, yeah, different. So I I think
Speaker 1: I think that certainly shows both, uh how hard it
Speaker 1: is to learn that, but also give credit to to
Speaker 1: Greg that he's the type of guy that he didn't
Speaker 1: let it get him down in this day and age
Speaker 1: when it doesn't take much to go on Twitter and
Speaker 1: see what people are saying about yourself. Um, and he
Speaker 1: worked hard. You know, he's got a great attitude about
Speaker 1: all this, and he spent all the time, you know,
Speaker 1: learning and trying to get better and listening to Coach
Speaker 1: Masco and the veterans ahead of him. Well, Ron Rivera
Speaker 1: had an interesting point about I asked him about the
Speaker 1: offensive lines in our production meetings and he I just
Speaker 1: feel like offensive lines I always have this attitude about them,
Speaker 1: and when they walk in it's like you either know
Speaker 1: they're like a nasty the offensive line that are just
Speaker 1: using with confidence and there's normally like one old school
Speaker 1: guy that kind of like leads them around. And so
Speaker 1: losing a key piece of that old school I was like,
Speaker 1: what is this offensive line now like? And so we
Speaker 1: kind of broke it down of the first string. They're
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out their identity, which I thought
Speaker 1: was interesting, Okay, you're going through this is one And
Speaker 1: he even brought it up on the last day of
Speaker 1: camp of you know, we still need these guys to
Speaker 1: play and figure out how to work with each other. Um,
Speaker 1: I think Trey Turner said, dance with one another is
Speaker 1: what they're learning. So then he did bring up this
Speaker 1: second string though, and that's where Greg was getting a
Speaker 1: lot of snaps at the beginning of camp, and he
Speaker 1: said that, you know, the way that mattsco coaches is
Speaker 1: very technical, so it's like first step here, second step here,
Speaker 1: and then that kind of puts you into position, and
Speaker 1: that the second group was so technical and so worried
Speaker 1: about first step, second step, making sure they're in the
Speaker 1: right as they're trying to figure out their dance with
Speaker 1: one another. And I think when you look back at
Speaker 1: Greg little coming out of college, you kind of get
Speaker 1: in this routine of you know how to play with
Speaker 1: the guy next to you. You're very familiar with everything,
Speaker 1: you're a senior, and then you get thrown into everything
Speaker 1: is brand new. Oh, and I need you to pay
Speaker 1: attention to the details of your first step, in your
Speaker 1: second step and probably your third step, and why didn't
Speaker 1: you do this? And then if you don't do it,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get yelled at for not doing it. And
Speaker 1: Twitter is going to talk about it. So I was
Speaker 1: very impressed in Chicago. I think it was nice to
Speaker 1: see him just react and you could see, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that first and second step exactly is,
Speaker 1: but you could just see him kind of settle back
Speaker 1: in Because even Rivera said, you see these guys revert
Speaker 1: back to their old ways of if they're in college,
Speaker 1: they revert back to high school. You know, in the pros,
Speaker 1: they revert back to college. So I thought it was
Speaker 1: really nice to see him kind of like relax a
Speaker 1: little bit out there in a game and play and
Speaker 1: then come into that next week a lot more confident
Speaker 1: at training camp. So that's a really good one because
Speaker 1: that was one where everyone was saying, oh gosh, like
Speaker 1: Greg Little is not gonna do it, but then he
Speaker 1: goes out in Chicago and I thought he did a
Speaker 1: great job of picking up the most intimate threat to
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Um So I thought that was really good.
