WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 101: Sense of Urgency 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.160 This week on the Happy half Hour. 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.520 Frank came in this week saying the magic words, and 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:09.080 I always WinCE a little bit when coaches go to 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.200 sense of urgency, but he kind of explained yesterday it's 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:15.680 not about now we have sense of urgency. It's always 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.440 been there, but it's like this was the week where 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.119 it kind of got everybody's attention. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:23.439 Touchstone cow r r. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.880 I know it's time for the Happy half Hour with 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:35.440 your friends Kristin Balboni, Augusta Stone, and Darren Gannon. Hello, friends, 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:39.480 Welcome to the Happy half Hour podcast. It is Thursday, 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.280 September twenty eighth, and we are going to talk about 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:47.760 many things today on purpose and some things accidentally. Welcome 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.839 to the Happy half Hour. It's Augusta Stone. She's like 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:55.240 the she's like the Taylor Swift energy to my Andy Reid. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.160 I wasn't gonna go Kelsey. That would have been weird 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.959 in a workplace environment. But I did want to introduce 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.840 the topic because it's the thing everybody in the NFL 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.280 appears obligated to talk about. And I am not a 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.640 big swiftye so I need your thoughts on this entire situation. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.600 And here's the thing. This is gonna get me in trouble. 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.679 I am not either at all. I do respect her music, 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:20.800 her celebrity kind of. 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:21.520 Irks me sometimes. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:22.880 So it's been a tough week for me on the 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.640 social media as I can't stop seeing it pop up. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.000 But you know, I will say one thing and I'm 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:29.800 not meeting this as like a dig. But I think 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.440 both of them, both, both Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.840 tend to be in the headlines anyway. I think about, like, 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.080 you know, this time last fall, Travis Kelcey was, you know, 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.000 rearing up for an SNL appearance. He's kind of always 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.200 popped up on the radar. Taylor Swift kind of knows 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.160 exactly what she's doing, great marketing, always in the headlines. 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.760 Two people who are gonna be in the headlines anyway 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.840 coming together to create one headline. It's it's sort of 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.800 beautiful and it's a lot the best thing I've seen 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:56.480 from all of this. 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:57.680 And I don't know if you've seen this. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.280 This has cropped up about last twenty four hours for me, 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.520 But it's the random tweets or Instagram posts alluding to 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.720 Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.320 Either being in a relationship being in the same room. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:10.480 I saw one this morning. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.040 This girl three years ago had dressed up as Taylor 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.240 Swift and her husband had dressed up as Travis Kelcey 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.040 for Halloween, and they were like, I can't imagine a 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.320 situation in which these two would be in the same room, 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.880 let alone married. And it was like a classic post 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.120 from like three years ago. And that's the kind of 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.959 stuff that I'm getting into. Who was out here kind 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.400 of speaking this into the universe because it makes sense. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.760 I think they're I mean, from what I know about 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.320 what they allow us to know through their marketing teams 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:38.720 and everything, I think it's I. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.120 Think it's cool. I think it's cute. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.160 The thing I like the most about it is it's 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.320 brought a lot of my friends who were not interested 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.680 in the NFL before this week kind of around and 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.320 asking me questions and wanting to know more about what 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.280 I do. Versus, Oh, that's a Gusta the sports girl. 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.480 Now it's Oh, it's Augusta and she works in the 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.520 same industry as Travis kelce So it's kind of like that. 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:02.960 But but I'm not I'm not a big Swift ye. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.400 I respect the snot out of her. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.399 But here's the thing, too much, And I am clearly 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.600 not a patron of her music as an old person. 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.040 I love the fact and even my daughter, my daughter 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:18.960 was more of that Hannah Montana genre. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.160 Oh yeah, that was her era. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.079 So we kind of fell in that what's the opposite 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.600 of sweet spot? We fell in that dead zone between 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:31.360 Hannah Montana and Taylor Swift where we didn't necessarily pick. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:31.720 All that up. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.160 But here's the thing I dig, I do dig about 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:38.360 Taylor Swift. She has managed to be bigger than the NFL. Yeah, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:42.400 and very few people have that kind of juice to 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.960 be able to do that, because listen, it takes a 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.680 whole stadium full of Travis Kelcey's and Patrick mahomes and 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.800 everything to sell out Airhead Stadium. 