WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 140: Huge Jump 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:05.400 This week on a Happy half Hour, he was getting better. 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.280 The progress was steadily going in one direction, but the 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:09.719 increments were very small. 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:11.680 Sunday he took a huge jump. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.680 The game he played in Germany compared to the game 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.120 he played here on Sunday, it was two different sports. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.439 I mean it was yeah, you know, Trevon Wallace said it. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:21.600 That was Alabama Price. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:23.520 What's the cow? 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:24.360 Whoa? 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:31.000 It's time for the Happy Half Hour, presented by Southern Star, 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:37.400 an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. Here are your hosts, 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:39.960 Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill. 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:47.199 Hello, friends, Welcome to this week's Happy Half Hour. I 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.839 gotta tell you missed the show. Within the show, we 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.160 might have to have podcasts. Matt Splice in the director's 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:54.800 cut with the bonus footage. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.400 I don't like this. It's making fun of me. 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.160 Well, no, we'll treat this like a Burt Reynolds Dom 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.160 Delawi's movie The boot Blooper reel. At the end, we 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.839 got you know, they're they're just things. Cassidy, bless her heart, 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.880 does not know yet. It's not our fault. 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:08.680 She's just young. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.679 So anyway, this is the Happy Half Hour presented to 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.920 you by Southern Star, an official bourbon partner of the 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:21.360 Carolina Panthers. Celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas and my friends, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.040 we almost all. 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.319 Of those people in the stadium the other day. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:31.000 All most had something big to celebrate, didn't they. 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.760 When when they kept getting a chance for another for 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.280 a two point conversion and it got moved up to 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.520 the one yard line, I looked at I looked at 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.160 the guy sitting next to me, and I was like, 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.280 this is are we about to win this game? But 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.559 alast you forget Patrick Mahomes is on the other side 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.440 and he does Patrick Mahomes things. But what a game? 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.000 What a great football game. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:55.200 Yeah, it was just an. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.960 Entertaining, well played game from beginning to end. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:01:58.560 You know. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.960 And I was joking, We're half joking last week when 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:03.800 I said this, and I mentioned this as Oki in 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:05.800 the pregame show, I said, you just got to kind 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.600 of unburden yourself of expectations, so you kind of go 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.639 in and you don't know, I mean, there was no 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.200 empirical reason for that game to turn out the way 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.720 that game turned out. Kanas City Chiefs from nine to one. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.240 They got Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid in the top five defense. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.120 Carolina Panthers were three and seven and struggled to beat 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.320 Saints and the Giants the last two weeks. That one 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.560 shouldn't have gone the way it went. But the amazing 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:33.280 thing about that is, and this that game contained multitudes 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.239 because the easiest thing to do and the easiest thing 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.400 for Dave Canalis and Bryce s Young to grab hold 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.280 of would be dang, we almost. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:41.680 Did that, right. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.120 That was awesome and we almost did that awesome thing. 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:49.280 But the reaction from those guys was we got to 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.200 get that one in the future, and both of them 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.200 in the aftermath of the game, that was kind of 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:58.440 the consistent message of if anybody was thinking about moral victory, 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.640 they were heading that off fit the past. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.960 Yeah, you know, I believe it was Ikey who said 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.520 yesterday when we were talking to him on Monday, you know, 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.400 we all play in the same NFL like, we've got 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:13.840 to win that and that's just a good reminder and 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.440 that's what we're here for to kind of to dap 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.919 up and say, hey, let's look at the good parts 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.480 and this and that and the other. But in that 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.200 locker room that you know, throw the record out the window. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.120 We're all in the same NFL. We're all one of 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.280 thirty two teams, right, we should be able to go 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.080 out there and finish that off, right, But there is 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.560 still something to be said about going toe to toe 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.640 with the defending Super Bowl champs. Two time MVP, like 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.480 you said, a top five defense, and I think a 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.560 lot of what went well on Sunday, you know, players 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.920 told us that Bryce Shong gave a speech after the game, 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.960 which is which is not all that common, so it 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.680 kind of stood out just that he did that. And 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.040 jac Horn said that Bryce said, this wasn't a fluke, 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.280 this is who we are and we can win these games, 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.400 and that he was right, Like it wasn't like, oh, 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.080 they just had some weird things break their way to 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.080 keep that game close. They played their way into keeping 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.920 that game close. And a lot of what went well 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.919 were things that you have seen them building on to 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.680 this point and trying to address and working on and 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.520 getting better at the things that didn't go well, or 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.640 the things that they've been pretty open about need to 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.960 get better. And you know, it's you kind of saw 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.160 a clear line of demarcation the other day, like these 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.200 are the things we're doing well. Keep building on that 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.080 these are the things that we need to bring along 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.400 to kind of get us over the hump to win 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:40.480 those sort of games. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.560 Right, And that's one of the things. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.400 And I've been thinking about this a lot in the 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.040 last couple of days because overthinking things is the. 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:47.440 Thing I do. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:52.960 Wow, the Carolina Panthers did things that they hadn't been doing. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.839 I think that was to me when we look back 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.160 at that game a year from now, if the situation 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.880 is very different with this team, if this team's something 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.080 other than three and eight going into the last six 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.599 games of the season, I think we're going to look back. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:07.080 On that game. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.240 Is normally for the Carolina Panthers to have a chance 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.760 to win that game, Chewba Hubbard's got to run for 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.559 one twenty five or one fifty. The defense has got 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.240 to get a bunch of stops beyond what you think 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.960 they're going to do, and they've got to, you know, 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.360 kind of bottle things up a little bit, keep Patrick 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:27.000 Mahomes in. 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.400 Front of them. They did things that were out of character. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.239 Bryce Young was throwing passes that we haven't seen him throw, 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:40.480 or at least haven't seen him complete all season. Chewba 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:45.400 Hubbard was not a factor until middle of the third quarter. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.599 In on, which I mean the Chiefs sold out to 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:49.320 stop the run. 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.200 And listen, if I was game planning to play Dave 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.120 Canalison and Carolina Panthers, that's exactly where I would begin 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.360 to because that's the thing most likely to give me trouble. 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:02.800 Juba wasn't a factor until he was. The defense was 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.960 getting strafed early on. They allow the Chiefs score five 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.400 straight possessions. Granted two of those were field goals, and 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.920 that was huge because anytime you get a red zone 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.240 stop on Patrick Mahomes, that's a win. Anytime you make 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.560 you know whoever kick, whether it's Harrison Butcker when he's healthier, 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.400 Spencer Trader the other day, if Spencer Trader's on the 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.479 field instead of Patrick Mahomes, that's a w for your defense. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.039 And that defense got stops in the fourth quarter. Yeah, 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.120 they sacked Patrick Mahomes five times. This team had twelve 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:34.560 sacks and ten games. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:36.400 That's not what they do. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.120 And to me, that's the biggest sign of progress is 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.680 Bryce Young did things Bryce Young hadn't done. That defense 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.239 did things that defense hadn't done. And if you're looking 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.080 for a path forward, for the Carolina Panthers. Those are 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.760 the two areas to me where you see the most 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:53.679 hope for the future. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.400 And of course we talk all the time too about 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.240 complimentary football. That's what the offense the defense did, and 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.200 that's what the offense did within itself as well. Oh, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.359 they were able to run you, but more in the 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.240 second half because the Chiefs had to start dropping back 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.280 and protecting the past more because of what Bryce did 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:13.840 in the right And we've seen him slowly ever since 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.160 he came back after the benching, we've seen him start 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.560 to be more confident with those throws. You know, he 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.600 had a couple of throws in Denver where it was like, oh, okay, 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.080 he uncorked that and just you know, he and the 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.120 receiver weren't on the same page, or sometimes they were, 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.360 and you know, but it didn't end up making a difference. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:34.200 At the end of the day. We've seen him steadily 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.240 get more and more confident, which is what they wanted. 