Speaker 1: Let's go with you over there, McFadden. Um Mine, is
Speaker 1: the heat like I felt like ever? I mean I
Speaker 1: was talking like the hundred and fifteen degree heat index
Speaker 1: that day. It was hot. That one was rough, but
Speaker 1: you were inside for that day I was I came
Speaker 1: out there, out there, standing out there for two and
Speaker 1: a half hours versus minutes is different. Okay, whatever is different. Whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that he walked out. I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't think this feels like the hottest day. I'm like, dude,
Speaker 1: you've been here for ten minutes. He's still got goose
Speaker 1: bumps from the air conditioning blasting in the students. Pretty
Speaker 1: much pretty much, you know what go on now? I
Speaker 1: have nothing to say overall. I think your point is, yes,
Speaker 1: you do have a point. He has to acknowledge the
Speaker 1: one fifteen heat indextendes that that day was hot, because um,
Speaker 1: and it's all about so like, I'm curious to y'all's perspective.
Speaker 1: Do you like the short sleeves not a lot of clothing,
Speaker 1: And we were talking about like it's more of a
Speaker 1: sear feeling. You feel like the sun is searing your
Speaker 1: skin could be first versus like the sauna of having
Speaker 1: long sleeves. You don't feel the searing sensation. It just
Speaker 1: kind of feels like an overall kind of sauna I
Speaker 1: have under the under your long sleeves. I have to
Speaker 1: go like the searing because I can't I I cannot
Speaker 1: sweat like a mi Asanna and then be asked to
Speaker 1: go on camera in two hours afterwards, so I have
Speaker 1: to do that. I did on the day after the
Speaker 1: one fifteen. It was very humid, and I wore leggings
Speaker 1: and was in a sauna. And I mean I the
Speaker 1: last two days of camp. Those weren't even the hottest days,
Speaker 1: but the last two days. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was my attitude that I was ready to go home
Speaker 1: or if it was the humidity. I will say that
Speaker 1: I believe the humidity the last two days that we
Speaker 1: were there the highest camp. I can't even talk about
Speaker 1: how sweaty I was disgusting. But I feel I feel
Speaker 1: like every time after practice the players are, you know,
Speaker 1: they're asked about how hot it wasn't like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, it's the summer. And then all the
Speaker 1: people that are talking about it are all you know,
Speaker 1: the people standing around under a tent that are tweeting
Speaker 1: about how hot they are. I don't know, I feel
Speaker 1: like it's an overreaction. I think you're maybe I shouldn't
Speaker 1: have stayed. I'm just kidding. I think, I mean, you
Speaker 1: have a point, But the I think this was a
Speaker 1: very mild training camp for the heat. The last three days.
Speaker 1: I think the last three days it was over. It
Speaker 1: was very comfortable almost, which is weird, and then it
Speaker 1: sort of cranked up a little bit. But yeah, anyone
Speaker 1: seen the video. I don't know what team it was,
Speaker 1: and I wish I knew, but there's a a receiver
Speaker 1: lining up and a DBS across from him, and the
Speaker 1: receiver throws up and then runs the route like continues,
Speaker 1: and then it was going around on Twitter because it
Speaker 1: was like, this is training camp, guys, that actually happens.
Speaker 1: I saw Jerald mcgoy on the sideline getting sick and
Speaker 1: then just put his helmet back on and run back
Speaker 1: out there. Like it's hot. These guys are having to
Speaker 1: just certain all this energy and if they don't, they're
Speaker 1: getting called out for it. But then they can come
Speaker 1: and they can sit under the medical tap and get
Speaker 1: the fans going and the mrs. But I I mean,
Speaker 1: when I saw that from Gerald, I thought, this is
Speaker 1: peak training camp, Like we're here, it's so hot. It
Speaker 1: was one the day before. They're trying to recover from
Speaker 1: that while having another team in town, and and poor
Speaker 1: he wasn't the only one. He was just the one
Speaker 1: that I happened to be. Yeah, it's interesting you mentioned
Speaker 1: McCoy too, because I asked him after the one fifteen day.
Speaker 1: It was like, so, I know you said back in
Speaker 1: the spring, like down in Tampa, it's so hot, like
Speaker 1: you can literally see your soul leave your body as
Speaker 1: you're practicing. So I was like, this is this is
Speaker 1: pretty much just like that, and he was like, not
Speaker 1: even close. He still says Tampa was much more thick
Speaker 1: and humid, So I guess he's he's used to it.
