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Speaker 1: It's time for a Happy half Hour with your friends
Speaker 1: Kristen Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Brian. That's right, it's
Speaker 1: that time of the week, The Happy Half Hour Podcast
Speaker 1: presented by Morris Jenkins. Kristen here in studio with my buddies,
Speaker 1: Miles and Will. I mean, I guess I can say
Speaker 1: that we're all here in studio. Miles, I'm sitting here
Speaker 1: looking at you right now, which is where Will was
Speaker 1: sitting last week. But Will, because we all have to
Speaker 1: be safely social distance is in what I can only
Speaker 1: describe as as the booth of shame. Absolutely, it's the
Speaker 1: booth of shame. So I don't even I can't even
Speaker 1: really see Will. Can you see Will? From where I
Speaker 1: can see Will right now? Yeah? So again, we love
Speaker 1: doing this audio podcast format. We are just talking about
Speaker 1: what we can and can't see, so we'll describe. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a voiceover booth kind of in our podcast
Speaker 1: radio studios. Yeah, it's a voice over booth. And I
Speaker 1: was trying to describe it last week, and no one
Speaker 1: quite knew where I was pointing to because I thought
Speaker 1: you were pointing to a bathroom. I'm not going you're
Speaker 1: like across, You're like way over there. Yeah, I can
Speaker 1: still see you, guys, to this little window. I had
Speaker 1: lights off so it's not blinding, right, so I can
Speaker 1: see Will just like it looks like it looks like
Speaker 1: a stranger peeking in yours. As I said, I take
Speaker 1: a picture of that. As I said, I could not
Speaker 1: see Will. Will was flashing the lights on and off.
Speaker 1: He was in some horror film as he is doing
Speaker 1: right now. So just picture if you're going through a
Speaker 1: haunted house, right and then there's this weird thing that
Speaker 1: is just behind one of these dark window panels that
Speaker 1: right now is Will. I cannot imagine anyone listening to this,
Speaker 1: like what you would be picturing in your mind. I
Speaker 1: don't know if i'd go quite that accurate. No, it's
Speaker 1: literally it's like going through a haunted house. That's the
Speaker 1: only thing that I can think of it. It is
Speaker 1: a standard voice over booth. But no, it's not that
Speaker 1: pipe down over there. Definitely a haunted it's definitely a
Speaker 1: haunted voice over booth. Um. But okay, so I think
Speaker 1: we should explain why Will is in, you know, the
Speaker 1: booth of shame um looking like someone in a haunted house.
Speaker 1: So full disclosure. We knew that two of us could
Speaker 1: be at the table. There's usually room for all three
Speaker 1: or four people here, but you know, we gotta play
Speaker 1: it safe, and then one person would have to be there.
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest. I've been in the stadium all day.
Speaker 1: I had some some stuff to shoot. I got in
Speaker 1: here a few minutes early, and I told producer Matt.
Speaker 1: I was like, look, I don't want to get stuck
Speaker 1: in the booth, Like I'm gonna go ahead and claim
Speaker 1: my seat, like you know, get the best seat on
Speaker 1: the bus type of a deal. So I I knew
Speaker 1: you guys were coming in, you know, at the same
Speaker 1: time to go through security and all that. I tried
Speaker 1: to get in here quick and established my spot. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest, Well, I'm sorry. Well, Will really was
Speaker 1: being polite because he waited for me to come in
Speaker 1: because I've never been in the studio before, and then
Speaker 1: you booth have shamed him. He waited for you, and
Speaker 1: then you ran over here. That's the kind of person
Speaker 1: that I am. It's the kind of person that I am, really,
Speaker 1: But no, Miles, I think it's really because I took
Speaker 1: the Twitter brunt for Kristen's hot Dog catchup take from
Speaker 1: last week, and most of that game, you were on
Speaker 1: your own with the solo relish dog. So I don't
Speaker 1: know's weird, Ben, that was really weird. I put mustard
Speaker 1: on it. I just eventually I took up. I didn't
Speaker 1: eat it with no mustard. I just took a picture
Speaker 1: with it. And you put you had a So what
Speaker 1: you did was you had a hot dog with just
Speaker 1: mustard and a hot dog with just relish, and then
Speaker 1: you put mustard on both so that you could make
Speaker 1: the medical which really was a smart thing by you.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, well, I mean, yeah, that
Speaker 1: that was enough I think to put you in the
Speaker 1: booth of shame, regardless of whether I came in and
Speaker 1: stole the seat at the table or not. Right, I'm
Speaker 1: learning this idea of like Twitter, triggering for for engagement.
Speaker 1: I'm just triggering people to to get more like you
Speaker 1: did say you did say that you went out and
Speaker 1: bought those hot dogs just to post after we talked
Speaker 1: about him on the after we talked about him on
Speaker 1: the podcast. But look, you gotta admire it, right, No, no,
Speaker 1: not when it's will all right. Well, as much as
Speaker 1: we could keep talking about the booth of shame and
Speaker 1: keep the hot dog conversation from last week going, we
Speaker 1: gotta talk a little something called training camp. What's that, Miles.
