Speaker 1: Hi, This is Dewey Jenkins. When the Navy sent me
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville, Florida, I sold Salad Master cookwear door to
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Speaker 1: it Morris Jenkins dot com? Kristen here with Will and
Speaker 1: producer Matt Will. How's it going? I'm good. It's a
Speaker 1: little cold. Are you cold? I feel like I say
Speaker 1: that every week now, but it's true. I am cold.
Speaker 1: It's cold in Charlotte. It is cold in Charlotte. But
Speaker 1: I moved from Chicago earlier this year, so I just
Speaker 1: this is fine. This is an upgrade for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this works well. I don't know, Matt, I
Speaker 1: feel I feel like you. You can't handle this at all. Love.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I said, I know, I said
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, I turned my car air on,
Speaker 1: my heat on before I got to my car. But
Speaker 1: I really do love the cold. I like being cold. Um.
Speaker 1: I like cold movies, like all my favorite some of
Speaker 1: my favorite movies are all like in the snow. I'm
Speaker 1: just a big cold guy. But I'm also kind of
Speaker 1: a baby, So it's fun. Are you Are you a
Speaker 1: what do you call the thing you put on your
Speaker 1: head when it gets cold, either a hoodie or a beanie.
Speaker 1: It's called it toboggin Kristen, Yeah, I knew called I
Speaker 1: actually um is having that conversation with with Derek Brown
Speaker 1: and Eator Grosmatos. Um I was doing a last week
Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving kind of like this or that video of
Speaker 1: all their favorite foods, and they both walked in wearing
Speaker 1: the exact same what I would call it toboggan and
Speaker 1: panthers toboggan. They were, you know, socially distanced and in
Speaker 1: different places, and and Derek was saying each or you know,
Speaker 1: you're copying me that kind of thing. And I was like,
Speaker 1: what do you guys because we got into pecan or
Speaker 1: pecan in honor of Thanksgiving, and I was like, what
Speaker 1: do you guys call the thing on your head? And
Speaker 1: uh Derk Brown said skull cap. But he was like,
Speaker 1: but I know I've heard toboggan, and I think I
Speaker 1: think each to our said beanie or something like that.
Speaker 1: But I I truly did not know that there was
Speaker 1: another word other than toboggan that was used for a
Speaker 1: knit hat like that or whatever you want to call
Speaker 1: it until um I moved to Connecticut to start working
Speaker 1: for ESPN. I think it was like twenty four and
Speaker 1: I said something about it toboggan and they were like,
Speaker 1: that's a sled. I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: It was. It blew my mind. I've never heard of
Speaker 1: another word for it. We would have accepted nit cap
Speaker 1: or beanie, but I've never to me, a beanie is different,
Speaker 1: though toboggan perfectly describes it's got like the one roll
Speaker 1: up at the top, you know, and you maybe have
Speaker 1: a pom pom. A beanie is a beanie is something
Speaker 1: that doesn't cover your ears, in my opinion, or barely
Speaker 1: covers your ears like a small I have to get
Speaker 1: the big ones. A toboggan. I don't know if will
Speaker 1: you call it that? Right? Toboggan is a sled, thank you,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm familiar. It's I think it's a very
Speaker 1: regional North Carolina thing. No, it's a North South thing.
Speaker 1: But you just said it's a sled. You're from South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Toboggan is a sled, not a thing you put on
Speaker 1: your head. That's wrong. I want people to wait. I
Speaker 1: just that's that's just wrong. I thought I would come around,
Speaker 1: you know, my, my people. I'm back in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: I thought I could just go back to using toboggan
Speaker 1: without getting judged for it. You can. If you're sledding
Speaker 1: down a hill, you can. Oh my gosh, real original, real,
Speaker 1: original joke. I've never heard that one before. Why not.
Speaker 1: Just here's the thing. If you're talking about a toboggan,
Speaker 1: I know exactly what that means in terms of a hat.
Speaker 1: It's got the little pom pom on the top it
Speaker 1: rolls up one that's not a beanie or a skull cap.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, those are smaller. Just call a sled
Speaker 1: us lead. You need to know what kind of like
Speaker 1: what model sled it is? Like, what's the difference between
Speaker 1: a toboggan and a regular sled like a flat bottom?
Speaker 1: I'm on, I'm on your side of that. They should
Speaker 1: call sleds, but they shouldn't call beanies toboggans. So here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's where I got off on the wrong track. When
Speaker 1: I was quite young, I found out that a toboggan
Speaker 1: with something you sled down a hill on thanks to
Speaker 1: Calvin and hop Like. That's where that's where I got
Speaker 1: the toboggan term. And then I was foiled later in life,
Speaker 1: but I attributed all to Calvin and Hobbs. To me,
Speaker 1: the difference is a beanie is something that um like
Speaker 1: a like a cool guy would wear, like a hipster would.
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, it doesn't cover your ears.
Speaker 1: It's not for warmth, and a toboggan is you know
Speaker 1: that it's for warmth. That's what you're grabbing. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what you're you know what I mean, But Abenia
Speaker 1: is like for fashion, Toboggan is for warmth, and you
Speaker 1: cannot change my mind. Although I would love to hear
Speaker 1: what what what Anyone who's listening things on Twitter let
Speaker 1: me know that I'm right at Kristo Balboni. But anyway,
Speaker 1: it was cold in UH in Minnesota last Sunday. Well
Speaker 1: they play in the Dome. Um, that's my pretty bad transition.
Speaker 1: But there we go to UH to the heartbreaker against
Speaker 1: the Vikings, thank you, the heartbreaker against the Vikings Panthers.
