WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 92: Pew Pew Pew 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:06.560 This week on the Happy Half Hour, there is an 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:09.680 absolute energy about what's happening out there on the field, and. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:10.640 It does look different. 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:14.160 And the biggest difference to me is seeing the pace 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.080 at which that offense is moving, and that's a direct 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:21.040 reflection of a new coaching staff and implementing a new systems. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.560 It's time for the Happy Half Hour with your friends 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.760 Kristin Balboni, Augusta Stone, and Darren Gannon. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.559 It's time for the Happy half Hour podcast. And this 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.320 week the podcast is brought to you by Prowling Vineyards 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.519 Napa Valley, the official wine brand and wine club of 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.360 the Carolina Panthers. These premium selections celebrate the great people 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.640 of the Carolinas and the Panthers hunger to achieve excellence 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.080 on and off the field. Learn more at Prowling Vineyards 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.160 dot com. All right, Happy half Hour, time with your 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:00.960 friends Darren, Augusta and Kristen and guys were in full 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:02.880 off season mode. 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:03.440 As we record this. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:07.840 It is the last day of May, and I mean, really, 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:09.520 what September is right around the corner. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.039 It feels like at this point right, let. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.360 Me enjoy July before training camp there. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.320 Will be no enjoying of July. Yeah, I don't know 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:17.959 who told you that. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:18.679 Yeah, I don't know. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.600 I don't know why I ever expected that, But no, 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.759 it's been it's been interesting. And yeah, they're in full 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.119 Lota mode. Guys are running around and when you stand 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.360 there and watch, you're just every day struck by how 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.679 different this team looks. You know, a lot of the 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.800 personnel might be the same. They overhauled that offense pretty well, 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.240 especially skilled position guys and obviously the coaching staff. But 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.880 it's just different around. 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.200 Here and that's interesting, especially Augusta from your perspective. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.400 So you got here about this time last year. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.120 Right, I did actually have my one year work anniversary 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:52.120 a week from tomorrow. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.320 Oh, happy early anniversary to you and the Panthers. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.120 Yes, absolutely, June eighth. 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.800 So yeah, no, I mean thinking about like Darren said, 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.520 looks different. I think there's there's a really there's a 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.640 there's a pace that's going on that's really kind of 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.880 excited to jumpy. I mean, just the different staff. I 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.800 think at the end of the day, it's so funny. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.000 We came in today from practice and it's like, how 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:13.679 is practice? It's like it looks like practice. You know, 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.639 always always does. But you know, there there's there's subtle 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.600 differences you can pick up on. You know, you have 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.960 the the pace of things and the different faces around 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.079 and where they're moving guys, and so there's like subtle differences. 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.680 And it's cool having like two very different things to compare. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:28.799 And that's what I was gonna say. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.280 Even though this is my fourth season, I still only 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.079 have one previous staff to compare this new staff too. 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:34.720 Darren. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.080 I know you've seen plenty, but I'm always interested too 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.840 when people come in from other teams, Like I just 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.760 I just as a as an employee of an NFL 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:44.679 team and as someone who's worked in sports a long time. 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.520 I love to just pick people's brains about what's different. 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.000 Is your schedule the same, it is your you know, 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.200 there's just little things. So for OTAs this year, they're 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.040 practicing early, and they're getting in practicing early and then 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.440 meetings late, whereas in the past with the previous coaching staff, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.400 it was usually afternoon practices. Darren and I always joke 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.760 as the old parents, we like that. You know, you 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:06.560 get in, you get up early, you get in there, 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.360 you do your job after that, and you guys are 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.359 writing articles, are doing interviews, things like that. 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.280 And then another little thing that I saw. These are 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:16.760 just little things. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.200 We're gonna get into some more of what we're seeing 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.120 from ots will be everyone's eyes and ears out there. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.320 But just a small thing, and again not better or 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:26.959 worse than anything. But I just thought it was neat. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.240 Was that after practice today and on other days, and 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:31.679 after they do the big you know, you do a 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.320 quick cuddle the coach, you know, the Frank Grak says something, 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.320 they break, they ready from means, and then they all 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.880 meet position groups just real quick, you know. And that 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:43.800 may be the way every other team does it, that 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:45.400 may be the way no teams do it, but I 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.240 just thought, I mean, it was very formal, almost like 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.520 everyone just goes to their little circle of your position 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.760 group talk for a second, you break, you know, you 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.560 do your family on three or whatever it is, and 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.480 it's just, you know, it's just neat to just pick 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.560 up on the little things of how things are done differently. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.880 And may be reading too much into this. 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:06.320 This is not necessarily a young roster player wise, but 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.920 it is a young coaching staff. You've got a lot 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.240 of guys in their forties and thirties, even. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:12.760 A couple of them. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:17.680 Coordinators are your coordinators are young guys. When you see 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:21.479 a guy like Josh McCown or even Sean Jefferson, who's 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.640 you know, he's dad aged like me, but Sean's a 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.880 former player and has a certain energy about him as well. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.440 And it's just running. And again, I don't want to 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.960 turn it into a bash anybody else or it used 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:36.920 to be bad and now it's good kind of thing 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.440 because we don't know how any of this is going 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.240 to develop, but there is an absolute energy about what's 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.400 happening out there on the field, and it does look different. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:50.159 And the biggest difference to me is seeing the pace 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.160 at which that offense is moving. And that's a direct 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.320 reflection of a new coaching staff and implementing a new system. 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.080 And they've got a lot of work to do to 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.880 install all this stuff, so they need to keep things 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.000 moving at a pretty good clip. But both the tempo 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:09.120 and the content of that offense are markedly different than 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:09.800 they've been in a pen. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:11.640 Let's dive into that a little bit more. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.480 I think we should go, you know, offense defense, and 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.440 then of course we've got to hit special teams hard there. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:18.800 But let's let's start with the offensive of what you 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.719 were saying, Darren, and dive a little bit deeper into 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.880 what you're seeing early on and what we think, you know. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.159 Thomas Brown's offenses. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:28.560 And then also, I mean, you know, I could say 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.080 it's Thomas Brown's offense, but of course you've got Frank Braig, 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.839 You've got Josh McCown heavily involved at Parks, Fraser passing 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.960 game court. I mean, there's a lot of great offensive 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:41.080 minds that are coming together to put this offense on 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.839 the field. So so what are we picking up on pace? 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.320 As you said, Yeah, I think pace is the big thing. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.680 And I know this is a podcast and not video, 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:49.640 so you're just gonna have. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.279 To use use your hands. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.440 Whenever I talk to people, whether it's neighbors or somebody 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.320 at church about the offense and what it looks like, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.000 I keep doing this with my hands. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.839 Okay, So he's moving his hands back and forth and 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:03.920 they're spread out far. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:08.240 Apart, quick side to side experience. It's not that it's lateral, 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.599 but it's everything's coming out in a hurry. And I 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:15.000 think this thing is being built obviously around Bryce Young 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.960 and his ability to spread the ball around, his ability 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.159 to get the ball accurately to spots, and it's coming 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.600 out quick, and it's I don't want to say it's 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.000 a lot of side to side motion, but it is 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:32.039 safe targets. It is a lot of Miles Sanders coming 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.919 out of the backfield. You'll see little crossing routes. I 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.200 mean stuff with Adam Thielen that it's a quote unquote 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.400 safe route for Bryce to throw, and that. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.479 Is to be expected right now. I mean whether that's 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.400 the whole mark that by the time we get to 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.080 September we see tons of that, which I would it 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.920 would seem likely with a rookie quarterback or whenever Bryce 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.000 takes the field. But also, he just got here, right, 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.840 this team just got here. He's you know, in his 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.040 first NFL practice. Is so feels like the right thing 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.720 to start with, which is okay, let's get you comfortable, right, 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.160 Let's get everyone comfortable. 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.279 Let's connect on the little stuff. 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.080 Let's find some go to things that we feel really 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.560 good about. Let's get the ball in playmaker's hands quickly. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.760 And I was talking to Miles Sanders Augusta today and 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:19.720 I asked him, I said, what can we expect from 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.560 this offense, you know, as it's being installed right now. 