Speaker 1: Hi, this is Dewey Jenkins. Most people think my first
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Speaker 1: time for a Happy half Hour with your friends Kristin Balboni,
Speaker 1: Miles Simmons, and Will Bryan. It's that time of the week,
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Speaker 1: and Miles, presented by Morris Jenkins. And Mr Jenkins told
Speaker 1: me his plumbers and a c text secretly were Panthers
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Speaker 1: there's no need for them to keep it a secret anymore,
Speaker 1: because the Panthers went into Atlanta and got their third
Speaker 1: straight wind tied for first in the NFC South going
Speaker 1: in to Week six games. Uh, will you broke down
Speaker 1: last week for us the hierarchy of the NFC South rivalries.
Speaker 1: How great is it to say that the Panthers went
Speaker 1: down to Atlanta got that one? How about us? Man?
Speaker 1: How about us? Who? Who would have thought? Man? Who
Speaker 1: would have thought? Not me? Not me? Not me? I
Speaker 1: think the words you were looking for there was look
Speaker 1: at us? You know, yeah, I was like, how what us?
Speaker 1: How about us? About? Look at us? If anyone, if
Speaker 1: anyone was confused me, if anyone was confused, like I
Speaker 1: wasn't telling you could tell Will was waiting on that one.
Speaker 1: Will was ready for it. And then that you know,
Speaker 1: how it started versus how it's going. But I figured,
Speaker 1: you know, I've already done that like two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So that's why I don't run social media, let's be real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like I've been seeing your
Speaker 1: tweets getting a lot of love lately. I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean sometimes when you you know, when you you hang
Speaker 1: out with the people and you're like, hey, retweet that,
Speaker 1: retweet that. Oh that's what it is. That's why poor
Speaker 1: Miles didn't get as much this week because he wasn't
Speaker 1: sitting next to them. He was down in Atlanta. That's right, Miles.
Speaker 1: Night time, Miles and I made the trip down um
Speaker 1: to watch the win in person. Will said that he
Speaker 1: would absolutely not be going under any circumstances last week
Speaker 1: because he does not like Atlanta, nor does he like Paris.
Speaker 1: But that's a conversation for a different day. But but
Speaker 1: Miles and I had a great time. Yeah, it was nice.
Speaker 1: It was really nice to just be in the stadium
Speaker 1: and in a press box and watching a game. It
Speaker 1: just felt like a sliver of normalcy in a time
Speaker 1: that is absolutely not normal. We're gonna get into the
Speaker 1: game in just a second in hand out our game balls.
Speaker 1: But what was your one non football observation from being
Speaker 1: at Mercedes Beens. Um, It's okay, it's a really really
Speaker 1: nice same It's like it's so nice. It's it's a monstrosity,
Speaker 1: like it is just like this big sort of I
Speaker 1: don't know, spaceship like extraterrestrial looking thing that has just
Speaker 1: dropped into the middle of Atlanta and it's cool. Um.
Speaker 1: It's funny because the only other time I've been there
Speaker 1: was Super Bowl fifty three, where the Rams lost to
Speaker 1: the Patriots, and like I had realized and I was
Speaker 1: teking some friends with this, Like I had blacked out
Speaker 1: most of the things that had happened in that game.
Speaker 1: And obviously, you know, it's one of the worst Super
Speaker 1: Bowls ever played, so that's probably part of it. And
Speaker 1: the team that I worked for lost. Um. But like
Speaker 1: it was funny as I was sort of walking around
Speaker 1: in different places in the press box, I was like, oh, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that happened. That happened too. You were having repressed memories. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were just all coming back. It was like, you
Speaker 1: know that Celine Dion song was lost long ago, but
Speaker 1: it's all coming back to me now you're seeing a
Speaker 1: little bit more of it. I don't remember, baby, baby,
Speaker 1: I did remember it. That was me. But a great
Speaker 1: win for the Panthers. And Will you've had this great
Speaker 1: idea that we're gonna start handing out game balls. I mean,
Speaker 1: Trey Boston does it, Matt Rule does it? Why not us?
Speaker 1: Why not? How about us? Yes? Look at us? Not me? Um.
Speaker 1: So we we did this Monday and put it on
Speaker 1: the website, and then we also allowed people to vote.
Speaker 1: So let's go through who we picked for our game
Speaker 1: ball as well. Why don't you kick us off game balls?