Speaker 1: We are here, we are watching practices. UM training camp
Speaker 1: is open to the media for the first time on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So we have been here every day trying to learn
Speaker 1: as much as we can, absorb as much as we
Speaker 1: can about how training camp looks under Yeah. No, so
Speaker 1: I think for for most of our fans that are
Speaker 1: you know, that are on Twitter, that are following all
Speaker 1: of our coverage on Panthers dot com, you know that
Speaker 1: we've we've seen these practices are high intensity. Yesterday was
Speaker 1: a big day for the defense, a lot of takeaways knockaways.
Speaker 1: But I want to know from you guys perspective. Y'all
Speaker 1: have been here, Kristen has been up at like five
Speaker 1: am in the morning, Miles is here at practice. Uh,
Speaker 1: you guys have been seeing some stuff. Give me some
Speaker 1: stories from this live show that Christian has been doing
Speaker 1: from Miles, from you being at practice. What are things
Speaker 1: that maybe we don't know from following on Twitter or
Speaker 1: me sitting in my house at home. Well, I think
Speaker 1: the the interesting thing is what happens when you get
Speaker 1: here and how different it usually would be from a
Speaker 1: normal practice. So basically there are two groups of media,
Speaker 1: and one group of media is on one side of
Speaker 1: the field. The other group of media is on the
Speaker 1: other side of the field on the hill. So I'm on,
Speaker 1: I'm in basically the second group of media, and so
Speaker 1: we gotta come in, we gotta get a vest. Watching
Speaker 1: practice has almost become the solo endeavor, which it usually
Speaker 1: really is not, because you have to stay six ft
Speaker 1: apart from people, and you're doing that to keep people safe.
Speaker 1: But one of the things that I've always loved about
Speaker 1: watching practice is getting the different view from another person,
Speaker 1: or comparing what you just saw to what somebody else
Speaker 1: just saw, because sometimes a turnover happens and it's like
Speaker 1: I was watching this part of this play, I didn't
Speaker 1: see who got it right, and then you're kind of
Speaker 1: stuck when you don't see it. So I think that's
Speaker 1: one of these things that just makes it makes it
Speaker 1: all so different, And you're not getting to know the
Speaker 1: people who are going to cover this team alongside you
Speaker 1: as well, because like I said, we're split up into
Speaker 1: two completely different groups. So it's interesting to see the
Speaker 1: way this team has had energy and all that and
Speaker 1: different stuff. But it's it's also really different, especially for
Speaker 1: a person who's just coming in and now covering the
Speaker 1: team and has not been here for a little while.
Speaker 1: That making practice is soul endeavor. It it it has
Speaker 1: it's it's drawbacks. I think, what about Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: gotta say, I really have enjoyed your articles, Um, shameless
Speaker 1: plug for you. I've really enjoyed your articles and the
Speaker 1: takeaways that you've had on Panthers dot com. Despite as
Speaker 1: you said, it's it's been a solo endeavor. You know,
Speaker 1: you can only just use your eyes and sometimes they're
Speaker 1: at the far end of the field. That's something that
Speaker 1: I've noticed when you were talking about it being a
Speaker 1: solo endeavor. You know, when they're at the far end
Speaker 1: of the field, usually we'd be able to to follow
Speaker 1: the action a lot better. I like to not only
Speaker 1: talk to the other people around me, but I like
Speaker 1: to see what what is the coach's reaction to that play,
Speaker 1: what are the other players reactions to that play? And
Speaker 1: I think it adds so much context for what you're
Speaker 1: seeing on the field. So that is also something that
Speaker 1: we're losing a little bit. But I really I do
Speaker 1: want to say I've I've really enjoyed all of your observations,
Speaker 1: UM from camp so far, and I've learned a lot,
Speaker 1: so you've handled it very well. UM. So from my end,
Speaker 1: we're doing UM this training Camp live look in show,
Speaker 1: which has been great. We have another one coming up
Speaker 1: tomorrow and then throughout the weekend, and we're starting them
Speaker 1: really early. We're all getting to the studio and so
Speaker 1: for me, you're talking about kind of the the behind
Speaker 1: the scenes of like getting to where you need to be. Well,
Speaker 1: I get into the studio, which is UM on field
Speaker 1: level of the stadium, but the only real way to
Speaker 1: to get over there with the current setup where everything
Speaker 1: is red lined and I can only walk in certain
Speaker 1: places is across the field. So I'm just like, I'm
Speaker 1: hustling across the field every morning to get over there
Speaker 1: with my backpack and stuff. And then the show ends.
Speaker 1: So for anyone who hasn't seen it, we go live
Speaker 1: when we when practice starts and when we can be
Speaker 1: in their usually individual period there stretch. But Control likes
Speaker 1: to change it up every day, so he there's a
Speaker 1: lot of NFL coaches that kind of follow the same
Speaker 1: general outline, the same general script um for their for
Speaker 1: their training camp practices, and Coatroll doesn't always like to
Speaker 1: do that. He wants to mix it up. So we're
Speaker 1: kind of on alert whenever they are ready um to
Speaker 1: start a certain portion of practice that we can show
Speaker 1: on the live looking So we're kind of sitting there,
Speaker 1: we're waiting, and uh we we get up, We do
Speaker 1: the show. We get to see some of the individual periods,
Speaker 1: and our camera operators have just been incredible, absolutely incredible,
Speaker 1: getting to see kind of a little bit more up
Speaker 1: close where you and I are talking about when you're
Speaker 1: out on the field based on where we have to stand.
