WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 7: Training Camp 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:12.360 It's time for a Happy half Hour with your friends 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:22.120 Kristin Balboni, Miles Simmons, and Will Brian. That's right, it's 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.520 that time of the week. Kristen, Miles and Will here 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:30.080 with you for the Happy Half Hour podcast. Miles fresh 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.200 off Virtual Oppressor with Coach Rule, How are you doing today? 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.840 I'm doing all right. I'm also glad that the rain 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.160 has stopped because it was kind of trudentially downpouring during 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.360 that Rule Virtual Oppressor and my power like flickering on 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.040 and off. Just it started too, so like that was 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:48.599 it was. It was a scary moment, but we made 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:53.400 it through. That is great. I haven't lost any I've 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.240 lost power twice this summer since moving to Charlotte, but 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.240 I have not lost it during a week day. So 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.080 that's definitely a fear of like what if I have 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.080 something scheduled? What do I do? Uh? Well, how are you? 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.839 I'm good. It's funny. I was in the same boat 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.200 my power. Also, I'm literally like four blocks down the 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.240 street from Miles, and there was one like really really 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.399 bad thunderclap like during one of the rules answers that 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.760 like knocked everything off, and I had no idea what 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:24.119 was going on? So, yeah, that was something always fun. Right. Well, look, 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.880 if you live as far away from the city center 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:28.920 as I do, you don't have to worry about something 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:30.120 like that. I'm sure I'm going to get it in 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:35.400 like twenty minutes. You guys tease me about. You know, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.600 I chose to live a little bit further outside of 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:40.720 the action than you guys did. So that's the one 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.040 time that I get to brag just a slight bit 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.120 that at least my power didn't go out during the 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.680 press conference or almost go out. Okay, what action is there? 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.480 We're still all basically in quarantine. That's true. Uh So 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:56.200 I just mentioned um coach rules press conference. He spoke 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.360 with the media via zoom a little bit earlier today. 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.960 So in that vein, let's talk about what's going on 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.880 with the Panthers. Where we all are now since the 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:07.640 last time that we spoke. Miles, do you want to 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.800 do the honor and phill us in on the latest? Sure? Well, 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:15.480 at this point, the rookies have reported the veterans have 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.680 started their testing process, so basically it's the same as 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.720 what the rookies were doing last week. They have to 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:25.800 continue to get negative tests before they can then be 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.679 allowed in the building. And so what I thought was 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:32.320 actually kind of interesting was what Matt Rules talking about today, 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.800 and that's the preparations that have gone into making Bank 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.200 of America's city and very safe UM as an environment 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.920 for these players. So what he was talking about is 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.440 how they basically have made it so that every player 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.240 is going to have a suite so that they can 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.440 still do virtual meetings, but they will all be on site. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.960 You have, he said that there are two UM outdoor 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.280 weight rooms so that they can sort of take advantage 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.919 of that base. You're gonna have players, you know, doing 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.880 their strength conditioning work on the field, and that's also 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.560 going to be outdoor. They've taken down walls in the 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.720 building in order to expand things. They've converted different rooms, 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.600 like the media room is not the media room, it's 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.080 an auxiliary room for these different places. So they've done 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.360 a lot in order to prepare for players to come 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.799 in and have as safe an environment as possible when 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.359 they're trying to get a football season off during a pandemic. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.720 And frankly, it's going to be a tough task for 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.960 thirty two teams to try to pull this off. But 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.040 as it stands right now, it seems like the Panthers 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:34.680 are in as good a position as you can be 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.400 in order to try and do it. I think the 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.520 irony of all this is, as we talk about the 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.480 future of you know, going down to rock Hill and 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:47.720 building this great practice in headquarters facility down there, that 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:52.360 right now in the Panthers probably have the largest headquarters 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.920 facility of any NFL team, and that they have an 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:59.080 entire stadium with all the floors available to them. Um So, 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.400 I think it's it's it's kind of ironic the way 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:02.880 that works. You know, some teams that might have a 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.440 much smaller physical footprint where their headquarters are. You know, 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.440 the Panthers are taking over all of these suite levels, 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.080 all of this this lower level area, you know, creating 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.280 all these private rooms and meeting areas. Um So that's 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.800 actually pretty cool, I think. And I think the thing 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.919 that Miles that I thought was interesting