Speaker 1: Stick this in your case. I mean I picked Teddy Bridgewater.
Speaker 1: Two sixty one passing yards in the first half, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, which was second most in franchise history. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's the guy. You know, you need a quarterback in
Speaker 1: this league. You need a quarterback that doesn't turn the
Speaker 1: ball over, that's efficient, and that puts up big numbers.
Speaker 1: And he's doing that right now. And I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone believed that he would be doing it at this
Speaker 1: level at this time of the year already. Um, Teddy Bridgewater. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went with Mike Davis for obvious reasons. Great game overall,
Speaker 1: Um had a touchdown, had will what's the number? What
Speaker 1: are the arts from scrimmage? I should know this the
Speaker 1: top of my head. And you got to do it
Speaker 1: at home in front of his He had a group
Speaker 1: of family and friends there. I saw him get to
Speaker 1: wave at them at halftime and then of course after
Speaker 1: the game. He grew up in Stone Mountain, went to
Speaker 1: high school there, which is right down the road. So
Speaker 1: local kid getting to come home and have such a
Speaker 1: big impact on the game. And man, he just does
Speaker 1: not go down. He really does not. He'll drag guys
Speaker 1: with him, but he's like, look, you're trying to tackle me.
Speaker 1: Good luck. And it's just so fun to watch him.
Speaker 1: And I was talking to Matt Rule and he said,
Speaker 1: you know, the way he plays gets the sideline fired
Speaker 1: up and you can see it. And so I just
Speaker 1: really happy for him. He's just such a nice guy
Speaker 1: and he's got that big smile even though Myles, as
Speaker 1: you said in your article, when he plays, he's playing angry. Uh,
Speaker 1: And it was it was cool to see him. It's
Speaker 1: been cool to see him over this stretch without Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey show everyone what he can do. But I am
Speaker 1: just a sucker for a hometown story. And I imagine
Speaker 1: that that's just got to be such a cool moment
Speaker 1: um to get to go and do it in front
Speaker 1: of your family and friends. I'm sure it was, and
Speaker 1: it's it's good that that, you know, he was able
Speaker 1: to do it in front of the family and friends.
Speaker 1: There were um, select states, select fans in the in
Speaker 1: the stands um there at Mercedes been saying, so that
Speaker 1: was cool. I picked Justin Buris from my game bar
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. Yeah, And you know, it was unfortunate
Speaker 1: that he didn't get the scoop and score earlier in
Speaker 1: the game. Um, but to be able to keep your
Speaker 1: head in it, to keep playing, and to get that
Speaker 1: interception in the fourth quarter where it really looked like
Speaker 1: the Falcons were making a good little comeback that I
Speaker 1: thought they were going to score, and yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: for Burris to play the way he played, and he
Speaker 1: said it after the game that the Falcons undoubtedly thought
Speaker 1: that they had a mismatch there when you get a
Speaker 1: safety on a slot receiver and Burst just really covered
Speaker 1: it extremely well. And when the ball came it was
Speaker 1: basically right to it. He stepped in front of it,
Speaker 1: got two feet in before he fell out of bounds
Speaker 1: and boom that that gets the Panthers the takeaway and
Speaker 1: they really needed it. So we also allowed everyone to
Speaker 1: vote on Panthers dot Com. Again a great idea, uh
Speaker 1: of Wills. And now the thing was, I thought everyone
Speaker 1: was going to vote for Justin Burus, So I said, look,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Mike Davis. I'll let someone else take
Speaker 1: Justin Burs because of you know, the the interception that
Speaker 1: really changed the game. But I gotta say the fans
Speaker 1: sided with me on this one and Mike Davis, but
Speaker 1: it's me. It was my persuasion as yeah as the
Speaker 1: paragraph I wrote, I really think it. Uh. People were like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I was gonna go Justin Burrs or
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater, but Kristin convinced me. YEA. So final results
Speaker 1: of the poll out of five hundred and forty six
Speaker 1: total votes for Mike Davis, eighteen for Teddy Bridgewater, nine
Speaker 1: Justin Burrs other others. Let us know, make your case
Speaker 1: in make your case in the in the twitter comments. UM,
Speaker 1: but I do like I like that there's another on
Speaker 1: their UM, you know the the cool thing about this one?
