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Speaker 1: Kristen here in the studio with Will and Matt and guys.
Speaker 1: It is good to see you. Of course we are
Speaker 1: all socially distance, but it's been a while, not only
Speaker 1: since you know, we've all been here together, but since
Speaker 1: it's just been really the three of us, because two
Speaker 1: weeks ago myself and some of the Panthers Digital staff
Speaker 1: were in Mobile, Will was skiing on vacation, which sounds amazing,
Speaker 1: and then last week we had our incredible episode with
Speaker 1: Amy and Angela Panthers Social So this is kind of
Speaker 1: we're kind of back to the normal thing this week. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels it feels good to kind of be back.
Speaker 1: But those were those are some great episodes. I was
Speaker 1: actually listening to your report from from Mobile on the
Speaker 1: way back from skiing, because I I was kind of getting,
Speaker 1: you know, like, oh my god, there's act we could have.
Speaker 1: We could have skyped you in or zoomed you in
Speaker 1: from from skiing if you would really you know, but
Speaker 1: I to my recollection, Matt, he didn't offer. I didn't
Speaker 1: There was no pressing. Yeah, stuff like that. You didn't
Speaker 1: say by any means necessary. If I'm at the top
Speaker 1: of a black Diamond and you guys are about to record,
Speaker 1: you even put your slack with a little so it
Speaker 1: was great, Yeah, you can't. You can't have it both ways.
Speaker 1: I was almost kind of let down a little bit
Speaker 1: by how much people respected it. I was kind of
Speaker 1: waiting for everyone to just email me and slack me
Speaker 1: and text me. And we were talking about the vacation
Speaker 1: emoji on your because I put it on you're talking
Speaker 1: about my episode of the podcast. Was like, huh, everything
Speaker 1: like email and zoom and tea. You put it on email. Oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't have email to next time. I'll know when
Speaker 1: you're on vacation. It was like a little palm tree emotion. Right,
Speaker 1: they just left me alone. I was going, oh, you
Speaker 1: were like ready to go, Matt. Matt didn't leave me alone. Well.
Speaker 1: Fun fact on on the podcast that I recorded from
Speaker 1: Mobile a little behind the scenes for everyone listening. So
Speaker 1: we we talked about an episode, and obviously we couldn't
Speaker 1: do it the normal way, so I had an interview
Speaker 1: with with Coach Rule and Matt and I talked about
Speaker 1: putting that out for everyone and kind of giving some
Speaker 1: behind the scenes access. So I recorded um the intro
Speaker 1: and the outro just me talking in a car in
Speaker 1: one of our company cars on the way back from
Speaker 1: filming the TV show. We filmed it at the stadium,
Speaker 1: which is about thirty minutes away from our hotel and Mobile,
Speaker 1: right before the other team was about to practice. It
Speaker 1: was like one morning and then our um, the Panther
Speaker 1: staff and the American team were practicing later that day.
Speaker 1: So we went out there. We shot the the open
Speaker 1: and the clothes for the huddle the TV show, and
Speaker 1: then in the car on the way back, Rob, one
Speaker 1: of our producers, said okay, well, you know, we'll close
Speaker 1: the car up and I had my TV mike and
Speaker 1: I just talked into it, so we we He was like,
Speaker 1: we could just do it, you know, we're driving back,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, let's let's not do it
Speaker 1: while we're driving because I don't know, get a little distracted.
Speaker 1: So I recorded that from inside the company suv right
Speaker 1: outside of the stadium. It's just kind of, yeah, knocking
Speaker 1: two things out, do a little TV show to podcast.
Speaker 1: It's amazing what you can do these days. It is algy.
Speaker 1: We could have even skyped you in from the top
Speaker 1: of the mountain if you really wanted to, but you
Speaker 1: were too busy, I don't know, taking a vacation or whatever.
Speaker 1: So how was it. We haven't had a chance to
Speaker 1: talk about. How was the vacation? It was great. I
Speaker 1: think long time listeners might remember last year we went
Speaker 1: to I went to the same place and had a
Speaker 1: little bit more of a difficult time getting down and
Speaker 1: then getting back up the mountain. Um So I don't
Speaker 1: know this. I certainly listened to the podcast with you
Speaker 1: and Max and Caroline, but I don't know if I
Speaker 1: know this story. So you had trouble getting down and
Speaker 1: getting back up, So like going down the mountain and
Speaker 1: also the chairlift. Yes, I fell in both scenarios, fall
Speaker 1: off the chairlift that's in front of all these snowboarders.
Speaker 1: It was like my second chair lift. But the snowboarders
Speaker 1: are always in the way, and they're always like they
Speaker 1: always they all have these backpack and I'm like, what's
Speaker 1: in the backpack? Yeah, what do you need out of that?
Speaker 1: What do you need? Like, because I've never seen anyone
Speaker 1: take anything out because it just a fact, and I
Speaker 1: do think it's just an accessory. And maybe it's just
Speaker 1: like something that cushioned the blow and they fall down backwards.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but they all have their backpacks and
Speaker 1: you know, they just have kind of like they're loose
Speaker 1: sort of gene pant things and they're all just in
Speaker 1: the way. Um. Yeah, So that's how I felt about them.
Speaker 1: I ran in. I almost ran into them several times.
Speaker 1: The year before. This year was a lot better because
Speaker 1: I was more ready for I can. You could kind
Speaker 1: of tell like, this person is going to be trouble.
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna be a land mine over there.
Speaker 1: You're like blue backpack, here we go. You know this
Speaker 1: this person, this person, this person will be able to
Speaker 1: keep weaving. Um. And so yeah, this year I only
Speaker 1: fell like twice. Chair lift is the is the hardest part.
Speaker 1: I mean once chairlift, yeah, once you get it, but
Speaker 1: it's uh remember when I first wanted to ski when
Speaker 1: I was young, and uh I had I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I got it. I got it going down, Um, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I've mastered the the rope coming up on
Speaker 1: the bunny trail and I'm pretty good going down. And
Speaker 1: then I was like, no one told me about the chair.