was like the 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:24.520 contact tracing stuff. So they're wearing these, um these pieces 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.520 of tech where if you're next to somebody else within 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.520 six ft, uh, it will kind of like flash red 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.200 um and then it'll like tell you if you've been 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.839 within six ft that person for up to ten minutes, 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.520 because that's kind of medically you know, when it really 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.600 becomes a problem. So and they can find out like 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.159 who you've been close to, you know, in case someone 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.720 uh test positive, they can see who they were were 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.200 near at a certain point in time. So I think 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.800 that was a really interesting tech piece as well. Yeah, 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.120 those contact tracers are really important I think throughout the 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.720 entire NFL right now, because it's not just the Panthers 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.479 that are using those. All thirty two teams are using those, 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.600 and they're basically being given to people who were in 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.200 the Tier one and the Tier two status so that 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.640 you can be in the facility but still socially distanced 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.120 within the facility as much as possible. And then as 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:14.839 you're saying, well, you know, if you're on the field, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:16.640 if you're practicing, you're doing whatever you need to do, 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.960 and you're a player or you're a coach, you know 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.320 who you've been around for a long time because of 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.240 those contact tracers. So it is really interesting and I 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.840 think you know to your point of the Panthers having 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.120 all of this space that they can utilize, you know, 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.920 and other teams that I've covered, the rams, the Rams 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.280 not have that luxury at all. I mean, even though 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.440 they built this big, beautiful stadium down in Inglewood, their 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:43.080 practice facility is substantially far away from that in Thousand Oaks. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:44.840 I don't know how many people are familiar with the 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:51.600 Los Angeles area, but they're basically, uh, two module trailers, 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.520 if you will. It's a series of couple buildings with 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.479 a bunch of module trailers, and they've had to reconfigure that. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.279 There was an NFL Network feature on this and order 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.679 to make it available for players to kind of socially 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.520 distance there. So it's one of those California indoor outdoor 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.600 spaces basically anyway, but it's not a big facility, and 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.480 they've had to convert you know what we used to 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.920 be a media room into an auxiliary locker room so 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.360 that players can spread out. So it's going to be 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.159 very different for a team like that, which does not 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.279 have the luxury of being able to put players in 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.599 a suite but instead is putting a tent in the 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:29.000 parking lot so that players can maybe meet outside. Um, 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.080 it's just going to be very different from team to 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.920 team based on what kind of facility you have at 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.360 such a great point that both of you are are 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:40.960 bringing up how ironically it really does benefit the Panthers 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.680 with all of this space. You know, I have been 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:48.040 um to Bank of America recently, just for a little while, um, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.719 and you can really see it's just amazing that the 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.520 red lines. You know, Coach Will talked about this in 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.600 the press conference earlier today, but he was just saying 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.520 how impressed he is with everything that has happened. You 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:03.080 mentioned the contact tracers, you mentioned the renovations. Well, it's incredible. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.120 I mean, it really is incredible, and it looks so 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.920 well run. I didn't come into contact with anyone, you know, 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.920 and and not having that Tier one or Tier two clearance, 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.440 that's what's important. And um, you can see where things 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.320 are are barricaded off and blockaded off. In the fact 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.480 that each of the players has their own suites and 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:23.760 everyone can can be together but still be safe. It's 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.440 just it's absolutely amazing. And I've just been so impressed 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.000 with with our crew and how quickly all of it 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.760 has come together. Guys, I can't even imagine trying to 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.480 to pull this off in such a short period of time. Um. 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.320 But speaking of the press conference and the stuff that 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.440 coach Rule was saying, as I said, he spent a 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.240 lot of time on on the processes that are going on, 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.120 but he also had plenty of other things to say. Miles, 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.080 what are some of your biggest takeaways? What is something 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.640 that stuck out to you that he talked about today? Well, 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:56.400 I thought that there was abous a lot about how 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.680 the Panthers are setting themselves up to be successful in 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.400 terms of keeping everybody um, in terms of keeping the 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.160 health and safety everybody a priority. But I also thought 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.320 it was interesting how he even discussed not having preseason 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.240 games and how he's used to that, because that could 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:16.760 be something that really affects different players. I think when 