Speaker 1: It's it's a lot tougher, so I'm getting some incredible lookings.
Speaker 1: It's so fun. We've had Jake Dilom and Roman Harper on.
Speaker 1: But so then we can only show up a certain
Speaker 1: portion of practice and then they go into the team period,
Speaker 1: the competition period of practice. So after the show raps,
Speaker 1: let's say that's you know nine, I then have to
Speaker 1: get back to the practice field, which is I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I'm getting my steps in, so I go across the
Speaker 1: regular field, back out down kind of the the steps
Speaker 1: and down kind of the walkway, and then into the
Speaker 1: practice field, and then I gotta go around the other
Speaker 1: side of the practice field and get my get my vest,
Speaker 1: get my credential, and then come back and let me
Speaker 1: tell you what I've started to. You know, just bring
Speaker 1: like a T shirt with me because you do the
Speaker 1: full show and then you're running across these hot fee
Speaker 1: olds trying to get there, and I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: quite the comedy of errors for me to get out
Speaker 1: there from the show, from the studio to see the
Speaker 1: last part of practice. But it's so worth it. So
Speaker 1: this is a thing for you know, if there are
Speaker 1: women listening that you wear something to be on air, right,
Speaker 1: to be in a studio, and then that's not what
Speaker 1: you want to watch practice in. Like, you know, you
Speaker 1: got your outfit to be in a studio show, and
Speaker 1: then I don't want to come out there and like
Speaker 1: a heel and you know, uh, synthetic shirt. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just not a good It's two different environments in
Speaker 1: a very short amount. I gotta tell you, christ And
Speaker 1: this is the best part about being a guy and
Speaker 1: sometimes being on camera and then having to go straight
Speaker 1: to practice is that you can just wear a polo
Speaker 1: and you're fine. You got that's really power for all occasions.
Speaker 1: A polo in shorts for training camp is perfect and
Speaker 1: that's all you need to do. And that's the best
Speaker 1: part about being a dude. Have you been able to
Speaker 1: watch the show from out on the field. Have you
Speaker 1: looked in at all? Not really, mainly because I mean
Speaker 1: it's going on is yeah, and you're taking you gotta
Speaker 1: get your stuff right. Yeah, Like Roman Harper the other
Speaker 1: day was fascinating, It was amazing, It was incredible, Like
Speaker 1: you know, I learned, I mean, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we all learned tons of stuff and I
Speaker 1: was kind of monitoring like the Facebook feed and all
Speaker 1: of these fans, you know, typically it's been kind of
Speaker 1: like all over the place with comments. Everyone was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Roman Harper is incredible. We want more
Speaker 1: of this. So it was it was really cool the
Speaker 1: way he was breaking down like quarters defense and talking
Speaker 1: about you know, opening hips and the way you attack
Speaker 1: the ball from you know, the certain side depending on
Speaker 1: your coverage, and all the things they were working on
Speaker 1: as you were watching it, you know, really up close
Speaker 1: and seeing like rules you know, uh, you know practice,
Speaker 1: uh you know way you know, both within in the
Speaker 1: bubble and outside the bubble. I mean, I I just
Speaker 1: I thought it was incredible, um, incredible content. Yeah, or
Speaker 1: just even when we couldn't have a camera on something,
Speaker 1: he would talk about proper elbow positioning for you know,
Speaker 1: doing a punch out, you know, and he I mean,
Speaker 1: and you didn't even need to see him to know
Speaker 1: what he was talking about. He explained it that well.
Speaker 1: I was like, gosh, I wish he could, you know,
Speaker 1: I wish he could have taught some of my college classes.
Speaker 1: Like he mainly broke everything to Jake learned, you know,
Speaker 1: and Jenks alone loves football studies. Football is you know,
Speaker 1: it takes every opportunity to be involved, and it was
Speaker 1: a great player himself, but he was like I learned
Speaker 1: a lot. I was like me too. It was just
Speaker 1: it's really he's got a great gift for for making
Speaker 1: it all digestible and interesting. That's awesome. Congratulations to Roman
Speaker 1: Harper though for getting hired on at SEC Network. So
Speaker 1: maybe hopefully they're very lucky to have him. Yeah, hopefully
Speaker 1: between the time he's got to go on there, maybe
Speaker 1: he'll have some time for us. Mr Jenkins told me.
Speaker 1: Mr Jenkis told me. Mr Jenkis told me to always
Speaker 1: make it easy for the customer. That's you. A lad
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Speaker 1: guarantee gotta Morrishtinkins dot com. So after we finish up
Speaker 1: with the training camp, in the actual practice part of it,
Speaker 1: they have been making players available, players and coaches available
Speaker 1: to the media, and we've heard just some great, great
Speaker 1: quotes over the last week. And we did this segment
Speaker 1: last week and we got to bring it back again
Speaker 1: this week. It's called overheard something overheard, all right, So
Speaker 1: the three of us each picked our favorite quote from
Speaker 1: this week. I'm going to start us off. Coach rule
Speaker 1: was asked on Monday, y KK short and Mike Davis
Speaker 1: showed up late to practice, and here's what he said. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they shut up late because I gave him the morning
Speaker 1: off to take their kids to school for the first
Speaker 1: day or be with their kids. Virtually, I gave every coach,
Speaker 1: staff member and player who has kids I think should
Speaker 1: be there for their kids first day of school, even
Speaker 1: if it's virtual. They should have breakfast with them and
Speaker 1: and help them get on the computer. They should drive
Speaker 1: him to school or whatever. So a lot of times,
Speaker 1: a lot of times people say they believe in stuff,
Speaker 1: they don't really do it, you know. I I believe
Speaker 1: very much in family, and I think being a father's
Speaker 1: and one of the most important is the most important
Speaker 1: thing that that I am and our players are. And
Speaker 1: so I asked the players to please take that time
Speaker 1: and I made a point to the team at the end.
