Speaker 1: This episode of The Happy half Hour, he is presented
Speaker 1: by Morris Jenkins. It's time for a Happy half Hour
Speaker 1: with your friends, Kristin Balboni, Miles Simmons, and Will Brian.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Happy half Hour podcast presented by Morris Jenkins.
Speaker 1: That's right, everybody, we have a sponsor. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much to Morris Jenkins for sponsoring our little podcast. Um.
Speaker 1: We are so happy to have them on board. Miles,
Speaker 1: Will Miles, let me start with you. How smug do
Speaker 1: we feel now that we have an officially sponsored podcast?
Speaker 1: I feel gently smug, gently smug, gently badly gently, Yes,
Speaker 1: that Will wants to work for Morris Jenkins. You're just gonna,
Speaker 1: You're gonna. I'm not sure about that. I know the
Speaker 1: least amount of ac repair things there are to know,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. Well, I can challenge you on that. Man. Guys,
Speaker 1: don't don't let Morris Jenkins in on this, Okay, although
Speaker 1: I guess maybe it's good that we don't know anything
Speaker 1: because we'll be calling them. But let's play it cool.
Speaker 1: Let's play it cool with Morris Jenckens. You know, we
Speaker 1: want to impress them. That's a writer right there. I
Speaker 1: would never pick up on the fact that I did
Speaker 1: that um unintentional corny joke there. But but thank you, Miles. Oh,
Speaker 1: you're welcome. So yeah, it's been an exciting week for
Speaker 1: us now that our podcast is sponsored. It's been a
Speaker 1: really exciting week for our team, the Panthers, because a
Speaker 1: lot has happened. So much has happened since the last
Speaker 1: time that the three of us talked. So, Miles, I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna throw it back to the first episode
Speaker 1: of this podcast where we put you on a timer.
Speaker 1: I think it would be fun if you have to
Speaker 1: try to describe everything that's happened, because literally a million
Speaker 1: things have happened in the past week. As football is
Speaker 1: now back, We're gonna put you on the timer for
Speaker 1: sixty seconds and see if you can get through it all.
Speaker 1: What do you think? Okay, let's let's try it. I
Speaker 1: will set my own uh stop watch here in my
Speaker 1: own little podcast studio that is just the desk at
Speaker 1: my apartment, and let's see what we can do. All right,
Speaker 1: tell the people what they need to know and three
Speaker 1: to one. Well, first, I think it's important to note
Speaker 1: that the Panthers cut down to eight players, which is
Speaker 1: important because that means that they don't have to use
Speaker 1: split squad procedures. So if they had stayed at ninety players,
Speaker 1: has met well first indicated that they probably would, then
Speaker 1: they would have to do that, but they didn't do that,
Speaker 1: and now they only have eighty players, which is good
Speaker 1: because that means that they can all kind of work
Speaker 1: out together. So two players actually opted out, Christian Miller
Speaker 1: and then Jordan Matt Christian Miller is an edge rusher,
Speaker 1: Jordan mac an undrafted rookie linebacker. We wish those guys
Speaker 1: the best, and obviously we never you're opting out. That's
Speaker 1: something that's pretty serious, especially considering how serious COVID is.
Speaker 1: But if you look at it now, then the veterans all,
Speaker 1: they basically all passed their COVID test, which is good
Speaker 1: because it meant that nobody had to go on that
Speaker 1: reserve list. So walkthroughs have now commenced, and that's really
Speaker 1: important because obviously, look, the Panthers don't really know their
Speaker 1: scheme yet, they have a new coaching step, they have
Speaker 1: a lot of new players, so that is very important too.
Speaker 1: And now we've actually started to hear from players on
Speaker 1: pretty much an everyday basis on press virtual press conferences,
Speaker 1: including quarterback Teddy Bridgewater. That was perfect time. Wow, well,
Speaker 1: I I think we got to give them, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of props on that. I mean, the first
Speaker 1: time we timed. I think I've me like three minutes.
