WEBVTT - A Happy Half Hour Thanksgiving 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.040 Hi, this is Dewey Jenkins. When the Navy sent me 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:07.200 to Jacksonville, Florida, I sold Salad Master cookwear door to 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.520 door during my free time. One evening, I knocked on 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.000 the door and met the woman I wouldn't marry. She 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.120 didn't buy any cookwear, but I got her phone number. 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.680 That's how we train at Morris Jenkins. Don't try to 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:23.079 make a sale, Try to make a friend. Everyone needs 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.320 a friend who knows how to fix air conditioning and plumbing. 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:36.920 I love this podcast, don't you. It's time for the 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:41.560 Happy Half Hour with your friends Kristen Belboni and Will 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:51.599 Brian presented by Morris Jenkins. That's right, it's that time 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.720 of the week, the Happy Half Hour podcast presented by 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.600 Morris Jenkins. Mr Jenkins told me that he loves football 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.760 and he looks forward to this show all week. When 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:00.920 you're plumbing or air conditioning, is acting up called Morris 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.280 Jenkins or is it Morris Jenkins dot com? Kristen here 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:08.560 with Will and Matt and guys. What a game on Sunday? 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:12.120 It's victory week. It's victory week. It's Thanksgiving week, a 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.400 lot to celebrate. People say that you only get a 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.720 victory Monday. But I'm taking the whole week. It's like 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:19.760 the birthday week, you know, when you get like the 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.040 one day. Are you someone that does birthday weeks? No, 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.000 but I mean I want to. I'm someone that doesn't. 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.560 But someone planned a week long vacation or tried tokelong 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.720 trip for your birthday. I worked through it the entire time. 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.000 But that's still but the but the yeah, it's there. 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.759 The effort is there for you to say, hey, it's 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.440 my birthday week, like I yeah, I want someone else 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.520 to declare it my birthday. Yeah. I'm saying you have 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.240 that mindset whether or not. You know, we work all 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:46.679 the time, so you may not have been able to 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.800 execute on it, but you have the birthday week mindset, right, 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.720 And I'm taking a Detroit week mindset. It's fair me too. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.040 I'm going with it. I mean, look, when the team 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.800 does the things that they did in that game, they 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.320 shut out an opponent for the first time in five 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.400 years um as a franchise, I think we gotta take 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.320 a week to celebrate. It was just the second shutout 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.200 in the NFL this year. And I mean, can we 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.160 just like re replay last week's podcast, like I mean, 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.000 oh my goodness, Like, where were we a week ago 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.959 talking about this defense. That's what I said in that 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.480 UM in last week's podcast, was that second half I 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.639 felt like was an outlier. Now they're not going to 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:28.079 go and and shut out every opposing offense going forward. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.320 But I was glad to see it all come together, 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.160 especially for this defense, because you know, the second half 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.560 of the Tampa Bay game, notwithstanding they have been so 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.920 close in terms of you know, it feels like just 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.280 one little play here, one little play there, or a 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.440 penalty that has big implications here or there, UM, And 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.240 I was glad to see them getting those third down stops. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.560 They played great in the third quarter, UM, the great 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.400 game overall. And I think listening to kind of the 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.079 array of postgame press conference is it felt like there 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.320 was a combination of both play calling and kind of 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:09.280 game planning and like this sort of just crazy passion. 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.720 You know, these guys were just so fired up, they 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.000 were so locked in. But combine that with there's some 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.359 really good play calls from Phil Snow, Like there was 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.840 some really good execution, um, really good looks that Detroit 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.480 was not expecting, and they were doing it without Dante Jackson. No, 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.560 tell your white head at at middle linebacker. You know, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.840 Jermaine Carter getting his his first start this year at 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.120 middle linebacker. Um or second start, I guess. But you know, 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.400 you have you have what Brian Burns did off the edge, 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.640 you have what f a Obada is doing moving to 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.720 the middle of the line. You know, all of like 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:44.520 eleven quarterback hits five sacks. And you know, sure like 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.920 Kenny Dolladay wasn't out there, Um, Danny Amandola wasn't out there. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.840 DeAndre squere pone out there. And I think those things 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.160 were all fair to say. But then and and it's 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.920 fair to to talk about that in relation to the defense. 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.160 But you know, on on our offensive side, no Teddy 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.800 Bridgewater to McAffrey, No Russell o'coon as you mentioned, Uh, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.240 No Dante Jackson, Sam Franklin, who had had started to 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:11.200 come on as safety not there. So you know, we 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.880 can always go through the the injuries, and I think 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.280 it is important to mention who the lines were missing. