Speaker 1: This week on the group chat, we are talking about
Speaker 1: what we want to see in this dress rehearsal of
Speaker 1: a game against the Patriots. I want to see the
Speaker 1: guys we haven't seen before, Cam Christian, I mean you
Speaker 1: mentioned on Caroline, Luke, Greg those four. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: it all in the preseason. We're also answering the question
Speaker 1: what else in life needs a dress rehearsal. When I
Speaker 1: do karaoke, I take it kind of seriously. So I've
Speaker 1: had those times where you think that you know the
Speaker 1: song and then you get up there and you don't
Speaker 1: know the songs. All of this and so much more
Speaker 1: on the group chat, including the biggest topics from social
Speaker 1: media this week. You've been added to the group chat
Speaker 1: with your friends Caroline, can Max Sensen, and Will Brian.
Speaker 1: I feel like no sports podcast can start without talking
Speaker 1: about the fact that Antonio Brown wore a helmet at
Speaker 1: practice that is allowed in the NFL. We did it.
Speaker 1: We can move on now. But we're now going to
Speaker 1: move on to a more hot topic for the three
Speaker 1: of us. Must let the people know what chicken sandwich
Speaker 1: are we going to eat? If presented with Wendy's Popeye's
Speaker 1: Chick fil A or Bojangles are lovely sponsored bo j
Speaker 1: Angles boys, what are you doing so here? This is
Speaker 1: this came up today actually because Popeye's has this new
Speaker 1: spicy chicken sandwich that I'm dying to try. I don't
Speaker 1: know Popeyes. I've never had. Yeah, I think Popeye's is outstanding.
Speaker 1: What do you what's your Popeyes? I've never had Popeyes
Speaker 1: either Angles Loyal? Matt have you ever had Popeyes? Matts
Speaker 1: had Popeyes? How have you guys? Never had Popeyes? Loyal? Yes?
Speaker 1: So Bojangles isn't around as much as Popeye's is in
Speaker 1: other parts of the country, So I guess that's that's reasonable. Well,
Speaker 1: they're doing it wrong. But Popeyes? And now where's the
Speaker 1: Stasia when you needed? So? She was obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: leading the Popeye's train, being from New Orleans and she
Speaker 1: was beating down so much about Popeye she had to
Speaker 1: go to d C shout out to a Stasia getting
Speaker 1: a job with DC United. But this also, this like
Speaker 1: social media thing happened after Popeye's like revealed their new
Speaker 1: spicy chicken sandwich, right, well, Phillison and like what happened?
Speaker 1: Then the problem come to the chat? Yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know the chronology of it. I just saw
Speaker 1: kind of the twelve hours later or the ten hours later.
Speaker 1: I only saw the graphics once they were made. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just know that that. I guess it started with
Speaker 1: popeye'es and then Wendy's jumped in, and then Bojangles tried.
Speaker 1: Wendy's is always very sassy on two right, of course
Speaker 1: they always win, and so bo j Angles tried with
Speaker 1: like the biscuit, and then Wendy's was like that biscuit
Speaker 1: looks pretty dry there, just like your sense of humor.
Speaker 1: It was just like I will say, like it is
Speaker 1: hard to sports. Twitter is king. I think we can
Speaker 1: say that, like they're the ones that they have the
Speaker 1: most accounts. They have the most, you know, at least
Speaker 1: all my feed because that's all I follow. But the
Speaker 1: fast food Twitter is Twitter is quickly becoming a favorite,
Speaker 1: and this was one of the reasons why. But here
Speaker 1: at the Carolina Panthers, we love bo j Angles, so
Speaker 1: we're just gonna roll with that. But I'm glad we
Speaker 1: could get that off of our chicks. That Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: showed up with a helmet he has allowed to play
Speaker 1: and apparently Max likes pop up. The number six at
Speaker 1: Wendy's is a stable. If you've never gotten through Wendy's
Speaker 1: and had yourself a number six, you're doing it wrong.
