WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 83: Look Good, Feel Good 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.400 This week on the Happy half Hour. I am very 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.760 excited to see these all black uniforms, especially with it 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.280 being a night game, and know the people internally worked 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.120 really hard to get this through and and to make 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:16.040 it happen. I think it makes a difference in how 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.439 excited the players are, how hyped up. You know, you 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:25.759 look good, you feel good. Text it's time for the 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.560 Happy Half Hour with your friends Kristen Balboni, Augusta Stone 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:35.160 and Darren Gannon. That's right, it's that time of the week. 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.000 It's the Happy half Hour podcast with your friends Darren, 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:42.080 Augusta and Kristen. And we're taping this episode on a 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.400 Wednesday morning because it is Thursday Night Football week, which 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.760 means everything gets truncated into a few days. Darren's already 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:51.320 of course, this is a podcast you can't see. But 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.960 Darren's already laughing. Yeah, I'm glad you said it was 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.480 Wednesday morning, because I've kind of lost track of time anymore. Week. 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.600 The only reason I know it's Wednesday morning is because 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:01.680 it's the day before a game. That's the only and 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.200 it's Thursday Night football, so that's the only way I 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.680 couldn't place it. They even threw us in the cafeteria. Yesterday, 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.800 Jackie wrote waffle Wednesday on the board at breakfast and 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.880 I was like, wait, what, huh what? No, you know, 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:18.480 it wasn't Wednesday yesterday, It's Wednesday today. But yeah, football coaches, 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.880 it's football. Weeks are built on routine. So you know, 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.000 on Monday you watch the film from the previous game. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.360 Tuesday's player's day off. Wednesdays the big practice day, and 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.520 Thursdays the next big practice day. Friday, you're just polishing 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.240 stuff up, walking through and then you're out the door. Well, 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.840 on a short week, Monday was both a Monday in 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.600 a Tuesday and a little bit of Wednesday, and Tuesday 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.280 was Wednesday and Thursday combined. And so I guess that 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.840 makes today Friday. Today is Friday. Technically according to the 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:54.600 football it's Wednesday. So I mean, listen, I have pants on, 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:59.280 I have I am at confirmed. So we've got that 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.360 going for us. That's about his best you can hope 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.680 for during a short week. Ben McAdoo laughed. He was 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:07.280 talking about something unrelated the other day and he said, 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.440 it's about putting ten pounds and you know what in 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.760 a five pound bag, And that's what a short week 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.079 in the NFL, you do six days worth of work 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.000 in three and make the best of it. Yeah, and 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.880 you know, we landed on Sunday night. We all are 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.880 lucky enough to fly on the team plane when we travel. 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.400 We landed on Sunday night, UM, and the players had 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.840 to report to the stadium for treatment. You know, That's 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.600 that's part of this truncated week, which is everything is 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.360 so condensed. They've got to turn their bodies around. They 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.079 gotta turn the page mentally after the game in Cincinnati 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.919 and be ready to play UM in twenty four plus 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.880 hours from the time of this recording. AUGUSTA, how's it 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.320 been for you? This is your first Thursday night football turnaround? Yeah, 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.480 it's been fun, chaotic. It feels definitely kind of rushed. 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.079 I think the weirdest part was how late the practice 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.959 was on Monday, and then given the time change, which 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.440 I know we're all also that's another element of everything. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.359 It gets dark at like five o'clock. Now it's dark 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.919 at five o'clock. So we're out here and the sun's 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.519 going down at practice, and these shadows are super long 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.840 and it's Golden Hour and got some amazing photos are 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.520 photographer Kenny did and Darren tweeted about them. But they 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.760 were just gorgeous because it was golden our practice. But 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:19.919 I mean, you know, you go from last week where 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:21.560 it's the middle of the day practice that we're used 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.720 to go out and it's like the sun is going 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.400 down and it's Monday and why are we out here? 