WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 18: How About Us? 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.960 Hi, this is Dewey Jenkins. Most people think my first 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:07.840 name is Morris, but it's not. It's Dewey. Mr Morris 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:09.879 was the name of the man I bought the company 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.479 from back when I was young. I'd like to take 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.200 a few moments to say how proud we are to 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:19.000 be Panthers sponsors. When I told the team at Morris Jenkins, 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.200 you would have thought I was sending them on a 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.600 free trip to Hawaii. We're here for the Panthers, and 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:37.160 we're here for you too, whenever you need us. It's 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:41.800 time for a Happy half Hour with your friends Kristin Balboni, 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:50.360 Miles Simmons, and Will Bryan. It's that time of the week, 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.640 The Happy Half Hour podcast with your friends Kristen, Will 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:57.720 and Miles, presented by Morris Jenkins. And Mr Jenkins told 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.400 me his plumbers and a c text secretly were Panthers 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.840 jerseys under their uniforms. When your plumbing air conditioning is 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.000 acting up, call Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. Well, 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:08.920 there's no need for them to keep it a secret anymore, 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.560 because the Panthers went into Atlanta and got their third 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.600 straight wind tied for first in the NFC South going 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.119 in to Week six games. Uh, will you broke down 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:23.840 last week for us the hierarchy of the NFC South rivalries. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.399 How great is it to say that the Panthers went 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.480 down to Atlanta got that one? How about us? Man? 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:31.760 How about us? Who? Who would have thought? Man? Who 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.840 would have thought? Not me? Not me? Not me? I 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:37.920 think the words you were looking for there was look 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.400 at us? You know, yeah, I was like, how what us? 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.959 How about us? About? Look at us? If anyone, if 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.080 anyone was confused me, if anyone was confused, like I 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.600 wasn't telling you could tell Will was waiting on that one. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.560 Will was ready for it. And then that you know, 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.120 how it started versus how it's going. But I figured, 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:58.920 you know, I've already done that like two weeks ago. 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:04.680 So that's why I don't run social media, let's be real. Yeah, 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:06.280 I don't know. I feel like I've been seeing your 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.440 tweets getting a lot of love lately. I mean, I 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.120 mean sometimes when you you know, when you you hang 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.080 out with the people and you're like, hey, retweet that, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.040 retweet that. Oh that's what it is. That's why poor 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:17.959 Miles didn't get as much this week because he wasn't 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.800 sitting next to them. He was down in Atlanta. That's right, Miles. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.200 Night time, Miles and I made the trip down um 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.800 to watch the win in person. Will said that he 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.480 would absolutely not be going under any circumstances last week 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.919 because he does not like Atlanta, nor does he like Paris. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.560 But that's a conversation for a different day. But but 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.800 Miles and I had a great time. Yeah, it was nice. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.800 It was really nice to just be in the stadium 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.639 and in a press box and watching a game. It 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.400 just felt like a sliver of normalcy in a time 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:47.959 that is absolutely not normal. We're gonna get into the 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.359 game in just a second in hand out our game balls. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.480 But what was your one non football observation from being 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.280 at Mercedes Beens. Um, It's okay, it's a really really 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.880 nice same It's like it's so nice. It's it's a monstrosity, 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.079 like it is just like this big sort of I 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:07.520 don't know, spaceship like extraterrestrial looking thing that has just 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.079 dropped into the middle of Atlanta and it's cool. Um. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:13.560 It's funny because the only other time I've been there 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.519 was Super Bowl fifty three, where the Rams lost to 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.519 the Patriots, and like I had realized and I was 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.839 teking some friends with this, Like I had blacked out 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.680 most of the things that had happened in that game. 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:24.839 And obviously, you know, it's one of the worst Super 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.799 Bowls ever played, so that's probably part of it. And 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.919 the team that I worked for lost. Um. But like 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.079 it was funny as I was sort of walking around 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.160 in different places in the press box, I was like, oh, oh, yeah, 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:40.720 that happened. That happened too. You were having repressed memories. Yeah, 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.680 they were just all coming back. It was like, you 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.320 know that Celine Dion song was lost long ago, but 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.040 it's all coming back to me now you're seeing a 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:52.000 little bit more of it. I don't remember, baby, baby, 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.640 I did remember it. That was me. But a great 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.960 win for the Panthers. And Will you've had this great 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.720 idea that we're gonna start handing out game balls. I mean, 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.800 Trey Boston does it, Matt Rule does it? Why not us? 