Speaker 1: Let's just let's just be honest. Uh, spicy chicken sandwich.
Speaker 1: I haven't done that, and I still I still go
Speaker 1: with the one from Chick fil A number one and
Speaker 1: is great to beat up. But I'm being steer. This
Speaker 1: isn't because boj was a sponsor, but Bojangles Chicken biscuit
Speaker 1: for breakfast. At me, it's the best. Matt shaking his head,
Speaker 1: He's with me on that. Let's go all right, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome to the group chat. I'm glad we got the
Speaker 1: big discussions out of the way. It sounds like producer
Speaker 1: Matt just cracked up in a beer, but that was
Speaker 1: that was right. We just want to put that out there.
Speaker 1: But we are going to talk football because the Panthers.
Speaker 1: It's dress rehearsal time. It's week three of the preseason,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna see some starters. Can we get excited
Speaker 1: about that? Because every single week we're sitting down. Are
Speaker 1: we gonna see Cam Newton? Are we going to see
Speaker 1: c mc? The answer is Yes, get excited. This is
Speaker 1: the week you're one and only time to see him
Speaker 1: in the preseason too. Enjoy it. Greg Olsen had a
Speaker 1: great quote. I was asking him about this sense of urgency.
Speaker 1: There's two weeks left until the regular season. So all
Speaker 1: these questions we've been having about this position, that position,
Speaker 1: how are they working together? Else? Is there a sense
Speaker 1: of urgency now with two weeks left? And he said
Speaker 1: there is because after this game, like the prec sends
Speaker 1: over for this roster, there's still guys that young guys
Speaker 1: that are fighting for that roster spot and their super
Speaker 1: Bowl is that week four. But for a majority of
Speaker 1: the players that we are going to watch this season,
Speaker 1: the regular season starts Friday. For them, they're already being
Speaker 1: handed stuff. You know about the Rams, this is what
Speaker 1: we need to know. This is how we're gonna game plan.
Speaker 1: So um, it's here. But this dress rehearsal is the
Speaker 1: last time for them to really fine tune a game situation,
Speaker 1: because Luke kick Ley has said it. You can simulate
Speaker 1: all you want to, but it's really the game that
Speaker 1: is going to allow them, and he's getting the first
Speaker 1: chance to to get out there on the field I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see it. He did, he did play a
Speaker 1: little bit. This is the first time with the full defense.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get multiple series. I'm excited to see what
Speaker 1: they look like. I have to admit there's there's a
Speaker 1: part of me that like, I'm gonna be watching Greg nervously,
Speaker 1: like every step that he takes every year. Um, literally,
Speaker 1: you know it's you're just you're just waiting for something.
Speaker 1: You're It's so like because they asked they asked Ron
Speaker 1: that today during during the postgame press commence, like are
Speaker 1: you nervous like to watch cam like every hit? He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm nervous every time came want walks in the field.
Speaker 1: But this is this is what this is. It's football.
Speaker 1: You know, when you go out there, it's football, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna you take hits and you deliver hits, and
Speaker 1: that's what it is. But I do think there's or
Speaker 1: you take a step and you step wrong. I mean
Speaker 1: like it's literally sometimes like Greg stepped on a guy's cleat,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean I think Ron also said it's
Speaker 1: crazy out there. Anything can happen, and I think that's
Speaker 1: why they've been so cautious up until this point, right, mean,
Speaker 1: I think they need they know, they need to get
Speaker 1: the guys out there for a little bit of taste
Speaker 1: of game action. But clearly this year has been a
Speaker 1: bit of a different approach. We haven't seen them at
Speaker 1: all in the first game, hadn't seen him at all
Speaker 1: in the second game. This is the one and all
Speaker 1: the time we're going to see them. That's a that's
Speaker 1: different than what Ron had typically done in the past.
