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Speaker 1: when Mr Jenkins tells me something, I've got to tell
Speaker 1: the people. That's right. Uh, it's good to see you guys, um,
Speaker 1: everything has been a little crazy so far this week.
Speaker 1: We gotta you know, we had the Sunday game against
Speaker 1: New Orleans, a little bit of a heartbreaker there for
Speaker 1: the Panthers. Yeah, you know, it's it's a shame that
Speaker 1: it came down to a sixty five yard field goal
Speaker 1: at the end, because, as Joey Sly put it, he
Speaker 1: thought he had it. And when you think you have
Speaker 1: it and it's that long and it's a record, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit disappointing when it comes up a little
Speaker 1: bit short. But I think, as everybody talked about in
Speaker 1: the aftermath of that game, the sack on third down
Speaker 1: really was the problem because when you take an eight
Speaker 1: yard loss and then you see the length that Joey
Speaker 1: slide was able to get on that kick, it's like,
Speaker 1: oh man, that thing was really really close. And if
Speaker 1: you don't take that sack and you don't lose so
Speaker 1: many yards, you probably tie that game up there at
Speaker 1: the end. I mean, and as as others said, you
Speaker 1: need to get some stops before that. You shouldn't have
Speaker 1: had to come down to that when your offense is
Speaker 1: playing that well throughout the course of the game, and
Speaker 1: you know, the defense allows twelve third down conversions twelve
Speaker 1: of fourteen. Well, we gotta we gotta make sure we
Speaker 1: put it like that, because that's the way you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta put it like that. And then you gotta
Speaker 1: say the percentage eighty six percent or eighty seven or
Speaker 1: eighty five point seven point six, say the percentage. And
Speaker 1: then you just named four percentages. I know that was
Speaker 1: a bad moment of broadcasting. None of those percentages were good.
Speaker 1: So no, no, not anytime it's like a above eighty percent,
Speaker 1: I mean, above fifty is unideal. But when you get
Speaker 1: to that much, it was like, oh my goodness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just a really bad, bad, bad, no good game,
Speaker 1: the terrible, horrible, no good, really bad day for the
Speaker 1: defense on third down. Let's talk about that. Since we're
Speaker 1: here already, we gotta get to Christian McCaffrey stuff. Of
Speaker 1: course that's what everyone wants to know about. But let's
Speaker 1: put this loss against New Orleans to bed. How do
Speaker 1: you come back from from those third down numbers, which
Speaker 1: will I believe we're historically bad? Yeah, we're worst, worst
Speaker 1: in a game. How do you focus on that this
Speaker 1: week on a short week and show improvement for this
Speaker 1: Thursday game against Atlanta. Well, I think the first thing
Speaker 1: you have to do, and all defensive players say this,
Speaker 1: is you have to be better on first and second down.
Speaker 1: You can't allow Atlanta to get into these third and
Speaker 1: short opportunities because look, Todd Gurley is he's not performing
Speaker 1: at the same level that he did in when first
Speaker 1: he was Offensive Player of the Year and then the
Speaker 1: next year he led the league in touchdowns. But he
Speaker 1: has still shown that when he's gotten the when he's
Speaker 1: given the opportunity, he can get you a few yards.
Speaker 1: Right in that game that the the Panthers played against
Speaker 1: the Falcons a few weeks ago, it's not like Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley was a slouch. He had over a hundred yards
Speaker 1: for the first time since the playoff game in season
Speaker 1: so yes, exactly, definitely not a slouch. No, and he's
Speaker 1: only had a hundred and ten yards in the two
Speaker 1: games since. So again, this is not and and Julio
Speaker 1: Jones will be playing in this game exactly. So when
Speaker 1: you give Atlanta options and they've got a veteran quarterback
Speaker 1: in Matt Ryan who knows how to read things and
Speaker 1: pick apart z own coverage, then you're gonna put yourself
Speaker 1: in a bad position. So it's about making sure that
Speaker 1: you are stout on first and second down. But even so,
Speaker 1: when you get into these third medium situations, sometimes you
Speaker 1: just got to make a play. And I think that's
Speaker 1: something that we haven't seen the Panthers do enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really you know, as you said, it's about making
Speaker 1: a run up the middle. Be one yard and not five,
Speaker 1: you know, I I think it looks like there's contact
Speaker 1: that's happening. People are meeting him at the line, and
Speaker 1: then it was like and then camera or you know,
Speaker 1: LaTavia Murray gets another one to three or four yards,
Speaker 1: pulling people falling forward, breaking you know, the first shoulder tackle.