Speaker 1: You know what a pro KK is and what a
Speaker 1: pro Mike Davis is that they did that and then
Speaker 1: they were there for you know, they were there for
Speaker 1: the beginning of practice pretty much. And it's like just
Speaker 1: at the first period. Um, you know, they didn't stop
Speaker 1: at Starbucks and get a coffee and relax. You know,
Speaker 1: they got there. Absolutely love that. And look, none of
Speaker 1: us here in this room have kids that I know of,
Speaker 1: but it still hits you. It's still what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: You don't have to have children for that to to
Speaker 1: hit you in a certain way. And I just thought, well,
Speaker 1: I thought that that was just a really cool thing
Speaker 1: to do and to to set the tone. I think
Speaker 1: that and we we have to plug another thing. We
Speaker 1: put out the preview for the next episode of Road
Speaker 1: to Restart Okay on Panthers dot Com and he mentioned
Speaker 1: that again, you know of you know, how do you
Speaker 1: be a man, a husband, a father, a professional and entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: You know, it's about doing your job, doing it well,
Speaker 1: and then doing it longer than anybody else, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think that that that that speaks to what
Speaker 1: he's trying to say of it's it's all. It's all
Speaker 1: great to just say stuff, to say things or tweet things,
Speaker 1: or you know, make a point of like, ah, you
Speaker 1: know this is the right thing to say, you know,
Speaker 1: but to like literally coaches are so adamant about every
Speaker 1: rep in practice and to let you know, veterans say hey, no,
Speaker 1: do this for your family first and then come to practice.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a huge thing for an NFL coach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought, I think I think it's so great, um,
Speaker 1: And you know, it's interesting to all of us working
Speaker 1: in this business. We have incredible jobs, and I know
Speaker 1: the players and coaches feel that way too, But there
Speaker 1: are a lot of things that you miss. So if
Speaker 1: this were you know, normal training camp or normal preseason,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have that opportunity. And so he said, look,
Speaker 1: I've never been able to let my daughters, um, walk
Speaker 1: my daughters to the bus stop, which is something he
Speaker 1: plans on doing tomorrow morning Thursday morning before practice. Said
Speaker 1: so I'm going to take advantage of it, and I
Speaker 1: want everyone else too as well. So I I thought
Speaker 1: that was really special. I think it's it really does
Speaker 1: speak to the character that Matt Rule has. And you know,
Speaker 1: I I like that kind of thing because to me,
Speaker 1: I remember, um, this was either in there was a
Speaker 1: player whose grandmother had died on the on the Rams,
Speaker 1: and what Jeff Fisher, than the head coach of the
Speaker 1: Rams allowed that player to do. His name is will Hayes,
Speaker 1: defensive end. So he his grandmother was super important to him.
Speaker 1: He went to the he went to the funeral, and
Speaker 1: he spent time with his family that week. And the
Speaker 1: thing that I remember Jeff Fishers saying was that is
Speaker 1: more important than what we're doing here. And I think
Speaker 1: that whenever coaches can really show that that it is
Speaker 1: more important than what they're doing with it, it's football, right,
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, it's a job. And
Speaker 1: I know it's a very important job and the entertainment
Speaker 1: and all that, and players make all money. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, there are more important things
Speaker 1: to do. And that's why I love that philosophy, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad that that's something that Matt World has. I agree. Alright, Miles,
Speaker 1: what was your sound bite this week? Yeah, it comes
Speaker 1: from Teddy Bridgewater and I did write a story about
Speaker 1: this at Panthers dot Com. You can go and check
Speaker 1: that out. If you'd like, there's another plug, because that's
Speaker 1: what we do here on the Happy half Hour. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Teddy bridge Water, I think he's he's an interesting guy
Speaker 1: in general, and I think that if you've heard anything
Speaker 1: about the Panthers throughout the course of this offseason and
Speaker 1: especially now that we've gotten into training camp, you know
Speaker 1: how good of a leader he is. And so he
Speaker 1: was asked what advice he's been giving to Will Greer
Speaker 1: and p J Walker as backup quarterbacks and what it
Speaker 1: takes to be a backup quarterback. And here's what he
Speaker 1: had to say. I shared a message with those guys
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago about how when my opportunity
Speaker 1: came last year against the Rams, and I wasn't prepared
Speaker 1: and I had my mind made up that man, I
Speaker 1: was behind Drew Brees previous year. He never missed the game,
Speaker 1: and man, I'm never going to play. That was my mindset.