Speaker 1: And some people even say, you know, do we need
Speaker 1: to see him in this game? And someone argue, yes,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they've got to have You've got
Speaker 1: to have some live game action. You can't just you know,
Speaker 1: roll out week one. And I feel like practices were
Speaker 1: enough to get you at you know, where you need
Speaker 1: to be. But don't you wish you could say that
Speaker 1: about other things, like, Hey, before I go on this
Speaker 1: first date, I need a dress rehearsal of what's this,
Speaker 1: what's going to happen? Like what what do I need
Speaker 1: to know about this first date before I actually go
Speaker 1: on the first day. Don't you wish you could do that?
Speaker 1: I wish I could do that. Feel like this is
Speaker 1: what dating profiles are trying to do. It's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I like this, my interest is this, I'm this tall,
Speaker 1: I'm from this part of the country, and all all
Speaker 1: of these things, but you don't really know until you
Speaker 1: walk on that door. I wish first dates how to
Speaker 1: dress rehearsal. Agreed. I feel like I've been on enough
Speaker 1: of them. Will, if you ever get to know Charles
Speaker 1: Will McFadden, Brian, I've never heard first date stories like
Speaker 1: this man right here, he's got some good ones. You're
Speaker 1: not going to hear him on this podcast. That's the
Speaker 1: different a podcast. Yeah, yeah, that's that's the one where
Speaker 1: that's sprite act Like, that's that's the one, Like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, we're all sweating in here because his stories
Speaker 1: are fantastic. But I do wish that I can have
Speaker 1: a dress rehearsal just a life. Sometimes it would be
Speaker 1: nice to have a dress rehearsal applied to a lot
Speaker 1: of different things in life, like well, what else? What
Speaker 1: else would be a good thing? All of Will's first
Speaker 1: dates and aside from the first date, I mean, what else?
Speaker 1: Think that the first dates are never mind? No? Like
Speaker 1: so I'm one of those people. Much too many people's
Speaker 1: chagrined that I when I do karaoke. I take it
Speaker 1: kind of seriously. So I've had those times where you know,
Speaker 1: you think that you know the song and then you
Speaker 1: get up there and you don't know the song and
Speaker 1: you're already into the song. And it's that's why you
Speaker 1: have the monitor with the will to Uh No, you've
Speaker 1: got to you've got to hear it. You've gotta tempo, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta you gotta get everything right, you know.
Speaker 1: I wish I could. I wish you could just have
Speaker 1: like a dress wrostal where you know, you go through it,
Speaker 1: you remember all the parts, you remember how high it
Speaker 1: goes in the chorus. You know, like everything, everything is ready,
Speaker 1: and then you can go up there and do it.
Speaker 1: Not to mention, I feel like when you do karaoke,
Speaker 1: unless you're that special breed of human that decides to
Speaker 1: do it sober, you are going to forget how high
Speaker 1: that chorus gets. Oh no, it gets high. What's your
Speaker 1: good to karaoke? So it's changed over time. You see
Speaker 1: how he's so ready for that. Of course, like I
Speaker 1: had a list used it used to be wonder wall
Speaker 1: and go ahead and grown collective, collectively grown um and
Speaker 1: then and then it just kind of. I did some
Speaker 1: Mumford and Sons there for a while, went through a
Speaker 1: Mumford and Mumford and Sun's face. Yeah really yeah. Now
Speaker 1: I think it's just whatever. I feel like people can
Speaker 1: sing too, because that is that that is a rule
Speaker 1: that I will adhere to. No one wants to do
Speaker 1: a song that people can't sing too. That's the worst. Max.
Speaker 1: You don't do karaoke, do do? I seem like a
Speaker 1: karaoke not at all. But you could surprise me. I would. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I have it in me if the moment
Speaker 1: is right. But I'm not the will type who's like
Speaker 1: if karaoke is going on, like I'm on that stage,
Speaker 1: I could see like a good like Josh Turner, like
Speaker 1: you know the country saying that has a really deep voice.