Speaker 1: If you, If you guys happened to watch cart Talk
Speaker 1: with Bill both and Trey Boston. Trey was talking about
Speaker 1: being in Arizona and how it was it was actually
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty and the actual temperature, not just
Speaker 1: the heat index. And the one's like, oh, well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's trade. It's a dry heat. It's totally better. He's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's not. It's it's still really hot. Yeah, that's that
Speaker 1: is true. Everybody says that, what does that even mean?
Speaker 1: It's still heat, it's just really hot. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: My overreaction is a little bit pre training camp here,
Speaker 1: but I think what training camp did. I'm going to
Speaker 1: go a little bit on the max side of things.
Speaker 1: I mean, the number one thing I heard when I
Speaker 1: was hired here was can you play safety? Hey? And
Speaker 1: I think everyone's been freaking out about what is the
Speaker 1: secondary going to look like? I like them, I like
Speaker 1: the secondary. I think it's it's something that has maybe
Speaker 1: calmed down a little bit. But if there's ever a
Speaker 1: chance for anyone to say something about the secondary, they
Speaker 1: jump on it and oh, you know, they didn't do this,
Speaker 1: But we saw so many past breakups. I think getting
Speaker 1: Tray Boston back kind of helps even out that secondary
Speaker 1: a little bit. But I like what we saw out
Speaker 1: of the secondary. I think they're starting to come together.
Speaker 1: I think coach Fuel is an excited human being when
Speaker 1: he when he's watching these guys. And something I learned
Speaker 1: it training camp was for every interception that they have
Speaker 1: during training camp, he puts twenty dollars into a pot.
Speaker 1: And for every I don't know if it's like a
Speaker 1: missed opportunity exactly what it is, they have to put
Speaker 1: twenty dollars into it. And they're all going to go
Speaker 1: to dinner when we're in New England. They're gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna have a nice meal. Yeah, they they're going to
Speaker 1: have I don't know who's put more money in UM
Speaker 1: in that group, but they're gonna have a really nice meal.
Speaker 1: And I just think that's one that maybe people aren't
Speaker 1: over reacting about now, but I think in the off
Speaker 1: season it was definitely something that was like we have
Speaker 1: to get someone in. Can you play safety? I will
Speaker 1: say coach Field that like kind of plays into it,
Speaker 1: because he did come over to me a couple of
Speaker 1: times during training camp and asked, why are you not
Speaker 1: practicing today? Or you know, where are your reps? I
Speaker 1: mean he hears it too. They get it. It's it's something,
Speaker 1: but I like the secondary. I think getting the help
Speaker 1: up front on the defensive line is going to help
Speaker 1: them a lot. But I think that was one of
Speaker 1: the over reactions. I think you're I mean, you're so right.
Speaker 1: The off season was full of everybody complaining that they
Speaker 1: hadn't brought into safety and it it's it's and don't
Speaker 1: know how many times you can have to say it,
Speaker 1: but like the Broster process is ongoing, and it's like
Speaker 1: everybody wanted Trey Boston and it was like sure enough,
Speaker 1: you wait a little while. Trey Boston shows up to
Speaker 1: training camp. He's a Carolina Panthers like, So it all
Speaker 1: worked out in the end to piggyback off the secondary thing.
Speaker 1: I will say one of my like potential overreactions is
Speaker 1: the fact that they made a bunch of players in
Speaker 1: the ball but didn't pick off a lot of passes.
