WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 35: Season Finale 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.760 Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkis 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.680 told me to always make it easy for the customer. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.600 That's you alive person will always be here to answer 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.800 the phone. We're here till midnight, seven days a week, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.080 so you never have to take off work, and it's 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.840 the same prices in the daytime. We're the ones you 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.160 want to call. We're the ones you want to call. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.520 We're the ones you want to call. You're gonna love 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:36.240 these people, I guarantee. Got to Morris Jenkins dot com. 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:40.080 It's time for the Happy Half Hour with your friends 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:51.440 Kristen Belboni and Will Brian, presented by Morris Jenkins. That's right, 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.120 it's that time of the week, the Happy Half Hour 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.200 podcast presented by Morris Jenkins, and Mr Jenkins told me 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.640 that he loves football and he looks forward to this 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.320 show all week when you're plumbing your air conditioning is 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:05.760 acting up all Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:10.040 Kristen here in the studio with Will and Matt and guys. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:11.680 It is good to see you. Of course we are 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.080 all socially distance, but it's been a while, not only 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.080 since you know, we've all been here together, but since 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.800 it's just been really the three of us, because two 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.000 weeks ago myself and some of the Panthers Digital staff 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:27.000 were in Mobile, Will was skiing on vacation, which sounds amazing, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.800 and then last week we had our incredible episode with 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.400 Amy and Angela Panthers Social So this is kind of 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.520 we're kind of back to the normal thing this week. Well, yeah, 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.480 it feels it feels good to kind of be back. 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.440 But those were those are some great episodes. I was 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.040 actually listening to your report from from Mobile on the 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.839 way back from skiing, because I I was kind of getting, 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:51.400 you know, like, oh my god, there's act we could have. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.520 We could have skyped you in or zoomed you in 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.720 from from skiing if you would really you know, but 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.800 I to my recollection, Matt, he didn't offer. I didn't 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.840 There was no pressing. Yeah, stuff like that. You didn't 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.000 say by any means necessary. If I'm at the top 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.920 of a black Diamond and you guys are about to record, 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:12.200 you even put your slack with a little so it 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.600 was great, Yeah, you can't. You can't have it both ways. 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.359 I was almost kind of let down a little bit 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.520 by how much people respected it. I was kind of 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.040 waiting for everyone to just email me and slack me 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:24.880 and text me. And we were talking about the vacation 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.320 emoji on your because I put it on you're talking 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:32.639 about my episode of the podcast. Was like, huh, everything 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.959 like email and zoom and tea. You put it on email. Oh, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.440 I didn't have email to next time. I'll know when 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.600 you're on vacation. It was like a little palm tree emotion. Right, 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.920 they just left me alone. I was going, oh, you 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:51.040 were like ready to go, Matt. Matt didn't leave me alone. Well. 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.720 Fun fact on on the podcast that I recorded from 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.040 Mobile a little behind the scenes for everyone listening. So 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.360 we we talked about an episode, and obviously we couldn't 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.840 do it the normal way, so I had an interview 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.960 with with Coach Rule and Matt and I talked about 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:07.840 putting that out for everyone and kind of giving some 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.120 behind the scenes access. So I recorded um the intro 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.600 and the outro just me talking in a car in 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.680 one of our company cars on the way back from 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.000 filming the TV show. We filmed it at the stadium, 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.600 which is about thirty minutes away from our hotel and Mobile, 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.680 right before the other team was about to practice. It 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.640 was like one morning and then our um, the Panther 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.000 staff and the American team were practicing later that day. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.880 So we went out there. We shot the the open 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.040 and the clothes for the huddle the TV show, and 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.080 then in the car on the way back, Rob, one 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.160 of our producers, said okay, well, you know, we'll close 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.680 the car up and I had my TV mike and 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.280 I just talked into it, so we we He was like, 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:44.840 we could just do it, you know, we're driving back, 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.200 and I was like, well, let's let's not do it 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.800 while we're driving because I don't know, get a little distracted. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:55.280 So I recorded that from inside the company suv right 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.240 outside of the stadium. It's just kind of, yeah, knocking 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.560 two things out, do a little TV show to podcast. 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.800 It's amazing what you can do these days. It is algy. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.160 We could have even skyped you in from the top 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.280 of the mountain if you really wanted to, but you 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.640 were too busy, I don't know, taking a vacation or whatever. 