Speaker 1: I probably did. Producer Matt please edit in some audience applause, right,
Speaker 1: waitboar it, wait for it, Yes, yes, yes, let it breathe,
Speaker 1: Let it breathe. And giving you at my house. That
Speaker 1: was awesome. That was very well said. You are absolutely
Speaker 1: right on everything. I could not have done that in
Speaker 1: sixty seconds. Um. But it's exciting. It's exciting. Football is
Speaker 1: is back. It's training camp. Even though it looks so different,
Speaker 1: things are happening. The team is altogether and it feels great. Um. So,
Speaker 1: in the spirit of that, Miles, I thought you and
Speaker 1: I should kind of tell everyone who's listening how we
Speaker 1: plan to cover the team for training camp, because obviously
Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot different, and I don't
Speaker 1: think that we've kind of gotten into the brass tacks
Speaker 1: of of where you and I will be, um and
Speaker 1: what we'll be doing, and how we'll be giving fans
Speaker 1: what they need to know about the team. Yeah, It's true,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be odd. I think from a lot of
Speaker 1: different standpoints just from Look, when we all think of
Speaker 1: training camp, we all think of pads, we think of hitting,
Speaker 1: we think of getting Yes, that too, Yeah, that's you know,
Speaker 1: from just even that standpoint, Right, it's at a different location.
Speaker 1: It's at the it's at the stadiums, that where they
Speaker 1: usually practice every day during the season. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be weird, it's gonna be different. I don't even know
Speaker 1: if we know how much of practice will even be
Speaker 1: able to see, right, because when we get into regular
Speaker 1: season mode, then that is usually when coaches start to
Speaker 1: close things down. You get the twenty minutes, you can
Speaker 1: take attendance, you can watch stretching in the individual periods,
Speaker 1: and then that's about it. I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know, Kristen or Will, but we don't necessarily
Speaker 1: know exactly how that's gonna work once the players really
Speaker 1: start getting on the field. So look, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: everything we can write, like I'll be filing observations articles
Speaker 1: from everything that we can see. Will still continue to
Speaker 1: update you on um their virtual pressers because I don't
Speaker 1: anticipate we're gonna be talking to players in person for
Speaker 1: a long long time. Um. And beyond that, it's gonna
Speaker 1: kind of be fined by the seat of our pants
Speaker 1: a little bit. But I think it'll still be fun.
Speaker 1: You know, we we know how to cover football around here, right,
Speaker 1: speak for yourself. No, I'm just kidding, Yes, yes, we do. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be different. Um. I think you hit the
Speaker 1: nail on the head. In terms of the big things
Speaker 1: is that we can watch practice. The three of us
Speaker 1: will be able to watch practice from a very safe distance.
Speaker 1: But we are in the group of people. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much everyone listening has followed kind of all
Speaker 1: of the intricacies of the fact that the team and
Speaker 1: kind of the core staff really can't be around uh
Speaker 1: most of the rest of us. So we're gonna find
Speaker 1: new and creative ways to to cover the team, to
Speaker 1: talk to the team, Miles. As you said, there's been
Speaker 1: a ton of virtual zoom pressors this week, which have
Speaker 1: been great, and so it's going to be interesting. I'm
Speaker 1: actually excited. I've had a few meetings over the past
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of trying to find fun, creative, different
Speaker 1: ways of communicating with the players, interviewing the players, bringing
Speaker 1: people what they want. So I'm actually excited about it.
Speaker 1: Um but yeah, that's pretty much what we know right now,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure it will change because everything is happening
Speaker 1: on the fly. And kudos to the NFL for for
Speaker 1: figuring this all out, and and our team, you know,
Speaker 1: headed by Eddie Levin's for figuring all of these different
Speaker 1: changes out every single day in such a changing environment.
Speaker 1: Um but but I'm excited even though it's it's going
Speaker 1: to be a lot different. Will You are the only
Speaker 1: one of us though that has done the regular training
Speaker 1: camp and and for quite a few years. How weird
Speaker 1: is it going to be for you? Oh? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: mean I'm used to being down there, you know, with
Speaker 1: my bucket hat down on the field in Spartanburg. I
Speaker 1: love the bucket hats. There's nothing better than a training
Speaker 1: camp bucket hat. It's the only time I wear it,
Speaker 1: you know, I need to like three bucket hats, but
Speaker 1: I'm only gonna ever wear it for this three week
Speaker 1: period in this one place. Can't do it anywhere else.