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.440 we think of preseason games, we think of these young guys, 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.840 you know, the the undrafted free agents who don't necessarily 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.320 have that many opportunities to impress. So he was talking 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:30.520 about how, look, being a college coach a there weren't 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.720 preseason games then, so that's something that he's used to 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.880 creating those competitive environments within practice. But also he talked 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.440 about how he wants to be able to make the 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:45.600 Panthers a developmental place for young players that can go 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:50.480 from the practice squad to consistent starter eventually, right. So 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.520 that's something that he even said when he took this job, 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.800 he felt like things like that are a little bit 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.640 are missing a little bit from the NFL because you 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.400 see the time players go from being on the practice 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:06.120 squad in one place to a starter in another place, right, 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.640 And so how do you develop players like that and 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:11.439 how do you make sure you retain them? That's something 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.720 that Matt Rule really wants to examine. And because the 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.280 teams in the NFL this year are going to have 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.720 expanded practice squads, that's something that the Panthers might be 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.839 able to capitalize on. So that's something that he's thinking 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.720 about in terms of how do you make sure you 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.520 maximize everything and everybody that you have on this Panther's 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.840 roster right now. Yeah, that's a great point that really 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:34.320 stood out to me as well. And I think the 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.200 thing that stood out to me was not so much 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.760 what he was saying, although he did provide a lot 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.520 of great information, It was just Miles, did you and 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.280 and well, did you guys pick up on how excited 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.480 he seemed he was doing the presser from the building. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.440 Of course, as I said, it was virtual still for 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.360 all of the media naturally, but you can just tell. 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.920 I mean, he's a football guy and he was so 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.880 excited to be back to football, even though it looks 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.600 a lot different. I think use the word ecstatic. And 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.439 you know the fact that the staff is there and 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.679 they've worked from home for so long, and the players 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.880 are now slowly but surely getting to to come in 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.160 and start the testing as it pertains to the Vets. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.160 But I just let you could just tell there was 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.400 a difference in energy and will. I don't know about you, 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.200 but I certainly feel that after working for I've never 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:20.920 worked from home for this long, so I definitely get 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.079 where he's coming from. Where it's just like one step 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.600 closer to football. Yeah, I mean I kind of wish 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:28.760 I was in there with them, you know, like the 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.320 same you kind of you want to be. You know, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.480 I saw a bunch of tweets this week about the 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.480 the the peach in Gaffney heading down to Spartanburg from 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.360 the media. You know, everyone was used to being down 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.520 in in Watford right now, um, and I think that 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.080 you know, we all kind of miss a little bit 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.720 of that camaraderie and about that excitement. You know, certainly 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.520 the fans too as well that have always gone down 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.640 to training camp. But you know, this is kind of 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.200 the world that we're in, and you can tell, I 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.760 mean just being probably being out on that practice field 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.319 just running around, I'm sure feels so good for those guys. 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.520 So you can tell that, you know, the coaches are 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.520 coaches are ready, the players are ready, um, and they're 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.400 gonna take as much advantage of, you know, every opportunity, 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.520 whether it's lifting weights, whether it's running sprints or doing plios, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.120 you know, all of it's going to be exciting for them. 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.720 I'm sure I agree. Yeah, a lot of nostalgic tweets 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.920 about the peach on my timeline this week, but even 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.760 though it is gonna look a lot different this year, 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.880 we are still on the cusp of training camp. So 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.400 with that in mind, I want us each to give 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.199 everyone listening one player to watch as we get ready 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.839 for training camp, and we can take that however you want. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:36.559 Whether it's someone that you think is going to have 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.120 a great year, whether it's someone that you know fans 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:40.800 may not know a lot about, however you want to 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.040 interpret that. So we'll let's start with you. Who is 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.680 your player to watch? Of course, I'm already gonna cheat, 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:51.560 so sorry. So, like you know, I take that term watch, 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.920 and you know, training camp, it's hard to really see 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.439 everybody because not everyone does the same amount of drills, 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.440 are the same things in live action, and you can 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.360 really tell. So I'm gonna give you a player that 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.960 you can actually watch in training camp, and then a 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.360 player's name that is gonna be really important for the season. 