Speaker 1: It's gonna drop me in. And I think at one
Speaker 1: time I think I got hit. I was, you know,
Speaker 1: a small child, but that's where it came back and
Speaker 1: hit the back of my head as it was moving on.
Speaker 1: I was it was not good. I'm imagining will falling
Speaker 1: off of the chair lift into like six ft of
Speaker 1: snow and just going into a holeboard. It was it
Speaker 1: was literally I just like I think my feet were fine.
Speaker 1: I was just bent over. I couldn't make myself upright.
Speaker 1: But like, this year was crazy. When we got to
Speaker 1: the top, there was such a big kind of snowstorm
Speaker 1: happening that there was one. You're just moving on flat
Speaker 1: land because the wind is so strong, you're like a sail.
Speaker 1: They were just we're just getting blown around. So I
Speaker 1: almost got like blown down to black Diamond. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: Are we're going down a black Diamond? You're good at?
Speaker 1: I did not go. I am now, and I feel
Speaker 1: pretty confident in my ability to handle all greens. It's
Speaker 1: no shop, which would which I am told roughly equate
Speaker 1: to like strong blues in North Carolina. It's a good
Speaker 1: skier and you know, like light greens in Colorado. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of where I am. Yeah, that sounds good
Speaker 1: to me, better than yeah, are you good here? I
Speaker 1: can't get the pizza French. That doesn't work. The French fries,
Speaker 1: yeah work. I don't. I don't slow down. Yeah you gotta,
Speaker 1: you gotta now start actually changing both directions. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: doesn't work. Pizza French fries. It's a it's a hoax.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work for me. Matt wants to eat pizza
Speaker 1: and French fries. I mean, don't we all? Yesterday was
Speaker 1: National Pizza Day? Was it? I didn't know that? Did
Speaker 1: you throw? I took part? I did not. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: You didn't let me in on the holiday? Did you
Speaker 1: throw some panther stats? Guys tweet out there about Pizza Day?
Speaker 1: Um no, I keep Pizza Day to myself. That's for you,
Speaker 1: that's for me privately. It's one day to himself. Oh
Speaker 1: that's funny. So you know, there's a there's a little
Speaker 1: thing that happened earlier this week called the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say it was your birthday. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's but everybody already knows that, you know, come on,
Speaker 1: I can't just talk about me here. I was gonna
Speaker 1: I was gonna go on past it. I caught it.
Speaker 1: So how was it? It was good? It was good.
Speaker 1: You know. It was on a Monday. So it's the
Speaker 1: day after the Super Bowl. Um is it crazy? Does
Speaker 1: that happen a lot? But have a birthday raft a
Speaker 1: super Bowl? Yeah? So I've also had birthday on the
Speaker 1: super Bowl, so February eight. It just kind of sometimes
Speaker 1: um lands there. You know, It's funny, uh Maria in
Speaker 1: RPR department, her birthday is on the same day as mine,
Speaker 1: and we bonded over that when I first met her.
Speaker 1: And then Brandon Todd are photographers. So anyone who was
Speaker 1: on Panthers dot com all the time or social media
Speaker 1: all of the incredible photographs. I think most people know
Speaker 1: that Brandon's are incredible photographer. His birthday is on February seven,
Speaker 1: and so his birthday was on the Super Bowl, and
Speaker 1: we've had a lot of talks about that where he
Speaker 1: was like, you know, no one, no one's like reaching
Speaker 1: out to me as much because everyone's focused on the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Um, you know, no one's really concerned about,
Speaker 1: like what I'm doing for my birthday. It's a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Having your birthday on the Super Bowl. It's not quite
Speaker 1: like Christmas, which I imagine would kind of steal your thunder.
Speaker 1: But I do get it. I think in a normal
Speaker 1: year you could kind of, you know, go into the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl celebrate. You're like, oh, you guys are all
Speaker 1: getting together for me, and there's a football game on.
Speaker 1: You can kind of do that, but I do, I
Speaker 1: do understand the struggles of sometimes having your your day
Speaker 1: on on a day that other people are very much
Speaker 1: concerned about the other things. So shout out to Brandon Todd.
Speaker 1: Happy belated birthday. And I still think among my holidays
Speaker 1: because I long time listeners know, I'm a very much
Speaker 1: anti Columbus Day holiday on here, but I am very
Speaker 1: much pro I mean, that's a fair day after the
Speaker 1: super Bowl holiday that should be. And now you're saying, yes,
Speaker 1: I think those are I think those are great takes.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on like a flag Day? I'm
Speaker 1: ambivalent about flag day interest? What is flag Day? Just
Speaker 1: a day? It's a day of flags, DAF. I'm flag
Speaker 1: that makes sense when it may July flag Day. We
Speaker 1: did not take this into account when we drafted months
Speaker 1: of the year. We didn't know. But I like those
Speaker 1: I like this in June. June. Okay, we're all wrong
Speaker 1: when we say you said my eye said July. I
Speaker 1: mean we're we bracketed it. We're on both sides. You
Speaker 1: know it was in the summer. But anyway, moving right
Speaker 1: past my birthday and on to the super Bowl, we're
Speaker 1: gonna say a word about it. Wilson. Wilson me a
Speaker 1: text last time. He was like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: talk to the super Bowl all right? Why did you can?
Speaker 1: I ask this? Did you have? Are you into the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl commercials? It doesn't feel like they're the same
Speaker 1: as they were, you know ten years Remember ten years ago,
Speaker 1: people would like you tube them afterwards and rank them
Speaker 1: and stuff. It's just all the same. And now it's
Speaker 1: like now, but now it's nice because you can actually
Speaker 1: take a bathroom break or like go to the fridge.
Speaker 1: You're not that worried about it, not that worried because
Speaker 1: before Yeah, you're right, it's super weird. You're like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is going to be the Super Bowl comer. It's like,
Speaker 1: why did you pay millions of dollars if you're just
Speaker 1: gonna put it on YouTube a week out? That doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense to me. And I wonder how much
Speaker 1: of them. I wonder, like, has the overall price gone down?