Speaker 1: And will you mentioned this when you talked about Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater's first half stats. I think it was like three
Speaker 1: d and twelve yards of total offense and in the
Speaker 1: first half, Um, is that a lot guys shined. So
Speaker 1: we talked about we talked about Mike Davis, we talked
Speaker 1: about Teddy Bridgewater. UM, but we saw all those receivers
Speaker 1: step up in their own Curtis Samuel looked great. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Mr third Down. Love to get to see him showcase
Speaker 1: his his versatility. Love that they got him involved. D J.
Speaker 1: Moore turned the Jets on and that's still running for
Speaker 1: that fifty seven yard touchdown. And then of course Robby Anderson,
Speaker 1: who has just been so great throughout this entire season
Speaker 1: so far that it's funny that we're just now talking
Speaker 1: about him. But he continues to just deliver every single
Speaker 1: week and we don't want that to get overshadowed. And Miles,
Speaker 1: I know you had a chance to talk to him. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was good to talk to him. Um, and I
Speaker 1: got to talk to him a little bit one on one,
Speaker 1: and I think what you're saying Christen is absolutely true.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is now fourth in the league and
Speaker 1: receptions right now, he's got thirty six. He's fourth in
Speaker 1: the league and yards receiving as well with four and
Speaker 1: eighty nine. So he is well on pace to have
Speaker 1: his first season with over a thousand yard receiving him. Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're at five hundred almost, you know
Speaker 1: you're only five games in that it's he's poised to
Speaker 1: really exceed that. And you know his receptions per game,
Speaker 1: you know in New York in those four years it
Speaker 1: was at three point three. Now it is at seven
Speaker 1: point two. So he's being utilized as a complete receiver,
Speaker 1: And so I asked him if he ever felt that
Speaker 1: he was underestimated as a receiver before this year? Do
Speaker 1: you hear something overheard? Yeah? You know what it's always
Speaker 1: been so crazy to me, is like what they never
Speaker 1: made sense to me. And if you look at this
Speaker 1: from a logical standpoint, not anybody that really knows what
Speaker 1: about could tell you this. The hardest ball to catch,
Speaker 1: the soapball. There's a deep ball. So when everybody so
Speaker 1: always safe, well, he's only a deep threat. He can
Speaker 1: only care deep passes. He can't catch short routes. It
Speaker 1: just sounds supid because it's like, if you can care,
Speaker 1: if I can catch the deep past and that's thirty
Speaker 1: forty fifty yards down the field, having many yards in
Speaker 1: the air flight, what makes him think I can't catch
Speaker 1: the short past. It has been making ever made sense
Speaker 1: to me. But you know, people, a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, just everybody is tired of to their t
Speaker 1: And that's when I learned of my career. I never
Speaker 1: really let it upset me up. More so upsetting you
Speaker 1: know what, like what my coaches wouldn't let me do
Speaker 1: certain things when I knew I honoally that I could,
Speaker 1: and I knew I could make an impact doing it,
Speaker 1: but you know, it is what it is. I'm focused
Speaker 1: on nine. I'm just happy to be able to run
Speaker 1: the route trying, you know, do a lot of intermediate
Speaker 1: things and catch and running. And I played football, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's something I really like, really like strive on
Speaker 1: perfecting my routes and get open and you know, doing
Speaker 1: those types of things like that's football, Like it's fun
Speaker 1: to do that throughout somebody up and you know, get
Speaker 1: open and do those things and running catch. So that
Speaker 1: was just one of the things that Robbie and I
Speaker 1: talked about, and I think it really makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense, right what he said about the deep ball
Speaker 1: and how it's the most is how it's the hardest
Speaker 1: uh football to catch, you know, when you have to
Speaker 1: track it, when you have to do all these different
Speaker 1: and things. Of course, you can have a guy run
Speaker 1: crossing routes underneath and then catch and run, especially if
Speaker 1: he's fast, like that's that's how you beat man coverages,
Speaker 1: is with crossing routes. So I think it's interesting now
Speaker 1: that he not only is in a place where he's
Speaker 1: able to do that, but he's got a quarterback he
Speaker 1: really trust. That was one of the other interesting things
Speaker 1: he told me is that he almost thinks of Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater like a coach as opposed to more than just
Speaker 1: a quarterback because of the way that they've been able
Speaker 1: to work together. You know what's funny. I was talking
Speaker 1: to coach Rule earlier this week and he said the
Speaker 1: same thing. I said, when did you know? Because he said,
Speaker 1: you know, Teddy Bridge is one of the smartest football
Speaker 1: players I've ever been around. And I said, when did
Speaker 1: you know for the first time, like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: that's that's this guy, like he is that smart football player. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, was it the first conversation and and he said,
Speaker 1: he said it was. He said, you know, Joe Brady
Speaker 1: knew him so well from their time in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: He said, the thing that has really been great about
Speaker 1: Teddy is that he is like a coach. And he said, now,
Speaker 1: there are there are other players like that, But sometimes
Speaker 1: the players are coaching in a way that you don't
Speaker 1: want them to be coaching, which made me laugh. You know,
Speaker 1: like they're they're gonna be coaching, but they might not
Speaker 1: be saying the same thing that the coaching staff is saying,
Speaker 1: and he said that Teddy really is an extension of
Speaker 1: exactly what they want to do as an offense. And
Speaker 1: so he takes that to the players, and you know,
Speaker 1: we know that he gets an extra time he started
Speaker 1: with with Robbie down in South Florida when everyone was
Speaker 1: still um under lockdown and they had a chance to
Speaker 1: to play together. He goes into the offensive line rooms.
