WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 40: The Quarter Pounders 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:12.119 It's time from a Happy Half Hour presented by Morris 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:18.079 Jenkins with your friends Kristin Balboni, Will, Bryan and Darren Ghan. 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:24.280 That's right, it's that time of the week, the Happy 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.440 Half Hour podcast presented by Morris Jenkins and Mr Jenkins 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:29.760 told me that the Panthers meet him proud and he 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.360 is honored to support the team. When you're plumbing or 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.000 air conditioning is acting up, called Morris Jenkins or visit 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:39.840 Morris Jenkins dot com. Kristen here with Darren and Will 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.360 and Matt back together for another Happy half Hour podcast. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:45.400 And it's a big day. I mean, we have a 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.640 lot to catch up on a lot of Panthers news, 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:49.720 but before we do that, we got to talk about 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.559 the most important life updates, which is that Will, it 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:56.840 is your birthday to day, that's right, Happy birthday. And 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.400 Darren got married less than two weeks ago. Yeah, and 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.120 gradually since Darren, Thank you very much. We're there are 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:06.480 many many happy half hours that extend and hopefully for 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.120 the rest of my life. Yeah. Yeah, it's good stuff. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.840 It absolutely is. Congrats to both of you. Will congrats 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.840 on making it another year and Darren, congrats on the marriage. 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.600 I know, and and Kristen, you're you're just getting younger, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.440 You're Benjamin button ng Us. Sure, well, well I'm getting 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.400 older and Darren's getting married. Yeah. I like that. Thank you. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.119 That's when you're some brownie points. I appreciate it here. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:29.600 So I have to say, though, are we allowed to 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.319 say what happened on our Tuesday call this morning to 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.360 celebrate your birthday? Well, you got to tell the story 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.319 of your perspective. So we do a Tuesday call every Tuesday, 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:43.520 every Tuesday morning, and generally it's just updates about the department, 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.800 our digital department, right, and so a lot of okay, 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.960 we're talking about training camp right now, all sorts of logistics. 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.440 But there was a special guest today in honor of 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.760 Will's birthday. I think you gotta tell it from your perspective, right, So, 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.440 all of a sudden, I start seeing these chat number 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.200 things coming from this guy named Astition, and there we've 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.280 we've hired some new people. So I thinking maybe this is, 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.920 you know, one of the new employees that we have, 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:12.040 and Sebastian is like, happy birthday. Well you're like, you 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.079 know that this person's coming. I need to meet this 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.840 Sebastian you know friends. Yeah, and then I hear or 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.160 they say, we need to put it in like preview 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.359 mode or like full modes you can see everyone and 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.120 not just like yourself or whatever. And then there's this 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.919 goat named Sebastian is an actual goat, an actual goat 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.600 on the call, just eating goat things or whatever. Goats 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.720 eating English and English goat. Yeah, I don't how do 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:36.720 you tell the difference. I saw Sebastian, I didn't know 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.640 he was an English goat. Yeah. Bill was very excited 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.480 about this. He was not just any old goat, right. 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.359 Our boss was very excited about putting this plane into 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.120 motion for the last week, and he was like, you 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.760 gotta come see this goat I found in England. His 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.560 name Sebastians from oh I thought that was like I 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.680 thought he was. That was just his brand, Like I 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.920 thought he was like English goat American. I didn't realize 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.960 he was actually joining us from across the pond. So 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:06.320 it was time for Sebastian. Well, Sebastian had a Type five. 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.480 Sebastian was in and out from ten to ten oh five. 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.600 I think he gets booked pretty heavily. So it's luckily 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.359 that we got Sebastian. Yeah, I felt very honored. It's 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.280 a pretty good, pretty good birthday present, right, it's a 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.800 pretty memorable one. Now, when my birthday rolls around, if 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.040 I get some cheap domestic goat, I'm gonna be really 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.520 Salty's not gonna go I'd say, Well, is the only 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.520 person I've ever seen to get a cameo like that 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.280 on their birthday? So yeah, very honored to see what 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.320 what we've got up our sleep for Darren. So, Darren, 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.400 how is married life? And are you excited to be 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:39.480 taking your honeymoon in Spartanburg. That's what everybody said, You 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.400 got a big honeymoon planned and I was like, yeah, 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:45.000 I'm going to spartanburgum with all of your coworkers. Yeah, 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.160 it's gonna be awesome. I mean, it's been such a 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.160 blur of the last couple of months. Bought a house, 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.480 get get married, do all this stuff, and then it's 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.640 like okay, now what Okay? Now I have two weeks 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.600 before training camp and then football season starts. So it's 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.560 it's been a lot coming at us, but it's been 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.280 fantas astic. We were extremely fortunate had a lot of 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.720 close friends and family there with us when it all 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:06.520 went down. So it was it was good. It was 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.360 a great day and it was great. We had people, 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.720 some friends from out of town came in, made it 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.240 really special weekend, really great vibes all the way around. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.280 In the studio today we got a lot of smiles 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.440 celebrating Will's birthday, talking about Darren's wedding. But you mentioned 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.760 training camp. We are gonna get everyone ready for training 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.960 camp in just a little bit. But I think we 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.760 have to pay the due to some updates from the 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.960 Panthers that have happened since the last time we talked, 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.800 because there have been quite a few. So I think 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.239 in news that makes literally everyone happy. Right, Taylor Malton 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.640 and the Panthers agreed to a new multi year extension, 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.279 and my mind is greedness for everyone involved. It's great 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.680 for Taylor, great for the offense, great for the front office, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.440 great for us, the three of us, great for the fans. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.120 They're no losers, right, Darren, Not really. I mean, if 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.479 Taylor doesn't get that contract and he plays out the 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.680 year on the franchise tag, it just limits you in 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.000 so many ways. One, you can't make a long term 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.719 plan for the offensive blind because you know you're either 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.440 gonna have to tag the guy or go through this 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.599 next year. And number two, I mean, he freed up 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.520 about gosh eight or nine million bucks worth a cap 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.320 room right off the top, which gives them options for 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.440 stuff they can do. So the reality is there may 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.000 be more people who are happy about this deal in 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.560 the coming weeks because it just gives them a little 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.400 more flexibility going in if somebody needs to extend. If 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.040 you want to start talking to some of the guys 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.039 who are going to be free agents after this year, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.000 like a Robbie Anderson, like a Dante Jackson, if you 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:31.919 want to get a jump start on some of that stuff, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.000 you can do that now, whereas previously you could not. 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.080 So it's definitely a good deal all the way around 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.680 for those guys, but especially Taylor, And I mean, my gosh, 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.600 if anybody deserves an extension, you know, and I'm offensive, 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.960 li I'm impartial, but that guy, he grinds, he works, 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.320 he and they I have very little doubt that he's 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.720 going to continue to work the exact same way now 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.400 that he's got the money. I mean, he's just the 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.920 same dude, and that's what they love about him. In 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.679 addition to being a great player, just the a great 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.960 teammate too, like a good guy, good friends to a 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.200 lot of people as I've gotten to know him more 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:07.960 now that we're allowed to be around players, and I 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:09.599 think you could see it. It It was one of my favorite. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.040 I mean, our social media team is just absolutely incredible. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.840 Shout out Amy, Angela and Daniel. But I loved the 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.440 post when the Taylor Morten news was announced, all of 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.159 the Panthers teammates, all of the players that commented either 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.160 in the Panthers DMS or the comments under the announcement 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.200 of just how excited all of the Panthers players, all 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.440 of his teammates were excited for him. And you can't 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.960 fake that. I just think that's that's awesome he is. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.120 I still remember his first day here. You know, he 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.760 showed up and he was wearing dark jeans and a 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.200 white Western Michigan polo shirt, you know, and some of 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.000 the other draft picks from that class, you know, you know, 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.120 had the full suits and we're all like ready to go, 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.360 and you know, here's Taylor just going around and shaking 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.159 the hands of everyone that's around him in his Western 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.719 Michigan polo just ready to get going. Like that's just 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:54.960 always been who he is, and I think and he's 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.279 still that way, you know, four years later. He's played 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.960 every snap last year, you know, hasn't missed a start, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.880 you know, since his his rookie year when when he 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.360 was a spot starter. I mean, he's he's an everyday guy, 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.760 good friends with Christian McCaffrey, who we also have to 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.320 talk about in our news updates. So since our last episode, 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:15.120 CMC proved that he's incredibly talented at something else because 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.160 he played piano at his benefit concert. The Troops Benefit 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.760 Concerts Starring Zach Bryan with Christian McCaffrey was the official 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.280 name of that event, which happened right before fourth of July. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.800 I did ask him ahead of time. I was like, 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.120 are you gonna sing? Because he told me he was like, 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:32.920 I don't sing. I'm not a good singer. It's probably 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.280 something I'm really bad at or worst at. Don't ask me. 