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Speaker 1: Kristen BALBONI, Will Bryant and Darren Gant. Welcome to the
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Speaker 1: on the big news of the week, Darren, Ben McAdoo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how about that? Yeah? And I tell you what it's
Speaker 1: it's a name. I know there's probably not a parade
Speaker 1: out in the street right now when the Ben McAdoo
Speaker 1: news was announced, But considering the spot the Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: were in and just the challenge of finding offensive help
Speaker 1: in general, probably not the worst higher they could have made.
Speaker 1: I mean, to be honest with you, macadoo as a
Speaker 1: play caller has had success. Uh he was. He was
Speaker 1: a guy I who worked in Green Bay with Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: helped Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers had positive things to say
Speaker 1: about him at the time. He goes to New York
Speaker 1: works with Tom Coughlin, so you know there's Matt rule
Speaker 1: connection um and a shared background, so to speak. And
Speaker 1: he put up pretty good numbers as a coordinator there.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the job Eli Manning did
Speaker 1: when McAdoo was calling plays in the first year he
Speaker 1: was a head coach, you think, okay, that's pretty good. Now,
Speaker 1: it didn't end well for being in New York obviously,
Speaker 1: and it would probably be hard to get Eli Manning
Speaker 1: to testify on his behalf now because the way things ended.
Speaker 1: But you know, as a play caller, mcadoo's had some success.
Speaker 1: And and that's the problem the Panthers were in right
Speaker 1: now is they are a hundred guys they might have
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to. But when nine teams in the
Speaker 1: NFL are looking for head coaches, good offensive coordinators are
Speaker 1: getting head coaching jobs. Uh, so you're back in the
Speaker 1: position of do I try to find some young whiz
Speaker 1: kid where they just did that? Um, you were you
Speaker 1: talked about that a lot. You know, you had kind
Speaker 1: of the Joe Brady model here. So now you go
Speaker 1: with someone with head coaching experience, has been around the league.
Speaker 1: You know, the kind of the different I mean that's
Speaker 1: laughed in the past. The number one rule of NFL
Speaker 1: coaching searches. If the last guy was fat, the next
Speaker 1: guy I'll be skinny. So what do you have before
Speaker 1: you had young whiz kid? What do you go for now,
Speaker 1: you find some old guy. I mean, and it wasn't
Speaker 1: Dan Henning kind of old. It wasn't that kind of
Speaker 1: veteran presence. But Ben McAdoo has been around, he's called
Speaker 1: the plays, he's done the thing. So I think for
Speaker 1: a team that is trying to find some stability and
Speaker 1: some kind of get your feet underneath you for a second,
Speaker 1: as they try to rebuild that offense without knowing for sure,
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't have the luxury of knowing who
Speaker 1: their quarterback for the next five years is going to be.
Speaker 1: They don't have the luxury of you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of names right now on that offensive line. But I
Speaker 1: think a lot of that's going to change over the
Speaker 1: next six months. And yeah, we'll see what Ben Macado
Speaker 1: is able to do with all of it. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think there's a you know, a lot of reaction
Speaker 1: one way or another two Macado and but that that,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's kind of the point though, like what
Speaker 1: what are you responding to? Already? The big thing is
Speaker 1: who are the players? You know, who are the offensive
Speaker 1: lineman that you needed? You know what, what's the quarterback situation?
Speaker 1: It's not so much oh, what's his history? With play calling.
Speaker 1: That's obviously important, but who he's calling the plays with
Speaker 1: is you know, it's kind of still to be determined,
Speaker 1: and that's in the Scott fitteral Realm. Yeah, what people
Speaker 1: are responding to right now is the big suit in
Speaker 1: the slick back hair, and and the fact that at
Speaker 1: times in New York Been Macca do gave people openings
Speaker 1: to poke fun at him. I mean, and he's talked
Speaker 1: about the suit in the past, and I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just when you don't make very many public appearances
Speaker 1: and your body changes over time, all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you I mean, I know, I've got a closet full
Speaker 1: of fat close I you know that I try to
Speaker 1: wear out anymore and my wife just looks at me
Speaker 1: and says, no, no, honey, don't don't put that on.
