WEBVTT - The Group Chat Episode 35: Huge Calves 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.960 This episode of the Group Chat is brought to you 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.120 by Lift. Lift will pick you up at your door 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:09.840 and get you where you need to go. Hey, everybody. 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:12.440 On this week's the Group Chat, we are talking all 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:16.440 things combine as we get ready to head to Indianapolis. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.040 Every player gets asked who have you met with or 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.720 who have you spoken to? And it gets treated as 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.079 if it's like this like breaking news. It's like, Okay, uh, 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.320 so and so player just said that they've met with 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.720 the Panthers, right, and it's like they're going to meet 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:35.000 with pretty much everybody and then stick around towards the 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.120 end where the guys play a game of NFL Combine 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:45.440 Participant or Rapper Combine participants, Combine participants. He's a combine participates. 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:51.320 No rapper. Here's the thing. No rapper has come from Indianapolis. Yes, 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:57.279 we have that in so much more, including Will embarrassing himself. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:10.280 On this week's the Group Chat, You've been added to 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.920 the Group Chat with your friends Caroline, can Max Enson 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:20.240 and Will Brian. Everybody, it's the Group Chat. Caroline Maxwell, 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.199 You're three best friends that you've ever had are sitting 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:30.760 here on Puts today Thursday. It's my dad's birthday last Thursday, February. 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.080 I have wished him a happy birthday, but we'll do 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:38.400 it publicly here. Happy birthday, John Can, Happy birthday, Big one. Okay, 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:40.240 the big One. I can say that on there because 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.119 he's my dad. He's he's been a big part of 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:47.400 this year of the group chat recurring character. Yeah, I'm 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.000 really I'm still kind of mad at didn't get the 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.880 coaching job, to be honest, Yeah, has he taken that. 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.040 It was tough. It was as a family. It was 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.280 really hard. Um, but you know, we we believe in 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.200 Matt rule. So if you're gonna lose to somebody, lose 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:01.880 a Matt rule. You know. He was in there at 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.760 the end though, So happy birthday to Dad. And we're 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:10.200 getting ready for the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Indiana. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.079 You guys excited, Well, well, you're not going, this is 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:17.600 this is also, this is also we're excited to go 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.480 and then wait, oh wait, well is not going not going, 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.440 but I'm going. I'm going. I'm having some fun to 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.640 tell us what we were doing while we're going to Well, y'all, 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.440 y'all are going to hang out in you know, boardrooms 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.240 and convention halls. I'm going skiing gosh, so yeah, and 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.320 that'd be fun. When's the last time he's skied? Uh? 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:40.400 Seventh grade? So what do we what do we expect 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.800 from you on the slopes this weekend? Probably a lot 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.600 of the like the pizza thing. We're going to be 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.480 taking a sub bunny bunny hill. I mean I'm trying 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.880 to no, I mean not that. I mean there's some greens. 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.200 I'll do some greens, and so you feel pretty confident 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.280 that you can take the lift up for your first run. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.400 You know, you don't have to go on the little 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.079 slope to get your feet wetting. So I think that 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.440 there's a slope near where we're going to be where 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.960 you can just start at the top so I can 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.560 go down it without having to get off the lift first. 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.760 Are you going to ski or snowboard? Ski? Okay, you'll 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:16.120 be fine on the lift. Then yeah, we're gonna need 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.680 some content from this. Make sure you don't have to 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.120 post any of this, but when you just send it 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.040 to you, there's some there's some internal group chats that 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:24.960 I feel like for some reason, I feel like will 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.080 in like ski years just also going to be very 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.600 amusing so we're just gonna need to see the full fit, 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:35.240 the goggles and everything. Gosh, no, that's why I'm laughing 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.240 because I just pictured it in my head. That's gonna 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.800 be so fun. Well, while he's going to what West 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.200 Virginia that we're going, he's going to West Virginia. We're 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:46.280 heading up, not in the same direction, but ish we're going. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.640 You're going north. Have you scheduled the lift for I 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.760 have to do that. I still have got a lift. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.200 We're just lifting it the whole way there. I'm just kidding. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.240 We're not, but we do still love lift, and I 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.080 I wouldn't do it, but if I was told I 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.960 had to, I would. I would just ask for a driver. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.160 I would get the biggest car. If we had like 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.720 those Yukons when the mobile those are nice, I would 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.800 do I would do an extra big lift. But that's 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.600 because we only love lift because they're not just because 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.039 they're on as our sponsor. But that's a really big 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:19.960 reason why we love them. When we love them because 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:21.760 they can get you anywhere. So just skip the hassle 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.440 of finding or paying for parking or going to the 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.920 airport and getting on a plane and just take lift everywhere. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.280 Thank you. Lift And even though we're not going to 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.240 take you to the Combine, we are going there. We're flying. However, 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:37.960 I got a weather notification on my flight about trying 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.360 to change it. I know you're you're flying out tonight, 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.200 right tomorrow. Okay, so you have the weather here in Charlotte, 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:47.640 this huge snowstorm, snowstorm is coming. It's already kind of 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.240 like cold rain now, which is just going to shut 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.039 down the schools for that. I know it Isn't that 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.839 about as bad as it's kidding? I heard we might 0:04:54.960 --> 0:05:02.720 get an inch? Yeah, maybe too. So I hope you 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.240 have your milk and bread because I get ready. Well, well, 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.960 I know you can't really participate in like this question, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:10.599 but just for fun, if you want to make something 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.280 up for it, Max, what's the coldest you've ever been 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:18.880 at the Combine? Have you been two years ago? Yeah? 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:20.160 I mean I was. I was out there for a 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.960 year where the snow was coming down, um pretty much 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.840 the entire time I was out there. I don't remember 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.720 how cold it was, but I'm pretty sure it was 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.839 probably like eighteen something like that. Twenty you know, your 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.000 typical February in India. I feel like I feel like 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.880 the wind on a couple of those streets get very 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:39.880 like a wind tunnel and you just feel like you 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:44.320 can't escape it. Are you excited, Matt? Yeah? Matt? Are 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.440 you ready? Are you going to have like everything packed? 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.360 The issue is getting it back? Yeah? He was really good. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.680 He nailed the packing part of great at that. It's 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.800 the it's the getting it back. I think since we're 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:57.800 flying with not the team, I think I'll be able 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.279 to handle this. Yeah, you'll just know, you'll be able 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.400 to check into your flight and know when it is exactly. 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.520 I get that. I get that. Yeah, the whole gang 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.760 is going except for Will, which just makes this bit 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.880 even better. That's just unscripted content. We didn't have to 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.960 come up with that. Will my will my normal hoodie 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:14.599 be enough? Or is it going to be like you 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.720 gotta layer up there? Right? So? Is this a serious question? Yeah, 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.680 you're just bringing a hoodie? Oh No, I'm just saying 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.760 I normally just like where hoodies and stuff? Is that 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.320 going to be to bring a jacket? The thing is, 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.200 I think all my heavy jackets are still like where 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:35.280 I'm from. I didn't think I brought him matt jacket 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:37.600 before we go, although I do think it's not supposed 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.640 to be that bad while So you get in on Monday, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.440 Monday night, Okay, you're fine because it's only going to 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.400 get bad right when you're leaving. You leave Thursday, you're fine, 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.400 except for on Wednesday. It's supposed to snow a little bit. 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.960 But no, I mean you're looking at fifty degrees Monday Tuesday, 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.279 forty on Wednesday. And then what about what about what 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.960 about when he's hitting the town at night. Yeah, you're 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:05.400 getting in loads of twenty five that's brutal. Might require 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.719 a jacket. Have you not worn a jacket in Charlotte yet? No, 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:14.160 it's all all the time foodie season when you're walking 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.280 over to the convention center in the morning. But he 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.560 can all he can take the wind tunnels, canny, Well, 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.280 you can't there. There is actually what hotel I think. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.800 I think on the inside. You can just walk around 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.239 in Indi from like one side, not the entire city 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:31.400 like Menneapolis, but you can walk walks. You can walk 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.360 from hotel to convention center through a skywalk. I'll just 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.120 do that. Yeah. So yeah, if you're gonna do that, 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:39.720 you just need a T shirt. Then you don't even 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:46.120 need would, yes, but the lay of the land. That's 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.840 what we're going to give you here for the NFL Combine. UM. 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.160 And this is a fun exercise because Matt has never 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.080 been before, so we have told him many things about 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.280 the combine, but this this might be fun. If you 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.080 have any questions about it's the same questions that the 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.480 fans out there have so asked them. Please alright, so 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.360 lay the lamp for the combine. The way that it works. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:10.960 Everyone arrives ish on Monday, and then Tuesday is when 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.560 Matt Rule is going to speak. I'm excited about this one. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.920 He's gonna do the whole we call it a car wash, 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.360 but it's when he just goes through all of the 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.960 different media entities. So he'll speak at the podium in 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:23.840 the afternoon and then go around to a couple of 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:28.160 the other big sets. NBC is normally there with their 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.840 Pro Football talk um. ESPN of course has a big 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:33.800 set and if our network all that jazz, so look 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:38.400 for that on Tuesday. Also on Tuesday, we're back might 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.199 as well. Yeah, I'll still be in the mountains. He's 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:47.040 gonna be driving back sore. He's going to be so sore. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:52.680 If I'm only sore and not broken, I will be 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.360 happy with sore. I get that. But we are going 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:59.360 to do a edition of the group chat from Indianapolis, 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.480 so that'll be fun. We hopefully you're going to have 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.719 some cool things for you guys. UM. If not, then 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.760 you'll just get you know, one of these you know, 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.120 But we are planning on that on Tuesday. UM. Wednesday 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.400 will be a bunch of other just daily content. This 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.920 is when mock drafts come to life and you start 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.880 to see these guys and see these players. I'm doing 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:22.720 some things, not playing, but they are doing things. They're 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.640 doing something athletically. Did you guys see the new drills 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.160 that are happening? What are the new drills? There's new drills, 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:33.000 the new new This was on Twitter today. This updates 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.760 some things. This was some content that I wasn't sure. 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:38.760 I didn't know I was going to learn this today. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:43.880 But according to Jordan's red Um, who is he's with 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.520 the Draft Network. He said that these are the new 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:52.320 combine additions, uh smoke routes for quarterbacks and wide receivers. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.679 You know what that is? So I guess you know, 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.200 like when the quarterbacks go through their passing portion. They're 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.120 just going to add that to the I believe, so okay, 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.760 and then O line, D line and tighten sled push 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.599 for yea, it says for two to five yards. I 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.000 think they just want to see that initial contact five yards. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:19.839 Defensive line timed figure eight bin drill going to be 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.360 a new time drill. Okay, so that one um dbs 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:29.079 and wide receivers timed dou W and gauntlet offensive line 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.400 screen drills for screenplays. I thought that was pretty interesting. 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.960 And apparently they are getting rid of the offensive line 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:41.000 rabbit mirror drill that is I know that is one 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:47.320 of the classics though, although the down is the best obviously. Yeah, 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.800 it's that one. You guys didn't get to see my 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.199 movement there. And then this is the one that I 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:58.440 think is just heartbreaking, the defensive line shuffle bag touch. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.320 It will be the same, it's changing, and that's too 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.360 much change without the shuffle bag touch. Yeah, Max, are 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.920 you good at the shuffle bag touch? Me? I feel 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.240 like you'd be you'd be swift. I'm a big three 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.760 cone drill guy. That's that's my jam. This was all 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.640 these changes were first reported by well, I don't know 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.640 if it was first. But Sports Illustrated has a whole 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.600 article on it, and here's what they say. The bench 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:27.160 press might be killed next. That's interesting because guys have 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.440 gotten hurt doing that, and so you didn't wonder at 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.719 what point was that going to become something where if 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.000 it's costing these guys millions of dollars in their draft stock. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.600 I think I remember like the ohiuse States center Billy Price, 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:40.560 it happened to him, and a lot of guys have 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.920 just stopped doing it. Yeah, and so not not shocked 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.199 to hear that, because you know there's a lot of 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.319 stake for these kids. Yeah, interesting, that's crazy. Jeff Foster, 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.679 he's the president of the National Football Scouting Uh, that's 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.240 who puts on the combine. He said, it's easier to 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.960 name the things that have not changed, and that's true. 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.599 One of my favorite things to do with Combined is 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:05.080 to talk to like the Peter kings Um, all of 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:09.280 those guys that have been covering this thing since it began. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.760 There were eight of them. There were eight media members 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.400 at the first combine, and now there's two years ago 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:19.559 there were over three credential media. It's crazy. So that'll 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:20.880 that'll kind of be the lay of the land. And 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.600 then Thursday is the last day that really most of 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.000 the media and coaches and all of those are there 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.080 because that Thursday night, UM, and there we mean in 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.400 the convention center talking to the media because Thursday night 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:38.079 begins the on the field testing. Something new this year 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:42.720 is it is now in primetime. This is when you 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:48.200 know that the sports world is, um not busy, because 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:52.560 we now have grown not well they're grown men in 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:56.080 shorts running around over not over as mini bags anymore. 