Speaker 1: I think it's gone up. It's still going up, I
Speaker 1: think so. I think I heard that one of the
Speaker 1: super Bowl commercials, like thirty seconds was like I could
Speaker 1: be wrong, but I thought I read it was like
Speaker 1: a couple of million, which is ridiculous. It's always weird,
Speaker 1: like the ones that sneak in that are like really
Speaker 1: serious or or that are just like randomly local. The
Speaker 1: ones that, yeah, they're the local ones got me. The
Speaker 1: ones that got me. I think this started a few
Speaker 1: years ago where you could kind of tell that they
Speaker 1: weren't as crazy as they used to be because I
Speaker 1: would see ones that I had already seen before. So
Speaker 1: it's maybe a car company or whatever, and you're like, oh, I, oh,
Speaker 1: I saw that one last week when I was watching
Speaker 1: The Bachelor whatever it is. You know, I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I know that commercially, And you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: this isn't Remember when we were kids too. You had
Speaker 1: to watch all of them. Everyone talked about them the
Speaker 1: next time they would launch year long brands, the Budweiser Frog.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that a Super Bowl commercial? Good old days? That
Speaker 1: was incredible. Also, sitting across from Will, I saw it
Speaker 1: in his eyes. He was like, I gotta hit right here,
Speaker 1: here we come. This is going to be the perfect
Speaker 1: moment to drop this. And you know what it was.
Speaker 1: It was. But now the football season is officially over.
Speaker 1: Whether you want to talk about the Super Bowl or not.
Speaker 1: It marks the end of UH seasons. So what does
Speaker 1: the spring look like? Will Brian? So it's gonna look
Speaker 1: different than it usually has. UM we put out the
Speaker 1: official spring schedule. I tell you I need to bookmark that.
Speaker 1: It's so helpful. It's helpful for me. I was like,
Speaker 1: I need to take like a Friday, Like when should
Speaker 1: I do that? Look at it? Really, I really enjoyed
Speaker 1: that schedule and Panthers dot com. So the first thing
Speaker 1: coming up is February, which is in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: That is the beginning of the window to franchise tag
Speaker 1: um one player franchise or transitional player. UM. So that
Speaker 1: means essentially, and I'm going to get this wrong, but
Speaker 1: it means that you can take one player on the
Speaker 1: team and UH, instead of resigning them to a new contract,
Speaker 1: you essentially locked them into a one year deal where
Speaker 1: it's the average of the top five salary to that position.
Speaker 1: I think sounds right as a market, right, Like those
Speaker 1: prices are set, you know what they are based on
Speaker 1: your position? Right, average of the top five sounds right
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, And that might be wrong, and sorry
Speaker 1: to everyone that out there that knows that that's wrong.
Speaker 1: But so many people are yelling now. But essentially you
Speaker 1: can take a player that maybe would be really really
Speaker 1: high priced on the open market. You want to keep
Speaker 1: them around. Um. You want to see what's gonna happen, um,
Speaker 1: And so that the Panthers actually haven't used it all
Speaker 1: that often, especially recently. UM. So that'll be something to
Speaker 1: watch this year, as you know, there's so many different
Speaker 1: areas where they're looking at. You know, you have a
Speaker 1: new GM and Scott Fitterer, you have Matt Rule in
Speaker 1: a second season, you know, trying to figure out, all right,
Speaker 1: who on this roster are we building around and then
Speaker 1: doing that in concert with who you think maybe a
Speaker 1: free agent a couple of weeks later that you're bringing
Speaker 1: in as well. So that'll be really interesting to watch.
Speaker 1: What was that when last time February and it goes
Speaker 1: to March nine is the window for it, um, So
Speaker 1: it can happen anytime in that in that period March
Speaker 1: begins the three days of legal tampering. That's always fun
Speaker 1: to see. Yes, it's it's especially on the web, especially
Speaker 1: for a guy like Panther stats guy. So it's it's
Speaker 1: fun to start hearing those reports that are coming out,
Speaker 1: you start to get a sense of Okay, these things
Speaker 1: are these things are happening, this is about this person
Speaker 1: is interested here, you know. So essentially what that yeah,
Speaker 1: what that means is that teams can actually speak to agents. Um,
Speaker 1: they can go and start working on potential deals, um,
Speaker 1: all leading up to March seventeenth, at four pm, which
Speaker 1: is the official start of the new year, when you
Speaker 1: can officially sign someone. Um. Unrestricted and restricted free agents
Speaker 1: hit the market, um, if they haven't already been I
Speaker 1: guess if the restricted haven't been signed already. But the
Speaker 1: thing that I think it's worth noting here, um, both
Speaker 1: in that tampering period March sevent in between now and then,
Speaker 1: if something is reported in the media and then you
Speaker 1: wonder why it's not on Panthers dot com, why we're
Speaker 1: not discussing on the podcast. Technically we can't do anything
Speaker 1: until March seventeenth. We can't say a word because that
Speaker 1: is does then will get slapped with the tampering charge.
Speaker 1: You know, he's got to go talk to Cadell and
Speaker 1: then it's just that. So essentially, if you were to
Speaker 1: look around some specific teams in the NFL right now
Speaker 1: and look on their websites where you think that you
Speaker 1: know who they might have done something with or for,
Speaker 1: you won't see any mention of it. I think what
Speaker 1: we can relate this back to, because I thought we
Speaker 1: had a real a discussion about this, is when the
Speaker 1: Panthers hired Scott Fitterer as GM and it started to
Speaker 1: come out on different I think Adam schefter Is had
Speaker 1: it first or one of the notable insiders that had
Speaker 1: it first, and Panthers Twitter put out we talked about this. Gosh,
Speaker 1: maybe what was it a month ago on on that
Speaker 1: podcast of we put out a tweet that's remember exactly
Speaker 1: the wording of it. It was like an offered offered
Speaker 1: Fitterer the job, I think, and we talked about it
Speaker 1: on here and our boss Bill explained it on his
Speaker 1: Twitter of just we can't go with the same language
Speaker 1: when it comes to offering a job, specifically in that situation.