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:13.920 So how was it. We haven't had a chance to 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:15.880 talk about. How was the vacation? It was great. I 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.040 think long time listeners might remember last year we went 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.039 to I went to the same place and had a 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.240 little bit more of a difficult time getting down and 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.240 then getting back up the mountain. Um So I don't 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:31.400 know this. I certainly listened to the podcast with you 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.520 and Max and Caroline, but I don't know if I 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.920 know this story. So you had trouble getting down and 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.120 getting back up, So like going down the mountain and 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:45.400 also the chairlift. Yes, I fell in both scenarios, fall 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:50.680 off the chairlift that's in front of all these snowboarders. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:55.719 It was like my second chair lift. But the snowboarders 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.360 are always in the way, and they're always like they 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.240 always they all have these backpack and I'm like, what's 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.000 in the backpack? Yeah, what do you need out of that? 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.400 What do you need? Like, because I've never seen anyone 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.720 take anything out because it just a fact, and I 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.279 do think it's just an accessory. And maybe it's just 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.920 like something that cushioned the blow and they fall down backwards. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.600 I don't know, but they all have their backpacks and 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.560 you know, they just have kind of like they're loose 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.920 sort of gene pant things and they're all just in 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.040 the way. Um. Yeah, So that's how I felt about them. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.000 I ran in. I almost ran into them several times. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.320 The year before. This year was a lot better because 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.440 I was more ready for I can. You could kind 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.520 of tell like, this person is going to be trouble. 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.240 They're gonna they're gonna be a land mine over there. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.440 You're like blue backpack, here we go. You know this 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.120 this person, this person, this person will be able to 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.720 keep weaving. Um. And so yeah, this year I only 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.839 fell like twice. Chair lift is the is the hardest part. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.680 I mean once chairlift, yeah, once you get it, but 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.840 it's uh remember when I first wanted to ski when 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.600 I was young, and uh I had I was like, okay, 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.400 I got it. I got it going down, Um, okay, 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.479 all right, I've mastered the the rope coming up on 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.120 the bunny trail and I'm pretty good going down. And 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.080 then I was like, no one told me about the chair. 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:09.880 It's gonna drop me in. And I think at one 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:11.440 time I think I got hit. I was, you know, 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:13.680 a small child, but that's where it came back and 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.080 hit the back of my head as it was moving on. 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.719 I was it was not good. I'm imagining will falling 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.920 off of the chair lift into like six ft of 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:26.279 snow and just going into a holeboard. It was it 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.880 was literally I just like I think my feet were fine. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:33.000 I was just bent over. I couldn't make myself upright. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:35.320 But like, this year was crazy. When we got to 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.560 the top, there was such a big kind of snowstorm 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:42.800 happening that there was one. You're just moving on flat 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.119 land because the wind is so strong, you're like a sail. 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.160 They were just we're just getting blown around. So I 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.440 almost got like blown down to black Diamond. It was crazy. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.520 Are we're going down a black Diamond? You're good at? 0:06:56.000 --> 0:07:00.440 I did not go. I am now, and I feel 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.520 pretty confident in my ability to handle all greens. It's 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.920 no shop, which would which I am told roughly equate 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.000 to like strong blues in North Carolina. It's a good 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.600 skier and you know, like light greens in Colorado. So 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.360 that's kind of where I am. Yeah, that sounds good 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.800 to me, better than yeah, are you good here? I 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.840 can't get the pizza French. That doesn't work. The French fries, 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.400 yeah work. I don't. I don't slow down. Yeah you gotta, 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.520 you gotta now start actually changing both directions. Yeah, it 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.040 doesn't work. Pizza French fries. It's a it's a hoax. 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.160 It doesn't work for me. Matt wants to eat pizza 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.960 and French fries. I mean, don't we all? Yesterday was 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.240 National Pizza Day? Was it? I didn't know that? Did 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:44.920 you throw? I took part? I did not. I didn't know. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.240 You didn't let me in on the holiday? Did you 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.400 throw some panther stats? Guys tweet out there about Pizza Day? 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.240 Um no, I keep Pizza Day to myself. That's for you, 0:07:54.440 --> 0:08:00.520 that's for me privately. It's one day to himself. Oh 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.920 that's funny. So you know, there's a there's a little 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.200 thing that happened earlier this week called the super Bowl. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.560 I was gonna say it was your birthday. Well, yeah, 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.280 that's but everybody already knows that, you know, come on, 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.720 I can't just talk about me here. I was gonna 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.440 I was gonna go on past it. I caught it. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.360 So how was it? It was good? It was good. 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:21.720 You know. It was on a Monday. So it's the 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.400 day after the Super Bowl. Um is it crazy? Does 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.240 that happen a lot? But have a birthday raft a 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.280 super Bowl? Yeah? So I've also had birthday on the 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.040 super Bowl, so February eight. It just kind of sometimes 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.079 um lands there. You know, It's funny, uh Maria in 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.679 RPR department, her birthday is on the same day as mine, 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.559 and we bonded over that when I first met her. 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.720 And then Brandon Todd are photographers. So anyone who was 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.560 on Panthers dot com all the time or social media 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.000 all of the incredible photographs. I think most people know 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:55.040 that Brandon's are incredible photographer. His birthday is on February seven, 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.000 and so his birthday was on the Super Bowl, and 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.840 we've had a lot of talks about that where he 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:02.439 was like, you know, no one, no one's like reaching 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.600 out to me as much because everyone's focused on the 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.240 Super Bowl. Um, you know, no one's really concerned about, 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.160 like what I'm doing for my birthday. It's a super Bowl. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.400 Having your birthday on the Super Bowl. It's not quite 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.720 like Christmas, which I imagine would kind of steal your thunder. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.680 But I do get it. I think in a normal 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.000 year you could kind of, you know, go into the 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.120 Super Bowl celebrate. You're like, oh, you guys are all 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.000 getting together for me, and there's a football game on. 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.640 You can kind of do that, but I do, I 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.600 do understand the struggles of sometimes having your your day 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.959 on on a day that other people are very much 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.120 concerned about the other things. So shout out to Brandon Todd. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:40.880 Happy belated birthday. And I still think among my holidays 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.280 because I long time listeners know, I'm a very much 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.240 anti Columbus Day holiday on here, but I am very 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.719 much pro I mean, that's a fair day after the 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.200 super Bowl holiday that should be. And now you're saying, yes, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.160 I think those are I think those are great takes. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.240 What are your thoughts on like a flag Day? I'm 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.120 ambivalent about flag day interest? What is flag Day? Just 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.840 a day? It's a day of flags, DAF. I'm flag 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.040 that makes sense when it may July flag Day. We 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:11.840 did not take this into account when we drafted months 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.480 of the year. We didn't know. But I like those 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.080 I like this in June. June. Okay, we're all wrong 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.200 when we say you said my eye said July. I 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.679 mean we're we bracketed it. We're on both sides. You 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.480 know it was in the summer. But anyway, moving right 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.240 past my birthday and on to the super Bowl, we're 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.319 gonna say a word about it. Wilson. Wilson me a 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:30.599 text last time. He was like, I don't want to 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:35.080 talk to the super Bowl all right? Why did you can? 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:36.839 I ask this? Did you have? Are you into the 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.720 Super Bowl commercials? It doesn't feel like they're the same 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.360 as they were, you know ten years Remember ten years ago, 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:47.080 people would like you tube them afterwards and rank them 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.280 and stuff. It's just all the same. And now it's 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.400 like now, but now it's nice because you can actually 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.520 take a bathroom break or like go to the fridge. 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.520 You're not that worried about it, not that worried because 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.800 before Yeah, you're right, it's super weird. You're like, hey, 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:01.319 this is going to be the Super Bowl comer. It's like, 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:02.959 why did you pay millions of dollars if you're just 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:04.960 gonna put it on YouTube a week out? That doesn't 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.280 make any sense to me. And I wonder how much 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.520 of them. I wonder, like, has the overall price gone down? 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.440 I think it's gone up. It's still going up, I 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.640 think so. I think I heard that one of the 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.520 super Bowl commercials, like thirty seconds was like I could 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:19.760 be wrong, but I thought I read it was like 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:24.280 a couple of million, which is ridiculous. It's always weird, 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.720 like the ones that sneak in that are like really 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.400 serious or or that are just like randomly local. The 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.320 ones that, yeah, they're the local ones got me. The 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.319 ones that got me. I think this started a few 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.800 years ago where you could kind of tell that they 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.360 weren't as crazy as they used to be because I 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.880 would see ones that I had already seen before. So 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.280 it's maybe a car company or whatever, and you're like, oh, I, oh, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.040 I saw that one last week when I was watching 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:49.680 The Bachelor whatever it is. You know, I was like, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.000 I don't know, I know that commercially, And you're like, okay, 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.680 this isn't Remember when we were kids too. You had 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.600 to watch all of them. Everyone talked about them the 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:03.160 next time they would launch year long brands, the Budweiser Frog. 