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:09.840 Why not? How about us? Yes? Look at us? Not me? Um. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.640 So we we did this Monday and put it on 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.560 the website, and then we also allowed people to vote. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.520 So let's go through who we picked for our game 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:23.080 ball as well. Why don't you kick us off game balls? 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:28.120 Stick this in your case. I mean I picked Teddy Bridgewater. 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.800 Two sixty one passing yards in the first half, uh, 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.440 you know, which was second most in franchise history. I mean, 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.200 he's the guy. You know, you need a quarterback in 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.440 this league. You need a quarterback that doesn't turn the 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.000 ball over, that's efficient, and that puts up big numbers. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.120 And he's doing that right now. And I don't think 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.440 anyone believed that he would be doing it at this 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.960 level at this time of the year already. Um, Teddy Bridgewater. Yeah, 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:55.040 I went with Mike Davis for obvious reasons. Great game overall, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.400 Um had a touchdown, had will what's the number? What 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.080 are the arts from scrimmage? I should know this the 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.360 top of my head. And you got to do it 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.200 at home in front of his He had a group 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:07.960 of family and friends there. I saw him get to 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:09.880 wave at them at halftime and then of course after 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.719 the game. He grew up in Stone Mountain, went to 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:14.760 high school there, which is right down the road. So 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.359 local kid getting to come home and have such a 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.200 big impact on the game. And man, he just does 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.880 not go down. He really does not. He'll drag guys 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.359 with him, but he's like, look, you're trying to tackle me. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.160 Good luck. And it's just so fun to watch him. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.000 And I was talking to Matt Rule and he said, 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.640 you know, the way he plays gets the sideline fired 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.360 up and you can see it. And so I just 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.280 really happy for him. He's just such a nice guy 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.920 and he's got that big smile even though Myles, as 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.200 you said in your article, when he plays, he's playing angry. Uh, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:45.920 And it was it was cool to see him. It's 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.080 been cool to see him over this stretch without Christian 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:52.360 McCaffrey show everyone what he can do. But I am 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.960 just a sucker for a hometown story. And I imagine 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:56.640 that that's just got to be such a cool moment 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.360 um to get to go and do it in front 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.080 of your family and friends. I'm sure it was, and 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.240 it's it's good that that, you know, he was able 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:03.600 to do it in front of the family and friends. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.080 There were um, select states, select fans in the in 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.680 the stands um there at Mercedes been saying, so that 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.560 was cool. I picked Justin Buris from my game bar 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.520 for obvious reasons. Yeah, And you know, it was unfortunate 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.479 that he didn't get the scoop and score earlier in 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.120 the game. Um, but to be able to keep your 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.960 head in it, to keep playing, and to get that 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.760 interception in the fourth quarter where it really looked like 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.720 the Falcons were making a good little comeback that I 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.279 thought they were going to score, and yeah, yeah, and 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.279 for Burris to play the way he played, and he 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.920 said it after the game that the Falcons undoubtedly thought 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:40.680 that they had a mismatch there when you get a 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.159 safety on a slot receiver and Burst just really covered 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.719 it extremely well. And when the ball came it was 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:48.680 basically right to it. He stepped in front of it, 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:50.960 got two feet in before he fell out of bounds 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.560 and boom that that gets the Panthers the takeaway and 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.440 they really needed it. So we also allowed everyone to 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.680 vote on Panthers dot Com. Again a great idea, uh 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.840 of Wills. And now the thing was, I thought everyone 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:05.760 was going to vote for Justin Burus, So I said, look, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.120 I'm gonna take Mike Davis. I'll let someone else take 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.240 Justin Burs because of you know, the the interception that 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.520 really changed the game. But I gotta say the fans 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.640 sided with me on this one and Mike Davis, but 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.840 it's me. It was my persuasion as yeah as the 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.120 paragraph I wrote, I really think it. Uh. People were like, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.520 you know what, I was gonna go Justin Burrs or 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.920 Teddy Bridgewater, but Kristin convinced me. YEA. So final results 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.760 of the poll out of five hundred and forty six 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:36.640 total votes for Mike Davis, eighteen for Teddy Bridgewater, nine 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:41.480 Justin Burrs other others. Let us know, make your case 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.280 in make your case in the in the twitter comments. UM, 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.360 but I do like I like that there's another on 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.400 their UM, you know the the cool thing about this one? 