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.280 And everything is kind of twisted. But um so at 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.000 the time change on top of that, everything is kind 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:31.760 of weird. It feels like we've entered a new, a 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.080 new dimension right now. And I'll be interested to get 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.600 your take on the actual day of game as well, 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.960 because it is a very I'm certainly again for us, 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.720 it is so much less than for the players, right 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:49.560 But but even from our perspectives, writers, reporters, waiting until 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:54.600 eight kickoff, it's a it's a different thing. You know, 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.880 it's game day, um, And we had it a little 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:58.760 bit in the preseason. We saw it a couple of times. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.720 But there's this you've got the whole day, but you 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.600 know you don't have the whole day because you've got 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.520 to be the stadium at this time. There's a game 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.640 that's coming. But that's its own kind of thing too, 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.320 because it's uh, it's late. It's just the whole week 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.720 is just totally different. You see a little aunty, but 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:15.440 in the good way, you know where It's like I 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.160 look up and it's two o'clock and I'm like, oh, 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.480 I have something very important in six hours, and I'm 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.400 just gonna I'm just gonna not think about it too much, 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.160 don't get in your head too much. I wonder how 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:24.880 I need to ask that to some of the players, 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.919 like how do you go with the whole day routine? 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.400 Because I think like when you have a one pm 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:29.960 or four pm, you don't have a ton of time 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:31.120 to get in your head. But an a p M. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.520 If I was in their shoes, my goodness, I'd be like, cool. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.240 The good news is you're young, so you can probably 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.960 still sleep. You know. It's like when I talk to 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.000 my daughter who's in college, you'll wake up at the 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:47.160 crack eleven, and um, I can't do that anymore. I'm 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.640 up all night anyway. But um yeah, I mean it 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.760 is it's a day, it's an event, and I've often 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.760 you know, the worst thing is a night game on 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.880 the road, because then you wake up in a hotel 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:01.640 and it's like what do I do in this place? 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.000 All that was us last year in Houston. Yeah, you're 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.440 stuck and you're like, you go to the stadium like 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.960 seven hours early. You know, why not let's go for 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.760 a walk or something. Yeah, I mean it's it is bizarre, 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.320 but players do and and I've heard Jake talk about 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.080 this before. He's like he would get antie on game 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.359 days and it's like, what do I do with myself? 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.800 There's only so much film you can watch, you know, 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.840 you end up just killing time and uh, and you know, 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:31.200 but before we know what, it'll be Thursday night football. 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:36.160 It's the rematch of Falcons Panthers, all black uniforms, black helmets. 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.080 I do want to talk about all of that, but oh, 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.640 we gotta go back to the Sunday game. Put a 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.680 little bow on it before we I think so, I 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.680 think so. What I would like to know is, um, 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.200 what did you both learn from that game? What are 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.719 your big takeaways from that game? Even if it's just 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.960 about how everyone's putting it behind them, Like, what are 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.800 your big impressions coming out of this week? From that standpoint, 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.520 the short week is good news because it's not an 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.240 extra couple of days talking about how bad that was 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.280 what Austin Corbett told me. He was like, that's a 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.039 great thing about having a Thursday night football game. To 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.039 turn the page that much in a sixteen seventeen games season, 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.400 there is going to be one every year where any 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.920 team just looks like a flat tire. And to be fair, 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.560 the Bengals had that game the game before the Panthers 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.720 against the Browns. Although the Panthers appear to be some 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.400 kind of gooch that whoever plays them, whoever they play, 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:38.200 loses the next week, they are they are teams that 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.640 play the Panthers one week are o and eight the 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.279 next week, So it's got to count for something. Bes 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:47.279 the Bengals were screwed, so um yeah, I mean, there's 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.479 one of those every year, and I didn't necessarily expect 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.240 it to be last week, especially with the way they 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.000 played the previous two weeks and beating the Bucks the 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.279 way the fourth quarter in overtime went down in Atlanta 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.080 the other week. You thought they were playing hard, they 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.560 were fighting, but there's just an emotional pitch of those 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.760 two weeks that's hard to sustain over a long period 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.200 of time. And you knew eventually the Wheels would fall 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.400 off and the guys just wouldn't play well. But