WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 29: Finale Perspective 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.120 Hi, this is Dewey Jenkins. After my four years in 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.360 the Navy, you're an AE and I moved to Charlotte, 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:08.320 even though neither of us were from here. I was 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:11.000 from the mountains of Virginia and she was from Florida, 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.680 but we agreed that Charlotte was where we wanted to 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.840 build our future together. I was a full time student 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.200 at U n c C by day and ran a 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.639 janitorial business that night. And a few years later I 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.439 bought a little air conditioning company, and that's how I 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:35.320 met you, and I'm really glad I did. It's time 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.600 for the Happy Half Hour with your friends Kristen Belboni 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:49.960 and Will Brian, presented by Morris Jenkins. That's right, it's 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.000 that time of the week, The Happy Half Hour podcast 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.480 presented by Morris Jenkins, and Mr Jenkins told me that 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:56.920 he loves football and he looks forward to this show 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.720 all week. When you're plumbing her air conditioning is acting up? 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.120 Morris Jenkins or is it Morris Jenkins dot com. Kristin 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.800 here with my good buddies Will and Matt. Fresh off 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.880 of a celebration Sunday. I guess a celebration all week? 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.759 A nice win for the Panthers over the Washington football team, 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.640 and what was a reunion for a lot of these players, 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.480 coaching staff, um, everyone involved. So it was neat to 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:27.440 see guys, I thought them the camaraderie um, you know, 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.160 everyone kind of it kind of felt like a family 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.679 reunion before and a little bit after. But it was 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.200 all business um during the game and a nice win 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.080 for the Panthers. They played lights out in that first 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.559 half and then we're able to to make some stops 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.280 where it counted, hang on to that win in the 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.479 second half. Yeah, it's it's like one of those things 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.520 where you go and play your old friend or you 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.680 play you know, maybe like a cousin or a family member, 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.120 and you really really liked them and you really respect them, 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.240 but man, you really want to beat them, you know. 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.600 And I think it kind of had that feel to it. Um. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.160 You know, obviously, you know, coach Rule didn't necessarily have 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.600 the relationship with with Ron Rivera that a number of 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.120 the players and obviously a lot of the staff, some 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.640 of the staff did, but it felt like that a 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.200 little bit like hey, yeah, we love you man, like 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.600 we really we've been thinking about it, but man, we're 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.239 gonna come out here and we're gonna win this game, 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.000 like we're we're we're gonna win this game. And I 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.480 think it kind of had that feeling kind of leading 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.720 up to it and certainly through it. Um and there 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.600 was just so much There was so much intensity from 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.120 from guys like Dante Jackson and Trey Boston, you know, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.840 Trey getting that interception right before half, um, the big 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.600 plays in in special teams. There was really just a 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.919 sense of, Hey, we want to break through. We've been 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.840 so close to kind of winning these things. We're not 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.760 going to let this come down the fourth quarter. We're 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.280 gonna get this thing done. And this one was um 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.240 an example of two things that Matt Rule has preached 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:59.760 all season. One is that he doesn't want to let 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.840 um emotion get the best of anyone when there is a, 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.160 you know, a reunion type game. I remember talking to 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.440 him the first time that the Panthers were facing the 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.400 Saints and he said, I said, you know, what do 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:13.799 you think about Joe Brady and and Teddy Bridgewater going 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:15.440 back to face their former team. And He's like, actually, 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.440 I just wish every week I hope that everyone prepares 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.120 exactly the same way. And so this is a very 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.720 emotional game, and he thinks that sometimes emotions can get 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.520 the best of you if you don't channel them in 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.000 the right um, if you don't channel them in the 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.000 right way, and that you play off emotion um rather 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.520 than than doing your job and and knowing the game plan. 