Speaker 1: Just I couldn't hold on to that lead will It
Speaker 1: was I mean, it was tough, like there's no there's
Speaker 1: no getting around it. And you know I talked to
Speaker 1: coach Rule and he said this was this was gonna
Speaker 1: hurt for a little bit. You know. They preached the
Speaker 1: what's next mentality, and everyone took accountability, from from the
Speaker 1: coaching staff to Teddy to the defenders, you know, for
Speaker 1: for their part and what they felt could have gone better,
Speaker 1: what they each individually could have done better. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, mat Rule said that this one's gonna sting
Speaker 1: for just a little bit, and it should and and
Speaker 1: we're gonna let it and then we gotta move on.
Speaker 1: There were there were a number of times in that
Speaker 1: fourth quarter where it just felt like, oh no, oh no,
Speaker 1: And part of it was, you know, watching on the
Speaker 1: TV the going into it. You know, it just felt
Speaker 1: like the whole third quarter was just this kind of
Speaker 1: Jeremy Chin marathon of all the different Jeremy Chin things.
Speaker 1: And then you kind of look up and there's like
Speaker 1: fourteen minutes left and it's like, this is a close game,
Speaker 1: or this is a still very game. Is not out
Speaker 1: of reach, right, yeah, this And then they keep showing
Speaker 1: the Kirk Cousins fourth quarter stats and how Minnesota is
Speaker 1: one of the best offenses in the fourth quarter, and
Speaker 1: it's just it just it almost felt like this inevitability
Speaker 1: about it. I mean, the Panthers, they're a team that
Speaker 1: you know, we've we've said on this podcast all year.
Speaker 1: You know, they're so close, They're so close. They've had
Speaker 1: eight games decided by a touchdown or less. Out of
Speaker 1: the twelve that they played, eight have been decided by
Speaker 1: a touchdown or less. The problem is there two and
Speaker 1: six in those eight games now, and I think in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, you know, you look at that
Speaker 1: rules history, you look at the way that he's built programs.
Speaker 1: You know, I think those could be said for for
Speaker 1: both Temple and Baylor. You know, they were close, they
Speaker 1: were close, and then they started winning those games in
Speaker 1: years two and three, and but at the same time,
Speaker 1: you want to try to like, you're right there. Everything
Speaker 1: in the NFC playoff picture broke Carolina's way. If they
Speaker 1: would have won that game, if they would have been
Speaker 1: able to get a touchdown there after the muff punt,
Speaker 1: if they would have been able to get the field
Speaker 1: goal when it was blocked in the third quarter. You know,
Speaker 1: it's so many different things. You know, get a stop
Speaker 1: and the two been at warning. There's just so many
Speaker 1: different elements like man, man, you know, I want to
Speaker 1: win now. You know, like that's great that we're close
Speaker 1: and we're young, we're getting better, but it's like, you
Speaker 1: want to win now. Yeah, it's hard. You know, I
Speaker 1: think saying it in theory and detaching all emotion from it,
Speaker 1: you go, oh, that's great. You know, considering how young
Speaker 1: this team is and entirely new coaching staff and um
Speaker 1: a lot of new players. Roster turnover was huge. Um
Speaker 1: no no o t A is like this this team
Speaker 1: is playing together for for the first time, no preseason
Speaker 1: um and to be that close in that many games
Speaker 1: is great, But then it's just hard to not put
Speaker 1: emotion in it and not you know, feel it every
Speaker 1: day and and every single week. When you get that close,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard not to feel disappointment, even though you
Speaker 1: know in your head you're like, wow, that's that's an
Speaker 1: accomplishment for this team in theory. And one of the
Speaker 1: things that's been asked to both Teddy Bridgewater and Matt
Speaker 1: Rule this week previous weeks, you know that the media
Speaker 1: keep trying to come back to is you know, do
Speaker 1: you guys think about how where you could be if
Speaker 1: you had Christian McCaffrey or you know, how much do
Speaker 1: you really miss Christian McCaffrey. Could Christi McCaffrey have been
Speaker 1: the difference? And one of the things that that both
Speaker 1: of those, both Bridgewater and Rule have kind of come
Speaker 1: back to is obviously, Christian mcaffy is a great player,
Speaker 1: but you know, we don't want to disrespect Mike Davis.
Speaker 1: We don't want to disrespect the guys that we have
Speaker 1: in the field. You know, we're you know, we have
Speaker 1: faith and trust in every player that we put out there.
Speaker 1: You know, if if someone gets hurt, the next person
Speaker 1: has to come in, and you know, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: faith in that person too. And I get that, and
Speaker 1: that's very true. But since this is me and this
Speaker 1: is you and we're on this podcast, like the Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey still leads the team in touchdowns. He's only played
Speaker 1: three games and he has more touchdowns than anyone else
Speaker 1: in this team. You know, you think of all of
Speaker 1: the the opportunities in the red zone and the opportunities
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field, the things that Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey is is top three best players in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And and you know, we're trying to kind of rationalize
Speaker 1: and say all these different things, like if you have
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, this team is a different team. And I
Speaker 1: think it's it can be that simple that if you
Speaker 1: have your best player, you're better at football, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and not making excuses, but also putting some real context
Speaker 1: on it and not just kind of letting that be
Speaker 1: uh swept under the rug. Yeah, I think it's hard.