Speaker 1: And it got to a point where Eric Freed was like, guys,
Speaker 1: what's going on here. It's like we gotta hit the
Speaker 1: jugs machine or something, because we can't be dropping these
Speaker 1: opportunities come game time. They nothing in football is more
Speaker 1: important than the turnover battle. If you're getting takeaways, you're
Speaker 1: gonna win games. If you're not getting takeaways, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a hard time winning games. So I hope that
Speaker 1: they can kind of get over the drops the they
Speaker 1: get on the jugs machine and they figure out a
Speaker 1: way to make sure they're not dropping those opportunities, because
Speaker 1: that that would concern me a little bit. If it's
Speaker 1: one thing to be there and make plays in them all,
Speaker 1: but if you're not able to get those interceptions when
Speaker 1: they come to you, that can be problematic. So looking
Speaker 1: for that to turn around as the preseason continued, and
Speaker 1: that's one of those things that it can go in
Speaker 1: in cycles really quickly. You know, they a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, the interceptions were way down and the guys
Speaker 1: just said when they come, they're gonna come. And it
Speaker 1: really it can go both ways. When when one person drops,
Speaker 1: another person drops, and all of a sudden everyone you
Speaker 1: kind of have that like drop off this, you know,
Speaker 1: like everything's getting dropped, and hopefully it can kind of
Speaker 1: turn the other way of you know, someone gets a
Speaker 1: pick and then next person becomes an everything gets contagious
Speaker 1: and starts rolling the right direction. Well, let's go a
Speaker 1: little bit off script, off football for a minute. I
Speaker 1: want other overreactions. What are we overreacting about? Just in general?
Speaker 1: Starting to saw all right, So every city I've ever
Speaker 1: lived in, there's been this narrative that they think they
Speaker 1: have the worst drivers in the world. Like people people
Speaker 1: in Charlotte love to talk about how bad drivers are
Speaker 1: in Charlotte. I'm like, what ever, I mean, Like everyone's
Speaker 1: on their phone, texting, in instagramming, so everyone's mostly bad anyway.
Speaker 1: But no, there's nothing about Charlotte. Where are the good drivers?
Speaker 1: That's where the drivers are in Minnesota. Like cruise down
Speaker 1: the road and not have any Everyone in New York
Speaker 1: said New York had the worst drivers. L A has
Speaker 1: the worst drivers. Oh, Charlotte now has the worst drivers.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Come on, stop that's a good one.
Speaker 1: Stop it. I really like that one. Mine is just
Speaker 1: Twitter in general. On Twitter period. That's it. That's the tweet. Twitter.
Speaker 1: Just anything that you put out there, someone will overreact.
Speaker 1: I hope positively, but probably not. It's not a positive
Speaker 1: place generally. And when it is, like, when it is
Speaker 1: a positive place, that's nice. Man. When it becomes a
Speaker 1: negative place, I get yikes. But that's a Twitter. That's it.
Speaker 1: We don't really have talked about it anymore. Everyone out there,
Speaker 1: you agree with me everywhere on Twitter? Mine um is
Speaker 1: after I'm from New Jersey. I went to school in Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: living in Charlotte for the last eight years. Anytime the
Speaker 1: weather forecast even has like a hint of snow coming,
Speaker 1: the overreaction is just comical. I mean to the point
Speaker 1: where you try to go into the grocery store and
Speaker 1: the shelves are empty because everyone is preparing for the
Speaker 1: fact that they might not be able to leave their
Speaker 1: homes for a few months, like, it's it's why why
Speaker 1: are they only getting bread and bread and milk? I
Speaker 1: don't know why. It's just like, why bread and milk
Speaker 1: because milk is not good. I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: milk's gonna spoil. It's a great point. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. It's just the thing people do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't get how did that get started? I mean,
Speaker 1: what you're just gonna have, like I guess get it
Speaker 1: now because you won't be able to and like it
Speaker 1: will spoil. It is your last chance to get it.
Speaker 1: How often do you guys just get milk from a
Speaker 1: grocery store? Right, Yeah, it's it's yeah, it's not so.
Speaker 1: I grew up in the Carolinas. As many people know,
Speaker 1: I went lived in Indianapolis, and I've moved, yes, I learned.
Speaker 1: I was there for three years. But my first winter
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, I lived downtown Indianapolis the UH my office
Speaker 1: was on the west side of town, about fifteen minutes away.