Speaker 1: But and you you can always talk to talk talk
Speaker 1: to talk about hey, man, I'll be ready when my
Speaker 1: number is called, but you're never know until the opportunity
Speaker 1: posess itself. And that's something that I told those guys
Speaker 1: that man after that game against the Ram flash year
Speaker 1: like I was embarrassed. You know, I had to hear
Speaker 1: from my family, I had to hear from the fans
Speaker 1: and just everyone, and and I told myself, I never
Speaker 1: want to experience that again. So my message to those
Speaker 1: guys was just always stay ready. You know, it's easy
Speaker 1: to say, oh, man, I know this, I know that,
Speaker 1: but when you're out there a live action, you know
Speaker 1: you're truly ready. You Know. What I love about that
Speaker 1: is just the candor, because a lot of times, I
Speaker 1: think quarterbacks in this league are full of it right there,
Speaker 1: And there's a reason for that. You don't want to
Speaker 1: necessarily be the guy who goes and he says something
Speaker 1: that you know, makes all the headlines and embarrasses somebody
Speaker 1: else or what have you. You know, at quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: trained from really a young age to not say anything interesting.
Speaker 1: And I thought that that was really interesting because Bridgewater
Speaker 1: has gone through a lot right like that. In knee
Speaker 1: injury he suffered in was absolutely devastating. It would have
Speaker 1: ended the career of a lot of different players. So
Speaker 1: he had to be able to do a lot in
Speaker 1: order to just get himself back on the field, that's
Speaker 1: the first thing. And so there was probably a lot
Speaker 1: in his mind, and he admitted this that I probably
Speaker 1: will never get at the chance to be a starting
Speaker 1: quarterback ever again, especially when he was sitting behind Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: and so he didn't think he was going to get
Speaker 1: that opportunity, so he wasn't ready for it. So everybody
Speaker 1: always talks about, you know, you gotta stay ready so
Speaker 1: you don't have to get ready, or everybody says, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna prepare as if I'm the starter. And I thought
Speaker 1: it was so interesting that he talked about how he
Speaker 1: had to figure out look Drew Brees as Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees as his process. I gotta figure out the
Speaker 1: process that works for me, and that is something that
Speaker 1: he just had to develop. And then obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: even though if you look at his stats against threns
Speaker 1: really weren't that bad, he knew that it was not
Speaker 1: up to his standard. And then he goes out and
Speaker 1: the Saints go five and oh with him as a starter,
Speaker 1: and now look where he is. He's a starting quarterback
Speaker 1: for the Carolina Panthers. So I really liked how frank
Speaker 1: and how honest titty Bridgewater was there. I loved the
Speaker 1: candor absolutely know what else. I loved the question was, um,
Speaker 1: what have you shared with Will Greer and p J
Speaker 1: Walker in your time being in the quarterbacks room with him?
Speaker 1: So not only did he share the story about that
Speaker 1: he wasn't ready. That's what he's telling those guys like
Speaker 1: that would have that story. He would have told those
Speaker 1: guys that story whether or not he got asked that question.
Speaker 1: So what he's essentially telling them is, hey, guys, if
Speaker 1: something happens to me, you need to be ready. You know.
Speaker 1: I just think that that's and of course that's not
Speaker 1: at all what he wants or expects to happen, but
Speaker 1: he is coaching these guys through something he's been through
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, you gotta be ready. I just think
Speaker 1: that that's a really you want to talk about candor
Speaker 1: like that is. That's what that is, you know, where
Speaker 1: he's telling these guys, hey, you gotta be ready to
Speaker 1: take my spot if something happens. I just think that's
Speaker 1: such a selfless um way to coach your I mean,
Speaker 1: essentially you're editors. I I just thought that was so incredible.
Speaker 1: People give glip service to that. At camp every year
Speaker 1: we've seen a lot of quarterbacks who don't want anything
Speaker 1: to do with their backups, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean, but that's people talk about that
Speaker 1: all the time. You have, you know, a veteran come in,
Speaker 1: you know, you have a rookie draft pick. You know
Speaker 1: that it's obviously that you know the future of kind
Speaker 1: of this pass. We can think of a few off
Speaker 1: the top of our heads, big name veteran quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: have right, you know, and they say, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm you know, just doing my best to prepare, you know,
Speaker 1: to to help them out there. Let's be real, you know,
Speaker 1: like they're not doing their best. They're competing and they
Speaker 1: want the job for as long as they can handle it.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think Bridgewater is not doing anything
Speaker 1: to give it away. He's certainly not undermining the development,
Speaker 1: you know, the improvement, the readiness of these guys. He's
Speaker 1: encouraging them to be their best. Yeah, And that's leadership,
Speaker 1: right Like, That's what Matt Rules talked a lot about,
Speaker 1: especially of the course of training camp, is the real
Speaker 1: leaders on the team are the guys who do the
Speaker 1: best they can to make the players around them better, right.
Speaker 1: He said at about Russell o'cun He has said that
Speaker 1: about Teddy Bridgewater and anybody who I think has hurt
Speaker 1: anything seeing anything from Teddy Bridgewater knows that that's the
Speaker 1: kind of guy he is. Well, speaking of real leadership,
Speaker 1: will your favorite SoundBite of the week has something to
Speaker 1: do with a guy who's definitely a leader on this team.