Speaker 1: But the good thing about all of that is that
Speaker 1: he's doing it as an extension of the offense um
Speaker 1: and it is perfectly in sync with with Joe Brady
Speaker 1: and Matt Rule, which I think is awesome. It really
Speaker 1: is all coming together because you know, you have that
Speaker 1: connection between Teddy these receivers, and you have this connection
Speaker 1: between this offensive line. You know, uh Miles wrote this
Speaker 1: great article about the way that the line is coming
Speaker 1: together to protect Teddy, to protect this running game, to
Speaker 1: protect the passing game. No sacks allowed in the last
Speaker 1: two games. And one of the things I really love is,
Speaker 1: after all these rushing touchdowns are after all these touchdowns
Speaker 1: are getting it's like Taylor Moten the one spiking the ball, Like,
Speaker 1: I think that's fantastic. There's there's just so much synergy
Speaker 1: both from you know, the five and Teddy, but then
Speaker 1: the five in front and Teddy and everybody else. You know,
Speaker 1: every everyone on that offense is one organism. I think
Speaker 1: it's great too. It feels like this coaching staff, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's with Robbie or whether it's Pat Meyer, having
Speaker 1: these offensive linemen um prepared to step up. You know,
Speaker 1: Russell o'coon was out, he was back for this game. Um,
Speaker 1: but it almost doesn't matter who's in there on the
Speaker 1: offensive line, and we've seen them had to shift to
Speaker 1: shift around in several different ways over the course of
Speaker 1: these first five games. But it just feels like this
Speaker 1: coaching staff is able to identify um potential or talent
Speaker 1: where other people may have written guys off, and then
Speaker 1: also get the most out of these guys. I think
Speaker 1: Mike Davis is a is a good example of that.
Speaker 1: You know, look at what he's been able to do
Speaker 1: so far. Yeah, exactly. And the good thing about Mike
Speaker 1: Davis is that, you know, I think he's very humble
Speaker 1: and he understands what his role is on this team.
Speaker 1: And it sometimes when players come in they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I should have been doing this all along, and that
Speaker 1: da da da DA And that's not who Mike Davis is.
Speaker 1: Mike Davis is a good team guy, and I think
Speaker 1: that entire running backs room really is. Yeah. Absolutely, we
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Speaker 1: it's your time to shine. You got a stat of
Speaker 1: the week for us, the week the Bears are coming
Speaker 1: to town. It's Chicago Bears. Bears. Carolina has played the
Speaker 1: Bears tend to times before this Sunday, so ten games.
Speaker 1: In those ten games, there have been eight returns for
Speaker 1: touchdown either punt returns, kick returns, intercession returns, fumble returns.
Speaker 1: That's more than against any other Carolina opponent. Now that's
Speaker 1: both teams the Bears have contributed to this. Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: fans are gonna remember that game back in seventeen where
Speaker 1: the Panthers held Chicago to five first downs and still
Speaker 1: lost seventeen to three off of Eddie Jackson's fumble and
Speaker 1: interception return. But Philly Brown in the last home win
Speaker 1: had a punt punt recovery for punt return for a
Speaker 1: touchdown back. So eight returns for touchdowns against the Bears
Speaker 1: in ten games, So we'll see if that continues. On Sunday.