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.240 But I think it came from, like you said, a 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.560 combination of play calling, um an execution. Yeah, I mean, 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.960 and you know, can we not? I mean P J Walker, 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.720 My goodness, you know, I mean, he comes in, I mean, 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.080 he was put in a very difficult situation and for 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.120 the you know what eight nine snaps we had seen 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.160 in kind of these different moments when Teddy had to 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.560 leave in earlier games. I don't think people were expecting 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.240 the game that he played. I completely agree, And it's 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:48.279 the first time that I have genuinely said, uh, something 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.599 like the statement that I'm about to say, which is, 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.760 aside from those two interceptions in the end zone, I 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.880 thought he played a very good game. And I think 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.599 it's it's hard when you are assessing anyone, and anyone 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.880 who has two interceptions in the end zone, it's really 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.040 hard to genuinely say after that, well, aside from those 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.160 two huge issues, it was a good game. But I 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.240 really thought despite those two things, um, which he said, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.279 you know, he said, oh, they're gonna keep me up 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.600 at night for the rest of the week, um, And 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.120 that's you know, that will come with experience. But I 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.360 just was very impressed overall with his poise, the way 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.160 he played, um, some of the throws he made, the athleticism. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.080 Thought he did a good job, I mean, and the 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.520 fact that they were down in the red zone that 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.600 many times. I mean the fact that they kept moving 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.200 the ball. They had that many opportunities that he had 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.680 some he had some throws that he just completely missed, 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.960 which were kind of some head scratchers, but you think 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.880 you take those away, he still had a good stat line. 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.479 And we can say all of that because the defense 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.560 gave him those opportunities and they kept them in the game, 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.599 and they never really gave the lines a chance. So 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.760 it was great. It was overall, it was great, and 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.680 I totally support this being a full victory week. So 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.640 any stories from you, any any beers fly down the 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:06.520 the those tarps onto you this week? No beers, um 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.120 coming down from excited fans. As we've said before, it 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.440 was one of our first home games where they allowed fans. 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.360 And I'm in the first row and then there's the 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.000 tarps for the next ten rows or whatever, and sometimes 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.600 people set things on there and they collide with me accidentally, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.479 I hope, UM, But no, none of that. But it 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.800 was just cool, Um. It was there was so much 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.240 going on on the sidelines, and you could see how 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:34.039 excited all of the players were and how much communication 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.960 there was between um everybody. Even before it was very 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.320 clear um that they were going to end up shutting 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.520 out the Lions. So I was just like laser vote. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.520 Something could have hit me, a beer could have flown 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.080 out my head and I wouldn't have noticed because there 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.719 was so much going on on the sidelines, so much energy, 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:50.880 um that I was just totally locked in on all 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:52.800 of that. Speaking to that, I don't know if people 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.080 could see it watching the game on TV, and maybe 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.359 they could, but the final maybe four or five minutes 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.680 of the fourth order, when you know, at this point, 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.400 you know they're doing the announcements for you know, please 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.600 leave the stadium safely, you know all this. You know 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:11.600 who does those announcements, by the way, who really? Yeah, 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.680 I mean that may be the p A announcer stadium 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.560 if you enter an exit and you need to know 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.480 what's allowed in the Never been out there for that stuff. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.800 I haven't either, but I have you know, friends and 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:24.520 family who have come to games and they're like, is 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.800 that your voice? Ingress and egress, No big deal, all right? 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.520 So you're saying, yeah, so you know they they're wrapping that, 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.840 they're wrapping that stuff up, and you know, the winds 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:35.800 pretty much in hand. But the only thing that's really 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.560 out there is like, are they going to give up 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.000 a field goal? You know, Detroit's kind of moving down. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.800 And when they got that stop on fourth down, shack 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:47.000 knocking to wait, everyone is erupting on the sideline. But 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.520 the coolest thing was when the offense gets back on 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.600 it's like, man, they're gonna probably have to put it back, 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:53.880 like they're going to give them the ball back. And 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.680 they drew them offsides on fourth and five and a 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.560 half and everyone thinks, oh, it's a first down, and 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.480 the sideline erupt Everyone is off the bench the entire 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.559 and then it's like, no, it's actually fourth and a half, 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.240 fourth in a little bit. And then and then they 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.560 do it again and they erupted even I mean they 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.160 I have never seen a sideline jump onto the field 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.880 when up twenty nothing and drawing another team off sides 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.120 to get into victory formation. Like the way that that 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.360 those guys did. It was incredible. It was and it 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:26.200 was just the culmination of the things that have been 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.040 preached by the coaches and by the veterans and that 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.120 the rookies are trying to to learn and get a 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.280 hold of, which is discipline, um and and being on 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.880 the right side of those penalties, you know, drawing them 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.960 off sides and and playing a clean game. And it 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.400 was just great to see. I thought that was the 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.840 manifestation of that Oh yeah, I mean just that that 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.319 togetherness that you know, everyone, everyone was involved, everyone was 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.040 into it, and you know that the offense wanted it 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.200 to you know, they wanted to stay on the field, 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.920 they didn't want to give the ball back. Um. I 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.360 just thought it was really cool. It was just a 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:04.600 great win. Um, after the last few weeks that this 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.640 this team has has been through and they continue to 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.920 to try and to play their best. You know, I 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.560 think in every single game the effort has been there. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.959 They're just learning, you know, and um, there's a lot 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:17.439 of young guys who have been asked stuff up and 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.720 they're dealing with injuries. But then you have a Shacks 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:25.320 postgame speech after the Tampa Bay game, and it was 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.560 just great to see it all come together in this 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.040 win and great to see their hard work payoff and 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.720 in such a big way. So real briefly before we 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.400 move on, because there's a potential which we can talk 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.480 about in a second of Teddy Bridgewater returning this week 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.400 to go play at Minnesota, which was the team that 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:46.080 drafted him back in But before we turn that page, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.400 one final thing on p J. Walker, the story about 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.600 his mom in the dream that she had. What's your 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.559 takeaway from just hearing that initially? That was incredible. I 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.120 I just thought it was it was awesome. I would 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.440 love to know if his mom has any lottery numbers 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.840 for me, Um, you know, would love to get up 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.240 with her on that. No. I I just thought it 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.800 was great, and I think it just shows a belief 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.880 and he's had an unconventional path to get here. I 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:18.280 spoke to him um in the off season, and you know, 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.360 his journey with with the XFL and then having such 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.640 a great season and then getting stopped, and UM, I'm 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.880 just I'm just so happy for him and his mom, 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.240 And I just thought it was an incredible story. Yeah, 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.200 I mean, like the background, she had this dream when 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.800 he was on the practice squad for the Colts and 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.280 Matt Rule was in Baylor and she just had a 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.080 dream that he was gonna start for the Carolina Panthers 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.080 and win a game. I mean, there was no connection 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.960 to the Panthers at that point. None. That's why I said, 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.000 I'm looking for some lottery numbers, right, you know, like 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:50.520 where it just came out of the blue and it 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.080 was like, you know, all the things that had to 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.480 fall into place for him to then be here and 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.720 for then him to be starting and winning a game. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.360 I mean, it's incredible, it really is. Uh it's just 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.199 a great when you know, a win counts the same 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.280 um in the standings, just like a loss counts the same. 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.280 But I think the reason that we're making this a 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.840 victory week like you would make it a birthday week, 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.360 is that there are just so many great things that 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.160 have happened, and it's a product of hard work and 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.440 this team believing and themselves. And I'm just so happy 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.920 for everyone on that team to have not just a win, 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.800 but you know, as Matt Rule called it a process 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.920 win where everyone did things the right way. You had 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.040 guys like p J Walker stepping up, UM, Troy Pride 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.079 for Dante Jackson. I mean, the list goes on. It's 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.360 not just about p J. Walker. I think that's a 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.480 microcosm of of these young guys who have had to 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:43.600 step up all year um, and everyone executed, and it 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.120 was it was a very very good win. And as 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.880 you said, just the second time this season, uh that 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.120 an NFL team has been shut out. So I think 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.240 it's it's worth celebrating because they really have worked hard, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.199 paid attention to the details, and it's it's nice to 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:57.880 see a payoff. So will what do you want to 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.480 see going forward? I mean, they're not we said they're 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.440 not going to shut out opposing offenses for the rest 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.360 of the season. So how can they build on the 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.480 little things? And what do you expect them to take 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.360 away from this game that you'd like to see in Minnesota? 