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Speaker 1: It's victory week. It's victory week. It's Thanksgiving week, a
Speaker 1: lot to celebrate. People say that you only get a
Speaker 1: victory Monday. But I'm taking the whole week. It's like
Speaker 1: the birthday week, you know, when you get like the
Speaker 1: one day. Are you someone that does birthday weeks? No,
Speaker 1: but I mean I want to. I'm someone that doesn't.
Speaker 1: But someone planned a week long vacation or tried tokelong
Speaker 1: trip for your birthday. I worked through it the entire time.
Speaker 1: But that's still but the but the yeah, it's there.
Speaker 1: The effort is there for you to say, hey, it's
Speaker 1: my birthday week, like I yeah, I want someone else
Speaker 1: to declare it my birthday. Yeah. I'm saying you have
Speaker 1: that mindset whether or not. You know, we work all
Speaker 1: the time, so you may not have been able to
Speaker 1: execute on it, but you have the birthday week mindset, right,
Speaker 1: And I'm taking a Detroit week mindset. It's fair me too.
Speaker 1: I'm going with it. I mean, look, when the team
Speaker 1: does the things that they did in that game, they
Speaker 1: shut out an opponent for the first time in five
Speaker 1: years um as a franchise, I think we gotta take
Speaker 1: a week to celebrate. It was just the second shutout
Speaker 1: in the NFL this year. And I mean, can we
Speaker 1: just like re replay last week's podcast, like I mean,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, Like, where were we a week ago
Speaker 1: talking about this defense. That's what I said in that
Speaker 1: UM in last week's podcast, was that second half I
Speaker 1: felt like was an outlier. Now they're not going to
Speaker 1: go and and shut out every opposing offense going forward.
Speaker 1: But I was glad to see it all come together,
Speaker 1: especially for this defense, because you know, the second half
Speaker 1: of the Tampa Bay game, notwithstanding they have been so
Speaker 1: close in terms of you know, it feels like just
Speaker 1: one little play here, one little play there, or a
Speaker 1: penalty that has big implications here or there, UM, And
Speaker 1: I was glad to see them getting those third down stops.
Speaker 1: They played great in the third quarter, UM, the great
Speaker 1: game overall. And I think listening to kind of the
Speaker 1: array of postgame press conference is it felt like there
Speaker 1: was a combination of both play calling and kind of
Speaker 1: game planning and like this sort of just crazy passion.
Speaker 1: You know, these guys were just so fired up, they
Speaker 1: were so locked in. But combine that with there's some
Speaker 1: really good play calls from Phil Snow, Like there was
Speaker 1: some really good execution, um, really good looks that Detroit
Speaker 1: was not expecting, and they were doing it without Dante Jackson. No,
Speaker 1: tell your white head at at middle linebacker. You know,
Speaker 1: Jermaine Carter getting his his first start this year at
Speaker 1: middle linebacker. Um or second start, I guess. But you know,
Speaker 1: you have you have what Brian Burns did off the edge,
Speaker 1: you have what f a Obada is doing moving to
Speaker 1: the middle of the line. You know, all of like
Speaker 1: eleven quarterback hits five sacks. And you know, sure like
Speaker 1: Kenny Dolladay wasn't out there, Um, Danny Amandola wasn't out there.
Speaker 1: DeAndre squere pone out there. And I think those things
Speaker 1: were all fair to say. But then and and it's
Speaker 1: fair to to talk about that in relation to the defense.
Speaker 1: But you know, on on our offensive side, no Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater to McAffrey, No Russell o'coon as you mentioned, Uh,
Speaker 1: No Dante Jackson, Sam Franklin, who had had started to
Speaker 1: come on as safety not there. So you know, we
Speaker 1: can always go through the the injuries, and I think
Speaker 1: it is important to mention who the lines were missing.
Speaker 1: But I think it came from, like you said, a
Speaker 1: combination of play calling, um an execution. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: and you know, can we not? I mean P J Walker,
Speaker 1: My goodness, you know, I mean, he comes in, I mean,
Speaker 1: he was put in a very difficult situation and for
Speaker 1: the you know what eight nine snaps we had seen
Speaker 1: in kind of these different moments when Teddy had to
Speaker 1: leave in earlier games. I don't think people were expecting
Speaker 1: the game that he played. I completely agree, And it's
Speaker 1: the first time that I have genuinely said, uh, something
Speaker 1: like the statement that I'm about to say, which is,
Speaker 1: aside from those two interceptions in the end zone, I
Speaker 1: thought he played a very good game. And I think
Speaker 1: it's it's hard when you are assessing anyone, and anyone
Speaker 1: who has two interceptions in the end zone, it's really
Speaker 1: hard to genuinely say after that, well, aside from those
Speaker 1: two huge issues, it was a good game. But I
Speaker 1: really thought despite those two things, um, which he said,
Speaker 1: you know, he said, oh, they're gonna keep me up
Speaker 1: at night for the rest of the week, um, And
Speaker 1: that's you know, that will come with experience. But I
Speaker 1: just was very impressed overall with his poise, the way
Speaker 1: he played, um, some of the throws he made, the athleticism.
