WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 47: One Week At A Time 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.760 It's time for the Happy Half Hour with your friends 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:22.479 Kristen Balboni, Will Bryan and Darren Gamp. Looking to the 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:26.640 Happy half Hour podcast. It's your friends Kristen, Will, Darren 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.080 and producer Matt Guys. It feels good to be talking 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:32.280 about a team that's starting off the season two and 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.680 oh how are we feeling? And all right, it's different. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.800 People are excited, it's kind of and it's been a 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.680 while so, I mean, I think people are still kind 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.519 of wrapping their minds around it because of you know, 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.800 the expectations going into the season or whatever, or people's 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.440 expectations going into last week after the Saints, after that game, 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.240 I mean, everybody leaving the stadium was kind of like, WHOA, 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.480 what does happen here? This is all right? We like this. 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:00.560 I think though, people like, oh, what's like in there? 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:04.120 Is everyone just going crazy? I mean it's tempered, there's 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:06.240 I mean, it's a you know, I think people on 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.800 the outside, yeah, fans, you know, have at it, go fund, 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.440 you know, go have fun. Read all the expectations in 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.400 the power rankings and you know that's what football is about, 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:18.080 is enjoying this. But inside the building, there's another game. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:19.760 In two days and we'll get to it in a 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.160 little bit like this isn't this isn't the cake walk 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.960 to three, you know, like this is tempered and this 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.920 is it's a long season ahead, and I would I 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:32.200 would think with this staff and um with these players, 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.240 it would be tempered no matter what. Right do you 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.560 guys agree from from being around this team that I 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.240 think one of the main pillars of what Matt Rule 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.000 is trying to do is not to get too high, 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:44.920 not to get too low. You know, you hear the 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:47.360 phrase that we're gonna just try to go want to 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.520 know every week, and so I think short week or not, 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.160 that would be that would be the way this team 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.960 is feeling. But Joe Brady, god love him, has got 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.400 the worst Twitter account in the world, because it's just 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.520 want to know every week and it's good and unless 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.440 and Darren I would say unless, it's not unless it's 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.600 unless the tweet doesn't come correct and then but uh yeah, 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.040 I mean it's it's not the best content or anything 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.240 like that. But that's how those guys think, and that's uh. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.400 I was just working on a piece for the mail 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.880 bag that's coming up later on the website and It's 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:24.480 strange because people might not think that way, and fans 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:26.560 want to enjoy oh my god, we're two and oh. 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.240 It's first time since seventeen been able to enjoy it. 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.360 They don't enjoy that part of it. I mean, Matt 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.320 said Monday during his press conference. He said, people text 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:39.520 me congratulations on two and oh, and I tell them back, Yeah, 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.480 they were the one to know. This week's all I'm 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.360 worried about. So, I mean, coaches are just wired differently 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.280 and that and they you know, it's got to be 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.120 hard to enjoy certain things. And you know, they just 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.799 go into their tunnel during football season, though, and they 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.680 bury themselves in that particular week and that's all they 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.359 think about. Happy half hour podcast here too, the tamp 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.040 down all of your excitement about a two and oh 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.640 start on this Tuesday. But do you subscribe to that there? 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.960 Because I think that will's write if your fans, you 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.600 are supposed to enjoy this, You should enjoy this. You 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.799 should be very excited about this team, right and and 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:15.840 some of the players that are on this team and 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.200 what potential they could have this season, the things that 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.120 they're doing, regardless of the record. Getting to the quarterback 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.640 Sam Donald looking good, all those things, Christian McCaffrey being back. 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.720 You should absolutely be excited, But I would argue that 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.399 you want your team, for the most part, to have 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.880 the mentality that we were just talking about, which is 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.040 not too high, not too low. We're not you know, 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.040 looking at this Texans game going oh yeah, look what 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:39.680 we did the last two weeks. We got this in 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.000 the bag, right, Don't you want that? You want them 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.360 to embrace the method that allows you to become too 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.960 and oh more than the two and oh. I mean 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.880 that's what process is all about in Matt Rule's mind. 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:55.720 So you get excited about, Okay, today's practice was good, 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:59.080 or today's meeting we learned this that. I mean, those 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.600 are the sort of things they're latching onto and they're enjoying. 