Speaker 1: Trey Boston earlier this week talked about thieves Avenue thieves
Speaker 1: at as he calls it, and uh, you know, talked
Speaker 1: about renewing the lease, so we'll hear from him. No, No,
Speaker 1: it's the same. It's the same as wo mentality here. Uh,
Speaker 1: you got to just keep renewing it. You know. It's
Speaker 1: it's like it's like the lease, you know, we just
Speaker 1: renew it. We gotta everybody has to earn it. And uh,
Speaker 1: guys might come and go, but it's it's a lineage
Speaker 1: that we're passing down. And as long as I'm here,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be here with me. It's gonna be what
Speaker 1: we do. We are these we will rob teams of
Speaker 1: the rock and uh we will not give it back.
Speaker 1: We're taking fresh loop from letting you know, and we
Speaker 1: can't wait. I think, uh having that identity helps guys, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, come to come to work every day knowing
Speaker 1: that this is a brotherhood. We got to hold each
Speaker 1: other accountable, and we are thieves. So what do thieves
Speaker 1: do they steal? I think that idea of having an identity,
Speaker 1: it's Matt rule and everything is almost everything is completely
Speaker 1: different from this team in when they won the NFC championship.
Speaker 1: And I think that's good in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: You know, they're establishing new identities, they're establishing new words,
Speaker 1: new cultures, new new ways of doing things. There's new
Speaker 1: people to kind of help create that. But I think
Speaker 1: there's something special too about Trey Boston saying, hey guys,
Speaker 1: hey you young you young secondary players. There's something about
Speaker 1: this this group, this NFL team. We've been at the top.
Speaker 1: We've been there, we've been the best secondary in the NFL,
Speaker 1: leading the NFL and takeaways and interceptions on the biggest stages.
Speaker 1: And that group had a personality and we want to
Speaker 1: continue it now. And this is how this is a
Speaker 1: it's a word, it's a phrase, it's a mindset that
Speaker 1: we're trying to continue on. I think that's really special
Speaker 1: that that's a part of a larger new beginning of
Speaker 1: personality and culture and identity. But there's something that they're
Speaker 1: they're bringing along with them. There's a lineage there, right,
Speaker 1: And I think that anybody who knows anything about the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers, whether it's from a big league perspective or
Speaker 1: spum City, who has been a fan of this team
Speaker 1: since its inception back in the nineties, you know what
Speaker 1: it means to be on the Carolina Panthers defense. And
Speaker 1: I think that because of that, that's good. You know,
Speaker 1: you have somebody like Trey Boston who can continue to
Speaker 1: pass down that lineage to all the guys who need
Speaker 1: to start learning it. Yeah, I think it's also a standard.
Speaker 1: It's a standard. Well, this is what we are, this
Speaker 1: is how we identify, and this is what you need
Speaker 1: to live up to. And I remember talking to the rookies,
Speaker 1: UM who are now thieves. UM, I said, what do
Speaker 1: you guys think about that? You know, They're like, we
Speaker 1: love it, We absolutely love it. And so it's we've
Speaker 1: set this standard, as you said, with what we what
Speaker 1: we've done, the identity that we've created as the Panthers
Speaker 1: defense over these years, UM as thieves havev and you
Speaker 1: got to live up to it because it's something that
Speaker 1: UM is very important to us and you better not
Speaker 1: mess it up. Absolutely. What would you guys be if
Speaker 1: you were a member of the Thieves Customer Service Reps?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Myles, I don't know if you know about
Speaker 1: this or if everyone knows. So back in we heard
Speaker 1: this story from Kurt Coleman UM on our broadcast where
Speaker 1: we watched NFC Championship Game UM last Saturday, and he
Speaker 1: said that, you know, they identified so strongly with this
Speaker 1: Thieves app that they thought about, you know, making an
Speaker 1: LLC like they started just they went down this path
Speaker 1: of LLC. And then we heard a little bit more
Speaker 1: from Roman Harper on this. So essentially there was there's
Speaker 1: some confusion about Kurt Coleman's and Roman Harper and Peanuts
Speaker 1: Woman were board members because they were kind of getting
Speaker 1: up there in age. But then we talked to Roman Harper,
Speaker 1: he said he was the CEO. Kurt Coleman said he
Speaker 1: was the CEO. Anyway, confusion on who was ultimately the
Speaker 1: CEO of the group. But um, it was that Trey
Speaker 1: being the young guy was customer service. Everyone had a
Speaker 1: role and it filtered down and he was the young
Speaker 1: guy and what that meant was which I thought was
Speaker 1: really interesting. He had to keep the other guys in line,
Speaker 1: and so if there was anything that needed to go
Speaker 1: up the chain of command, it came up to you know, CFO,
Speaker 1: CEO board member, all that kind of stuff, which I
Speaker 1: actually thought was, you know, it's a cool identity, but
Speaker 1: it's actually a good way to run the secondary to like,
Speaker 1: is there anything that needs to be handled? Does anyone
Speaker 1: not pulling their way? Does anyone not doing their job?
Speaker 1: You know, bring it here and then it'll maybe go
Speaker 1: up the ladder. So, um, I mean, look, I think clearly.
Speaker 1: I mean clearly, I've got CEO vibes, right, I mean
Speaker 1: CEO vibes. I'm not laughing at you because you said CEO.
Speaker 1: I'm laughing at you because you said vibes. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got CEO vibes. Yeah. Yeah me. And And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a landlord. I'm the muscle of this.