I 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.960 didn't expect it to happen the way it did that 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.000 quickly and all at once. That that was one of 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.320 the damnest first halfs of football I've ever seen in 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.040 my life. There down thirty five to nothing. They didn't 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.920 move the ball at all. What nine yards passing in 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.280 the first half. PJ threw a couple of picks. He 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:34.559 was bad PJ again. Um, they just the only first 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.880 down they achieved was by Ingles penalty. So it was 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.160 that kind of day and everything went wrong. So you know, 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.120 Baker goes in the second half, and I kind of 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.240 laughed in the post game because to his credit, I mean, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.080 there's you know, anytime there's a quarterback change, people are 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.559 gonna want to talk about that, and people somebody asked 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.960 Baker something about, well, you had a really good second half, 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.880 and he kind of laughed, like, come on, this wasn't real. 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.880 It was a real defense. I was playing. Told their 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.760 starters it was very great inflation the fact that he 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.800 did anything at all. You know, they were just trying 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.040 to get out of there. So to his credit, he 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:15.320 wasn't putting too much on that three touchdown drive second half. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.800 He was able to author there. So it was a 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.040 mess and it's over and again those guys are glad 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.520 to be able to talk about anything else because that 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.200 was awful. That's true, O Gausta, what have you heard 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.880 and talking to the players, So basically right now, it's 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.200 it is like you said what Corbett said, just kind 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.280 of moving forward. I was going to point out too, 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.240 I know I talked about glows and grows last week. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.160 I was gonna talk about two glows from a very 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.880 a game full of opportunities to grow. But Terris Marshall 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.280 and Rheim last year both had their first career touchdowns 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:44.480 and I talked with both of them. I talked with 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.920 Terris after the game for terrorists. It was I got 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.679 to try to preview right before it. But you know, 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.720 he was, uh he was seeing some of his college teammates. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.800 He saw Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase and and uh so, 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:57.240 so getting to do that, it's like, that's gonna be 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:58.880 memorable for him. So if you look at it from 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.720 an individual standpoint, that cool. And then Raheem Black Share 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.160 just one of the most just grateful players to just 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.679 be here on this roster. I love talking with him. 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.120 We saw him yesterday in the hallway and he was like, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.680 that was Jonathan Taylor, like over there was so cute, 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.920 so uh, you know all these things so um but yeah, 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.600 I think uh that that that that they're moving forward, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.360 Like even talking with her him this week, you know, 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:21.800 what was it like in your first touch on He 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.840 was like, I mean we lost. I really don't want to, 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.480 you know, talk too much about it, Like he was 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:29.320 very honest about it. Um, just moving forward, also moving 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.680 forward with p J kind of keeping some consistency with 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.679 a short week. Um that I you know, Steve Wilkes 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.360 explained that decision. It's a short week and Sam's activated, 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.200 but you know, we'll have time to actually practice because 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:42.920 that's what's interesting is that they're not actually going through 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.200 like padded practices right now. It's just a bunch of walkthroughs, 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.200 a bunch of walkthroughs, um, which makes sense. So it's 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.600 it's it feels like truncated almost like in a way 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.560 where it's like, okay, moving forward, not making a ton 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.680 of adjustments that kind of thing. Yeah, I mean that 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.800 is the nature of a short week and Thursday night 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:02.280 football is that you have got to go with what's 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.760 already there for the most part, because there is As 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.360 you said, I guess there's no time to um get 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:13.240 too crazy and make too many different adjustments. So Darren, Okay, 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.559 I know this isn't question that you can't answer, but 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.280 I always like to ask you these cords. If you're 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.200 a fan, you're coming out to this game, what do 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.840 you expect? Like? What should you expect? Is it the 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:29.240 team that faced Atlanta uh eleven days ago or is 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:35.040 it the other than a tropical storm that? Um, but 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:39.559 those games often get weird, and weird isn't always bad 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.800 in the NFL. I mean, sometimes some things happen and 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:47.000 you can never account for the conditions in advance. But um, 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:51.040 I truly think. I mean, they have been so competitive 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.760 the two previous weeks, and Steve Wilkes does appear to 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.560 have this bunch's attention, uh, And I think with what 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.120 happened earlier this week, they come on from Cincinnati and 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.920 change out two coaches, let a couple of guys go. 