Speaker 1: We are definitely gonna talk more Bears. In just a second,
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break right now, and we'll come
Speaker 1: back with more on the matchup with Bears. Hi, this
Speaker 1: is Dewey Jenkins. Most people think my first name is Morris,
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's Dewey. Mr Moore Us was the
Speaker 1: name of the man I bought the company from back
Speaker 1: when I was young. I'd like to take a few
Speaker 1: moments to say how proud we are to be Panthers sponsors.
Speaker 1: When I told the team at Morris Jenkins, you would
Speaker 1: have thought I was sending them on a free trip
Speaker 1: to Hawaii. We're here for the Panthers, and we're here
Speaker 1: for you too, whenever you need us. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: as you said back at home, this Sunday taken on
Speaker 1: doub Bears, and one thing I noticed, you know, just
Speaker 1: from an overall sense, is that the Panthers are finally
Speaker 1: opening as a favorite in this game, and you can
Speaker 1: take that, you know, for what it's worth. Who knows
Speaker 1: how the line might move or how it's moved in
Speaker 1: the past. But you know, I know it's a division
Speaker 1: rival with the Falcons, but the fact that they opened
Speaker 1: as an underdog last week against the Falcons who were
Speaker 1: then oh and four, I was just like, come on,
Speaker 1: like come on, and but I think it's an overall
Speaker 1: a good look at at where we all are now
Speaker 1: with the Panthers. I mean, we all know. It's a
Speaker 1: lot more interest in the team this week going into
Speaker 1: this game than maybe in weeks past. Um people are
Speaker 1: starting to just see what what we've been seeing and
Speaker 1: and respect the team. I think Panther fans hate this, honestly.
Speaker 1: Some do, at least when when we put out the
Speaker 1: pick in it last week the first to the car
Speaker 1: the Chargers game. In the Cardinals game, everyone picked against Carolina,
Speaker 1: clean sweep, go out there, upset everyone, and then it's like,
Speaker 1: oh no, Carolina is getting picked to win against Atlanta
Speaker 1: and like all over redded Everyone's like, oh no, this
Speaker 1: is the kiss of death. People actually think we're gonna win,
Speaker 1: Like there's this weird kind of mentality, kind of deep
Speaker 1: in Panther Panther land of on the internet, of not
Speaker 1: wanting to be favorite, of wanting to continue to be
Speaker 1: that underdog and sneak up on people. Um. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're going to be sneaking up on people at
Speaker 1: least anymore. Right now, everyone's talking about this Panther team
Speaker 1: is as being on the rise, and this is going
Speaker 1: to be an interesting match up with the Bears, Miles,
Speaker 1: because I feel like the big consensus around the Bears,
Speaker 1: right and we've heard it so much, is that this
Speaker 1: is the worst four in one team that anyone's ever seen.
Speaker 1: I mean, but that's everyone has said it. Everyone has
Speaker 1: said it. Um. So there is the danger maybe of
Speaker 1: and this could be a media narrative as well, but
Speaker 1: there is the danger of you know, now that the
Speaker 1: Panthers have won three straight, everyone thinks, Okay, the Bears
Speaker 1: are four and one, but you know, they're not great.
Speaker 1: They're not really you know, true four and one if
Speaker 1: you will. So, so, what do the Panthers have to
Speaker 1: take care of in practice this week and then in
Speaker 1: the game to make sure that, you know, they come
Speaker 1: out on top and and kind of show the Bears
Speaker 1: for what they are. Well, the Bears are four and
Speaker 1: one because of their defense. Right, they have not allowed
Speaker 1: an opponent to score anymore than twenty six points this season,
Speaker 1: and you know, in most of their games they've held
Speaker 1: their opponents to point totals in the teams. So that's
Speaker 1: really hard to do, and especially in a year where
Speaker 1: teams are scoring at a record pace. I think we
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about this last week. So that's
Speaker 1: why they are as good as they are. That's why
Speaker 1: they four and one. Now, what you have to do
Speaker 1: is make sure that their offense doesn't get going, because
Speaker 1: if that offense does get going with the defense that
Speaker 1: they have, well, then that's how they're going to beat you.