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.320 But she can turn that place. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.920 On like that, and it's full of people screaming and 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.920 hollering and paying much much, much more money than you 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.400 do for a football ticket to see her sing. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.240 So I am all into it. I don't care. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:10.000 I'm rooting for young Love. This is me with the 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.440 glass half full, and I'm choosing to hope. 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:12.800 For the best. 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:17.599 It's certainly not a publicity plot on the part of 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:23.400 two people who very much like attention. But yeah, I'm 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.840 just hoping for the best for those two crazy kids. 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.040 I hope they found what they're looking for in this world. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.400 I know, I know in a popcorn machine. 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.680 Did you see that where they like escorted her out 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.320 in the popcorn machine from Arrowhood? 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:35.960 It was the funniest little thing. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:37.560 I mean it may she make popcorn. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.719 She may or may not have actually been in it, 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.359 but the rumors were and I saw the video that 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:43.920 they put her in a popcorn machine to get her 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:45.560 out of the suite so that she wouldn't be like 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.560 attacked by fans or mobbed by people. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:49.440 And I don't know. 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.120 I think she did something like that, like hiding in 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.000 some sort of closet at her concerts to get on 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.960 the stage so it wouldn't be completely out. That's funny, 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.920 Like if that's real, that's hilarious. And I love it 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:00.880 like a little phony, cause it was like a popcorn 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.719 machine and there were like six bodyguards around it and 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.200 it was coming from the Kelsey sweep. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.880 Or we could find a small child to put on 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.920 her shoulders in a trench coat like hit three raccoons 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.040 in the cartoons that. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.599 Kind of move around like they're at large person. 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:16.840 This would be such a tall person. Taylor Swift's already 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.360 almost six feet tall. That would be yeah, oh yeah, 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:20.080 she's already. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:21.960 Because then there's also been the jokes like put her 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:23.400 in coach, you know what I mean, see if she 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:23.920 can run. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.560 Her out she's five eleven, that's awesome. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.320 But yeah, so does we have a very very tall 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.039 person a child on top of Taylor Swift. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.400 I'd be like a six seven six eight er with 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:33.040 the baby face. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.400 I don't I don't want to stereo type you like 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.440 I did coming out of the top of this podcast, 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.080 But uh, yeah, maybe we need to go to the 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.800 locker room today and ask the tight ends room which 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.719 one of these guys is most likely or who would 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.440 be the best fit for Taylor Swift or any other 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:50.800 popular singer. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.760 You know who had a great quote about that this week, 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.680 Georgia tight end brock Bowers tying him Alma monitor to 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.359 this and he said that it was a win for 0:05:58.440 --> 0:05:58.920 tight Ends. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:00.400 They asked him about it. 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.240 Monday or Tuesday, and I was like, and he was 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.760 getting all the little the fodder around it, but uh 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.120 and brod Bowers is also going to be a mess 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.359 in the NF or a menace in the NFL, should 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:09.680 I say? 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.000 And if he's going out with Taylor Swift, maybe he's 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:13.960 a mess in but. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.680 Very exciting, very exciting times. 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.880 I need to give my mind to this, I think, yeah, 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:22.080 I mean who would you go? 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.280 Would you go? Ian Thomas, Tommy Trimble? 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:26.880 I don't know how many of them already have partners? 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.279 That would be a that would be an interesting situation, 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:30.960 I think too. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.839 I think that's like a hall pass situation. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.880 It's like when Beyonce was here and I offered up 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.360 my office as adjunct dressing room if she needed more space, 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.919 oh lord, and even like a friend of the Mailbag 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.320 T shirt. And my wife was like, hey, wait a minute, 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.040 do I have a Friend of the mail Bag T shirt? 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.599 And I was like, yeah, but if Beyonce wants one, 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.880 she gets one, all right, that's just you know how 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:52.360 we roll. 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.320 So but yeah, no, it's an interesting time to have. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.479 I mean I saw that there's like rumors if she 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.440 shows up to their game Sunday Night Football Life, then 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:04.080 there's gonna be like crazy you know, viewership for MBC. 