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.880 And he said, it's going to be explosive, and he said, 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:27.320 you're going to see the ball in a lot of 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.720 different guys hands. And I think that's a great thing 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.880 for Panthers fans to look forward to. I think you 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.040 like to hear that if you're a Panthers fan exactly. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.080 That's something that Darren and I have actually talked about 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.120 in the past weeks. It's not going to be one 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:39.960 of the or it doesn't appear that it's going to 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:41.920 be one of those things where it's like one or 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.280 two guys getting the ball a lot. It really seems 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:45.920 like it's going to be more of a group effort 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.480 where you're going to see, like the stat line, you're 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.280 going to see four or five different receivers getting involved 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:51.840 and then Miles Sanders getting involved over here. 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:52.800 It's going to be more. 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:55.520 Again, like Darren said, it's not lateral, but I like 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.280 the idea of the throwing the hands to the side 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.320 because it's just like there's a lot a lot of 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.679 different pieces out there, and that's something that we've been seeing. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.320 It just doesn't seem like there's going to be one 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.920 necessarily like Bill cow Receiver anything. It seems like it's 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.200 very much I don't mean it is early, but there's 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.160 a ton of involvement with tons of other people, so 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:13.840 that I wouldn't be surprised to see that. I mean, 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.360 if we're we're looking and we're picking at straws about 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:17.400 what we've been seeing so far. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.280 If the hand motions don't work for you on the podcast, 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.920 maybe the sound effects will. It's almost like watching Star 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.760 Wars content. There's that big p p P. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.320 I mean that's sort of the effect of what's happening 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:29.760 out there. 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.400 I'm sure that the Panther's offensive mines would love to 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.040 have their offense summed up as pew peo pew. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:43.640 It's better than pew as in pu Yes, absolutely bumps. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:47.560 What have you seen from from Bryce in in the 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.040 few weeks that he's been out there, and especially now 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.559 that the veterans have you know, he had Rocky Minnie 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.520 camp Or talked to Thomas Brown and he said, like, 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.839 it's really just about all the rookie's just understanding what 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.880 this offense looks like. So now they've had a week 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.640 full week of the first week of OTA practice, we're 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:05.520 into the second week. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.320 Now, what have we been seeing from him as he's 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:08.079 got more comfortable. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:09.840 Well, the one thing you don't see is the ball 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.319 in the ground a lot. He is accurate, and when 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.719 it's going puel, peel, it's getting to the place it's 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.560 supposed to go in a hurry. So it's not that 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.319 he's got this big, gigantic throat over the mountain kind 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:20.920 of arm. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:22.840 But it's accurate. 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.760 And you can tell why he was he was good 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.480 at that part of the game at Alabama because the 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.360 ball is getting out in a hurry. He doesn't hold it, 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.600 hold it, hold it, padd it, pat it, think about it. 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.160 You know it's getting out and it's getting gone. One 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.160 of the things that struck me, I mean, and somebody 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.520 mentioned that he was almost a little frustrated during rookie 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.240 minicamp because he was processing everything at a faster pace 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.960 than the guys at rookie minicamp, I mean, trout guys 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.480 who are just learning stuff for the first time. He 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.960 wanted to work ahead and they had to keep the 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.800 reins pulled back on him during rookie Minicamp when now 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:00.320 he's out there with the first string. A lot still 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.680 rotating him and Andy. They're both getting reps with the 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.880 ones that kind of stuff. But it's more and more 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.640 Bryce as time goes on, because everybody knows which way 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:08.440 this thing's pointing. 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.880 Uh, but well and it's and it's it's too it's 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.440 to their advantage, to his advantage to have him get 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.800 as much practice time as he can, regardless of when 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:20.839 he starts or when he. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.360 Doesn't, and not just throwing like Anddy. 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:24.959 Dalton's gonna be fine. Yeah, he's going to be. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.120 And it's not just in Bryce throwing to Adam Thielen 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.480 and and Terrace Marshall and and Mingo. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.040 It's taking snaps. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.439 From Bradley Boseman because those two gonna have to get 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.040 to know each other pretty well. Bryce never been a 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.120 big undercenter guy. Probably fewer than ten percent of the 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:44.240 snaps at Alabama we're under center. So uh, those two 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:45.880 got to get to know each other and they're getting 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:47.560 they're getting a chance at spring. 