WEBVTT - The Group Chat Episode 12: Southern Mama 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, guys. This week on the group chat, we are 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:06.760 crowning a homecoming King. Ross Cockell's guy they really trust 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:09.440 and are counting on. So he stepped in there and 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:12.800 I thought played extremely well against that Houston offense and 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:14.880 obviously had the big play right. And then we are 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.800 previewing the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars right here at 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:21.640 Bank of America Stadiums. And even when you're playing Jacksonville, 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:23.360 there's something that's kind of There's been a lot of 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.319 cool games against Jacksonville over the years. We have that 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:29.840 and so much more, including a special guest you do 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:42.920 not want to miss. You've been added to the group 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.600 chat with your friends. Caroline can, Max Sensen, and Will 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:51.400 Brian guys were here. We didn't forget about the group chat. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.560 We just wanted you to wait. You know, great things 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.120 are worth waiting for. And we're one day late with 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:02.600 a group chat. And one person noticed, I didn't think 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.800 you're going to reveal that it was just one. It 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.640 was just one. But we all start somewhere and we're 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:10.880 going to celebrate that one person that was asking, yeah, 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.800 shout out to you, so thank you. You're actually the 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:18.480 president of the group he's now. Congratulations for recognizing that 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.200 we are a day late on this. But sometimes life 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.200 just gets a little headtick around here, and we've been 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.880 running around. So it's like my dad when I'm late 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.160 on the snap counts. He calls and leaves the messages 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.080 when the snap counts art up because he wants to 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.959 know what the snap counts are. My dad wanted to 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.920 know where the vlog had been. This was weeks ago. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.680 He called. My dad's a big Texter and he always 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.040 sends emojis with those text messages. But he called and said, 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.039 you know, I've I've missed your videos. Where's the vlog? Said? 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.320 I know, Dad, but we got him one. If you 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.880 haven't seen the blog yet, there's my shameless plug to 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.400 go watch. The can came from Houston, but Houston. That 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.920 was fun and started out a little rocky, but thankfully 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.640 it ended like it did in Arizona. Your Panthers are 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.160 two and two, and we have to follow up something 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.320 from last week. We nominated a homecoming court, so now 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.760 we must crown our homecoming king, the biggest honor that 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:15.400 anyone on this football roster could possibly get. Here we 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:19.440 go aside from a thumbs up your We did start 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:24.000 a lot of words. Yeah, yeah, I'm just hey, I'm 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.560 just trying to give give some shout out, give some awards. 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.639 We did start a new segment sidebar, We started a 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.720 new segment called the Weekly because it comes out weekly. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.400 It's pretty creative. But Bill and I are back with 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.280 our daily esque type video and we hand out these 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:45.040 amazingly cheap thumbs up trophies. If you haven't seen it, 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:49.120 go to Twitter, my Twitter or Bill's panther. Bill Uh, 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.040 just I think it's you know, you know where those 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.880 trophies came from a couple of years ago. Our department 0:02:55.560 --> 0:03:00.360 for like morale after some games would give we would 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.280 like give it to somebody who had a really good 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.280 game day, like in the digital department. So it was 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:09.320 like Melissa got like these amazing photos and it was like, Melissa, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.880 you've you've earned the thumbs up trophy for this week. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.920 And so it used to be something we would pass 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.720 around Max. How many did you win? I didn't win 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:21.120 very many, Yeah, because Max would just always every week 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.240 it would deliver. Max always delivered. So it was like 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.640 it would mainly veer towards social We're kind of like, 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.080 you're kind of like Russell Wilson, like you just expected 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.360 to know exactly, Yeah, okay, the Russell Wilson of the 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.320 of the Digital crew, But I do I do remember 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.000 that was that was kind of fun. Everybody had them 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.920 on their desk. Will was really excited when he got one. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.880 Well because then I almost was like the everyone's like, well, 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.280 all Will is never going to get one because I 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.000 don't do anything on social so Amy just kind of 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.680 gave me a pity one. I got pretty excited about it. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:54.320 Participation pretty much. The only one that I've seen around 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:59.280 the office is Bill Bill Still. Yeah, so that's where 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:00.960 I got the idea from. I saw that sitting on 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:02.840 his desk, and I was like, wait, that would be 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.040 a very funny thing. And can you imagine. Greg Van 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.160 wrote in like holding that trophy. You just need to 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.120 go watch it because you'll see how cheap they are 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.720 at the very end of the video. We just got 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.880 these in earlier this week, and let's just say we 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.840 already down one for the count because they're just so 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.600 well made. But that is the weekly Go check that out. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.920 But let's get back to the homecoming Court. Another award 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.160 second to the thumbs up obviously, but let's go. I 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.040 don't know who wants to go first. Who's on here? 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.600 You can go first, Max, Okay, I am going to 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.279 give mine to Ross Cockrell, who had to step in 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.680 for Dante Jackson and the starting lineup. And when we 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:45.000 revealed that via the Aactive story, the reaction was pretty 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:50.320 dire from Panther Nation and we got the KK short, 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.479 the really tough news about KK that he's going on 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:56.000 season ending I rum but before that, he was questionable 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.800 to that game. So when people saw that both those 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.760 guys were down, as Caroline's mentioning, everybody was just like, well, 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.440 I don't need to watch this anymore. This this is 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.000 an automatic ill um but not so. The D line 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.160 has a lot of depth, and Ross Cockrell's a guy 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.200 they really trust and are counting on. So he stepped 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.080 in there and I thought played extremely well against that 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.479 Houston offense and obviously had the big play right, It 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.960 was that interception when the Texans are trying to run 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.680 that trick play, the wide receiver pass. You know, I 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.120 think people forget they were down at Caroline's eighteen yard 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.320 line for that play. I mean they were in position 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.359 to add points, if not a touchdown. They tried to 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:34.039 get cute Ross Cockrell knew exactly what was coming. It 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.080 was very similar to what the Giants had tried to 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.000 run against Carolina last year. It was something around Vera 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.320 mentioned during the week of prep. The Texans had shown 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.680 that on tape last year. I think DeAndre Hopkins tried 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.240 the same thing, so they were kind of on high 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.200 alert for that. And you just gotta give Ross a 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.000 ton of credit for not getting fooled, not getting dirty 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.039 eyes as they say, and vacating his own He was 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.400 right there. Hopkins threw it right to him. That was 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.280 the most notable thing DeAndre Hopkins did in that game 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.600 was throwing understand, So some credits a James Bradberry as 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.000 well for locking him down. But a huge play in 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.320 the game. And anytime we're gonna talk about Ross, we're 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.880 gonna talk about his horrific injury last year. That's just 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.120 part of his story now. But what a what a 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.320 special moment for a guy who's come back from a 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.719 lot emotionally and physically to have that kind of game 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.680 when he gets plugged into the starting lineup and make 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:21.480 that kind of play. It was very cool to see. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.679 When I think the homecoming King is always a popularity contest, 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.160 and I have not seen this team celebrate the way 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.640 that they did after he got that interception. So he 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:32.920 was kind of a dark horse for this homecoming King. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.039 I'm not gonna lie. He wasn't in my top. I 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.440 didn't think he made the court. Oh do we need 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:42.719 to go review out of the stands. He was a 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.559 write in. He was so popular that people just wrote 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.200 him in there. All right, I'll go next to I'm 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.880 going to give mine to a guy that was nominated, 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.880 Mario Addison. He has five and a half sacks on 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.800 this season. That's more than I believe, like some teams 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:59.520 have as a total. And this will all come in 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:05.120 two games, right half half a sack in that second game. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.880 Mario Addison is just a little bit of a dark 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.880 horse name on this defensive line. We've talked about, you know, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.400 McCoy and Irvin and Brian Burns and all of these 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.760 guys that have been added. But then Mario is just like, man, 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.520 I'm just gonna sit over here, my job a little bit. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.840 And so he got what the Dion Sanders called him. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.760 If you ball, you get the call, like he's getting 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.760 the attention now, and I love it because he deserves it. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.000 So he is my homecoming king, doing exactly what you 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.360 need to do to just stay in the running and 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.000 then all of a sudden you break out with really 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.920 these past two games, getting after very shifty quarterbacks. I 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.920 think that's it too, And maybe that's why he's able 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:43.680 to break through, because he is this guy that maybe 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.800 not everyone's talking about, so he's not getting a lot 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.360 of the attention, but because of his teammates around him, 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:49.960 he's able to get through there and get the quarterback. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:55.200 So congratulations, Mario Addison, You're my homecoming king. Good stuff. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.560 I'm going with the goat of goats. Yeah all right, 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.480 we haven't mentioned somebody out of goats. He leads the 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.200 NFL and rushing leads the NFL and scrimmage yards has 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.960 literally erased Angela Williams from all of the media. Guide 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:11.240 you love bringing to Angelo back because it always right. 