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:36.200 I'm not gonna do it. And so I was like, 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.320 are you gonna sing at this concert? Now? I didn't 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.320 see any singing, but I mean it's just like you're 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.760 you're great. You're great at football, and now you're great 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.160 at piano to like, can I get one talent? Can 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.120 I just get the one one thing that I'm really 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.920 really good at is to be able to do all that. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.560 He's taking all the talent for he's not leaving any 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.920 for the rest of us, certainly not for me. It's uh, 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.640 but he was. I mean, Christian did have a little 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:00.960 bit of I don't know, stage fright. It's probably not 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:02.800 the right way, but he was a little nervous because 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.520 he's played in the living room, he's played in front 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.480 of friends and family, but he hadn't played in front 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.280 of a couple of thousand people at the film or 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.400 the way he did well. And what he told me 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:12.960 was that, you know, it's for a good cause, Like 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:14.560 this is not something that maybe would be in his 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.960 comfort zone, even though he's very good, but it was, 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.880 you know, on behalf of of his organization, twenty two 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.080 troops went to a great cause. And so that's that's 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.360 really incredible that he did that. Can you guys play instruments? 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.480 I was thinking about that anything I'm not musical, I mean, 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.400 like recorder in fourth grade when we were all in 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.200 elementary school, you learn to play the record. I can 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.880 do I can do like one hand on the piano, 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.280 so like I can, I can look at cheap music 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.560 and no know what keys to hit. But like two 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.040 hands were ones going a whole different thing on a 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.040 different cleft in the other you can read music. So 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.320 he took piano lessons. Then now I was just like 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.520 in quired, so I could sing, so I like knew 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:59.160 the notes, a couple of a scale, a little warm 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.240 up exercise, same way that like I used to play 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.200 football twenty years ago. It doesn't mean I can go 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:04.640 out and do it. I was gonna say, were you 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.360 in an acapella group in college? I was in an 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:12.520 acapella group in high school called the quarter Pounders. They 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:17.360 just keeps getting better. Oh my love, oh four a M. 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.920 What was your go to song? So I was like 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.559 the alternate because they want a competition to win the 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.360 same the national anthem and every home e c h 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.400 L Minor League hockey game, And of course one guy 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.360 couldn't make most of the Tuesday nights for for whatever reason, 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.560 so I always sang the base part of the national 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.040 anthem on the ice with the quarter Pounders. I love 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.319 that you will just admit that you were like an alternate, 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.120 So I didn't. I didn't. All I sung was the 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.160 national anthem. That's the only song. They're like, well, you're 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.840 in the national that's all I did. So every time 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.040 during the national anthem, if you're like standing next to 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.640 me at a game, I will hum the base harmony. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.000 Oh I gotta get in there. Yeah, put that on 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.720 a resume the walk on for the quarter pound Wait? 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.800 Why was it called the quarter path wunders? Because there 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:05.920 are four of us? But why they liked quarter pounder hamburger? 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:14.240 Because together you create a whole, whole, whole big So 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.439 did they let the other guy do all the other stuff? 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:20.319 Just he made it in I I didn't actually make 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.840 it through the final audition, but I was the only 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.000 other guy that could sing bass. How did I go 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:26.480 for almost a year and a half of knowing you 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:30.680 without knowing this? That's incredible. We end it right here, right, 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.679 come up? Yeah, we don't need to talk about I'm done. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.720 Oh man? All right. In other news, it's also been 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.600 announced that Steve Smith is doing preseason games along with 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.520 Taylor's Arsa and someone named Kristin Balbonie. I've never heard 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.600 of her. I am so excited though I got to 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.640 meet him when we did the schedule release video. He 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.160 came back very graciously and did a take on his 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.800 ice ups, on his famous line with an ice block 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.200 and a chainsaw, and I got to play the reporter 0:10:58.280 --> 0:10:59.880 who was in there, and we had a great time. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.920 And then I've you know, gotten to hang out and 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:03.520 chat with him as we start to plan for the 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.240 preseason and Taylor as well, who's just incredibly talented, and 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.000 I'm I'm thrilled. I cannot wait. And they're gonna be 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.440 a training camp too, right, I think to watch some practices. Yes, yeah, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.840 we're gonna do a couple of broadcasts through there. I 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.400 don't know if the details have been released, but Panthers 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.240 fans are gonna get some steep, which I think, again 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.040 everyone is excited about, and he is thrilled to be 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.600 doing it. He's already you know, we're already tossing around ideas. 