Speaker 1: But it also replies to to this window when it
Speaker 1: comes to players can't go with the exact language that
Speaker 1: people who are not affiliated with the organization can for
Speaker 1: various reasons, and so sometimes you gotta get creative. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you can't say anything right, and those those were a
Speaker 1: little bit different compared to players because of the players
Speaker 1: are you know, there's there's like the PA and the
Speaker 1: Players Association, of course, but I guess I just meant
Speaker 1: as being an organization, you can't always break the news
Speaker 1: when outside sources are people that are not affiliated with
Speaker 1: the organization can can break the news, right, So, and
Speaker 1: that could be you know, if we're looking at March seventeenth,
Speaker 1: and you know, you guys hear about something, we all
Speaker 1: hear about something very soon. That's a long time of
Speaker 1: of sitting on it. So um, but that's kind of
Speaker 1: where we are. And then after March seventeen, we get
Speaker 1: into um the draft in April. It's a little bit
Speaker 1: later this year, April, and it's notable. Of of course,
Speaker 1: I think most football fans know this, but it's notable.
Speaker 1: The thing that's not on the schedule, the thing that's
Speaker 1: not listed is the combine. Combine. I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: be really interesting to see how teams, all teams adjust.
Speaker 1: And now I will say this, all teams have done
Speaker 1: nothing but adjust since about this time last year. But
Speaker 1: there was a combine last year. When we were down
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl, I was trying to think about
Speaker 1: talking to Darren Our writer about Okay, when did things
Speaker 1: start to change last year? And it felt like the
Speaker 1: Combine if I'm not mistaken, because this is also when
Speaker 1: I was just starting with the Panthers. I started in April,
Speaker 1: so to make sure I have all this right, Combine
Speaker 1: felt like the last really big event, especially when it
Speaker 1: comes to assessing new players, guys coming into the league,
Speaker 1: because pro days or where things started to change. Correct.
Speaker 1: So it was the week after, because I remember this,
Speaker 1: I was in a conference in Pittsburgh, which was always
Speaker 1: the week after the combine UM and it was the
Speaker 1: middle of that conference and we were you know, this
Speaker 1: was like an NFL APP conference. I'm sitting there with
Speaker 1: the UM the groups from like the Bucks and the
Speaker 1: Colts and you know, the Eagles and all this conference
Speaker 1: about all sorts of things with with the APP. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was very exciting and very nerdy and very not
Speaker 1: exciting all the same time. I think that sounds cool,
Speaker 1: So yeah, but no, we're we're out at the you know,
Speaker 1: we're out after like the day's meetings and watching and
Speaker 1: then the Rudy Gobert stuff breaks and by and by
Speaker 1: the next morning, like they were literally there were presentations
Speaker 1: by the people that run all of our apps about
Speaker 1: like all these different features and all of us are
Speaker 1: on Twitter. You know. I hate to say, but we
Speaker 1: were kind of zoned out watching this conference basketball tournament shutdown,
Speaker 1: this one like a SEC, big ten, big yeast, like
Speaker 1: throughout the morning and by that afternoon, after lunch, we
Speaker 1: were all like, are we you know some you know,
Speaker 1: are we allowed back in our building? Like some of
Speaker 1: us were hearing that, like our companies were suspending travel,
Speaker 1: like are we gonna be able to get back on
Speaker 1: the airplane? Like it was all of that In that
Speaker 1: same day. I was in a similar So now that
Speaker 1: you say that, I was in a similar situation watching
Speaker 1: the news. So I was doing a smaller uh conference
Speaker 1: A conference was a basketball tournament. It was there, it
Speaker 1: was their conference tournaments. And so the day everything started
Speaker 1: to get canceled, and I think a CEC was last, right,
Speaker 1: but we started to see the bigger, the bigger inferences
Speaker 1: get canceled, and we were out on the court and
Speaker 1: then they called the game, and so then we went
Speaker 1: back similar to you went and watched the place with
Speaker 1: the TV and watched the news started to break and
Speaker 1: had the same questions of Okay, can we can we
Speaker 1: get back on the plane? Um, you know, is everything
Speaker 1: officially canceled? What do we do? Is it safe to
Speaker 1: go back on the plane? Actually had a producer who
Speaker 1: drove we were in Texas and drove um back to
Speaker 1: back to his home in Kentucky, and so it's just
Speaker 1: it was just that kind of that uncertainty. But it's
Speaker 1: a great marker for for when all of this happened.
Speaker 1: Was was right around all the basketball tournament. And I
Speaker 1: think and this has been talked about at nauseum everywhere,
Speaker 1: but when you really think about this entire year that
Speaker 1: encompasses every facet of life around the world, and in
Speaker 1: large part the breaking point was sports. Like in a
Speaker 1: twenty four hour period, the thing that changed wearing masks
Speaker 1: in the grocery store, the thing that changed you know,
Speaker 1: government takes on this was sports in twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: And I think that's remarkable kind of the power of
Speaker 1: that both within the media, within pulpular culture, within you know,
Speaker 1: its ability to you know, to make really important changes
Speaker 1: in society that like COVID happened when sports shut down,
Speaker 1: well it happen, it happened, I know exactly what you're
Speaker 1: saying that was. I think it was the time when
Speaker 1: a lot of people started to realize what the effects
Speaker 1: in the dangers of this are, because there weren't there
Speaker 1: weren't you know, there was some stuff in Seattle, you know,
Speaker 1: and people were kind of talking about that, but there
Speaker 1: weren't widespread Literally, by the end of that week, there
Speaker 1: were widespread canceled the NBA too, right, everything, but you know,
Speaker 1: everything was shutting down because of it. I think when
Speaker 1: multibillion dollar industries shut down, I think people take notice
Speaker 1: and maybe this is not just isolated event and Seattle,
Speaker 1: this is a thing that I need to be concerned about. Agreed.
Speaker 1: I completely agree with that, But I also agree with
Speaker 1: what Will said. Not only was it a multibillion dollar company,
Speaker 1: but sports, you know, it's so many, It spans so
Speaker 1: many um different age groups and cultural groups, and you know,
Speaker 1: every one you know is a sportsman. If you're not,
Speaker 1: then someone you know is, And so of course you're
Speaker 1: going to hear that news faster maybe than a movie
Speaker 1: production or whatever it is. So I always thought like
Speaker 1: the n C Double A Tournament was like invincible. So
Speaker 1: for them to be like, yeah, we're just not going
Speaker 1: to do it this year. That was when you go okay.