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.040 I mean, players are enjoying We were at the game, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:08.200 they were enjoying it. They are enjoying this because they're 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.720 not right, but they're playing a brand of football that 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.880 is fun for them to play, especially those guys on defense. 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.719 And I mean you talk to them after games and 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.320 you see them light up. You see, I mean the 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.400 Hassan Reddicks, the Brian Burns, Morgan Fox after that game Sunday, 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.440 start talking about the way they're getting after quarterbacks, and 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:33.560 clearly these guys realize, hey, they're onto something. Be there 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.560 is an opportunity for success doing it this way. And 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.599 see they're starting to see some of those results. And 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.640 I do think it matters for a young team to 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.320 get a couple of wins just to feel that kind 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.800 of confidence of And we talked about this last week. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.680 You learn what it feels like to win, so you 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.200 can get used to it and reinforcement of the process. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.040 So from that standpoint, it's it's great. I've said that 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.679 Matt Love is nothing better than a win with stuff 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.560 to work on. So the last couple of weeks have 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:09.080 provided stuff. I mean, it hadn't been perfect. He wants 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.520 to work on special teams this week. A week ago 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:15.440 it was other stuff, and it might be something every 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.279 week throughout the season. And that's just kind of again, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.000 it's just the way coaches are wired. But yeah, that's 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.000 the way they're going to approach it. But it certainly 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.599 beats the alternative, absolutely, And like I said, we're here 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.000 to to tamp down your excitement bringing it to you. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.479 There should be no fun. Let's let's go back to 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.599 that that game on Sunday before we look ahead and 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.840 talk about the short week and uh in the upcoming 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.000 game against the Texans. Um was there a moment though? 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.440 Because there was? There were a lot of exciting plays 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:48.839 in that game. There are a lot of very good 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.040 plays that game. Was there a moment or a series 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.960 or a stat will for you are very own panther 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:59.000 stats guy that you go like, oh, oh, this is 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.840 this team. This team looks good, you know. To me, 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:04.839 I think it's over the last two weeks. I would 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.160 say when those third downs come up on on defense 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.560 and on offense to last week, they they did a 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.880 great job. But um on defense with that being such 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.640 a touch point last year of something that they just 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.120 could not get off the field. And you and you know, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.520 of course you're looking at the scoreboard. I'm looking at 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.200 the field, looking at the guys and then you see 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.440 Dante Jackson make a huge tackle or whatever. You know 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.160 what I mean, You're like, yes, all right? That that 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.880 to me is is one moment that encapsulates or or 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:36.279 one stat that encapsulates the corner that this team has 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.279 turned at least to start the season. I would say, 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.400 and this is more a fan and media narrative that 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.240 is probably a bit unfair, but let's be real, it's 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.880 still a narrative. It exists that the touchdown to DJ 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.960 was just like okay, you know, you just kind of 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.280 felt like a weight lifted and it was a great throw. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.039 It was you know, it was just great execution. Was like, okay, cool, 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.440 we got a touchdown here. Like that was that was 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.560 such an important moment because it felt like the defense 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:04.320 is doing their thing, the offense is moving the ball. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:08.920 We've already been inside the five before. Now. Red zone was, yes, 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.720 the red zone was an issue last year. It was 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.240 an issue Week one and that was just in case 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.600 anyone um doesn't remember the top of your head, that was, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.160 like you said, they've been in the red zone once 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.280 in that game, and then we're able to go and 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.400 score a touchdown and that it wasn't just you know, 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.480 all right, CMC was able to get a couple more 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.840 inches over the line. It was all right, here's here's 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.000 a play where they're in the shotgun. I think CMC 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.440 went empty. I mean it was he motioned out empty. 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.960 Set all right, this is either Sam Donald gonna run 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:37.920 it in or he's got to throw it, you know, 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.080 and it's like he's gonna throw into a tight window. 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.120 He's gotta throw something to score here. And he did 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.080 it and dj caught it, and he was like, all right, 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.600 that's it. We're feeling good now, Like that was a 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.240 big play for me. Yeah. I think when I think 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:54.240 back on that game, it's almost it's not necessarily a 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.720 highlight or anything like that. But the thing I'll remember, 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.440 probably for the longest out of that game is j C. 