Speaker 1: Thought he did a good job, I mean, and the
Speaker 1: fact that they were down in the red zone that
Speaker 1: many times. I mean the fact that they kept moving
Speaker 1: the ball. They had that many opportunities that he had
Speaker 1: some he had some throws that he just completely missed,
Speaker 1: which were kind of some head scratchers, but you think
Speaker 1: you take those away, he still had a good stat line.
Speaker 1: And we can say all of that because the defense
Speaker 1: gave him those opportunities and they kept them in the game,
Speaker 1: and they never really gave the lines a chance. So
Speaker 1: it was great. It was overall, it was great, and
Speaker 1: I totally support this being a full victory week. So
Speaker 1: any stories from you, any any beers fly down the
Speaker 1: the those tarps onto you this week? No beers, um
Speaker 1: coming down from excited fans. As we've said before, it
Speaker 1: was one of our first home games where they allowed fans.
Speaker 1: And I'm in the first row and then there's the
Speaker 1: tarps for the next ten rows or whatever, and sometimes
Speaker 1: people set things on there and they collide with me accidentally,
Speaker 1: I hope, UM, But no, none of that. But it
Speaker 1: was just cool, Um. It was there was so much
Speaker 1: going on on the sidelines, and you could see how
Speaker 1: excited all of the players were and how much communication
Speaker 1: there was between um everybody. Even before it was very
Speaker 1: clear um that they were going to end up shutting
Speaker 1: out the Lions. So I was just like laser vote.
Speaker 1: Something could have hit me, a beer could have flown
Speaker 1: out my head and I wouldn't have noticed because there
Speaker 1: was so much going on on the sidelines, so much energy,
Speaker 1: um that I was just totally locked in on all
Speaker 1: of that. Speaking to that, I don't know if people
Speaker 1: could see it watching the game on TV, and maybe
Speaker 1: they could, but the final maybe four or five minutes
Speaker 1: of the fourth order, when you know, at this point,
Speaker 1: you know they're doing the announcements for you know, please
Speaker 1: leave the stadium safely, you know all this. You know
Speaker 1: who does those announcements, by the way, who really? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that may be the p A announcer stadium
Speaker 1: if you enter an exit and you need to know
Speaker 1: what's allowed in the Never been out there for that stuff.
Speaker 1: I haven't either, but I have you know, friends and
Speaker 1: family who have come to games and they're like, is
Speaker 1: that your voice? Ingress and egress, No big deal, all right?
Speaker 1: So you're saying, yeah, so you know they they're wrapping that,
Speaker 1: they're wrapping that stuff up, and you know, the winds
Speaker 1: pretty much in hand. But the only thing that's really
Speaker 1: out there is like, are they going to give up
Speaker 1: a field goal? You know, Detroit's kind of moving down.
Speaker 1: And when they got that stop on fourth down, shack
Speaker 1: knocking to wait, everyone is erupting on the sideline. But
Speaker 1: the coolest thing was when the offense gets back on
Speaker 1: it's like, man, they're gonna probably have to put it back,
Speaker 1: like they're going to give them the ball back. And
Speaker 1: they drew them offsides on fourth and five and a
Speaker 1: half and everyone thinks, oh, it's a first down, and
Speaker 1: the sideline erupt Everyone is off the bench the entire
Speaker 1: and then it's like, no, it's actually fourth and a half,
Speaker 1: fourth in a little bit. And then and then they
Speaker 1: do it again and they erupted even I mean they
Speaker 1: I have never seen a sideline jump onto the field
Speaker 1: when up twenty nothing and drawing another team off sides
Speaker 1: to get into victory formation. Like the way that that
Speaker 1: those guys did. It was incredible. It was and it
Speaker 1: was just the culmination of the things that have been
Speaker 1: preached by the coaches and by the veterans and that
Speaker 1: the rookies are trying to to learn and get a
Speaker 1: hold of, which is discipline, um and and being on
Speaker 1: the right side of those penalties, you know, drawing them
Speaker 1: off sides and and playing a clean game. And it
Speaker 1: was just great to see. I thought that was the
Speaker 1: manifestation of that Oh yeah, I mean just that that
Speaker 1: togetherness that you know, everyone, everyone was involved, everyone was
Speaker 1: into it, and you know that the offense wanted it
Speaker 1: to you know, they wanted to stay on the field,
Speaker 1: they didn't want to give the ball back. Um. I
Speaker 1: just thought it was really cool. It was just a
Speaker 1: great win. Um, after the last few weeks that this
Speaker 1: this team has has been through and they continue to
Speaker 1: to try and to play their best. You know, I
Speaker 1: think in every single game the effort has been there.