Speaker 1: Don't wear that the work I mean, if if for
Speaker 1: for those that may remember when d J. Moore first
Speaker 1: came to Carolina after he was drafted out of Maryland,
Speaker 1: the suit that he was wearing was was not his
Speaker 1: best work, not at all. And I still remember Steve
Speaker 1: Smith's just like J Man, and I think it was
Speaker 1: Devin Funches that was like that was here to welcome
Speaker 1: and Devin's like, we gotta work on some things, man,
Speaker 1: we gotta work on this. And you know, and now
Speaker 1: DJ is you know Mr g Q everything, you know,
Speaker 1: so and Ben's gonna be living down that suit for
Speaker 1: the rest of his life. That's that's what we do now.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, I mean he's he's not the guy
Speaker 1: I think. You know, when people heard the word rock
Speaker 1: star out of j Glazer's mouth during a pregame a
Speaker 1: while back, I mean, it's not what you envisioned. But
Speaker 1: you don't get a rock star as offensive coordinator unless
Speaker 1: you're hiring somebody of the Joe Brady ilk or unless
Speaker 1: you've got a great quarterback in a really good situation
Speaker 1: and and coming off five in seasons when a lot
Speaker 1: of people aren't, you know, I mean, coaches have natural reservations.
Speaker 1: And Matt knows that when he walked into the search
Speaker 1: had talked to him the other week, and he was,
Speaker 1: you know, cognizant of the fact that not everybody he
Speaker 1: might want to talk to would be willing to come here.
Speaker 1: And so that's one of the challenges finding that job.
Speaker 1: You know, they know that, and and coaches look out
Speaker 1: for their own interest I mean, as everybody else does
Speaker 1: in every industry. So trying to recruit someone to this
Speaker 1: situation where there is some degree of uncertain he's a
Speaker 1: little harder. So I think, all things considered, I don't
Speaker 1: know how Ben Macadoo's gonna work outs will points out.
Speaker 1: I mean, wisely, it depends on what they do. You know,
Speaker 1: if you go out in the draft and you bring
Speaker 1: in Evan Neil or Charles Cross and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you've got left tackle fixed for the next five years,
Speaker 1: things seem better and the idea. Okay, if you go
Speaker 1: out in free agency and you sign a Lake and
Speaker 1: Tomlin center and Andrew Norwell to come in here and
Speaker 1: play right guard, and all of a sudden you've got uh,
Speaker 1: a draft pick and Brady Christiansen and a serviceable pad
Speaker 1: elf line at center and a an established guard and
Speaker 1: Taylor Moton Well, then we're having a whole different conversation.
Speaker 1: Then then things have changed. I mean, then you can
Speaker 1: put into play the stuff about, okay, how do you
Speaker 1: work around what Sam Donald offers? How do you maximize
Speaker 1: what he brings? You know, throughout his career, whether it
Speaker 1: was in New York or here. Last year, Sam has
Speaker 1: been dealing with that stuff of when he's well protected,
Speaker 1: he can fill in the blank. We never had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to do that in New York and he barely
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to do it here. So um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I mean, it's gonna be a fascinating offseason
Speaker 1: because a lot of stuff can change. Speaking of changes changes, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we woke up this morning and and eurote An article
Speaker 1: and here we are with a whole new NFC South,
Speaker 1: my goodness, and what an NFC South that could be.
Speaker 1: Uh Man, Sean Payton walking away from New Orleans is
Speaker 1: a uh game changer literally for this division. I mean,
Speaker 1: the one thing you could count on. I mean, they
Speaker 1: had it. Helps when you've got Drew Brees for fourteen
Speaker 1: of your fifteen seasons in New Orleans, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: competitive if you've got a Hall of Fame quarterback under center.
Speaker 1: But man, look at what they did forty nine wins
Speaker 1: over the last four years. Prior to last year. You know,
Speaker 1: it was just Sean Payton and Drew Brees at the
Speaker 1: top of their game. And they didn't push through and
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl like they did previously in their run.
Speaker 1: But that was one of the best teams in the
Speaker 1: NFL for four years in a row. Now Drew Brees retires,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden things change. But now Sean Payton
Speaker 1: walks away. And it's easy to look at the Saints
Speaker 1: and say, what are they gonna do? Because they're sitting there.