Speaker 1: You have to get guys down at first contact when
Speaker 1: you know what's coming. You know they're gonna run at you,
Speaker 1: they're gonna do a zone read, they're gonna go up
Speaker 1: the middle, and you've got to stop people because there's
Speaker 1: a big difference between second and nine and second and five.
Speaker 1: There really is. And then of course there's a huge
Speaker 1: difference between thirty and one, third and one and third
Speaker 1: and seven. But you know, at the same time, this
Speaker 1: is a defense that gave up what that huge third
Speaker 1: and fourteen two Camara on a screen pass, Like my goodness.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've they've got to be able to make
Speaker 1: tackles in the open field. And because of the way
Speaker 1: that you know, they're kind of scheming things a lot,
Speaker 1: it's about coming up to a play and making tackles
Speaker 1: moving forward. You know, they're putting things in front of them.
Speaker 1: They've got to make plays if they're going to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and it's a lot to focus on and
Speaker 1: fix in this short week. And then you look at
Speaker 1: you know, you get you get a little bit of
Speaker 1: a break after this Thursday game against the Falcons, but
Speaker 1: then you gotta do with the Chief's offense. So one
Speaker 1: aim at a time, and we can't look too far ahead.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, that's it. This is an issue, as
Speaker 1: you said, historic historically, um bad third down defense. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is an issue that's that's gotta get fixed. I mean,
Speaker 1: think about this. It was just the second time in
Speaker 1: Panthers history that they didn't force a punt. New Orleans
Speaker 1: never punted. Did you see That's gross? It's gross. It
Speaker 1: is they didn't punts. You know, it's not It's not
Speaker 1: the kind of thing that you want to hear. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: right now, the Panthers are thirty first in third down defense,
Speaker 1: which is hard to believe that a team is worse.
Speaker 1: Who's who's worse the Tennessee Titans, and they're giving up
Speaker 1: I think around six, if not quite right at six
Speaker 1: the last time I look. So that's it's it's a
Speaker 1: little bit weird because the Titans have been so good, um,
Speaker 1: and they didn't have the best game against the Steelers,
Speaker 1: but then they all also almost tied that thing up
Speaker 1: at the end there um last week. But right now,
Speaker 1: the Panthers giving up fifty six of third down so
Speaker 1: that's got to come down. It's just frankly, it's got
Speaker 1: to come down. We'll see if if they can make
Speaker 1: that happened on Thursday night against the Falcons under the lights. Um.
Speaker 1: On the offensive side. Of course, the thing that everyone
Speaker 1: is talking about, Panthers, fans, fantasy owners, you name it
Speaker 1: is that Christian McCaffrey was designated to return on Tuesday. Now,
Speaker 1: what that means does not necessarily mean that he's going
Speaker 1: to be playing in this game, but it is significant
Speaker 1: in his return to getting back on the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is, because right now as you get designated to return,
Speaker 1: that means it starts your twenty one day practice window.
Speaker 1: At the end of that twenty one days, you have to, uh,
Speaker 1: you have to choose between whether a player is activated
Speaker 1: or then good remains on I are for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. Now, it doesn't necessarily take twenty one
Speaker 1: days to be clear for somebody to be activated once
Speaker 1: they are designated to return. So basically, at any point
Speaker 1: over the next twenty one days and now twenty days
Speaker 1: is since that started yesterday, Christian McCaffrey can be activated
Speaker 1: to the fifty three man roster. Now will that happen
Speaker 1: this week? I don't know, especially because at this point
Speaker 1: he's he's been on the field for practice. We don't
Speaker 1: necessarily know how much he's done for practice. And I
Speaker 1: think if you're talking about a player of his caliber,
Speaker 1: does he want to be on the field. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he does. But at the same time, you probably want
Speaker 1: him to get a full week of practice in before
Speaker 1: you get him back there on the field. So it
Speaker 1: will be certainly interesting to see over the next twenty
Speaker 1: four you know, twenty six eight is hours however long
Speaker 1: it is before kickoff tomorrow night. Um whether or not
Speaker 1: the Panthers decide to activate him. But at this point,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that that's something that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: And just so I'm clear on this, Um, and I
Speaker 1: had to ask you this every day, but just so
Speaker 1: we put it out there for everyone who's listening. He
Speaker 1: can be activated whenever. Yes, yeah, pretty much right before
Speaker 1: the game. He gosh, And I really should probably know
Speaker 1: the why. I'm sorry. I don't mean to put you
Speaker 1: on the spot. It's just all everything's so different this year,
Speaker 1: and I just I'm curious of like, Okay, when if
Speaker 1: you're a Panthers fan or or you know, a fantasy
Speaker 1: owner or whatever, when do you say, like, Okay, he's
Speaker 1: definitely not playing, because to me, the signs say that
Speaker 1: as of right now, doesn't look like he's going to
Speaker 1: play for all of the reasons that you just said, Myles, Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, Miles, would he have to be Would that
Speaker 1: have to be a transaction submitted by five pm Thursday
Speaker 1: to go from a reserve list to an active roster? Probably? So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean wouldn't it. I mean it would have to
Speaker 1: come out on the Yeah, usually it would be. It
Speaker 1: would usually be the day before a game, like usually
Speaker 1: that would happen on a Saturday at the latest. Now
Speaker 1: it's Thursday night football, So I'm not sure if that
Speaker 1: means it can happen on earlier on Thursday or not.