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.839 And so I thought this was a nice um win 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.280 for them in the sense that they did not let 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:45.120 emotion and seeing the former coaches UM and former teammates 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:47.640 get the best of them um, which I know that 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.080 Rule is very happy about. And then also the other 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.760 thing that he's talked a lot about lately is learning 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.480 how to win in December. And you know, he says 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.840 he considers it a skill, and it's something that he's 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.640 had an eye out this month, especially when it comes 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.280 to the young players. Here is what he said on 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.840 Monday in his press conference in this week's Overheard, did 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:13.840 you hear something overheard? I really believe that it's a 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:15.960 skill to win late in the year. Like you watched 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.119 the Patriots and years ago the Super Bowl, they high 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:19.520 flying and all of sudd at the end of year, 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.720 they transformed themselves when it gets cold and they run 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.880 the ball and stop the run and do all those things. So, um, 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:27.840 I just wanted to give you a complete kind of 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.640 football answer that makes sense. Why I think it's so 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.480 important that we went to Lambeau and didn't roll over, 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.760 that we fought back. Why it's so And if you 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.640 look back to the first game was Denver, we didn't 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.200 play very good, and so to go from Denver to 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.280 the way we played at Green Bay. So now the 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.440 way we played yesterday, I mean that was that was 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.880 a hard fought game. And then we'll see what happens 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.839 this week versus Saints. I mean, it's four twenty five, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.880 it's national TV, it's Saints. You know. The fighting for 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.160 the bye, I mean the bye this year is so 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.880 importantcause only one team gets it. So I mean they're 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.760 they're gonna play, and so if we go like that, 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.800 hopefully that will be another step. Yeah, I mean it's 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.800 about it's about a sense of in order to win games, 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.120 you have to win in the fourth quarter. In order 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.280 to win seasons, you have to win in December. In 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:17.200 order to be a successful franchise and program, you have 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.200 to get to the playoffs. And when you can tell 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.159 who's Will Brian and who's Matt rule Now after listening 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.159 to these that I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I love it 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.760 though I love it, but yeah, I mean it's something 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:29.840 we talked about. You know. I referenced what Jake and 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.400 Jordan's said back in November before even in it was 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.240 one of those things that back in the back in 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.120 the day when the Panthers went three straight um or 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.560 three straight playoff appearances under Ron Rivera, one of the 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.800 things that they kept talking about was you gotta win December, 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.159 win December. And they were able to do that. And 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.040 these last couple of years, I mean, obviously injuries all 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:50.800 the things kind of contributed to it, but I think 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.880 the thing that really got people around here was just 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.440 it just fell off. And that's just something that I 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.839 think was really important that for that rule that didn't 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.760 happen this year, that yeah, things were you know, maybe 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.080 you're out of the playoff race, maybe uh, there isn't 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.000 seemingly as much to play for, but we're not gonna 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.840 fall off. And you know, we're gonna keep building, We're 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.000 gonna keep getting better. We still have games to play, 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.800 you know, we're professionals, uh, and and we're gonna keep 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.200 getting better at it. And I think that that has 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:25.320 has shown itself. I mean it's hard to win in Lambeau, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:27.520 you know against Green Bay, and they still did a 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.839 pretty good job of that. And obviously this week, um, 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.120 you know, going to Washington, a team that uh needed 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.920 to win that game to win the to win the division, 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.240 and they did it. And then again again this week 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.320 against the Saints. The Saints need to win to have 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.880 a chance to get a buy. So, as Coach Rule said, 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.880 it's uh, you know, they're simulating kind of playoff atmospheres 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.279 and they're they're going against teams that are really trying. Yeah. 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.320 I I completely agree. And I asked him, I said, 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.480 did this win. I was talking to coach Rule earlier 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.120 this week. I said, did this win show you that 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.760 that foundation is being laid for starting to learn how 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.680 to win? In December? Now it's only been you know, 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.280 the one win. Um. But he said, yeah, he saw 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.080 it in those things will that you were just talking about, Um, 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.480 in the commitment, in the intensity. And I tell you 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.440 what I saw it in practice last week. Um. It 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:21.320 was Wednesday, right, you know, the first day of practice 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.360 last week, coming off of a tough loss, of disappointing 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.040 loss and the defense as soon as they came out, 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.440 like all gathered together and did I asked Jack about it, 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.160 and he referred to it as like stomp the yard, 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.480 you know, where they're all in like a circle and 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.600 there now I'm like moving back and forth in front 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.160 of my mic and no one can see me. It 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.960 just is you know, great audio right here. But you 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.320 know they're all moving back and forth, and uh, you 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.800 know Jack jumps in the middle. I mean that's that's 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.680 the first minute they get out um onto the practice 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.040 field after a tough loss, when they only have two 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.800 games left and are you know, mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.760 I just thought that was the coolest and I asked 0:07:57.880 --> 0:07:59.640 Jack about it and he said, yeah. He said, well, 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.880 Trey thought we needed some energies, like so I jumped 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.640 in there and it just set the tone. And I 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.720 really feel like that translated. I could see it in 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.040 practice all week, and then it translated to this game. 