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.640 They are running over bags and just jumping and yep, 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:05.160 the underwear underwear Olympics. It's been Olympics. Yes, So that'll 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.400 be starting on Thursday night, and then you'll see content 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.960 all throughout Friday and Saturday, UM, in Sunday going and 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:15.319 then I believe the comment officially in Monday or Tuesday 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:19.200 of that following week with the DBS correct, We don't 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:25.640 know Sunday. I think it's Monday. I think there are 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.319 three hundred participants that go through this thing. The DBS 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:32.160 are the final group to go. UM. But by that point, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.360 as content, as content collectors, we've got what we need 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.280 in h do you have here? Here's my question, do 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:44.560 you have the biggest combine? Pet peeve? I do? Where 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:49.880 do I begin? Now? What's yours? Mine is every player 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.760 gets asked who have you met with? Or who have 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.560 you spoken to? And it gets treated as if it's 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.920 like this like breaking news. It's like, Okay, so and 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.600 so player just said that they've met with the Panthers, right, 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.080 and it's like they're going to meet with pretty much everybody, 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.680 and it just gets people make such a big deal 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.520 out of it, and it's like he's met with and 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.400 it's like they're going to meet with them. They're acting 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:12.839 me with him here, they'll probably be with him in it. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.280 And I mean there's so many Yeah, there's so many 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.720 formal informal running into in the hallways. Like I hate that. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.800 I think my pet peeve is are you the best 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.560 blank in this draft? It's asked a lot of the combine. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.560 There's six or seven podiums and those are where the 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.080 top players from each position group go. And it never fails. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.200 They are asked, are you the best quarterback in this 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.280 draft class? What do you expect him to say? No? 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.160 I think two is a little better. No. They all 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:43.800 go in. But then it kind of makes them look 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.920 like cocky and and so if you were coaching a prospect, 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.840 like let's say you were representing, how would you coach 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.520 them to answer that question? I think I would just 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.760 look back and be like, why, yes, I think I'm 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.120 very talented. I'm not like I think I would. I mean, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.120 if I was no only coach, I would just say 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.160 just answer the question and just you know, yeah, I 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.000 think I'm super talented. I think here are my strengths 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.960 and move on. If if I am, ever, I will 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:10.880 never ask that question. And if someone that works for 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:15.400 me ask that question. Yeah, That's the thing about it too, 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.720 is like all these guys are coached really hard on 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:19.760 how to answer these questions. Like it's a big part 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.600 of the deal is, you know, preparing them for two interviews, 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.680 one with the media and then the other with the 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.440 you know, the football staff that's going to be having. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.440 How long did those go? Like fifteen minutes? Now where 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.560 they get with these guys. So it's a lot of 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.560 coaching that's going on. Here's what kind of questions you're 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.240 gonna face, Here's how we want you to answer them. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.360 And that's kind of a frustrating thing for what we 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.080 do too, is feeling like a lot of these things 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.440 are so rehearsed and you're here in the same kind 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.240 of thing over, but the same question gets asked year 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.040 after year. I'm like, guys, it's just nice when the 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.479 guys are comfortable enough in their own skin to be themselves. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.360 I think that's obviously you have to be able to 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.000 represent yourself in the right way still, but that's always 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.120 really refreshing when the guys at the podium and he's 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.880 confident and he knows that he's, you know, not worried 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.480 about tripping over his words. He's just being himself. And 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.640 unfortunately that's a little rare. This. I do kind of 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:11.240 like though, when like an offensive lineman or a defensive lineman, 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.360 they are huge human beings and you can tell they're 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.760 just a little nervous. There's just something about that that 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.600 is so delicate, and I just want to beat on 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:21.640 the people that take advantage of it, because there are 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.200 some people that will then kind of lean in and 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.520 be like, okay, like he's nervous. He might say something here, 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.760 I want to stop it. Does do they still do 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:33.080 their wonder lick test? They do? So, speaking of which 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:37.200 I've pulled up a sample wonder lick, what a segue, 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.000 and I think it's time that we ask a question. Okay, 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.240 I'm ready. I had no idea the sample wonder lit question. 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.320 This is real, Yeah, this is this is happening. Gertrude 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:50.480 is taller than Janelle. Nancy is taller than Gertrude. Who 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:55.080 is the tallest Nancy? Yeah, it's not fair. Her name 0:16:55.120 --> 0:17:02.040 is Nancy. Nancy's always the tale. Uh, this is a lot, 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:10.760 all right. Art is to wall as coffee cup is 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:20.959 to table table. Yeah one was like that. I mean 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.080 it was a five there's it was a multiple choice 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.159 and like couboard was the answer like covered was one 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:29.000 of the choices. Okay, so it is multiple choice. Well 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.439 that one was. I don't know. I think there are 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.439 these are all like sample different things. It is the 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.639 wonder like is more so how quick can you think? 