Speaker 1: It might be I think it can happen earlier on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Um so, but yeah, that's that's a good point though,
Speaker 1: regardless of what the timeline is with Thursday, there is
Speaker 1: another step that has to happen so that you know, fans,
Speaker 1: I think it's important. I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are seeing him back and practice and side like all right,
Speaker 1: it's happening. Um. But it's just good to know that
Speaker 1: there's another step to look for if if you want
Speaker 1: know if he's gonna play or not. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I would imagine you're gonna know before tomorrow night. It's
Speaker 1: not going to be like, oh yeah he oh is
Speaker 1: he coming out there? Well you gotta have I mean,
Speaker 1: it's ninety minutes before the games for active, so we
Speaker 1: will probably know if he's gonna play. We're gonna know Thursday,
Speaker 1: probably morning afternoon, if he's going to be activated to
Speaker 1: the roster. We will definitely know when the game kicks
Speaker 1: off if he will be playing or not. Yes, make
Speaker 1: sure to follow Miles Simmons on Twitter Panthers dot com
Speaker 1: for all your latest updates. I like that. And you know,
Speaker 1: while we're at it, UM It's the Happy Half Hour
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Speaker 1: Morris Jenkins dot com. Whenever Christian McCaffrey comes back. The
Speaker 1: question has been how will that play with Mike Davis
Speaker 1: and Matt Rule. Got asked that question the other day
Speaker 1: and he said, yeah, I think we use them both.
Speaker 1: He said, it has proven that that he deserves to
Speaker 1: have a place in this offense. Um and and that's
Speaker 1: what it will be. Now we don't know how that
Speaker 1: will take shape, but I've I've heard that conversation happen
Speaker 1: a lot, and I just think, what a great problem
Speaker 1: for Joe Brady to have in my opinion, But I've
Speaker 1: heard people say like, oh my gosh, how is this
Speaker 1: gonna work. I think they're going to figure it out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's interesting because different offensive coordinators and different offensive minds
Speaker 1: have different philosophies on the way they like to use
Speaker 1: personnel groupings. And from what I've noticed here, Joe Brady
Speaker 1: likes to be multiple and I think when you have
Speaker 1: the skill sets of the guys that they have, you
Speaker 1: can use more than one running back, because it's uh
Speaker 1: sometimes when coaches talk about it, it's like, Okay, who
Speaker 1: do you take off the field? The Rams are a
Speaker 1: good example of this because they in the past they've
Speaker 1: had three really good wide receivers when they've used what's
Speaker 1: called eleven personnel with three wide receivers, one running back,
Speaker 1: one tight end. Okay, so that's like what they do,
Speaker 1: and they've used a little bit more too tight end sets.
Speaker 1: But when you do that, it's like, okay, who do
Speaker 1: you take off the field? And so here I think
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different in that they rotate through
Speaker 1: guys a lot, you know, so it's not just been Okay,
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson, d J. Moore, Curtis Samuel are on the
Speaker 1: field every play. Ian Thomas is going to be on
Speaker 1: the field, you know. Whatever. They've rotated through their guys,
Speaker 1: and so they were even doing that a little bit
Speaker 1: with Christian McCaffrey. Mike Davis would get a series here
Speaker 1: and there in those first couple of games, and there
Speaker 1: were a couple of times I believe we're Mike Davis
Speaker 1: and Christian McCaffrey were on the field at the same time.
Speaker 1: And the great thing about McCaffrey is you don't just
Speaker 1: have to put him in the backfield. You know, you
Speaker 1: can split him out wide and use him in the slot.
Speaker 1: You can do a lot of different things. So that
Speaker 1: I think is gonna be the fun way of seeing
Speaker 1: how Joe Brady puts together the puzzle because there are
Speaker 1: a lot of possibilities because he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: different weapons that have a lot of different skill sets.
