WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 11: Primetime Practice 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.760 Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkis 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.680 told me to always make it easy for the customer. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.600 That's you alive person will always be here to answer 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.800 the phone. We're here till midnight, seven days a week, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.080 so you never have to take off work, and it's 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.840 the same prices in the daytime. We're the ones you 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.160 want to call. We're the ones you want to call. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.520 We're the ones you want to call. You're gonna love 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:38.920 these people. I guarantee. See gotta Morrish Jenkins dot com. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.760 It's time for a Happy Half Hour with your friends 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:52.760 Kristen Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Brian. That's right, it's 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:54.640 that time of the week. It's the Happy Half Hour 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.360 podcast presented by Morris Jenkins, Kristen and Will in the 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:02.040 in the regular raid Oh area where we record and 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.240 Miles in the Booth of Shame today. What's up, Miles? 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.160 You know what? I really deserve to be in the 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.440 Booth of Shame today? Not only uh did I you 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.680 know weird Maclamore lyrics last week in reference Brick and Morty, 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.240 but I was definitely late. So that's what happens. You 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.920 get put in the booth of shame. Now, it's okay. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.640 We've all been running around. Uh, that's what training camp is, 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.000 That's what this time of year is, as we're gearing 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.360 up and as wild as everyone's schedules are right now. Well, 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:32.479 it's nice to have this business and to have football. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.360 We saw football on our TVs last night. We're all 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.679 running around like crazy, gearing up for a season. So 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.640 it's nice to have some sense of normalcy. Yeah, it 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:41.760 was nice just to actually come in the stadium today. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.080 You know, I actually have to hop off here before 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.119 the show is going to be finished. But last night time, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.320 you know, oh sorry, yeah, big timing, you guys. You 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:54.920 know if Myles was I'm just kidding. Um, I was 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:56.880 working on something else and then I lost track of time, 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.400 and that's why it's crazy. As Kristen said, Um, but 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.840 last night, you know, we we had the Panthers practice 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.480 all access. I got to to watch it from home. Um, 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.720 seeing it on on on the big screen, watching you know, 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.560 some aerial shots of the stadium. It felt good to 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.560 to watch the Panthers on TV. Again. Um, it was. 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.560 It was really cool to kind of to see all 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.640 of that from from the fans. Perspective and and and 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.120 see the stadium lit up. You know, it's felt so 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.400 so long. Um. But obviously you know, christ and you 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.160 were a big part of that broadcast, Miles, you were 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.320 here last night. UM. What were the things that that 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.160 you guys took away outside of the fact that it 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.320 was really loud. Yeah, well that was one of the 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.920 biggest things I I took away. So for anyone who 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:42.079 didn't watch, I was on the sideline for the broadcast 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.840 doing interviews with the players and coaches, and of course 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.040 the the noise was a big thing, the fan noise 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:49.639 that they were pumping in. Um, which I want to 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.920 get to, but I do just want to kind of 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.440 walk everyone through the process of me getting to be 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.440 on the field, because there's a lot of stuff about 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.840 who can be around players and coaches, how far away 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.799 have to be from them, etcetera, etcetera, And so they're 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.640 these tiers and for the most part, Miles and I 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.400 are not allowed to to be very close to the 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.519 players at all. You know, we're in a part of 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.640 the building where they can't be, and so we have 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.079 to you know, see them from a distance and cover 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.040 them from a distance. So yesterday, for this broadcast, I 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.760 was moved up into what's called Tier two, which means 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.400 you can be closer to the players. You can be 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.519 six ft away from them. You still have to be safe, 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.480 but you can move within the same circles that the 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.080 players are moving in. And it was just for a 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:34.320 day because that Tier two space is very very small 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.960 per NFL rules. Tier one is the team Tier two 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:38.920 or you know, it's a lot of people like GM, 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:43.080 Marty Hernie or doctors. There's some communication staff to make 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.080 sure that the players all get to their media obligations. 