Speaker 1: I collect checks, alright, alright, I think I'm certainly the
Speaker 1: customer service rap right, Like there's is there any doubt
Speaker 1: about that? I don't know, is there is that? What? You?
Speaker 1: I feel like you would not want to deal with customers? No,
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't, but I think that, you know from
Speaker 1: if it was my company, I would not I would
Speaker 1: not put you to deal with the customers strong opinions
Speaker 1: on so many things. Wow, Miles, view yourself as like
Speaker 1: customer service material? No, I know, probably not. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: if you got to work your way up, right, like
Speaker 1: if Trey Boston is now the CEO, then that I
Speaker 1: see myself as somebody who has to prove himself right,
Speaker 1: somebody who has to work his way up from the
Speaker 1: bottom and start from the bottom. And now you know
Speaker 1: you're you're there, you'll be there right all right, Drake,
Speaker 1: I can see that. I can see that you have
Speaker 1: the Maclamore reference. Last week you got the Trake reference.
Speaker 1: We almost missed the Maclamore reference. Can we go back,
Speaker 1: because that's the moment. Oh, here we go again, Miles,
Speaker 1: Miles in the booth of shame next week. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that for Miles, Um, Okay, this was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun recapping what we've seen so far of training camp.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you think about it in an
Speaker 1: alternate reality, if this were a normal season, that it
Speaker 1: There's would have faced the Jaguars last week in the
Speaker 1: first preseason game, and right now they'd be getting ready
Speaker 1: to take on the Patriots tomorrow, which is is just
Speaker 1: wild to think about. Krick Kristen, do you ever watch
Speaker 1: Rick and Morty? No, I've never seen it. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: on my list, it's on my list. All right. Well,
Speaker 1: there's basically a plot point in the show where there's
Speaker 1: basically infinite dimensions, infinite realities, and so basically in another reality,
Speaker 1: I have already seen this game, and so essentially I
Speaker 1: could be from another reality and like say, it's reality
Speaker 1: four four six, right, and now this is reality three
Speaker 1: three four Now four four six Miles could come in
Speaker 1: and replace three three four miles and you would never know,
Speaker 1: but you could maybe figure it out because four four
Speaker 1: six miles has seen this game. We'll see if we've
Speaker 1: got four four six miles and will um, I think
Speaker 1: I just completely derailed this podcast. Where to go from
Speaker 1: the point? From this, we're taking miles alternate reality, infinite
Speaker 1: number of parallel universes and running with it. Will you
Speaker 1: are going to bring us a report from an alternate
Speaker 1: timeline of where we are in the middle of the
Speaker 1: pre season, right what you got for us? We're here
Speaker 1: from Foxborough, Massachusetts, getting ready for tomorrow's game Panthers Patriots.
Speaker 1: Panthers want to know in the preseason Patriots so and one,
Speaker 1: Carolina came out at really hot in the second half
Speaker 1: last week, Will Greer really took over for Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: after Bridgewater let an opening drive touchdown. Greer went thirteen three,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, one interception, a little bit of action for
Speaker 1: p J. Walker, then in the fourth quarter touchdown to
Speaker 1: Seth Roberts. Lots of running for Mike Davis and Jordan's Scarlett.
Speaker 1: Will look to see them a little bit more. Tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: second preseason game is a huge matchup. Obviously, we'll have
Speaker 1: to see whether the quarterbacks will take on the two
Speaker 1: new starters of Cam Newton and Teddy Bridgewater. Newton obviously
Speaker 1: injured his foot in this game, the second preseason game
Speaker 1: and Foxborough last year, so he's a He's questionable on
Speaker 1: the preseason injury report list, because everyone's questionable on Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick's preseason report list. So we don't know what we're
Speaker 1: going to see tomorrow. This guy, you know, there is
Speaker 1: no preseason injury report. He is a fake. He is
Speaker 1: a fake and a phony, and that is how we
Speaker 1: know he is not from this dimension. I thought it
Speaker 1: was good. Maybe I'm freaking Morty. I thought it was
Speaker 1: spot on that that was my best Jim Zoky impression.
Speaker 1: That was awesome, great though I was, I was hearing
Speaker 1: it in my headset. Actually, like that's what That's what
Speaker 1: I was trying to turn again his postgame. Can we
Speaker 1: can we get him on one of his podcasts to
Speaker 1: like do a Will Brian impression? I think that because
Speaker 1: need all the Will impressions every single week. I was
Speaker 1: gonna start working on next week's already. That was awesome.
Speaker 1: For the record, Rick and Morty is a great show.
Speaker 1: Don't let Miles. I saw you grabbed for the mic.
Speaker 1: I should have gone to you. All right, Well we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna keep it weird. Alright, Miles has started
Speaker 1: us down this road. We're gonna keep it weird. We
Speaker 1: always do our weird Question of the week, and this
Speaker 1: weekend is brought to us once again by our friend
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Patrick t Vogel. He's dude, he nails
Speaker 1: it with the question. Great questions, great questions. All right,
Speaker 1: so here's this one's um, he says, in honor of
Speaker 1: Duncan releasing Pumpkin spice drinks. He wants to know if
Speaker 1: we are on board with the pumpkin spice madness, as
Speaker 1: he puts it. Uh, will any strong thoughts on pumpkin spice?