Speaker 1: For me, I think I can Actually, you have a
Speaker 1: really you could do something. Generally, when you're told you
Speaker 1: have a good radio voice, it means people think you're
Speaker 1: not very good looking in this studio. We're in the
Speaker 1: radio studio right now, where people are around you. You
Speaker 1: just called everyone in this room ugly. No, you do TV.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, yeah, that's generally, like it's a
Speaker 1: compliment but not really. M Mine is friends in low places.
Speaker 1: Granted I haven't done karaoke that often, but when I don't,
Speaker 1: it is I just feel like friends in low places.
Speaker 1: Like everyone gets into that. What about wagon wheel? Everyone
Speaker 1: knows it. I mean that's little fast for me up there,
Speaker 1: like I need something slower to like. Really you just
Speaker 1: have to yell Johnson City, Tennessee. Really all right, you're right.
Speaker 1: I also wish um like wedding speeches. See, now that's
Speaker 1: the thing we were talking about this. There are dress
Speaker 1: rehearsals for a wedding literally like maid of honor, best
Speaker 1: man speech. They don't get, they don't get. I've never
Speaker 1: been to one where there's like those happen at the rehearsal.
Speaker 1: But that's still speech, Like that's it. I I say
Speaker 1: this more for myself because I'm I speak for a living.
Speaker 1: We all do like that. We get paid to say
Speaker 1: things and to mean them and to be concise about
Speaker 1: them and to be accurate. You put me in front
Speaker 1: of a group talking about one of my friends. Nope,
Speaker 1: no one's paying me to do that because I'm terrible,
Speaker 1: and it's a different deal. I awful. How many times
Speaker 1: have you done it? Four or five and just not good.
Speaker 1: I mean the first couple of ones, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: like this shouldn't be hard. I have so much content here.
Speaker 1: I can talk about it because you get emotional. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get emotional about it too. And I can talk
Speaker 1: about football. We can sit here and talk about what
Speaker 1: chicken sandwich we like because you know, it's it's entertainment,
Speaker 1: it's fun. But you sent me down to be emotional
Speaker 1: about a friend of mine and how much they mean
Speaker 1: to me. And yeah, if the friends starts like crying
Speaker 1: a little bit and you see that, and then have
Speaker 1: you guys? Have you guys brought tears to people like
Speaker 1: I just I just did that at my sister's wedding tears,
Speaker 1: which was it was just a struggle for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the voice is cracking and you're trying to like
Speaker 1: did you make other people cry? Yeah, which was what
Speaker 1: you want to do. Like that knows that lets you
Speaker 1: know you're you've done a good job. But it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's tough. My dress rehearsal one. I took this as
Speaker 1: like the dress rehearsal for the Panthers. Right now, it's
Speaker 1: like you get to go through a game, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't really count. So I took it as like what
Speaker 1: if you could like get a haircut and it doesn't count,
Speaker 1: because that's one of those things like you can't go
Speaker 1: back right Like, so if I really wanted to try
Speaker 1: something crazy, it's like, well, you're stuck with it. But
Speaker 1: in this scenario we're presenting, it's like no dress rehearsal,
Speaker 1: Like this was just we're just practicing here right now,
Speaker 1: right now, I'm trying to find a hairdresser in Charlotte. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm plugging it. We were literally talking about this to
Speaker 1: practice today. I want this. You can just if you
Speaker 1: you know, if you like it, okay, then and when
Speaker 1: the game start counting for real, let's run the same play.
Speaker 1: If you don't like it. Dress rehearsal, We're good doesn't count.
Speaker 1: Being Max, You're always good at the know. He always wins.
Speaker 1: He told me this one today. I'm like, oh, Man
Speaker 1: wins again, that's a good one. Really. I had someone
Speaker 1: on Instagram tell me that really anything that had them
Speaker 1: result in an injury. And his example was when he
Speaker 1: was ten, he was on a roller on on roller
Speaker 1: skits and put the leash to his dog around his
Speaker 1: wrist and the dog took off and hurt him, as
Speaker 1: he felt, and he was like, I wish maybe just
Speaker 1: in my head as a ten year old, I would
Speaker 1: have put myself through a rehearsal of like what could happen?