Speaker 1: They're just learning, you know, and um, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of young guys who have been asked stuff up and
Speaker 1: they're dealing with injuries. But then you have a Shacks
Speaker 1: postgame speech after the Tampa Bay game, and it was
Speaker 1: just great to see it all come together in this
Speaker 1: win and great to see their hard work payoff and
Speaker 1: in such a big way. So real briefly before we
Speaker 1: move on, because there's a potential which we can talk
Speaker 1: about in a second of Teddy Bridgewater returning this week
Speaker 1: to go play at Minnesota, which was the team that
Speaker 1: drafted him back in But before we turn that page,
Speaker 1: one final thing on p J. Walker, the story about
Speaker 1: his mom in the dream that she had. What's your
Speaker 1: takeaway from just hearing that initially? That was incredible. I
Speaker 1: I just thought it was it was awesome. I would
Speaker 1: love to know if his mom has any lottery numbers
Speaker 1: for me, Um, you know, would love to get up
Speaker 1: with her on that. No. I I just thought it
Speaker 1: was great, and I think it just shows a belief
Speaker 1: and he's had an unconventional path to get here. I
Speaker 1: spoke to him um in the off season, and you know,
Speaker 1: his journey with with the XFL and then having such
Speaker 1: a great season and then getting stopped, and UM, I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just so happy for him and his mom,
Speaker 1: And I just thought it was an incredible story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, like the background, she had this dream when
Speaker 1: he was on the practice squad for the Colts and
Speaker 1: Matt Rule was in Baylor and she just had a
Speaker 1: dream that he was gonna start for the Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: and win a game. I mean, there was no connection
Speaker 1: to the Panthers at that point. None. That's why I said,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for some lottery numbers, right, you know, like
Speaker 1: where it just came out of the blue and it
Speaker 1: was like, you know, all the things that had to
Speaker 1: fall into place for him to then be here and
Speaker 1: for then him to be starting and winning a game.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's incredible, it really is. Uh it's just
Speaker 1: a great when you know, a win counts the same
Speaker 1: um in the standings, just like a loss counts the same.
Speaker 1: But I think the reason that we're making this a
Speaker 1: victory week like you would make it a birthday week,
Speaker 1: is that there are just so many great things that
Speaker 1: have happened, and it's a product of hard work and
Speaker 1: this team believing and themselves. And I'm just so happy
Speaker 1: for everyone on that team to have not just a win,
Speaker 1: but you know, as Matt Rule called it a process
Speaker 1: win where everyone did things the right way. You had
Speaker 1: guys like p J Walker stepping up, UM, Troy Pride
Speaker 1: for Dante Jackson. I mean, the list goes on. It's
Speaker 1: not just about p J. Walker. I think that's a
Speaker 1: microcosm of of these young guys who have had to
Speaker 1: step up all year um, and everyone executed, and it
Speaker 1: was it was a very very good win. And as
Speaker 1: you said, just the second time this season, uh that
Speaker 1: an NFL team has been shut out. So I think
Speaker 1: it's it's worth celebrating because they really have worked hard,
Speaker 1: paid attention to the details, and it's it's nice to
Speaker 1: see a payoff. So will what do you want to
Speaker 1: see going forward? I mean, they're not we said they're
Speaker 1: not going to shut out opposing offenses for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. So how can they build on the
Speaker 1: little things? And what do you expect them to take
Speaker 1: away from this game that you'd like to see in Minnesota?
Speaker 1: I think they're going to have to that run defense,
Speaker 1: not obviously, and Adrian Peterson that's kind of at the
Speaker 1: end of his career versus Dalvin Cook, who's at the
Speaker 1: height of his You know, from a week to week,
Speaker 1: you know, that was a huge difference. This is such
Speaker 1: a big difference in third and six versus third and two.
Speaker 1: And there were there were more third and sixes and
Speaker 1: third and sevens last week because they were able to
Speaker 1: stop the run on first and second down. And as
Speaker 1: you said, no DeAndre Swift and in that game, which
Speaker 1: is a big right and you know, Dalvin Cooke right
Speaker 1: now is is right behind Derrick Henry for the rushing title.