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.640 I've seen all of it. And I think it's cool. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.240 We'll see how long it lasts. I would love for 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.520 this to be. Like, you know, it makes so much 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.520 sense in my brain just from knowing what I know 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:14.000 about them. 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:15.800 And again it's not like I know them intimately or. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:17.840 Personally, but but knowing what I know, I'm like, it 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.080 makes sense. I was actually listening to WF and Z 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.080 and they were talking about how he's so different than 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.800 all the other guys she's dated, which we all know 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:25.880 way too much about each other. 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.560 We all know way too much about Taylor Swift, and you. 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.400 Know, think about like, you know, she's been with the 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.040 Jake Gillenhall's, John Mayer's, Joe Jonases and now she has 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:35.040 a Travis Kelcey. 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.160 It's so different, So maybe maybe this will be the. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.120 One that sticks because it's not the same flavor that 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:44.440 she's usually going for, right, Yeah, not the musician sensitive type, 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.040 but the Travis Kelcey. 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:50.120 Yeah, this is leading me straight into storytime with Uncle 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.360 Darren mud Let's go, because it always comes back to 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.880 storytime with Uncle Darren moude Uh. Once upon a time, 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.640 the Carolina Panthers employed a young gentleman by the name 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:04.440 of Cooper Coop was like a fifth round pick safety. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:05.080 Special teams guy. 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.520 He was sort of like the Sam Franklin of his era, 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.800 and Coop was a real goofball. This was back during 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.440 the first Super Bowl team. Maybe they'll be an episode 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:17.040 of Cardiac that involves Drod Cooper podcast, Matt, what do 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:21.400 you think could be? Never know, stay tuned for more 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.240 of Cardiac. But anyway, Coop was real weirdo, but in 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.200 a mostly harmless way. Him and Rod Smart would go 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.160 around getting into high jinks, eating raw meat with their 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.160 hands and stuff like that. They weren't big into utensils 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.240 or manners or anything like that, or even the normal 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:42.400 mores of polite society. So anyway, one day Coop, who 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.080 was always looking for attention as well, came in the 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.839 locker room and told a fable about how he was 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.240 dating Christina Aguilera, oh when he was the biggest thing 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.160 in pop music at that point in time. And it 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.200 was harmless enough, and everybody kind of got the sense 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:02.000 that Coop was our legs a little bit, but there 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:02.800 was enough to it. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.720 It was coming off by week. Coop was a decent 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:06.679 looking fellow. 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.400 So, you know, in a weird sort of way, could 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.920 we have imagined him showing up at the same. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.520 Place we could nice. 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.839 The good news was me, as an enterprising reporter in 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.559 a previous life, knew some people in the music industry, 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.520 in the music writing business, and I made one phone 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.200 call and I said, I need a number for Christina 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:32.080 Aguilera's publicist, and this friend who will go nameless, obliged 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.480 and I called this young lady with an office in 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.240 New York and I said, good morning, so and So. 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:38.200 My name is Darren Dan. 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.319 I'm a reporter covering the Carolina Panthers down in Charlotte, 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:45.400 North Carolina. Got a question for you. Is your client 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:50.680 dating a football player named Rod Cooper? And the publicist said, 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.520 and I quote, I've never heard of that person in 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:55.160 my life. 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.760 Oh no, yikes, down to earth for jah. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.280 So I was like, Coop busted. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.440 And He's like, I don't know what you're talking about, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.320 but uh, anyway, So that's a story about how Girodd 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.280 Cooper and Christina Aguilera are not quite like Taylor Swift 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:16.040 and Travis Kelcey. And we have probably avoided the topic 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:21.760 at hand for as long as we possibly could. It 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.440 is Week four, Friends and the Carolina Panthers are oh 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.680 and three because I'd rather light a candle than curse 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.400 your darkness. Here come to Minnesota Vikings, who are also 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:36.480 wait for it, oh and three. In the past, I 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.920 would have probably joked about this is kind of a 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.800 loser leaves town match, which is an old wrestling reference 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.559 that a lot of people probably aren't gonna get. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.400 But this, it's taken on such a life. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.719 It's on I think people are so there's an anxiety 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.600 about what's going on here. And and I don't want 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.160 to turn this into a must win game because I 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.000 don't really think it is. I said at oh and 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:04.680 one and oh two, you know everybody was jumping to conclusions. 