Speaker 1: You know, they are used to being way over the
Speaker 1: cap and trying to restructure contracts and kick the can
Speaker 1: down the road and push money into the future and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. But I think when you
Speaker 1: go into an off season knowing you're changing coach, knowing
Speaker 1: you're over the cap, knowing you don't have an answer
Speaker 1: at quarterback because Jameis Winston, who they brought in last
Speaker 1: year to be the guy, gets hurt in the middle
Speaker 1: of the year. All right, are the Saints in that
Speaker 1: spot where they just go hard reset and say, all right,
Speaker 1: we gotta clean up the books, we gotta get out
Speaker 1: from under some of this mess and see what happens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and obviously who the new coach will be, you know,
Speaker 1: how they make those decisions, Those are all to be determined.
Speaker 1: And then you look around and the potential challengers to
Speaker 1: the top. You had Tampa Bay that had kind of
Speaker 1: gone all in on, We're going back to back, We're
Speaker 1: doing all these things. And now after this final drive
Speaker 1: in a Matt Gay field goal from the Rams, it's
Speaker 1: like that just seems to fall apart all of a sudden. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they looked old in a hurry for most of that game.
Speaker 1: Now they made the run and made it close late
Speaker 1: to set up those Rams heroics and to force him.
Speaker 1: But when that game was twenties having at three, you're
Speaker 1: looking at the Bucks like, oh god, these guys got
Speaker 1: old all at once. And that was without Tristan Worths.
Speaker 1: He was inactive for the game. He was hurt. Then
Speaker 1: they had another injury upfront during the game and it
Speaker 1: kind of affected a lot of what they were doing.
Speaker 1: But man, the Bucks had built. Part of the reason
Speaker 1: Tom Brady was able to succeed is they spent a
Speaker 1: lot of draft picks and money onlinnement and had a
Speaker 1: really good line. And with Worths out, you're patching and
Speaker 1: they the Rams just kept sending dudes a Donovan Smith,
Speaker 1: I mean, different guys over and over and in waves,
Speaker 1: and they were getting a lot of pressure and Tom
Speaker 1: was looking old, and it was like, WHOA, that team
Speaker 1: is vulnerable you know, especially without Antonio Brown who left
Speaker 1: under dubious circumstances the other week. Chris Godwin has been
Speaker 1: out for a while with that A C. L. You know,
Speaker 1: you've still got my daring in the secondary on the
Speaker 1: back of the defense. Yeah, I mean, they're beat up
Speaker 1: and they're old, and you wonder what it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: And if Tom bless him for everything he's done. And
Speaker 1: and I've been the idiot for a long time. I
Speaker 1: went through long stretches where I had to look at
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and say, ah, that's been It's been a
Speaker 1: great run, but that's it. And then he keeps just
Speaker 1: making me the biggest moron in the world. He kept
Speaker 1: winning everywhere he went. So um. I mean, if Tom
Speaker 1: Brady comes back, there's no reason to think the Bucks
Speaker 1: aren't gonna be good next year. But if Tom Brady
Speaker 1: didn't come back, then it's all of a sudden, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Who? Who? And again, it's going to
Speaker 1: be a crazy offseason, not just in this division but
Speaker 1: in the entire NFC, because you know, if Tom Brady retires,
Speaker 1: the Bucks are kind of up against it. Now if
Speaker 1: they go trade for Aaron Rodgers, all of a sudden
Speaker 1: things are better there? Right? And then what happens in
Speaker 1: Green Bay? And then what happens in Green Bay? Or
Speaker 1: what's going on in Seattle with Russell Wilson, I mean,
Speaker 1: who seems to create his own drama for the last
Speaker 1: couple off seasons? And what are they doing? Is he
Speaker 1: really satisfied being with Pete Carroll? What the forty Niners doing?
Speaker 1: Is Jimmy Garoppolo the guy? Or did they transition to
Speaker 1: Tray Lance who they gave up a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: to draft last year? You know, what's Minnesota doing with
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. What is happening in Dallas around Dak Prescott?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, honestly, do we can we be
Speaker 1: sure that Sean Payton ain't gonna end up coaching Dallas Cowboys? No,
Speaker 1: we we cannot be sure because he's so close with
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, and um, you know, I mean if he
Speaker 1: goes to Dallas, that's a different situation. What the rest
Speaker 1: of the NFC East is, Like, your guest is as
Speaker 1: good as mine. What's Washington doing at quarterback next year?