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.480 And they also wanted him to get the ball out 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.800 quicker and buddy, did he do that on Sunday. He 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.440 was blitzed more on Sunday than he ever has been 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.200 in a game in his career. He was blitched forty 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:51.000 percent of his dropbacks. That's an insane number. And all 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.200 he did was go eleven to fourteen for I think 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.840 one hundred and twenty plus yards in a touchdown against 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:56.320 the Blitz. 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.520 Yeah, I mean that was the thing. 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.120 And I keep going back to with Bryce over the 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:07.080 last month and again part of you know, I've been 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.160 standing here in one place doing this thing for thirty years, 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.040 and they all sort of start to blend together. But 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.880 I think it's worth kind of stepping back and looking 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.440 at things from a wider lens. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:18.880 Every now and then, if. 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.080 Andy Dalton doesn't get hit by a car on a 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.800 Tuesday before we go to Denver, none of this happens. 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.640 There was no indication that anything other than Andy Dalton 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.040 playing out the season was going to be what happened 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.840 for the Carolina Panthers. So if not for a traffic 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.680 accident on a Tuesday, Bryce doesn't get back on the field, 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:42.160 and since then the progress And you can't see this, 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.760 but this go theater of the mind with me. I'm 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.760 holding my fingers just a little bit apart, like a 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.440 finger's with a part. Bryshung was getting better that much 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.760 at a time. The first three weeks, when you go Denver, 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:55.400 New Orleans the Giants. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:56.040 He was getting better. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.320 The progress was steadily going in one direction, but the 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:00.800 increments were very small. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.400 Sunday he took a huge jump. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.679 I mean, and it's just the game he played in 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.240 Germany compared to the game he played here on Sunday, 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.960 it was two different sports. I mean, it was this, 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.200 you know, Trevon Wallace said it. That was Alabama Bryce. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.640 We've seen that that was the guy who was dealing confidently, 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.560 and he really was, I mean, standing in the face 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.200 of that pressure making some of those throws. I mean 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.960 when they go zero and everybody's coming and he hits 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.080 lega for the first down, It's like. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:37.040 Whoof Yeah. I think that was maybe the most impressive part. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.800 And I think we also just asn't decide to have 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.080 to maybe give some credits to the fact that being 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.360 able to sit back and catch his breath for those 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:50.400 five weeks that Andy did play probably worked. Wonders just 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:54.240 being able to focus purely on the game book, the 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.719 playbook and practice without necessarily having to I don't want 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.439 to say worry about the game, but because he was 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.960 still prepared, you never know what Obviously, you never know 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:04.520 what's going to happen and when you have to step in. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.880 But being able to focus on what he needed to do, 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.360 I think took a lot of weight off his shoulders 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.280 and now we're seeing play more free year because of it. 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.520 But to your point, I mean, you look at, for example, 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.480 that Green Bay game last year where he technically had 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.760 his best statistical game, right that he still had more 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.440 yards in that game than he did on Sunday. 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:25.880 M hm. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.640 But that was a lot of running for his life 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.680 and dumping it off and and had the advantage of 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.920 playing against a defense that wasn't there to cover things. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.320 What a what a wonderful way of saying that. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.800 Something came up the other day and somebody said, that's 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.560 a real rider way to explain that. And I think 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:52.280 that's another example of that. You described the Packers defense accurately. 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.719 There they weren't there to cover things. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.240 But then you see on Sunday, I mean he had 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.640 a conversion to Adam Thingland. I think it was a 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.680 third or fourth down conversion. I mean the guy was 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.120 draped on him. He got a PI call as well 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.840 a DPI call, but that ball was perfectly placed to Thielen, 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.760 and he was not scared to kind of put it 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.280 over there and let his guy make a catch. He 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.360 had a play to get down the right sideline at 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.320 one point that was not the one that got dropped, 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:23.840 But this one was a conversion as well. It got 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.680 him down close to the red zone and he threw 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.720 that ball. He never left the pocket and there was 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.079 a blitz coming. He knew it was coming, he saw it. 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.400 He never left the pocket. He stood in there. He 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.840 delivered that ball as he took a massive hit. I 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.679 don't know if he makes those plays a year ago. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.480 I don't know if he makes those plays two months ago. 