Speaker 1: He has the most scrimmage yards in the NFL. Like
Speaker 1: he's putting up numbers like what we saw Christian do
Speaker 1: last year that we're just you know, scrimmage yard record
Speaker 1: breaking type of numbers, averaging over a hundred yards of
Speaker 1: rushing yards a game. So how do you go in
Speaker 1: and focus on stopping him um and give yourself manageable
Speaker 1: third downs? Because he's he's a guy that is kind
Speaker 1: of this new type of running back that's both power,
Speaker 1: but you get him out in open space and he
Speaker 1: makes people miss. He can run between the tackles, he
Speaker 1: can run you over, but he can also make you
Speaker 1: miss outside. He can catch the ball out of the backfield,
Speaker 1: and he has breakaway speed. Like the number of times
Speaker 1: that he can just get through the line at the
Speaker 1: twenty yard line and eight yards later, you're not going
Speaker 1: to catch him. You know that. It's it's a rare
Speaker 1: type of flacks from a couple of weeks, you know.
Speaker 1: But I mean, like I'll try to all flash back
Speaker 1: to Christian, you know, like Christian was able to develop
Speaker 1: that in last year and he had all those plays
Speaker 1: where people were trying to run him down and he
Speaker 1: was able to outrun people in the open field. That's
Speaker 1: what Dalvin Cook can do. So they've got to they've
Speaker 1: got to have that gap integrity. They've got to be
Speaker 1: able to kind of, you know, run to the ball.
Speaker 1: And it's not so much making tackles and open space.
Speaker 1: It's holding on or it's getting the cavalry there. You know,
Speaker 1: get something on him, slow him down, you know, get
Speaker 1: your angles right, you know, force him to the sideline,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. You know, you don't have to
Speaker 1: make a huge hit and knock them down just by yourself.
Speaker 1: Just don't let him get by you. And that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a huge key to being successful in Minnesota. You
Speaker 1: sound like Matt Rule in the conversations I've had with him,
Speaker 1: but it's right, and I think he emphasizes that a lot.
Speaker 1: And I think this Dalvin Cook matchup is such a
Speaker 1: great example, which is just you know, we hear it
Speaker 1: a lot, but like, do your job. And but what
Speaker 1: he says is that sometimes these guys they want so
Speaker 1: badly to make that big play, to make that big stop,
Speaker 1: and then a mistake ends up happening. So if everyone,
Speaker 1: like you said, you don't try to do too much,
Speaker 1: just do your job, play your gap, um tackle and
Speaker 1: and trust your teammates and hopefully it'll I don't know
Speaker 1: if Matt Rule has said this to the team. I
Speaker 1: think about it when I look at you know, we
Speaker 1: have these highlights that we've cut from last week in
Speaker 1: terms of like defensive highlights, and almost all of the
Speaker 1: sacks were like combined sex. You know, it wasn't and
Speaker 1: it kind of stinks for like Brian Burns is you know,
Speaker 1: individual statistics and all that stuff. Quick NFC defensive players
Speaker 1: doing okay. He's doing okay. But you know the fact
Speaker 1: that all of these guys we're getting to the ball,
Speaker 1: they were they were rallying to the quarterback, they were
Speaker 1: holding it. You know, they weren't trying to be selfish
Speaker 1: about it. They weren't trying to just make a play.
Speaker 1: They knew if they do a certain thing that someone
Speaker 1: else is coming right behind them and they're getting him down.
Speaker 1: And that's more important than some dramatic huge hit on
Speaker 1: the quarterback or hit on a running back. Absolutely, This
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Speaker 1: your stat of the week? The times in the week,
Speaker 1: the stat of the week is a big if we're
Speaker 1: recording this on Wednesday. But if fingers crossed Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: is able to go this weekend, he will be playing,
Speaker 1: as I said, against his former team, the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: He would become the sixth Panthers quarterback to face their
Speaker 1: former team in a start. I know one off the
Speaker 1: top of my head. Our good buddy, Jake Delone. Jake Delone.
Speaker 1: And Jake was eight and three against New Orleans over
Speaker 1: his Panthers career. He did pretty well. The rest of
Speaker 1: this group not so much. Steve Burline oh and two
Speaker 1: against Jacksonville, oh and two against Dallas, oh and one
Speaker 1: against the Raiders. He pretty much played for every team
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Rodney Pete was one to o against
Speaker 1: the Lions and now and want to Getst. Dallas, Frank
Speaker 1: Reich oh and one a Gainst Buffalo, and the great
Speaker 1: Brian st Pierre. He had one start, the infamous Brian St.