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.400 The jump to conclusions, Matt was out and in full effect. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.800 And I'm just I'm in a wait and see mode 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.800 with this entire football team right now. I don't think 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:19.040 because this team lives in the NFC South, I think 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.200 it's impossible to say, oh my god, they've got no 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.040 chance at the playoffs. But I don't even know that 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.920 playoffs needs to be part of the consideration. What the 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:30.000 Carolina Panthers need to do right now at this moment 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.000 is continue to develop Bryce owing and part of that's 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.240 going to be a having him healthy and back on 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.600 the field. And Bryce was back on the field as 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:42.600 a full participant yesterday after missing last week's game. So 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.960 the news appears to be good there. But I think 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.040 beyond that, the Panthers are in a spot where they've 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:49.240 got some work to do. 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:51.960 With all these brilliant coaches. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.920 I mean, that's what we talked about a lot this offseason, 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.800 was this all star team of coaches Frank Reich put 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:02.439 together between joshn and Thomas Brown and James camp And and 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.960 Jim Calwell and all these dudes, Sean Jefferson and Douce Staley. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.600 I mean, there are just so many brains on that 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.360 offensive staff, and I think what I have seen through 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:17.600 three weeks is almost the result of too many smart 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.560 people in one place at one time. And if you'll 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.800 pardon me the digression. 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.800 It's just it. They look a little bound up right now. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.040 They look a little too many cooks in the kitchen. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:31.840 Is probably the wrong way of saying it, but it's 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.880 like they're trying to do too much. The Carolina Panthers 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.440 found success last year when they stripped it down and 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.920 did about three things that they knew they could do 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.240 very well. Well, these people got a playbook the size 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.440 of a phone book, because that's a thing that people 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:47.400 my age. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:47.760 Know what is. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:52.000 And it's just it feels a little like too much 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:52.920 through three games. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.040 Well, there's also I think the piece of it that 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.680 is inevitable and is going to happen. But it has 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.320 happened to the Panthers a lot this season in and 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.800 it is injuries because you can say the development and 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.880 everything going on, but when there's key personnel missing from 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.120 about everywhere you can look, and then you could even 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.400 take it a step back and think about how through 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.160 the preseason and early in the season there were a 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:15.880 lot of receivers that were out. DJ Truck took a 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.840 minute to come back, you know, feeling I think had 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.319 a little bit of something at the end of the 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.400 preseason period. So I mean, I'm just looking at the 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.920 injury report right now, and then we've had this same 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.319 narrative since Week one, and it's inevitable and sometimes it's 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:29.840 bad luck and sometimes. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:30.679 You never know what it is. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.160 But when you're developing, which is what you mentioned, and 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.920 I think the Bryce Young situation of last week is 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.640 like kind of a microcosm of it all because there 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:41.760 are focused on developing Bryce. That has been what they've said, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.360 what they've shown. I mean, you know, the second Bryce 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.000 is ready to go, Bryce will be ready to go. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.280 He was practicing yesterday and that's a really good sign 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.719 for his development. It's not a wait and see and 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.240 watching Andy type deal. It was a Okay, you're not 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.440 feeling well now watching Andy be this part of your 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.240 development come back. And I think that's kind of a 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:02.199 perfect kind of little bit of everything that's happened across 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.320 the board. I mean, you were mentioning Sam Franklin in 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.120 that story, and I thought it was a great segue 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.240 because we're gonna be seeing probably quite a bit more 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.559 of Sam Franklin, especially on defense. And he talked to 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.040 yesterday in the locker room that he wants to be 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.079 out on punt too, so so it's one of those 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:16.400 things that he wants to be on the field pretty 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.560 much always. But you know, with Xavier Woods, I mean 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.080 you think about these I mean key pieces missing, Shack Thompson, 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.600 JC Horn working his way back, Frankie Louvu working through 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.640 the hip. Now, I mean it's