Speaker 1: That was when I personally was like, okay, I need
Speaker 1: to get toilet paper and hunker down here at the house,
Speaker 1: remember the toilet paper shortage. But saying all of that
Speaker 1: and bringing it back to this year, there still was
Speaker 1: the combine, and so it's it's funny to think that,
Speaker 1: you know, I kind of go okay. I was talking
Speaker 1: to Matt Rule after it was on his one year
Speaker 1: anniversary of being hired back in January, and we talked
Speaker 1: kind of went through the significant events in such a
Speaker 1: crazy year of his first year as a head coach,
Speaker 1: so that the draft from home for example, um, you know,
Speaker 1: having to leave the build being after a couple of months,
Speaker 1: which was right around the same time we're talking about
Speaker 1: in March. But this now, they haven't quite done a
Speaker 1: full year of this, so this is still a new thing.
Speaker 1: I think we tend to think, Okay, they've done this
Speaker 1: for a year, and they have, and you know, I
Speaker 1: can't imagine how much more they know now than they
Speaker 1: did at this time last year, considering what's to come
Speaker 1: all thirty two teams. But the combine is so important.
Speaker 1: I think that's why it was so great for them
Speaker 1: to kick down and not only just evaluate players in mobile,
Speaker 1: but coach Combine is such a benchmarker and is so
Speaker 1: important to evaluating these new um these incoming NFL players.
Speaker 1: You know, for for forty times is a big one
Speaker 1: and UM for bench marks. Now, we know that that's
Speaker 1: some you know, what do they call the underwear Olympics.
Speaker 1: We know that there are things that are overvalued at
Speaker 1: the Combine, but there are also things that happened at
Speaker 1: the Combine that you don't always see from players in
Speaker 1: their pro day or at a Senior Bowl. Um. And
Speaker 1: and so that's gonna be a whole new twist even
Speaker 1: going forward on what is you know now getting into
Speaker 1: the second season of of covid um related football and
Speaker 1: and then you think of you know how many you
Speaker 1: think of what they're working on or what they're working with.
Speaker 1: Is this film from the Fall where some of these
Speaker 1: guys may have played what five games? Four games? Trade
Speaker 1: lance that quarterback, I think he only played one game
Speaker 1: since you know, so like there it's it's not just
Speaker 1: they don't get to see them in Indie. You know,
Speaker 1: they there's all sorts of things that are now and
Speaker 1: you know so then you wonder, Okay, does this year
Speaker 1: become a year where you know, the salary cap you know,
Speaker 1: reportedly is going to be lower, maybe not as low
Speaker 1: as originally you know, actually thought, but still lower for
Speaker 1: the first time. Um, you know, does the market change
Speaker 1: in free agency? Do you maybe need to rely a
Speaker 1: little bit more on someone that is a proven veteran
Speaker 1: versus you know, a draft pick that's played one game
Speaker 1: in two years? You know where you really can't, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's always been you know, lean on the draft. Well,
Speaker 1: it's interesting that you go unproven veteran because I thought, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we'll probably see more undrafted guys, you know, with the
Speaker 1: salary cap bang low. But you'r I mean, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you could go any number of ways, but diamonds
Speaker 1: in the rough probably yeah, or you hope what you
Speaker 1: hope are diamonds in the rough. But there's no doubt
Speaker 1: that rosters are going to be constructed very differently this
Speaker 1: year in terms of bringing on new players. So it'll
Speaker 1: be very interesting. What do you think, in absence of
Speaker 1: the combine is the most important way to evaluate or
Speaker 1: or necessary way to evaluate considering that there is this
Speaker 1: kind of gaping whole of information. I'd say, I'd say
Speaker 1: Matt rules elevator test. You know, just the getting getting
Speaker 1: around someone, even if it's for thirty seconds being with
Speaker 1: you know, those interviews they have in the hotel rooms
Speaker 1: where you can just look someone in the eye and
Speaker 1: get a real sense for them. That's how That's the
Speaker 1: story on Derek Brown right from last year, and it's
Speaker 1: it's the story on guys stopped going up and going
Speaker 1: down um in different ways at different times. And I
Speaker 1: think that's a big part of it. And I think
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot that goes on in you know,
Speaker 1: in the streets of Indianapolis. There's a lot of that
Speaker 1: goes on in the streets. There are things that people
Speaker 1: just talk. A lot of people talk, and the way
Speaker 1: that those talks kind of go that week start. It's
Speaker 1: this weird momentum thing, like guys just start getting momentum
Speaker 1: one way and other starts guys get yes. But it's
Speaker 1: certainly an effect um that's that people are used to
Speaker 1: using in the way that they go about their spring,
Speaker 1: which will no longer be there. I had a conversation
Speaker 1: with Scott Fitterer talking about some of the players he
Speaker 1: drafted in Seattle, And you know, it's funny you look
Speaker 1: back at some of those guys, the Richard Sherman's or
Speaker 1: the Russell Wilson's who are huge name is now, but
Speaker 1: you really have to take yourself back to a place
Speaker 1: where they were not highly recruited. They were not um recruited.
Speaker 1: Sorry I was I was thinking about I was just
Speaker 1: thinking about Russell wasson't it? And he stayed but you know,
Speaker 1: not highly touted when it came to the draft and
Speaker 1: we're talking about Richard Sherman and he was like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's his his measurables, his play. They weren't, you know,
Speaker 1: uh stand out. And I said, so what was it?