Speaker 1: I don't think that Teddy Bridgewater or Matt Rule can
Speaker 1: think like that. And I think that they're Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you can't say what if if you're if you're
Speaker 1: game planning and you're you're getting from week to week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good it's a good thing for fans to
Speaker 1: remember that we're without, you know, one of the best
Speaker 1: players in the NFL and have been for most of
Speaker 1: the season, right, and that that changes everything. That changes
Speaker 1: with your offense, that changes, you know, even what you
Speaker 1: can do on defense to to have him out on
Speaker 1: the field, you know, the way that another team responds
Speaker 1: to you if you have him, Um, it just it
Speaker 1: puts things into a different perspective. And you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: Christian does return. You know, I'm I'm not in the
Speaker 1: camp of you know, oh, you know, make sure that
Speaker 1: he's he doesn't play and let's let's just you know,
Speaker 1: kind of see where it goes. You know, like I
Speaker 1: want him if he's he's completely healthy, you know, like
Speaker 1: I hope he does play against Denver. You know, well,
Speaker 1: we'll see if that's the case. You know, I mean,
Speaker 1: no one wants to rush him back, but if he's
Speaker 1: ready to go, you know, he he knows he's paid
Speaker 1: to be an NFL football player. He's not just going
Speaker 1: to sit on the sidelines. UM. You know, at an
Speaker 1: abundance of caution. He's paid to go up there and play. UM.
Speaker 1: So I I hope you know that he that he
Speaker 1: does come back and we see him in December. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. We saw him practice in a limited capacity
Speaker 1: last week. He's He's not the kind of person that
Speaker 1: I don't think is gonna sit out if they're healthy.
Speaker 1: I think it's just is healthy and will he be
Speaker 1: you know, he's never been injured before, um, in his
Speaker 1: professional career, and then dealt with that high ankle sprain
Speaker 1: and then the shoulder almost immediately after. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know enough to know how long something
Speaker 1: like that takes the severity of it. UM. So you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see. But I think you're you're right if he's
Speaker 1: if he's a hundred percent healthy, UM, I think he'll
Speaker 1: be back, all right. But we got to talk about
Speaker 1: something that happened in this game. As as tough of
Speaker 1: a loss as it was and as disappointing for the team, Uh,
Speaker 1: there was some history that was made and will you
Speaker 1: mentioned it. Panthers fans of course know what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Those ten seconds where Jeremy Chin had to fumble recovery
Speaker 1: touchdowns and made NFL history. It was I felt like
Speaker 1: I was like a card that needed to wipe my
Speaker 1: eyes out. I was like, what just happened? It was awesome? Well,
Speaker 1: everyone was looking back up with the monitor and really,
Speaker 1: are they just showing a replay because it looked like
Speaker 1: the exact same play once he got into the end zone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well and it looks a yeah, and and and Matt
Speaker 1: Rule and I talked about it and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we didn't know if uh and he was down, Like
Speaker 1: were the re supposed to stop the clocks that? We
Speaker 1: weren't quite sure. It looked like one of those plays
Speaker 1: where someone just like runs it back, you know, just
Speaker 1: to like hustle in there. And it was just awesome.
Speaker 1: And you're right, it looked exactly the same kind of
Speaker 1: similar field position. Uh. It was great. It I even
Speaker 1: took a while for it to sink into me. I'm like, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: the score is actually changed twice now, um, but it's
Speaker 1: it was. It was great, and it gave the Panthers
Speaker 1: an incredible advantage in that game, one that unfortunately they
Speaker 1: couldn't hold onto. Um. But you know, in a larger sense,
Speaker 1: it is so great to watch his development and also
Speaker 1: just like there's not a nicer, more humble guy he's
Speaker 1: I just I think, I think the world of him
Speaker 1: as a as a person, as a young man, and
Speaker 1: it's great to see his development. Really every single game
Speaker 1: will and I think maybe a little bit lost in
Speaker 1: this Minnesota game among the ten seconds of fame that
Speaker 1: that Jeremy had was he had a career I thirteen
Speaker 1: tackles like he It wasn't just those ten seconds that
Speaker 1: he kind of you know, jumped in there and made
Speaker 1: a big splash. He was all over the field the
Speaker 1: entire game, making big plays. Um. So I think that
Speaker 1: speaks to I think that speaks even larger to the
Speaker 1: way that he's continuing to get better every week, continuing
Speaker 1: to be an impact player. I mean throughout kind of
Speaker 1: NFL media, in most of the Twitter circles, throughout all
Speaker 1: of that stretch, people are now bringing his name up
Speaker 1: for defensive Rookie of the Year. And you know, and
Speaker 1: it's not when you just look at it's not just
Speaker 1: an emotional oh man, those two huge plays were kind
Speaker 1: of like his Heisman moment or whatever. I mean, he
Speaker 1: has eight six total tackles, which his six team more
Speaker 1: than the second the second place rookie. He has three takeaways,
Speaker 1: so those two fumble recoveries in an interception more than
Speaker 1: any other rookie. He's got five pass deflections. I mean
Speaker 1: this this guy for for playing the position that he does.
Speaker 1: He plays safety, he plays outside linebacker, he plays nickel,
Speaker 1: he plays you know, he's he's come up to the line.
Speaker 1: He's still convert a fourth town special teams played too, right,
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Yeah, he has a first first down on
Speaker 1: like he's he's done everything. Um so yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he he absolutely should be in that conversation. He should
Speaker 1: be at the front of that conversation. And and that
Speaker 1: that's something that I think is really special for him
Speaker 1: that um you know, like I don't I don't think
Speaker 1: that those things should be taken away just because of
Speaker 1: the team's overall record. You know, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: really outstanding accomplishment um ends up being something that you
Speaker 1: know that you can really hang your hat on in
Speaker 1: years to come. You know, Like people people talk about
Speaker 1: Julius Peppers in his overall arc of his career accomplishments,
Speaker 1: and they continue to mention that he was the defensive
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year because he set a record for
Speaker 1: sacks in two thousand two. Well, the Panthers were seven
Speaker 1: and nine in two thousand two. That wasn't the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl year. But I think that speaks to you know,
Speaker 1: it speaks to his overall body of work. And I
Speaker 1: hope that Jeremy can win this UM, you know, so
Speaker 1: that years down the road, you know, that will be
Speaker 1: a big part of his career. That's a that's a
Speaker 1: great point, I almost think, and of course I'm I'm biased,
Speaker 1: UM as we work for the team, but I almost
Speaker 1: think it's the way that you're saying that it's almost
Speaker 1: even more impressive, because, yes, typically you would look at
Speaker 1: the team's overall success and and that person's UM contributions
Speaker 1: to that success. But as we all know, this is
Speaker 1: a very very young team. So so he's doing this
Speaker 1: UM with very little experience and with a lot of
Speaker 1: guys around him who have the same level of experience
Speaker 1: as Now, that's not to discount you know, the veterans,
Speaker 1: the Shack Thompson's, the Trey Boston's UM. The list goes on.