Speaker 1: Do you ever dip it in water and then put
Speaker 1: it on your head? No? Just me. I've people at
Speaker 1: the beach. I've done at the beach. I don't know,
Speaker 1: ye don't know how hot you got down there? You know,
Speaker 1: oh yeah. Um. But what one of the cool things
Speaker 1: that we usually do every year at training camp is
Speaker 1: are like Can't Confidential video series, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: a long form, weekly behind the scenes UM video thing
Speaker 1: that you know, fans really look forward to every year.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that this year is it
Speaker 1: usually it tells the story of training camp. Well, what's
Speaker 1: really the story right now? The story isn't so much
Speaker 1: that the guys are, you know, doing lifting for sixty
Speaker 1: minutes or doing walkthroughs for sixty minutes. The story is
Speaker 1: how does this work? You know, how did how did
Speaker 1: this get to this point? Um? From May and June
Speaker 1: when all these restrictions were put in place. UM. So
Speaker 1: hopefully that's going to be falling um the next couple
Speaker 1: of days. So we look be on the lookout for
Speaker 1: all of our stuff. But uh, you know, the social
Speaker 1: YouTube Panthers dot com. But it really is it's a
Speaker 1: fascinating look behind the scenes with you know, you already
Speaker 1: mentioned Eddie Evans, who's the chief security officer, UM. But
Speaker 1: all of the things they've done in the suites, UM,
Speaker 1: with players in the suites, with the meeting rooms. UM.
Speaker 1: For those that have been in the stadium and have
Speaker 1: been up there, you know, it's gonna look really different
Speaker 1: seeing the way that they've kind of remodeled those areas
Speaker 1: four players, you know, the way that they move lockers around,
Speaker 1: so lockers are now um you know, it's one extra
Speaker 1: locker between, so they have more space between guys. And
Speaker 1: one thing I thought that was interesting is that typically
Speaker 1: in the locker room they have all of the position
Speaker 1: groups together, like all the quarterbacks and offensive linemen and
Speaker 1: wide receivers. You know, they're all right next to each other. Well,
Speaker 1: now they have it kind of randomized offense, defense and
Speaker 1: completely different types of position groups, so that if a
Speaker 1: certain person or a certain area gets you know, symptoms,
Speaker 1: then it's not all of the all ten wide receivers
Speaker 1: don't all get it because it's all they're all right
Speaker 1: next to each other. UM. So you know, you don't
Speaker 1: wipe out an entire position group. You know, obviously the
Speaker 1: fingers crossed that none of that happens. But I thought
Speaker 1: it was an interesting change that they made to just,
Speaker 1: you know, some of the smallest things you never imagined. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, that's something I've heard about two with
Speaker 1: other teams, how they're doing that and sort of randomizing it.
Speaker 1: And I think the other part of it is that
Speaker 1: it kind of helped with when you go into the
Speaker 1: locker room. It helps you be a little bit more staggered,
Speaker 1: right because in theory um position, groups are going to
Speaker 1: be going into the locker room at sort of the
Speaker 1: same times, and so that can also I think help
Speaker 1: in terms of, hey, you know, how are we being
Speaker 1: spread out, how are we physically distancing because obviously, look
Speaker 1: in the locker room, as much as you want to
Speaker 1: be able to, it can be sometimes a little bit
Speaker 1: difficult to physically distance and have a little bit more
Speaker 1: of that space. So I think the more randomized it is,
Speaker 1: that probably is a little bit better, just based on
Speaker 1: what the situation is. And it's all these things I
Speaker 1: think are temporary, but you know, as as we all
Speaker 1: want to see football, we all want to have football,
Speaker 1: they are the necessary ups to try to keep everybody
Speaker 1: as safe as possible. So yeah, so that that series
Speaker 1: should be coming out here in the next couple of days,
Speaker 1: so be on the lookout for it and hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: get you know, and you know these continuing down the
Speaker 1: road to kind of really get behind the scenes and
Speaker 1: you know, what are the virtual meetings, Like, what are
Speaker 1: these guys talking about on zooms? You know, it's different
Speaker 1: than the camera in the meeting room. You know, literally
Speaker 1: the meeting rooms are computer cameras. You know, it's completely
Speaker 1: different now, So, um, we'll be a really interesting kind
Speaker 1: of behind the scenes. Look, yeah, I completely agree. I'm
Speaker 1: excited for everyone to to see it. Um. And and
Speaker 1: the cool thing is, well, like you said, it is
Speaker 1: a lot of the behind the scenes which is fascinating,
Speaker 1: um to see just how many changes have happened in
Speaker 1: such a short time. But as you also mentioned, I
Speaker 1: mean there is there is football in it. You get
Speaker 1: to see some virtual meetings kind of behind the scenes there.