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.320 And you know, Rule has also spoken about how the 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.480 veterans have to lead the way for these young guys 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.880 to learn how to win. In December, and there's this 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.440 quote that we've heard him say a couple of times, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.160 which is like knowing the game plan and also being 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.720 able to make sure you have a present for your wife. 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.400 You know, it's not just that this is the most 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.080 important time of the season, um, because it leads to 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.079 the playoffs. How you play in December leads to the playoffs. 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:37.920 But also it's the holidays, um, all that kind of stuff. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:39.880 And so he said that he thought this the way 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.120 in which they won the game, UM, really showed him 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.200 that they are starting to kind of grasp onto that 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.160 to meet the moment. But but they gotta do it again. 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.720 You know. It's just, um, you can't just be a 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.079 one time thing for this this culture to to change 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.240 and to have that winning in December mindset. So, as 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.640 you said, well, another great opportunity on Sunday. And I 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.000 think one of the things that maybe got a lost 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.680 a little bit or at least not articulated well enough 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:11.760 on the on the twitters over the last seventy two hours, 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.480 because I mean, it's it's been it's been crazy out here, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.480 crazy out here in the Twitter streets. It's it's crazy 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.640 in the Twitter streets. And you know, I'm sure people 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:22.920 that are listening to this, you know, have no you know, 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.720 in their mind, have no patience for us defending this 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.040 or whatever. You know, they want that top three pick. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.440 And you know, we can go back and forth about 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.719 you know, all the statistics of top five quarterbacks in 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.080 two thousand and ten only winning uh, you know, like 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.440 two playoffs or twelve playoff games, and only two of 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.160 them could potentially go to the playoffs this year. You know, 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.240 not that I didn't look that up just before we talked, 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.640 but I want to I want to go into this. Yeah, sorry, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:50.760 I want to go into this real quick. You look 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:55.199 at this team of of young guys, and certainly this year, 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.000 maybe more than other years, there's a lot of guys 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.199 still under contract coming back, you know, really trying to 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.360 build this thing together. But you look at a guy 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:06.560 like like Mike Davis. Mike Davis doesn't know necessarily what 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.680 any year is going to like for him, you know, 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.040 whether he's back with the Panthers, whether he's somewhere else, 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.600 whether he's backing up Christian McCaffrey, whether he's splitting carries 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.280 with Christian. He's not going to go out against Washington 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.680 with a chance to get a thousand scrimmage yards to 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.800 enhance his life, his family, his his future, you know, 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.920 his money and just say, well, but you know, if 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.360 I score this touchdown, we may not get a top 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.160 five draft pick, and maybe I should just bumble it, 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:39.400 you know, like I mean when you never happened do yeah, 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.679 of course not, you know, I mean he tiered up, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.800 he teered up in his press conference this week about 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.120 getting a thousand yards. So obviously this game is important 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.719 to him on a level that none of us understand, right, 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.800 you know, Kurt mean, Curtis Samuel doesn't. He has no 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.840 apologies for someone that wants a top five draft pick 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.840 when he's out here getting records for scrimmage yards and 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.640 helping himself, you know, whether it's here next year with 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.440 a contract, whether it's somewhere else. You know, he he 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.200 doesn't care, like these guys are professionals. And that's right. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:09.839 Brian Burns going out there, we didn't think he was 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.640 going to play all we can practice and then the 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.960 last minute he was like, no, I'm gonna play like 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.160 and getting back in the game because he wanted it 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.200 so bad, right and that you know that that's how 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.160 that that, I mean, that's what the point of the 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.120 culture part is. You know, it's not just this you know, 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.240 people are like, oh, yeah, they're really going to remember 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.920 that game in December when they're entering training camp in August, 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.800 and it's like maybe they will, maybe they won't in 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.720 terms of a gut feeling. Maybe it's different players. But 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.280 when you have guys that you know are always ready 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.600 to compete, if they're ready to compete in December when 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.080 it doesn't count, that means that they're ready to compete 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.320 when they wake up in March and they go down 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.360 to their home gym and they're working out on their own, 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.439 you know, or they're ready to compete when they show 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.880 up to to May camp or training camp or whatever 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.600 it is. You know, if they're ready to compete now, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.840 then that's something about them that means they're always ready. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.280 And that's what you need in guys to be elite 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.360 NFL football players is, you know, competitors all the time, 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:14.120 all the time. And another thing that that mentality that 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.559 you're talking about that leads to a longer, more successful, 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.600 more sustainable franchise. We're having a top five pick, isn't 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.120 That is not necessarily indicative of of a culture change 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.800 or of oh we we're gonna have a top five 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.840 picks so obviously we're about to blow up and have 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.760 a playoff team. So I looked this up, well, your Mr. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.080 Stat guy, but I looked this up last night because 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:34.560 this is kind of a hot button issue for me. 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:38.280 I hate the whole tanking argument. So eleven teams have 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.880 had five or more top five draft picks since two 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.720 thousand NFL. Since the two thousand NFL draft. Of those 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.600 eleven teams, four have been to the Super Bowl, and 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.880 only one team, the Bucks, have won a Super Bowl, 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.520 and that was before they started picking in the top five. Okay, 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.440 so eight teams have had one or zero top five 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.560 draft picks in that same time span. Those teams have 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.480 combined in for a sixteen and seven record in the 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.560 Super Bowl, whereas the other eleven teams combined form a 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.560 losing playoff record of thirty two and forty nine. So 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.960 top five draft picks obviously do not translate into Super 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.840 Bowl or playoff wins. Yep. I mean it's pretty simple, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.280 because there's there's there's more at play. If you're drafting 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.000 at the top five, it's more. It's more than just oh, 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.800 we need a quarterback and the next year will be great. Now, 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:29.240 there's obviously there's there's usually other things that are problematic 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.200 that need to get fixed. If you're in the top 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.200 five and then you're in the top five again and again, UM, 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.640 it's not someplace you want to be. So those eleven 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.320 teams that have picked five or more times in the 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:44.680 top five are Cleveland, Washington, Cincinnati, Jacksonville, Arizona, the Chargers, Detroit, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.560 the New York Jets, the Raiders, Tampa Bay, and the Rams. 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.120 None of those teams have long sustaining called. I guess 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.440 the Rams recently have done that. But those are not 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.280 teams that you would want to be a fan of 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:01.880 if you're asking me. Yep, all great points, and you 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:06.160 know we are all on the same page about this. UM. 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.439 You don't one team that's gonna give up. And it's 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.200 just not likely in the NFL, Like it's just not 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:15.320 gonna happen. UM. So I don't very proud personally of 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.840 that when the effort that UM, this team continues to 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:23.000 show um at the end of the year and I'm 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.600 I'm looking forward to the game on Sunday. I hope 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.360 we ruined the Saint season. I don't know if we 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.880 can ruin their season, but if the Fathers can ruin 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:35.640 anything for the Saints. Yeah, we'll take it when we're 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.920 when we're when we're watching the Saints have to go 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.600 in the snow to Lambo, knowing that they could have 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:44.880 been in New Orleans except for us. Exactly, exactly great 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.360 way to end the season in my opinion. All right, 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.000 this is the Happy Half Hour podcast presented by Morris Jenkins. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.240 Mr Jenkins told me his plumbers in a c tex 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.520 secretly where Panthers jerseys under their uniforms when you're plumbing 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.560 or air conditioning. Is acting up? Called Morris Jenkins or 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.200 is it Morris Jenkins dot com? All right, we been 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:04.600 throwing stats around already, but like Matt's getting in on 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.120 it too. I didn't I didn't know that I should 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.760 bring my stat But what's well, what's your official stat 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:19.840 of the week? Its time instead of the week, So 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.200 the official stat of the week is Curtis Samuel. Yet 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.680 again in the headlines, Samuel needs seventy scrimmage yards to 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:32.240 get one thousand for the season, which, no, that's not 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.520 a correction. You've heard that last week too with Mike Davis. 