Speaker 1: I do. I think it's gonna be more about touches
Speaker 1: than about snaps because Miles, Well, you're right, Mike Davis
Speaker 1: did come in a little bit in those first four games.
Speaker 1: McCaffrey only miss four snaps before he was hurt. Four
Speaker 1: snaps in two games, I guess a game and three quarters.
Speaker 1: So it's one of those things. Everyone they talked about
Speaker 1: it at nauseum last year before you guys got here.
Speaker 1: It's it's great to talk about, but until you're out there,
Speaker 1: like I will believe Christian McCaffrey comes off the field
Speaker 1: when I see it, you know, because it just it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. He gets out there, and when he's healthy,
Speaker 1: it's really really hard to take him off the field
Speaker 1: for any given amount of time. Well, and that's that's
Speaker 1: what I mean by saying that he if you want
Speaker 1: to put Mike Davis on the field with Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: then he's got the McCaffrey's got the versatile skill set
Speaker 1: to go out wide and maybe you know, you are
Speaker 1: limiting the amount of hits that he takes because he
Speaker 1: then goes outside and he's not just running between the
Speaker 1: tackles and then you know, getting a little bit dinged up.
Speaker 1: So that's that's Curtis Samuel too. He's got the first
Speaker 1: tile skill set to go in the backfield. But you
Speaker 1: also see what he can do on third downs when
Speaker 1: he is split out wide or he's in the slot
Speaker 1: and he just knows how to uncover and Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: knows how to find him. So that's what I mean
Speaker 1: that it's the good problem to have. You don't necessarily
Speaker 1: have to take Christian McCaffrey off the field. To put
Speaker 1: somebody else on it and then see what kind of
Speaker 1: skill sets and what kind of matchups you can get.
Speaker 1: And one thing I just really like about the Mike
Speaker 1: Davis Christian McCaffrey dynamic is they are each other's biggest fan.
Speaker 1: It feels like to me, you know, Mike Davis tweeted
Speaker 1: the other day, I'm not gonna lie, it's great to
Speaker 1: have Smack back out here in practice. Um. And it's
Speaker 1: just that kind of camaraderie between the two of them,
Speaker 1: UM that I really like, you know, game plan aside.
Speaker 1: When Christian McCaffrey comes back, I know that no one
Speaker 1: wants him back out there more than Mike Davis on
Speaker 1: that team. And genuinely, like, they really do support each
Speaker 1: other and all they do. They're they're good friends. They
Speaker 1: joke with each other. Was talking to Mike not too
Speaker 1: long ago, and we're talking about who's the best at
Speaker 1: all the games that they kind of have in the
Speaker 1: locker room and stuff, and he was like, Christians so
Speaker 1: good at ping pong. He was like, there's nothing that
Speaker 1: he's bad at. And he's texting him about it, and
Speaker 1: you know, I just I really like their relationship and
Speaker 1: I'm excited to hopefully see some some creative things when
Speaker 1: they're both healthy. Yeah. Yeah, it's fun when guys support
Speaker 1: each other like that. I mean you see things like that.
Speaker 1: You see Curtis Samuel talking about in his little press
Speaker 1: conference yesterday, how his face. Somebody asked him about, what's
Speaker 1: your favorite play that you've had so far this year?
Speaker 1: And he's like, well, you know, I like making my
Speaker 1: teammates smile, So I'd say it was on d J.
Speaker 1: Moore's really long touchdown in Atlanta. I got a couple
Speaker 1: of blocks down field form and he got into the
Speaker 1: end zone and score. Yeah. That's nice to hear, you know, nice,
Speaker 1: nice little teammates support absolutely all Right, Well I should
Speaker 1: have asked you this last week, Um, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: But okay, we got Atlanta coming up on Thursday, and
Speaker 1: then the Panthers were just in New Orleans. Now, when
Speaker 1: the Panthers went down to Atlanta, you went on a
Speaker 1: m I would call it a rant about how much
Speaker 1: you dislike Atlanta. Ales and I were both going down
Speaker 1: and you said that essentially there was no way that
Speaker 1: you would ever be caught dead in Atlanta. Is this
Speaker 1: is how if I'm paraphrasing, I think that that's really
Speaker 1: what it felt like. Um, I didn't ask you that, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about New Orleans? Yeah, that's it. No,
Speaker 1: New Orleans is fun. It's New Orleans. I've had some
Speaker 1: great times in New Orleans. I mean, that's what I
Speaker 1: would say about Atlanta, though you know, I've had some
Speaker 1: bad times in Atlanta anyway. But as much as there
Speaker 1: are so many reasons, and you know, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: Sean Payton can be such a like can play that
Speaker 1: he'll in like the wrestling sort of way, you know,
Speaker 1: And but I mean watching him and watching the things
Speaker 1: he said about Teddy Bridgewater, you know it, watching those
Speaker 1: relationships of like Drew Brees and those guys before and
Speaker 1: after the game, like, it's really hard to feel the same.