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.400 So it was very small and I was very lucky 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.120 to get to be a part of that for one 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.640 night because that's the first time I've met a lot 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.400 of the players and coaches in person um, so that 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.960 was great. As we go into the season, the NFL 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.640 has released rules on sideline or orders that they will 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.760 not be on the field for the season, will get 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.480 to be in what's going to be called a moat, 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.800 and I think that's the first row from what I understand. Yeah, 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.000 so I'm gonna be the moat reporter, not sideline reporter, 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.800 but media. A certain amount of media will get to 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.279 be in this first row, almost like an operational zone, 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.880 which is still great, great access, great view, but that's 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:21.520 probably the only time that I will be on the 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.000 field at all this season, so it was a cool 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.280 moment for me. And of course a lot of work 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.440 went into making sure that it was done safely, and 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.039 there was a lot of operational stuff, a lot of 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.280 COVID testing, So I was very glad that it all 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.080 worked out and that I was allowed to have that 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.800 access for that one night. Um. But yeah, the the 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.760 noise was the big thing for me. I don't know 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.400 will how it sounded on TV, and I would love 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.640 to find that out, but they had it pumping in 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.720 at the NFL prescribed decibel, I guess, and it is 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.920 quite loud, um, which is good, you know, it's it's good. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.960 It definitely adds to the vibe there, the energy there, 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.760 but it is it was a learning curve trying to 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.640 make sure that, you know, I wasn't yelling into my microphone, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.120 which I'm sure I was at a certain point, but 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.840 then you have to be a certain amount distance away 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.039 from the players and coaches and so they're like, I'm sorry, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.120 I can't hear you. I got that at least seven 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.040 times last night. Which is I mean, it's all you know, 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.760 everyone is doing their best, and it was fun and 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.120 everyone had a good time with it. So there's a 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.599 lot that we learned about this, this whole other layer 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.679 of making sure that you could do all the stuff. 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.000 But honestly, even just the fact that we were able 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.640 to do it and in the midst of everything going 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:30.560 on in a safe manner was really cool. And I 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.800 also want to say, and Miles, I would love to 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.000 hear from you about this. And I don't know how 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.920 it came across on TV. Well, I thought the energy 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.719 in the stadium, it's weird to talk about energy when 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.200 there when there's no one there. But with the music going, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:47.640 as well said, with the lights going, the fake crowd noise, um, 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:52.080 it didn't feel it didn't feel terrible. The energy was 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.480 pretty high, if you can say that. Yeah, i'd agree. 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.080 I mean it was kind of it's I think weirder 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.359 to hear that fake crowd noise when you're at the 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.080 practice field, because when you're the stadium, sounds kind of 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.160 like white noise at the practice field, right, But when 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.200 you're at the stadium, it's kind of like, Okay, there's 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.520 somebody shouting from like the five hundred section, and you 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.239 can't really make out what it is that they're saying, 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.880 but you think that there's somebody shouting up there, but 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.919 you intellectually know that there's nobody else in the stadium. 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.960 But I think that just that feeling of, oh, yes, 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.679 you hear some ambient noise, Yes, there are people around, 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:24.560 it makes you think that there are people around even 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.200 though there aren't. And so I think what you're saying 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.200 about the energy is absolutely true. I mean I noticed 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.239 players were dancing, they were really getting into it before 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:35.040 everything started. And Matt Rule has talked about this, The 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.640 team that creates its own energy the best is probably 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.920 going to be the one that wins games this year 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.400 because you're probably not gonna have crowds in most places 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.760 that you're playing. So if the Panthers can keep that 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.120 same energy, as the kids say, throughout the course of 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.080 the season, then that there might be in good shape. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.240 I think that's such a good point about bringing your 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.520 own juice, and we've heard that a lot from players 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.360 in their press conferences, and as you said, Miles, Matt Rule, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.480 but really getting to see the players in that environment 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.240 last night, they are so locked in and that's something 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.280 we all know. But I think sometimes we and the 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.760 media can create these narratives of like, how's it going 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.200 to affect the players if there are no fans there, 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.760 things like that, where we say we can't imagine a 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.640 world in which they can play at that same intensity, 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.560 or they feed off the crowd, and certainly that that 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.400 is the case in some instances, but they're so locked in. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.480 They are so locked in, and it really kind of 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.440 speaks to their ability and professionalism that you have to 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:32.960 think that's how it is all the time. They block 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.040 everything out. That's what they're good at to play the 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.520 game at this extraordinary level. And I definitely got that 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.280 sense last night. Now, do I think the energy would 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.559 have been much better if fans were there? Absolutely? Of course, 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.840 of course the players want the fans to be there 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.080 and help them out. But I was really impressed, like 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.520 Miles said, of they brought their own energy, and we 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.200 all have to think that they'll be able to do 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.360 that all season if there are no fans allowed there. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:01.200 And honestly, until the you saw the drone shots with 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.640 the actual empty seats, I couldn't tell. You really can't 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.119 tell on TV that there's anything different until you see 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.480 like there's literally no one there. I mean, I couldn't. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.360 I couldn't tell that. It felt loud until Joe Brady 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.440 came to talk to you and you could literally see 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.960 him from the one angle, like leaning like I can't 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.720 hear you, you know, and like from from the TV 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.720 it sounded like because obviously you're talking to the mic. 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.280 He's talking to the mic. Every everyone's mic sounds great. 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.760 But then he's just like, I can't hear you, you know, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.480 like you could. I could just feel like the frustration 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.600 or just like the you know, through it. It was like, man, 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.439 you know, I wish you could get because it looks 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.200 from the angle it looks like you guys were closer 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.880 than you actually were because of like the angled shot 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:43.520 like over kind of the shoulder, it looked like you 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:45.240 were right next to each other. And then they showed 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.520 another shot. It's like, wow, you guys are really six 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.160 seven ft apart. You know the magic of television. It's 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.760 incredible about to hit them angles, baby, if you think 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.320 about it, you know, six ft is the height of 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.040 an average or slightly taller than average guy. It's not 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.320 that far are away. It's a good distance to do 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.240 an interview from Um, if you have to have these guidelines, 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.960 if it's quiet, it's just that I think it speaks 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.240 more to how loud it was there than how far 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.960 apart we were. If they and they did a couple 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.120 of times bring the crowd noise down the entire way, 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.720 uh so that we could hear each other. So you know, 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:24.600 it all works, um, But I I like the crowd noise, actually, 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.439 I really do. I have to say, though, I did 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.440 hear one. Like you said, it's kind of ambient noise. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.800 But we were in the practice field last week, Miles, 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:32.800 and I just heard you know, you can't really hear 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.559 too much, you hear you know whatever. I heard this 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.480 one woman go whoa yeah, just in the middle of it, 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.160 and I was like, who ay, who recorded that? And 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.640 b I should have been asked to do that, like hey, 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.320 just give us a big woo yeah you know, or 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:48.880 I'm sure you know, I'm sure it was taken from 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.040 previous games. But I was like, she just you know, 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.000 that was her time to shine and she did well. 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.319 I have one question for you guys, since the we 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.360 got so unlucky by literally seconds that you know, we 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.920 had to go to Marshal right before the field goal. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.160 So what happened at the end of the practice. I 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.480 will be honest, I could not see it. Miles. Oh, 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.760 we'll just let it live in mry now made the 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.679 field goal. Yeah, yeah, he made the field goal at 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.600 the end of the game or the end of the drill, 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.280 the two minute drilling. So the offense one. Mr Jenkins 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.240 told me. Mr Jenkis told me. Mr Jenkis told me 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.920 to always make it easy for the customer. That's you 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.160 alive person will always be here to answer the phone. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.760 We're here till midnight, seven days a week, so you 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.560 never have to take off work. And it's the same 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.480 prices in the daytime. We're the ones you want to call. 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.319 We're the ones you want to call. We're the ones 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.520 you want to call. You're gonna love these people. I guarantee. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:54.480 See got a Morrish Jenkins dot com you hear something overheard. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.600 So we're about to hear from Will Greer, who spoke 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.560 this weekend um about what he learned last year. But 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:03.959 you know, after we we talked last week about Teddy 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.000 Bridgewater talking about to his backup quarterbacks about being ready 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.360 and being honest about how he wasn't ready in that 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.400 game where he had to come in in Los Angeles 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.520 and you know, in the Saints lost, and then he 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.520 was ready for the next five. Absolutely, that was the 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.920 That was the biggest adjustment for me last year is 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.920 just learning how to handle day in and day out 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.000 again me against me. That was something that I failed 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.360 miserably at last year. Um, But I think that's where 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.640 you make the biggest jumps of learning from your failures. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.680 And and and I failed last year at that. I 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:38.360 mean straight up was bad at um at being a backup. 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.000 And like I said, I learned a lot from it, 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.240 and uh, you know, film I ready to go this year. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.000 I think it was so refreshing and so incredible to 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.480 hear Will be so honest about what he was really 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.319 going through last year. Here's a guy that was an 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.559 all star in you know, North Carolina high school football, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.160 you know, went and had a you know, a big 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.000 career after transferring to West Virginia, and all of a sudden, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.440 he has to be the backup, the number three quarterback. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.880 He's not even dressing on on Sundays, and all of 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.400 a sudden he's thrust in there into a starting role 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.000 at the end of the season, and you know, for 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.440 him to be really honest about his preparation, about the 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.080 way he went through it and now to be like, 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.280 that's not going to happen again, you know. And I 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.720 think that that speaks vibes about who he is and 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.160 what this team and this culture, and you know, the quarterbacks, 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.360 Teddy Bridgewater, you know, the offense Coordina and Matt Rule, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.680 like all of them coming together of like, this is 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.520 not just Will, this is everybody. Everyone has to be 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.040 ready this year. And I think that was a really 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:38.320 really nice honest take on on on growing and learning. Yeah. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.760 I appreciated how candid he was, and as you said, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:45.040 well it started with Teddy last week. Um, just everyone 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.559 just being honest about their own journey. And I really 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.920 appreciated Will coming in and saying, yeah, I was not 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.080 up to my own standard last year and I wasn't ready. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.880 But that's what I've been working on and it wasn't 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.320 good enough. And here I am working every day. I 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:03.800 worked all off season to be ready for that opportunity when, um, 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.040 when the time presents itself. I absolutely love that. The 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.320 interesting thing I think about these quarterbacks right now is 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.640 just how candid that they've been and well, you just 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.920 mentioned it right. We heard from Teddy Bridgewater the same 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.640 sort of thing last week, and now we hear the 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.040 kind of thing from the backup quarterback and Will Greer. 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.680 So I think it will be interesting to see how 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.880 this thing progresses and how these guys are able to 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.959 function as quarterbacks. All Right, we gotta say goodbye to 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.800 Will now he's off to a big meeting, leaving us 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.079 here in our little podcast in the dust. It was 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.080 nice to have you. Money happened at me. Nice to 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:44.360 have you while we could. Our next SoundBite that we 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.600 really liked this week is from Shack Thompson and Miles. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.400 Jack gets asked a lot how he's gonna either step 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:55.280 into the void created by the absence of Luke Kickley 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.720 and Thomas Davis, or how he's going to try to 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.360 assume that role or how he's gonna play without them 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.200 there um and what that means for him. And I 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.319 really loved his answer to the media this week. He said, look, 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.120 I just gotta be me. I just gotta leave by example. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.240 That's what Luke did. Luke wasn't a raw right guy, 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.839 but when he needed to speak up, his presence was felt, 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.480 and that's kind of how I followed in the same 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.040 way behind him. But me and Luke had a little conversation. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.840 I'm like you, I'm not TD, I'm not Luke, I'm Shack. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:25.800 So he told him to go out there and be Shack, 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.600 play like Shack. So that's what I'm gonna do. I'm 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.920 gonna play like Shack. I think when players talk about authenticity, 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.800 UM and being genuine, that is some of the most 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.040 important things that you can have with leadership. And so 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.240 when Shaq is talking about the fact that he can't 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.720 be those other players, he has to be himself, I 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.560 think that speaks to a level of maturity that he has, 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.800 because sometimes when people are leaders they just want to 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.800 go out and imitate the people that they've seen before. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.960 But you have to be able to take what you've 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.160 seen and know some things are gonna work that those 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.120 other people used to do, and some things are just 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.640 not gonna work. Becau is I am not those people. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.880 So you have to be authentic and genuine to yourself 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.720 in what it is that you're doing. And I really 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.840 like that Shack has the maturity to know that. Yeah, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.840 And speaking of authenticity, UM, I just have to say this. 