Speaker 1: I have no idea is Daniel Jones ever going to
Speaker 1: be any good or Okay? From physicals. Temp not sure
Speaker 1: right now. And what about Matt Ryan? What's Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: has the largest salary cap number of any player in
Speaker 1: the NFL for two forty eight point seven million. Of
Speaker 1: the falcons two eight million salary cap is devoted to
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan right now. Um, so when a quarter of
Speaker 1: your cap is tied up in a thirty six year
Speaker 1: old guy, I mean, granted, a thirty six year old
Speaker 1: guy who's still pretty good at football. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on here, is what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say. Thank goodness, we're not around the Joe Burrows
Speaker 1: and the Justin Herbert's and the Patrick Mahomes and the
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's and all that going on over there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean truly, when you look at the way the
Speaker 1: league stacked right now, all those great young quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: on the other side. So at least, I mean, and
Speaker 1: again that's kind of what I wrote this morning. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to try to lie to you and tell
Speaker 1: you the Carolina Panthers are in a great shape going
Speaker 1: into this offseason. They got a lot of stuff to do,
Speaker 1: but it's at least easier than it was a week ago,
Speaker 1: especially if Tom Brady retires now of a sudden. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting they're gonna win a division or anything
Speaker 1: like that, because they got a bunch of items on
Speaker 1: their own shopping list this offseason, but it's at least easier.
Speaker 1: Do you think, is there any chance Tom Brady play
Speaker 1: for a team other than the Bucks next year? You know,
Speaker 1: it's possible, and some people have speculated about that, and
Speaker 1: and really that's the thing that one guy knows. And
Speaker 1: Tom is always and he's a California kid, and he
Speaker 1: and he spent his entire career on the East Coast.
Speaker 1: Does he want to get back closer to home? And
Speaker 1: is there is there an opening for him closer to home?
Speaker 1: I mean, the Rams aren't in the market for a quarterback.
Speaker 1: They they kind of dig what they've got going on
Speaker 1: right now in Matt Stafford and the forty niners. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a there's an r there, aren't they with Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo right now? And you would assume that if it's
Speaker 1: not Garoppolo, then they're in a cast here a lot
Speaker 1: with Trey Lance. But maybe I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's what if many things that could happen. I love
Speaker 1: this league. What if the forty Niners go on to
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl in l A, get rid of Garoppolo,
Speaker 1: bring in Brady for next year. I mean, I'm here
Speaker 1: for the chaos. I mean, right, let's let's do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh, there's a never ending supply of storylines in
Speaker 1: this league. Gotta know that for sure. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a there's all this stuff going on. But in going
Speaker 1: through that and right in it this morning, you just
Speaker 1: realize it comes through loud and clear how wide open
Speaker 1: the NFC in general is. Because I mean, who's actually
Speaker 1: good in the NFC that you know is going to
Speaker 1: be good next year? The Rams, maybe, the Cardinals maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know, man, but we haven't mentioned them
Speaker 1: as having drama. It's at least they have a young quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time since they were really good.
Speaker 1: Remember when Cam Newton rolled in there and beat them
Speaker 1: that day and that dropped them to eight and two,
Speaker 1: and that may have triggered the avalanche. I mean it
Speaker 1: never really got it didn't get back after that hot start.
Speaker 1: And I think there are a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 1: to to date, they are not on that list of
Speaker 1: teams looking for new coaches. But you know, with the
Speaker 1: way things have ended in the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: you know, Cliff Kingsbury is going to be one of
Speaker 1: those guys who walks into next year on that hot
Speaker 1: seat list. And they've earned it. I mean, they kind
Speaker 1: of look like front runners a little bit, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting the way they designed themselves. I mean, Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray is an exceptional talent. He's one of those guys
Speaker 1: who's fun to watch because he runs around, he does
Speaker 1: the thing. But man, if they get into a December
Speaker 1: game where they need to line up and you know,
Speaker 1: they're sort of susceptible to somebody punching them in the
Speaker 1: mouth a little bit, and that's, um, that's a construction
Speaker 1: thing that I don't know that it's easily fixed. So
Speaker 1: we'll see. So we've touched on a little bit already.