Speaker 1: You know, Zach Kerr, who who's who stripped the ball
Speaker 1: in order for him to have that touchdown in the
Speaker 1: first one. But um, there are there. It's no secret
Speaker 1: there are a lot of young players on this team.
Speaker 1: So the fact that he's stepping up and making these
Speaker 1: huge plays when um, there are a lot of other
Speaker 1: guys who were also still learning around him, I think
Speaker 1: is is great. And um, I just he's just so impressive.
Speaker 1: It's weird to me. It's is it already weird to
Speaker 1: you will to think that we I mean, I know
Speaker 1: he was considered a steal in the draft and the
Speaker 1: Panthers traded up for him, but it's just like so
Speaker 1: obvious how good he is, you know, And and I
Speaker 1: mean that that comes down to coaching and his his
Speaker 1: hard work, and no one, no one had heard of
Speaker 1: him at the draft fans wise, fans wise. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it just it goes to show the the level of
Speaker 1: of you know, even in this day of the Internet
Speaker 1: and twenty for our ESPN in college football and all that,
Speaker 1: that you you can be an outstanding NFL prospect and
Speaker 1: no one's heard of you because you're not at Alabama
Speaker 1: or Clenson or wherever. You know the fact that here
Speaker 1: at Southern Illinois and you know you're you're off people's radar.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guarantee that he was. He was awesome
Speaker 1: NFL teams radar just because of that. You know, it
Speaker 1: does it takes more work, It takes a lot more
Speaker 1: digging to kind of find out things, you know, just
Speaker 1: to defind films. Sometimes. Um, there's still that sort of
Speaker 1: disparity in what you can do, um coming from a
Speaker 1: big school versus coming from a small school. But I
Speaker 1: think that that is hopefully, you know, I would love
Speaker 1: to see, you know, more people kind of use that
Speaker 1: as a context for Hey, you can come to a
Speaker 1: non power five. You can come to a smaller school
Speaker 1: and find NFL success. You can come there, you can
Speaker 1: have a great college experience. You can be you don't
Speaker 1: have to be a blue chip prospect out of high school.
Speaker 1: You can come and develop and get better if you
Speaker 1: have the right tools, do you have the right mindset.
Speaker 1: I mean everyone's already talked about Shack and coach and
Speaker 1: uh defense Court and Phil snow about how Jeremy is
Speaker 1: a veteran at whatever, you know, whatever age is. I mean,
Speaker 1: he acts like he's older. He's speeches sometimes to like mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just two years and it's the way
Speaker 1: he approaches it. And you know, Matt Rule called him
Speaker 1: a serious football guy one time when I was talking
Speaker 1: to him, and I was like, I'm pretty sure that's
Speaker 1: the highest compliment that coach Rule could give a player. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know, I have to say one last thing. Um.
Speaker 1: I had a chance to talk to his mother and
Speaker 1: him at the same time. It was right before he won. Um.
Speaker 1: But what what do you when the weekly Award will Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so so earlier in the season, um, And we had
Speaker 1: a chance to kind of surprise him. His mom was
Speaker 1: on the zoom call. It was right before the Thursday
Speaker 1: night game and UM, she was just wishing him luck
Speaker 1: and it was you know, great for for their family
Speaker 1: in Indiana to to get to see him play on
Speaker 1: prime time and it was a big deal for them.
Speaker 1: And just talking to her about you know, when did
Speaker 1: you know that that this was something that he had
Speaker 1: in him? Um, And and she just said from the
Speaker 1: age of like I think it was like five or
Speaker 1: he's like trying to level up to play and in
Speaker 1: different you know, he wanted to play tackle and there
Speaker 1: was only flag and it was you know for kids
Speaker 1: who were older than him. And and she just said,
Speaker 1: you know, tearing out to high school and he wasn't
Speaker 1: that big um. You know, his his kind of growth
Speaker 1: spurt and and physical development came on a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But she said, you know, I was kind of hoping
Speaker 1: that you know, she's working full time and taking him
Speaker 1: to practices and stuff. She was like, you know, I
Speaker 1: was kind of okay if he was ready to just
Speaker 1: you know, relax a little bit. And he's just never
Speaker 1: had that in him. Just he just pushes it. He
Speaker 1: works hard all the time, and so I don't think
Speaker 1: it's any surprise kind of learning more about him. He's
Speaker 1: always been this way and and now we see the
Speaker 1: full payoffs. So it's it's it's great. Yeah, absolutely, And
Speaker 1: you know, you hope that he continues and to play
Speaker 1: out these next four games and to really kind of
Speaker 1: submit that that resume for for this award. That would
Speaker 1: be great for him man and for his mom. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: will st Out of the Week? Will what you got
Speaker 1: for us? Fist of the week. So this week is
Speaker 1: the bye week, which we're all very excited about. And
Speaker 1: did you know that this is actually the latest that
Speaker 1: Caroline has ever had a bye week. They've never had
Speaker 1: a bye week this far into December. This is week thirteen.