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:08.079 Wasn't that a Super Bowl commercial? Good old days? That 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:16.640 was incredible. Also, sitting across from Will, I saw it 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.600 in his eyes. He was like, I gotta hit right here, 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.680 here we come. This is going to be the perfect 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:22.880 moment to drop this. And you know what it was. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:29.400 It was. But now the football season is officially over. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.480 Whether you want to talk about the Super Bowl or not. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:36.160 It marks the end of UH seasons. So what does 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.720 the spring look like? Will Brian? So it's gonna look 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:45.120 different than it usually has. UM we put out the 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.760 official spring schedule. I tell you I need to bookmark that. 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.400 It's so helpful. It's helpful for me. I was like, 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.760 I need to take like a Friday, Like when should 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.800 I do that? Look at it? Really, I really enjoyed 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.000 that schedule and Panthers dot com. So the first thing 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.240 coming up is February, which is in a couple of weeks. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.079 That is the beginning of the window to franchise tag 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:11.160 um one player franchise or transitional player. UM. So that 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.600 means essentially, and I'm going to get this wrong, but 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.320 it means that you can take one player on the 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:20.040 team and UH, instead of resigning them to a new contract, 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.440 you essentially locked them into a one year deal where 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.120 it's the average of the top five salary to that position. 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.360 I think sounds right as a market, right, Like those 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.480 prices are set, you know what they are based on 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.960 your position? Right, average of the top five sounds right 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.200 to me. Yeah, And that might be wrong, and sorry 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.480 to everyone that out there that knows that that's wrong. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:44.640 But so many people are yelling now. But essentially you 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.000 can take a player that maybe would be really really 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:49.679 high priced on the open market. You want to keep 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.960 them around. Um. You want to see what's gonna happen, um, 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.800 And so that the Panthers actually haven't used it all 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.000 that often, especially recently. UM. So that'll be something to 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.880 watch this year, as you know, there's so many different 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.880 areas where they're looking at. You know, you have a 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.400 new GM and Scott Fitterer, you have Matt Rule in 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.520 a second season, you know, trying to figure out, all right, 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.880 who on this roster are we building around and then 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.080 doing that in concert with who you think maybe a 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.040 free agent a couple of weeks later that you're bringing 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.760 in as well. So that'll be really interesting to watch. 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.760 What was that when last time February and it goes 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.760 to March nine is the window for it, um, So 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.440 it can happen anytime in that in that period March 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:36.480 begins the three days of legal tampering. That's always fun 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.040 to see. Yes, it's it's especially on the web, especially 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.400 for a guy like Panther stats guy. So it's it's 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.880 fun to start hearing those reports that are coming out, 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.680 you start to get a sense of Okay, these things 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.440 are these things are happening, this is about this person 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:54.280 is interested here, you know. So essentially what that yeah, 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:58.640 what that means is that teams can actually speak to agents. Um, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:02.280 they can go and start working on potential deals, um, 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.840 all leading up to March seventeenth, at four pm, which 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.360 is the official start of the new year, when you 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:10.360 can officially sign someone. Um. Unrestricted and restricted free agents 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.440 hit the market, um, if they haven't already been I 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.360 guess if the restricted haven't been signed already. But the 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.880 thing that I think it's worth noting here, um, both 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.600 in that tampering period March sevent in between now and then, 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.880 if something is reported in the media and then you 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.360 wonder why it's not on Panthers dot com, why we're 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:32.080 not discussing on the podcast. Technically we can't do anything 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.920 until March seventeenth. We can't say a word because that 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.200 is does then will get slapped with the tampering charge. 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.520 You know, he's got to go talk to Cadell and 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.480 then it's just that. So essentially, if you were to 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.680 look around some specific teams in the NFL right now 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.360 and look on their websites where you think that you 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.400 know who they might have done something with or for, 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:57.840 you won't see any mention of it. I think what 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.640 we can relate this back to, because I thought we 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:01.840 had a real a discussion about this, is when the 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:07.120 Panthers hired Scott Fitterer as GM and it started to 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.880 come out on different I think Adam schefter Is had 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.280 it first or one of the notable insiders that had 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:20.080 it first, and Panthers Twitter put out we talked about this. Gosh, 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:21.880 maybe what was it a month ago on on that 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:27.280 podcast of we put out a tweet that's remember exactly 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.680 the wording of it. It was like an offered offered 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.160 Fitterer the job, I think, and we talked about it 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.200 on here and our boss Bill explained it on his 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.640 Twitter of just we can't go with the same language 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.920 when it comes to offering a job, specifically in that situation. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.360 But it also replies to to this window when it 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.760 comes to players can't go with the exact language that 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.960 people who are not affiliated with the organization can for 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:55.040 various reasons, and so sometimes you gotta get creative. Sometimes 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.320 you can't say anything right, and those those were a 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.840 little bit different compared to players because of the players 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:02.680 are you know, there's there's like the PA and the 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.880 Players Association, of course, but I guess I just meant 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.639 as being an organization, you can't always break the news 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.280 when outside sources are people that are not affiliated with 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.399 the organization can can break the news, right, So, and 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.480 that could be you know, if we're looking at March seventeenth, 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.879 and you know, you guys hear about something, we all 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.040 hear about something very soon. That's a long time of 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.679 of sitting on it. So um, but that's kind of 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.680 where we are. And then after March seventeen, we get 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.520 into um the draft in April. It's a little bit 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.520 later this year, April, and it's notable. Of of course, 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:39.600 I think most football fans know this, but it's notable. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:41.720 The thing that's not on the schedule, the thing that's 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:47.040 not listed is the combine. Combine. I think that's gonna 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:53.879 be really interesting to see how teams, all teams adjust. 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.840 And now I will say this, all teams have done 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.919 nothing but adjust since about this time last year. But 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.239 there was a combine last year. When we were down 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.000 at the Senior Bowl, I was trying to think about 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.800 talking to Darren Our writer about Okay, when did things 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.240 start to change last year? And it felt like the 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:12.439 Combine if I'm not mistaken, because this is also when 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.359 I was just starting with the Panthers. I started in April, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.360 so to make sure I have all this right, Combine 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.040 felt like the last really big event, especially when it 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.880 comes to assessing new players, guys coming into the league, 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:28.080 because pro days or where things started to change. Correct. 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.760 So it was the week after, because I remember this, 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.000 I was in a conference in Pittsburgh, which was always 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.919 the week after the combine UM and it was the 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.160 middle of that conference and we were you know, this 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.439 was like an NFL APP conference. I'm sitting there with 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.399 the UM the groups from like the Bucks and the 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.080 Colts and you know, the Eagles and all this conference 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:53.159 about all sorts of things with with the APP. Yeah, 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.919 it was very exciting and very nerdy and very not 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.240 exciting all the same time. I think that sounds cool, 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:00.280 So yeah, but no, we're we're out at the you know, 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.760 we're out after like the day's meetings and watching and 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.640 then the Rudy Gobert stuff breaks and by and by 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.920 the next morning, like they were literally there were presentations 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.040 by the people that run all of our apps about 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.120 like all these different features and all of us are 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.600 on Twitter. You know. I hate to say, but we 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:21.359 were kind of zoned out watching this conference basketball tournament shutdown, 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.520 this one like a SEC, big ten, big yeast, like 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.439 throughout the morning and by that afternoon, after lunch, we 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.840 were all like, are we you know some you know, 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:31.680 are we allowed back in our building? Like some of 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.800 us were hearing that, like our companies were suspending travel, 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:36.480 like are we gonna be able to get back on 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.439 the airplane? Like it was all of that In that 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.480 same day. I was in a similar So now that 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.399 you say that, I was in a similar situation watching 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:47.520 the news. So I was doing a smaller uh conference 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.879 A conference was a basketball tournament. It was there, it 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.680 was their conference tournaments. And so the day everything started 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.680 to get canceled, and I think a CEC was last, right, 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.400 but we started to see the bigger, the bigger inferences 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.399 get canceled, and we were out on the court and 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.440 then they called the game, and so then we went 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:09.000 back similar to you went and watched the place with 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.719 the TV and watched the news started to break and 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.399 had the same questions of Okay, can we can we 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:18.199 get back on the plane? Um, you know, is everything 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.359