WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 135: Vote for Parking 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:03.680 This week on a Happy Half Hour. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.239 Ashawn Robinson. You've heard me say a million times there's 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.200 two kind of people in the world. There's pack mules 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:15.160 and show ponies. He's pack mule one hundred percent. He's 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:17.560 just putting his head down and doing the thing over 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:19.840 and over again. I got all the respect in the 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.239 world for the way that guy's working. 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:25.160 Right now, what's the cow wha? 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:31.040 It's time for the Happy Half Hour, presented by Southern Star, 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:37.440 an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. Here are your hosts, 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:39.840 Darren Kant and Cassidy Hill. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:47.479 Hello, friends, and welcome to another edition of the Happy 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.800 Half Hour. As always, the Happy Half Hours brought to 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.600 you by our friends at Southern Star, an official bourbon 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.000 partner of the Carolina Panthers, celebrate the spirit of the 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:02.680 Carolinas with a little Southern Star. Matt's over there laughing 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.920 because I'm doing my best to destroy a read from 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.440 a quality advertiser, and I really feel like they are 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.400 our friends are listen. 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:14.800 Is that what helps get you through the day, Then 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:15.440 that's your friend. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:16.440 Yeah, exactly. 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.399 A friend is there for you in a time of need, 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.200 in a time of sorrow, and in a time of celebration. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.200 Southern Star has never let me down or taken my parking. 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.520 Place, so that is I am good friend. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.119 Indeed, feeling pretty good about Southern Star right now. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.200 I walked in the building this morning and the first 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.640 person I saw was Brad Ezac. He would he goes, hey, Cassidy, 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:38.440 and I said, and I just jumped right in and 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.240 I said, Brad, when I'm president, the first thing in 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.760 this country I'm fixing is parking. And he goes in 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.000 three weeks and I said yeah, and he was like, okay, 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.559 I'll start a writing campaign. So there you go. Join 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.440 Brad Zac to start my writing campaign for president. My 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.559 whole entire platform is built on parking. 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:58.240 Make America Cassidy again. What could possibly go wrong? We 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.920 could go early vote for you right now because on 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.240 the other side of our fine building here at Bank 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.800 of America Stadium, we are an official early voting site 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:12.360 for Mecklenburg County. So this will be my platform. I 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.720 will encourage everyone, however you vote, to just make sure 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.560 you go vote. It is safe, it is secure. There 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.840 are many steps but in place to make sure everything 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.640 is above board and detailed. And I was trained last 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:26.840 week just to make sure that this is true. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.400 So my own little leslie note. 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:34.040 Yeah, so get ready Tuesday, November fifth, cash you're here 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.320 on your own in case anything weird happens on the 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:37.040 trade deadline. 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:38.600 That's all ug wohoo. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.160 There's no way anything goes wrong. 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.160 What could possibly go wrong? Now? 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:45.480 I do think I'll go early vote today though, because 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.960 I just don't want to get busy. That's right before 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:49.560 we go to Germany. I don't want to forget. 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:51.880 Yeah, well you got You've got two and a half 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.720 weeks to get that in so plenty of tone. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.000 Underestimate my ability to forget something. 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.960 Funny, en have time to carefully study the issues at 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:03.120 hand and make sure you're making informed choices. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.280 Don't just fill it out like it's an SAT. 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:09.880 Because an informed electorate is each of our responsibilities. So 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.920 at any rate, all right, so we've talked about bourbon, 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.280 We've talked about voting. I guess at some point in 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:20.280 this podcast about football, we are obliged and contractually bound 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.200 to talk about the football. So we should prob a 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.840 little bit. We should probably do that. It's yeah, it's 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:28.440 it's rough sledding right now. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.960 If you're the Carolina Panthers. Specifically, if you're the Carolina. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.600 Panthers, defense times are not good at the moment. Last 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.080 week was probably the toughest of the lot. I mean, 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.160 even Week one was so unexpected and so out of 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.120 the blue. That's when you're out there running around with 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.960 all your people, So it got to be an outlier. 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.240 It got to be a shock to everybody's system. Looking 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.480 at that game Sunday, I was just struck over and 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.760 over with the idea that seven of the people you 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.200 were supposed to be out. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.600 There with we're not out there the eleven. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.640 Seven of the eleven it is a vast majority, and 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.480 five of the front seven. Yeah, when you talk about 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.000 running a three to four defense and all four are 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.520 not playing, uh, that's problem. And it looked like it 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.120 on Sunday. I mean, the Falcons were moving up and 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.000 down the field and it got away from him in 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.680 the second half. Obviously, there there were some things about 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.279 that game to like, but I just think the personnel 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.120 deficiencies on defense are gonna be hard to overcome for 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:28.640 a little bit. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.960 They are. And you made actually a really really great 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.680 point in your mail bag this week, So thank you. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.400 Give you the yeah about I. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:39.480 Pay her to read it. 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.200 That you know, I can always count on Cassidy, my 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.320 wife and my mother that thing he pays me. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:51.120 To read it. But the compliments are free about not 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:57.760 overreacting to the defense, because your initial reaction this is 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.839 is probably the vast majority of people watch, is to go, Okay, 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.800 you don't have the personnel right now, should it maybe 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.000 switch to a different scheme and not a lot of 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.520 this zone. You've got to be so so disciplined to 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.159 play zone, and when you don't have personnel that have 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.400 played together a lot, your first reaction is to change it. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.520 But you made a really great point about if you 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.919 change it in reaction to one or two games to 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.000 a couple of personnel groupings, when you need to fall 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.360 back on your fundamentals, your fundamentals are not going to 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.560 be set. This is a lot of baptism by fire 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:35.600 right now for a group of people that even though 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.240 their experience is there other than like Trevin Wallace, Claudia 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:44.159 and Cherlists that they're playing together is not there. Their 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:48.120 familiarity is not there, and so this is forcing them 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.159 to communicate, to learn where the other one's going to be, 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.239 to learn to lean on each other and it's rough, 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.920 Like you said, it's rough sledding right now, but you 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.440 I guess you just have to trust and believe that 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.760 it could pay off down the road. Well, especially when 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:02.880 you get some of those guys back. 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.920 I mean, here's what we know for sure, zero Vera 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.279 runs good defense. That was true in La, that was 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.080 true in Denver, That's been true here in the past. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:17.520 What's different now is they basically started over defensively, with 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.800 some changes that were their decision and some changes that 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.680 were other people's decisions. I mean, guys like Frankie Luvu 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:26.800 he left as a free agent, he chose to go 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.359 to Washington. Can't do anything about that, obviously, the Brian 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.880 Burns trade, you know, and some other moves, and you 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.960 were basically starting fresh, and they were starting fresh in 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:40.159 a system built around a strong middle. I mean, we 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.719 could go back, we could have podcast map pull the 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.080 tapes from back in the summer when we talked about 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:47.839 what this defense ought to be good at. And the 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.279 first thing I said was run defense. And I said, 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:51.960 because you went out and got an old head in 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:56.919 Ashawn Robinson, who's just stout, and you park him on 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.880 the other side from Derek Brown, who's a Pro Bowl defensive. 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.080 You got two steady guys in Shack and Josie in 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.040 the middle, and then all of a sudden, you look 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.480 out there last week and other than Nashawan, they're all gone. 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.280 You know, it's like the rapture has hit that defense 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.880 and there's a couple of guys standing around, uh, waiting 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:16.960 to see what's happening. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.800 But and those guys. 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.560 Are all I mean, it's nothing against any of the 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:22.640 individual pieces. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.160 It's just you. 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.360 Can you can say, well, injuries can't be an excuse, 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.200 and everybody likes to say that and talk about next 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:30.440 man up and all that fun stuff. 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:31.920 You can say that once one or two guys. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.080 When it's seven starters, that's a little tougher and you're 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.400 just looking at everything completely different. So you know, I 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.640 think it's going to you know, just take time and 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.160 more people. But I do want to say before I 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:48.400 lose this thread, uh in my own mind, because that's 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:53.000 where things go to get lost. Ashawn Robinson, we did. