WEBVTT - The Group Chat Episode 5: Overreaction 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.480 We are home from training camp, and like all good 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:07.640 training camps, there are things that everyone is overreacting about. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.000 So we're taking a look at those and maybe some 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.159 things we like to overreact about. In general. Mine is 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:15.720 the heat. I mean, I was talking about the hundred 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:21.280 and fifteen degree heat index was but little you were 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.360 inside for that day. And the Panthers are taking on 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.480 the Buffalo Bills for week two of the preseason. We're 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.520 telling you what we'll be looking for. Run game, run blocking, 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.120 the running backs in general. I field did have two 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.519 touchdowns UM, but their yard per carry average and this 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.040 their ability to get into the second level wasn't quite 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.239 there the way I think round Overa wants to see it. 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.000 All of this and so much more on the group chat. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.520 You've been added to the group chat with your friends Caroline, 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:06.479 can Max Sensen, and Will Brian. We are back home. 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.160 We're not in Spartanburg anymore. People, We're back in Charlotte. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:15.000 How does it feel, guys? The thing that was such 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:16.880 a pause? Do you have to think about how good 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.280 it is to be home? This? My just sense is 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.160 that we're all pretty tired. I think we're all just 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.520 still kind of like dragging a bit, so there might 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.200 be some pauses just because it's our reaction time. Isn't 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.600 that quick? Oh? Completely? I walking in this morning and 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.520 I was like, oh, welcome back, It's so great to 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.080 have you back. And I'm just like, yeah, I had 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:38.240 to scoot her into work, so I don't really have, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.600 um the energy for that. There's so many cars in 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.600 our parking lot here that I came on time for 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.120 work ready to get a parking spot, head on in there, 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.920 took a couple of laps, went to another parking lot, 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.280 went on a lap, and then went right back home 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.960 and got on a scooter and came to work four 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.920 dollars and thirty cents later for me to get to work. 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.960 I'm not bitter about it. That's a fun little right 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.360 It actually kind of was. I thought to myself, I'm 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.200 not mad about this. This is just not you know, 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.160 my commute this morning ended up being about thirty five 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.079 minutes and I live a mile and a half away. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.080 And that was just the funny part to me was 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.960 I would have been on time. Um, but yeah, that's 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.040 where we are. We are a little bit tired, but 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.560 we're home and we're excited about that. I always love 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:28.239 training camp. It's fun. It's a I don't like name 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.760 another job where you get to go to sleepaway camp 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.840 and just watch football for like three weeks and do 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.040 nothing else. There is no other responsibility that you have 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:42.480 while you were there other than watch football. Yes, it's true, 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:44.600 and I think it's a good It's it's like team 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.240 bonding for the players. It's also for like our staff. 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.840 You're all down there together. Everyone's like tired and sweaty 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.239 and dealing with the same stuff. No one likes being 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.720 in the dorms, but you're like, it's there's a camaraderie 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.079 that comes through, like all going through that together, which 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.560 I've always liked. Missery loves company. And so if you 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.280 don't like the dorms, there's about a hundred other people 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.160 that don't enjoy dorms as well, unless you're the lucky 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.120 list of people that get to stay in the Marriott 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.920 in Spartanburg. I'm trying to get on that list next year. Yeah, 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.280 I don't know. I kind of like I like the 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.440 dorm life there, you know, it's it brings you back. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.919 Although I think that my dorms and my college were 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.720 better than those, well, I have. I actually cannot complain 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.239 at all the women of the Panthers. Here we get 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:35.760 like these Southern style homes that have four bedroom apartments 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:40.800 in them, so I don't like, I cannot except for 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.640 what they're extremely empty with no furniture in them except 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.880 where like a table and four chairs, So everything echoes, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.400 like in the morning if you're trying to get up 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.600 and be quiet, like I will get up earlier and 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.360 have to do my hair and make up and get 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.960 ready to be on camera, and I'm like tiptoeing around 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.360 still making so much noise. So there's so many stories 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.640 from Spartan that we will probably share over the course 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:06.560 of these next few weeks. But out of Spartanburg comes 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:10.520 over reactions. We've already named Brian Burns going to the 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.280 Hall of Fame for sure. His bust is being made 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:18.080 in Canton as we speak. I think Curtis Samuel he'll 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.480 be the league MVP. If if our fans have anything, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.599 if we have anything to say about your kidding, like 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.240 where it wasn't it just you were talking about it 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:31.479 was gonna be a top five receiver. I'm pretty sure. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.800 I'm on it. I'm on it. Let's go no, But 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.560 we do love Spartinberg for many reasons, and one is 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.000 the over reaction. So welcome to the group chat. That's 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:41.920 what we're talking about today. We're gonna talk about some 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.120 overreactions that always come out of camp, and then we're 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.080 just going to turn the table to what are some 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.240 other things that we like to overreact about? And if 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.919 you as always want to join this conversation, hit us 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.479 up on Twitter. We always love to hear what you 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.839 guys have to say. So let's go first with you guys, 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.200 whoever wants to go first. What was an overreact shin 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.400 that came out of Spartanburg. I'll go back to the 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.760 beginning of camp, and I felt like one of the 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.440 big overreactions was everybody's thoughts on Greg Little. Early on. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.599 You know, here was this rookie second round pick thrown 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.599 into the fire. Uh and in the one on one drills, 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.760 things didn't always go great. And of course we're out 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.960 there with our phones sharing the video five second video 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.240 on Twitter and everyone's making all these judgments. You said, 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.000 Brian Burns getting his bust me in the Hall of Fame. 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.120 Everybody was saying Greg Little was a bust period, and 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.000 it just wasn't the case. Um as you as we 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:32.800 saw by the end of training camp, I thought he 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.880 made some real strides. Uh, particularly in these joint practices 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.320 with Buffalo, going up against Jerry Hughes, who's a really 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.640 good veteran edge rusher. I thought he held his own. 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.080 Uh So, yeah, everybody just kind of had to cool 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.320 it a little bit on Greg Little, give him some time. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.359 But for all these young guys, they're not all going 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.720 to come out the gate making plays left and right. 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.240 Sometimes it takes some little bit of adjustment, adjustment period. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.360 And I thought Greg definitely by the time we got 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:56.960 to the end of camp, it was like, Okay, he's 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.320 he's coming along. I think you look at most of 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.440 this rookie clows us all kind of put into places 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.760 where um, they've they've really had a lot to learn 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:07.960 in systems, you know. For for Christian Miller, you know, 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.760 there's a lot to learn in the position that he's playing. 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.640 Greg Little, i mean left tackle. You don't just slide 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:18.160 into left tackle and being All Star dealing with and 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.599 Brian Burns like, okay, yeah, different. So I I think 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:25.760 I think that certainly shows both, uh how hard it 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.880 is to learn that, but also give credit to to 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.480 Greg that he's the type of guy that he didn't 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.359 let it get him down in this day and age 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.720 when it doesn't take much to go on Twitter and 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.600 see what people are saying about yourself. Um, and he 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.240 worked hard. You know, he's got a great attitude about 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:43.560 all this, and he spent all the time, you know, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.080 learning and trying to get better and listening to Coach 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.040 Masco and the veterans ahead of him. Well, Ron Rivera 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.440 had an interesting point about I asked him about the 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.880 offensive lines in our production meetings and he I just 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.440 feel like offensive lines I always have this attitude about them, 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:58.960 and when they walk in it's like you either know 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.359 they're like a nasty the offensive line that are just 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.360 using with confidence and there's normally like one old school 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.880 guy that kind of like leads them around. And so 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.440 losing a key piece of that old school I was like, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.840 what is this offensive line now like? And so we 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.600 kind of broke it down of the first string. They're 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.520 still trying to figure out their identity, which I thought 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.480 was interesting, Okay, you're going through this is one And 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:20.880 he even brought it up on the last day of 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.240 camp of you know, we still need these guys to 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.440 play and figure out how to work with each other. Um, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.760 I think Trey Turner said, dance with one another is 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.520 what they're learning. So then he did bring up this 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.400 second string though, and that's where Greg was getting a 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.200 lot of snaps at the beginning of camp, and he 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.080 said that, you know, the way that mattsco coaches is 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.600 very technical, so it's like first step here, second step here, 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.000 and then that kind of puts you into position, and 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.160 that the second group was so technical and so worried 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.160 about first step, second step, making sure they're in the 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.360 right as they're trying to figure out their dance with 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.240 one another. And I think when you look back at 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.560 Greg little coming out of college, you kind of get 