Speaker 1: And that was pretty I'm like, if you don't think
Speaker 1: about the consequences, yeah, like you're probably gonna want more
Speaker 1: dress rehearsals. But that sounded like a pretty awesome idea.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna super fast. This is gonna be so cool. No,
Speaker 1: not really, that's probably like a couple of plays that
Speaker 1: these teams draw up. This is gonna be awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not doing that one ever. Ever again, Yes, dress rehearsals.
Speaker 1: Anyone out there, have you had something happened when you're like, dang,
Speaker 1: you know, I wish I could have run through that first.
Speaker 1: The haircut wins, I wish we had a like a
Speaker 1: score like Max is like four now or I'd be
Speaker 1: I'd be off to a good start, right. I feel
Speaker 1: like there's one that you can see to that you
Speaker 1: didn't win. Um, the first one where it was the
Speaker 1: dating show, I'm taking I'm taking a win on that one.
Speaker 1: So it's for one mcfadd I thought I won one
Speaker 1: of them. McFadden just wins because his name is McFadden.
Speaker 1: I thought I won one. We're all winners here, Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're not. We are not sure when the regular
Speaker 1: season starts. We need to get a white board in here.
Speaker 1: Can we get one of those? We got a thumbs up,
Speaker 1: So if it's close, does producer Matt get to choose
Speaker 1: as he takes a swig of beer? Just kidding, gets right?
Speaker 1: All right, but let's talk football game. We'll bring it back.
Speaker 1: I'll really back in here. What do you guys want
Speaker 1: to see how this dress rehearsal from the Panthers? Let
Speaker 1: me go, yeah, I mean, look, I want to see
Speaker 1: the guys we haven't seen before cam Christian, I mean
Speaker 1: you mentioned Caroline, Luke, Greg, those four. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: it all in the preseason. Um. Obviously the Pants have
Speaker 1: been very cautious with him, and and so yeah, look
Speaker 1: cam Ron said today was gonna be maybe three or
Speaker 1: four series, depending on things, how how things go. We
Speaker 1: all want to see him get out there in a
Speaker 1: game situation and see how that arm looks, you know,
Speaker 1: the throwing motion looks with the bullets flying. Um. And
Speaker 1: then yeah, Christian is another one that I think, you know,
Speaker 1: entering year three, especially for running backs, you know, we
Speaker 1: never get to see them get tackled or try to
Speaker 1: break tackles in training camp, right Like everyone looks at
Speaker 1: the wire sivers, you can see them make plays on
Speaker 1: the ball the dB same thing the running backs kind
Speaker 1: of like the place stops every time they're getting close
Speaker 1: to being touched. Uh So I'm curious to see how
Speaker 1: Christian himself looks. And I mean, do we want to
Speaker 1: hear from Christian? Why don't we hear from Christian himself? Right?
Speaker 1: YEA caught up with Christian after practice. Here's Christian talking
Speaker 1: about getting ready for his preseason debut. You like being
Speaker 1: out there, obviously it's been it's been tough to like,
Speaker 1: I just have to watch you get dressed or in uniform.
Speaker 1: You're ready to go, but then you're not playing in
Speaker 1: the preseason games. Has that's been tough for? Do you
Speaker 1: fully unders fan? It's like, well, yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: I definitely understand. Uh you know, obviously I want to
Speaker 1: be out there as much as possible, but completely understand.
