WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 126: Union Rules 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:03.600 This week on a Happy Half Hour. 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.960 Fans were conditioned to seeing their starters for a quarter 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.039 in the first game, and a half in the second game, 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.320 and then into the third quarter in the third game. 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.080 Those days are over as teams get more and more 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.119 involved in other ways to get their preseason work in 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.080 without putting their quarterback at risk. 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:28.760 Touchdown. Cow wha, It's time for the Happy Half Hour 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:34.760 presented by Southern Star, an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.920 Here are your hosts, Darren Kant and Cassidy Hill. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:47.240 Hello, friends, and welcome to another edition of the Happy 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.880 Half Hour presented by a Southern Star, an official bourbon 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.640 partner of the Carolina Panthers. Celebrate the spirit of the 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:59.520 Carolinas a little Southern Star. No editorial comment about the 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:03.040 need for Southern Star after preseason game one. We'll just 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.400 kind of leave that one where it is. I feel 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.039 compelled by union rules that we have to discuss that 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:08.760 a little bit. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:13.160 I guess sure, probably not too much like ten words. 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:14.959 Yeah, hit me with your best. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:16.880 Now, I got to come up with ten words. 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.520 I've got a few, expect. 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:25.040 Yeah, did in parts? That's three? 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.960 Yeah, you're like writing haiku on your fingers over here. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.200 You're counting out syllables. 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:42.240 Encouraging back up secondary. Okay, slow offense, no starters, Yeah, okay, 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:43.440 how about this. 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.399 I don't know how many of this is. I'm just 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.160 going to say it, pay no attention to the man 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.320 behind the curtain or the man in front of the 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.680 curtain or the curtain. I truly decided about an hour 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:55.840 and a half before that game kicked off, when we 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.240 put out the list of inactive players who weren't going 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:03.080 to be joining us during that game was playing. Yeah, 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:04.800 I was like, okay, there's not a lot to be 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.840 learned here tonight, because when the starters on both sides 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:11.520 of the ball sit, it really does put a damper 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.840 on what you're gonna do. I mean, preseason is always 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.800 such a mixed bag anyway, because you go into a 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.040 game not sure what your opponent is going to do. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.520 And I don't think anybody fully expected the Patriots to 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.120 go with this weird quarterback rotation where it's Jacoby Brissett 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.959 then Drake May for a series, but then Bailey's appy 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.760 for a long long time. So I mean, it's always 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.480 tough to try to get a handle on that. What 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.560 we saw was not a whole lot of offense, and 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.359 that is to be expected when you're playing an undrafted 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.840 rookie quarterback in Jack Plumber and the backup offensive line 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.160 which was down to five healthy guys by the end 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.679 of it. So poor ol Brady Christiansen, a former seventeen 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.640 game starter not that long ago, was out there with 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.400 undrafted rookies and it was just a real mixed bag 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.160 of stuff. So I know it's been a long time 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.560 and everybody was excited to see football. It's just that 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:04.359 that wasn't it. 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.600 If you ever read that Obi Keeler game story says 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.080 I thought I knew a football wise, but how I 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:12.919 don't think I do. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.920 Yeah, it was confusing. There was a lot of that 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.320 going around. But I mean that's kind of the danger 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.000 of the preseason, and that's the way this thing is going. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.360 More and more. I think the old days where fans 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:28.000 were conditioned to seeing their starters for a quarter in 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.000 the first game, and a half in the second game, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.400 and then into the third quarter in the third game, 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.680 those days are over. That's gone and it ain't coming back. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.120 As teams get more and more involved in other ways 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.960 to get their preseason work. In without putting their quarterback 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.000 at risk. I think a lot of teams are trying 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.040 to go to that. I did a little journalism and 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.160 realized that of the thirty two teams in the NFL, 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:56.080 seventeen of them did not play their starting quarterbacks last week, 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:00.400 opting for safety rather than anything you'll judge. I mean, really, 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.600 when you look at the list of the teams that did, 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.280 I know, fans have been you know, or a certain 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.440 segment of the fan base, and we'll get to that later, 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:09.800 but a certain segment of the fan base is like, well, 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:13.520 Patrick Mahomes played, Josh Allen played, Josh Allen was two 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.520 of three for twenty two yards before leaving for the 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.640 safety of the bench area. So what did Josh Allen 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:20.280 really learn? 