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.280 in this routine of you know how to play with 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.320 the guy next to you. You're very familiar with everything, 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.880 you're a senior, and then you get thrown into everything 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.640 is brand new. Oh, and I need you to pay 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.080 attention to the details of your first step, in your 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.440 second step and probably your third step, and why didn't 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:13.880 you do this? And then if you don't do it, 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.360 you're gonna get yelled at for not doing it. And 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.400 Twitter is going to talk about it. So I was 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.000 very impressed in Chicago. I think it was nice to 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.960 see him just react and you could see, you know, 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.760 I don't know what that first and second step exactly is, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.440 but you could just see him kind of settle back 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.080 in Because even Rivera said, you see these guys revert 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.960 back to their old ways of if they're in college, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.440 they revert back to high school. You know, in the pros, 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:37.880 they revert back to college. So I thought it was 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:39.719 really nice to see him kind of like relax a 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.480 little bit out there in a game and play and 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.960 then come into that next week a lot more confident 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.760 at training camp. So that's a really good one because 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.400 that was one where everyone was saying, oh gosh, like 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.000 Greg Little is not gonna do it, but then he 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:52.440 goes out in Chicago and I thought he did a 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.480 great job of picking up the most intimate threat to 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.240 the quarterback. Um So I thought that was really good. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.319 Let's go with you over there, McFadden. Um Mine, is 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.360 the heat like I felt like ever? I mean I 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.000 was talking like the hundred and fifteen degree heat index 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.160 that day. It was hot. That one was rough, but 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.880 you were inside for that day I was I came 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.800 out there, out there, standing out there for two and 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:23.040 a half hours versus minutes is different. Okay, whatever is different. Whatever. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.839 I'm sorry that he walked out. I was like, I 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.959 don't think this feels like the hottest day. I'm like, dude, 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.560 you've been here for ten minutes. He's still got goose 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.920 bumps from the air conditioning blasting in the students. Pretty 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:37.520 much pretty much, you know what go on now? I 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.400 have nothing to say overall. I think your point is, yes, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.280 you do have a point. He has to acknowledge the 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:47.360 one fifteen heat indextendes that that day was hot, because um, 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.240 and it's all about so like, I'm curious to y'all's perspective. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.680 Do you like the short sleeves not a lot of clothing, 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.120 And we were talking about like it's more of a 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.920 sear feeling. You feel like the sun is searing your 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:03.520 skin could be first versus like the sauna of having 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.200 long sleeves. You don't feel the searing sensation. It just 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.400 kind of feels like an overall kind of sauna I 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.319 have under the under your long sleeves. I have to 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:15.880 go like the searing because I can't I I cannot 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:17.679 sweat like a mi Asanna and then be asked to 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.120 go on camera in two hours afterwards, so I have 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.040 to do that. I did on the day after the 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.000 one fifteen. It was very humid, and I wore leggings 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.880 and was in a sauna. And I mean I the 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.560 last two days of camp. Those weren't even the hottest days, 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:33.840 but the last two days. I don't know if it 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.040 was my attitude that I was ready to go home 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.600 or if it was the humidity. I will say that 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.440 I believe the humidity the last two days that we 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:45.880 were there the highest camp. I can't even talk about 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.120 how sweaty I was disgusting. But I feel I feel 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.960 like every time after practice the players are, you know, 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.640 they're asked about how hot it wasn't like you know 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.720 what I mean, it's the summer. And then all the 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.760 people that are talking about it are all you know, 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.559 the people standing around under a tent that are tweeting 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.280 about how hot they are. I don't know, I feel 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:10.040 like it's an overreaction. I think you're maybe I shouldn't 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.640 have stayed. I'm just kidding. I think, I mean, you 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.800 have a point, But the I think this was a 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:20.720 very mild training camp for the heat. The last three days. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:26.319 I think the last three days it was over. It 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:29.240 was very comfortable almost, which is weird, and then it 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.640 sort of cranked up a little bit. But yeah, anyone 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.120 seen the video. I don't know what team it was, 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.760 and I wish I knew, but there's a a receiver 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.040 lining up and a DBS across from him, and the 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:45.079 receiver throws up and then runs the route like continues, 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.240 and then it was going around on Twitter because it 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.840 was like, this is training camp, guys, that actually happens. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.760 I saw Jerald mcgoy on the sideline getting sick and 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.880 then just put his helmet back on and run back 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.480 out there. Like it's hot. These guys are having to 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.760 just certain all this energy and if they don't, they're 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:03.760 getting called out for it. But then they can come 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:05.480 and they can sit under the medical tap and get 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.760 the fans going and the mrs. But I I mean, 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.480 when I saw that from Gerald, I thought, this is 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.240 peak training camp, Like we're here, it's so hot. It 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.600 was one the day before. They're trying to recover from 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.720 that while having another team in town, and and poor 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.120 he wasn't the only one. He was just the one 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:25.960 that I happened to be. Yeah, it's interesting you mentioned 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.319 McCoy too, because I asked him after the one fifteen day. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.560 It was like, so, I know you said back in 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.840 the spring, like down in Tampa, it's so hot, like 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.040 you can literally see your soul leave your body as 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.599 you're practicing. So I was like, this is this is 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.240 pretty much just like that, and he was like, not 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:43.439 even close. He still says Tampa was much more thick 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:47.920 and humid, So I guess he's he's used to it. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.000 If you, If you guys happened to watch cart Talk 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:54.120 with Bill both and Trey Boston. Trey was talking about 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.760 being in Arizona and how it was it was actually 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.760 a hundred and twenty and the actual temperature, not just 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:02.680 the heat index. And the one's like, oh, well, you know, 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.920 it's trade. It's a dry heat. It's totally better. He's like, no, 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:09.760 it's not. It's it's still really hot. Yeah, that's that 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.160 is true. Everybody says that, what does that even mean? 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.560 It's still heat, it's just really hot. I'm gonna go 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.719 My overreaction is a little bit pre training camp here, 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.360 but I think what training camp did. I'm going to 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:22.760 go a little bit on the max side of things. 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.640 I mean, the number one thing I heard when I 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.720 was hired here was can you play safety? Hey? And 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.079 I think everyone's been freaking out about what is the 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.560 secondary going to look like? I like them, I like 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.280 the secondary. I think it's it's something that has maybe 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.000 calmed down a little bit. But if there's ever a 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.040 chance for anyone to say something about the secondary, they 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.040 jump on it and oh, you know, they didn't do this, 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.240 But we saw so many past breakups. I think getting 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.679 Tray Boston back kind of helps even out that secondary 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.559 a little bit. But I like what we saw out 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.120 of the secondary. I think they're starting to come together. 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:59.440 I think coach Fuel is an excited human being when 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.080 he when he's watching these guys. And something I learned 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.480 it training camp was for every interception that they have 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.080 during training camp, he puts twenty dollars into a pot. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.360 And for every I don't know if it's like a 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.480 missed opportunity exactly what it is, they have to put 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.040 twenty dollars into it. And they're all going to go 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.600 to dinner when we're in New England. They're gonna they're 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:21.720 gonna have a nice meal. Yeah, they they're going to 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.960 have I don't know who's put more money in UM 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.880 in that group, but they're gonna have a really nice meal. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.680 And I just think that's one that maybe people aren't 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.520 over reacting about now, but I think in the off 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.320 season it was definitely something that was like we have 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.520 to get someone in. Can you play safety? I will 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.320 say coach Field that like kind of plays into it, 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:40.680 because he did come over to me a couple of 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.000 times during training camp and asked, why are you not 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.160 practicing today? Or you know, where are your reps? I 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.280 mean he hears it too. They get it. It's it's something, 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.000 but I like the secondary. I think getting the help 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:51.760 up front on the defensive line is going to help 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:53.800 them a lot. But I think that was one of 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.760 the over reactions. I think you're I mean, you're so right. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.720 The off season was full of everybody complaining that they 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.960 hadn't brought into safety and it it's it's and don't 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:02.400 know how many times you can have to say it, 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.680 but like the Broster process is ongoing, and it's like 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.720 everybody wanted Trey Boston and it was like sure enough, 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.040 you wait a little while. Trey Boston shows up to 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.240 training camp. He's a Carolina Panthers like, So it all 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.120 worked out in the end to piggyback off the secondary thing. 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:22.640 I will say one of my like potential overreactions is 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.240 the fact that they made a bunch of players in 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.480 the ball but didn't pick off a lot of passes. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.400 And it got to a point where Eric Freed was like, guys, 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:31.760 what's going on here. It's like we gotta hit the 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.640 jugs machine or something, because we can't be dropping these 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.680 opportunities come game time. They nothing in football is more 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.640 important than the turnover battle. If you're getting takeaways, you're 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.120 gonna win games. If you're not getting takeaways, you're gonna 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.760 have a hard time winning games. So I hope that 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:50.960 they can kind of get over the drops the they 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:52.800 get on the jugs machine and they figure out a 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.840 way to make sure they're not dropping those opportunities, because 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.680 that that would concern me a little bit. If it's 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.440 one thing to be there and make plays in them all, 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.760 but if you're not able to get those interceptions when 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.920 they come to you, that can be problematic. So looking 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.080 for that to turn around as the preseason continued, and 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.240 that's one of those things that it can go in 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.160 in cycles really quickly. You know, they a couple of 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.520 years ago, the interceptions were way down and the guys 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.280 just said when they come, they're gonna come. And it 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.480 really it can go both ways. When when one person drops, 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.880 another person drops, and all of a sudden everyone you 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:25.520 kind of have that like drop off this, you know, 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.840 like everything's getting dropped, and hopefully it can kind of 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.120 turn the other way of you know, someone gets a 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:34.240 pick and then next person becomes an everything gets contagious 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.120 and starts rolling the right direction. Well, let's go a 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.520 little bit off script, off football for a minute. I 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.680 want other overreactions. What are we overreacting about? Just in general? 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.920 Starting to saw all right, So every city I've ever 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.640 lived in, there's been this narrative that they think they 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:54.680 have the worst drivers in the world. Like people people 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.320 in Charlotte love to talk about how bad drivers are 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.320 in Charlotte. I'm like, what ever, I mean, Like everyone's 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:05.480 on their phone, texting, in instagramming, so everyone's mostly bad anyway. 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:12.840 But no, there's nothing about Charlotte. Where are the good drivers? 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.920 That's where the drivers are in Minnesota. Like cruise down 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.960 the road and not have any Everyone in New York 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.040 said New York had the worst drivers. L A has 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.320 the worst drivers. Oh, Charlotte now has the worst drivers. 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.320 Are you kidding me? Come on, stop that's a good one. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.600 Stop it. I really like that one. Mine is just 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:34.640 Twitter in general. On Twitter period. That's it. That's the tweet. Twitter. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.840 Just anything that you put out there, someone will overreact. 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:44.440 I hope positively, but probably not. It's not a positive 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:48.439 place generally. And when it is, like, when it is 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.439 a positive place, that's nice. Man. When it becomes a 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.919 negative place, I get yikes. But that's a Twitter. That's it. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:58.760 We don't really have talked about it anymore. Everyone out there, 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:04.200 you agree with me everywhere on Twitter? Mine um is 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.040 after I'm from New Jersey. I went to school in Wisconsin, 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:11.840 living in Charlotte for the last eight years. Anytime the 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.919 weather forecast even has like a hint of snow coming, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.520 the overreaction is just comical. I mean to the point 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.520 where you try to go into the grocery store and 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.040 the shelves are empty because everyone is preparing for the 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:24.439 fact that they might not be able to leave their 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.840 homes for a few months, like, it's it's why why 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.199 are they only getting bread and bread and milk? I 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.240 don't know why. It's just like, why bread and milk 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.320 because milk is not good. I mean, I don't know, 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.840 milk's gonna spoil. It's a great point. I don't know. 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:38.720 I'm not sure. It's just the thing people do. Yeah, 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.560 but I don't get how did that get started? I mean, 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.439 what you're just gonna have, like I guess get it 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.439 now because you won't be able to and like it 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.000 will spoil. It is your last chance to get it. 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.119 How often do you guys just get milk from a 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:59.400 grocery store? Right, Yeah, it's it's yeah, it's not so. 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.159 I grew up in the Carolinas. As many people know, 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:07.000 I went lived in Indianapolis, and I've moved, yes, I learned. 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.560 I was there for three years. But my first winter 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:15.320 in Indianapolis, I lived downtown Indianapolis the UH my office 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:18.000 was on the west side of town, about fifteen minutes away. 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.720 So the first time that snow was in the forecast, 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.240 I'm downtown at my apartment, living by myself, feeling really 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.400 good about life, and all of a sudden, I see 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.280 that there's snow coming, and I'm like, okay, cool. Well, 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:33.240 being from the Carolinas, I'm expecting, like, you know, a 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.480 delay or they might even cancel work because it's gonna 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.400