Speaker 1: You get to see, um, the rookies going through their
Speaker 1: process of coming in, some of the vets getting tested.
Speaker 1: So I love that it has both. I mean, it
Speaker 1: really is a great look at what everyone in the
Speaker 1: organization has been doing over the last few weeks. Um,
Speaker 1: So I'm pumped. I can't wait for everyone to get
Speaker 1: a chance to see it. And yeah, and obviously as
Speaker 1: we continue to move forward. You know, as practices evolved,
Speaker 1: so will the show and so our coverage, you know,
Speaker 1: as as more football as we get closer to UH
Speaker 1: to week one in September. So I gotta thing for
Speaker 1: you guys. We've already had, you know, almost two guys
Speaker 1: a day. Today was was just Brian Burns. But we've
Speaker 1: had all these press conferences, all these interviews, all crammed
Speaker 1: together here since Sunday. What are your top five takeaways
Speaker 1: so far? Cool? Yeah, Miles, you go first? All right?
Speaker 1: So should I do three? Yeah? Give us? Give us?
Speaker 1: How about you go five? I'll go four, you go three?
Speaker 1: How about that? Okay? Number five? Um, I would say
Speaker 1: that I think, you know, Brian Burns, he's somebody who
Speaker 1: has I think when you look at what he had
Speaker 1: last year, you know, and the the injury deal, And
Speaker 1: like I went back today after he was talking about it,
Speaker 1: and I looked at that film of when he heard
Speaker 1: him he heard his risk against Houston, and he's just
Speaker 1: like slamming his fist down on the ground. And I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody in that situation would have thought, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a risk injury that's gonna mess up
Speaker 1: the rest of my rookie year, right, Like, I think
Speaker 1: you're just reacting to doing something good but not quite
Speaker 1: as good as you thought it could be. So listening
Speaker 1: to him today and you know how he has recovered
Speaker 1: from that and how he thinks about that and how
Speaker 1: he's trying to move on from that, that was interesting.
Speaker 1: But I thought maybe one of the more interesting things
Speaker 1: of that virtual presser was how he was talking about
Speaker 1: going to a home improvement store and having to buy
Speaker 1: like buckets and then other materials so that he could
Speaker 1: continue working out in his garage Jim after his trainer
Speaker 1: went out of town during this quarantine period that we've
Speaker 1: all been having in the off season, because the trainer
Speaker 1: had all the free weights. That is a good one. Um,
Speaker 1: I am gonna go. I'm gonna go with my number
Speaker 1: four talking about KK Short, But speaking of before I
Speaker 1: get to my point, I do want to say that
Speaker 1: I got to talk to KK Short a couple of
Speaker 1: months ago, and one of the weird things he was
Speaker 1: doing was like he was just like lifting tables up
Speaker 1: at his house to continue m his training. Like that's
Speaker 1: what he was doing for a while until he could
Speaker 1: get into a good routine where he had the weight
Speaker 1: and stuff. He was like, yeah, I just started balancing,
Speaker 1: like balancing tables at my house, and then I put
Speaker 1: stuff on it. Then I try to balance it. So
Speaker 1: everyone got super creative. Um without access to our regular
Speaker 1: gym or even freeweights. But for number four, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with KK Shorts, Quarantine TV shows. These are the
Speaker 1: shows he recommends, money Heist, Impostors, and Shameless. So our
Speaker 1: guy KK is uh likes the drama. He likes a
Speaker 1: little bit of mystery, likes you know there's no comedies
Speaker 1: on there. Those are all pretty I mean money heist
Speaker 1: is in a different language. So um for some money
Speaker 1: saying less Shameless is good stuff. I like Shameless a lot.
Speaker 1: I recommend it. Okay, but not it's not a drama.
Speaker 1: I thought for sure I had that. Really it's more
Speaker 1: of a comedy shows you what I know? Alright, Um, alright,
Speaker 1: how about number three? Number three? I will go to
Speaker 1: Derek Brown, who I think it is just so even keel.