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.160 Not how difficult the question can be, because I think 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.680 there's it's it's it's a timed test and as far 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.520 as you get in the test. Also it goes into 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.640 the score. Do we know who on the Panthers roster 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:56.879 who had the highest that I should have asked. I 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.080 should have asked this question before the podcast began, but 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.840 that wouldn't be as fun. We'll look that up to 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:07.120 be determined. It's always offensive lineman or a quarterback. Yeah, 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:11.680 typically I could see Taylor Motlin have scoring having scored extremely. 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:16.960 I agree with that, Taylor, but I bet gvrst Yeah, 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.320 I mean obviously the IVY League. Yeah, you'd expect. So 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:22.760 does that seg into the next thing or do we 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.400 need to keep moving? No? Segway away? Do we ever 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.320 keep moving on this? Right? So Ye says, we're talking 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:34.560 about these drills? Do you guys know who had the 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:39.200 most bench, the fastest forty, the fastest cone time, three 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.919 cone drill time. I don't know, I don't know anything. 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.480 Did Nick Fadden have the he's talking you're talking about Panthers, 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:49.000 only Panthers. I thought you were talking about him. I 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:53.120 thought this was a joke. His name. I was like, WHOA, 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.159 where's Matt coming with this joke? So, Matt, do you 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.840 want to take a guess which Panther has the fastest 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:03.159 forty ever? Offensive defense? He's offense. He's on the team currently. Okay, 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:06.560 I guess see him. See, I don't know, I don't 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:11.600 know anybody. Dante, he's close Curtis. Curtis Curtis had a 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.679 four three one, Dante had a four three two the 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.399 next year, and Dantes was tied for the fastest in 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:21.000 that in that season. Oh that's a good one. So 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:24.280 how about this, This one's funny. The guy with the 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.680 fastest shuttle drill time, also known as the five ten 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:32.080 five drill five yards ten yards five yards is former 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:37.479 quarterback Randy Fasani. Two. Definitely would have guessed that. Well. 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.960 I was really excited about that. I mean like what, like, 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.719 how how is the fastest shuttle drills? I mean like 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.960 how is he almost a like two tenths of a 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:51.200 second faster than DJ Moore? Quick? Yeah? I don't. I 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:55.399 don't have a great memory for Panthers history with different 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.800 combine events, but there are a few over the years 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:01.560 that I that do stick out. Like John Ross running 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.480 the forty ran like like a four two. I mean 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:09.520 that that was a huge hype around just him. I 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:15.560 remember Um Griffin, the Seahawks long backer, doing the bench. 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:17.960 That was like a huge thing. I remember there was 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:19.840 like one hare was a crowd of people watching it, 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.600 and that was a really cool thing. So every once 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:24.639 in a while, there like McCaffrey put on his show 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.200 when he did you know, he ran like the receiver 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:28.840 routes in addition to do all the stuff out of 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.360 the backfield, and everybody was just in awe of how 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.240 he caught the football. So, yeah, it was usually a 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.280 moment or two each year where somebody does something where 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:39.720 it's like, Okay, damn, this is the moment of this 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:43.680 year's combine. Do you like that? Let's do this, Let's 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:45.879 let's go into We're going to get more into this 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.560 on Tuesday when we're there. But who were some names 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:53.160 that you max or will have been seeing constantly come 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:55.280 up in these mock drafts, just for you guys out 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.480 there that want to pay attention to do the combine 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.400 and want to know who Who should we be googling 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:02.120 and all of these things are looking for who? Yeah, 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.359 we did our first mock draft report, um, which fans 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.840 can expect on Panthers dot Com really all the way 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:10.679 up through the draft at this point. Usually once a 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:12.920 week we will crank that out and just give you 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.640 an update on what the mock drafts are saying. And 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:18.639 really there are two names right off the bat that 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.520 have been connected to the Panthers significantly more than any others. 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:25.520 And that's Auburn defensive tackle Derrick Brown and Clemson linebacker 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:31.920 slash safety hybrid Isaiah simmons Um, both really good players. 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:35.360 You look at the Panthers defense and you know, especially 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:37.760 with the loss of Luke Kickley and kind of how 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.520 they're going to reshape things. Either one of those guys, 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:43.160 you could see why they would make a lot of sense. 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:47.000 But um, very early in the process. But those are 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.760 the two Caroline far and away that you see time 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:53.120 and time again, and I've seen Kin Law from South 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.560 Carolina another. I mean, you're definitely looking it seems like 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:59.639 defensive side of the ball, both you know, kind of 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.760