Speaker 1: So the first time that snow was in the forecast,
Speaker 1: I'm downtown at my apartment, living by myself, feeling really
Speaker 1: good about life, and all of a sudden, I see
Speaker 1: that there's snow coming, and I'm like, okay, cool. Well,
Speaker 1: being from the Carolinas, I'm expecting, like, you know, a
Speaker 1: delay or they might even cancel work because it's gonna
Speaker 1: snow and I can't get in there. So I make
Speaker 1: the southern mistake of texting my co workers and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, hey, um, when you know, how do we
Speaker 1: keep up with the office tomorrow? They're like, what do
Speaker 1: you mean? And I was like, well, like, with its snowing,
Speaker 1: you know, how do we do? Are a delay? They're
Speaker 1: going to cancel, you know, close the office, work from home,
Speaker 1: and I mean every single one of my co workers
Speaker 1: from Indianapolis, and they were like, see, what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: is you're gonna get up in the morning at your
Speaker 1: normal time. You're gonna get in your car and you're
Speaker 1: gonna drive to work. And I was like, but it
Speaker 1: might snow. You like, Caroline, your your mind is about
Speaker 1: to be blown in the morning when you just get
Speaker 1: up and I did. It was hard. There's a little
Speaker 1: bit of ice coming out of my parking garage. It
Speaker 1: was beautiful on the way to work. They I mean,
Speaker 1: I will say this, I believe at one time in
Speaker 1: the state of South Carolina. There were two snow plows
Speaker 1: for the entire state, and when it snowed, they all
Speaker 1: went to Columbia because that's the government buildings, like they
Speaker 1: had someone out there. Please correct me on that, because
Speaker 1: I've used that stat to save me many times. So
Speaker 1: if if I'm wrong, if I'm wrong, if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: please d n me. We're not gonna make that public knowledge.
Speaker 1: If I'm right. Just tweeted me and say, you're completely right.
Speaker 1: There were only two. I freaked out, so I'm with you.
Speaker 1: After that. I did cry my first winter as well
Speaker 1: up there because it was so cold. I was buying
Speaker 1: a Christmas tree at Target. It was fake, but still
Speaker 1: have it. It's great, and I was trying to put
Speaker 1: that in my car. It was eight degrees outside, it
Speaker 1: was starting to snow and it was windy, and I
Speaker 1: couldn't get the Christmas tree in the car. First Christmas,
Speaker 1: not with my family as well, So that played into
Speaker 1: it a little bit, and I have tears coming out
Speaker 1: of my eyes, thinking this place, why is it so cold?
Speaker 1: But then you know, second second winter, we had like
Speaker 1: negative teen days in a row. I was like, fine, yeah,
Speaker 1: you kind of get used to it is Indie colder
Speaker 1: than Wisconsin. No, no, Wisconsin any time with the frozen
Speaker 1: tuns are up there. But he gets cold. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah. But you make a good point. The like
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis, Wisconsin, Minnesota, whatever, like they're prepared for snow,
Speaker 1: so like it'll snow like a foot and the next day,
Speaker 1: like the roads are good, everyone's going to word by
Speaker 1: the By down south, it snows an interesting week and
Speaker 1: there's no one's prepared, so like a week, it's a
Speaker 1: bit of a mess. However, I will say my one
Speaker 1: of the first problems I had an indian I slept
Speaker 1: on the interstate because they did not predict this ice
Speaker 1: storm was coming. And I get on the interstate coming
Speaker 1: back from playing like some intermural game at eleven thirty
Speaker 1: at night, and I noticed that there's some traffic on
Speaker 1: the interstate. So I'm like, all right, I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: and go back roads. Problem number one, never go back roads. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I go across this bridge and I'm sliding across
Speaker 1: the bridge. I was like, okay, here's problem number two.
Speaker 1: I then decided to turn around and go back across
Speaker 1: the same bridge. I know, so I go across the
Speaker 1: same bridge to get onto the Interstate. By the time
Speaker 1: I get on the Interstate, there was a wreck that
Speaker 1: I could see, but the tow truck could not get there.