Speaker 1: So uh, this season, for all of the difficulties, for
Speaker 1: all of the things having to go through COVID, having
Speaker 1: to have a new coaching staff and no off season
Speaker 1: training and you get the latest bye week you've ever
Speaker 1: had in the franchise history. Well, I knew it was
Speaker 1: the latest bye week um of any team along with
Speaker 1: the Bucks, these are the if I'm not mistaken, right,
Speaker 1: the only two teams to have a bye week in
Speaker 1: Week thirteen is UH Panthers and Box And of course
Speaker 1: this is the last one of the season. But is
Speaker 1: this like the latest bye week in history? They don't
Speaker 1: usually do Week thirteen bye weeks, right, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that I haven't seen it. It could very well have
Speaker 1: been confirmed and sourced out there. I think it was
Speaker 1: probably due to trying to stretch things out as much
Speaker 1: as possible for this year's schedule, you know, with all
Speaker 1: the you know, obvious things that they were, uh continuencies
Speaker 1: they're preparing for. So yeah, I mean they try to
Speaker 1: bunch bye weeks up a little bit more, uh compactly
Speaker 1: into October and November, So they were spreading out a
Speaker 1: little bit. But I mean, yeah, to be the one
Speaker 1: of the two teams to draw the straw to have
Speaker 1: to wait all the way until now, I'm sure they
Speaker 1: could have used to buy at some point in October November.
Speaker 1: So I know that at one point a few years back,
Speaker 1: when DeMarco Murray was for the Titans, I had him
Speaker 1: in fantasy football in my league's fantasy football playoffs start
Speaker 1: week thirteen, and he was on a bye week and
Speaker 1: I didn't get to use them. So I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how common that is. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's coming, but I know it from that experience. I
Speaker 1: know it has happened at least one at the time.
Speaker 1: What a deep cut memory there, Yeah, to Marco Murray,
Speaker 1: all right? Or a fantasy stud um in honor of
Speaker 1: the bye week. I have a super cheesy game. But
Speaker 1: I've been holding onto this one. Um, what are things
Speaker 1: you want to say? By two? In sports? But that's
Speaker 1: the game we're gonna play, all right, So just things
Speaker 1: that you're just like, you know what I could do
Speaker 1: without it? Well you want to start us off? Sure, Um,
Speaker 1: I could do without the football rule that when you
Speaker 1: fumble through the end zone it becomes a touch back
Speaker 1: for the other team. I think it's the stupidest, just
Speaker 1: it's it's horrible. You literally, as a defense, you give
Speaker 1: up however many yards you're literally inches away from giving
Speaker 1: up a touchdown and you get bailed out because the
Speaker 1: guy is trying really hard. Like everywhere else in the field,
Speaker 1: if the ball goes out of bounds, it stays with
Speaker 1: the offense where it went out of bounds. I don't
Speaker 1: know why you can Why not just give it to
Speaker 1: them back of the one, Like, I don't know, it
Speaker 1: just feels it just feels really like unfair to Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, if you take that rule away,
Speaker 1: what do you have to do if the offense fumbles
Speaker 1: through their own end zone? Is that no longer a safety?
Speaker 1: How does that work? Because that's kind of the opposite.
Speaker 1: It's like the antithesis of what you're talking about. I'm
Speaker 1: fine with that. Yeah, I'm fine with that. No, because
Speaker 1: I mean, wasn't this relatively recently that this rule came in.
Speaker 1: It hasn't always been like this, has it. I'm not Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: I got one. I got one, um not. This is
Speaker 1: my only real rule based one, and especially with the NFL.
Speaker 1: But if you're to throw this out there will since
Speaker 1: you're since you're already um hot about that rule, uh
Speaker 1: past interference spot of the foul, I would love to
Speaker 1: say by to that and go to the college rule
Speaker 1: of fifteen yards. Well your thoughts, So, I don't know
Speaker 1: how you're gonna feel about this, So you just chuck
Speaker 1: the ball, if you know, if you throw a downfield
Speaker 1: and hey, you know he's in the end zones just tackling,
Speaker 1: it'll only be fifteen yards. Despite that's not normally what happens.
Speaker 1: A lot of times, it's a call that is could
Speaker 1: go either way, or you know, isn't past interference and
Speaker 1: then they just you know, or they're they're doing that
Speaker 1: to get past interference. Isn't that much more common than
Speaker 1: someone getting tapped, like tackled in the end zone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, like you're you're right, because there definitely are
Speaker 1: plays where they know, the analytics say there's a chance
Speaker 1: that this that this sideline throw is going to result
Speaker 1: in a past interference whether or not it's catchable, and
Speaker 1: let's just let's just go with it and see what happens. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And there's and there's just the implication that that ball
Speaker 1: would have been caught. And we also see it when
Speaker 1: that receiver is not catching that ball. I don't care
Speaker 1: if somebody you know, holding onto them or not, Like
Speaker 1: that wasn't you know. I just think there's a lot
Speaker 1: more times where the offense gets rewarded for it, and
Speaker 1: it's become part of the way that you play the game,
Speaker 1: and in those situations where you're trying to score especially
Speaker 1: I agree. Maybe you I don't know how you would
Speaker 1: do this, but maybe you find a way to make
Speaker 1: it situational. Maybe if you throw the ball into the
Speaker 1: end zone, it's a spot foul. But if it's out
Speaker 1: of the end zone, or if it can't be a
Speaker 1: spot foul in the end zone. Yeah, yeah, So if
Speaker 1: it's in the endzone, you get the ball to two.
