WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 60: Half A Beat Longer 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.760 It's time for the Happy Half Hour with your friends 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:22.320 Christin Balboni, Will Brian and Darren Gant. Welcome to a 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.880 special Christmas edition of The Happy Half Hour. We're back 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:29.080 with your friends Darren Gant, mcmixon and I'm Will Brian 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.680 once again sitting in the host chair for Kristen Balboni, 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.160 who we've seen updates on little Jack this week. Jack 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.800 is the most beautiful baby I think that has ever existed. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.000 When you agree, he's gonna be right up there. I 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:42.240 you know, I told kristin the other day. My wife's 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.279 a pediatrician, and and she says, as an industry, you know, 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.760 everybody says, oh, what a beautiful baby. Well, they ain't 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.159 all beautiful babies necessarily, but my wife walked by and 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.840 saw the pictures and she said, empirically speaking, that's a 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.200 good looking baby. This boy child favors his mother, which 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.040 is why we're able to speak about him in such 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.160 glowing terms right now with his physical appearance. I was 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:04.920 I was wondering aloud the other day if when he 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.480 grew up, anyone would make any sort of jokes about 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.560 space on the on the door, in the water. But 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.320 I guess that generation just doesn't know anything about Titanic, 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:20.480 do they now, Jack? Oh that what a depressing film. Jeez. 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.680 I saw that movie on that afternoon when the time changed, 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.920 when the days got shorter. So I can't come out 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.520 of the theater and people have just drowned, and it's 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.920 dark and it's raining. Oh my gosh, terrible. So speaking 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.080 of and so the living we're in being the day 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.480 at that point has a great man exactly, speaking of 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.800 uplifting things. How about Buffalo. Hey, I've got a crush 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.200 on Buffalo a little bit. Not their team, but there's 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.600 something about this city. And I guess maybe Cleveland could 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.840 say the same thing some some other. I grew up 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.680 in an Atlantic Coast Conference dominated state, so a SEC 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.960 basketball was great. Loved it on fire Ford as a kid. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.520 But in Buffalo football is important to them. So we 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.080 get in a little late. We have I want bore 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.040 you with all the details, but Jim's okie and I 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.800 we have to drive a rental car from Pittsburgh to Buffalo. 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.920 So we go through Erie, we go through Meadsville, we 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:16.000 go through Upton, Thorndyke, all these other towns that I 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:20.440 make in maybe possibly, and we get to Buffalo. About 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.440 seven o'clock. We end up going to a little sports 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.440 bar across the street. The Patriots game is on versus 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:31.200 the Colts, and every time Indianapolis got a first down, 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.600 the whole bar erupted. So so the Buffalo fans hate 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:40.360 New England and root for misery to befall them. Best 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.919 chicken caesar salad I've ever had. It looked like a 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:49.560 basketball sized mound of meticulously prepared and the presentation was beautiful, 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:54.400 ice cold, domestic light beer. Jake's in rare form. People 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.040 recognize him, cheers kind of thing. What do you think 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:00.720 I mean, I wouldn't want to live there, but I 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.040 just love how football means so much to him. Yeah, 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:04.960 And I tell you what, it is a town with 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.840 a certain industrial charm about it. And they're, you know, 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.840 bringing back the waterfront district, downtown and really doing a 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.120 lot to make that city look a lot more like 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.280 a city. But there's some cool old architecture. We were 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.160 fortunate to have a tour guide are one of our 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.160 guys in the video department, Cayle Tutor the Tutor or 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.280 Kyle tut The Tutor spent three years up in Buffalo, 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.240 so he knows, knows his way around, took some local 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:35.920 spots um and I got a little defensive at the Southerners. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.680 I eat me constantly complaining about how cold it was. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.640 And I told him, I said, I really enjoy your 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.520 fair city. I there's I appreciate you taking me around 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.120 and showing me all the sites, and you know, introducing 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.720 me to some stuff I wouldn't not have known otherwise. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.520 And when I come back to Buffalo with you someday, 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.920 there's only one more thing I really feel like I 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.000 haven't seen yet. And he said, what's that? And that's 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:06.120 said the sun the Pierce the Pierced Arrow Museum is there, 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.880 unbelievable because Buffalo is at the head of the Niagara River. 