WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 9: Hot dogs, Mustaches, and Mayhem 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.920 It's time full of a Happy half Hour with your 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:18.159 friends Kristin Balboni, Miles Simmons, and Will Brian. Welcome to 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:22.400 the Happy Half Hour podcast presented by Morris Jenkins. Kristen 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.600 here with my buddies Miles and Will. And uh, this 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:30.400 is a big day because currently I'm sitting across from 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:32.680 Will Brian. We got producer Matt. The three of us 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:37.680 are in the studio. Unfortunately, UM to do this safely, 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.879 Will right, Um, there could only be three of us 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.760 in here, and Miles drew the short stick. We didn't 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.239 invite Miles. So does this mean that I get sent 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:48.360 home next week? Because no one? No one wants that. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.640 I've seen on Twitter that people say that I'm recording 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:53.400 from my bathroom and it just really doesn't sound good. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.320 So I'm gonna I'll just there's another room over there 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.120 that I'll go hide in and record from over there 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:00.800 because no one wants to hear me from home. Is 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.720 it a bathroom? It's not a bathroom. I promise producer 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.400 Matt knows where it is. He's gonna hoop me up. Okay, 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.639 it will be a bathroom. And we are just kidding, 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.560 of course, we wish Miles was here, but I was 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:16.240 already here in the stadium. Today. Will had been recording 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.039 from his bathroom and it just wasn't cutting it. So 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.919 Miles took win for the team, uh, and just staying 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:22.600 home until we can figure this all out, how to 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.520 do it all safely? Miles, we miss you, buddy, do 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:27.319 you really? I mean, you don't have to say that. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.479 That's okay. I bet Will doesn't actually miss me because 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.440 we're not really friends. It's been weeks. It's been weeks 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.200 since that one. Apparently we're we we've lost our friendship again. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.160 It's so easy to just start the show that way. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.280 I don't know, it's just kind of rolled off the tongue. 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.160 I don't even know, like if that's a real thing 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.400 or not. Now I probably shouldn't just let it go. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.680 I can let it go, Will, whatever you say, it's okay, 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.240 all right, I'll survive. Well, one thing that I cannot 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:55.200 let go, and look, I know this isn't an audio medium, 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.800 but I can't not reference the fact that Will is 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.760 rocking an incredible mustache. I mean it's I know that 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.480 that doesn't do much on a podcast, but well, it's 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.920 you can't not talk about I'm sitting across from you, 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:12.320 and this thing is it's majestic. Majestic. Yes, I I 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.920 like that. It was it was time for a little, 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.160 a little trim on Monday, and you know, started on 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.440 the outside, went to the bottom and then got to 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.919 the mustache last, and it was like, nope, I'm gonna 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.000 keep it. I'm gonna I'm gonna leave it and see 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.680 what happens. So it's there for now, Miles. Can you 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:33.040 ever imagine going mustache for yourself? You know, I've done 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.560 it for a Halloween costume, but I just feel like 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:39.560 I'm mustache. Will a question about facial hair, like, what 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:44.320 is the worst facial hair you've ever had? Oh? Um, 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.919 I think I tried whatever this is? You try a 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:52.400 soul again. No one doesn't help anybody. Yeah, it doesn't 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.280 even help me because I'm not pointed to. He pointed 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.480 to right up underneath his bottom lemp. So that's the 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.080 soul patch, right, I think, right, I can beat that. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.880 I went chin only goatee for about a year and 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:08.320 a half. It was roughly, but you committed to it, Matt, Yeah, 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.280 for a long time. And now Matt, now that I'm 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.400 looking to Matt you still have your mustache. Yeah, I 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.400 went with a mustache as well. I got bored and guys, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:17.960 me too. By the way, no one can say now, 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.280 I'm just kidding. I'm the only person in this room 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.639 without a without a mustache, So I'm feeling a little 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:29.480 left out or you can change that. I can't, Thank goodness, 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.480 I can't. Um, I don't even know what to say now. 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:34.760 I'm just thinking about the fact that if I had 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.480 grown a mustache and just walked in, what if I 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.240 just do that next week? Guys, It's like, hey, what's 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:42.960 up anyway, Miles, we miss you. Um, you may have 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.120 to have a mustache upon entry next week if if 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.360 we're all in here together, we'll see. But more importantly, 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.560 it's not just Will and Matt and I that are 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.840 back in the building. Of course, the team is here. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.160 Training camp is under way, and we've heard a lot 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.240 from players this weeks. So we're going to share some 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.400 of the best or most interesting things that we have 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.880 heard this week in a new segment we are calling 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:15.600 Overheard Overheard Alright. First up, we have got Stephen Weatherley, 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.840 who was just a quotes machine. Everything he says is gold. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.160 But we really liked this one, um, where he is 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.600 talking about the d line, and he begins this by 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.559 comparing Brian Burns to his former Vikings teammate Daniel Hunter. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:32.000 So take a listen, Um, I see very similar freakish 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.240 style abilities in regards to body awareness and body control 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:41.119 that d has um back in Minnesota. Regards to speaking 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.280 of Burns right, and so he very much knows how 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.680 to use his body, how to position his body to 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.920 get past the tackle for pass rush and the Ryan game. Uh, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.520 he may not look overly big, but he's very strong 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.640 and very confident in places behind his hand, so he 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:01.000 he sets good edges. And then uh, dv Derek Brown, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.440 he's a he's big like I'm big, But he's big 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.960 and he does not move like he's big, Um, which 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.200 is always a great thing. So once again, learning how 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.279 one another plays, that's what's going to determine how well 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.599 we play as a defense, because we definitely have pieces. 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:23.479 Believe that, because I really like that, and and Will 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.279 we were listening to these a little bit earlier just 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.040 to pick out our favorites, and you made such a 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.600 good point that this is really where it all starts. Yeah, 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.320 I mean last year it was almost like being a 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.359 dead horse of like the defensive line, the run game, 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.560 stopping the run every week, week over week, and it 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.479 was obvious this is where they you know, address this 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.960 in the draft. You know, the very first first round pick. Uh, 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.159 Derrek Brown d b as as Stephen calls him. You know, 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:53.280 he's he's a big guy. He is big, and so 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.120 you know, like seeing him and seeing what he's going 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:57.840 to be able to do next to KK Short on 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:01.080 that line, getting Brian Burns back health. You know when 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.000 when Burns was in there, you know, he was just 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.480 wrecking offensive tackles, you know, being able to he had 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.400 so many different moves, He's able to set the edge. Um, 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.600 he's bendy as people say. So you know, I think 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.160 that there will be some people that are surprised by 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.640 this Panther's defensive line, including having Weatherley on it as well. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.960 I just want to give um some numbers because you 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.479 mentioned how big Derek Brown is, and of course even 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.760 Weatherly mentioned how big he is. I love that part 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.040 in the quote where he's like, I'm big, but he's big. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:33.080 So Dirk Brown is six five three, and you think 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:37.599 about Stephen Weatherley six five two sixty five, So I 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.599 can't wait to get there. We're gonna be able to 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.120 see practice from our safe bandage point next week and 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.240 just see kind of the two of them standing beside 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.279 each other but six five at three and can move. 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.440 It's it's so exciting. I'm so excited to see what 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:54.840 Derek Brown does at this next level for the Panthers. Uh, Miles, 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:56.719 I gotta say, I really like it feels like this 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.800 d line is jelling from everything we've heard. And I 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.800 know you have been locked in on all the things 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:05.840 that these players have said, have been saying. You agree, right, 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.440 the rookies, the new guys, the old pros. It feels 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.760 like it's really coming together. Yeah, it does. And I 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.400 think what's good about it right now is at least 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.080 what Weatherly said is that because they have this longer 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:23.040 ramping up period, they have more time to communicate together 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.400 and to start to get the develop those relationships that 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.360 are going to be so important on the field once 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.760 they really start getting going. And it's interesting because when 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.360 you have so many different pieces that are going to 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.000 be able to cut, that that have to come in 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.320 and that have to contribute, and you know, everybody knows 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.080 what k Short's done throughout the course of his career. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.840 But somebody like a Derrek Brown, you know, he helping 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.040 him get integrated and making sure that he is on 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.440 the p's and cues from jump. That's gonna be really 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.840 important because what I've always liked about defensive linement, and 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.360 they say this cliche throughout the league, you have to 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.520 stop the run in order to earn the right to 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.760 rush the passers. So that means first down, second down, 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:07.560 You've got to keep opposing offenses in uh an unenviable positions, 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.680 right you don't you want to keep them in second 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.960 and long and then third and seven or longer, so 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:13.840 that means you get a chance to pin your ears 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.400 back and rush the passer. And is what was just saying. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.320 You know, last year with Panthers was like beating a 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.680 dead horse, right. The run defense just was not good. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.960 So if those guys can gel upfront well enough so 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.760 that they can stop the run, well, well that's gonna 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.560 mean good things for guys like Brian Burns who can 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.199 get around those edges so well. And then you have 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.840 somebody like shortened Derrick Brown who can push the pocket 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.360 up the middle, and then we'll see on the opposite end, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.520 whether it's Gross Mattos, whether it's Weatherly, somebody else can 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.000 then rush on the other side too. So those how 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.640 those guys up front play on the early downs is 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.880 going to determine a lot about then how they're going 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.520 to be able to get after the passer. And mom As, 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.960 while I got you here talking about Weatherly, you talk 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.880 to him earlier this offseason right for a piece, and 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.120 I think he's gotta be like, he's gotta be up 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.880 there in contention for the team's renaissance. Man. I know 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:04.679 there's quite a few, but he is just I think 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.000 the most interesting guy. What was the most interesting thing 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.559 that you learned about him? When it's you know, not 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.000 relating to football interesting because there are a lot I 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.160 know I put you on this thing now, but it's 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.120 it's it's it's fun to talk to somebody like that 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.080 because he has so many different interests and I could 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:26.080 point to him playing I think eleven different instruments. He 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:30.760 did a glass blowing class last year when he was 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.400 with the Vikings that I thought was very interesting. Um, 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.480 he's also really into social justice causes and so like 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.080 even a couple of days ago when he was talking. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.640 He said that, you know, the decal he wants to 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.600 wear on his helmet is all black lives matter, not 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.520 just black lives matter, because of the way that people 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.800 might see him one way because he's a professional athlete, 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.360 but you know the other his the other members of 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.840 his family, those black lives matter too. So what he 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.080 said was all black lives matter, not just the ones 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.240 you root for, right, So I think those things come 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.760 to mind. I guess when you ask what else is 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.600 interesting about him? And that's a cop out because I 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.640 just said three things instead of one thing. But I 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.320 think that's so kind of indicative of who he is 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.920 because literally we picked we could have picked any quote 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:22.000 from his press conference because he is so interesting, so eloquent, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.240 you just want to be around I just want to 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.320 be around him. I want to ask him a million questions. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.679 So Miles will give you that one. You know, I 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.920 said one thing, but he's just such an interesting guy. 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.439 We'll we'll give you three or four. Another very interesting 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.440 guy is Robby Anderson. So we heard from him and 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.319 we picked out one of his quotes that we liked 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.400 a lot. He spoke about the culture of this Panthers team, 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.640 it's just it's it's just the standards in you know, 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.320 he's planning to win, and you know, the process, like 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.800 it's literally like the saying like listening to cold snow 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.720 defensive coordinate that he spoke last night and I didn't 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.120 remember like the exact things that he was gonna say, 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.720 but it wasn't nothing like, it's nothing new to me. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.080 And I know those things that they that they closed behind, 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.520 what they live by, and I've seen it firsthand that 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.160 it worked. So it's just I feel like the thing 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.800 is with where I'm at, I can feel everybody here, 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.480 like the energy. Everybody's bought in. You know, I've been 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.800 places where some people are some people aren't, some people 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.840 are established, they don't you know what I'm saying. I 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.520 just feel like it's a collective. It's a collective. Everybody's 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.400 bought in and on like pretty much on the same 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.440 page and trying to win. We're not. I don't feel 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.880 like the you know, sometimes you get a new coach transition, 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.280 it's let's focus on the futures for the future. I 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.520 don't feel like that's the like that. I don't think 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.720 anybody is trying to wait. So yeah, Robbie. You know, 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.880 he spoke today about Coach Rule, his relationship with Coach 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.640 Rule from Temple and what he sees. You know, this 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.160 was a guy that was with the Jets. You know, 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.679 he's been around um, he's been around this league a 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:54.360 little bit, and he's something different going on here. And 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.160 I think that is really worth pointing out that these guys, 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.240 there's a culture, there's a hunger, there's there's some chips 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.160 on some shoulders here. You know, people feel like they're underdogs. 