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.960 I did not know a lot about his game. I'm 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.560 not going full shack. Oh you apology. I was not 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.480 familiar with your game, but I when guys are out 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.840 there on the other coast. If they're an interior lineman, 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.120 you don't always get a full appreciation for what's what 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:12.800 they're actually doing. That dude is a certified old head 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.960 in a younger person's body because he's out there toughing 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:17.560 things out. 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:18.800 He's playing through stuff. 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.960 He goes down, it looks like he ain't coming back, 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.360 he misses one snap and he's back out on the field. 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.040 And he's out there because he kind of. 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.320 Has to be. I mean, he knows that. 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.040 You know, there's a bunch of backup players out there 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.960 on that line with him and Shy Tuttle, so he's 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.200 got to be the guy who carries the load. You know, 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.520 a couple of weeks ago, he played like seventy one 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:44.040 of seventy five snacks. Yeah, that's Derek Brown percentages. And 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.440 you know, very few people can do it the way 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:50.160 Derek does it. And you know, I think it's it's 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.640 a credit to Ashawn, who's coming off as. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.440 A complete pro right now. I mean he is. He 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.200 is one of them old school. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.959 You know, you've heard me say a million times there's 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.960 two kind of people in the world. There's pack mules 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.920 and show ponies. He's pack mule. One hundred percent. He's 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.320 just putting his head down and doing the thing over 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.640 and over again. I got all the respect in the 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.440 world for the way that guy's working right now. 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.280 Yeah, I mean a snapshot of that is what he 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.120 did on Sunday. He got hurt, looked like he got 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.400 pretty banged up on the play. It was one of 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.160 those that we thought we were looking to see if 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.280 he was going to the locker room, and a play 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:25.520 later he was back on the field. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:26.520 Yeah. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.760 I mean, that's just that's not something you necessarily see 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.960 as much anymore. So all the credit to him to 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:33.800 your point about him being an old head and a 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.959 young man's body. He's been forty five since he was twelve. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.720 Ah, Like, he's. 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.520 Been a deacon and had a four oh one case 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.640 since he was in middle school. So it definitely fits. 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.120 It fits this whole personality. 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.960 Yeah, I feel that that's Uh. I have entered that 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.199 stage of life where, yeah, those are the things people 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:52.800 say about me. 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.280 But he's playing. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.880 He's playing well, he really is, and that's the kind 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:58.440 of thing they've got to hang on to. I mean, 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.200 you've got a couple stable veterans upfront, him and Shy 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.520 I think in terms of defense. What you've got to 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.840 really focus on and where this year becomes a valuable 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.040 tool for the Carolina Panthers is all m snaps. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:13.560 Trevin Wallace is getting right. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.520 Because there's a guy who who could end up being 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.920 your future at inside linebacker and a future signal caller, 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.200 and he's getting eleven twelve games of on the job 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.040 training at it. You know, in a perfect world, he 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.160 could have sat and it's like people talk about with quarterbacks, 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.679 you know, let him sit and learn a little bit. Well, 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:33.680 he was going to be able to do that behind 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.600 Shaq and Josie a lot this year until neither one 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.360 of them are there. And now you know, he's getting 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.600 used to that green dot on his helmet, He's getting 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.920 used to doing the communicating and you know he's that's 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.079 going to benefit him in the future. And that's just 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.360 kind of where you've got to look at this thing 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.800 from a defensive standpoint with the Carolina Panthers. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.200 I'm really interested to see what Trevin looks like when 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.120 Josie is back on the field too. This and this 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.160 is no disrespect to Claudia and cherylis who has been 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.120 filling in very nicely, but Josie is what. 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.920 Is also hurt and didn't practice yesterday and may not 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:06.079 be able to go this week. 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:10.880 Correct minor detail. But Josie is an experienced guy. He's 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:15.120 an experienced guy in this defense. He's very very smart 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.360 how he plays, and he's a good tackler. And Josie 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.520 is somebody who has called the defense before. So, you know, 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.040 even with Trevin keeping that job, what is it going 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.400 to be like having Josie next to him on the field. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.920 Could that maybe even speed up the communication and not 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:32.880 that that's really been an issue, could have speed it 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.840 up even more? You know, can Josie kind of help 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.520 make sure Trevin is in the right position to then 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.200 rely on his instincts and maybe clean up anything that 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.200 a rookie would just naturally miss. I'm interested to see 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.480 the two of them out there together once Josie gets 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:47.640 back from his hamstring. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.959 Yeah, it's definitely going to be a benefit to Trev's So, 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.840 you know, there's only so much to be said about 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.880 what's happening on that side of the ball right now. 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.320 I mean, again, when you're missing so many people. The 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:04.240 thing about it is they have maintained a competitive posture 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.760 throughout these games, and something happened during that game the 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.720 other day that kind of took me by surprise. You 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.880 were looking at me like I was an idiot in 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:16.400 the press box because late in the second half down 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.680 twenty two to ten, and are about to be down 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.880 twenty to ten when I know what you're talking about, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:23.439 and they were going into the end zone when it 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.000 lant Us heading into the end zone and Canalis is 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.120 calling time outs, and it kind of took me aback 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.959 for a second, like, oh, what are they doing. What 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.800 they're doing is giving the ball back to Andy Dalton, 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.440 and it's not the kind of thing that you would 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.480 have always anticipated over the last five years here. And 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.200 I kind of joked about it, but I said, I'm 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:47.040 so not used to being in that position that it 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:51.000 caught me off guard seeing it. But Andy immediately repaid that. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.080 Confidence if he got it back with a minute twelve. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.480 Yeah, drive some downfield in a minute and a half 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.440 for a touchdown. Looked really sharp, moved the ball around 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.319 boom boom boom. So it's a big difference, especially when 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.640 Atlanta was getting the ball back to start second half. 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.360 You know, in previous iterations you were you could have 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.240 been staring at twenty nine to ten in that situation. 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:17.560 Instead it's twenty two to seventeen to you know, and 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.440 all of a sudden, Carolina Panthers are right in this 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.040 state going into the second half. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:22.960 So I think it was. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:24.840 The very smart coaching decision. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.800 It was smart coaching decision, and Andy paid it off 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.800 by being the kind of Vett we've talked about, being stable, 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.520 being normal, being able to execute the offense in a hurry, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.680 and and there are things that we found out. I mean, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:42.760 I think by and large we should anticipate the Carolina 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.480 Panthers are going to be able to run the football 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.200 this year. You know, right now it's with Juba Hubbard, 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.280 who is about four carries here and there from four 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:55.280 straight hundred yard games. And Jonathan Brook started practicing this week, 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.160 and Jonathan looks good, and there's a lot of attention 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.600 on him. I think we're three weeks out from seeing 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:04.319 him on field. But they ought to be able to 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.160 run no matter which back is back there because of 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:11.079 those big boys up front, and even with two replacements 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.280 on the field, that continued to be true against the Falcons. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.960 Rine looked fine. Yeah, you're starting to see Xavier andly 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.080 get come into his own more. Jalen Coker, Man, what 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.800 a fun surprise. There's always one of those every year, 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.920 and I think it's Jalen Coker this year who just 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:32.200 kind of pops off from an unexpected place. He's so smooth, 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:36.520 he can he can get down deep. When you bring 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.920 Ian Thomas back, that allows J T. Sanders to kind 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.160 of come that pass catching tight end. A little bit 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.360 more on that two minute drive. I thought this was interesting, Darren. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.120 You've got a fourteen year vet, which is what allows 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.240 you to have the trust to give him the ball 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.560 back with a little over a minute remaining and to 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.120 have to drive the length of the field. So you've 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.840 got a fourteen year old vet. He handed the ball 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.160 off a couple of times that you and I think 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.480 he might have had one check down to Cuba, But 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.160 other than that, all of his pass catchers were rookies JT. 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:12.360 Cocher Legette, and he was implementing those guys in his 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.600 clinical two minute drive. That's the kind of balance you 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.240 want to see when you're trying to bring along a 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.800 rookie pass catching class. And it's also why you know 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.720 we can talk a lot about that interception when he 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.400 was trying to get it to Ian Thomas, and the 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.200 game was essentially over during that interception on the first 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:33.200 drive of the fourth quarter. But you can live if 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.280 you're the offensive side of the ball. You can live 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.800 with plays like that. Those are almost within the margin 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.120 of era because of what you can get with things 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:41.800 like that two minute drive at the end of the half. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.320 You've just got to have a defense to balance that out, 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:45.840 which is a lot of what J. C. Horn was 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.000 saying after the game. You know, for the past few 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:49.960 years it's been the defense is good, the defense is good, 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.040 we just need an offense. And he was like, now 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:53.840 the offense is doing their job and we're not holding 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.960 up Oar into the bar game. But yeah, you can 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.080 you can see the potential for so many things on offense. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:01.400 Yep. 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.280 They are putting things together on that side of the ball, 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:05.920 to be sure, and they're going to have to be 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.920 tight this week. I mean, you're going to Washington on Sunday. Congratulations. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.280 They're second in the league and scoring putting about what 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.840 is it, twenty nine and change a game on the 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.640 board fifteen yards per game, like three seventy eight. I 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.080 think the number is Yeah, Washington is on the other side. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:24.560 They just have a dan Quinn defense. 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:26.640 Yeah, other than that, no problem. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.040 I mean they are off to quite a start. Jayden 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.640 Daniels obviously getting a lot of attension up there, But 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.080 there's a there's it's going to be a challenge Sunday 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.360 in Washington because they've kind of got to that point 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.840 where Andy and those guys on offense are going to 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:42.520 have to match points a lot of times. 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.960 So I think we were talking about Cliff Kingsbury with 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.920 Ever earlier. You've only you've got two of the better 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.920 offensive minds for that situation there, because you have Cliff 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.920 Kingsbury calling place and you have Brian Johnson there as 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.280 a quarterback developer. Those are two of the best at 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.400 those jobs. And so of course their offense is going 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:04.840 to be humming. You give dan Quinn any sort of 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:06.440 big boys up front, he's going to do a lot 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.080 with them. They did take a hit this week losing 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.679 Jonathan Allen, so that should make Schubo look his chops 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:13.200 even more. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.960 Yeah, you should be able to Carolina Panthers feel no 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:17.560 sympathy for this lost. 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:23.399 Right exactly, And so it could end up being another 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.879 game like that Falcons game, just in the sense of like, Okay, 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.760 who's gonna who's going to keep scoring? Which defense can 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.080 make once one or two stops. 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.280 And if you can get a couple of stops, I 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.280 think there is at least some evidence that uh Andy 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.600 knows guys on that side of the ball are able 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.639 to make a few plays and keep this thing competitive. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:48.600 So anyway, so we're on to Washington. We've we've covered 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.160 at length, probably more than we should have, talked about 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.080 the Atlanta game. We talked about the Atlanta game. Uh, 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.200 We've got a lot to do coming up the next 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:58.960 couple of days. So let's get on with it. 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.160 Uh the box. You had me listening to your growl 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:03.240 Taylor Swift again. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:04.560 Yeah, we went back to Taylor and. 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.400 The Last American Dynasty. What a cool story. I knew 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.560 the story of the woman who married the Standard Oil 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:15.240 air and Rebecca Harkness, Yeah and lived a full in 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.960 good life. I did not know that Taylor Swift bought 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:18.480 her house. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.360 Yeah, that's that's what I was saying. You know, kind 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:25.520 of employees that little bit of an old country writing style, 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:27.560 whereas like it tells a story and then at the 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.480 end of the story, it's like, oh, yeah, by the way, 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:29.840 it's me. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:30.840 Yeah. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:35.280 And so she now lives in that house. And you know, 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.080 a lot of people said when she first bought it, 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.000 because it was a lot of she was in her 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.560 mid twenties and would have massive Fourth of July parties, 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.160 that it was like it was having Rebecca Harkness back 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.800 in the house. And so I think there's a little 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.480 bit of a kindred spirit there. But love any song 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:51.439 that tells a good story. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.159 Yeah, no doubt about that, No doubt about that. So 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.679 you were listening to Frank Turner. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.160 Yes, I finally introduced you to my favorite live act 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:01.640 in the world. 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:03.440 What do you think I liked it? 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.679