Speaker 1: And that's why they've been switching quarterbacks. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: why Mitchell drabinski um was benched in favor of Nick
Speaker 1: Foles because they felt like Foles could run the offense
Speaker 1: at a more efficient rate. Now, if you watch that
Speaker 1: game between Tampa Bay and Chicago last Thursday, I mean
Speaker 1: there were some ups and downs there, right, And what
Speaker 1: the Bears were able to do is get a late
Speaker 1: takeaway late in that first half, and then that allowed
Speaker 1: the Bears to go take a little bit of a
Speaker 1: halftime lead. So if you are able to play clean
Speaker 1: and make sure that Teddy Bridgewater has been protected as
Speaker 1: he has the last couple of weeks, keep Khalil Mack
Speaker 1: in check, then and that's yeah, exactly, that's a very
Speaker 1: difficult task, right, Um, then that's gonna be the way
Speaker 1: that you're gonna be able to win. But again, it's
Speaker 1: tough against the defense, and everybody always says defense travels
Speaker 1: will see what happens when they come here to Charlotte.
Speaker 1: It was funny last week that someone narrative around Atlanta
Speaker 1: is that they had this mindset of, you know, all
Speaker 1: these blown leads obviously the Super Bowl and then these
Speaker 1: blown leads this year in the fourth quarter. Well, the
Speaker 1: Bears on the other side of that coin. They're a
Speaker 1: team that's had three different comebacks where they were down
Speaker 1: thirteen or more points and have come back to win.
Speaker 1: In four of these wins, they've come back from down
Speaker 1: thirteen or more. So this Bears team like they're not
Speaker 1: scared of anything, and they they're kind of wearing this
Speaker 1: like worst four and one team as a badge of honor.
Speaker 1: You know, they're kind of like, yeah, okay, let's let's
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's see who else we can beat um.
Speaker 1: So they they have a definitely a very tough, a
Speaker 1: winner's mentality coming into this. And it's more than just
Speaker 1: Cleil Mac. You know, you look at a Chem Hicks,
Speaker 1: Ropan Smith, like all of these guys on this defense. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're really gonna have to to really scout all of them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The one thing I've noticed about this Panthers team that
Speaker 1: has just impressed me so much is that, you know,
Speaker 1: I think except for maybe in that first half against
Speaker 1: uh Tampa Bay where they had some big mistakes and
Speaker 1: went down twenty one nothing at the half, it never feels,
Speaker 1: you know, on either side of the ball, like the
Speaker 1: game gets away from them too much. You know, you
Speaker 1: you never see another team really go on a big
Speaker 1: scoring drive where it's where it's out of out of
Speaker 1: reach for the Panthers. I mean, they can control that
Speaker 1: offense and and take time off the clock, and I
Speaker 1: just I've just been really impressed by that. It just
Speaker 1: seems pretty balanced, pretty even, like okay, and you know
Speaker 1: they've they've been moving the ball well, converting those third downs,
Speaker 1: and I just think it's really impressive um and at
Speaker 1: some point that that will get tested. And you know,
Speaker 1: as you said, that the Bears are a comeback team,
Speaker 1: So we'll see if this team can kind of continue
Speaker 1: that steady um commands against a team that we know
Speaker 1: can can come back in a big way. And one
Speaker 1: thing that Panthers fans should be on the lookout for
Speaker 1: is that if the Panthers get a third down stop
Speaker 1: in the third quarter during a home game, one lucky
Speaker 1: fan will win a smart home smoke and carbon monoxide
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Speaker 1: time now for our weird question of the week. Uh,
Speaker 1: Will you talked about the mutual respect um between the
Speaker 1: offensive line and Teddy Bridgewater and you talked about Taylor
Speaker 1: Moulton spike in the ball down in the end zone.
Speaker 1: And one thing we learned about Teddy and this offensive
Speaker 1: line and how close they are is that you know
Speaker 1: Teddy's given them nicknames, so he revealed last week that
Speaker 1: he calls John Miller big Boosey. Miles wrote a great
Speaker 1: piece on the origin of that and the fade It's
Speaker 1: it's awesome. Taylor Moulton is Temo and Mike Davis is
Speaker 1: Little Teamo, which makes me laugh. Um. So I thought,
Speaker 1: in honor of that, the weird question of the week
Speaker 1: should be do you have a nickname? And it can
Speaker 1: be one you either love or when you hate. Will Well,
Speaker 1: we can't also forget rusticulous for that offensive. All of
Speaker 1: that that didn't come from Teddy. That came from Big
Speaker 1: Boosey that he calls Russell Kong rusticulous, which I just
Speaker 1: think is awesome. It is great. Alright, So back to me, Um,
Speaker 1: I had one in middle school and then I had
Speaker 1: another one in college. So I'll give you both. The
Speaker 1: first one came out with when I was in middle school.