Speaker 1: Pierre game, and it was against the Ravens, who was
Speaker 1: his former team. It didn't go very well. Well, we've
Speaker 1: seen Teddy play against the Saints. He had a good game,
Speaker 1: even though it ultimately, you know, it came down to
Speaker 1: that long Joyce life field goal, um and the Panthers
Speaker 1: lost it. But you know, again, something I talked with
Speaker 1: Coach Rule about during that Saint s week, you know,
Speaker 1: how much how much do you like guys being motivated
Speaker 1: for for those kinds of things going up against our
Speaker 1: former team, And he said he doesn't like it. He wants,
Speaker 1: you know, does everyone do your job as we've been saying, um,
Speaker 1: and and focus in and prepare the same way you
Speaker 1: would prepare for anything else. And I think Teddy's like that,
Speaker 1: very methodical. But you got to think there's something back
Speaker 1: there UM that says like, man, I'd love to come
Speaker 1: in there, start, feel great, and have a wonderful game.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna prepare any differently, but um,
Speaker 1: it'd be awesome to see and it's fun for us,
Speaker 1: Like it's you know, it's fun for us to to
Speaker 1: watch it. You know this is actually the first time
Speaker 1: the Panthers have ever played in this stadium. The last
Speaker 1: time they played at Minnesota it was still being built,
Speaker 1: so they played outside in the Minnesota Gophers and that
Speaker 1: that was the game against Teddy. Teddy started UM against
Speaker 1: the Panthers. Pretty sure Teddy won that game against Carolina. UM,
Speaker 1: but that game was the coldest regular season game in
Speaker 1: Panthers history fourteen degrees wind chill. It was much lower
Speaker 1: than that. Yes, yeah, it feels a little bit different.
Speaker 1: I lived in Chicago for for two years, and even
Speaker 1: as low as that temperature is, when that wind gets going,
Speaker 1: it's a whole different. I was gonna say a ball game,
Speaker 1: but that sounds a little I wasn't trying to make
Speaker 1: a pun there. Speaking of cold. UM made an announcement
Speaker 1: yesterday we know the game time and game date of
Speaker 1: the Green Bay game up in Lambeau. Well, Saturday night,
Speaker 1: Saturday night action is there is something for that. It's
Speaker 1: action on Thursday night. I don't know what Saturday night
Speaker 1: action is. I don't know. I guess we can call
Speaker 1: it whatever we want, right, Yeah, I guess so. So
Speaker 1: Carolina making the rare Saturday night game hasn't happened very often. UM.
Speaker 1: But playing at a f NFL network on December nineteenth
Speaker 1: at Lambeau, UM, I think the very too early web.
Speaker 1: Their projections call for twelve degrees with gus up to
Speaker 1: twenty seven miles per hour precipitation chance. You know that
Speaker 1: just you're not even looking at it at notes when
Speaker 1: you say that, you just know that off the top
Speaker 1: of your head. Have a reputation to uphold over here
Speaker 1: and their stats guy, that was incredible. The best part
Speaker 1: about the weather is you can say whatever you want
Speaker 1: and if it changes, you know weather. That's true. Impressed.
Speaker 1: Is there a reason why they moved the games? If
Speaker 1: there was, I missed it. So the game was always TBD,
Speaker 1: it was always TV. Yeah, it was always going to
Speaker 1: be either that Saturday or Sunday, UM because they wanted
Speaker 1: to be able to flex green Bay and then UM
Speaker 1: they decided kind of at this point in the season
Speaker 1: based on green Bay's record, you know they want to
Speaker 1: put them Saturday night. I should know this, but since
Speaker 1: I'm sitting across from Panther stats guy, I feel like
Speaker 1: you would if you knew the forecast. They don't have.
Speaker 1: They allowed fans at all the last couple of games
Speaker 1: I've seen there were no fans. It's going to be
Speaker 1: an interesting thing to see to play up there, not
Speaker 1: only in Lambeau, but Lamba with no fans. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break and we will be
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Speaker 1: of weeks. That'll be fun. Yes, all right, it's victory week,
Speaker 1: it's Thanksgiving week. We gotta have some fun. Will you
Speaker 1: have you have prepared something? You've taken the time to
Speaker 1: prepare something which is the Office as thanks Giving foods?
Speaker 1: Am I right? Correct? So I feel like the Office
Speaker 1: lends itself to something like this very easily because everyone's
Speaker 1: played the Office game, where like, out of your group
Speaker 1: of friends, which Office character would you be? Um, so
Speaker 1: I saw something this week you would you would say
Speaker 1: you're a gym Mark, wouldn't you know? I've been called
Speaker 1: other characters. Unfortunately I disagree with them. I'm season I'm
Speaker 1: Season three Andy. I refuse to accept Season eight Andy. Um,
Speaker 1: you're not quite level or to season eight yet. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, like fun, fun, maybe a little naive, really
Speaker 1: good singer. Don't know about the last anyway. Now, So
Speaker 1: this is Office characters based on Thanksgiving foods and my
Speaker 1: completely own personal takes on it. So Michael Scott barbecue
Speaker 1: because growing up every single Thanksgiving I've ever had in
Speaker 1: South Carolina, we had barbecue is the main dish of
Speaker 1: the meal, and it was like, this is this is great,
Speaker 1: but you take it for granted until you go to
Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving meal that doesn't have barbecue, and so you're like, man,
Speaker 1: you realize that this really held the whole thing together.
