WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 22: Myles Moves On 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.520 Hi, this is Dewey Jenkins. When the team that manages 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.800 our Morris Jenkins website told me the most often asked 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.600 question is who is Mr Jenkins married too? You could 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:13.560 have knocked me over with a feather. I went home 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:16.120 and told my wife that I was so surprised that 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.599 I didn't know what to say. She laughed and said, honey, 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.640 my name is Renee. So now you know the team 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.560 at Morris Jenkins and I are here for the Panthers, 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.600 and we're here for you too, whenever you need us. 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.640 It's time for a Happy half Hour with your friends 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:52.400 Kristin Balboni, Miles Simmons, and Will Bryan. That's right, it's 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.680 that time of the week. It's the Happy half Hour 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.520 podcast presented by Morris Jenkins. And Mr Jenkins told me 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.480 that he loves football and he looks forward to this 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.800 show a week. When you're plumbing or air conditioning is 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.440 acting up, called Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.760 com and uh Will. Normally we call this the Happy 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.520 half Hour, and that is the name of the podcast, 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.160 but this week's edition we're going to call it the 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:15.440 Sad Half Hour because Miles is not joining us. He 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.280 announced that he is moving on from the Panthers. He 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.120 made that announcement on Twitter yesterday, and we are very 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.960 excited for him, but sad that we won't have him 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.600 here here anymore. And uh, you know, sad to get 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.480 to hear um that we won't get to hear all 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.800 the things that Mr Jenkins told him going forward, but 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.280 very excited for him in his next steps exactly. And 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.679 I don't know if we ever became official friends. Remember 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.000 that that's been going on for six seven months now. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.240 I don't know how that ended. Were we friends? Well, 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.800 if you don't know how it ended, I hate to say, 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.960 Oh it is the sad half hour producer, Matt, what 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.000 do you think did they become friends? We didn't hear 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.440 it from Miles, and Miles usually would go the other way. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.400 When Will or you would have an opinion, he would 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.240 like to go the other way. So if one thinks 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.000 that they're friends, and they're probably not, do you think 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.080 that you had something to do with it? Maybe the 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.160 fact that you weren't friends. Know, maybe I need to 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:08.440 I need to do some some inner thing reflection. Um. No, Miles, 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.040 Miles is a great friend to us all and we're 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.440 excited for him. We're certainly going to miss him. Um, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.720 But you know, we do the segment on the Happy 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.920 half Hour called Overheard where we would take the best 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.440 soundbites from the week from whether it's Coach Rule or 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.360 some of the players, and we thought, in honor of 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.560 Miles departure from the Happy Half Hour podcast, we would 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.799 give him his own special segment of Overheard. So, Matt, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:35.280 roll it you hear something overheard? Christ And do you 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.880 ever watch Rick and Morty? No, I've never seen it. 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.440 It's on my list, it's on my list. All right. Well, 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:45.280 there's basically a plot point in the show where there's 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:51.160 basically infinite dimensions, infinite realities, and so basically in another reality. 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.800 I have already seen this game, and so essentially I 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.840 could be from another reality and like saying, it's reality 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.840 four four six, right, and now this is reality three 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:05.240 three four Now four four six Miles could come in 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.040 and replace three three four miles and you would never know, 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.000 but you could maybe figure it out because four four 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.880 six Miles has seen this game. We'll see if we've 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:19.679 got four four six miles and will Um, I think 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:24.160 I just completely derailed this podcast. I would just start 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.440 by saying this. I mean, do you ever feel like 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:33.840 a plastic bag drifting through the wind when Katie? Of course, um, 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.200 you know, do you ever feel already buried deep six 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:41.240 ft under? No one seems to hear a thing. Um. 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.080 I don't even remember what the question was. I just 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.760 that we started talking about fireworks and the song came 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.320 into my head. Are you a Katy Perry fan? Oh? 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:53.920 Heck yeah's got bangers? Man? There's this busting dynamic stuff. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:55.640 Do you know what the things that these people are 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.480 doing with these robots? These a little dog, you know 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.480 air quote, these dog robots that can walk around and 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.320 open doors and then they sense where these other things are. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.680 The robots are going to take over things. Okay, have 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.560 you guys are seeing artificial intelligence? See these movies? I 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.680 am robots. No, I don't want anything. I don't want 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.720 any part of that. I want no part of that. 