Speaker 1: But to finish off, out of these four teams left,
Speaker 1: who do you who do you like? This weekend? Rams? Niners?
Speaker 1: Here's and then just pretty much Chiefs. Right, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: You know what I don't know, I don't know the
Speaker 1: Bengals a team of destiny. I kind of dig what
Speaker 1: the Bengals are putting down out there. I mean, Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow does not care. He truly, He's like, it's interesting
Speaker 1: thing that you know he's following up Buffalo because Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow reminds me a little bit of young Jim Kelly.
Speaker 1: He's got his shoulders back. Man, this thing ain't too
Speaker 1: big for Joe Burrow. He dresses funny, he's got that
Speaker 1: swag about him. You know, he's probably more confident than
Speaker 1: anybody who quarters backs the Cincinnati Bengals ever ought to be.
Speaker 1: But man, it's working, and Jamaar Chase is incredible. I
Speaker 1: was one of the people who thought they might have
Speaker 1: made a mistake during the draft when pinasul is sitting
Speaker 1: there and there's the left tackle. You need to protect
Speaker 1: that quarterback. And my gud, after Joe Burrow takes nine
Speaker 1: sacks against the Titans, you you start to wanner, Oh God,
Speaker 1: they're gonna break Joe Burrow. Um. But it's worked so
Speaker 1: far and they're going to need to protect him. I mean,
Speaker 1: they'll be one of that one of those teams, you know,
Speaker 1: like the Carolina Panthers who were looking for a lot
Speaker 1: of offensive line helped this offseason. But man, there's there's
Speaker 1: just something about having that kid at quarterback and having
Speaker 1: that opportunity that's just so exciting for an entire fan base.
Speaker 1: That's been a long time since good news. I mean
Speaker 1: thirty one years since they had won a playoff game.
Speaker 1: Now of a sudden, they're in the a f C
Speaker 1: Championship Game, and it's like, why not. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna beat the Chiefs because I mean
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, my god, thirteen seconds, but it's I didn't
Speaker 1: think they were getting this far. So it's a great
Speaker 1: story either way. I want to pull out all the
Speaker 1: old tapes from that Super Bowl in eighty two between
Speaker 1: the Niners and the Bengals where they got caught in
Speaker 1: a so storm and showed up late to warm ups
Speaker 1: because they couldn't get their busses too. Uh was it
Speaker 1: the not the Superdome? What do they call that old thing?
Speaker 1: The Lions Stadium, the Silver Dome, the Silver Dome, that
Speaker 1: Silver Dome? Yeah? Do you remember that Super Bowl? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do. I mean, And and that's the thing. Bengals
Speaker 1: forty Niners would be the ultimate KO Super Bowl because
Speaker 1: the you know, there's um, there's a linel Charlie Daniels song.
Speaker 1: He says the eleven bishop sitting on a baila. Hey
Speaker 1: ain't good looking, but he's sure can play. Um, that's
Speaker 1: the forty niners. Come on, Jimmy. Garoppolo is beautiful. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's an extremely handsome Empirically speaking, that's what we'd all
Speaker 1: want to look like if we had the opportunity. But man,
Speaker 1: they do everything wrong until they don't. It's just a
Speaker 1: train wreck and it's moving slowly and you can see
Speaker 1: the other one coming toward it on the trestle and
Speaker 1: rite at the last minute, somehow or another, they switched
Speaker 1: tracks and avert disaster and they win a game. I mean,
Speaker 1: who thought they had any business going into Green Bay
Speaker 1: and winning that game? Not me? Um and Garoppolo frankly,
Speaker 1: at times looked kind of shabby doing it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like, but it doesn't work. It doesn't work. It
Speaker 1: doesn't work, It doesn't work well it worked, and you're
Speaker 1: constantly surprised. And that's why I think people have this
Speaker 1: negative reaction to Garoppolo. But he gets things done in
Speaker 1: a weird way and he fits what they're doing. So
Speaker 1: I don't know that it would work everywhere. I don't
Speaker 1: know that he's a slam dunk cancer for a team
Speaker 1: that's looking for a quarterback hashtag self awareness. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, it's kind of hard to argue with
Speaker 1: the results, and it shows what it looks like when
Speaker 1: you've got all the pieces around him. I mean, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo is the least of the quarterbacks involved in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and that's not necessarily a slur, but he's clearly the
Speaker 1: fourth of four involved in this thing right now. But
Speaker 1: they ran a play the other night that I just
Speaker 1: as an advocate of old guy football, I kind of
Speaker 1: got a little goose bumpy when you see them put
Speaker 1: an extra offensive lineman on the field and Sentrick Williams,
Speaker 1: you know, Williams in motion across the It's like, what
Speaker 1: are they doing? And you know there were opportunities there.