Speaker 1: You know, you love it until until it's gone. Well,
Speaker 1: Ferrell of it all came in. You missed that barbecue.
Speaker 1: Jim Halpert turkey holds everything together, but everyone also kind
Speaker 1: of assumes that he has to be in every episode
Speaker 1: to hold it together. It would probably be fine without it,
Speaker 1: but you know, we we we we do it anyway.
Speaker 1: We just keep doing it. So Jim's turkey, Pam sweet
Speaker 1: potato pot. You'd be amazed by how many people don't
Speaker 1: actually really like it, but you work your way past
Speaker 1: some things and realize at the end that it was
Speaker 1: good and very necessary. You were just seeing into these
Speaker 1: characters souls right now. You're completely Dwight candied yams just
Speaker 1: because that's the closest thing I get the beats, Ryan
Speaker 1: and Kelly, mashed potatoes and gravy. Because a lot of
Speaker 1: young picky eaters maybe don't want the gravy on their
Speaker 1: mashed potatoes, and they try to keep it away, but
Speaker 1: inevitably the gravy always just keeps finding its way back
Speaker 1: on the top of the mashed potatoes. Cranberry sauce, Andy,
Speaker 1: it's fine, I usually skip it. But now we're doing
Speaker 1: like the canned cranberry jello type stuff right out of
Speaker 1: the can. And now that's season eight. We're not doing that, Andy.
Speaker 1: Now the entire dessert table is Kevin, the entire beverage
Speaker 1: table is Meredith um Fair and Fair. Angela is Green
Speaker 1: being ascroll. It always feels like some aunt is just
Speaker 1: forcing you to have some creed is Brussels sprouts in
Speaker 1: honor of him sprouting mung beans at his desk. And
Speaker 1: he's also someone that you appreciate more as you get older.
Speaker 1: Uh Stanley, obviously meatballs, are you ready? Meat balls? And
Speaker 1: then oscar is crawfish at to Fae. Nobody really knows,
Speaker 1: but apparently it thinks it's better than everything that was Matt.
Speaker 1: I think we have to agree that was a work
Speaker 1: of art that was that was really beautiful. Probably probably
Speaker 1: too much, too much time and effort spent on that
Speaker 1: I just I love that. But that's Will when he
Speaker 1: when he does these games, he gets very dedicated. Didn't
Speaker 1: What did you bring in the day after we talked
Speaker 1: about some food item and you you went out and
Speaker 1: got it the next day hot dogs? I went out
Speaker 1: and got hot dogs just to prove yeah, exactly. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: well you said the stage perfectly. We are going to
Speaker 1: do um Thanksgiving draft. We're football people, were Thanksgiving people.
Speaker 1: So here's here are the rules, guys, Matt, Well, we
Speaker 1: each have four picks um to make the perfect Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: plate draft style. Once something's off the board, you cannot
Speaker 1: go back to it, So put your Thanksgiving GM hats on.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give Matt the first overall pick. Matt, I
Speaker 1: feel like I've already like exposed my draft board to you,
Speaker 1: but that's on you. We asked you if you wanted
Speaker 1: to do your office Thanksgiving soliloquy before or after. I'm okay.
Speaker 1: I still feel confident in my picks. I'm not drafting
Speaker 1: any item, and I'm confident that I could get all
Speaker 1: four of mine before you guys get them. I think
Speaker 1: that's the thing too about drafting. It's going to be subjective.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll go with similar things that you
Speaker 1: guys are too. Yeah, I mean, so these are these
Speaker 1: are entrees, these are sides, these are desserts, whatever, everything.
Speaker 1: So it's the same. I mean, you can do whatever
Speaker 1: you want in a draft, like you know what it
Speaker 1: takes to build a good team. But you've got to
Speaker 1: come away with the team the late trust your scouting
Speaker 1: and trust you. Yeah that you feel good, maybe you
Speaker 1: don't go. I'm going all defense, just like the Panthers.