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.199 I think they're going to have to that run defense, 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.040 not obviously, and Adrian Peterson that's kind of at the 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.480 end of his career versus Dalvin Cook, who's at the 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.000 height of his You know, from a week to week, 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.440 you know, that was a huge difference. This is such 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.679 a big difference in third and six versus third and two. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.080 And there were there were more third and sixes and 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.520 third and sevens last week because they were able to 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.120 stop the run on first and second down. And as 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.040 you said, no DeAndre Swift and in that game, which 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.160 is a big right and you know, Dalvin Cooke right 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.160 now is is right behind Derrick Henry for the rushing title. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.320 He has the most scrimmage yards in the NFL. Like 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.920 he's putting up numbers like what we saw Christian do 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.840 last year that we're just you know, scrimmage yard record 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.960 breaking type of numbers, averaging over a hundred yards of 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:57.280 rushing yards a game. So how do you go in 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:02.680 and focus on stopping him um and give yourself manageable 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.880 third downs? Because he's he's a guy that is kind 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.480 of this new type of running back that's both power, 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.600 but you get him out in open space and he 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:13.679 makes people miss. He can run between the tackles, he 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.760 can run you over, but he can also make you 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.000 miss outside. He can catch the ball out of the backfield, 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.120 and he has breakaway speed. Like the number of times 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:22.800 that he can just get through the line at the 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.600 twenty yard line and eight yards later, you're not going 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.000 to catch him. You know that. It's it's a rare 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.840 type of flacks from a couple of weeks, you know. 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.000 But I mean, like I'll try to all flash back 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.360 to Christian, you know, like Christian was able to develop 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.839 that in last year and he had all those plays 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.280 where people were trying to run him down and he 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.160 was able to outrun people in the open field. That's 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.760 what Dalvin Cook can do. So they've got to they've 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.040 got to have that gap integrity. They've got to be 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:47.680 able to kind of, you know, run to the ball. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.800 And it's not so much making tackles and open space. 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.760 It's holding on or it's getting the cavalry there. You know, 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.400 get something on him, slow him down, you know, get 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.480 your angles right, you know, force him to the sideline, 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.959 whatever it might be. You know, you don't have to 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.720 make a huge hit and knock them down just by yourself. 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.920 Just don't let him get by you. And that's gonna 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.480 be a huge key to being successful in Minnesota. You 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.480 sound like Matt Rule in the conversations I've had with him, 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:20.200 but it's right, and I think he emphasizes that a lot. 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.040 And I think this Dalvin Cook matchup is such a 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.840 great example, which is just you know, we hear it 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.760 a lot, but like, do your job. And but what 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.040 he says is that sometimes these guys they want so 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.600 badly to make that big play, to make that big stop, 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.520 and then a mistake ends up happening. So if everyone, 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.320 like you said, you don't try to do too much, 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:45.200 just do your job, play your gap, um tackle and 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.160 and trust your teammates and hopefully it'll I don't know 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:49.880 if Matt Rule has said this to the team. I 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.040 think about it when I look at you know, we 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.240 have these highlights that we've cut from last week in 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.080 terms of like defensive highlights, and almost all of the 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.440 sacks were like combined sex. You know, it wasn't and 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.600 it kind of stinks for like Brian Burns is you know, 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:07.760 individual statistics and all that stuff. Quick NFC defensive players 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.080 doing okay. He's doing okay. But you know the fact 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.400 that all of these guys we're getting to the ball, 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.400 they were they were rallying to the quarterback, they were 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.320 holding it. You know, they weren't trying to be selfish 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.400 about it. They weren't trying to just make a play. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.520 They knew if they do a certain thing that someone 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.760 else is coming right behind them and they're getting him down. 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.000 And that's more important than some dramatic huge hit on 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.800 the quarterback or hit on a running back. Absolutely, This 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.360 is the Happy Half Hour podcast presented by Morris Jenkins, 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.360 and Mr Jenkins told me his plumbers and a c 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:40.720 text secretly where Panthers jerseys under their uniforms. Will does 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.920 the same thing. I'm looking at it right now. When 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.200 you're plumbing or air conditioning is acting up, called Morris 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.960 Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. Will what is 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:58.560 your stat of the week? The times in the week, 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.440 the stat of the week is a big if we're 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:08.400 recording this on Wednesday. But if fingers crossed Teddy Bridgewater 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:10.920 is able to go this weekend, he will be playing, 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.680 as I said, against his former team, the Minnesota Vikings. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:18.240 He would become the sixth Panthers quarterback to face their 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.760 former team in a start. I know one off the 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.360 top of my head. Our good buddy, Jake Delone. Jake Delone. 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.880 And Jake was eight and three against New Orleans over 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.000 his Panthers career. He did pretty well. The rest of 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.320 this group not so much. Steve Burline oh and two 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.840 against Jacksonville, oh and two against Dallas, oh and one 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:36.920 against the Raiders. He pretty much played for every team 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.920 in the NFL. Rodney Pete was one to o against 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.200 the Lions and now and want to Getst. Dallas, Frank 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.160 Reich oh and one a Gainst Buffalo, and the great 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:50.560 Brian st Pierre. He had one start, the infamous Brian St. 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.600 Pierre game, and it was against the Ravens, who was 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.800 his former team. It didn't go very well. Well, we've 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.720 seen Teddy play against the Saints. He had a good game, 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.240 even though it ultimately, you know, it came down to 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.680 that long Joyce life field goal, um and the Panthers 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.240 lost it. But you know, again, something I talked with 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:14.479 Coach Rule about during that Saint s week, you know, 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.400 how much how much do you like guys being motivated 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.479 for for those kinds of things going up against our 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.320 former team, And he said he doesn't like it. He wants, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.480 you know, does everyone do your job as we've been saying, um, 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.720 and and focus in and prepare the same way you 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.080 would prepare for anything else. And I think Teddy's like that, 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.960 very methodical. But you got to think there's something back 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.960 there UM that says like, man, I'd love to come 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.119 in there, start, feel great, and have a wonderful game. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.919 I don't think he's gonna prepare any differently, but um, 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:44.920 it'd be awesome to see and it's fun for us, 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.240 Like it's you know, it's fun for us to to 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:48.800 watch it. You know this is actually the first time 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.240 the Panthers have ever played in this stadium. The last 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.480 time they played at Minnesota it was still being built, 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:59.360 so they played outside in the Minnesota Gophers and that 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.200 that was the game against Teddy. Teddy started UM against 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:06.639 the Panthers. Pretty sure Teddy won that game against Carolina. UM, 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:10.399 but that game was the coldest regular season game in 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:15.520 Panthers history fourteen degrees wind chill. It was much lower 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.280 than that. Yes, yeah, it feels a little bit different. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.080 I lived in Chicago for for two years, and even 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.480 as low as that temperature is, when that wind gets going, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.440 it's a whole different. I was gonna say a ball game, 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.080 but that sounds a little I wasn't trying to make 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.600 a pun there. Speaking of cold. UM made an announcement 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.679 yesterday we know the game time and game date of 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.880 the Green Bay game up in Lambeau. Well, Saturday night, 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.760 Saturday night action is there is something for that. It's 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.080 action on Thursday night. I don't know what Saturday night 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.679 action is. I don't know. I guess we can call 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.560 it whatever we want, right, Yeah, I guess so. So 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:53.080 Carolina making the rare Saturday night game hasn't happened very often. UM. 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.280 But playing at a f NFL network on December nineteenth 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.960 at Lambeau, UM, I think the very too early web. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.760 Their projections call for twelve degrees with gus up to 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:08.160 twenty seven miles per hour precipitation chance. You know that 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.280 just you're not even looking at it at notes when 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.360 you say that, you just know that off the top 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:17.120 of your head. Have a reputation to uphold over here 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.480 and their stats guy, that was incredible. The best part 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:22.400 about the weather is you can say whatever you want 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:26.880 and if it changes, you know weather. That's true. Impressed. 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:28.800 Is there a reason why they moved the games? If 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.080 there was, I missed it. So the game was always TBD, 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.040 it was always TV. Yeah, it was always going to 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.960 be either that Saturday or Sunday, UM because they wanted 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:40.199 to be able to flex green Bay and then UM 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:41.960 they decided kind of at this point in the season 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:43.840 based on green Bay's record, you know they want to 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:47.000 put them Saturday night. I should know this, but since 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:48.840 I'm sitting across from Panther stats guy, I feel like 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.800 you would if you knew the forecast. They don't have. 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.560