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.079 What I've been again, I don't want to say surprised 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.440 because I don't have much to compare it to, but 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.480 being out there during OTAs you know, this is like 0:10:55.520 --> 0:11:00.480 you said, brand new staff or key quarterback and again 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.840 we're gonna talk defense in a second. But you know, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.960 a lot of new guys. It looks like a team 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.120 that's been playing together for a little bit. You know, 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.480 I know they have this as we said, these big installs. 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:15.800 Everyone's learning something new, but as you said, a fast pace, Augusta. 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.440 And it feels like and again, they're professionals, that's everyone's 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:23.320 job is to be up to speed. But we're looking good. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.560 We're looking like everyone's on the same page. And you hear, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.160 you know, the guys cheering for each other and knowing, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.400 you know, if someone messes up, we do. The four 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.120 guys are jumping up, or you know, four guys are 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.920 celebrating on the defense because they got the jump on 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.920 the offense here, And it feels very much like a 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.400 cohesive team that is all kind of, for lack of 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.679 a better way of putting it, like rowing in the 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.920 same direction and doing it very quickly, like you wouldn't say, okay, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.400 everyone here just met four. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.520 Weeks ago, six weeks ago, which is a great sign. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.880 I think, yeah, And you know, they've gone through this 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.840 offseason program and they've probably installed this stuff a number 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.280 of times already, and I think they're probably going through 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:02.360 the fourth round of it now where they're giving everybody 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.480 the familiarity with all the individual components, and you know, 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.960 they're getting a little more comfortable. And like I said, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:12.439 if anything the stands out to me over the course 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.000 of the last three four weeks, it is how efficiently 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.920 the ball is moving around on offense. And that's not 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.840 just Bryce either. I mean Andy Dalton is a. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.160 Guy who knows how to of course back. He has 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:25.000 done this before. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.720 And I think, you know, just from watching Matt Corral, 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.280 I mean since I think since we last talked, you know, 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.240 they're down to three quarterbacks now. Jacob Eeson's no longer 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:38.080 among us, but he you know, that was done to 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.439 give Matt more reps so he can get more of 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:41.840 an opportunity to show himself. 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:43.120 And he's looked good in practice. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.280 Let's move on to the defense now. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:52.280 So certainly with the new scheme there's a bit of 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:53.920 a I don't want to call a learning curve, but 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:58.120 an adjustment. Right where does was where does all of 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.000 that stand from what you both have learned? 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:05.960 You know, it looks to me that's where it's still 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.679 very much under construction. I think they're trying to figure 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.840 this thing out on the fly. With Brian Burns not 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:14.600 out there practicing, you kind of are hit across the 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.000 face with the reality of, oh, this outside landbacker position 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.240 is completely new. You've got guys like Marquis Haynes and 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.480 he Tour who are four to three defensive ends who 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.720 are force to adjust, and then you've got rookies like 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.280 DJ coming in here who are probably not as behind 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.880 as he might otherwise be. And I think getting those 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:38.200 guys that's obviously going to be a huge focus throughout 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.520 training camp is figuring out who's going to be starting 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.520 in those spots. You know, whenever Brian is back on 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.599 the field, who's on the other side. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.000 And do we have a timeline for his return. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.240 Every indication has been by training camp he should be 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:53.800 back on his feet and good to go. I mean, 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.480 Brian's not out there. He was only after the ankle surgery. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.000 He was probably in a cast and on a school 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.800 for about a week and a half, lesten two weeks, 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.600 and then he's out there moving around. We're walking between 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.680 drills that kind of stuff, looking like Brian Burns. But 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.880 it's gonna I think by the start of training camp. 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:15.719 Every projection is he should. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.520 Be good to go, Gusta. What stands out to you 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:18.640 from the defensive side. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.000 Yeah, so one of the things I actually wrote a 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.960 little bit about it jere Michen, and this was kind 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.120 of a I love this story idea because it was 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.480 sort of a marriage between a lot of the transition 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.240 and comfort all coming together all at once, both on 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:34.960 and off the field. It was something I was very 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.280 proud of, A very nice interview that he gave me 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.880 last week. But yeah, kind of how are they going 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:42.520 to use him? A lot of coaches have been talking 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.479 about he's a superhero. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:45.680 I think Peter Hansen used that word. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.920 He's just like, oh, you know, the secondary coaches, they've 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:48.880 been calling him a superhero. 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:50.120 But what are we going to do with him? 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.520 And Frank Reich after the first day of OTAs told 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.680 us he said, you know, I've been talking with Jero Rivero. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.400 It's like, well, we have more I guess we might 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.040 have more options for him than we thought, you know. 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.000 I mean, I think one of the things that's very 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.040 interesting about where they could deploy him is bringing in 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.360 von bell is like another true safety. I think it 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.320 gives them an option to push him forward and that's 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.240 something that a lot of people have been talking about anyway. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.760 But talking with Jeremy, he seemed very excited about all 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:18.480 the different ways that they've been deploying him and all 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:19.440 the different. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:19.880 Options he had. 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.280 And one of the things that he pointed out to 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:22.880 me was that a lot of the things he's doing 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.640 playing more closer to the line of scrimmage, maybe in nickel, 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:27.760 not maybe a true. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.640 Linebacker, who knows. But he was like, I've done a 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:30.000 lot of this. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.800 It's like, that's kind of new, but at the same time, 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.200 it's not completely fresh starting out, you know, bright eye, 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.000 bushy tailed. It's so but yeah, the article that I 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.640 got to write was about kind of all the things 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.000 he's been doing in the off season, just in his 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.720 personal life and working with his foundation, but also with 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.960 the career tours and then marrying that onto the field 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.040 of doing more and more things, taking on more of 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:50.840 a role as a leader. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.480 So it's exciting. I think it's an exciting time for him. 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:55.680 He definitely when I got to talk with him for 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:57.440 about fifteen minutes the other day, he seemed like he 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.360 was in a really good mental space, which I found 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.800 really interesting. So I'm excited to see what they do 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:03.600 with him, and it's been interesting to kind of see 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.560 him look around. They're not hiding that they've been playing 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:07.040 him at nickel, So that's one of the things. But 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.920 what else will they do? We shall see well. 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.520 And one of the things that's interesting to me about 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.480 how that's going to go for him is NFL offenses 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.320 have evolved. I mean, and in the old days, your 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.480 nickel was only ever a corner and Jeremy's obviously much 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.760 bigger than a lot of these guys who were playing corner. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:28.360 And you know, does except for maybe j Warren, Yeah, true, But. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.560 Slot receivers used to always be little, short guys who 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.160 looked like Ricky Pearl, and now teams are using big 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.200 guys in the slot. People are using tight ends to 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.520 occupy that kind of space, and now in Jeremy, you've 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:46.520 got a guy who can physically cover a tight end downfield, 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.240 who can physically run with a lot of receivers, especially 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.160 the bigger ones, And so I do think it creates 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:58.520 kind of some matchups that they can hopefully exploit. I mean, 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.440 you know, Jeremy is a big, fast, physical guy. We 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.080 know that part. We know that he can make plays. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.200 We've seen him do it, especially his rookie year when 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.320 he was playing full time linebacker. Yeah, so I think 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:15.399 having him in there the other thing that gets a 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.480 little wonky, especially this time of year when everybody's worried about, oh, 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.760 we're so and so lining up, And it's like when 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.280 I talk to Derek Brown about being a quote unquote 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:27.720 defensive end this year, the base defense is probably on 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.480 the field twenty twenty five percent of snaps in the. 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:31.480 NFL and zero. 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:35.200 Rivera was very He said that almost every single time 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.800 he was asked about, hey, you know, transitioning into at 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.639 three four defense, he said, look, that's our base, but 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.160 we're so multiple that, like you said, twenty to twenty 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.240 five percent at the time. So, and he's very quick 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:48.280 to caveat with when. 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.800 You're playing nickel, you're in a four man front anyway. 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.960 So I think for the most part, you know, there 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.800 is some transition for guys like Marquis Tour and those guys, 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.040 but I don't think it's something they can can't overcome. 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.320