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:16.360 Christian McCaffrey, I mean, dude, dude was the entire offense, 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:21.320 both receiving and rushing and blocking and doing everything of 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.760 the snaps nearly a hundred yards, rushing nearly a hundred yards, 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.600 receiving ten receptions, joined Jim Brown in any number of 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.200 more records of things he's done in the first four games. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.320 Dude's a beast, and because it's a popularity contest, he wins, 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.679 right because literally all of all of the videos that 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.559 we have of the sideline are just of them watching 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.840 him talking about Christian McCaffrey. Yeah, how great was that 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:46.640 from the mic up. If you haven't seen it yet, 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.240 check it out. Brian Burns had the wire on and 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:55.080 he and Kyle Love just like the league. Not to 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:59.320 mention Kyle Love requesting burgers if you have not seen 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.200 this wire uniqu to go that the defensive line showed 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:07.480 up on this and gave us so much. Whoever's on 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.800 the other side of this, bring us some choose burgers. Yeah. 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:15.400 Christian McCaffrey, he is a beast and like even I 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.600 think it's like first run or second run or something. 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:22.920 He drugged DJ Reader like five yards. This was not 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.560 like a momentum. Oh, I'm still going DJ is just 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.800 going to slow me down. No, all three hundred and 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:32.280 thirty pounds of DJ Reader was just sliding across the 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:36.800 turf as Christian McCaffrey work just worked him over and 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.800 got like so more yards. I had to go google 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.679 how much he waged because I'm like, there's no way 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:45.040 he just did a sled pole here and this is 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.440 what the second or third play of the game. And 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.640 then he keeps doing it and he said after the game, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.400 this is the best part. In the locker room. He's 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.679 just run his butt off the entire game and he's 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.640 sitting there complaining. He's like, this is the worst part 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.400 of the game, taking off his show pass. He's yelling 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.040 in the locker room, this is the worst part of 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.000 the day. Like having to take him off. He has 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.440 like two or three people in buckling him, like pulling 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.079 the tight jersey off of him. Yeah, he's such a beast. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:15.400 But Max question about this though, thirty seven total touches, 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:20.440 seven carries, The snaps like, don't you think I think 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.120 I think we have to talk about too much for him. Yeah, 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.160 I think what we have with the most impressive thing 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:29.400 about Christians performance Sunday wasn't It wasn't type performance where 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.320 he's running for big plays fifty yard run, thirty yard catch, 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.200 and he had to work for every single yard he 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.800 got against the Texans. I mean, he was pretty banged up, bruised, 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.440 up after that game. It was a physically demanding war inside. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.600 It's what Greg Van Ruin called it. So I thought 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.480 that was one of the most impressive things about Christian 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.520 was that he had he had to fight for every 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.680 yard he got against that Texans defense. There was a 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.760 lot of carnage between the tackles. But to your point, Will, 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.560 I think everyone is very impressed with the production, the 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.120 fact that he carried the offense. They literally hitched their 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.440 wagon to twenty two against the Texans. But the other 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.679 part of this conversation is are they putting too much 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:13.719 on Christian? Are there concerns long term about having your 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.439 workhorse have to work that hard? Thirty seven touches with 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.680 the most he's ever had in his career. As we said, 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.360 that was a physically demanding game for your star running back. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.240 So that's another part of this conversation that's that's being 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:28.040 had right now. Mama says, my mama said, Mama said, 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:35.080 my mama said, Mama said, listen, what just happened. I 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.320 don't I don't care if you think my boys running 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.920 too much. Listen, I've been training him for this his 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.360 whole life. I do not understand why you think Christian 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.600 hadn't been like he can handle this thirty seven, Hell, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.400 given forty five, given forty five carries a game. Southern 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:57.040 Mama has arrived. I don't want to hear it. I've 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.200 been seeing too much trash on this Twitter thing. T eater. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.760 I can't. I can't. So Southern Mama, you you, you don't. 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.440 You don't buy into all this this concerned people have 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:13.040 about Christian being overused. No, listen, we used to have 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.320 these cookouts every weekend. We when Christian was growing up. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:18.560 And I'm run him back and forth from the fridge 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.120 about fifty times a day trying to get me different things. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.880 I needed the mayonnaise and and the cheese and all 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.120 this stuff. My boy's been carrying the rock for his 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.679 whole life. Didn't Christian grew up in Colorado? Yeah? I 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:36.000 think he did. They got red Listen, they got red 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:37.920 necks out there. They got they got red necks out 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:42.320 there in Colorado too. It's just different cons We're just different. 