Speaker 1: If it's not in the end zone, maybe it's a
Speaker 1: fifteen yard I don't have the answers, much like Will
Speaker 1: didn't have for his But I just you want results, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want. I want to say goodbye to it. That's
Speaker 1: what this is. That's the point of the game. Let's
Speaker 1: say goodbye. Uh mine. My first one is I really
Speaker 1: get annoyed over the NonStop and it's like it's continuing,
Speaker 1: it's compounding and eating itself online. But it's the NonStop
Speaker 1: comparison to everything, Like Joe Burrow never did anything and
Speaker 1: they compared him and then Mac Jones is five games
Speaker 1: into the season and they're already throwing up graphics for
Speaker 1: their next to each other and they're on pace, And
Speaker 1: it's why do we have to compare everything? Like can
Speaker 1: we just appreciate Mac Jones and the season he seven?
Speaker 1: Why is it if it's not the greatest season ever,
Speaker 1: if it's not Joe Burrow from last year, it's not good.
Speaker 1: We need to I don't know, I find that very annoying.
Speaker 1: I just I'm tired of the NonStop comparison. And he's
Speaker 1: the greatest of all time. Everybody's the goat. It's like
Speaker 1: the reason why it's the goat, it's because one person
Speaker 1: is the goat. It's not everybody's the goat. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Lebron Lebron Jordan's stuff. I was I've been over
Speaker 1: that for years and you know that got brought up
Speaker 1: this year during the finals, like enough, Like you know,
Speaker 1: it's annoying. Both great Chamberlain, Will Chamberlain and Bill Russell
Speaker 1: played in different eras and they were still great for
Speaker 1: I mean, I whatever, Yeah, I don't like any of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just a it's just a circle, like there's no
Speaker 1: no matter what side you come down on. It, whether
Speaker 1: it's the different eras or everyone having there there's no
Speaker 1: resolution because we just can't there's no right answer, and
Speaker 1: everyone's going to have their own opinion. Um, and it
Speaker 1: just never goes away. All right, Well what do you
Speaker 1: want to say by two? Um? All right, I have
Speaker 1: I have two half ones, So I'll go quickly on
Speaker 1: the first one because yet now I'm going to start
Speaker 1: thinking about well, because I started thinking about rules, and
Speaker 1: now I like realize all the rules that I hate
Speaker 1: you and and I don't have time to go through all them.
Speaker 1: So here's the quick one. Is the is like the
Speaker 1: offsetting penalties. When one penalty is like extremely egregious, it's
Speaker 1: like a five yard you know, it's just like no,
Speaker 1: you literally ripped the guy's head off and you got ejected,
Speaker 1: but the other team had a holding call on the
Speaker 1: left tackle, so they offset and let's replay the down
Speaker 1: like what like no, these aren't yeah anyway? All right,
Speaker 1: So that was my half one. My other one is
Speaker 1: I think that the NFL should be more like college
Speaker 1: and suspend some of their uh number rules, Like I
Speaker 1: want to see more defensive tackles wearing six because I
Speaker 1: think that's the coolest thing. Yeah, or running back wearing
Speaker 1: the number five, that would be awesome. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1: That's a good exactly exactly because and then it becomes
Speaker 1: this whole other drama of you know what new veteran
Speaker 1: wide receiver or defensive tackle is going to pay, you know,
Speaker 1: the punter for number three? You know, like it's it
Speaker 1: could get all sorts of interesting in terms of who's
Speaker 1: trying to get other numbers and number drama. I just
Speaker 1: think it'd be fun. Yeah, I like it. Let's let's
Speaker 1: have some fun with it. I agree with that one
Speaker 1: for sure. All Right, Um, I want to stay by
Speaker 1: too late start times. I lived on the I lived
Speaker 1: on the West Coast. I lived in l A for
Speaker 1: three years. And let me tell you what a Sunday,
Speaker 1: just as a fan, a Sunday um where football started
Speaker 1: at ten. Now for us, that'd be tough. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I want to move a game up to to
Speaker 1: ten and one o'clock start up to ten. But just
Speaker 1: like you got finished at a decent time, if you
Speaker 1: were watching Sunday night football or Monday night football, you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, it's eight thirty. I feel great. I just
Speaker 1: I'm too tired. To stay up until eleven four. I'm
Speaker 1: always just kind of like drifting at the end of
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, like waking up and I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, what happened. I just I'm in uh. I'm
Speaker 1: an old lady, and I would love it if things
Speaker 1: just started a little bit earlier, like trimetime eight twenty.
Speaker 1: I just it's a little bit like a sixty five,
Speaker 1: I would take six. What about what about three forty
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday? Yeah? That for you mean we're getting
Speaker 1: it like it's a it's things are happening this year.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I just in general, I just
Speaker 1: think like I just get tired. I get tired. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I get it. I know it's all the
Speaker 1: West Coast. I know why it happens. But if I
Speaker 1: were in bed a little bit earlier, I wouldn't, you know,
Speaker 1: like two time zones away, you'd be in your your
Speaker 1: dream scenario. That's the thing is like I did, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't affect me as much anymore because we're working
Speaker 1: the games. But that's why I said that. It's awesome
Speaker 1: like living on the West Coast and having a Sunday
Speaker 1: full of full ball where you're just hanging out is
Speaker 1: the best. Okay, all right? Um, what else we got
Speaker 1: any any other ones that we want to say? By two?
Speaker 1: My biggest thing is I hate when people talk about
Speaker 1: this team is tanking or this team is going to tank.