Speaker 1: I mean. And obviously this is a particular small circumstances.
Speaker 1: This isn't a generation stional rivalry feeling. But it just
Speaker 1: it didn't feel I think, particularly for this game, you
Speaker 1: felt a lot of camaraderie with them because of those
Speaker 1: relationships and in a larger sense the Superdome. While there's
Speaker 1: been some tough losses, you know, the playoff loss in
Speaker 1: seventeen that came down obviously, this one, it just hasn't
Speaker 1: felt like the House of Horrors that Atlanta has felt like.
Speaker 1: And I also think I don't know how fans feel
Speaker 1: about this. I like seeing that camaraderie that you mentioned
Speaker 1: um before and after the game with Drew brees And
Speaker 1: and Teddy and Joe Brady and Sean Payton. I mean
Speaker 1: they were they were mixing it up, everyone was smiling.
Speaker 1: Was great to see um each other. I liked when
Speaker 1: Teddy ran out of Bounce and went over to the bench.
Speaker 1: I was you can tell he's just tired. He was like,
Speaker 1: i'mnna sit down for a second and talked to Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill and Drew brees Um. Because I also feel like,
Speaker 1: especially on the offensive side, it felt like, all right,
Speaker 1: like these are two kind of worthy opponents that know
Speaker 1: each other. Well, you're gonna show what you have. You know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna show what you've been holding on too, and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna show what we've got. And I thought
Speaker 1: it actually made it better. You know, I know some
Speaker 1: fans don't like that kind of Um, we're gonna chat
Speaker 1: right before the game and smile, and then we're gonna
Speaker 1: hug afterwards, and but I thought it kind of felt like, um,
Speaker 1: with those offensive minds and those quarterbacks kind of like alright,
Speaker 1: like you know, we're the opponent here, let's see what
Speaker 1: you got and I'll show you what you know, what
Speaker 1: I've been holding on to specifically for this matchup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny. Fans sometimes I think, uh take those kinds
Speaker 1: of deals the wrong way. Like you're talking about like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to see them talking before the game. Well,
Speaker 1: that's I mean, that's what it's. You're allowed to feel
Speaker 1: that way. Yeah, and I get it. There's a part
Speaker 1: of me that gets it, even though I just use
Speaker 1: my I'm making fun of fans voice. Um. However, I
Speaker 1: think that at the same time, you get to realize
Speaker 1: like sometimes these guys are professionals, right, Like just because
Speaker 1: you say hello to somebody before the game doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that you're not going to go out and try to
Speaker 1: kick their butt, you know, Like that's the way, that's
Speaker 1: why these things work. So I don't know. I I
Speaker 1: I too. I like seeing the camaraderie. Thought the Teddy
Speaker 1: going to the the bench area of New Orleans that
Speaker 1: was kind of fun, you know, Teddy and uh Sean Payton.
Speaker 1: They kind of got into a little bit on the
Speaker 1: sideline being like, hey, your team just got a penalty,
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, well your team got a penalty too,
Speaker 1: So that kind of stuff that that's fun. It shows
Speaker 1: that these guys are competitors, but they're also human beings,
Speaker 1: and sometimes I think we might forget that they are
Speaker 1: human beings. It's easy to forget that sometimes. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and then we're gonna be
Speaker 1: back with Will's Out of the Week. Hi, this is
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Speaker 1: of the podcast, Will what your stat of the week?
Speaker 1: The week so we're just talking about this rivalry, this
Speaker 1: series with Atlanta coming up tomorrow Thursday Night is a
Speaker 1: chance for the Panthers knock on wood to potentially sweep
Speaker 1: the season series with the Falcons by winning at home
Speaker 1: and on the road. I've done it. I've knocked one.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, guys. I knocked on all
Speaker 1: the wood in this little booth over here. I knocked
Speaker 1: on it. Alright. That hasn't happened since for the Panthers,
Speaker 1: and it's only happened three times in twenty six seasons.