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.400 So Southern Mama, you don't feel like maybe some of 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.200 the other running backs should get in there for a 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.199 few carries here and there. Jordan's Scarlett. They used to 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.600 draft pick on this year and you think just keep 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.240 it should be Christian Christian Christians. I mean, we appreciate 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.120 them boys sitting in the running backs room with him 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.400 and keeping him company throughout this season. But if you 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.400 take my boy off the field, you go lose. And 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.040 I will say that real quick. I think he needs 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:11.040 to be out there because why, I mean why not? 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:13.800 You think he needs a rest? You want to take 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.959 him off? Why don't you take him off? Coach? That's 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.280 one's really dragging him out the field. Don't you take 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.000 him off? How many? How many touches is too much 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.560 for Christian? Do you think in one game that does 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.960 not exist? I think that that math saying that goes 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:36.760 the limit does not exist. That that's exactly calculus to 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:41.360 the adity. But the best part about this whole thing 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:46.520 is Christian's mother is so sweet, real mother, not not 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.959 southern mama that just hopped out of her wagon to 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.840 come in here. No, yeah, she's such a sweet lady 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.760 that I can't do that with a straight face. You 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.079 actually did it pretty good? Did I started thinking about 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:05.040 the sweet woman that is truly Christian McCaffrey's mother. God, 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.720 that's not it. That's not a true representation of Lisa 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.760 is Southern Mama. Does she have her passport ready? Yeah? 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.680 I think I might go. They've asked, have the Southern 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.120 Mambre gone to London before? Do I look like I've gone? 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.240 Do I say, I'm like I've been a press that pond. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.200 Do I know Southern Mama ha never been over there? 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.960 But they don't asked. I've seen them busses before, that 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:35.360 Mayor Kate Nashley movie. I've seen it on their Southern 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.880 Mama is going to take, we might, we might take. 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.640 She's got to she has to come with us. Southern 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:42.800 Mama needs in names. If you're listening out there, I've 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:46.720 thrown around just like like big Mama, but that's actually 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:51.360 truly what we called my grandmother and now my mom 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.520 who was a grandmother, we call her that. My mom 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.480 sounds nothing like this everyone out there. But so I 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.680 can't buy into the big Mamma thing, but I've I've 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.520 used that around. So if you're listening and you want 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.360 her to come back, which is would be astounding. I 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.960 don't think everyone gets to choose. I think something just comes. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.400 But and she wants to come. Yeah, like there's like 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.760 she wasn't invited today, she just showed she just comes 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.640 when she feels like someone needs to be defended, she 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.640 gonna come out her trade. She gonna talk about or 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:28.920 when when someone needs to be you know, whipped. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:33.360 that's it, that's it. Yeah, but that is nothing at 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.320 Leasta McCaffrey is a wonderful woman and sounds nothing like that. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:41.840 So sorry, if you listen, If Leasta McCaffrey listen and 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.080 she's on the twitter, right, we'll get a kick out. 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.880 He's on that on that tweter, she's on the tweeters 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.080 on the tweter. He would love this at hersh Maybe 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:55.280 you should will because you actually know her and how 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:59.800 you know her is the best story of all differ. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.960 We're gonna tease that up. But to really talk about 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:08.720 this Christian McCaffrey, is he being overworked just you can't 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.960 take him off the field. I think a conversation that 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.560 we've talked about was in that second half when when 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.080 the Panthers are trying to control the clock and run 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.320 it down and do all those things. Yeah, maybe that's 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.880 when you think, well, where are these other running backs? 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.080 Can we put them in? But what Christian McCaffrey does 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.240 on the field, even if he's not getting the ball, 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.360 which he gets the ball a lot, but if he's 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.560 not getting the ball, he's pulling attention, allowing other playmakers. 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.560 And I think when you look back at, you know, 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.880 the first game that Kyle Island started, the second one, 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.760 now going into the third, you need all of those 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.280 distractions out there, and Christian has to be out there. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.520 But I do agree it is a little alarming when 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.760 you just look at the longevity of his career of 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:50.840 what he can do. But then you look at you know, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.720 if we're gonna say that Christian McAffrey, is this the 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.160 best running back and he's just this anomaly. Frank Gore 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.040 is like thirty four years old and is still just 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.560 get being the ball all the time. I saw him 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:05.080 one time he was with the Colts. It was the 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.760 Buffalo snow game. He carried the ball like close to 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.840 forty times. We had a short week going into the 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:17.520 next one. He immediately carried the ball like thirty times, 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.560 like there was nothing there. So I think there is 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.639 this debate to be had of are they flirting with 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.359 the line of playing him too much? But Christian is stronger. 