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:04.480 Horn wing push ups after dropping an interception, Because hey, 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.720 j C. Horne is going to be really good at football, 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.840 and he knows that and they are aware of that, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.640 and we're beginning to see some of that, and he 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.080 expects to make plays, he expects to intercept passes. He 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.200 told Phil Snow the week before when he gave up 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.720 a touchdown, he said, I'll get you a pick next week. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.000 I'll get you a turnover next week, I promise you. 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.760 And when he had his hands on one and was 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.840 ready to deliver on that promise and he drops it, 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.880 I mean it was just an immediate reaction from j C. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.440 You know, I'm used to seeing guys drop and do 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.800 push ups when they drop a pick in practice. Don't 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.600 remember seeing it in a game out on the field 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.240 in the middle of play where j C just drops 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.120 down and cranks out tim push ups. It was like 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.840 one fluid movement, like the ball grazed his hands and 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.439 all of a sudden he was on the ground ready 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.719 to do pushing out tim push ups. And I mean 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.160 to me, that says something about the way that guy's wire. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.520 What about when he so he did get his his 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.960 pick a little bit later in the game, and of 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.079 course especially for that that first one, all the defensive 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:07.840 players that are on the field are gonna run down 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.000 to the end zone they celebrate. It's a big moment. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.720 He was so excited that the ball kind of squirted 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.640 out of his hands and went over to like the 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.720 far left side, almost to the tunnel because they were 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.760 in the end zone. And it was very sweet. I thought, 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.280 Jeremy Chinn. I remember when Jeremy Chinn did his first 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.160 rundown into the end zone. Jeremy Chinn went over got 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.040 the ball back for him in the midst of the 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.839 celebration and handed it back to him like, Hey, you're 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.199 gonna want to keep that. I know you're excited, You're 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.800 gonna want to keep this football. I loved that moment, 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.280 especially coming against his dad's former team, that's the Saints, 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.839 you know, like it of all the different narratives and 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:43.559 story line say, I think that was that was kind 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.280 of a cool one to you know that this is 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.760 this is this team that for the fan base, you know, 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.880 for the program, largely to get that Saints thing off 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.280 their back a little bit. For Horn, you know, to 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.480 really show out against New Orleans was huge too. Not 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.640 that he reacted to that, I mean after the game, 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.000 and again that's just kind of j C's personality. Somebody 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.600 asked him if it meant more against I didn't think 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.040 about it like that, all right, Yeah, I think what 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.559 I see it all means so much, you know, I mean, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.680 and that's just he wants to be the best on 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.440 every single play. Like Darren said, he's got a lot 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.000 of good football ahead of him. I'm excited. I'm excited 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:20.640 that he's on the Panthers, if you want me to 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.640 be honest, excited to get to see him develop. Let's uh, 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.480 Will are of course, you're known for your stats of 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.280 the week, stat of the week, but I know this 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.360 week you've got a bunch are we talking look ahead stats? 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.839 Are we talking to a no stats Saints game? What 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.200 do you got for us? Well, I'm already and Darren 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.280 woke up really early yesterday and still all of my thunder, 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.400 which you know, I give him props for it because 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.400 we're we're kind of like Hassan Reddick in Brian Burns 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.680 out here. Yeah, we're complementary, but you both want the 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.720 you just you both want the sack on the team. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:55.280 We're a team. But at the end of the year, 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.520 we count up page views on which one of us 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.600 publish an article first. So Darren got all the views 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.840 for the Panthers leading the league and pretty much everything 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.160 on defense. So I mean that's fun. Um. I I 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:09.880 made a little bit of a comeback with my next 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.080 gen stats Morgan Fox fifty seven fifty seven point one 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:19.360 percent pressure rate video yesterday. Um, first half for me, 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:24.880 I think this goes in context of third quarters are struggling, 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.800 Their quarters are rough. Um, we need to see we 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.800 need to see some good third quarters coming up here. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.400 But the Panthers haven't given up a point in the 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.480 first half. Knock on all the wood. Yeah, they're thirty 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.840 three thirty three nothing scoring margin in the first half. 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.760 Sam Donald leads the NFL and first half passing yards. 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.320 I mean, it's it's absurd what they're doing to start games. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.880 I saw some stat this morning from some NFL Twitter 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.000 writer the Panthers are the only team in the league 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.320 who have never played an offensive snap while trailing this year. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.800 I mean, it's it's that kind of heavy stuff that 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.480 when you stay out in front of the eight ball, 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.600 when your defense is getting turnovers in, your offense can 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.600 execute early, and you put the pressure on teams, you 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.959 can be really successful in this league. Yeah, I was. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.280 I was talking to the Texans team reporter yesterday. We 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.640 were doing a segment and she said, she was like, 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.560 and I had to check these stats, you know, just 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.840 double check these stats again. It was like, um, no 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.280 points given up in in the first half of either game. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.679 I was like, yeah, that's right. Um. But but to 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.040 what you said, though, the third quarter is kind of 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.319 where the two opponents that they've played so far have 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.800 have started to make these comebacks. But then so so 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.320 you go, Okay, great, first half, third quarter needs some work. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.839 But then also as these comebacks are starting to happen, 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.840 the Panthers have been able to put those teams away 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.120 in uh in the late third quarter, in the early 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.080 fourth quarter, and and that's a that's another thing that 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.640 is um different than last year. I mean, let's be real, 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.320 this is the way the NFL is built. The NFL 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.640 isn't built for teams to come out and get huge 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.280 first quarter leads and put them to bed. Like it's 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.800 just when you play like he's gonna make half that 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.920 way and you know, and it's you don't just don't 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.400 go out and you just beat everyone to start the 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.559 season every single game like everything, the NFL is built 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.640 for parody. It's built for close games, it's built for comebacks, 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.560 it's built for winning and losing and going up and 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.600 down like that. That's just what this league is. Because 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.120 it's exciting. The NFL is built for winning and losing. Well, 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:27.679 you're right, I'm sorry I had to. And also I 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.600 think it's worth remembering this is still a very young team. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.520 These guys are still figuring each other out. Sam Donald's 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.160 a new quarterback to this system this year. As much 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.800 as we talk about those young guys on defense like 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.640 Brian Burns and Jeremy Chin and Derek Brown, half that 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.480 defense is brand new. So there are two games into 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.480 their careers of playing each other and knowing how de 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.240 Kwon Jones is going to react, knowing how Hassan Reddick's 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.520 going to react, knowing how J. C. Horne's gonna react. 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:57.480 So I think part of that is almost natural, and 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.520 and that's why I think it's more relief than cause 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.200 for celebration for them early on, because all right, they're 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.280 pushing through some of those growing pains, They're pushing through 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.480 some of the learning and still winning. Now who is 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.080 now that that Will has put this in my head 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.720 about the two of you as and I know we've 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.920 we've talked about this and given people kind of a 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.080 behind the scenes of the two of you work very 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:25.960 closely together, especially in the season on All Things Web. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.120 But well, now that you said one of you is 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.880 Brian Burns and one of us to Son Reddick, I 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.600 was gonna ask who's who? But I I think I 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.160 have a good sense of I'll tell you what I 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.080 would say, and then you guys tell me if you agree. Okay, alright, 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.240 well is staring right at me. I'm not trying to 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:48.240 think I'm gonna say that Will is Hassan Reddick. Swiss 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.760 Army knife. I mean, you do like eighteen different things 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.360 for the Panthers every single day, if I mean, it's 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:58.600 just from from website to the art of marketing to 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.400 f a U ticket it and you do everything. And 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.640 that's what Hassan Reddick is known for, right, I mean, 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.600 he's he's such a versatile player. And then you got 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.240 Darren big name coming in with some some big hits, 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:16.320 premiere you know, premiere talent, leaving up to it every day. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.640 My speed athleticis yeah, that's what made you think of it, right, 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.560 But to be known to drop into a spider Man 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.520 pause after a great website or enter, I just need 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.840 help getting back up out of the What do you think? 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.400 Did I like that? I mean I also like the 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.720 fact that currently Reddick leads in the sack competition. So 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.280 if we're to right, he said, what are we betting 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.560 this year? Like a rental scooter ride? Oh gosh, I mean, 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:49.520 I don't think a custom golf car. Let's let's let's 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.320 put that out to our our our listeners. What should 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.720 uh what should we get the other one? Based on 0:15:55.040 --> 0:16:00.080 what is it? Page vires on articles published? Okay, you 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.800 had that ready to go? Yeah, all right, we'll find out. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.520 I mean, what I'm gonna do is just go back 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.120 in and take Darren's author tag off some of the 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:14.840 really good ones, the best the league and all defensive stats. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.040 We too, well, Brian, Well, yeah I wrote that. I 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.320 totally did. So let's talk about let's talk about this 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.520 short week coming up. So we are recording this. This 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:29.080 will be hitting your podcast feeds earlier than usual because 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.680 on on Wednesday we'll be we'll be traveling and that's 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.320 when we would normally record because there is a Thursday 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:40.560 night game in Houston against the Texans coming up. In gosh, 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:46.400 just a minute, it feels like, um, I think people, 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.080 you know, you get a sense if you're a fan 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.200 of what the short week looks like. But I will say, 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.200 even this being my second season, being the team that 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.080 is on the road, even just surprised me when you 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.360 really sit down and think about how long these guys 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.600 have to recover, how much they and do in that 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.040 span of time. Um, you know, I was talking to 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:04.720 to Matt Rule after the game. I said, okay, so 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.880 you win it with Sunday Sunday evening, I said, you win, 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.440 What does what does tomorrow look like? As you get 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.639 ready for Houston, and he said, oh, it's it's tonight. 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.760 And he talked about the fact you Phil Snow for example, 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.480 showered after the game and went back upstairs, and they 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:24.040 had had some of the coaching staff already scouting the Texans. UM. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:25.840 And that's and that goes across the league. That is 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.280 a normal every team has to play at Thursday night game. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.679 But I do think it's really interesting to kind of 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.840 talk through the logistics, which is Monday. You know, they 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.320 were encouraging players to to get treatment Sunday night to 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:41.560 speed up that recovery process. Monday, Um, everyone comes into 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.200 the building, you watch film, you do the same thing. 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.600 You have your meetings, one practice on Tuesday, and then 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.720 the team plane leaves on Wednesday. As you compare it 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:56.320 to a normal week where you've got really four solid 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.480 days and a player off day to prepare for your 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:03.240 next opponent. And it's interesting. Christian was talking yesterday and 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.639 and there's a guy, I mean, he counts and measures 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.520 his hours of sleep and my and charts his stuff, 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.119 so he knows how much he's sleeping one night to 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.960 the next. So you know, he puts that same kind 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.359 of care into all his treatment, his chiropractic, his eyes, 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.000 you know, all the rehab stuff that he does to 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.920 keep himself ready. So I mean he's got to condense 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.639 seven days worth of all of that into four or 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.120 really three and a half. So I mean he said 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.719 the other day he was doubling up on you know, 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.639 if I normally do to one hour of this on Monday, 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.040 I'm doing two hours of this on Monday. So I mean, 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:43.280 it's just amazing what these players and coaches put themselves 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.520 through when it's there week Now again, they're all gonna 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.640 when we get to Friday, when we get to Friday, 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:57.040 or everyone thinks it's the best thing every yeah for Friday, 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.159 but it's uh yeah, it's hard getting there. So the 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.080 payoff on the back side of it, you better enjoy 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:09.240 it because it is rare. And and again when they 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.719 get through this long weekend, I mean, this hits at 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.320 a point where they could probably use it because you 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.800 had some rest after the end of training camp, kind 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.560 of that long by weekend before the season started. Now 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:21.800 get this one and then you don't get another by 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:26.360 until December. So put your feet up this weekend, fellas, yes, 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.520 store it up as if it lasts gonna be a 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:31.119 long one, yeah, I mean, and and to to not 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.960 look too far ahead. But that's what we do. Dallas 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.639 plays on Monday, so not only does Carolina get three 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:41.040 four extra days, Dallas has one less day before that 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:44.439 Week four game in Dallas. So that I mean, who 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:46.639 knows how much that factors in, but just something to 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.440 keep note of. Yeah, that that is that is good 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.960 to know. And I think because you're right there, when 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.040 would you ideally, knowing that your by is week thirteen, right, 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.399 when would you ideally want this game to fall? Because 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:01.639 it was similar situation last year to very late by, 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.040 one of the latest in the season, and this game, 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.880 the Thursday night game came well, I want to say, 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.320 like week seven ish around there, I don't have in 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.840 front of me, forgive me panther stats guy, which it 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.440 felt like they were really in need of arrest then. 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:17.560 But then also, if you're going to play on a 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.280 short week, I get why week three is not the 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:23.800 worst to do it right when your body feels a 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:27.120