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:11.240 And I'll start with um with Justin Burris the safety position. 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.439 You know, everyone's really really been talking about Jeremy Chin, 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.199 the rookie draft pick, you know how excited they are 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.680 for him, and obviously you have Trey Boston back there. 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.000 But I really think that Burris is gonna be a 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.240 really big part of the secondary and it's gonna be 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.199 really interesting to see how he fits with those other 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.840 guys and how important his roles gonna be in this 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.040 division where you're going up against Brady Breese, Ryan all 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.480 these great quarterbacks, um, you know, and the corners that 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.680 are covering these guys are only as good as the 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.959 safety help that they have. So I think seeing how 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.240 how Burris is, you know, the veteran, you know, how 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.640 he comes in, how he's gonna be a part of 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.680 the secondary of this defense. Um, it's gonna be really important. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.800 And then my other guy is you know everyone's talking 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.199 about you know, you have the Russell o'cum, you have, um, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.079 you know, the rest of this offensive line that we 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.760 you know, maybe you have heard more about. But I 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.240 want to look at Johnny Miller, who uh was a 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.440 veteran that signed you know, used to be with the Bengals, 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.400 came in. He's going to be really really important to 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.640 watch that guard position, um, because you know, I think 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.360 there's still probably some battles for who's gonna win out 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.840 that that guard spot after Greg Van Roten and Trey 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.120 Turner um were on the team last year no longer 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.000 with us. So I think that Miller is going to 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.800 be a really interesting name that most people don't know yet. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.880 But I've heard the coaches talk about him a lot, um, 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.000 so I think he'll be someone to watch. All Right, 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.240 you did been the rules on two players to watch, 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.439 but you made such good points that I can't fault 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.600 you for it. Miles, who is your I'm gonna say 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.839 one player to watch, but maybe two, maybe three. I 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.160 don't know where are you going? Well, I don't know 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.000 I mean, we'll broke the rules. So I feel like 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.360 I almost I almost feel like I should pick three players. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.960 I'll pick four, We'll keep going. No, Um, there are 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:53.800 a couple of players that I do think are gonna 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.800 be really interesting. And I know this one's a little 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.360 bit obvious, so I guess I'm gonna break the rule 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:58.960 and pick more than one player. But I think the 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.480 first guy city bridge Water, Right, I think, how does 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.400 the quarterback really handle the offense after not having an 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.040 off season program? Can we will we really be able 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.720 to tell that he knows this offensive system. Matt Rules 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.160 said this today that when you have somebody like Teddy 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.760 Bridgewater who is familiar with Joe Brady and the offensive system, 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.360 it's almost like they can talk about level three and 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.520 level four details of what this offense is and what 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.200 it should be and what it can be. And you 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.720 don't necessarily get that with somebody who would be unfamiliar 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:35.040 with whatever the playbook would be had they not had 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:40.920 that familiarity. So how does that translate into um offensive 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.520 production in practice? What does that look like once Week 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.440 one happens? And does that make it any different than 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.960 what it would be under different circumstances. I mean, because 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.720 look at the bottom line is that the Panthers did 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.720 not have any offseason practice time. They did have a 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.840 lot of virtual meetings, as did everybody else. Um, but 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.000 what does that look like on Sundays? I think practice 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:05.520 is going to be able to tell a little bit 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.200 about that. And I'm also interested to see what these 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.680 rookies look like, and especially Derek Brown. You know, it's 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.560 kind of funny that you get a first round pick 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.120 and he's number seven a roll and it almost seems 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:17.760 like he's getting a little bit lost in the fray 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.680 of everything that's going on, which kind of makes sense 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.440 because we haven't really seen him out there on the 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.960 practice field in the Panther's uniform. But once pads come 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.000 on and once we really start to see what he 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.640 can do, I think it's gonna be fun to look 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.320 at what he can do next to somebody like k K, 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.480 who apparently is as healthy as it can be. That's 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.920 a great point. All right, Look, I'm gonna stick to 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.320 one player for my player to watch. Guys, I want 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.280 you to remember this name. You may not know much 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:46.240 about him now, Christian McCaffrey. I think this guy is 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:51.480 poised for big things in the league. All Right, I'm kidding, 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.680 I'm kidding. I'm gonna go I'm gonna