Speaker 1: They didn't pop some of those plays the way they could,
Speaker 1: but it's like, what are your what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan. Oh, I'm gonna take the best offensive lineman
Speaker 1: in football and I'm going to turn him into a
Speaker 1: move tight end. Sure, why not? Of course you are,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's the forty Niners kind of got
Speaker 1: that vibe about them. Where they're not going to do
Speaker 1: things conventionally and until it doesn't work, those guys kind
Speaker 1: of think it's gonna work. I mean, you have you
Speaker 1: have running backs playing wide receiver and wide receivers playing
Speaker 1: running backs, and left tackles playing out in motion, in
Speaker 1: motion pulling Trent Williams across. It's just fantastic. The other
Speaker 1: thing I thought about, as it pertains to the local
Speaker 1: professional football team, is when Deebo Samuel's out there doing
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel stuff, he looks a lot like d J. Moreton.
Speaker 1: And rule talked last year at times out it when
Speaker 1: DJ was on that run early in the season and
Speaker 1: there was the play where he gets downfield and blocking
Speaker 1: and springing guys in Dallas, and Matt said then he
Speaker 1: was like, if d J. Moore was coming out twenty
Speaker 1: years ago, he'd been a tailback. There's part of me
Speaker 1: that wonders, and I wonder if Ben mcadoo's got into
Speaker 1: this on his you know, drawing board. Yet if you
Speaker 1: start thinking about do you do the debo things with
Speaker 1: d J Moore? Yeah, I mean, why wouldn't you consider
Speaker 1: it as as a possibility because you know you do
Speaker 1: have this talent who has the ability to run, and
Speaker 1: they've done some ends around, some reverses. Put the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands. With both him and Robbie Man, I
Speaker 1: think DJ, with the toughness he has and the ability
Speaker 1: to break tackles and move around inside, he could go
Speaker 1: up the middle. Think about you know, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: you know, this isn't like the people who want to
Speaker 1: turn Christian McCaffrey into a slot receiver. I think it's
Speaker 1: something that you experiment with. You should. Anyway, great weekend
Speaker 1: of football upcoming next week, we're gonna have some We're
Speaker 1: putting you on special assignment. We're sending you to the
Speaker 1: great State of Alabama. Not like Kristen's special assignment, not
Speaker 1: like that one. That would be a whole different podcast
Speaker 1: if it turned into one of those deals. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: we're sending you to the Senior Bowl, Darren, Like you're not.
Speaker 1: You're going mobile. So we're gonna have some reports. My
Speaker 1: close personal friend, Taylor'sarzer who's from down there, told me
Speaker 1: it's mobile, not mobile. The emphasis the emphascus is on
Speaker 1: the second s label, um mobile. Got it. I'll try
Speaker 1: to remember that. I'll be a mobile next week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we'll hear from Darren, We'll we'll get to know
Speaker 1: all of our prospects. Charles Cross he's the name on
Speaker 1: the mock draft reports this Yeah, he's not there, he's
Speaker 1: not at the Senior Bowl next week, but all the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are. And what moves in the needle more than
Speaker 1: quarterback talk, nothing really, it's that's that's pretty much cool
Speaker 1: stuff and I'm looking forward to and we'll have some
Speaker 1: stuff later in the week on Panthers dot com. But really,
Speaker 1: when you look at it, of the seven top quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in this year's draft, six of them are going to
Speaker 1: be in Mobile on that guy wee. Cool stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to the awesome. Thanks guys, tuning next week.