Speaker 1: Because now, of course you oh yeah, you dsted Richard Truman,
Speaker 1: But so you really have to think about what it
Speaker 1: was like to evaluate him at that time where he
Speaker 1: wasn't um the guy that we know now. And he
Speaker 1: said he refused to let himself give up, refused to
Speaker 1: let himself give up. And how do you know that
Speaker 1: if you don't get a chance to spend some time
Speaker 1: with him. But I also think that you have someone
Speaker 1: like a Scott Fitter, like a Matt Rule, who are
Speaker 1: used to trying to find us. Matt put out those
Speaker 1: diamonds in the rough anyway, and I think that that
Speaker 1: they are hope well set up for this and have
Speaker 1: had time to think about how they're going to adjust
Speaker 1: their plan when it comes to finding talent. And you know, uh,
Speaker 1: with Rule being a college coach for a long time
Speaker 1: and and knowing some of these guys back to when
Speaker 1: they were in high school and Fitter being a scout
Speaker 1: at heart, too good people to have when it comes
Speaker 1: to having to get creative to evaluate young talent, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely and the Panthers are in a
Speaker 1: great position both from the Senior Bowl, from the people
Speaker 1: they have kind of looking at this right now. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's a They're not at the worst
Speaker 1: spot in terms of cap space, They're not the best,
Speaker 1: They're kind of in the middle. Um, And yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think I think this spring is going to be
Speaker 1: really really interesting. You know, there's, as Scott Fitter said
Speaker 1: in his press conference, they're gonna he's gonna be in
Speaker 1: on every deal. You may not make it, um, and
Speaker 1: it may not be a good fit, but at least
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of a lot of options, diligence,
Speaker 1: due diligence, right, And when you do that, then you
Speaker 1: start to you know, then you know kind of what's
Speaker 1: going on the league. You know you're very much out there,
Speaker 1: you're very much involved. Um, and and then that that
Speaker 1: can send a message to other There's so many different
Speaker 1: things that come of that, you know that maybe an
Speaker 1: unintended consequence, but can actually be something that's helpful down
Speaker 1: the line. Yeah. I also feel like coach Roll might
Speaker 1: have a slight advantage over most because he's only you know,
Speaker 1: two years removed from being a college coach. He probably
Speaker 1: recruited or looked at film for a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys too, So I think that's another advantage possible. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: dot com. All right, we're gonna talk about something a
Speaker 1: little bit different and well, you were saying that you
Speaker 1: have a lot of people, younger folks that reach out
Speaker 1: to you asking, you know, how do I how do
Speaker 1: I get your job? How do I get to be
Speaker 1: at Panther Stacks, verified at the stats guy on Twitter?
Speaker 1: I get a lot of people that ask me that question. Matt.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've gotten it as well. People who are
Speaker 1: maybe in college or high school or just starting out.
Speaker 1: Let's say, okay, I see what you're doing and what's
Speaker 1: the path to get there? So we're going to tell
Speaker 1: them right yeah, and if you listen for the next
Speaker 1: five minutes, I will give you all the steps you
Speaker 1: need to know for a low price of five payments
Speaker 1: to get this job act now and I will throw
Speaker 1: in my five stop process. But so, how does how
Speaker 1: did you get to where you are? I think it's
Speaker 1: a great question. I mean, honestly, it was it was
Speaker 1: being interested in college. I mean I think that's and
Speaker 1: I say that knowing now that things have changed so
Speaker 1: much from what the college experiences, especially like the last
Speaker 1: twelve months. We've already talked about that, it's so much harder. Um.
Speaker 1: But I mean, all I can really know is what
Speaker 1: I did, which was, you know, I was at a
Speaker 1: small school and Davidson and I was really involved with
Speaker 1: our student newspaper. I was involved with like our athletic
Speaker 1: department in like marketing in their sports information. I'm sure,
Speaker 1: I know I know this. Were you there when stuff
Speaker 1: was there? So that see you know good? Yeah. And
Speaker 1: when once in all times in a lifetime player comes
Speaker 1: along with during your senior year and takes you to
Speaker 1: the Elite eight and you're one of the only ones
Speaker 1: covering the team from beginning, then yeah, that that helps
Speaker 1: a little bit. I got I got pretty lucky. But
Speaker 1: you were already doing it before that, sure, so it's
Speaker 1: a it's a validation of your you would have been
Speaker 1: doing it had he not been there. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I was covering Brendan Winners and Matt McKillop and
Speaker 1: Chris Clooney and Kenny Grant, you know, names lost to history. UM,
Speaker 1: but those guys were great and they won a so
Speaker 1: Con championship the year before stuff got there. So you
Speaker 1: know it was a passion of mine. And you know
Speaker 1: I kind of looked at where things were when I
Speaker 1: graduated in two thousand and eight and um looked into
Speaker 1: potential you know, news journalism and ended up kind of thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, there was a pathway to kind of being
Speaker 1: involved in this and from a kind of a PR
Speaker 1: team standpoint, and ended up applying for an internship with
Speaker 1: the Panthers in their PR department, UM, and got that
Speaker 1: largely based off of there was someone that worked at
Speaker 1: Davidson that did game day here that had a connection,
Speaker 1: and you know it was able to kind of start
Speaker 1: from there and then that that open doors down the road,
Speaker 1: down the road, down the road. UM, and and then
Speaker 1: when I came back, it was you know in PR.
Speaker 1: But I'll explain, just really quickly, explain what you mean
Speaker 1: when you say when you came back. So, yeah, I
Speaker 1: had worked for eight years um in kind of the
Speaker 1: college space too with St. John's two with three with
Speaker 1: College Charleston and three with the University of Richmond, And
Speaker 1: by the end of it, I was a what you
Speaker 1: call like a sports information director, and that title had
Speaker 1: changed so much in the ten years since I graduated.
Speaker 1: College used to be faxing box scores to the local
Speaker 1: media and for anyone who doesn't know because if we
Speaker 1: are talking about getting a job that I think this
Speaker 1: is interesting. I uh as a college sideline reporter, primarily
Speaker 1: for for college basketball football. Before I came to the Panthers,
Speaker 1: worked with sports information directors a lot s I D
Speaker 1: s and they are they are your contact when you
Speaker 1: are covering a team. They are your contact for everything there.
Speaker 1: The PR person there, the stats person. They are the
Speaker 1: facilitator of you know, if you're doing a basketball game
Speaker 1: from a network perspective and it's shoot around, they get
Speaker 1: the coach to come over and talk to you and
Speaker 1: one of the players. They are your your contact on
Speaker 1: the field if you need anything, sometimes for injuries. They
Speaker 1: really are such an incredibly important part of the college landscape.