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.800 I think if anyone's focus wasn't on Steve and and 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.800 what he's trying to get across, it probably should be 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.960 after that. So I would be surprised if they played 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.720 the way they did in the first half again, since 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.920 now I really would, uh, and in the absence of 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.960 Christian McCaffrey and the absence of all the stuff that 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.720 was normal the first part of the year, you know, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.040 go back to what they did the two weeks prior, 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.720 which was a whole lot of Deonte Foreman Cuba Hubbard 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.480 has practiced. This week's a little better, so because so 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.320 I think they could have a little more of a 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.720 run game established this week, and especially if it's gonna 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.520 be raining, I think that's gonna be a priority, is 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.280 is getting that part of it established. You know, we 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.240 know they made improvements on the offensive line. They've shown 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.600 signs against the Bucks and the Falcons that they can 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.360 run the ball, and when those two things happen, then 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.640 p J can occasionally make some plays downfield. But that's 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.040 the first thing that needs to happen, and it never 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:05.160 happened up in Cincinnati the other day. So I think 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:09.640 they should bounce back. I think they're getting closer to it. Um, 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.920 you know, they're they're gonna have to stop some people 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.680 on defense. They're gonna have to keep Marcus Marriott in 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.200 the pocket and keep him from rambling around for thirty 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.400 yard scrambles like he did in overtime. And and you know, 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.080 it feels like a hundred years ago, but it was 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:27.079 what ten days ago when Brian Burns missed that tackle 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.560 and could have forced them to point, could have forced 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.720 you know, whatever would have happened next in that game. So, um, 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.400 I think they're in decent shape considering, I mean as 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.920 good as shape as a two and seven team that's 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.319 already fired a head coach and a couple of assistants 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.959 and traded its best offensive players going to be. It's 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:51.920 a well said, well said, great caveats right there. Like that. 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:56.280 Another thing that that I know internally we're all excited about. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.200 And um, you know the results of last week notwithstanding, 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.840 I think the fans are excited about is it is 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.520 the black helmet game in all caps black helmets, something 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.080 that the fans have wanted to see for years now. Um. 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.160 I know there are former players that are jealous that 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.600 they don't get to wear the all black uniform and 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.280 the black helmets. And and that's a big deal. You know, 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.480 it's Thursday football. Amazon has eighty five trucks here, you know, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.679 production trucks. Um, this is a big game. UM, I 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.720 have a question for for you too, Darren. You've seen 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.120 a lot of Panthers games, a lot of uniforms. Are 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.120 you a uniform guy? We know? We know will we 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:39.280 know Panthers stats guys. Um the uniform aficionado of the Panthers. 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.040 He's always got the unique combos when they come out. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.720 Is that something that interests you at all, Darren? Only vaguely, 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.280 you know, I see. And that's one of the interesting 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.040 things about this is talking to some of the guys 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.040 around the locker room. It's not as huge a deal 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.360 for some of the younger guys because anybody that's played 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.079 in college the last now you've got eight thousand univers 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.800 combinations used to alternate helmets, they are used to J. J. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.920 Jansen's played nearly two hund games here and they've all 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.560 been in a silver helmet. So, I mean he's kind 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.360 of looking around like, oh, this is different, you know, 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.240 And he admitted, I don't know what it's gonna be like. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.679 I'm not a huge uniformed guy. I'm kind of, as 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.920 you might have guessed, a little bit of a traditionalist 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.800 about this. I kind of like silver Bridges black jerseys. 