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:24.239 Are the Buffalo Allen had has like a completely new 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:25.720 wide receiver course, right? 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.480 And so did we learn that much more about Josh 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:34.080 Allen in those three very short pass attempts. I don't 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:38.400 think we did, so I understand and listen self awareness. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:43.280 I appreciate everybody being so passionate about professional football. It 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.640 has helped me create a comfortable life from me and 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.560 my family, and I am grateful for that. But being 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.680 too invested in what happens in August. Professional football is 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.280 probably not wise because it's less and less resembling actual 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.480 professional football, so let's weigh it accordingly. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.080 You also have more and more joint practices, More teams 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.240 are going to that it's something that the Panthers are 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:10.160 doing this week, and you have seventeen games. You never 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.240 ever want to say it's okay to lose a game, 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:13.919 but you have a little more wiggle room in the 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.440 regular season now to get the rust off, to get 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.359 the gears going. It hurts when you're opening your season 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.680 against a divisional opponent because you never ever want to 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.920 drop one of those games, but you do have a 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.320 little bit more wiggle room in the regular season to 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.040 kind of figure things out, so to speak. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.920 Yeah, yeah, And I'll be honest with you. Maybe it's 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.039 just that I've been doing this for thirty years and 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.000 seeing a lot of bad preseason football over the years, 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.760 But it doesn't matter all that much in the big 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:44.920 scheme of things. And to your point, our joint practices 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.960 are a better way to get your work in because 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.120 here's what Dave Canalis and Robert Salah have done in 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.200 planning the joint practices that will begin tomorrow here Bank 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.680 of America Stadium with the New York Jets. They'll get 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.000 together and they'll say, for instance, and I haven't seen 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.760 to Mar's practice script, they can say, all right, let's 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.160 do twelve plays of red zone, and then let's do 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:10.120 twelve plays of move the ball two minute, and then 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.920 let's do twelve plays of live run with our ones 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:19.280 against our ones. They can plan exact scenarios and repeat them. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.360 And it's a better practice situation when you know you're 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.320 getting twelve plays back to back of X or Y 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.920 or whatever it happens to be. In a game, if 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:34.240 your undrafted rookie quarterback hurls an eighty yard touchdown pass, 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.520 that might be all the work you get in that quarter, 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.840 and then you know, it changes the entire dynamic of 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.560 the game. I mean, the game situations are unpredictable in 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.880 an actual game, So you can predict the work, you 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.480 can control the work, and most importantly, you can put 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.960 a red jersey on your quarterbacks. And that's the absolute 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.520 biggest thing. I mean, no one is suggesting that poor 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.760 JJ McCarthy in Minnesota suffered the meniscus injury. That's going 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.960 to end his rookie season before it began in a game. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.080 He was hurt in a game, but you know, you 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.200 can never predict when those things are going to happen. 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:13.200 But the Vikings probably wish he would have not done 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:18.000 that in the preseason opener. So I think coaches indifference 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.680 to trying to get scheduled work and really finally tuned, 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:26.080 calibrated work with their opponents and protecting their quarterbacks. It's 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:27.360 pointing in that direction. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.440 Coaches are creatures of habit and anything they can control 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.920 they will favor, and that is what a practice is 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:35.960 versus a game. 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.480 Right, so you know, practice script versus unpredictable game. That's 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.360 an easy choice for these guys. But still, I do 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.840 think it's going to be an interesting day of work 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.560 against the Jets. And one of the funny things to 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.720 me is that's gotten a lot of attention in joint 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.400 practices in the past. That second day. You know, that's 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.320 when you see guys get sick of each other and 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.000 they know they're not your own guys, and coaches always 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.400 talk about take care of our own people. So we've 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.680 seen big fights break out that joint practices in the past, 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:12.800 usually there on the second day. So I think it's 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.760 smart for Salah and Canalis to get together and say, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.440 let's just do this this one day and head that 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.160 off the pass and Shaq Thompson got love him the 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.920 conscience of that locker room. He nailed it today when 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.040 we asked him about joint practices in general. 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.360 Honestly, I'm old head, So hopefully ain't no fighting because 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:32.280 you still got a practice, you know what I mean. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:33.840 Regardless of the fighting and stuff like that. I just 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.959 want to come out here, good, good work. We're going 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.040 against a Hall of famer. It's great for the team. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.600 It's great for the young guys to go out there 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.280 and see a Hall of Famer practice, see how he 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.040 throws the ball, see how he makes his checks and 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.679 stuff like that. So we just got to come out 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.240 here and play our brand of football how we've been 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.960 doing and just stick to ourselves, limited fights and just 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:49.680 get the great work. 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.520 I get where Shack's coming from, Darren, But do you, 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:54.680 just as someone who has covered this sport for a 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:59.959 long time, do you see the benefit of come rang 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.480 that can be wrought in those moments? 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:03.120 Yeah? 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.400 I mean, as long as no way jerk somebody's helmet 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.280 off their head and bashes an unprotected player or something 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.920 like that. I mean, when guys get hurt in those fights. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:15.000 That's the danger I think there is. Anytime you're competing 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.959 your people against somebody else's people, there's a little bit 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.040 of that to be gained. And you know, again we've 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.000 seen it in the last couple of years here. They've 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.160 done joint practice with the Patriots with the Colts the 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.920 last couple of years, and there is a bonding element 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:30.760 in the simple act of going on the road and 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.640 especially with teams doing training camp at home, including US now. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.880 And I enjoy that and I wasn't sure how I 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.880 was gonna but I haven't missed my dorm mattress. 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.920 Once we can get you one in here in your 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:44.120 office and fittle health. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.560 Well, you know, it might help honestly with what's coming 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.520 into next couple of weeks. But but yeah, I just 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.959 think that you can build your bonding in a lot 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.720 of other ways. Guys are when they're competing, they're together, 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.679 and you see that on the practice field every day, 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.040 and you know, you just get a chance to do 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.880 it against somebody else, which always freshens things up. This 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:05.480 time of year. 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.360 What matchup in this joint practice tomorrow. Are you looking 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:11.640 forward to seeing the most. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.600 Well, and I'll kind of steal and we can you 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.439 know hear from zero everro on this too. I mean, 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:22.240 he said it the other day. Aaron Rodgers probably wouldn't 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.400 have played in a game, but they're going to walk 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.440 to the line of scrimmage and Aaron Rodgers is going 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.360 to do his Aaron Rodgers thing where he calls out 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.920 your play at the line of scrimmage. And if Vero 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.400 was great talking about the other day, listen to this. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.360 Going against Aaron Rodgers too. Just that level of communication 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.320 and having to disguise everything and really be on point 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.600 on what we're doing because any any weakness, anything that's 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.160 not right, he's going to point it out, and so 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:46.920 very invaluable for us. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.680 And sure, when a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers goes to 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:51.800 the line of scrimmage and goes chapter and verse through 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.720 what you're doing, that's what those guys need to see 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.360 because there are a lot of new pieces on that 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:00.400 Panthers defense, as we've talked all off season about them, 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.560 seeing that in real time is going to be helpful 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.200 to them. So I mean, to me, even though he's 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.360 in his forties, Even though he's a little kooky with 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.480 some of his off the field stuff, and that's a 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.840 good word, you know, political activism, and let's just leave 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:19.760 it at that. He's still a fascinating football player to 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.200 watch because of his ability to do what a arrow 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:24.640 just described right. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:26.959 Very very cerebral in that way, and that can be 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.040 a bigger test than physicality at times for a defense. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.360 And I mean, you know him, you were around him 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.600 for a couple of years in Green Bay. What's he 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.559 like on a day to day basis in practice and 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.480 what do defensive players up there say about going against 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.600 him on a routine basis in practice. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:49.320 He's a little bit like a cat toying with a mouse. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.600 He kind of likes to amp things up in practice 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.320 and see what he can get away with, see what 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.079 he can test a defense with in practice. It was 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.200 always interesting to watch him at Dvante Adams to other 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.720 in practice, because they would just go out there and 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.160 do things that seem to defy the law of physics 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.920 just to see if they could. And imagine how frustrating 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.880 that is if you're a practice squad dB and you're 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.160 having to go up against the best quarterback wide receiver 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.240 combo in the game at the time, and they're just 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.400 they're drawing up plays in the dirt just to see 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:23.040 how much they can frustrate you. Yeh. And so he's 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.960 also got I don't know if this is a fact. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:29.800 I'm sure he would be able to tell us. I 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.719 don't know if he has an idetic memory, but he's 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:36.679 got something pretty dang close. And I think that comes 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.040 in play a lot when facing defenses and knowing what 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.240 they're gonna do and therefore how to pick them apart. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.720 It's never a it's never an issue of the mind 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:47.679 with him. It's just, you know, can his forty year 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.800 old body still do what he knows it needs to 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.920 do because he's always gonna make the right decision? 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:57.960 Sure, and it didn't last year. He's done, I just think. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.600 And it's so it's a little bit so And that 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.120 word gets overused a lot in sports. But thinking back 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:08.080 to the Jets coming to Spartanburg last year, Aaron was 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.240 coming to a new place for the first time. It 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.880 was going to be new and unique, and it's the 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.079 best hope the Jets have had in a long long time. 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.600 And the Carolina Panthers had a number one overall pick 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:22.000 quarterback and a brand new code to everybody thought well 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:25.040 of going into the season and just seeing the scene 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.640 seeing hard knocks, they are documenting the whole thing. I 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.800 remember going over to take a picture of Bryce and 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.920 Aaron talking before the practice began, and there's a boom 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.160 mic hanging over their head for God's sakes, capturing it 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.479 for the HBO film's footage. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.600 So it was just so. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.760 Wild and from where those teams thought they were going 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.760 to be on that August day and where both of 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.640 them ended up when things unfolded the way they did. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.160 It's kind of wild to imagine them getting back together 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:59.840 in a completely different place physically and metaphorically tomorrow. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.400 So maybe this is the timeline reset they both needed. 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.160 They jumped the wrong timeline and they had to come 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:07.479 back to this spot. 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.000 Yeah, is this one of those Marvel things where we're 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.160 in alternate Spartan Lind like something. 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.120 Doctor Strange opened up a different timehold this time and 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:16.440 they're going to take the right shot. 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.760 Spartanburg too has tall buildings right. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:22.000 And less peaches. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.360 Oh boy, Cy the peachoid. That's the one thing I 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.160 have missed about Spartanburg. It's getting a chance to drive 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:30.000 by it a time or two. 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:30.920 You only. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.200 It brings a tear to my It truly is an 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.040 architectural wonder, and your lack of appreciation for it is 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:43.840 disturbing at any rate. So so then we've looked ahead 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.360 to that joint practice. I do think it's worth spending 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.040 a little bit of time on what we've seen the 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.640 last two days here and allow me to crawl up 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.760 on my old man's soapbox, if you will. I think 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:59.320 that the way we consume professional football anymore is largely broken. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.800 New communication models that allow anybody to publish. Any fan 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.040 that gets in the stands and can transmit one clip 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.440 of one play during one segment of one practice can 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.760 put something out into the universe that becomes what is 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.840 almost a conventional wisdom, the only problem being it's neither 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:21.640 conventional nor wise. Practice in training camp is designed to 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.240 work all this stuff out, And one of the things 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:28.360 that's frustrating to me is someone who's charged with putting 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:32.440 responsible information about practice out in the universe, is it 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:37.480 creates these impressions that everything's broken. Oh my god, it's 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.400 going to be a disaster. Bryce thinks, you know, I 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.600 hear this stuff when I get online, and I do 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.680 my very best to stay out of the comments section. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.880 Some of it's unavoidable. But the one thing that is 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.680 kind of lost in this instant analysis of one practice 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.160 snap is some of this is by design. And I 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.960 think one of the more interesting points that Dave Canalis 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.400 has made lately is talking about, like in today's practice, 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.400 there were a couple of interceptions, shy Tuttle jumps up 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.320 the line of scrimmage, snags one out of the air. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.960 If this happens during the regular season, our social media 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.360 department photoshops a hamburger on top of the football, like 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.360 we did with Derrick Brown a couple of years ago. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:21.000 Trust me, it was beautiful. I was there and we're 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:23.880 having fun talking about that. The other one was kind 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:25.880 of a fifty to fifty ball. I mean, Troy Hill 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.560 and Adam Thiel and a couple of salty old vets 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.480 go up and Troy Hill made the play. So it 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.720 wasn't as if these were abject disasters by Bryce Young 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.120 really in either case. I mean, if a defensive lineman 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.840 bats ball in the air and intercepts it or catches 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.320 it clean that's kind of a fluke play and in 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:46.440 most tellings of the Tail, but Canalis was interesting because 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.640 obviously he gets asked about the pigs and he kind 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.800 of broke down what it meant from his perspective. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.120 I mean, turnovers are always just something that we want 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.840 to continue to look at and say what happened here 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.720 and just get to the bottom of it. For me, again, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.800 the interceptions happen when we're trying, you know, so I 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.920 have no problem with that. You know, it's if we're 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.040 not throwing interceptions, we're not trying stuff. We're not trying 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.680 to make those tight throws. And we know NFL football 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.440 is tightly played. It's tight throws in particularly with our defense. 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.119 The way that those guys are just continuing to hone in. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.040 You know, we've been playing against each other a lot. 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.119 You know, they're taking advantage of those ops. So for me, 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.359 I don't look too far into it other than just 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.639 what happened on display, you know, so we can correct 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:28.480 it and we can move forward. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.360 So yeah, if you know, it's almost like in race, 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.080 and they say if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying, 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.320 if you ain't throwing picks in practice in August. What 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.320 are you really learning about this thing? 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.400 You got to risk it to get the biscuit, Darren. 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:42.400 There you go, risk it to. 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.880 Get the biscuit. And I looked up Bryce's numbers from 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.760 last year, and on first glance, you're like, oh, those 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.720 are pretty respectable turnover numbers for a rookie in a 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.800 weird way, especially in a two and fifteen season. They 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.480 should have been higher. And I'll never forget when I 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.000 was covering Trevor Lawrence as a rookie and it became 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.879 pretty clear that the season was a wash, he just 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:08.240 started chucking it up there and he took credit for it, 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.919 not even blame credit. He said, this is on purpose. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.399 He's like, at this point, the rest of this season 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.640 is about my development and figuring out how fast these 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.480 windows close and where they are. I don't think that 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:25.200 those chances were necessarily taken with Bryce last season. And 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.000 you know this is the old cliche. You'd rather your 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.119 quarterback throw those picks in August versus September or October, 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.160 no question, And I think he needs to figure out 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.280 what he can get away with, especially if they're going 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.040 to be getting the ball out as quickly as Dave 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.240 Canalis would like him to do. If they're gonna throw 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.920 it deeper than maybe he did some last season, he's 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.560 got to know where those spots are, where those windows are, 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.960 and how these receivers move within those fifty to fifty balls. 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:57.040 And so I never necessarily, if they're not egregious, which 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.520 I don't think either of these two from Wednesday were. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.200 If they're not egregious, I never really see an issue 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:03.840 with throwing interceptions in practice. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:04.280 M hm. 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:06.720 And that's essentially what Canal has said as well. 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:10.879 Sure, and I mean again, I've maybe it's because of 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.080 all the scars I've built up in thirty pre seasons past, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.440 but I remember Jimmy Cuson. I know what a bad 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.800 interception looks like. I know what you know an unfortunate 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.160 one looks like. And I've seen my share. And it's 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:28.199 not that it's not even covering for Bryce, it's just 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.200 putting it in context and explaining what he's trying to do. 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:33.920 I had somebody on a radio appearance this morning and 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:35.600 ask me how Bryce was looking at I was like, 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.520 Bryce looks like Bryce looks All the things that were 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.600 true about him at Alabama remain true. He is accurate, 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:45.159 he is smart, he knows how he knows how to 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.399 read a defense and all those things. Now he is 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:50.119 learning how to apply that at the NFL level in 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:50.720 real time. 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:52.640 And there were struggles last year. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.720 Obviously he's one of many people who need to improve 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.679 over last year. But I do think to your point, Cass, 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:02.159 I mean, learning how to calibrate how high Adam Feeling 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.360 can get up the ladder on a twenty yard route 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.600