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.280 And will you mentioned this when you talked about Teddy 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.440 Bridgewater's first half stats. I think it was like three 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.800 d and twelve yards of total offense and in the 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:01.040 first half, Um, is that a lot guys shined. So 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.360 we talked about we talked about Mike Davis, we talked 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:07.440 about Teddy Bridgewater. UM, but we saw all those receivers 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:12.800 step up in their own Curtis Samuel looked great. Yeah. 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.160 Mr third Down. Love to get to see him showcase 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.600 his his versatility. Love that they got him involved. D J. 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.840 Moore turned the Jets on and that's still running for 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.880 that fifty seven yard touchdown. And then of course Robby Anderson, 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.120 who has just been so great throughout this entire season 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.319 so far that it's funny that we're just now talking 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.880 about him. But he continues to just deliver every single 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.800 week and we don't want that to get overshadowed. And Miles, 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.199 I know you had a chance to talk to him. Yeah, yeah, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.280 it was good to talk to him. Um, and I 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.080 got to talk to him a little bit one on one, 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.480 and I think what you're saying Christen is absolutely true. 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.240 I mean, he is now fourth in the league and 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.080 receptions right now, he's got thirty six. He's fourth in 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.319 the league and yards receiving as well with four and 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.040 eighty nine. So he is well on pace to have 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.840 his first season with over a thousand yard receiving him. Like, 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.400 I mean, when you're at five hundred almost, you know 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.280 you're only five games in that it's he's poised to 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.880 really exceed that. And you know his receptions per game, 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.160 you know in New York in those four years it 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.600 was at three point three. Now it is at seven 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:18.440 point two. So he's being utilized as a complete receiver, 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.080 And so I asked him if he ever felt that 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:25.959 he was underestimated as a receiver before this year? Do 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:31.439 you hear something overheard? Yeah? You know what it's always 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.679 been so crazy to me, is like what they never 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.240 made sense to me. And if you look at this 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.800 from a logical standpoint, not anybody that really knows what 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.440 about could tell you this. The hardest ball to catch, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.959 the soapball. There's a deep ball. So when everybody so 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.600 always safe, well, he's only a deep threat. He can 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.439 only care deep passes. He can't catch short routes. It 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.920 just sounds supid because it's like, if you can care, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:52.960 if I can catch the deep past and that's thirty 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.160 forty fifty yards down the field, having many yards in 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.240 the air flight, what makes him think I can't catch 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.640 the short past. It has been making ever made sense 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.839 to me. But you know, people, a lot of people, 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.400 you know, just everybody is tired of to their t 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.360 And that's when I learned of my career. I never 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:11.120 really let it upset me up. More so upsetting you 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.560 know what, like what my coaches wouldn't let me do 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.199 certain things when I knew I honoally that I could, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.080 and I knew I could make an impact doing it, 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.360 but you know, it is what it is. I'm focused 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.880 on nine. I'm just happy to be able to run 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.040 the route trying, you know, do a lot of intermediate 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.760 things and catch and running. And I played football, you know, 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.000 and that's something I really like, really like strive on 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:35.120 perfecting my routes and get open and you know, doing 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.160 those types of things like that's football, Like it's fun 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.960 to do that throughout somebody up and you know, get 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.920 open and do those things and running catch. So that 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.040 was just one of the things that Robbie and I 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.839 talked about, and I think it really makes a lot 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.600 of sense, right what he said about the deep ball 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.760 and how it's the most is how it's the hardest 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.199 uh football to catch, you know, when you have to 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.000 track it, when you have to do all these different 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.920 and things. Of course, you can have a guy run 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.120 crossing routes underneath and then catch and run, especially if 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.760 he's fast, like that's that's how you beat man coverages, 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.600 is with crossing routes. So I think it's interesting now 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.640 that he not only is in a place where he's 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.800 able to do that, but he's got a quarterback he 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:18.680 really trust. That was one of the other interesting things 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.280 he told me is that he almost thinks of Teddy 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.640 Bridgewater like a coach as opposed to more than just 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.360 a quarterback because of the way that they've been able 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.000 to work together. You know what's funny. I was talking 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:33.160 to coach Rule earlier this week and he said the 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.800 same thing. I said, when did you know? Because he said, 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.000 you know, Teddy Bridge is one of the smartest football 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.480 players I've ever been around. And I said, when did 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.480 you know for the first time, like, oh, this is 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:47.640 that's that's this guy, like he is that smart football player. Um, 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.520 you know, was it the first conversation and and he said, 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.280 he said it was. He said, you know, Joe Brady 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.840 knew him so well from their time in New Orleans. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.560 He said, the thing that has really been great about 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.840 Teddy is that he is like a coach. And he said, now, 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.480 there are there are other players like that, But sometimes 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.360 the players are coaching in a way that you don't 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.480 want them to be coaching, which made me laugh. You know, 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.640 like they're they're gonna be coaching, but they might not 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.880 be saying the same thing that the coaching staff is saying, 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.240 and he said that Teddy really is an extension of 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.640 exactly what they want to do as an offense. And 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:22.760 so he takes that to the players, and you know, 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:24.960 we know that he gets an extra time he started 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.000 with with Robbie down in South Florida when everyone was 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.199 still um under lockdown and they had a chance to 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.920 to play together. He goes into the offensive line rooms. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.480 But the good thing about all of that is that 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.319 he's doing it as an extension of the offense um 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.640 and it is perfectly in sync with with Joe Brady 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.240 and Matt Rule, which I think is awesome. It really 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.400 is all coming together because you know, you have that 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.360 connection between Teddy these receivers, and you have this connection 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.400 between this offensive line. You know, uh Miles wrote this 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.720 great article about the way that the line is coming 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.640 together to protect Teddy, to protect this running game, to 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.960 protect the passing game. No sacks allowed in the last 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.520 two games. And one of the things I really love is, 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.160 after all these rushing touchdowns are after all these touchdowns 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.520 are getting it's like Taylor Moten the one spiking the ball, Like, 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.640 I think that's fantastic. There's there's just so much synergy 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.200 both from you know, the five and Teddy, but then 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.640 the five in front and Teddy and everybody else. You know, 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.559 every everyone on that offense is one organism. I think 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.000 it's great too. It feels like this coaching staff, you know, 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:29.280 whether it's with Robbie or whether it's Pat Meyer, having 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.840 these offensive linemen um prepared to step up. You know, 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.839 Russell o'coon was out, he was back for this game. Um, 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.000 but it almost doesn't matter who's in there on the 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.240 offensive line, and we've seen them had to shift to 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.920 shift around in several different ways over the course of 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:46.839 these first five games. But it just feels like this 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.680 coaching staff is able to identify um potential or talent 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.439 where other people may have written guys off, and then 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.520 also get the most out of these guys. I think 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.040 Mike Davis is a is a good example of that. 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:00.960 You know, look at what he's been able to do 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.400 so far. Yeah, exactly. And the good thing about Mike 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.080 Davis is that, you know, I think he's very humble 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.040 and he understands what his role is on this team. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:17.280 And it sometimes when players come in they're like, yeah, 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:18.719 I should have been doing this all along, and that 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.200 da da da DA And that's not who Mike Davis is. 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.800 Mike Davis is a good team guy, and I think 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.800 that entire running backs room really is. Yeah. 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Carolina has played the 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:03.520 Bears tend to times before this Sunday, so ten games. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.240 In those ten games, there have been eight returns for 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:12.040 touchdown either punt returns, kick returns, intercession returns, fumble returns. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:16.400 That's more than against any other Carolina opponent. Now that's 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.080 both teams the Bears have contributed to this. Carolina Panthers 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.880 fans are gonna remember that game back in seventeen where 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.480 the Panthers held Chicago to five first downs and still 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:30.280 lost seventeen to three off of Eddie Jackson's fumble and 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.880 interception return. But Philly Brown in the last home win 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.160 had a punt punt recovery for punt return for a 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:41.920 touchdown back. So eight returns for touchdowns against the Bears 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.520 in ten games, So we'll see if that continues. On Sunday. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.400 We are definitely gonna talk more Bears. In just a second, 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.360 Let's take a quick break right now, and we'll come 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.440 back with more on the matchup with Bears. Hi, this 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.640 is Dewey Jenkins. Most people think my first name is Morris, 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.520 but it's not. It's Dewey. Mr Moore Us was the 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.920 name of the man I bought the company from back 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.240 when I was young. I'd like to take a few 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:09.200 moments to say how proud we are to be Panthers sponsors. 