Speaker 1: It's like almost a little bit weird for a defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean that in a bad way. And
Speaker 1: I think weird can be one of these words that
Speaker 1: comes off like it's bad but he is so even
Speaker 1: keel and I remember yes, and I remember thank you.
Speaker 1: So I remember talking to his position coach at Auburn
Speaker 1: right after the draft, and that was basically the same thing.
Speaker 1: He said, This is a very mature young man. He
Speaker 1: knows exactly what he needs to do to get better.
Speaker 1: And I think it goes even to his decision to
Speaker 1: stay at Auburn rather than go into the draft after
Speaker 1: his junior year. He stayed. He was good at Auburn
Speaker 1: and and as senior, and then he decided UM two,
Speaker 1: and then he entered the draft as he graduates. So
Speaker 1: I think when you look at him and this being
Speaker 1: a tough situation for any rookie, because look, these guys
Speaker 1: don't really know the playbook, they don't know the veterans,
Speaker 1: they don't have the benefit of all the things that
Speaker 1: they should have had were we not in a pandemic.
Speaker 1: I think that if anybody is well equipped to handle
Speaker 1: that as a first round pick, it's him, well said,
Speaker 1: I completely agree. I mean I talked to him on
Speaker 1: draft night and he was like calm, cool and collected.
Speaker 1: It's it's really it's really very very impressive. Um alright,
Speaker 1: number two. This feels like Teddy's team, Right, That's something
Speaker 1: that I've like, I mean, I knew it in theory
Speaker 1: and that's what we expected. But Miles backed me up
Speaker 1: on this. On all of these press conferences, We've heard
Speaker 1: not just from from Teddy himself, although he said right
Speaker 1: off the bat, you know, I do feel like this
Speaker 1: is my team. I feel very confident in that. We've
Speaker 1: heard from everyone saying d J. Moore saying, guys gravitate
Speaker 1: to him. We've heard from um Matt ruland Joe Brady
Speaker 1: of course in the past about how quickly he's kind
Speaker 1: of taken over and take an ownership of this team.
Speaker 1: But I just felt like on almost every press conference
Speaker 1: one of the players had something to say about about
Speaker 1: how Teddy has has really come in, come in and
Speaker 1: take an ownership of this team so quickly. Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: And it's really interesting the way I thought it was
Speaker 1: really interesting the way he addressed replacing Cam Newton. H
Speaker 1: And I guess this could be my number one thing,
Speaker 1: because he really, I thought was respectful, Um, because look,
Speaker 1: this is a tough situation when you're coming in and
Speaker 1: replacing somebody who was as important as Cam Newton was
Speaker 1: to this franchise. He won an MVP with this franchise.
Speaker 1: He was instrumental in helping that team reach the super
Speaker 1: Bowl in season. So when Teddy comes in and he
Speaker 1: talks about how it's an honor to take over for
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, like that's that's a lot of respect, And
Speaker 1: I think that just shows you part of why people
Speaker 1: gravitate toward him so heavily. He is the kind of
Speaker 1: person that not only takes command, but he understands exactly
Speaker 1: how his actions are going to be perceived. He also
Speaker 1: talked about that too, you know how he wants to
Speaker 1: be a good example and he doesn't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: be somebody's stepping out and doing something because somebody might
Speaker 1: see him do it and either on you, especially when
Speaker 1: you're a quarterback. So talking about Teddy Bridgewater, I just
Speaker 1: I find him to be really impressive. And I think
Speaker 1: that we all have heard stories because when Teddy went
Speaker 1: down with that devastating knee injury before what was that
Speaker 1: the sixteen season, everybody and universally was so sad. And
Speaker 1: it's not it wasn't just like your stand um injury
Speaker 1: season ending injury where everybody is obviously upset, but it
Speaker 1: was something that I thought was unique, and when Teddy
Speaker 1: was able to get back on the field, it seemed
Speaker 1: like it was unique to in the praise, right. So
Speaker 1: he's still been sort of my profile backup quarterback over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years their New Orleans, and everybody
Speaker 1: seems to know about him, and you follow him, and
Speaker 1: you look at what he did last year winning all
Speaker 1: those games Um and Drew Brees instead, and everybody was
Speaker 1: very genuinely happy for this man. And when you start
Speaker 1: to hear him and you start to get to know
Speaker 1: him a little bit, and you hear what his teammates
Speaker 1: think about him firsthand, it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: So I'm really interested to see exactly what this is
Speaker 1: going to look like once the Panthers are on the field.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see what he looks like at practice,
Speaker 1: because I have to think that it's going to be
Speaker 1: a positive outcome at least at this Are you talking
Speaker 1: to Um and I'm is it Teddy Time? Producer, Matt,
Speaker 1: Will you please clip that off so that we can
Speaker 1: just have Will singing It's Teddy Time, just and play
Speaker 1: it whenever we want to. That's amazing, Peanut Butter, Teddy
Speaker 1: Time peanut butter, Teddy time, peanut butter, Teddy time, peanut
Speaker 1: that Teddy down, but peanut butter with what now what
Speaker 1: was that last part? It's peanut butter with a baseball bat.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, I know, I know what it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be. You were really going there for a while.