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.240 I think something better. Some guys are built for this. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.760 I think, like Gore you mentioned, is one of those 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.200 special guys who just could handle it. I think Christian 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:38.040 has prepared himself really since high school. I mean, the 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:42.600 guy has been on an NFL style training regimen, growing 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.760 up in an NFL family, So I mean, I think 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.679 I think he's built for it. But kind of to 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.480 what you were saying, Caroline, a lot of times people 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.760 are upset because he's playing a percent of the snaps, 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.680 but it's a situation where he's not getting the ball 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:56.960 all the time. This was a situation where he got 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:58.720 the ball all the time. This was a career high 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:00.920 thirty seven touches, And I think that's where people are 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.640 getting a little just antsy about, and it's coming from 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.240 a good place. I think everybody wants to see Christian 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.640 play well for a long time. You know, like this 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.639 is this is a guy that's clearly a superstar in 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.160 this league. You want to see him, you know, continue 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.600 to play at this level at this pace. Um, I 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.720 don't think that we're going to see thirty seven touches 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:23.680 every week, but in the in the NFL, when you're 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.520 in a situation like the Panthers were in at one 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.080 and two, desperately needing to get to two into They 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.280 were struggling a bit on offense. Kyle Allen had three 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.480 strip sacks. The receivers weren't able to get very involved. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.879 Obviously that the defensive line for Houston was getting after it. 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.359 They had to lean on Christian and they did. And 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:41.960 if they felt like that was how they were gonna 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.800 win that game and in the week to week season, 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.240 that is the NFL. That's what it came down to 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.399 for North turn or that offense. It was. It was 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.160 twenty two and it was just gonna be a heavy 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.159 dose to that. I don't think it's gonna be like 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.040 that every week. I do understand people feeling like, hey, 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.840 I'm gonna get a little worried about all this, this 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.359 this usage for Christian. But I mean, this guy's a 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.919 young guy and they're going to continue. I've always said this, 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.320 even when the offseason that we're talking about, hey, or 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.720 maybe trying to find a compliment this or that. I'll 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:12.880 believe it when I see it, and we have yet 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.080 to see it. It's it's the Christian show and it's 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.000 going to be that way for a while. And Christian 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:21.959 doesn't I feel like he doesn't take hit hits Sunday 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.960 Sunday that, Yeah, that was different. It was a different 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.560 kind of game, and I think that's why Sunday was more. 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.760 They will right, you know, but you're right. I think 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.560 typically the most part, he was pretty just pretty good 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:35.959 job of managing himself throughout the course of the game. Right. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.800 I do think the game plane is important in this one, 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.560 just because of the past rush that Houston had. I mean, 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.720 this was how the Panthers had to play this game 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:46.680 if they were going to give Kyle Allen a chance. 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:48.240 I mean, they ran the ball as much as they did, 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.520 and there were three strip sacks in the game. Like 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.520 imagine they were just allowing Kyle to sit back there. 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:56.080 It would have been it would have been more than 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:57.800 that because of who was coming after him. I think 0:19:57.800 --> 0:19:59.239 it's like if you look at what the Steelers are 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.680 doing with Udolph right now at quarterback, there were more 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.840 wildcats in that game than we've seen in any NFL game. 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:07.600 I feel like, So it's just the game playing week 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.119 by week. Looking at this Jacksonville team, you don't have 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.879 the past rush that Houston had, but there's some different 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.600 nuances that they're going to have to prepare for Jacksonville. 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:20.200 I would be shocked if again he gets the ball 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.280 that many times. Like you're saying, yeah, so would I. 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.240 I mean Southern MoMA, my house. Something to say about 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:28.000 that of defending Christian then in that one, Yeah, Greg 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:30.320 Olsen said after the Houston win, the first words out 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.560 of his mouth where that was ugly. And now everybody 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:34.200 in this locker room is gonna take an ugly win. 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.000 But they know they need to play better on offense. Uh, 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.720 They're coming back home. They've dropped their first two of 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.360 the season at home after two road wins. They got 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.560