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.760 When I told the team at Morris Jenkins, you would 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.360 have thought I was sending them on a free trip 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.480 to Hawaii. We're here for the Panthers, and we're here 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:21.080 for you too, whenever you need us. All right, Well, 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:25.280 as you said back at home, this Sunday taken on 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.560 doub Bears, and one thing I noticed, you know, just 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.040 from an overall sense, is that the Panthers are finally 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.120 opening as a favorite in this game, and you can 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.960 take that, you know, for what it's worth. Who knows 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.000 how the line might move or how it's moved in 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.240 the past. But you know, I know it's a division 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.840 rival with the Falcons, but the fact that they opened 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.760 as an underdog last week against the Falcons who were 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.440 then oh and four, I was just like, come on, 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.880 like come on, and but I think it's an overall 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.600 a good look at at where we all are now 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:56.760 with the Panthers. I mean, we all know. It's a 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.480 lot more interest in the team this week going into 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.560 this game than maybe in weeks past. Um people are 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.639 starting to just see what what we've been seeing and 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:10.160 and respect the team. I think Panther fans hate this, honestly. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.520 Some do, at least when when we put out the 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.280 pick in it last week the first to the car 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:19.080 the Chargers game. In the Cardinals game, everyone picked against Carolina, 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.439 clean sweep, go out there, upset everyone, and then it's like, 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.400 oh no, Carolina is getting picked to win against Atlanta 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.160 and like all over redded Everyone's like, oh no, this 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.280 is the kiss of death. People actually think we're gonna win, 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:35.840 Like there's this weird kind of mentality, kind of deep 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.520 in Panther Panther land of on the internet, of not 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.159 wanting to be favorite, of wanting to continue to be 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.520 that underdog and sneak up on people. Um. I don't 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.639 think they're going to be sneaking up on people at 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.600 least anymore. Right now, everyone's talking about this Panther team 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.199 is as being on the rise, and this is going 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.560 to be an interesting match up with the Bears, Miles, 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:00.399 because I feel like the big consensus around the Bears, 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.040 right and we've heard it so much, is that this 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.400 is the worst four in one team that anyone's ever seen. 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.080 I mean, but that's everyone has said it. Everyone has 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.399 said it. Um. So there is the danger maybe of 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.240 and this could be a media narrative as well, but 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:13.800 there is the danger of you know, now that the 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.280 Panthers have won three straight, everyone thinks, Okay, the Bears 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:17.960 are four and one, but you know, they're not great. 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.840 They're not really you know, true four and one if 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.720 you will. So, so, what do the Panthers have to 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.639 take care of in practice this week and then in 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.760 the game to make sure that, you know, they come 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.119 out on top and and kind of show the Bears 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.560 for what they are. Well, the Bears are four and 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.119 one because of their defense. Right, they have not allowed 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:41.960 an opponent to score anymore than twenty six points this season, 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.639 and you know, in most of their games they've held 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.600 their opponents to point totals in the teams. So that's 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.320 really hard to do, and especially in a year where 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.359 teams are scoring at a record pace. I think we 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.560 talked a little bit about this last week. So that's 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.800 why they are as good as they are. That's why 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.280 they four and one. Now, what you have to do 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.480 is make sure that their offense doesn't get going, because 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:07.720 if that offense does get going with the defense that 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:09.840 they have, well, then that's how they're going to beat you. 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.200 And that's why they've been switching quarterbacks. I mean, that's 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:16.280 why Mitchell drabinski um was benched in favor of Nick 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.800 Foles because they felt like Foles could run the offense 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.719 at a more efficient rate. Now, if you watch that 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.720 game between Tampa Bay and Chicago last Thursday, I mean 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.680 there were some ups and downs there, right, And what 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:30.120 the Bears were able to do is get a late 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.560 takeaway late in that first half, and then that allowed 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:35.080 the Bears to go take a little bit of a 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:38.960 halftime lead. So if you are able to play clean 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.040 and make sure that Teddy Bridgewater has been protected as 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.040 he has the last couple of weeks, keep Khalil Mack 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.960 in check, then and that's yeah, exactly, that's a very 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.880 difficult task, right, Um, then that's gonna be the way 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.920