Speaker 1: That doesn't happen. Teams don't tank. All these players have
Speaker 1: incentives on their contracts and they want to win. They
Speaker 1: don't want to go out and get blanked. I find
Speaker 1: that annoying that that, oh, he's tanking for tow are
Speaker 1: tanking for Trevor. Teams don't really tank. I just don't
Speaker 1: really buy into that, and I find it annoying that
Speaker 1: every single year now it's a new hashtag of tank
Speaker 1: for Tour, tank for Trevor. I just find that incredibly annoying. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My my last one is actually it's not quite that,
Speaker 1: but it's a similar thing, which is uh, the cliches
Speaker 1: of like they just wanted it more. If I never
Speaker 1: hear they just wanted it more, I will I will
Speaker 1: be finding there's it's similar to what you're just saying
Speaker 1: of players aren't going to go out there and intentionally
Speaker 1: lose it. That's a long that's an incredibly long season
Speaker 1: to to just not try it's just not possible. And
Speaker 1: that's how I feel like. I think very rarely does
Speaker 1: a team go out there and it is practiced all week,
Speaker 1: especially at this level. Um and you know, they're they're
Speaker 1: making money, they're game planning, they're working out practicing, and
Speaker 1: they go out there and they're like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want this as much like I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm good. I'm gonna give minimal effort and then
Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna go back into the building on
Speaker 1: Monday and watch this film. I just don't want it
Speaker 1: as much. Why would the backup left guard who's fighting
Speaker 1: for a spot on a roster care whether or not
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins have the number one pick or the
Speaker 1: number four pick. He doesn't care. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: things that that can go wrong, and there's you know,
Speaker 1: if if a team is playing poorly, there's plenty of
Speaker 1: reasons and those should be discussed. But I don't think
Speaker 1: it's ever that, as you said, they're tanking for for them,
Speaker 1: they may not even be on the team next year,
Speaker 1: and that they're going out there and they just they
Speaker 1: just don't really want it as much. I just so
Speaker 1: that one gets me. All right, here's my last one,
Speaker 1: and this is way out in left field. All right.
Speaker 1: After this week and after watching some of the MAUI
Speaker 1: Invitational from beautiful Ashville, North Carolina, I want to say
Speaker 1: goodbye to Bill Walton. Like I know it's a West
Speaker 1: Coast thing and everyone on the West Coast is used
Speaker 1: to him and loves him. But then when he's actually
Speaker 1: calling the game of a team that you care about
Speaker 1: and it's not just you know, fun and you actually
Speaker 1: want to like watch the game and listening to what's
Speaker 1: going on, like it gets it's too much, way too much.
Speaker 1: He is. Yeah, he is uh an acquired taste, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. Um. I just want to tack one on
Speaker 1: and then we'll move along. But if you're talking about
Speaker 1: college basketball, I want to say, by to possession arrows.
Speaker 1: Why are we taking turns? I don't understand, Like why
Speaker 1: why do you just get a turn? Um? That's all
Speaker 1: I have, guys. This was fun. I feel like we
Speaker 1: got some things off our chests. Like it just felt good.
Speaker 1: All right. Um, the Panthers will be taking on the
Speaker 1: Broncos in a couple of weeks, and if the Panthers
Speaker 1: get a third down stop in the third quarter during
Speaker 1: a home game which the Broncos game is at home,
Speaker 1: one lucky fan will win a smart home smoke and
Speaker 1: carbon monoxide detector through the Morse Jenkins Protect and Check Sweepstakes.
Speaker 1: If the Panthers get a fourth down stop in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, that same fan will also be going home
Speaker 1: with a fifteen hundred dollar gift card. Be sure to
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Speaker 1: on how you can enter. All right, we're gonna close
Speaker 1: it out with our weird question of the week. Weird
Speaker 1: question of the Week. You're weird. You're weird? Guy producer
Speaker 1: Mask got this one. Yeah, So we recorded yesterday for
Speaker 1: Jordan and Jake, and Jordan's was first of all name dropper.
Speaker 1: Just kidding. Were only we talk every week, It's no
Speaker 1: big deal. Um yeah, So we did an episode yesterday
Speaker 1: were Jordan talked about his most recent vacation for Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: and him and his family rented a place and they
Speaker 1: watched a bunch of movies, movies that he said he
Speaker 1: wanted to show his kids, um, so that they grew
Speaker 1: up knowing about things. And then he said something about
Speaker 1: how Jake didn't know anything about movies. So I thought, well,
Speaker 1: i'd be a good idea. What are three movies that
Speaker 1: you would want to show your children. I don't believe
Speaker 1: any of us have children, but I could be wrong. Um,
Speaker 1: now you've done us for a while. Now let's I
Speaker 1: think you're you're fair to say like, none of us kid.
Speaker 1: I don't want to assume maybe we'll has like a
Speaker 1: mystery child or something. But what are three movies that
Speaker 1: you would want to show your future future children? How
Speaker 1: can I ask one question? How old would these children be?
Speaker 1: You can decide when they watch each movie? So like,
Speaker 1: I have some movies that maybe are for younger children,
Speaker 1: and then I have movies that are like maybe for
Speaker 1: like a twelve year old or something like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just picked movies that I liked, Like, I just
Speaker 1: picked movies that I'm like, this movie is great. Not
Speaker 1: that I'm trying to teach anyone anything. Um, So I'll
Speaker 1: start off with, um, since we're almost in the holidays
Speaker 1: Christmas story, I that does have an historical you know,
Speaker 1: obviously before our time. But um, I just I love it.
Speaker 1: I love the whole fifties vibe of it. The red
Speaker 1: Writer be begun. It just feels like Christmas to me.