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.400 And I think that that's a little bit by design 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.280 and the way that this roster was kind of created 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.800 the spring and summer of Rule knows what types of 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.000 guys he wants in this locker room and the way 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.800 they're all going to feed off each other. And I 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.560 think Robbie is a big example of that and is 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.400 really kind of speaking to that right now. Well, I 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.000 think it's interesting what you said about this underdog almost 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.080 by design. We heard Christian McCaffrey last week and in 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:31.040 his press conference says something to the effect of there's 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.600 a lot of guys on this team with something to prove, 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.240 mostly to themselves versus anyone else. And you think about 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.400 a guy like that. Saying, Hey, we're kind of underdogs. 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:40.960 You know, I'm kind of kind of kind of see 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.520 myself as an underdog is just interesting. Um, considering all 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.160 that he's accomplished and where he is in his career, Uh, 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:52.000 Miles being around football so much, do you like that 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:56.640 kind of mentality from rule of Look, we got something 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.400 to prove to ourselves. Um, let's go out there and 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.120 do it every single day. And that's the kind of 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.880 mentality that we're gonna adopt this year. Yeah, everybody's everybody's 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.439 got to get an edge somehow. You have to create 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.240 that sort of mental edge for yourself, and I think 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:14.840 Tom Brady does it by, you know, saying that everybody 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.920 thinks we suck and can't win any games, right, And 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.160 like I remember, like he said something to that effect 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.000 over the last couple of years when he was with 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.240 the Patriots, and I bet he'll say the same thing 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.160 now that he's down in Tampa Bay. And it's just 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.640 like that, whatever that internal motivating factor is for him, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.400 it works because it's strange because literally nobody was saying 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.160 that the Patriots sucking can win in the games. I 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.240 don't think anybody said that over the last twenty years 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.480 or even now as they're going through a lot of 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.760 changes up there because they still have pill Belichick. But 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.319 I think when it comes to having a new coaching 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.079 staff and a young roster, you have to instill some 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:53.000 sort of edge, some sort of mentality, and I think 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.679 that that's kind of tough just considering that these guys 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.800 didn't even get into the building together until a weeker 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.840 too ago, right, so you had you didn't even have 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.839 an off season where you could really start to get 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.280 to know people um on a on a face to 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.160 face basis as opposed to just over the internet with 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.760 Zoom calls and Microsoft team calls. So now that they're 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.719 in the building and this culture is starting to get established, 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.960 it's going to be how do we make sure that 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.080 this team is connected enough so that we can go 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.200 out and accomplish what we need to accomplish on a 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.960 week to week basis. That's hard to do, you know, 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.960 with with a new coaching staff. It's hard to do 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.040 because a lot of times new steps don't exactly know 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.320 what their personnel is and how to best utilize that 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.800 personal into a few weeks into the season, we'll see 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.360 how that you know, turns out this year with the Panthers. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.600 But I think if everybody's on the same page in 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.560 terms of what the culture need is and what the 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.080 culture needs to be, that's the first step. So as 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.840 long as the Panthers are taking that first step right now, 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.280 that's a good sign. All I can think about was 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.680 when you talked about Tom Brady inventing slights, I thought 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:07.280 about Michael Jordan's yes, Will Will nodding to that poor guy, 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.640 the poor was it a rookie that he said said 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.240 something to him and then it turned out it never happened. 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.160 I'm trying to think of his name off the top 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.560 of my head, and it wasn't there someone on the 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.280 hornets to think he did it too as well. But 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.440 there was that one poor guy that was the focus 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.000 of one of the episodes of The Last Dance UM 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.360 that he said, oh yeah, he insulted me at halftime 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:28.760 so I had to go out and score, and he's like, yeah, 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.440 twenty years later, like it never happened. But Miles, you're right. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.600 You got to get the edge wherever you can. UM. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.680 And of course coach Rule is trying to instill that 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.520 mentality and that culture UM. And one of the things 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.120 we have heard him talk about so much is is 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.720 toughness and competitiveness. He wants guys who are going to 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.120 be tough and go out there every single day and compete, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.760 and that's not just on the field, that can relate 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:59.200 to anything and eat our Rosmatos proved that earlier this 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.320 week when he was talking about the hot dog eating 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.720 contests that they had. I knew, I know, coach role was, 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.640 you know, big on competing this stuff. So there's no 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.520 rate I was really gonna get out of it because 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:13.080 went out there and competed um eight nine nine hot 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:17.640 dogs and in the three minutes, and I don't anticipate 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.720 in any hot dogs anytime soon. So the rookie d 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.920 line came out took the dub in this hot dog 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:28.680 eating contest first of all, each eight nine hot dogs. 