just there's and that's 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.080 just on the defensive side. There's just been there's been 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.600 injuries and it's inevitable, but it's been a lot. It's 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.960 felt like a lot, and it's it's fair to say 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:39.600 it is a lot, and that's gonna play a role 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.880 into getting everything together when it is a new staff, 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:43.840 when it's everything together, And I think that's an important 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.920 piece of perspective to remember it's they're not getting you know, 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.760 the full look at everybody who worked with the ones 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.680 in training camp, with the ones in the preseason. It's 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.560 kind of especially along I mean on the offensive side 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.600 of the offensive line, there's just a lot of different 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.920 areas where they need to get healthy. And I think 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.440 think it's it would be you know, it's not the 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:03.000 end of the world. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.360 It's week four. People are gonna come back. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.880 And I think focusing on that aspect of like, let's 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.440 let everybody get healthy and try, you know, to hope 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.960 that there aren't more injuries cropping up like there was 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:13.520 at Seattle. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.240 But I think that's a huge part of it. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.160 When you're thinking about development, they got to be on 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:18.360 the field of develop The. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.000 Short answer to a long story about the Carolina Panthers 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.240 through three weeks is there's a lot of stuff going on, yeah, 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.800 you know, and again a lot of stuff on offense, 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:33.880 trying to maild all these varying philosophies into one coherent whole. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.400 Injuries that have taken Bryce Young and so many defensive 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.960 guys as you mentioned, off the field for stretches this year. 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:43.920 I mean, there's just it's been. 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.560 Hard for this to be kind of singular and about 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:48.880 one particular thing. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:49.600 And we'll see. 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.600 I mean, Frank came in this week saying the magic words, 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.880 and I always I WinCE a little bit when coaches 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.400 go to sense of urgency. That was one of Dom's 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.160 old buzzwords back in the ninety's. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.520 Dom said sense of urgency a lot. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.480 Frank hasn't said it a lot so far, but he 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.680 walked in this week and it's like, oh, it's week 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.120 four and he's talking sense of urgency. But he kind 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:15.760 of explained yesterday it's not about you know, now, we 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.520 have sense of urgency. It's always been there, but it's 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.040 like this was the week where it kind of got 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.480 everybody's attention and you can tell that there was a 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.720 very different Frank. That was one of the things that 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.040 stood out to me the most about the Seattle game 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:33.280 the other day was in the past. Frank is kind 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.360 of built for the long haul, and he's not a 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.680 very emotional overreactor. But on a day when a team 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.200 commits eight false start penalties, Frank us the word pathetic 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:46.080 and completely unacceptable, and it's like, WHOA, this is disappointed 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.800 dad talking to the kids when they drove the car 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.640 into the tree when they were supposed to be in 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.920 the house studying. So you kind of got that sense 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.280 of Frank's up on the balls of his feet now 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.080 and in case anybody's thinking it it's okay for this 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:02.920 to be a seventeen game process. 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:04.960 That was Frank's way of like. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.480 Shaking the group and saying, no, we have to be 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.000 better than this, because they. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.560 Do exactly and I think, you know, kind of looking forward. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.320 I was thinking about it as I walked in today. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.040 Isn't it nice that we're back in Charlotte this week? 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.480 I mean, after Seattle's a long trip one it was. 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.200 A tough environment for him. 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.119 Obviously mentioned the eight Falalse starts, seven on offense and 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:26.400 then the one on punt team, and. 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.040 I mean that was what I mean. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.919 Frank Craik talked about it I can attest to it. 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.240 They were pumping in the crowd noise. It's one of 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.160 those things that I guess in the moment, it's hard 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.840 to it's hard to understand what happened, but it's easy 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:41.480 to be like, well, it's time to get it corrected. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.119 And like you said, he did show kind of that 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:44.120 emotion and passion. 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.320 They will be back at Bank of America Stadium this 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:50.240 weekend and before going on more road stretch. 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.679 If you look across the next couple of weeks, it's 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.800 kind of back and forth home away, home away, but 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.399