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.040 I you know, I do not want anybody to use 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.160 their job. But I think that the people who in 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.880 Boston Dynamics could be working on some other things that 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.480 could improve our lives more than little robot dogs. I 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.560 don't want those robot dogs. Let's refocus what they can 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.960 be doing all right, because I know I'm I'm not 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.200 into the robot stuff. I don't want to robot butler. 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.440 I don't want the robots that I don't have an 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.560 Alexa or anything in my house either, because I don't 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.000 want them listening to my conversations. Because I know that 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.960 whenever I searched something, I was talking to somebody about 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.919 Outback Steakhouse on on Instagram and a d M or 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.679 something together day or maybe it was in a text, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.000 I don't know. But next thing I know, I've got 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:57.360 out Back advertising itself to me on Instagram. The robots 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.719 have enough. Oh and that conversation has fris went on 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.320 for longer and longer. We just had to fade it out. 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.880 Oh that was great that Uh little did we know 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.080 at that point all of the strong opinions that Myles 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:14.880 held about mustard Mustard was the worst Disney. We love you, Miles, 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.760 but the mustard on the hot dogs vests best. You 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.120 had some strong opinion about vest. Uh yeah, pretty much everything. 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.240 I mean, you just said something, you would just say 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.520 something in a word let him. We are going to 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.000 miss that, Miles. We wish you the best. We're going 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:35.360 to miss those incredible takes on literally everything from from 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.800 robots to hot dogs, kept it interesting coasters. I hope 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.200 that in his his new venture that he doesn't have 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.159 to worry about too many robots or electronic things listening 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:49.960 to him, but butlers the womb speech from SpongeBob that 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.000 he seemed he quoted that like two tons yea. Hopefully 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:57.599 lots of karaoke in his future. Yeah he's got Oh Miles, 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.680 we love you. We are so happy for you, but 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.719 for us. This is the Happy Half Hour podcast presented 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.480 by Morris Jenkins and Mr Jenkins told me his plumbers 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.680 an A. C Tex, secretly wear Panthers jerseys under their uniforms. 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.120 When you're plumbing or air conditioning is acting up? Call 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.400 Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. All right, 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.080 we got a game courtesy of Will Brian. No surprise there. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.960 You always have the best, most creative games, and I 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:21.760 really like this one. It's called the what If Game. 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.120 It's been a weird season. It's you know, starting with 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.480 covid um and having that trickle down to to everything else. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.240 And so I thought i'd let you explain what this is. 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.240 I mean, I guess it's self explained or what you know, 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.839 And we're not we're not trying to to rewrite things. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.279 But I do think it's interesting when you have all 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.520 of these close games, when you have just stuff that 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.280 just feels everything feels a little weird, a little bit 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:47.279 off to to. Like I always used to love reading 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:52.560 kind of historical fiction of what if Kennedy hadn't been shot? 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.400 You know, what if someone else was elected president or 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.840 you know, what if this event didn't happen or did 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.719 happen um and how things would change like a butterfly effect, 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.520 one little tiny thing exactly, you know, And and I 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.200 think it's a cool creative exercise of like, alright, so 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.440 then what are the next equivalent steps of something else happening? 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.480 So I don't know. Okay, so we each have what 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.760 if questions for each other and we don't know what 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.000 they are. Now. I didn't go all past I just 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.840 took it as what if, and then I started I 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.720 started brainstorming. So we'll see you. I have no idea 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:21.920 what you're gonna say, and you have no idea what 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.160 I'm gonna say. Do you want to start off first? Okay, 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.360 what if COVID and all the things involved with COVID 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:33.920 had happened ten years ago, before video conferencing, before all 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.320 the technology that we used over the summer for virtual 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.960 training camps, for all the things that you do that 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.840 we did this year that you know, bugs apping machinery, 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.760 these you know air zapp germs apping machines that we had, Like, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.760 what if that had happened ten years ago? So ten 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.920 years ago, two thousand and ten. It's not that I 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.800 was gonna say something about fax machines, but it's not 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.680 We're not that far back. There was still I'm was 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.120 doing some form of video conferencing, right, and we still 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.200 had high speed internet ten years ago. Yeah, I guess 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.920 Skype had just started, but you know Twitter was only 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.680 a year old. Do you think they would have played 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.080 a football season if it had happened? I I really 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.200 don't know. I mean, obviously that the next year was 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.800 the um you know, was kind of the the off 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.800 season strike in two thousand eleven, But you know, I 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.560 I wonder it certainly would have been you know, what 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.920 do you do as a coaching staff, what do you 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.600 do as an organization if everyone has to be home, 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.480 you know, in a time before you can really be 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.840 connected the way that we are now. It's a great point. 