Speaker 1: And our coaches do such a good job taking care
Speaker 1: of us, and uh, you know, for me, it's just
Speaker 1: when they tell me I'm up, I'll be ready to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially for running back. You know, you go, you go
Speaker 1: through camp, but you guys, you guys get thudded up
Speaker 1: and whatnot. What are you looking forward to just like
Speaker 1: getting hit? Is that something that after a while away
Speaker 1: from it, you kind of like want to just feel
Speaker 1: again to get yourself sort of ready for the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I don't know if I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to getting him looking forward to yeah, trying to
Speaker 1: not get hit now. But it's uh, definitely you know
Speaker 1: different once it's live contacts, live bullets against another team. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you really start to get that a journal
Speaker 1: and gone and you start to you know, get get
Speaker 1: back in your comfort zone. So I'm definitely really excited
Speaker 1: for it. Have you felt just about your your camp
Speaker 1: individually through this point as we're getting ready for those
Speaker 1: things to really kick into high here, I felt really good.
Speaker 1: I think, you know. For me, it's it's just been
Speaker 1: about trying to get better every day, you know, focusing
Speaker 1: on my details, uh you know, at all times, every
Speaker 1: single play, and controlling what I can control, and stepping
Speaker 1: up as a leader. North has said that in his experience.
Speaker 1: A year two in a system, you generally start to
Speaker 1: see it pay dividends and guys are more comfortable. You
Speaker 1: start to see it day in and day out. You
Speaker 1: feel like that's been the case. It's not just for you,
Speaker 1: but across the board with this whole scheme and this system.
Speaker 1: Definitely yeah, I mean, you think you've seen guys step
Speaker 1: up all the time, and are you? Are you? I
Speaker 1: think I think it's uh, you know, it's been good
Speaker 1: to watch all of us development. I'll just see this
Speaker 1: system last year and getting more comfortable, and you know,
Speaker 1: this year, it's still been such a learning for for
Speaker 1: all of us because we've got such a hungry group.
Speaker 1: But I think that's you know, I'm gonna pay off.
Speaker 1: So but it's definitely been a lot of fun. There's
Speaker 1: been so much song about guy. It's like Curtis and
Speaker 1: DJ Cam but even like you know, Greg is out there,
Speaker 1: good and healthy. I haven't just excited, are you? Just
Speaker 1: for the wealth of weapons that you guys have and
Speaker 1: going into a season with everybody feeling good and knowing
Speaker 1: what you guys can do. When everybody's feeling that way,
Speaker 1: I'm really excited. At the end of the day. It's
Speaker 1: about executing and making plays, and we've got the guys
Speaker 1: to do it. So for us, there's really no excuse.
Speaker 1: We've gotta come out every single day and and and
Speaker 1: do do what we know how to do, you know
Speaker 1: what the weapons that we have. Yeah, you mentioned before
Speaker 1: one of the things for you at this camp, which
Speaker 1: is kind of stepping up as a leader a little bit. Uh,
Speaker 1: how's that been. Obviously you've got like some young running
Speaker 1: backs in your room in particular, and yet going into
Speaker 1: your three now, I mean you're you're an established guy
Speaker 1: and everyone's gonna be sort of looking to you it
Speaker 1: a little bit. Um, what's that kind of process just
Speaker 1: been like as in your third season? Not a whole lot,
Speaker 1: you know. I think it's just, uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: have such a great team and we've got so many
Speaker 1: great leaders on the team, and so for me, it's
Speaker 1: it's upholding the standard individually by myself and and then
Speaker 1: bringing guys along. You know. It's it's it's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun though, when you've got guys who are bother
Speaker 1: and you don't have to do as much as talking
Speaker 1: and uh so for me, I just control what I
Speaker 1: can control, go as hard as I can all the time.