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.600 That feels like a lot to me, Miles, what are 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.560 your thoughts on that? It sounds gross man, I couldn't 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:39.800 eat that many hot dogs in one sitting. More gross 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:46.320 smatoes say to us face, well, work, I feel like 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:50.840 to do a fail horn for that pun there. You 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.840 used to just mute his mic when he said stuff 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:56.160 like that. Yeah, go go back to that we're in 0:16:56.160 --> 0:17:00.440 the studio. Now anything's possible. Oh goodness. Eats a lot 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.400 of hot dogs, and I loved He was like, look, 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.600 I'm not eating any Morgan, but I did when he 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.600 he got asked the question about the hot dog eating contest, 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.239 and he was so serious as you hear, He's like, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.679 what coach rule likes competition. I went out there and 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.719 I tried to have that competitive mindset and I I 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.720 loved it. I absolutely love that kind of stuff. Will 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.399 what's the most Like, have you ever done anything? And 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.359 I've I've won a competitive eating contest at a minor 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.959 league baseball game. No you haven't, tell us tell us 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.439 the story right now. Yeah, So, like there was it 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.600 was like the end of a doubleheader, so no one 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.280 was around for the second one. And I was friends 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.840 with like the marketing assistant for like the single a 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:40.600 team in Charleston, and she's like, hey, we have to 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.840 do this. You know, Buffalo Wild Wings or whatever whoever. 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.560 The sponsor was like a chicken wing eating contest, So 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.359 can you and your friend just do it? And yeah, 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.040 so it was like hot wings. You know, I had 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.639 I Yeah, what were your stats? Come on? What's I 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.119 think it was at least like fifteen in in like 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.160 a minute, and hot that's a lot in a minute. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.040 I don't know how much it would have counted because 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:06.480 I kind of left someone the bone, you know, I 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.440 was able to kind of what's going to inspect? Yeah, 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.399 you screwed through and you cannot get the big chunks, 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.120 and you just keep going, you know, you keep going, Yeah, 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.320 who's going to go in there afterwards? And and really 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:15.879 just you know, so, oh this one's got too much 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:17.439 meat on, but let me pick it up and inspect it. 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.919 No one's Yeah, so obviously this is something that Miles 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:25.200 would a poor competitive eating, right, Yes, it absolutely is. Yeah, 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:29.040 that's that's really gross. I mean, like I love chicken wings. 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.000 I love hot dogs, but I want to enjoy them, 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.040 you know, like I might have chicken wings for dinner 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.520 now keep talking about them. And I got some frozen 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.639 ones from Costco in my freezer. Like that sounds delicious, 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.240 but I'm going to sit down and I'm gonna enjoy them, uh, 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:47.400 non competitively. Um do you guys, what do you guys 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.919 put on your hot dog? For topics? Because this is 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:53.000 actually a big thing for me. Catch up, that's it? 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:58.879 And I lived in Chicago for two years, Chris, and uh, 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.960 what's happening over there? Just drop his phone in protest, 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.199 I dropped my pen that I was holding. Sell you 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:11.520 that much, listen. Okay, so this is obviously something you 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.960 guys don't necessarily know about me. But I'm a big 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.119 team mustard guy for for hot dogs. Did you just 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:22.920 did you just adopt a Midwestern accent on a mustard 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:27.560 guy in the Midwest like our mustard? Yes, because mustard 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:29.560 is the You don't put ketchup on a hot dog. 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:33.640 You're not a child. You gotta stop doing that. That's 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:35.639 That's probably one of the more grown up foods I 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:40.280 eat sometimes. So I don't have a strong opinion of 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:44.840 hot dogs and just us. It's a thing though, No, okay, 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:47.280 it is in the In Chicago, you cannot say and 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.320 like I said, I lived there for two years, you 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:51.480 cannot say that you put ketchup on a hot dog. 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.600 I guess when it tastes better, I don't care. No, 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:55.720 it absolutely does not. It's a bit of bolting to 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:58.320 do something like that. That's terrible. I can't believe that 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.720 you live there and you would tell people you do that. 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.240 But so usually in you know, situations where there is 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.280 a press box and there's press box food. A lot 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.080 of times at halftime there will be hot dogs, right, 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.159 So I will go and get a hot dog and 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:14.959 put mustard on it, and I take a picture of it, 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.960 and then I tweeted with the hashtag team mustard. I 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:20.720