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.000 So Samuel will joined Mike Davis. Robbie Anderson and d 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.240 J Moore as the fourth Panther with at least a 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.240 thousand scrimmage yards in the same season, and in the 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.680 Super Bowl era back to nineteen sixty seven, that's only 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.520 happened four other times, only four times as the team 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.480 had four players with at least a thousand scrimmage yards 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.720 in the same season. So I looked it up in 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.880 the game because Will has started it to influence me 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:05.480 with his stats and um, you know, with with Robbie 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.360 and DJ getting to a thousand yards in the Green 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.320 Bay game, and then you know Willison be on the 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.120 lookout for Mike Davis. He got there and I was like, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.000 Where's where's Curtis Samuel and all this? And I looked 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:22.240 m at where he started before um Sunday's game, and 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:23.760 I was like, okay, still a long way off. And 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.200 then he started having the game of his life and 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.000 I was like, oh, man, like I don't know what's 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:28.400 going to happen in here. So well, I had an 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:33.080 eye on that too. Where he was with two something anyway, 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.160 not important, but I just I'm saying Will is influencing 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.120 me in terms of what to look out for with 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.080 these milestones and I had the same thought. I was like, 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:41.840 I wonder when Will is going to tell me when 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.160 is the last time this happened where you could potentially 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.400 have four guys over a thousand scrimmage yards And now 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.960 I know. I literally I literally had people d m 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.920 ng me on Sunday night asking about it and they're like, 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.120 what is it? What is it like? Oh no, So 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.640 I had to spend most of Monday morning. This one 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.200 took a little bit of research to figure it out, 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.520 both of Monday researching this. Do you guys, I don't 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.280 know if you saw I tweeted it last night, but 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.760 if you want to have any guesses on who any 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.040 of the other four teams were, I don't I didn't 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.080 look at your tweet. But my first guest is maybe 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.639 the Marshall Falk, Isaac Bruce, Tory holt rams something like that. 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.280 Maybe I don't know who that would be. I was 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.320 looking for it, but no that it was just the 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:23.919 three of them. They never had a fourth. Yeah. I 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:25.160 was about to say, I don't know who the fourth 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.680 one would be. Um, can I have a hint? Sir? 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.440 So three of them, you're not gonna you're not gonna 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.240 have recognized the fourth one was kind of that early 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:40.400 two thousand's elite offense um with multiple playmakers so similar 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.119 that sounds like the Rams, it's not. Yeah, it was 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.439 kind of the regime right after that. I guess early 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.679 day in New England because I can't think of another. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.240 I'm terrible with historical like just guessing stuff out of 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:04.359 the N A f C play inside. Okay, just misery here. Yeah, 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:11.680 it was the two thousand four Peyton Manning lead in you, James, 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.719 And who was the fourth that year? Was it Dallas 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:20.000 Clark Brandon Stokely? Oh my goodness, I would have never 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.240 have not heard his name in a lot of time. Yeah, 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.840 Brandon Stokely. So the other three were Atlanta and Houston 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:34.159 in the Houston Oilers and the Washington Washington's. That's great. 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.720 Do you go back and look at all that stuff 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.720 or do you have like a plug like are you 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.840 calling like the Allia Sports Bureau or No. I probably 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:44.840 could have, but they it takes a while on them. 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.199 So I literally I have a I have just like 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.479 a it's called radar three sixties system for all this stuff. 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.800 And rather than at first I was going back two thousand, 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.240 two thousand, two thousand eighteen and just kind of looking 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.320 and then she'll still be doing that right now, if 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.800 you right. Instead of doing that, I just did it 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.320 by team, so there would only be thirty two and 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.760 then just listed all of their seasons so I could 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:14.560 just scroll through from sixty seven to And I didn't 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.520 want it, Like the super Bowl era is a nice 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.199 cut off because all sorts of crazy things happen in 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.080 the fifties and forties, and I just don't even want 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.320 to mess with it. Yeah, the context there is a 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.720 little ski Yeah, it's just crazy, So I don't mess 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.680 with that. We're gonna find a way to ask a 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:35.120 little question about like is this has this happens at 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.119 some point. I'm gonna keep that in mind, something to 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.760 just really bother him. Um. I love it. I love 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.359 the little status. Yeah, we get a good enough question. 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.160 He'll have to go look it up, um and spend 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.359 most of his day on it. All right. Um, So 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.880 well you had a great idea. Um, with the year 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.040 coming to an end, you know, the Saints Panthers game 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:58.680 will be the first game. Said that to me yesterday, 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:03.080 and I was like, what in a couple of days? Um, 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:07.000 But it's been such a crazy year and everyone has 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.560 been through a lot, UM. But well, you had a 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:14.440 great idea of saying, what part of do you want 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:18.000 to bring with you? I love that question, UM, So 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.480 that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna talk about the 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.919