Speaker 1: Any given Sunday came out and so I was Steve
Speaker 1: and Willie Beamon. I like it, Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1: That was that's just just based on the fact that
Speaker 1: your name is will Yeah, and will Brian, so like
Speaker 1: we would be Willy Beamon you know whatever. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that was my that was my aim screen name. In
Speaker 1: middle I always said a I am me too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks thanks again. Thanks uh. And then in college, one
Speaker 1: of my college roommates like when it was discovered that
Speaker 1: I had four names, and like, my first name is
Speaker 1: actually Charles. Yeah, can you just give everyone for name breakdown,
Speaker 1: Charles William McFadden, Brian, it's the McFadden for me, it's
Speaker 1: the McFadden for me. It's the Charles for me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So he called me Chucky Will Chucky Will. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: doesn't quite roll off the tongue. No offense to your
Speaker 1: college friend. Yeah, it didn't catch one trying to make
Speaker 1: it work. He's trying to make Fetch work. So he's
Speaker 1: still trying to make Chucky Will make happen. Well, you've
Speaker 1: messed up like every pop culture reference. I think that
Speaker 1: you've tried to have what's trying to make fetch work.
Speaker 1: It stopped trying to make Fetch happen. It's not going
Speaker 1: to happen. At least I got Fetch right, right. Miles. Nickname,
Speaker 1: I don't really have many nicknames, um like these, No,
Speaker 1: I mean, like Smiles, people would call me that which
Speaker 1: is like ironic as a kid or you know, an adult.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the Miley Cyrus thing where her
Speaker 1: fans are called what smilers or something. I honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't know that, but I think it's funny that when
Speaker 1: he said it's ironic, because yeah, because I'm not a
Speaker 1: smiley person. That's why I don't know. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: been under a mask since i've I've known you, so
Speaker 1: I can't tell. I mean, that's kind of fair, but yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not really I'm not really a smiley guy. So
Speaker 1: like that's part of why smiles is do you have
Speaker 1: an S in your name somewhere or you just replaced Simmons?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, an S Like at the end of I
Speaker 1: don't know, are you talking about? People put my first
Speaker 1: name in front of my second first name and so
Speaker 1: they made it. I don't know if you're an S
Speaker 1: first name in front of Miles so became Smiles. We're
Speaker 1: going off the rails here. Sorry, No, mine is I
Speaker 1: think the one that I'm uh that's I get most
Speaker 1: commonly called is um bal Biz and that was from
Speaker 1: my time at ESPN, and I get a lot of
Speaker 1: questions about like, oh, you know, how did that come about.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, okay, my last name is Balboni. So
Speaker 1: what happened was um, and that's what they called me.
Speaker 1: That's what Greeny and Gala called me on the show
Speaker 1: for the three and a half years I was there. Um.
Speaker 1: But it came about because on the first day that
Speaker 1: I started working for them, and Greeny came in, he said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, what's your name? I said, Kristen and he said, well,
Speaker 1: we don't go by first names here. You know, you
Speaker 1: can't just like come in here and say like many,
Speaker 1: We're not gonna call you Kristen, Like that's ridiculous. Um,
Speaker 1: everyone has a nickname. And so he started calling me
Speaker 1: Balboni my last name, and then that was kind of
Speaker 1: he went through like a big snoop dog phase, um,
Speaker 1: where you know, everything was like Isel and is and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, and I think it was
Speaker 1: I think it was a few years late, um honestly,
Speaker 1: but he he did go through that phase, and so
Speaker 1: it was a bal Bizzle and then bal Biz and
Speaker 1: I still get called that by by people on the
Speaker 1: Internet to this day. So that's it. I'd say, Matt,
Speaker 1: you got a nickname in high school, people called me
Speaker 1: hogan a lot. Well that's your last and then people
Speaker 1: and then people called me hog a lot because uh.
Speaker 1: And then lately, since I started this job, Mick has
Speaker 1: called me podcast Matt. He does call you by anyone
Speaker 1: else called me that. I would be like, that is
Speaker 1: zero creativity. But Nick just has a way. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It flows well, yeah, flows well together, all right for
Speaker 1: for Chucky will Podcast Matt and smiles Simmons. I'm al Baz.
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