Speaker 1: I will watch it on I own it, um and
Speaker 1: our families always owned it. But I will totally watch
Speaker 1: it on TBS with the commercials during the twenty four
Speaker 1: hour marathon, even though I could easily just turn it
Speaker 1: on with no commercials. That's just how much it just
Speaker 1: has that nostalgia for me. Um in such a big
Speaker 1: part of our families holidays that I would hope that
Speaker 1: that tradition continues. The other two were again just movies
Speaker 1: that I like. I would definitely show my kids Mean
Speaker 1: Girls when they get old enough, because I think it's
Speaker 1: an incredible movie. Um And Bridesmaids when they get a
Speaker 1: lot older, just because again, those are just movies that
Speaker 1: I love and I think they're great, and Um, I
Speaker 1: think they're incredible women driven comedies that are laugh out
Speaker 1: loud funny. And I'm just trying to hang with my
Speaker 1: future kids one day and be like, you gotta watch this.
Speaker 1: This is hilarious. So that's that's how I went, and
Speaker 1: I didn't pull any like, you know, Girls is incredible.
Speaker 1: It's a great movie, super underrated and overrated at the
Speaker 1: same time, but it's exactly all right, Well, well, what
Speaker 1: are yours. Um, I would start the younger age. I
Speaker 1: do remember The Titans. Um, that was almost because I
Speaker 1: mean just yeah, you know, from a football perspective, from
Speaker 1: ptorical perspective, yeah, just from you know. I obviously it
Speaker 1: kind of boils some things down to a more digestible
Speaker 1: but it's still a great movie. UM, So I'll go
Speaker 1: with remember the Titans. Can I say one thing? Can
Speaker 1: I say one thing? I my favorite quote from that
Speaker 1: movie and I feel like I feel like I want
Speaker 1: to say it all the time. Is attitude reflects leadership, Captain?
Speaker 1: Do you want to talk about her? He's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I got a bad attitude, and he's like, attitude reflects leadership, Captain.
Speaker 1: I just I love that lie. I feel like it
Speaker 1: applies and so many things like good or bad, and
Speaker 1: I never know. I'm like, people gonna get this if
Speaker 1: I say this, though I had to one shot. Yeah
Speaker 1: you could. You could say any line from that movie.
Speaker 1: And I feel like people should get it anyone. And
Speaker 1: that's on anyone, and that's on them if they don't.
Speaker 1: So alright, continue your list absolutely. Um. This one is
Speaker 1: I was shown by my brother in law, UM, when
Speaker 1: I was like twelve, and he said you had to
Speaker 1: watch it, and I completely didn't get it, And I'm
Speaker 1: glad that I had to watch it because I've gotten it.
Speaker 1: Sense Monty Python and the Holy Grail never seen it.
Speaker 1: This would be a great discussion that you have with
Speaker 1: your future kids one day. You know they're gonna be like,
Speaker 1: what's that funny? So I don't think to make really
Speaker 1: like not all the way through. I know, like all
Speaker 1: the funny moments. My cousin was super into it and
Speaker 1: showed him to me at nauseam, But I don't think
Speaker 1: I've ever watched from start to finish that movie. All right,
Speaker 1: you can. You can watch all of it in like
Speaker 1: the five minute YouTube segments because they really are kind
Speaker 1: of like like many many just scenes, and there's not
Speaker 1: that much that really like ties it all together. It's
Speaker 1: just scenes that are hilarious. UM. So I would go
Speaker 1: with that just because I think out of all comedy,
Speaker 1: you know, comedy can get stale over decades and cultures
Speaker 1: in time, I still think it's funny. Um. And then
Speaker 1: finally when they get old enough to be able to
Speaker 1: go actually to these sort of movies. Um, despite the
Speaker 1: cursing in it, I would say good will Hunting right,
Speaker 1: because I think that's an incredible movie. That's a great list.
Speaker 1: So I had trouble narrowing mind to three. But I
Speaker 1: think these three movies are like going to be my
Speaker 1: right of passage movies for my children. And that is
Speaker 1: Jurassic Park, not any of the other ones, just the
Speaker 1: first one. That is. That movie is just jaw dropping
Speaker 1: when you're a kid to see a t Rex, you know,
Speaker 1: are and like, it's just that's so cool. So that
Speaker 1: one's definitely up there, happy Gilmore when they're appropriate. That
Speaker 1: is probably my favorite movie, and I just I love
Speaker 1: that movie. So I don't think I will be able
Speaker 1: to not show my children that movie. And then the
Speaker 1: number one. It's kind of three movies so it's kind
Speaker 1: of cheating, but the Lord of the Rings trilogy, that's
Speaker 1: like a must for you know, a young uh, you know,
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen year old kid of mine. So those are
Speaker 1: my three. But I wanted to put Jaws and Finding
Speaker 1: Nemo in there, but those are good. Yeah, Jaws is
Speaker 1: just scary when you're a kid. I remember watching that.
Speaker 1: Now I'm like still afraid of sharks because of that movie.
Speaker 1: I watched it not too long ago. I mean, well
Speaker 1: long enough ago that everyone could be together like a
Speaker 1: group of friends outside and it just it held that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it held that like fear of the ocean thing in
Speaker 1: my mind from being younger than I watched it. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: you can just enjoy this because this shark is not,
Speaker 1: you know, incredible for the time. Yes, but it's very
Speaker 1: clearly gineral. But it's if you haven't gone, if you
Speaker 1: haven't seen that recently, I would I would recommend, like
Speaker 1: Matt said, it's because it's just it's it's enjoyable. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's scary, but it's it's a little more enjoyable than
Speaker 1: I remembered it being. So it's more silly as you
Speaker 1: get older than it is. Guys, this was this was
Speaker 1: so much fun. What a nice way to spend a
Speaker 1: bye week. Will have you warmed up from the beginning
Speaker 1: yet at all? I have because I went and I
Speaker 1: got my beanie, So now I'm beanie out. That's completely unacceptable.
Speaker 1: We've gone, So now what's a toboggan? All right, We're
Speaker 1: leaving it here. Thank you so much for listening to
Speaker 1: the Happy Half Hour podcast. To see you next week.