take this question 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.640 just a little bit differently than I think both of 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.120 you did. I'm gonna go with Eli Apple as my 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.200 player to watch because I that's the player that I 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:05.760 want to watch really just to see, you know, how 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.440 he's gonna do, how he's going to fit into into 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.880 Phil snows defense. Is he going to live up to 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.040 those high expectations. I'm I'm really really interested to see 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:16.720 how he's going to pan out. He has a great 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.400 opportunity to to make a big impact at a position 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.920 that the Panthers could really use some help with. And 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.400 I'm excited to to see what he's going to do 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:29.800 in training camp. Um, you know when when they signed him, 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.960 Phil Snow said, you know, he has he has speedy, 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.120 as the intangibles, and it's our job as a coaching 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.560 staff to to help take him to the next level 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.040 to make sure that he puts all of that into 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.720 action on the field. So I'm I'm excited to see 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.480 what we're going to get from Eli Apple, And of 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.760 course that starts with training camp. So him and a 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.200 you know someone named Christian McCaffrey. Those are those are 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.440 my two if we're going to go to But speaking 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:54.880 of Christian McCaffrey, the NFL Top one hundred is being 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.400 revealed this week. We know almost all of the players, 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.840 We know the top ten, We know the CMC is 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.160 in the top ten. We don't quite know where he 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.399 is going to land on that list until tonight, but 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.600 we will of course be covering that um as that 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:14.840 comes out. But you guys, the both of you have 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.159 some thoughts about the NFL Top one hundred and now 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.280 look at someone who's never worked for a team before. 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.080 You know, I know the drill. The NFL network releases 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.000 the the yearly list. It's the top one players and 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.239 it's as voted on by the players. Um but you 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.600 guys were like, we got to talk about this today, 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.760 so so will give me the inside scoop on on 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.080 why you have a beef with this list. Look at 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.320 you use an inside scoop man, I know I was 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.960 talking about Look it's cross promotion. You can check it 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:50.000 out Panthers dot com search inside scoop talk about brand centered. 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.240 It was an accident, I promise. Yeah, Okay, So I 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.959 saw this tweet this morning, and like it kind of 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.280 like jogs jog my memory about this because I haven't 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.199 been doing this for at least two years. But it 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:09.719 was from let me look real quick, Darius, and they 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.880 were talking about like if only the fans knew how 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.840 the players actually vote on this, because you get all 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.399 this conversation in chatter, which of course is what we 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.600 all want to do in July and August before season, 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.240 you know, is argue about where people are ranked. But 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.760 really the way this works is there's a blank piece 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.000 of paper with a hundred lines on it, and they're 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.080 just handed to players as they're sitting at their locker 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:35.479 and it's like, hey, can you just write down your 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.240 top one hunder players and then hand this back in. 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:39.560 You know, it's not like these guys are sitting in 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.240 front of the computer and looking up stats and you know, 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.600 really comparing, you know, who are the top you know, 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.480 tackles and guards versus defensive ends and really seeing how 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:53.040 they compare. Looking at you know, deep analytical models and 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.440 all this stuff. They literally fill out maybe their favorite 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.719 top ten or fifteen players. Oh man, that guy had 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:00.520 a great year. You know, this guy's have a great yere, 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.240 you know, this guy's elite, and they just put that 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.880 down and then for the most part, they don't even touchy. 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:08.520 They just kind of turn it back in. So I 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.840 don't even know how those numbers really get filled out. 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.199 Some guys will just put people that they know or 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.840 they played with and just fill out random names that 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:19.000 they can remember. But like when you talk about why 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.719 a guy isn't you know why Carson Wentz is not 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.800 in the one hundred or why Tom Brady, who you know, 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:29.520 last year rank seventeenth and passer rating was still fourteenth overall, 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.480 Like it's just because of these Tom Brady and these 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:34.560 guys don't they're not looking at this stuff. They're not 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.600 really spending a lot of time with it. So anyway, 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.480 that's kind of how it happens, and I think that 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.920 gives a little more insight into why these things are 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.280 so wonky. I did not know that. I have to 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.720 be honest, Miles. You said, now we we have a 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.000 group text chain, and you were chiming into so do 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.159 you have the same gripes as Will does does this 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.560