Speaker 1: With the first overall pick in the Thanksgiving in Thanksgiving Draft,
Speaker 1: Matt Hogan selects cinnamon ham out of Honey Baked Ham Store. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is good. Gotta be cinnamon glazed, and it's got
Speaker 1: to be from the Honey Baked cinnamon glazed. Interesting they
Speaker 1: put like this little cinnamon. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: it is. It's it gets all hard and crusty on
Speaker 1: the top. That's like a quarterback out of Oklahoma, like
Speaker 1: very specific. You know it's been groomed. Well, it's got
Speaker 1: to be from this certain place, a little fancy. I
Speaker 1: like it. I trust the coaching, I trust everything. Honey
Speaker 1: Baked Ham Store. Alright, right, second overall pick. I mean
Speaker 1: we've already talked about this on the podcast South Carolina Barbecue.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's gotta be it's gotta be that brisket.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be chopped. It's got to be mustard based
Speaker 1: South Carolina barbecue. But nobody saw that one coming. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: that was complete surprised. I never had barbecue for Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: So I'm good with the third overall pick. Christ and
Speaker 1: BALBONI selects uh fried turkey, ride turkey, fried turkey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: are the ones frying? Are you frying it? No? I'm
Speaker 1: selecting it. Someone's already done the work. My cousin Matt
Speaker 1: makes an incredible fried turkey. You know they work on
Speaker 1: it all day. Oh yeah, all the viral videos explodes.
Speaker 1: That's why it's worthy of being my first overall pick.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of the regular turkey, clearly,
Speaker 1: none of us are, you know, like you said, the Jim,
Speaker 1: you take it or leave it. But the fried turkey
Speaker 1: game changer. Ham and turkey off the board. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: barbecue for anyone, that's one of those ones that people want. Okay,
Speaker 1: I we'll see how that pans out. All right, this
Speaker 1: is my third favorite item, but I feel like it's
Speaker 1: more common. So I'm geting drafted in the second round,
Speaker 1: and that's mashed potatoes with gravy or without. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter as long as as long as they're not like
Speaker 1: the dry kind of mashed potatoes. Some people don't make
Speaker 1: them very moist. They're very dry. It's a fourth overall pick.
Speaker 1: You got to have the right Let's just assume that
Speaker 1: what we're drafting is at the top of the board especially,
Speaker 1: is like the perfect it's the perfect um description of
Speaker 1: what you want it to be. It's the idea. We're
Speaker 1: not going dried mashed potatoes. Fourth overall pick. But then yeah,
Speaker 1: then if it's a good batch of mashed potatoes, that's
Speaker 1: my that's my fourth overall pick. Okay, second round, first
Speaker 1: pick macaroni and cheese. And here's I was shocked to
Speaker 1: find out that my girlfriend had never had macaroni and
Speaker 1: cheese as part of their like traditional Thanksgiving. And I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, I get that barbecue is weird,
Speaker 1: but mac and cheese. I thought that was a staple.
Speaker 1: It's hard for me. So my family is so large
Speaker 1: that we do the thing where everyone it puts food.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's like obviously not this year. But um,
Speaker 1: traditionally there's like fifty people there, and so everyone just
Speaker 1: brings stuff and we've got like five different kinds of stuffing.
Speaker 1: We've got all sorts of stuff, and it's just it's
Speaker 1: like one giant table and you just go around and
Speaker 1: you just load your plate up, so you can really
Speaker 1: get anything that you want. Um. And so macaroni cheese
Speaker 1: is always there, but we don't do like a sit
Speaker 1: down serve things. So I don't know, I've I've had
Speaker 1: all these things except for barbecue. Yeah, So I don't know.
Speaker 1: You're not My mom and sisters always have it always
Speaker 1: a good time for I don't. I don't like mac
Speaker 1: and cheese, so I don't partake. Everybody else does and
Speaker 1: they seem to enjoy it. What I like noodles, I
Speaker 1: like cheese. I do not like macaroni and cheese makes
Speaker 1: no sense, like the ones there's those special kind of
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving mac and cheese with like the extra cheesy crunch top.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not we're not talking like Velvita. It's
Speaker 1: we can have the best of the best in this
Speaker 1: draft right right, absolutely, no no free agents here. No, No,
Speaker 1: it's not creamy. There's a there's a hard top to it. Yes. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go sweet potatoes with my second overall pick,
Speaker 1: the s pick in the draft in what form? This
Speaker 1: is important? I'm gonna go extra sweet. Say I've had
Speaker 1: two that I love a lot, but I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: marshmallows on top. Okay, So like the cast role with
Speaker 1: the marshmallows, yes, okay, not not like cut or not
Speaker 1: like a pie not yet? Not yet? Okay, Well you
Speaker 1: can't claim both, can you. I'm saying the pie might
Speaker 1: come up later at a certain point, but for this
Speaker 1: is that this isn't the pie. No, this is like
Speaker 1: because this is like goes on the main table. Yes,
Speaker 1: Baltimore took hayden Hurst and Mark Andrew's back to back
Speaker 1: picks and their draft and those are two tight ends.