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.200 And you know, we were talking Matt and I were 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.040 talking with David Linton, our executive producer last week of 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:40.280 just you know, how much work from home has changed, 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.280 you know, for all of us. And that doesn't affect 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.040 the football season, but we feel like we've all been 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.120 able to because we were forced to, um, those of 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.440 us who are lucky enough to to be employed, and 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.800 UM right now that we've been able to make that work, 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.600 especially over the off season when everyone was at home, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.040 and you know, I broadcasted in a lot of different 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.360 ways that I didn't think I was going to. UM, 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.760 people just really changed. So I imagine there would be 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.760 that same innovation ten years ago, because it's not twenty 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.120 years ago or thirty years ago. But I mean I 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.320 didn't know what a zoom was until March. Have you 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:11.920 said the word zoom to me? Like? Is that like 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:16.120 the skype? Like? You know, So it's just we're very lucky, UM, 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.760 lucky the wrong word. But we have the technology now 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.680 to mitigate or help along UM, a lot of the 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.440 things that we need to get done. And you know, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.800 as as tough as all of this has been from 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.040 a football perspective or just from a working perspective in general. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.160 It's it's been really neat to see the way that 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.800 that things have still been able to get done, um, 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.600 even without always getting to be in person. So uh, 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.920 here's mine, Um, maybe not as as um as all 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.480 encompassing as yours. What if Joey Slis kick in the 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.720 New Orleans game had gone let's say, one two yards 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.760 farther and he said an NFL record And I'm not 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.920 I'm not saying that at all about Joey's I thought 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.360 that kick was incredible and it was it was so 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.480 close to setting an NFL record, and and you know, 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.160 I don't think anyone wanted him to be out there 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.720 having to do that in that situation. Um, But I 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.080 just think the team would be talked about differently right now. 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.240 You know, it's a it's a game of inches, and 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.320 that kick was so close, and he was so close 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.280 to doing something that no one had ever done before. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.120 And I think that that's an accomplishment in itself, that 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.760 it went that long and that's straight um, and he 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.080 was this close. But I think that changes the narrative 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.199 around this team. And in reality, it's just one play 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.400 that was a couple of yards short, and I think 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.720 people would be talking about this team differently, you know. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:31.240 And we we brought this up, I think a couple 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.080 of weeks ago when we were talking about like game 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.360 changing plays or you know, plays that really stood out 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.640 to us. And um, I think Miles brought it up 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.960 that you know, well New Orleans still had time left 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:45.000 acually come back. But that's still agree with that because 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:49.240 I also think that hitting that field goal for that record, 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.280 with the way that that momentum would have Like, I 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.760 felt like there would have been a lot of momentum 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.160 and a lot of juice on that sideline for hitting 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.560 that field goal. And you know, you never know, like 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.559 I think, you know, maybe that defense comes out there 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.600 and they're they're really revved up. Maybe they get a 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.200 turnover and go into take the lead, you know, go 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.240 into overtime, you really have some momentum. Like I I 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.960 do think that there's something about playing in the Superdome, 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.480 you know, playing at New Orleans the way New Orleans 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.320 is playing right now, and to be able to take 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.280 them to that, you know, I I really think it 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.400 would have, um, it would have meant something in a 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.560 lot of people's eyes, especially on put on that team 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.360 as well, and I just think he was so close 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.280 to setting a record. And you know, if the field 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.640 goal had been sixty three yards, you know, he would 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.120 have done something incredible. And um, I wish he had 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.959 gotten the chance to have that recognition because it was 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.839 a great kick. I mean, you know, you talk about kicks, 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.439 and you know I'm not going to hopefully not steal 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.480 another one, but like if if the Kansas City kick 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.440 had been inside, I mean, my goodness, he probably gonna 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.480 hit that through seventy. I think I think something's coming. Yeah, 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.520 I think something's coming. And you know, Matt Role said, 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.160 we don't, like I said a minute ago, we don't 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.200 want to have to put him out there in those 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:01.439 situations to attempt to a potential record breakers. But I 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.120 think something's coming. Um, we'll see, all right, your your turn. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.840 What if Teddy Bridgewater hadn't been able to return to 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.320 that Falcons game, I don't even know what to say. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.480 I mean, thank goodness he's he's healthy, but um, we 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.120 would have learned a lot more about p J. Walker. 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.480 What do you think what happened? I think that I 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.600 like the I mean, obviously they haven't won these games, 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.840 these close games. But there's something about what Mike Davis 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.319 said after that game against what guys said after the 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.000 Kansas City game on that fourth and fourteen run. There's 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.360 something about the way that this team is really rallying 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.920 for Teddy even when they've lost four in a row. 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.760 It's there are very few teams in the NFL that 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:43.760 feel the same way I think this Panthers team does 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.240 after losing four in a row. Right now, they are 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.640 not like they're that's not their personality at all, Like 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.040 they're they should have won, should have won. They're angry, yes, 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.760 um and and Matt Rule has said that's what he wants. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.280 He wants them to play with this edge exactly. So 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.640 I think I think him coming back in, you know, 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.520 obviously there's a whole narrative of what we would have seen, 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.200 what could have happened with p J, good or bad. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.040 But I think the fact that he, you know, when 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.679 he did come back in that said a lot to 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.200 his teammates, and that's continued a narrative I think larger 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:19.199 than just the building of man Teddy is tough. Well, 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:23.840 he was. His official status was questionable and and usually 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.960 when you're questionable, and I thought, okay, well he's you know, 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.240 clear concussion protocol. If he go back to it, we 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.480 got the the statusy clear concussion protocol. But he's questionable 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.839 with the neck injury. And so we we see p J. 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.080 Walker go out there for not neck injury. I don't 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.040 say it. Sore neck is a better way to put it. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.520 Um got to hit there. Um, we see p J. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.920 Walker come out there, and then like three plays later, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.120 Teddy's like, no, I'm going in, like give me the gloves. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.480 It's it's awesome. Um, all right, what if the Panthers 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.760 win their next three games? Because look, Tampa Bay at home, 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.160 I'm that's gonna be I don't care what Tampa Bay 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.319 looks like. Um against the Saints, that's going to be 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.360 a tough game, no doubt about it. But it could 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.360 happen the way this team is playing. Look at what 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.720 they did in Kansas City. Then you go versus the 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.520 Lions were three and five, and at the Vikings, who 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.400 were three and five. We've seen them win three games 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.440 in a row earlier this season. What if they win 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.160 their next three games, I mean six and six, and 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.760 then you're looking around and you know, I don't know 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.800 Tampa Bay schedule, but you know, obviously they would be 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.320 six and four if Carolina wins this week. You know, 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.360 if they stumble a little bit more, all of a sudden, 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.400 that's the bye two. If you get to that. If 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:24.720 you if you get to the bye and all of 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.720 a sudden, you start looking around and other teams start 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.560 getting banged up or you know, for various reasons, drop 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.600 a game here, drop a game there. You know, they're 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:33.920 the Saints look very very good. But you look at 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.520 the rest of the NFC. Everyone has some issues, you know, 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.000 Green Base, I mean, Seattle lost last week. I mean, 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.080 there are a lot of teams that aren't you know, 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.800 gettable in certain ways. I mean, and yeah, I think 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:46.920 that's That's part of the whole thing with this is 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.480 Matt Rule said coming into this year he wants to 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.920 be the best twelve and four team we can be. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:53.480 I've said this, you know, he wants to be the 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.560 best eight and eight team. We could be the best 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.280 three and thirteen team we could be. I mean, I 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.560 think people, I mean literally NFL dot Com has said 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.440 today that we're definitely the best three and six team 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.200 out there, you know, And and that's I think that's 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.160 saying something about this coaching staff, about the players they 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.040 put together. But yeah, I mean six and six going 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.000 to the buy, I'll take it. Well, it goes back 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.600 to that UM playing with that edge and that this 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.760 team being upset. They don't think they should be three 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.960 and six, So we'll see if that translates. I think 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.160 they have I think they have um the potential to 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.960 beat any team on their schedule on on any given 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.080 Sunday or Thursday or whatever you wanna call it. So 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.320 I'm I'm interested. I can't wait to watch these next 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.040 three games. I think it's entirely possible. You're up next. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.200 So I mean, this one's almost People are probably surprised 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:41.840 it took us this along for this one, But like, 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.320 what if Christian McCaffrey had played all nine games so far. 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.200 I don't want to say this because I don't think 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:49.920 that it UM. I don't think there's a cause and 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.560 a correlation to it. But how many what's the number 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.280 of games? Um? The record of the Panthers in the 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.520 last what is it eleven games that he's played. I 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.560 think it's so in eleven. Yeah, I know there's a 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.840 streak and that has nothing to do with him in 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.400 the end zone, giving it his all every game. But 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.120 I think that it's tough to say for me personally 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:13.040 that if he's there, uh, the outcome changes, because I 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:17.280 think that's a narrative that people want to use to 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.960 say that he should come back earlier than he's healthy. Right. 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.480 But I also think the flip side of it is 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.320 people are using that they're using that. I mean, as 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.600 if the three games this year and obviously last year, 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.320 I think you can just throw out the window. But 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.280 as if the three games this year are some sort 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.760 of near, you know, uh, referendum on whether or not 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.200 he's worth what he's worth, or he's worth investing in, 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.400 or that he's not the best player, I mean, he 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.480 absolutely is. I love Mike Davis. We need Mike Davis, 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.080 We need Reggie Bonifon out there. We need all the 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.840 people that we can have out on the field because 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.360 that makes us better. And I think that obviously showed. 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:58.280 I mean, you have you have an opportunity to come 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.360 down and potentially take the lead, and she was on 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.720 the sideline because you know he gotten banged up again 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:07.119 in the fourth quarter. Um, I just think that you 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.800 want all of your best players out there, and he's 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:14.040 one of the best players in the NFL. Oh absolutely, absolutely, 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.720 I think that. Um. I I just think he's an 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.320 incredible player and I feel for him. Whatever we hear 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.000 about um you know, his shoulder and coming off of 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:24.960 that game, that's a tough one. Why are you throwing 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.240 out these philosophical don't worry. My next one is my 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.000 last one, and it's it's it's much better. Okay, Oh man, 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.080 I have I have to that. I really want to 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.439 get to do do both of yours. Okay, what do 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.679 you if the NFL haok on the bubble route like 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.880 that one? Just in general? I don't even just in general? 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.080 How do you think that changes things? I mean, I 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:48.240 know the reasons why they couldn't, just because of you know, 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.320 but that's not the game. I know it's not. You're 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.320 asking me what do I partytive Christian McCaffrey is healthy. 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.840 I know so. I I think that I think it 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.879 would have been very interesting. You think we have different standings, 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.320 different wins when losses. I can't tell what they would be, 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.800 but obviously, I mean, you think about the Titans, you 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.119 think about Cam Newton missing games with COVID. I mean 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.040 you think about I think it's an obvious factor that 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.320 being in a bubble. The NBA showed being in a 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.720 bubble means you don't get COVID almost you know, none 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.160 of them did so, I you know, maybe it would 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.480 have happened still, but it certainly would have been far 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.600 less than what actually has happened. And you know, as 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:27.920 much as injuries happened in the NFL, you just hate 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.240 it for teams that you know, like who's it? I 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.399 mean Ben Roethlisberger this week, I mean just what like 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:35.760 he was on the close contact right, but you know, 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.399 potentially at least missing a day or two or whatever 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.159 it might be that you know, he's not doing his 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.680 usual routine, you know, I mean you think you think 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.200 about how much that throws off NFL teams, But then 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.479 you think about being in a bubble for four months. 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.119 You know it's well, that's the thing. Would the season 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:54.479 structure be different? Would there be maybe a shorter regular 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.080 season and a more expand maybe because I don't think 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:00.400 you can change the weekly schedule. I just as a teach, 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.760 just such a it's just such a physical game that 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.119 you see that Thursday turnaround. I don't think you can 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:07.560 shorten it. That's a good point, though maybe it's maybe 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.359 it's different or something. All Right, my last one, because 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.040