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.480 Yeah, I mean, and it's fair to ask. And again 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.200 I try to take the longer view of these things. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.000 Playing quarterback in the NFL is really hard. There's a 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.120 reason Andy Dalton's good at it. He's done it for 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.120 a long long time. Bryce has done it for a 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.640 very short amount of time. And because we have this 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:03.120 tin and now in our modern culture, to every day 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.280 is a referendum on forever, and so whatever it is 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.240 right now is the thing everybody assumes it has to be. 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.360 And after the way last year when everybody assumed Bryce 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.000 is always going to be bad at football. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:15.760 Everybody assumed that CJ. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.840 Stroud's always going to be great at football. Early this year, 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.280 Caleb Williams has four or five good games and they're like, 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.160 oh my god, look at Caleb Williams. Now, you know, 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.800 there's this thing called regression to the mean and people 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.240 start to it takes time for people to become what 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.840 they are, and I think Bryce is still very much 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.199 in the evolution of his own game. And I also 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.840 don't want to get caught in the trap of assuming 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.520 Bryce is always going to look like this. In anybody's season, 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.520 there high points, low points. That's why I like averages, 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.480 and I just want to see what it looks like 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.800 six weeks from now, built on this. I want to 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.360 see how he takes this and turns it into the 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.880 next six weeks of the season, because that was it. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.880 One of the other big takeaways is Dave Canalis has 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.320 always been one week at a time, and ask me 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.760 again on Wednesday, who's going to start Sunday. He was like, 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.439 I don't need to say anything. Bryce told you everything 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.280 you needed to see out there today. I mean, and 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.240 Dave just you know, it's reached the point where you 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:18.880 just kind of shrugged and it was like, well, yeah, 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:19.560 he's starting. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.560 Of course, did you see the game he just played. 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.199 So now it's on Bryce to see how he can 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.960 build on it, to see what's next for him, because 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:30.200 we're getting back to the brice a lot of people 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.000 were expecting a year and a half ago when he 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.160 was drafted based on everything we had seen in Alabama, 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.319 because again, as Trevon Waller said, that was Alabama. 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.959 Bryce, right now that he has seen himself do it too, 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.760 very curious what Sunday looks like because this Tampa Bay defense, 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:52.280 the secondary figuring out the right way to put this. Okay, 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.640 let's just use the numbers this The Tampa Bay secondary 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:59.160 is twenty eighth in the league overall. Now that Bryce 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:00.880 has kind of seen what he can do, and that's 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.040 not to say he's going to go out there and 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.040 light him up and toward the place, but it is 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.960 can he take another step forward right now that he 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.960 has seen the tape and he and his receivers are 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.720 getting closer on the same page in chemistry because some 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.800 of those incompletions on Sunday too were drops. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:18.560 You know. 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:22.080 Xavierally Get told us yesterday that when he went home 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.600 Sunday night and kind of watched the film. He ended 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.360 up texting Bryce about that play that was down the 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.120 left side line and apologize and he's like, you put 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.000 it in the perfect spot. I should have caught that, 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:33.080 Like that was on me. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:33.800 Well. 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.160 And one of the things against the Bucks, I mean, 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.600 you mentioned are they at top five defense? 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:39.480 They are not. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.000 They're a bottom five defense. 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.120 Is Todd Bowles really good at coaching ball? 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.160 He absolutely is. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.080 And Todd's one of those coaches who is great at 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.440 coaching any one particular game. I just love the way 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.800 I love his approach to it. I think he is 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.520 one of those coaches who is good for long stretches 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.400 of time. If you want to raise the level of 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.200 your organization, Todd Bowles is the kind of coach you 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:07.280 want to have around he is. He is so good defensively. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.160 He can turn the screws on you in one particular 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:14.840 week and make anybody look see Canalis. Yep, he certainly 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.280 does that. So it's going to be interesting. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.640 But I think that you know you're gonna hear it. 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:23.560 And it started to creep in a little bit, in 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.040 the little bit that people were allowing themselves to think 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.760 positively about that game that that unfolded. You know, somebody 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.920 with I think it was Rob Hunt, said hey, we're 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.560 three and eight, we got stuff to play for. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.880 Yeah, which, mathematically. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.480 Yes, congratulations, you're in the still in the Hunt graphic 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.880 because you haven't been eliminated and you have the good 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.600 fortune of playing in the NFC South, the trailer park 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.120 of the NFL. Uh. 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:48.800 I've said it all the time. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:52.120 Every trailer park gets haveing hoa, somebody's got to be 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.200 the president. So uh, it's still right there in front 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:56.960 of you. There are three games out of the division 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.880 league with six to play, and I've seen weirder things happen. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.400 In this you know, yess of a division. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:05.640 So way division games to play too. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:10.080 Yeah, I mean, anything can happen. But I think, to me, 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.720 I tend to look at this as what is this 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.320 doing to set this team up for next year? And 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:20.800 I think being in a game like Sundays, seeing how 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.120 close how far away they are from how close they 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.240 need to be because there's still a lot of stuff 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:31.960 going wrong. They you know, coaches love winning games where 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:35.440 they've got object lessons to show people in concrete things. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.520 They lost that game, but all Dave Canal's got to do. Say, Hey, 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:40.920 you want to beat the Chiefs, be better in the 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.400 red zone, you want to beat the Chiefs, get off 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:47.680 field on third down. He's got those very tangible teaching 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.760 points to lean on coming out of this game, and 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.480 I think that's going to serve these guys well, because 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.920 these guys have started to figure something out. This reminds 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.920 me so much of two thousand and two when John 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.360 Fox came in first as a head coach. They won 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.480 their first three games based on a defense that was 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.119 hard from day one. I mean, you walked into a 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.640 group with Dan Morgan, Chris Jenkins, Julius Peppers, and it's like, oh, 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.160 they're pretty good. And then they went through a long 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.200 stretch and eight game losing streak in the middle of 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.720 the season where they couldn't score a point, couldn't do 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.320 anything right. And then at the end of the year 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.720 you saw that turn. They go up to Cleveland, they 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.920 win an ugly game in Cleveland and win like whatever 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.600 it happened to be for their last five I think 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.560 it was finish seven and nine. 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.240 Yeah, turned a three and eight into a seven and nine. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:36.560 So for the last. 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:40.320 Five and they started to find out a personality, and 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.480 we all know what happened. The next year, they got 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.239 on a run, went to the Super Bowl, which at 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:48.200 dilom a quarterback. I don't know that they're necessarily anticipating 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.280 a quarterback change right now, but this team is starting 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.560 to figure out a personality. And if Bryce being confident 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.679 in making throws like he made Sunday as part of 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.679 that personality, there is definitely some stuff to build on 0:17:59.800 --> 0:17:59.959 for them. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.000 On that note, can we talk about the defense for 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:06.040 equipment we should how much stock do you put in 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.760 I don't want to say like a game changer, but 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:11.080 one guy being a lynch pin. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.480 You're talking about DJ Watts, Yes, yeah, I mean, And 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.159 that's the thing in a three to four defense, at 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.080 outside linebacker position is the most important position on the field. 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.200 And if you've got a guy like Jadavian Clowney out 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.000 there run around by himself, there ain't so much he 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.320 can do. You put a guy on the other side, 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.840 and that's that force multiplayer. It's the guy who makes 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.560 everything else work a little better around him. 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.359 And I just I do I look at this team. 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.200 I mean, when the Carolina Panthers going to the offseason 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.719 We've got a lot of time to talk about offseason stuff, 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:44.800 but I think one of the keys is going to 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.520 be adding dudes on defense, people who chase quarterbacks around 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.280 in the front seven specifically, is going to be one 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:56.600 of Dan Morgan's focuses this offseason. But DJ Wadham's done 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:58.280 a job in a couple of weeks. He's got a 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:02.480 sack in each game, and he frees things up on 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.000 the other side. And you've seen a more active Clowney. 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:09.639 You've seen you know, Ashawn Robinson continuing to do the work. 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.400 I mean, my guysh that guy he left the game, 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.320 came out. Uh, he was clearly hurt. I saw him 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.320 leading the stadium with a cast on his hand. 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:18.000