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.040 He's already said some stuff. You know how former players 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.640 who are really good analysts, and certainly he is a 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.800 really good analyst. At NFL Network, they put stuff in 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.120 a way that you're just like like the analogies, They 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.240 put stuff in away where you go, oh wow, okay, 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.320 got it. That makes a lot more sense. It can 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.480 really condense down these big observations. And I don't want 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.240 to give any of the ones away that he was saying, 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.000 because that will of course be on the broadcast. But 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:48.520 I just went, oh, it makes a ton of sense, 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.760 you know. And and so I'm excited for him to 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.520 add that perspective to to the broadcast and to get 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.640 to work with him. And it's last It's cool to 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.240 see Steve. And this is one of the things I 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.560 always respected about him when he was a player and 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.760 in his post career. Steve wants to do the work. 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.280 When he did some stuff with Taylor at local radio, 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.120 he insisted on being intern Smitty for a couple of 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.160 months and answering the phone and knowing how the board 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.560 worked before he would go on and just be football 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:18.960 guy talking about football. Steve Smith, he loves learning new things. 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.360 His curiosity sets him apart from a lot of the 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.240 guys who you encounter in this world. Not that there 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.200 aren't a lot of smart guys in here, but Steve's 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.480 just got that wanting to learn about the world quality 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.679 that you know, he walks in eyes wide open. It's like, okay, now, 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:33.960 what do we get to do. Now, what do we 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.840 get to do? What's next? And so he's just adding something. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.720 And when Steve gets to learn something new, he's pretty happy. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.000 The energy he brings just even to the meetings, and 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.040 how excited he is about it and passionate and he 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.760 is about being there to call these Panthers preseason games 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.840 is infectious. Oh yeah, he's gonna sell you to ice up. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.200 He has already when we did the schedule release video, 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.959 go back and watch it. He raises everyone's level around him. 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.480 Now he's that guy, Darren, what's your best Steve Smith, 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.240 Marie or play or You've You've got so many great stories, 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.200 I would be remiss not to ask. I mean, I'm 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.280 putting you on the spot. I've always said, of the 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.040 ten greatest catches I've ever seen, Steve Smith make three 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:12.920 or four of the we're in games. I mean, he 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.400 absolutely went out in practice every day with something to prove. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.880 And early in his career, part of that was he 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.440 felt it was his obligation to help the coaching staff 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.800 cut the roster and tell him which cornerbacks needed to 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.160 make the team and which ones didn't. And so Steve 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.719 was going out there every day like that, and there 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.880 was stuff happening on a practice field where you're looking 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.120 around and there's nobody there beside you, and it's like 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.760 somebody else saw that, and I only one that will 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.920 ever get to see that, I mean, and he's just 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.040 there was one and it was just a random Wednesday 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.320 in an October in the middle of the season, and 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.400 he's going across the middle of the field that passes 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.199 thrown behind him and he's like in mid air twisting 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.600 and reaching around behind himself with one hand and it's like, 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.520 oh my god, there's video of this daring just today. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.280 I know you can't see it, but daring just to 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.480 day a yoga moved really show if somebody's got some 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.800 help right now. I'm a little stiff, um yeah, but 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.840 I mean Steve just he's fantastic because when he puts 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.800 himself into something, he puts himself all the way in. 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.920 And and that's what gray ones do. I cannot wait, 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.360 canna wait, And it's it's coming up. I mean, we're 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.080 counting down the days now. We all leave next week 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.680 for training camp. Um, we're starting to finalize our plans, 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.960 which is so exciting. So let's talk about it. Let's 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.760 talk about training camp. We are gonna do a Swill's birthday. 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.360 So he got to set the agenda for the podcast, 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.160 and I absolutely love this. We're going to go around 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.720 the Horn style with a couple of questions about training camp, 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.320 and we are going to start Will with one thing 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.280 to watch, starting with you, what's your one thing to watch? 