Speaker 1: The two tow trucks slid off the road trying to
Speaker 1: get to them. I drive like a two door Honda Accord.
Speaker 1: It's not off roading anything. So I get stuck here
Speaker 1: and sleep on the Interstate until five thirty. To the
Speaker 1: point that you like, who am I going to tell?
Speaker 1: You know, like I can't tell anyone. They can't come
Speaker 1: get me. My parents are still in the Carolina as
Speaker 1: I can't call them, you know, so I probably still
Speaker 1: call my mom in the situation, I didn't because what
Speaker 1: is she going to do? The whole night, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't want them to stay. I was gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: That the police officers had gotten there, so they were
Speaker 1: sitting up there like I was safe. Is cold? No
Speaker 1: that I had full tank of gas, so I was
Speaker 1: able to keep my car running the whole night. I
Speaker 1: was warm. I did sleep for a little bit. It
Speaker 1: was fine. That's a story, though. You came away with
Speaker 1: some stories. My first winter in Indie was see so
Speaker 1: you know what people out there keep overreacting about your
Speaker 1: snow because I now know. But my first winter other
Speaker 1: I was not prepared because no one down here prepares
Speaker 1: you for a real winter. Yeah, yeah, so I was.
Speaker 1: I was in New York time, New York. I was
Speaker 1: in New York and so like my story was the
Speaker 1: first real snow that we were getting. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know, four inches or something overnight was what the
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it was swelve inches, maybe it was too
Speaker 1: I don't know. They all seem the same. And the
Speaker 1: um I was living in uh kind of a house
Speaker 1: and the landlord lived above me in the house, and
Speaker 1: he kind of like wrapped in the door. He's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're good for tomorrow. I'm like yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: got like an ice scraper and stuff. He's no, no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: are you good for tomorrow? And I'm like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: got an ice scraper. I'll just you know, push it
Speaker 1: off and stuff. He's like nope. Comes back five minutes later,
Speaker 1: he had he had like four shovels, and he's like
Speaker 1: you just you just take this one. He's like, you're
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna shovel the walk to the street
Speaker 1: and then you're on your own. For your car. I
Speaker 1: would suggest you do it twice because it's gonna be
Speaker 1: coming down hard. And I'm like, what do you talk?
Speaker 1: I mean hour an hour at least the next morning
Speaker 1: of shoveling, and the worst is when the street ones
Speaker 1: come by and then they pile it up more on
Speaker 1: your car from the streets and then you have to
Speaker 1: get that snow off. Man, we really got off off
Speaker 1: topic here in the group chat. Well, how did he
Speaker 1: go from like it was really hot and spartanburg to
Speaker 1: man all that? Because the good news is we don't
Speaker 1: have to work about this for months. Okay, So it's
Speaker 1: still speaking of it's going to be beautiful this fall.
Speaker 1: I've got to I've got to do a Panthers stat
Speaker 1: guy thing right before we go on to our next stuff.
Speaker 1: So I saw this from Brad Panovitch that apparently since
Speaker 1: they've been tracking Almanacs, it has never not snowed in
Speaker 1: Charlotte at least once every year. It's snowed at least
Speaker 1: once in Charlotte. For a place that doesn't get snow,
Speaker 1: it's snowed at least once every year. That's a great streak. Google.
Speaker 1: It's called from your favorite place the Twitter. You just
Speaker 1: follow him, Yeah, you should follow him. He's kind of
Speaker 1: a big deal. He's kind of a big deal in Charlotte. Dang,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I don't follow him yet. All right, I'll
Speaker 1: follow him. Here's another people out there listening. Go, we
Speaker 1: just gave a little plug there. We did follow him.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, let's go back to football. Since you
Speaker 1: know this is a Panthers podcast. Let's go Panthers versus Bills.