Speaker 1: So christ And if she wants to go with that,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just making sure that they're not both
Speaker 1: listed as the same name. We'll call it a cast roll. Okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta have those delicious marshmallows on top, got it
Speaker 1: all right? Third round pick, I'm gonna go with my
Speaker 1: mom's fruit jello. She makes like a strawberry, uh, pineapple
Speaker 1: banana fruit jello. It's been in every Thanksgiving since I
Speaker 1: can remember. It's I guess it's like Will's barbecue where
Speaker 1: I never really knew it wasn't normal until I got engaged.
Speaker 1: That sounds delicious. I wouldn't when you first said for jello,
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know, because again, we have
Speaker 1: such a big family. Someone's gonna put like, just like
Speaker 1: the jello mold on the table, but strawberries and banana.
Speaker 1: That sounds delicious. It is, Yeah, all right, So now
Speaker 1: I'm going to get the yams. Based on Roswell Douglas's
Speaker 1: recommendation of mixing them all together in the post Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: I don't like my stuff. I don't like my stuff
Speaker 1: to mix or touch. Oh my god, it's very uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I I will eat it on Thursday
Speaker 1: in kind of however it sits upon the plate. But
Speaker 1: then I think after in the leftover stage, I think
Speaker 1: you start being inventive. And so yeah, so he was
Speaker 1: mixing I think what he was mixing mac and cheese
Speaker 1: and yams, right, not for me? Oh yeah, no, oh no,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. Oh all right, um, I'm gonna go I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and get a head of this Poco
Speaker 1: pie just coming in hot. No one's picked a dessert yet.
Speaker 1: I want to just I want to grab it. I
Speaker 1: want to take it off the board. Well, can I
Speaker 1: also pick pecan pie because you obviously picked the wrong pie.
Speaker 1: It's pecan pie. That's how I say it. I know,
Speaker 1: I swear did something with Derek Brown and each word
Speaker 1: responsos yesterday with Thanksgiving foods, and they gave me a
Speaker 1: hard time for pecan pie. Let's just always it, Matt.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I've said it both ways. That's one
Speaker 1: of the few words I don't have it. I know,
Speaker 1: I'm I know I'm in the minority on this, but
Speaker 1: that's how I say it. Okay, I mean it's I'll
Speaker 1: eat it. You won't because it's on my plate, alright, Matt,
Speaker 1: last pick in the draft to build your to round
Speaker 1: out your perfect plate. I should probably get a vegetable,
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna do Thanksgiving. I agree, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go. And I don't know what brand or what
Speaker 1: they're actually called, but I think they're called yeast rolls
Speaker 1: and they're just like that. So yeah, they rise up
Speaker 1: and it's just a little square rolls. I gotta have
Speaker 1: because I eat like five of those, and I usually
Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving when we have leftovers, I'll cut one in
Speaker 1: half like and make it a sandwich and I'll put
Speaker 1: cinnamon glazed ham in there. So that's that's my fourth
Speaker 1: picked around up my first little I like, I got
Speaker 1: everybody I wanted to, Yeah, the first. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: the best rap position. So I'm glad, glad that you
Speaker 1: got everything you wanted. All right, all right, I'll go
Speaker 1: with pumpkin pie. That's fair, I mean, because you already
Speaker 1: took the peakns. I was thinking of some sort of
Speaker 1: chocolate dessert, but I'll go with pumpkin pie. Your grandmother
Speaker 1: makes a great chocolate pie. But I'm gonna go last pick.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go cornbread. Oh man, the fact that both
Speaker 1: of you guys got the bread off the table, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of upset I left that out there, you know what.
Speaker 1: That's I'm planning on execution scouting, a month long process.
Speaker 1: So here's mine. I would love to hear from people
Speaker 1: on Twitter which plate they would pick. Mine is fried turkey,
Speaker 1: sweep casserole, pecan pie, and corn bread. Not a vegetable,
Speaker 1: not even vegetable, adjacent, which is how I like it
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving? All right, Matt, what's yours? Cinnamon glazed ham
Speaker 1: from honey baked tam, my mom's fruit jello. Actually that
Speaker 1: was the third round pick, so mashed potatoes, did my
Speaker 1: mom's fruit jello? And then EUSt rolls. If anyone knows
Speaker 1: the name of those strolls, that'd be great by tomorrow. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: and then mine was barbecue mac and cheese, candy dams
Speaker 1: and pumpkin pie. I think we're all coming away with
Speaker 1: plates that we feel good about. This is how we
Speaker 1: would stack our plates. I need to hear from people now, well,
Speaker 1: which plate would you rather eat? Let us know? That
Speaker 1: would be the word question of the week. Which of
Speaker 1: our Thanksgiving plates that we be mistakingly built and drafted
Speaker 1: would you want to eat? All right? No better place
Speaker 1: to leave it. Happy Victory Week, Happy Thanksgiving. See you
Speaker 1: guys next week.