Speaker 1: I think the closest thing I would relate them to
Speaker 1: as a PR person right in the NFL, and so
Speaker 1: it's very similar, I think, but for people who don't
Speaker 1: know the term sports information director, that's how you can
Speaker 1: think of them, which is an interesting certainly an interesting route.
Speaker 1: If you're looking to um get into sports, it definitely
Speaker 1: check out the college sides. I just want to explain
Speaker 1: what that was and how important it is to those organizations. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and there's there's you know, so many colleges. There's colleges
Speaker 1: in your communities that you know that need people to
Speaker 1: do that. You know, from Division one, you know, High
Speaker 1: Major all the way down to Division three, and so
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of opportunity there. And for me, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean those thirty minutes that I would spend with
Speaker 1: the broadcast crew like those were in my mind. I
Speaker 1: got to to make the two hour broadcast, like I'm
Speaker 1: going to put my imprint on what's talked about in
Speaker 1: this broadcast about our team, because as a sideline reporter
Speaker 1: or anyone, you are looking for stories and you're looking
Speaker 1: for the story that the crew last week didn't tell you,
Speaker 1: or the crew on Tuesday hasn't already said. And and
Speaker 1: that's where sports information director, you know, you try to
Speaker 1: do your research, but they come in they say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's uh you know, he's a four point o g
Speaker 1: p A. You're like, wow, really, what's his major? You know,
Speaker 1: those kinds of things where you're absolutely right. They they
Speaker 1: spend so much time around the teams and around the
Speaker 1: coaching staff, and they just have this knowledge and it's
Speaker 1: it's really incredible because the best s I d s
Speaker 1: and the ones that I was the most grateful for
Speaker 1: are the ones that would just help you. I mean,
Speaker 1: they would just tell you these things because they want
Speaker 1: to make your broadcast better. They want to get their
Speaker 1: message across and highlight these these athletes, UM and the
Speaker 1: coaching staff, and it's just it's great. I'm incredibly grateful
Speaker 1: to all the work that uh so many sports information
Speaker 1: directors and their staffs too. So if you're younger, you
Speaker 1: look into too, who is helping them do stuff? I mean,
Speaker 1: but it's everything from credentials to storylines to um you know,
Speaker 1: I had at ones that help me get into a class,
Speaker 1: Like there was a robotics class that one of the
Speaker 1: players was taking one time. I can't remember what school
Speaker 1: it was at, but you know, things like that. It's
Speaker 1: incredible and so you know, if you look at part
Speaker 1: of what I do now, the Panthers stats guy part,
Speaker 1: you know, so much of that started when I was
Speaker 1: the baseball contact at College of Charleston. Because when you're
Speaker 1: playing oh gosh, sixty games and each one it just
Speaker 1: feels like it's the same thing over and over again.
Speaker 1: But you really try to like what is unique? You
Speaker 1: know what. There's so many stats in baseball and there's
Speaker 1: so many different tools to kind of you know, I
Speaker 1: I was, I kind of went down this rabbit hole
Speaker 1: of you know, this guy against left handed pitchers on
Speaker 1: you know, on Friday nights against the Friday night left
Speaker 1: handed pitcher is going to be really good when he's
Speaker 1: hitting clean up, I mean like really good, and then
Speaker 1: boom there's another three for four day, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, this becomes this narrative that then gets taken
Speaker 1: to ESPN Plus and you know whatever was broadcasting it
Speaker 1: and all just because you're really digging into the stats
Speaker 1: you have available and trying to translate that into something
Speaker 1: that's meaningful. You know, there's tons of I can give
Speaker 1: you any number of numbers that as we said, yeah
Speaker 1: I can, and who cares what to make them make sense,
Speaker 1: makes me relevant. They have to and so that was
Speaker 1: kind of where I honed that and then UM, after
Speaker 1: eight years doing that, got an opportunity interview to come
Speaker 1: back here, and that was when the Panthers PR and
Speaker 1: Digital were kind of coming together and kind of doing
Speaker 1: similar things. So I got to kind of work in
Speaker 1: both departments. Do you mind kind of giving everyone what
Speaker 1: a day looks like for you, because I think I
Speaker 1: think we can talk about, you know, my job or
Speaker 1: Matt's job another time, but my job is pretty clear.
Speaker 1: UM and I've talked about but I talked about what
Speaker 1: I've done. But I think this is really interesting that
Speaker 1: even for the first few months, I because we were
Speaker 1: working from home and you and I talking pretty frequently
Speaker 1: and doing a podcast together, even I didn't realize all
Speaker 1: the different things that you're involved in on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: Would you talk about that a little bit? So I
Speaker 1: think now in my role, I have uh, kind of
Speaker 1: the Panthers app, Panthers dot Com. The back end is
Speaker 1: kind of all in my sphere. So I'm working a lot.
Speaker 1: It's a lot, and but you know, I work with
Speaker 1: our marketing group, with our ticketing group, with UM, all
Speaker 1: the different people that have initiatives that need to be
Speaker 1: updated or brought to life UM on our digital platforms
Speaker 1: in some way. You know, I'm right in the middle
Speaker 1: of all the stuff going on with with you know,
Speaker 1: Darren Gant, you know, and our writers and our video team,
Speaker 1: because uh, those need to be formatted a certain way, UM,
Speaker 1: and those need to be broken a certain What time
Speaker 1: should we put this out? You know? Well, you know
Speaker 1: I can tell you if we do it at this
Speaker 1: hour and this day, it's going to perform better than
Speaker 1: at this hour. And if we amplify it in this way,
Speaker 1: if we do this push unification, if this is the
Speaker 1: way it looks UM, if this is the way that
Speaker 1: we are creating UM an experience on the app through
Speaker 1: like a plug in that creates a mobile experience that
Speaker 1: you know that you're getting and you can see all
Speaker 1: of the different content from this win over Detroit or
Speaker 1: whatever it might be, or go UM the virtual was
Speaker 1: it going to the stand, going to the stadium? Sorry,
Speaker 1: it was so longer. I know exactly what it is
Speaker 1: because it was very cool, but it was a R portal. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: So that was something that I kind of created with
Speaker 1: that conference last year in Pittsburgh with with all of
Speaker 1: us app nerds, we were like this, uh, it had
Speaker 1: been done by the Wolves and that was my Premier
Speaker 1: League team, and so I got their app and I'm like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is really cool and it's the
Speaker 1: same company that does ours. So I worked with them
Speaker 1: and we created that for us. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: if you haven't done it, if it's on the app,
Speaker 1: now you can essentially create a portal that you can
Speaker 1: walk through with your phone and walk from your room
Speaker 1: into the stadium and then walk back and then you know,
Speaker 1: it's awesome. It's incredible. And I apologize for not knowing
Speaker 1: exactly what it was. It was just I did it
Speaker 1: a long time ago during the season and I was like,
Speaker 1: I know exactly what this is, but I can't think
Speaker 1: of the name of it. So essentially, also, what is uh,
Speaker 1: what everyone should know is that if if you have
Speaker 1: the Panthers app and you get a push notification, just
Speaker 1: no wills on the other side of that, yep, I
Speaker 1: will wake you up early to tell you what's going
Speaker 1: on or late. But yeah, so it's it's a lot
Speaker 1: of that. I mean, it's the it's the Twitter account,
Speaker 1: it's Panther stats guy. It's researching things. It's you know,
Speaker 1: right now I'm going through and updating all nine guys
Speaker 1: bios with you know, what what stands out about Robbie Anderson?