Speaker 1: What do we want to see that we didn't see
Speaker 1: maybe in Chicago, or we've seen him practice that we
Speaker 1: haven't seen in a game. What are you looking for? Well,
Speaker 1: miss out things off? Well, I mean you you you
Speaker 1: kind of already took a little bit. What I was
Speaker 1: looking at was just turnovers, Yeah, because there there are
Speaker 1: no turnovers in Chicago. You had the peanut punch from
Speaker 1: Golden but great play about Panthers didn't recover it. Peanut
Speaker 1: punch Peanut Tilman who tweeted about it. I thought, Rashwan,
Speaker 1: you know, there was there was that play and then
Speaker 1: that blitz no yeah, which looked like potentially that they
Speaker 1: called it a forward passed but very close to us
Speaker 1: a sack fumble. But yeah, I mean Rashawn was around
Speaker 1: the ball two times, nearly forcing takeaways. That justin turn
Speaker 1: out that way. But yeah, I see your point on that.
Speaker 1: I'll say, UM, run game, run blocking the running backs
Speaker 1: in general. I know last the holy Field did have
Speaker 1: two touchdowns UM, but their yard per carry average and
Speaker 1: this their ability to get into the second level wasn't
Speaker 1: quite there the way I think Round Rivera wants to
Speaker 1: see it. UM. Hopefully we had to see Jordan Scarlett
Speaker 1: out there. We can get to see him in the
Speaker 1: preseason opener. Be nice to see what the rookie from
Speaker 1: Florida can do. So I'll be looking at the running
Speaker 1: game in particular. I want to see more starters. There
Speaker 1: were twenty two players that did not play against Chicago.
Speaker 1: I just want to see some of them. I think
Speaker 1: it was a great opportunity for the depth and those
Speaker 1: guys fighting for roster spots to get that debut and
Speaker 1: kind of get that out of their system per se.
Speaker 1: But I am excited to see at home, UM some
Speaker 1: starters out there and playing it. I think it may
Speaker 1: be a series or two. I don't think we've seen
Speaker 1: anything crazy from them, because they are taking this like
Speaker 1: overly cautious approach to the preseason, which I'm all for,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I just want to see what can
Speaker 1: they really look like because we've seen it so many
Speaker 1: days in training camp of man, that looks really good,
Speaker 1: or that you know, that's a really good flash. I
Speaker 1: thought Ron Rivera made a good point to have. In practice,
Speaker 1: even with the Bills, they're sharing scripts. Hey, here's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. Alright, cool. The Bills are like, great,
Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna do. But the game there
Speaker 1: is none of that. So we we saw them in practice.
Speaker 1: It it was great joint practices, but from like the
Speaker 1: oh my gosh factor, there wasn't anything that I think
Speaker 1: made me just like jump up and down. So I
Speaker 1: want to see that in the game when it's the
Speaker 1: starters out there, what do they really look like? More
Speaker 1: on defense, I'm excited to see that. I want to
Speaker 1: see Cam Newton and Curtis Samue will do what they
Speaker 1: do in practice like in a game. Then we can
Speaker 1: start over reacting even more. Um. But I want to
Speaker 1: see on defense, those defensive starters because I think that's
Speaker 1: where a lot of the question marks lie. We've seen
Speaker 1: great things from training camp, but what do they look
Speaker 1: like when it actually and can that pressure continue? You know,
Speaker 1: five sacks in the first game, well, even rovers said
Speaker 1: that there were some sacks left out there that when
Speaker 1: they went back and watched, they're like, man, we missed
Speaker 1: you already. You know, get the numbers in stat line
Speaker 1: that you did, but you're saying you left some out
Speaker 1: how many? Like how many did you leave out there?
Speaker 1: So then there's still a tons to see. This is
Speaker 1: only preseason game number two against the Buffalo Bills, but
Speaker 1: it'll be certainly exciting to watch it. And if you
Speaker 1: have any overreactions out there, please let us know. We
Speaker 1: always enjoy interact with you guys on the place of
Speaker 1: over reactions Twitter. Thank you so much for joining us
Speaker 1: and we will see you again next week on the
Speaker 1: group chat