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.360 They harnessed electricity. They were little ahead of their time 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:16.120 with h in the hydro electric thing, so things were 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.480 invented in Buffalo. Electric blankets and some cool things came 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.680 out of there. Earl. It's also the home of Rick James, 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.919 the hometown of Rick James. Did not know that. Neither 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.280 did I, who dated Linda Blair for a while. By 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:32.719 the way, there are many things I've learned already in 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.440 this podcast. There's nothing I can add to this at 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.320 all outside of I lived in New York for two years, 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.320 not in Buffalo, and it just feels like things don't 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.120 need to be that hard on a day to day 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.039 basis for six seven months a year, you know, like 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.800 having lived in North and South Carolina, when you can 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.480 wake up and you can get in your car and 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.600 you can just drive and park and then that's all 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.520 you have to do to get to work, other than 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.760 scraping and shoveling in deep fusting and worrying that things 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.280 are dead or not dead. Like it just doesn't need 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.880 to be that hard on a Tuesday, No, it really doesn't. 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.920 I remember my my first wife was from Albany, New York, 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.839 and the first time I went up there met her parents, 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:14.520 there was about a foot of snow in the ground. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.360 And being the chivalrous young suitor I was, I said, 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.880 I'll shovel the driveway off. It seemed like a charming 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:23.719 thing to do. I had never done it before. I 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.400 was no stranger manual labor growing up on a farm. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.680 So I said, I'll go out here, I'll shove the 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.279 drive way. Don't worry about it. I got this Mr Elliott, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.560 and he uh, he sat there and laughed, and he said, 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.520 all right, and have fun. I went out there about 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.000 an hour later, and it was about halfway through that driveway, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.279 and I said, I'm never living up your day in 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.800 my life. I don't need this in my life. So, 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.640 speaking of interesting things that happened in Buffalo, you guys 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:53.680 were had a firsthand account of the pregame kicker fiasco. 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.839 He'll talk us through that. What do you see what happened? Well, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.159 I mean I had just finished talking or was the 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.560 late stages of talking to Jim's Oki on the pregame 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.839 show on the Panthers Radio network, and there was a 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.880 bunch of hubbub down on the field and people moving 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.200 in areas they don't normally move, And you get off 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.760 the phone with Zok and you start to figure out 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.120 what's going on talking to our people down on the field, 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:23.000 and poor Zing Gonzalas hurts himself during pregame warm ups. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.520 And here's a funny thing about NFL rosters. There's only 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.760 fifty three players on them. They don't keep two kickers. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.159 And in the peculiar instance, the Carolina Panthers are in 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.080 their punter, who's their third punter of the year by 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.680 the way is an Australian gentleman named Lachland Edwards, and 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.680 Australian punters are great at many things. They can put 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.440 a funny spin on the ball that will make it 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.280 backspin on, you know, hard to catch, harder to see 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:54.240 coming down, but they've never kicked from a placement in 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:59.480 their life. In five years of NFL career, Lachland Edwards 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.600 has only kicked off five times, and not with any 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.240 particular distinction, and he's never kicked a field goal or 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.200 extra point and all this time, so they are literally 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:14.960 standing around like what do we do now? And Rule 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.800 tells us that Scott Fitterer runs into the locker room 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:22.160 and says, hey, guess what Coach Zane just heard himself. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:27.200 And then they start looking for volunteers, and as the 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.600 story is told, Chase Blackburn's running around asking guys you 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.880 ever kicked before, And there were a handful of volunteers 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:39.120 at that point. Now, Brandon Zilstra, who ended up kicking, 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.040 had served as an emergency kicker much in the same 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.720 way in high school. But Brandon Zilstra is just kind 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.840 of guy who volunteer for anything, and he's like, yeah, 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.360 I'll give a shot. But you had Frankie Luvu out 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.520 there trying kickoffs in pregame, You had Reggie Bonafine trying 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:59.280 kickoffs in pregame. P J Walker goes down and attempts 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.280 what would have in an old school extra point, really 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.840 short kick, and all I could think of after p 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.360 J kick that kick was bless his heart, Bear get 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.160 him back over there and make sure he didn't get 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:16.200 hurt in case they need him at quarterback today. So it, uh, 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.600 everything got scrambled all at once, and there were a 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.280 bunch of people looking around like, oh God, what do 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.640 we do now? Darren called it a hub of It 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.280 was more than that. It was a brujajas a rigamarole. 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.520 It was mucky muck. I mean, it was a bunch 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.280 of mess down there. Yeah. Zoki described it on the 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.800 air the pregame show as it looked like a punt 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.079 passing kick competition was going on down there for those 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:40.760 of you old enough to remember the old PP and 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:45.480 K days. But I mean Zilstra steps into the breach 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.600 and really did a good job with it as as 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.760 well as could be expected. Considers himself, as he said 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.959 many times, an athlete, not just a receiver or special 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.000 teams demon and for a hot minute, this is the 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:02.480 psychosis of Carolina at their season. I looked at Jake 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.280 and and Jim and said, guys, guys, this could work. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.280 We're gonna go for it on all four downs. We're 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.280 gonna make some, We're gonna go for two. We're gonna 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.079 not gonna kick any field goals because we can't, but 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.400 it's gonna result in more points. And we're gonna squib 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.280 the kickoff down there, and Buffalo is gonna mess it 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.480 up and we're gonna recover it. Survey says not quite. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.840 No One one for five on fourth down. UM. I 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.079 looked it up. So a couple of stats. Since I've 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.280 sat in this year, I haven't been doing the will 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.120 stat of the week for the last couple of weeks. 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.000 But I'm just gonna go ahead and do it right now. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:41.400 Go on with your bad selicks of the week. It 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.640 was the first time that an NFL wide receiver ever 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.520 kicked off three times in the game in NFL history. 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.480 Brandon zill story. He averaged forty eight point seven yards 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:54.320 per kickoff, which wasn't bad. Their average drive start on 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.120 the first two was like the twenty six and a half. Yeah, 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.360 now Buffalo, Buffalo gotta return. They figured out the third 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.880 one and made it pay a little bit, got on 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:04.960 the other side of the forty, which is good. But 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.960 you know, really, I mean, his average draft start after 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.320 two kickoffs was like a yard and a half past 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.760 a touchback. You can work with that, that'll be okay. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.240 And and this other one that I I looked up recently, 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.320 and this one was surprising to me because you would 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.320 have think, out of all the course of the history 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.640 of Panthers football, Yeah, this was just the sixth time 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.240 in franchise history they hadn't attempted an extra point or 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.040 field goal. The last time it happened was two thousand four. 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.600 That's a long time that they haven't ever attempted a 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.720 field goal or an extra point in the game. The 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.000 other thing is that is a long time well, and 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.240 that's a great stat What is the name they call 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.680 the score the people that look at score up score, Ye, 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.640 that have never been How could a halftime score never 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:52.040 been seventeen to eight before? You know, that's incredible. It 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.680 was strange and unusual. And we're into the hard analytical mind. 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.160 Who really cares about these types of things Twitter, because 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.720 because up the Happy Half. I mean, it's incredible, Like 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.480 I put that out there and that was one of 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.520 my most engaged tweets all day. Everyone loves to score 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.520 a GMMI tweet. I guess it's a thing. The strange 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:14.200 and unusual can always find purchase on the internet. It's 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.680 a thing. I love that that that expression has risen 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.760 to promise. It's a thing. This is a kind of thing. Guys. 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.200 We got a situation on our hands here, so looking 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.880 forward now, quite briefly, we have Tom Brady Tampa Bay 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.800 coming in. It's the last home game of the season. 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.840 What are you guys looking to see? Um? I am 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.920 looking to see if Tom Brady is gonna be throwing 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.560 it to Jocquez Green. Uh. They are having a hard 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.120 time finding people to catch footballs for him right now 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.640 or for him to hand it to Leonard for Nette's hurt. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.760 Probably going on ir Chris Godwin eight towards a c L. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.720 They're not in a spot that you would think a 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.680 playoff contender would ordinarily be in, and then they're kind 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.360 of disgracing themselves frankly by bringing Antonio Brown back into 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:02.800 the building after he false suspended three games for falsifying 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.679 a vaccine card. But you know, it's football and everybody 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.600 wants to win and business is good, so he's back 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.760 and Bruce Arians basically doesn't care because the job is 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.600 to win and they're gonna let him back in. So um, 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.480 we'll see how that goes with a b after three 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.839 weeks off. But it's still Tom Brady. And as unusual 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.360 as it was seeing him get shut out the other night, 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:28.840 you just immediately think, oh God, what's coming next? Because 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.800 he is not a man who cares for being embarrassed. 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.280 Doing the depth chart for Tampa Bay on started on Monday, 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.720 and will and and Darren just putting the numbers in. 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:40.719 You don't see numbers like this very often. And I'm 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.320 not talking about his stats, but he's forty four years 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.080 old in his twenty second year. He just don't write 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.040 those numbers of forty four and twenty two next to 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.560 a quarterback very often, if at all. And the other 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.360 thing I think is interesting, and I asked coach rule 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.240 we asked him about on Panther Talk this week, is 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:02.720 that Chris Collinsworth is just all what's the correct word 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:06.559 A titter? Is that the right word a Twitter Twitter. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:08.319 I hate cliche, so I don't want to say he 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:12.600 was beside himself. He was very, very over the top 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.440 on how the Saints have the formula. Look at what 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.000 they're doing. They're dropping backers and say and moving safeties up, 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:24.600 but mainly dropping backers into the underneath shallow middle and 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.640 taking away all the in brakes, all the slants, all 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.320 those checkdowns that Brady has victimized people with over time. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.840 Now that works, I guess it did work. That works 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:36.960 if you've got corners that can stay in phase with 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.920 their receivers. They're dinged up at receiver. But so I 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.720 asked coach rule on Panther Talk, Coach, when you watch 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.720 a game, do you watch the TV copy or do 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.080 you assign someone to do it? And if so, with 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.640 the sound up or down? What would your guess bs 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.320 to his response, I imagine he's got somebody listening to 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:01.080 the game. Yeah, I think he's listening to it. Correct. 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.040 He he likes to do it with the sound turned up, 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:09.000 and then he has someone do it because and it 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.360 makes sense but in the intelligence counterintelligence, so he knows 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.000 as all coaches do that. Say Buck and Eateman come 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.200 into town. They get an audience with coaches. Coaches like 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:24.760 to talk. They like to say, Troy Tony, here's what 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.680 we're here's what we think, here's what we're gonna do. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.560 Here's so some intel can be gained. And so I'm 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.560 sure that Matt Rule is aware of what collins Worth said. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.000 Whether it can work, we shall see. Yeah. I mean, 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.640 and you talked about the corners. I mean that the 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.160 personnel has to be there. You've got to be able 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.320 to to do what you need to do on the front. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.360 I mean in Tampa Bay right now, is not able 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.920 to really run the ball like there, I looked that up. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.520 They're averaging less than a hundred yards rushing a game, 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.040 and four nets now hurt. So for for them, you know, 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.480 being able to drop those linebackers if the front can 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.920 do their responsibility and the corners can stay in man coverage. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.640 Yeah yeah, But the Bucks are almost like a fantasy 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.240 camp situation. I mean, when one old guy goes down, 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.720 they bringing another one of main lay who you know, 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.520 a couple of years ago was the most dangerous two 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.000 way back in the NFL A couple of years ago, okay, 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.120 five years ago, and he's still hanging around he was 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.280 on a practice squad earlier this year, and now all 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.360 of a sudden he's back. And you know, because we've 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.760 seen Tom Brady do this so many times, you sort 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.240 of fully expect him to have a hundred yard game 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.680 at some point along the way with Tom Brady throwing 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.040 it to him and and carrying the ball, you know, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.560 twelve times for fifty yards or something like that, but 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.320 you just kind of expected it. Is why don't running 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.840 backs last life? They do used to, with the exception 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.760 of Adrian Peterson who was the back a few years ago. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:51.800 Was Chris Henry the Titans back, So you had to 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.400 thank for a minute, right, two thousand yards season Chris Johnson, 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.600 John Chris Johnson, Yeah, well, no one do. You had 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:03.320 to think I had Chris Johnson, that's right, Derrick and 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.960 then um, you know, Shady McCoy. Levy on Bell looked 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:12.800 for a while like and let us Murray um Bell 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:14.760 looked for a while like he you just could not 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.120 tackle him. I mean, the decision making it the point 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:22.160 of attack incredible, incredibly slippery. But it's it's not for long, 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:26.040 like the NFL stands for. So we're gonna transition real quick. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.720 We had some big news last week. Mick, I don't 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.280 know if you heard about it. The Panthers are going 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.000 to Germany. We're gonna take all this, We're gonna pick 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.560 it up. We're gonna go to Germany. There are probably 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.320 some fans of our team that would be in favor 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:44.200 of that. That's what they've seen this year, so real. Briefly, 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:49.400 the league announced last week that they're essentially assigning NFL 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:55.680 teams to different marketing areas around the world Mexico, Germany, Spain, France, England, 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.120 and the Panthers are one of four teams that are 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.840 going to be able to market to ends in Germany 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:05.640 allowed to uh sell merchandise, uh target things online. So essentially, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.800 in the United States we can't put digital ads or 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.439 target things to fans in other states. We can't go 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.439 to Georgia and say, hey, by this Panther ticket or 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.000 you know, sign up for this contest. So what they're 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.919 doing is allowing us to go to Germany to to 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.280 build a market there um and to try to you know, 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.840 have new fans in that area. So we have been 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:32.960 given a charter. We Germans are literal people, some people 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.720 say that are humorless I do not subscribe to that theory. 