Speaker 1: You could announce that sat afterwards if it happened. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: because here's the thing, because like I'm tired of like
Speaker 1: all these great cool things that will comes up with,
Speaker 1: but no, we can't talk about them because sports. Wait,
Speaker 1: when has this ever happened before? It's happened before, not
Speaker 1: on this podcast, but it's happened. Just sounds like like
Speaker 1: myles are like, well, play, keep these amazing yourself. Don't
Speaker 1: bring your personal stuff into this. This this is the
Speaker 1: happy happen I'm pretty sure I bring my personal stuff
Speaker 1: into this every week. That's the whole point. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just teasing you. That is that is a great
Speaker 1: stat but it's I think it shows a you know
Speaker 1: how much you really want to beat Atlanta, but be
Speaker 1: just like, over the course of seasons, Carolina had the
Speaker 1: best season they ever had and they couldn't sweep Atlanta.
Speaker 1: They went fifteen and one that one, Like, how many
Speaker 1: times have the Falcon swept I'm sorry, I'm putting you
Speaker 1: on the spot. More than three. I'd have to take
Speaker 1: a look. But it's but it's not It's not an
Speaker 1: astronomical number. I mean they have split way more than
Speaker 1: either one has sweat. Sure, right, but that's yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think that's with most division rivals. It's it's hard
Speaker 1: for one team to dominate another team in a in
Speaker 1: a division just because you see each other so much
Speaker 1: so you understand what it is that you're going to get.
Speaker 1: Even the Rams when they were really bad, you know,
Speaker 1: going on those years and like fifteen, they weren't really
Speaker 1: really bad, but you know what I'm saying, like they
Speaker 1: would they were not good, but they would take on
Speaker 1: Seattle very very well. Seattle was at that time one
Speaker 1: of the best teams in the league, but the Rams
Speaker 1: would give them everything that they could handle every time.
Speaker 1: Because you just know the teams in your division really
Speaker 1: really well. So I mean that's that's something that always
Speaker 1: happens for the Browns. For comparisons sake from Cleveland, I
Speaker 1: can say that, Yeah, they don't sweep anybody. Um uh,
Speaker 1: the series with the Saints, they've swept the Saints six
Speaker 1: times and they swept the Bucks nine times. Okay, so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so it's Atlanta. It's Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta. Martia
Speaker 1: Marsha Marcia does not like the city. Not I don't like.
Speaker 1: I don't like them. We talked about the Panthers third
Speaker 1: down defense, so this is something that that fans are
Speaker 1: gonna want to listen to. If the Panthers get a
Speaker 1: third down stop in the third quarter during a home game,
Speaker 1: So this is in play on Thursday Night. One lucky
Speaker 1: fan will win a smart home smoke and carbon monoxide
Speaker 1: detector through the Morris Jenkins Protect and Check sweepstakes. The
Speaker 1: Panthers get a fourth down stop in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: that same fan will also be going home with a
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollar gift cards. So be sure to check
Speaker 1: out contests dot Panthers dot com for more details on
Speaker 1: how you can enter. So even more pressure on the
Speaker 1: Panthers to get some of those stops. Look negativity over here.
Speaker 1: I don't think that was negative. I don't think that
Speaker 1: was negative at all. Luck, good luck. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a great contest. Um. We appreciate Morris Jenkins for doing it,
Speaker 1: so we'll keep an eye on that. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about a short week. We are in the midst of
Speaker 1: it right now. This is, uh, this is my short
Speaker 1: for a short week. Um, what typically for for anyone
Speaker 1: who's wondering what typically gets left on the cutting room
Speaker 1: floor when you have to go from a Sunday to
Speaker 1: a Thursday night game In terms of the players recovery
Speaker 1: and preparation, I was going to say, miles articles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there we we we have to compile six days of
Speaker 1: articles into like two. It's not fun. Um. I think
Speaker 1: that one of the biggest things is just the recovery aspect.
Speaker 1: Right when you start to recover as a player, it's
Speaker 1: a process and a lot of times guys say, you know,
Speaker 1: my body starts to feel right Wednesday Thursday, and that's
Speaker 1: when they have to start playing this week. So it's
Speaker 1: it really puts a lot of stress on can you
Speaker 1: get the right amount of sleep, can you make sure
Speaker 1: you're getting a massage, maybe an extra massage. Um, what
Speaker 1: are you doing to make sure that your body is
Speaker 1: as recovered as it possibly can be? How does that
Speaker 1: affect practice or you know, you're usually doing things a
Speaker 1: lot lighter than you normally would because again, your body
Speaker 1: is not recovered. Usually this is the first day of practice, right,
Speaker 1: They've already had two days of practice this week because
Speaker 1: again they're playing tomorrow night. So it just it truncates
Speaker 1: everything and it makes everything a little bit more difficult.