Speaker 1: Not in my coffee? In my beer? Alright? Okay? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like in like a nice October fest. Yeah, I'm I
Speaker 1: can't say it because I don't know where the sponsors are,
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to even like name a brand
Speaker 1: or name a type. But I have some very very
Speaker 1: particular um fall beers that I'm looking forward to experienced
Speaker 1: media professional right now, that's a really good stay man.
Speaker 1: Not naming it just in case one day they want
Speaker 1: to sponsor. Will Brian love it? All? Right? Myles? What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on pumpkin spice? But you know what,
Speaker 1: I can go. I don't really care that much about it,
Speaker 1: you know, I just it's fine if I'm going to
Speaker 1: a coffee establishment, a cafe, and I prefer to do
Speaker 1: it in winter because then they might have a salted
Speaker 1: caramel mocha. That is my that's my real big get
Speaker 1: at the place. Yeah, that's what I get at the
Speaker 1: at the place that may or may not have coffee.
Speaker 1: Do you have strong opinions? On this pumpkin spice. Um,
Speaker 1: I've never had it. You never had not once? That's
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. I mean, like, I've only had a pumpkin
Speaker 1: spice lot day. I think once. I never tried. I
Speaker 1: couldn't tell you what I mean. I can assume what
Speaker 1: the flavor is. I enjoy like a pumpkin pie. Never
Speaker 1: had it. It never seemed something like something i'd want to,
Speaker 1: you know, partake in. No one's ever offered it to me.
Speaker 1: I was certainly not going to go buy one, so
Speaker 1: I never had one. Are you a big coffee drinker? Um?
Speaker 1: Not a lot. I'll drink a black coffee. Yeah. That's
Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. So from the person that only
Speaker 1: like sketch up on her hot dogs, she wants nothing
Speaker 1: in her coffee. I just don't want pumpkin spice in
Speaker 1: my coffee. Like, look, if you hand me like a
Speaker 1: whatever whatever Miles said, sure, I'll try it, like that's
Speaker 1: on delicious, But I'm not. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I'm a simple. I'm a simple. I've got the
Speaker 1: taste of a twelve year old whatever. Um, but here's mine.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Whatever black coffee, Um, except for
Speaker 1: that that's weird black coffee. I mean, if that's not
Speaker 1: a twelve year old you know. Yeah, I don't know play,
Speaker 1: I don't know plain stuff. Maybe is that plain things?
Speaker 1: What do you get on a Hamburger? I don't hamburgers
Speaker 1: different At a different time, I just had a big
Speaker 1: I'm not a big beef person anyway, So I have beef. Now,
Speaker 1: go well, I gotta beef with you with all the
Speaker 1: things you're saying about alternate reality. Yeah, Miles is in there,
Speaker 1: although maybe, yeah, maybe Miles will get it if we
Speaker 1: can get away from my hamburger, my shameful Hamburger takes.
Speaker 1: I might have to go into the booth. If Myles
Speaker 1: sent and saved me with all of his quotes. Um,
Speaker 1: here's my issue though, Why pumpkin spice? It's August? It's August.
Speaker 1: That's what I have the bigger issue with As a kid.
Speaker 1: Did you guys get really really sad when it would
Speaker 1: still be at the middle of summer and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they're putting out the backpacks and stuff at
Speaker 1: stores and you're like, we got six weeks, what are
Speaker 1: we doing. It's not just the back but it's more
Speaker 1: than notebooks. The binders, all the pencils. There's there's like flannel.
Speaker 1: Are you're going to Target? You've got notebooks and pencils
Speaker 1: and then flannel, and you're like, it's it's the beginning
Speaker 1: of August. Spirit Halloween is already open in certain places.
Speaker 1: I've saw one going down the street the other day.
Speaker 1: There's a Spirit Halloween open somewhere and it is August nineteen.
Speaker 1: Are we even gonna have Halloween? You know? Probably not
Speaker 1: like that. I feel like that's not something that we
Speaker 1: should be doing right now. Have it in your heart, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we can have Halloween in your heart. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know we you can have it in your heart,
Speaker 1: my heart, I don't know. That's that affair though. I
Speaker 1: avoid the idea of even, you know, thinking of having children,
Speaker 1: just because I would get so terrified of needing to
Speaker 1: buy back to school supplies in July, Like I want
Speaker 1: to go back get your you can get your pumpkin
Speaker 1: spice latte, and you're back to school supplies. It is
Speaker 1: getting a little bit cooler. You've had some cooler weather. True.
Speaker 1: The good thing about being an adult now is that
Speaker 1: that usually meets football, Like that's the that's the biggest
Speaker 1: switch for me being a kid to an adult. To
Speaker 1: tie it all together. Christen, you know what you are
Speaker 1: broadcast professional. Oh I don't know about professional, but I
Speaker 1: am in broadcasting, you know what. Thank you for pointing
Speaker 1: out that I tied it all together and keep on talking.
Speaker 1: But you're right, it's probably a good place to leave
Speaker 1: it it probably well. This has been prevent me from
Speaker 1: saying anything else. This has been awesome. Will you are
Speaker 1: a trooper over there in the booth of shame. I
Speaker 1: think we agree that Myles is in the next week,
Speaker 1: right for sure? I agree myself. I got one more
Speaker 1: week until I had to go in myself. Um. Thank
Speaker 1: you everyone for listening, and we'll see you next week.