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.000 So I love watching the one on ones between receivers 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.480 and corners. Not me, I like, Stretch was like, yeah, 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.920 everyone loves the one on ones, right, So I mean 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.120 it's it's obvious, but I do want to see I 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.760 want to see DJ and j C. I want to 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.680 see a J Boyer and Robbie, you know, or however 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:01.920 these guys line up, however they match up, you know, 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.000 when when they're on the island, when when you've got 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:05.760 to make a move. I want to see kind of 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:07.880 that physicality, and you know, some of the things they 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:09.600 do in there you may not be able to do 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.520 in a game. So it's kind of fun to watch 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.640 the way they really go at each other, you know, 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.560 every day on on the one on one. So that's 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.080 why I'm gonna be watching. You almost stole my thing, Sorry, yeah, 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.520 because I was gonna say, also one on ones but Lineman. Yeah, 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.160 and because I think one of the coolest things I 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.800 ever got to do in spartan Burg was watched Jordan's 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.000 Gross and Julius Pepper's practice against each other every day 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.080 for about what six or seven years. I mean, the 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.400 seeing those two guys go against each other. It's like, Okay, 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.840 Jordans has to be technique perfect because he's trying to 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.600 block physical freak and every advantage is with the guy 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.320 on the other side. So it made Jordans better working 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.400 against a guy like that all the time. And I 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.720 think it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting to see 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.200 this year, I mean, with so much and we'll have 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.120 more about this tomorrow and Panthers dot com. But um 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.400 watching cam Irving watching the people who were competing for 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.840 the left tack job. Okay, congratulations over there's Brian Burns. 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.320 Play hard, get after it. Let's see who's going to 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.600 be this guy come and started the season. Is it 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.640 going to be Cam Irving or Dennis Daley or Trent 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:13.320 Scott or great or whoever or maybe Taylor Mountain if 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.680 things don't go his planned? But whoever is going to 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.520 be in that spot's gonna get him a full dose 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.080 of Brian Burns and a son Reddick and Morgan Fox, 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.480 and we'll find out in a hurry. My one thing 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.280 to watch is just the I want to see the 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.800 chemistry um with each unit when they come in and 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.840 then what it looks like by the time they leave, 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:34.160 because this is the first traditional training camp for so 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.560 they drafted eleven guys this year, seven last year, a 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.680 lot of new faces, and then the staff has not 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.960 had a traditional training camp at Watford, and now the 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.200 location is not necessarily as important. But last year, that's 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.280 where they met each other for the first time, was 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.360 getting here all of their O t A s as 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.040 as all Panthers fans know and all NFL fans, everything 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.720 was virtual. And I remember Coach Rule telling me that 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.360 one of the things he was most looking forward to 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.240 is having a more traditional offseason and being able to 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.880 build the chemistry and being able to get guys comfortable 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:04.959 with the playbook and the scheme um. And they've been 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:06.560 doing a lot of that. So I'm interested to see 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.040 where these guys come in and how each of those 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.119 three units are developing, and then also what develops like 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.679 I love to watch even who's walking in together, you know, 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.520 and and so much to what you guys said about 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.920 the one on ones or the drills, How does that evolve, 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.719 What does it look like, you know by the end 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.639 of it, because really, I mean training camp was just 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.920 so different last year. Like I said, people were meeting 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:27.600 each other for the first time. It was in August, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.080 it was here. So I'm excited to see what the 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.800 benefit of a much more normal offseason does to this incredibly, 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.840 incredibly young team. And a lot of guys talked about that. 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:38.760 Durn O t a s It's like, we can actually 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.280 meet these guys now, you can build relationships when you 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.040 can see somebody's face and talk to them and go 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.199 out to the almost still feels weird, like oh we 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.720 can we can do that now, you know. It's so 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.600 it's great, all right. Next up, one player to watch 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.359 during training camp Darren who you got see and again 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.080 will stomped on it a little bit. But j C 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:03.040 Horns fastening to me because he is a guy unlike 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.840 they've had at that position in a long long time. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:09.120 They've had some good corners around here. James Bradberry was fine, 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.440 Josh Norman was pretty good for a while, But really 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.480 j C is a different kind of player. I mean 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:20.240 there's just not one that's that pedigreed, that size, that fluid, 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.800 that athletic, probably since Chris Gamble, and Chris Gamble was 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:25.919 not going to come up and hit anybody. So I 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.119 mean watching j C during O T A S it's like, Okay, 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.040 this guy is different. I want to see what it 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.000 looks like in full pads because he's a big guy, 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.359 and I think when he put shoulder pads on, people 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.639