Speaker 1: I think it it's like that it pushes on the
Speaker 1: things that you're maybe not good at, and it stresses
Speaker 1: the things that you are good at because I think
Speaker 1: that there's there's just not enough time to kind of
Speaker 1: really completely reset, so you're kind of still going. And
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting. You know, the Panthers have played
Speaker 1: Thursday night games against you know, a FC teams. You
Speaker 1: know the they played it against, uh maybe it's been
Speaker 1: a while since an ANFC team, but they haven't necessarily
Speaker 1: played them always against divisional teams every year. You know,
Speaker 1: played them against the Eagles a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: It's different when you literally just played this team two
Speaker 1: weeks ago and you know you're not doing the full
Speaker 1: reset of a full new scouting report over the course
Speaker 1: of them. You're trying to cram it in there. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, it's like, hey, remember what worked,
Speaker 1: Remember what you just did. This is how they might
Speaker 1: try to tweak what they're doing against us, and this
Speaker 1: is how we're gonna respond. But you really don't have
Speaker 1: a ton of time to completely do something completely new
Speaker 1: in that in that aspect. And the wild thing too
Speaker 1: in this particular case is that you're doing this against
Speaker 1: a team that just fired and said coach right after
Speaker 1: you played them. So now with Raight Morris, it's not
Speaker 1: like they're doing things that are all that differently, and
Speaker 1: you really can't because you can't install things again once
Speaker 1: you're in the middle of the regular season. But there
Speaker 1: are a little bit of a couple a couple of
Speaker 1: tweaks here and there that you might notice. Um, so
Speaker 1: that's something that again, you know this team well enough
Speaker 1: because they're in the division, because you've seen them for years,
Speaker 1: that you probably will be able to figure that out.
Speaker 1: I mean. But at the same time, it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: you know, they might approach a couple of different things.
Speaker 1: They might approach a couple different situations differently, so you
Speaker 1: have to anticipate that and be ready for it. And Kristen,
Speaker 1: you mentioned this earlier, but you think back over the
Speaker 1: last month or so, against the Arizona Cardinals, you had
Speaker 1: Hopkins that was hurt, banged up, eventually played but probably wasn't.
Speaker 1: Then you have the Falcons Julio doesn't play, and then
Speaker 1: you have the Saints. Yeah oo with Michael Thomas and
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders don't play. And now it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: Julio's back, Calvin Ridley's out there. You know, there's some
Speaker 1: stud wide receivers going against you, and you've kind of
Speaker 1: gotten little bit lucky on that front the last month
Speaker 1: or so. Yeah, it's something that that I thought about,
Speaker 1: you know, knowing that Julio Jones will play in this
Speaker 1: game and no Russell Douglas um from from at least
Speaker 1: at this point from what we understand. Um, But Dante
Speaker 1: Jackson didn't play in that Atlanta game. I think he
Speaker 1: played maybe yeah, one snap and then the tow flared up.
Speaker 1: So you know, we'll we'll see, we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: with that. UM. So I have an answer to your
Speaker 1: question from earlier, and this actually blew my mind. So
Speaker 1: Atlanta has swept US ten times, and three times it
Speaker 1: was in back to back season, so they went four
Speaker 1: straight three separate times. Oh wow, what um? When we're
Speaker 1: the three straight? Um? I didn't look up the years,
Speaker 1: but the most recent time was I think two seasons. Well,
Speaker 1: at least that street's been broken. We'll see if we'll
Speaker 1: see if the Panthers can complete the sweep and make
Speaker 1: will stats valid um on Thursday night. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna end it with our weird question of the week.
Speaker 1: As always, weird Question of the week. You're weird, You're
Speaker 1: a weird guy. No context given for this one. Usually
Speaker 1: will say, hey, this happened this week, Like last week
Speaker 1: it was, you know, Robbie talked about coming to McDonald's.
Speaker 1: So it's just this is just the question favorite ride
Speaker 1: at an amusement park, will um. So I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: even more specific than just a generic one, Like my
Speaker 1: favorite ride is the Fury, the Giga coaster at Carowin's. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what the words you just said,
Speaker 1: We're sounds like a computer part of Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: the giga coaster, which was open maybe four or five
Speaker 1: years ago. What is a giga coast? It's faster than
Speaker 1: all the other coasters. But I don't know why is
Speaker 1: it called giga because the gigabytes are better than megabytes.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's better than a megabyte coaster, that's true,
Speaker 1: or a kilobyte coaster from the nineties. Anyway, So the
Speaker 1: giga the giga coaster is what they call it. You
Speaker 1: can literally see our office from the top of it.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. You get that the one that you can
Speaker 1: see um on the highway like when you're taking the accent.