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.240 I think that kind of the Yeah, I think that's 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.040 kind of when I think of what a panther's uniform 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:31.480 looks like. That's kind of what's in my mind. And 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.600 over the years, I know a lot of people really 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.600 like those alternate blue jerseys, and yeah, and I love 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.360 the color Rush the blue owned blue for the Thanksgiving 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.040 game the other year. I just looked at it that 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:48.160 kind of it's like a shock to your eyeballs. Um 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.080 and and that might be a little much, but the 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.760 white Bridges blue jersey is kind of growing on me. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.360 I mean, when guys wear white shoes with that, they 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.440 look fast, so it's kind of a neat look. But 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.880 I'm not a huge jersey guy, so the black on 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.240 black on black is uh, maybe lost on me. But 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.200 I also understand I'm not the target demographic. I'm also 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.160 not a big uniform person. You know that people say, well, 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.240 what what combo are they gonna wear? And this, and 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.480 I'm like, I don't know, whatever combo they come out with, 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.240 you know, is that's going to be on the field. 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.800 But I did love the Thanksgiving color Rush jerseys. Those 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.400 really stand out to me, and I am very excited 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.440 to see these all black uniforms, especially with it being 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.000 a night game. You know, I know the people internally 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.560 worked really hard to to get this um through and 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.120 and to make it happen, and Augusta, you know, coming 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:40.280 from college, I do think it. I think it makes 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.920 a difference in how excited the players are, how hyped up. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:46.560 You know, you look good, you feel good, you know 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.040 kind of a thing. I do think that it gives 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.880 them a little extra bounce for this game, exactly exactly. Well, 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.240 it's funny because I went to Georgia as it was 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.280 so funny. On Saturday when we were traveling, I was 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.360 warning my Georgia share because George played Tennessee and it 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.840 was awesome. Shot Thompson that game. It went excellent. Shaq 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.800 Thompson gets off the elevator and he goes, Augusta, we 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:05.480 get it. You went to Georgia, which I think is 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.120 just the funniest thing ever because yeah, yeah, he was 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.680 like just stopped. But I can't. But anyway, it's funny 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:12.760 that we're talking about black helmets, black jerseys, because that 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.040 was something during my time at Georgia. Anytime they brought 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:16.960 out the black jerseys, it was like the whole world 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.280 stopped and everyone was so excited. And and I will say, 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:22.320 at least in Georgia's case, it was one of those 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.120 things where the black jerseys. We were always kind of 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.760 pinsive about it because we were like, oh, those games 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.760 were always very close for no reason. But you know, 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.920 I think they look really cool. I love seeing the 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.840 helmets up close there, like Matt Black really cool looking. Um, 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.400 I am with Darren and you, Kristen. I'm not like 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.720 a huge uniform person. My favorite thing about uniforms is 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.200 tweeting about them and getting the reactions in my mentions 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:47.280 when people get so upset about the sock color, and 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.280 you know, they'll be like, I can't believe the socks 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.760 are white and the shoes and I'm just like, I 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:55.920 don't get this, but I admire this for something so fun, 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.440 You're putting it out there for engagement. I like, I 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.440 like this is gonna get of replies. I love it, 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.120 and I don't know what they're talking. Like, I'll take 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.199 a photo of Eddie Pinero and I'll be like, all 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.240 right here they're in a white jersey again, and someone 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.199 will be like, why is his suck that way? I 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.000 just I love it. I love it so I love 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.639 watching how people get about it, and I want to 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.879 be a part of that. Maybe someday, maybe I'll analyze 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.000 my photos of the jerseys and figure out my my 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:20.960 deep opinion. I do like the font that they put 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:22.720 on the back of the jerseys here. It looks very 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:28.040 block and cool. I agree with that. I agree with that. Alright, well, 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.040 we are gonna report back from the other side after 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.480 this Thursday night football game. We know that we'll have 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.680 a lot to talk about next week no matter what. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.720 And in the meantime, everybody, enjoy Thursday night football, enjoy 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.119 the mini bye week for all the fans on the 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.400 back end of it, and we'll see you next week. 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:46.159 Thanks for listening.