Speaker 1: And you know from there, uh, you know, if you
Speaker 1: see any corrections here there, you gotta let somebody know.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I'm always looking for looking
Speaker 1: for advice from some of these guys too. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been uh, it's been a fun fun dynamics. It's good
Speaker 1: to hear because everything in training him, like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: has been like two hand touched football for these guys,
Speaker 1: and I think that's where Ron Rivera has said. What
Speaker 1: CMC is very good at is you know, turning away
Speaker 1: from the hit or doing that. But that's a feel,
Speaker 1: that's something you have to get a feel for. And
Speaker 1: yes he's been good at it in the past, but
Speaker 1: in this you know when it's the focus is longevity
Speaker 1: in his career. So let's make sure he's not getting
Speaker 1: as you know, as many hits and all these things.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's in his mind to him just I'm interested
Speaker 1: to see him out there. How does he the tackles
Speaker 1: and actually play FOA. We haven't really got to see
Speaker 1: Christian do that, you know, like it's been since the
Speaker 1: last time they played a game where like you've actually
Speaker 1: seen Christian take a hand off. Okay, now, there's eleven
Speaker 1: guys trying to tackle him. We haven't seen that a
Speaker 1: long time, and I think we're all looking forward to
Speaker 1: see he hasn't touched the ground. We haven't seen him
Speaker 1: on the ground, and he's going to try to. He's
Speaker 1: been very clean all preseason. McFadden. I mean, I want
Speaker 1: to look at the defense again. We only saw I
Speaker 1: think eighteen snaps out of most of that starting group,
Speaker 1: but even then they had Andre Smith and Jermaine Carter
Speaker 1: out there in the inside linebacker spot. But you know,
Speaker 1: you're now you're going against Tom Brady. You know you're
Speaker 1: going against this Patriots offense um and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of what uh Ron and coach Eric Washington would
Speaker 1: say is that a lot of this defense is based
Speaker 1: off of the calls they're given. And you know the
Speaker 1: secondary is going to be successful when they can pressure
Speaker 1: the quarterback. So how much pressure they gonna apply with
Speaker 1: you know, blitzes. And one of the things that was
Speaker 1: asked today is is there is there kind of an
Speaker 1: unwritten rule in preseason that you don't blitz that just
Speaker 1: everybody doesn't blitz and you just kind of run a
Speaker 1: base off or based defense. And he said, no, I mean,
Speaker 1: you you played the defense you want to play, and
Speaker 1: the offense has to play the offense that they need
Speaker 1: to play. They used to, Yeah, I mean stuff is coming.
Speaker 1: So I I'd be curious to see kind of what
Speaker 1: sort of calls get dialed up in this one. They
Speaker 1: they said against Buffalo they're a little too vanilla that
Speaker 1: they really didn't see a lot of looks because they
Speaker 1: didn't get creative with it. So how much more creative
Speaker 1: do you get? And how do you respond against Tom Brady?
Speaker 1: You know, how do you do do you get Tom
Speaker 1: Brady doesn't get hit? You know, we all know Tom
Speaker 1: Brady doesn't get stacked. How do you apply that pressure
Speaker 1: to him? And then how did the secondary respond the defense?
Speaker 1: Is is a good point, especially because there was so
Speaker 1: much talk about how the backup quarterbacks performed against Buffalo
Speaker 1: and it was a rough night, but the first team
Speaker 1: defense was not at all pleased with how they performed either.
Speaker 1: It was it was points on both drives to start
Speaker 1: for Buffalo, and KK short after the game was like,
Speaker 1: did I give us an fight? So there was a
Speaker 1: little bit of pride I think at stick coming into
Speaker 1: this next game against Belichick and Brady and the Patriots.
Speaker 1: This is the last chance before the regular season for
Speaker 1: that starting unit on defense, and I think they fully
Speaker 1: expect to look a lot better than they did against Buffalo.
Speaker 1: And you know, KK said, it was like, look, that
Speaker 1: was the first time people got to see the starting
Speaker 1: unit out there together and we didn't show them what
Speaker 1: we wanted to show. Well, here's another opportunity. I'm curious
Speaker 1: to see how they take advantage of that. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be another big test for this Panthers starting
Speaker 1: offense in defense, the first look that we're going to
Speaker 1: see from them in the preseason and the only look
Speaker 1: we're going to see them from the preseason. So be
Speaker 1: sure to tune in on Thursday night. We appreciate you
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