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:37.520 Haven't been over there a time or two. Literal, but 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.280 they are literal people. And what I mean by that is, 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.840 if this show plays in Germany, someone will say Hans 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:49.119 would say too, just so fun Warner. This this is 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.600 supposed this. They called us a happy half hour. We 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.240 have two people are not happy they had half hour. 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:58.160 It is thirty seven minutes. Well, that's why I want 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.600 to I wanna click here. I gotta make this exactly 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:05.439 thirty minutes. So I spoke to the chapter president of 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:09.920 the German Rowing Riot, Tobias Dorf. You did not, I did, 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.840 and we're about to listen to him right now. So 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.359 we're here with Tobias from Germany. How about this? I 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.680 think this is our first international guest here on the 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.720 Happy Half Hour to Bias, welcome in, Thanks a lot, 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.280 Thanks a lot. High So what exactly you were with 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:30.199 the German chapter of the Panthers Roaring Riot. Tell us 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.399 about your your role with that? Yes, so I'm the 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.760 chapter leader of the German Rights or the German Rights, 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.440 the official chapter here in Germany of the Rowing Riot. 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:42.000 And yeah, so I have the leading part. I'm yeah. 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.040 How long has there been a chapter in Germany. It's 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.680 about two too and half, yeah, I think. So how 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.879 did you initially become involved with it? So it started 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.480 with a Facebook group, So we we have a Facebook 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.760 group of all Panthers Fantasy in Germany. And then we 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:01.160 thought about to do our own seeing a little club, 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.760 a little fan club. So and Zach, the ring leader 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.720 of the Rolling Riot, see that and he said, hey, guys, 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.040 if you want, you can join the Rowing Riot and 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.520 to become an official chapter of the Rowing Riot. And 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.480 so we were very excited and decided to go to 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.199 the wrong rights for sure. So what is better to 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:23.400 be at the official fan club of the Panthers? So excellent, excellent. Yeah, 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:25.760 we're we're quite familiar with with Zach and in the 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.639 rowing right here in Charlotte. So they do incredible work. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.760 You're you're in Cologne in Germany. Are there other members 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.760 of the Riot there with you? Or is everyone really 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:39.000 spread out? Yeah, it's spread it, but we have a 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.359 big community here in Cologne and nearby Cologne, so we 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.280 have another community in Berlin it's it's it's a little 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.159 bit bigger, and in Munich in Hamburg. So in the 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:53.320 big cities we were there, but I think the most 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.840 the most of them are nearby Cologne and this area here. 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:02.800 How did you, in guess others in the group around you, 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:06.160 how did you guys become Carolina Panthers fans. I think 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:09.520 it's most of them become Panthers fans with a two 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:13.119 thousand fifteen season. So football is not so big here 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.800 in Germany right now, so it's become bigger and bigger 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.879 every year. But two thousand and fifteen with the incredible 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:23.520 Panthers here with the fifteen and one record, so most 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:27.200 of the Panthers games were shown in German television, and 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.720 because you cannot see so many games here in Germany 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.520 like you do in in in the States. Um, yeah, 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.200 you see the Panthers. You see Ken Newton and his 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.440 his style this year, and yeah, I think most most 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.400 of the of the Carolina Panthers fans become real Panthers 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:45.119 fans in two thousand and fifteen. Sure, there are many 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:50.600 or some people who are Panthers fans since tense nineties, 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.080 so since the beginning, but I think most of them 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:57.720 starts with this incredible season. I know when we traveled 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:00.760 to London the first time, the there's ever played a 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:04.199 game internationally. Just just being there, you could see so 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:08.320 many different jerseys of different individual players. Have you found 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.639 in Germany that many of the fans of the NFL 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.960 are more fans of individual players or or teams themselves. 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:20.280 I think it's the team. So German fans are very, 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:22.760 very loyal. So it doesn't matter if your team is 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:25.880 successful or it. It's not. When you fell in love 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.760 with a team, you stay there. It doesn't matter which 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:32.040 player there is and some so all the Panthers fans 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:36.639 bleeding bleeding blue and black bloods, so I think we 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.920 will be Panthers fans forever. It doesn't matter which player 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:43.399 they play or not. That's awesome. Take me through a 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:47.320 game day for you. Obviously there's a is it six hours? 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:50.800 Is at the time difference? Yeah? Yeah? What is that like? 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:52.440 What is that like for you? And do you all 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:55.119 have any pregame traditions or where do you go to 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:58.280 to to have game day? I think it's it's quite 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:01.879 different than in the States because the games were shown 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:04.879