Speaker 1: What what's something that you know, a franchise ranking and
Speaker 1: NFL ranking? What has he done over the last four
Speaker 1: years that makes him? Uh, something that stands out that's
Speaker 1: going to go into a note that's going to go
Speaker 1: into a tweet, that's going to go into a broadcast,
Speaker 1: that's going to be a part of a narrative that
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully I start by spending time researching it
Speaker 1: and figuring it out. And I think, what's interesting because
Speaker 1: you're never someone that would say this, But you also
Speaker 1: have a hand. What I learned pretty quickly, it's like
Speaker 1: you have a hand. There's all the things that are
Speaker 1: forward facing, which are a lot of like you said,
Speaker 1: the stats, the notes, updating the stuff that you see,
Speaker 1: but then you also have a hand with things that
Speaker 1: we couldn't do without you. So for for National Women
Speaker 1: and Girls in Sports A you put those articles together
Speaker 1: in mad Sure they looked great on the website. For
Speaker 1: we've done events or we're like we need how do
Speaker 1: we get this email out to everyone, and it's well,
Speaker 1: it's like I'm here, I'm doing this, I got this,
Speaker 1: and it's just your You're this person that you can
Speaker 1: kind of go okay. Not only do you do all
Speaker 1: the things that everyone sees, but you're also doing so
Speaker 1: much that only you can do to make sure that
Speaker 1: we all go okay, if we want to have this
Speaker 1: event and send an email out to our PSL owners
Speaker 1: and do that, how does that even happen? And I
Speaker 1: was like, I got it, don't worry about it. But
Speaker 1: it's it's all these little things and I don't know
Speaker 1: sometimes how you keep it all straight. Honestly, Well thank you.
Speaker 1: But I also think, like going back to the original
Speaker 1: part of all this, I think there's a lot to
Speaker 1: be said for being really really great at a one
Speaker 1: at a specific thing, at knowing I want to be that.
Speaker 1: I want to do that, and so I'm gonna hone
Speaker 1: my craft to be really really good at that specifically,
Speaker 1: and that's a very good opportunity to kind of move
Speaker 1: up the ranks and get a job, you know, in
Speaker 1: the NFL or wherever you wanted to be um to
Speaker 1: be the best at that. I also think, you know,
Speaker 1: my experience shows that if you if you're if you listen,
Speaker 1: if you watch, if you see everything that goes on
Speaker 1: around you, that you can kind of be valuable in
Speaker 1: every room, in every scenario, and that when things change,
Speaker 1: when organizations change, when roles change, when things like COVID happen,
Speaker 1: and all the things that we have to do, we
Speaker 1: have to figure out a new way to do it.
Speaker 1: You were equipped to be a valuable piece that everyone
Speaker 1: knows like, well, you know, we can count on that
Speaker 1: person because they can do so much and that they
Speaker 1: can be you know, uh, just able to do whatever
Speaker 1: you need them to do. And I think that's also
Speaker 1: a way to to find a role in this business,
Speaker 1: especially when you're young. I think that's great advice where
Speaker 1: it's you's always going to help yourself by trying to
Speaker 1: be able to do as many different things in the
Speaker 1: avenue that that you want to go down. So if
Speaker 1: you want to be someone that's involved with statute, also,
Speaker 1: do you know how those get posted? Do you know?
Speaker 1: Do you know the web site? Can you can you
Speaker 1: help other people? Can you edit all those kinds of things?
Speaker 1: So I think that's that's great advice. Well, do you
Speaker 1: want to break the news to everybody or or no,
Speaker 1: this is our last weekly podcast for a little while.
Speaker 1: I was just looking at it. He's like, what are
Speaker 1: we gonna say? I was like, I shouldn't, don't tease.
Speaker 1: I've only been here two years and I lost like
Speaker 1: everybody I worked out. It's all like I do this
Speaker 1: for a living or anything. I should have had a
Speaker 1: better way to go about that. Uh, this, We're gonna
Speaker 1: take a little bit of a step back with the
Speaker 1: football season ending not be doing this weekly, although we
Speaker 1: still will be doing it consistently. So it's not it's
Speaker 1: not goodbye. It's just a little bit. We'll see you
Speaker 1: in a few weeks from now, a few weeks down
Speaker 1: the road. And yeah, and when we come back, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have plenty talk about you're gonna want to talk
Speaker 1: about it? I have. I cannot wait. We have an
Speaker 1: episode coming up. Can I say this around the draft
Speaker 1: that I can't wait. I have been dying to hear
Speaker 1: these stories from Will. That's all I'll say. And he
Speaker 1: has promised, and there our next few episodes he's gonna
Speaker 1: tell them, So you're gonna wanna look out for that.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, Hope everyone is staying safe, staying healthy.
Speaker 1: Uh and is happy and we will see you soon.
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