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.800 So I got to talk to Teddy in person for 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.880 the first time yesterday, and I think this is something 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.480 that we all know and consents over the media zooms 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.520 or our conversations with him, even though they're not in 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.440 person or seeing him out on the field. But boy, boy, 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.200 is he a magnetic person and you get why he 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.240 uh is the leader of this team, and so much 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.240 of that is his authenticity. And we talked about that 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.640 a little bit earlier in the episode with what he 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.280 talked about with the quarterbacks and how that led to 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.760 Will Greer being authentic this week, and we just talked 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.320 about it with Shack and as you said, it's such 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.600 an important component of leadership. But in the excitement of 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.680 last night and talking about everything going on with the 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.960 fan fest and then getting to our favorite sound bites, 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.840 I almost forgot. Yeah. I got to interview Teddy in 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.960 person for the first time yesterday, and I just want 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.000 say I get it. I absolutely get it. What is it? 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.560 I mean, because I've not had the chance, unfortunately, as 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.400 strange as it is to actually have a conversation with 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.160 him in person, it's hard, it's hard to explain. It's 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.440 just the thing. It's he's got the it thing, and 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:17.920 it's a very quiet, direct confidence. I would say, I 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.760 think that that's it. There's a lot of confidence there. 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.320 There's a lot of yeah, I did, what do I 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.480 What can I say? It? He carries himself like a 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.960 QB one right like that's and I think across the league, 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.160 I've talked to former players about this. I've talked to 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.400 current players about this. You know it when you see it, right, 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.400 It's almost not to do this, but it's almost like 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.600 the Supreme Court standard for pornography. You know it when 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.440 you see it. Yea. So it's one of those things 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.880 where you can walk into a room and sometimes you 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.960 can pick out if you know nothing about what the 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.320 team is, you can pick out, oh, that guy's the leader. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.640 If you're walking around the Carolina Panthers, and we can 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.040 see this even from a far at practice, you know 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.600 that guy's a leader. They don't need to have numbers, 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.320 they don't need to have jerseysm whatever. You know, the 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.760 quarterbacks wouldn't necessarily need to work green. You can just tell, yeah, 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.280 that guy is a leader. And I think when you 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.160 have that, that's the foundation that you can then build 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.040 upon and it can come across in different ways, right, 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.120 you can identify who the leader is and and one 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:20.360 person might be over the top, and or when one 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.399 person might be giving those big speeches. And I didn't 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.119 get a lot of that from Teddy. But he listens 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.680 to everything you have to say, answers questions by really 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.000 thinking about them. He's very direct and authentic, as as 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:35.800 we said. And I just see that going. I mean 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.320 I probably spent three minutes with him, but I can 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.840 see how that gets the other guys to buy in. 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:46.480 You know, he's a he's the most competitive UM. He's 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.439 going to study the hardest. He was out there for 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.639 what an hour and a half after the practice was 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.760 over last night, So he's setting that example. He's reaching out. 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:55.439 I mean, he took the time to listen to my 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.080 questions and really thoughtfully respond. So I just pictured that 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:00.800 with all of those eyes that he was building the 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.679 relationship with over text in the off season, you know, 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:08.440 actually genuinely caring about his teammates, trying to make them better, 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:12.159 trying to implement Joe Brady's concepts with those guys like 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.359 Robbie Anderson when they were doing UM their own form 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.720 of training down in Miami together. You just really see 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:20.960 you really see the leadership come through in a in 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.160 a very small amount of time. I was like, oh, yeah, 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.800 I I got it. I got it here right well, especially, 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:27.399 I mean, look, if you can see it in that 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.800 short amount of time, imagine what he's doing. He's spending 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.640 that much time around That's my point. Um, I think 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.360 it really came through. And so I was like, oh, 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.720 I get why all of these players immediately flocked to 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.159 him and and wanted to be a part of this 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:46.000 thing that that he's taking over. Now. Yeah, um, so 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.399 talking about a fan fest and and everything we learned, 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.080 we of course want to share undoubtedly the most important 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.439 sound bite of the week with you, and that was 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.560 at the beginning of the broadcast. I had Coach Rule 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.920 on and I started to to ask him about this practice, 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:04.560 and he said, you know, thank you for asking me 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.560 that question, but I want to address the social unrest 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.960 that's going on in our country right now and how 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.480