Speaker 1: That's the huge straight drop one, and it's the way
Speaker 1: it's like. And then you go on the other coasters
Speaker 1: at Carowin's, you can tell how much better technology is.
Speaker 1: Like that one you ride and it's so much faster
Speaker 1: and it's a bigger drop, and yet you feel fine
Speaker 1: after it's just such a rush, And then the other ones,
Speaker 1: you know, you feel awful because the technology just your
Speaker 1: your head's shaking around. Anyway, I can't do I can't
Speaker 1: do the spinny things. I only do coasters. How fast
Speaker 1: does it go? Looking it up? All? Right? What about
Speaker 1: what about you? Miles? Favorite? I have no favorite rides.
Speaker 1: I I do not do rides. I don't do amusement parks.
Speaker 1: Uh you know why, because I'm definitely afraid of roller
Speaker 1: coasters and you hate fun. Did you did you have
Speaker 1: a bad experience or have you ever been on the road.
Speaker 1: The last time I was on a roller coaster was
Speaker 1: in the summer of twenty and I cried. Whoa, yep,
Speaker 1: I cried. There were tears in my eyes during before, after,
Speaker 1: during slash after, and I really didn't want to do it. So,
Speaker 1: uh there, I had a friend and we were at
Speaker 1: this event for our job, and they took us to
Speaker 1: the Santa Cruz boardwalk out in California, right, and he
Speaker 1: was like, we gotta go on the roller coaster. We
Speaker 1: gotta go on the roller coaster. I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: I really don't want to do that, and like I
Speaker 1: was his only friend there, so I was like. Eventually
Speaker 1: I relented and I shouldn't have done it. I just
Speaker 1: it was it was very scary, and I cried. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I don't go from that on. I just I
Speaker 1: don't go on roller coaster. Man. If I ever have
Speaker 1: kids or whatever, you know, I hope that uh their
Speaker 1: mother is a roller coaster person. I will not step
Speaker 1: foot on the roller I'm not doing it. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to do it, Matt. So. I don't know the
Speaker 1: name of it, but when I went on a field
Speaker 1: trip when I was a kid, there was a we
Speaker 1: went to Bush Gardens in Virginia and there was a
Speaker 1: ride that dropped two and fifty ft straight down roller coaster.
Speaker 1: Remember the name of it, like Will does. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was a Giga or a Mega or whatever,
Speaker 1: but it was pretty coaster. Um yeah, I like the
Speaker 1: ones that do the spinny stuff. I like the incredible
Speaker 1: hule um don I like all that stuff. I don't love.
Speaker 1: There are two kinds that I don't love. I like
Speaker 1: most roller coasters. I don't love a straight drop ride,
Speaker 1: so I can. I can deal with it on a
Speaker 1: roller coaster, but like a drops on a Tower of Terror,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm out. It feels awful to me. Um and
Speaker 1: handle the spinny rides. I get sick every time. I
Speaker 1: don't want to go around and around in a teacup.
Speaker 1: But I don't mind like a loop de loop and uh,
Speaker 1: don't bother me. I need to be moving like forward.
Speaker 1: I need to have like open air, like flowing through anyway.
Speaker 1: I looked it up. It's nine in three drop. Nice.
Speaker 1: That sounds fun. So the top thrilled Dragster at Cedar Point,
Speaker 1: Now I know that one is faster because it goes
Speaker 1: like a d mile an hour way you start shooting
Speaker 1: you up. So I don't love roller coasters, but I
Speaker 1: do know that about my Ohio uh Cedar Point attraction,
Speaker 1: which is one of the best uh what do we
Speaker 1: call those theme parks in the world us that, And
Speaker 1: so I just want to make the other point of
Speaker 1: another roller coaster that I will not get on. I
Speaker 1: would rather get on a pure drop. Then. You know,
Speaker 1: the only ones that really kind of freaked me out
Speaker 1: are the ones that gets set up in a day
Speaker 1: at like a county fair, you know where you're like,
Speaker 1: oh man, yeah, those are That's like the one rollers
Speaker 1: are I will I'll knock get on. I'm sure they're fine.
Speaker 1: But if I if I drive past the parking lot
Speaker 1: and it's not there, and then the next daid's there,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know if I like that. Like
Speaker 1: the chair swings, yeah, I just picture myself just lying
Speaker 1: on flanging around. There is nothing holding you in a
Speaker 1: tiny little metal bar oh my god. Oh yeah. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure I mean regulations and all that, but that's
Speaker 1: the one I'd rather get on the giga coaster five
Speaker 1: times than than the one that comes in a bag
Speaker 1: and you pop up and all right, that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for us. On this week's Happy Half Hour podcast,
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week.