Speaker 1: That was awesome. It is indeed, Teddy um um Okay,
Speaker 1: So those were the five things that we've learned with
Speaker 1: I think the biggest takeaway we all really like Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater and would like to be friends with him one day.
Speaker 1: Speaking of things we've learned, though, I gotta ask you
Speaker 1: too about something because I learned something about each of you.
Speaker 1: Um during our Monday morning content calls. So we do
Speaker 1: this call every Monday morning. Yeah, I gotta, I gotta
Speaker 1: bring it to the public. Okay, we do this call
Speaker 1: every Monday morning. UM. We all get together, thirty people
Speaker 1: on it, and well, look we've been doing this podcast.
Speaker 1: I don't know a hundred people that no, I don't
Speaker 1: know a good amount of people on it. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: we go over kind of what to expect for the week,
Speaker 1: what everyone has going on, and look, we've all been
Speaker 1: doing this podcast for about two months now, maybe not
Speaker 1: quite like I know you guys pretty well. We hung
Speaker 1: out you know, a safe uh way. Um, but I
Speaker 1: found out two things about just so I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: with the first thing. We found out about Will. And
Speaker 1: this all happened in the span of two minutes. Will
Speaker 1: had quite the foot injury this weekend and a lot
Speaker 1: of people on the call knew about it, and we're
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, they were kind of giving you crap. Will,
Speaker 1: what happened? So my ankle is really really bad. I
Speaker 1: have Steph Curry ankles, is what I like to think,
Speaker 1: you know, except that I don't have the money or
Speaker 1: for like you know, reconstructive surgery every six months. But skill.
Speaker 1: But I wasn't. I know, I have the best, just
Speaker 1: the ankles. It's the ankles that are the problem. Um No,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I sprained it in college. I was not
Speaker 1: playing Steph Curry, but I was playing basketball at Davidson Um.
Speaker 1: And then ever since then, like every two or three years,
Speaker 1: something will happen where my right ankle just gives way,
Speaker 1: either like running or walking or just like I missed
Speaker 1: a step, so I missed it, literally missed a step
Speaker 1: on the stairs on Saturday and it just went right
Speaker 1: under just no chance. So I was have been hobbling
Speaker 1: around all weekend, all week um, and some people heard
Speaker 1: about it, and they're just like, God, that's the most
Speaker 1: will thing up because it actually happened. My first year,
Speaker 1: we were playing pickup basketball with some coaches who were
Speaker 1: no longer here. And during that pickup basketball game, there
Speaker 1: were two achilles that were torn um and I raped
Speaker 1: spray like rolled my ankle with been like a five
Speaker 1: minute stretch. So are the trainer of the Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: told everyone that we're no longer allowed to play pick
Speaker 1: up because we're all old. And I feel bad for
Speaker 1: laughing because it does sound very painful, but it was
Speaker 1: just funny that everyone knew about it on the call,
Speaker 1: and everyone it seemed like it was a thing that
Speaker 1: had happened before. They're like, oh, well with the angle,
Speaker 1: You're like, I'm on I R guys, I'm on ir Yep,
Speaker 1: it was me Steph Curry ankles. Uh. So then immediately
Speaker 1: after that, so someone it was someone's birthday, and so
Speaker 1: it was it was our our friend and incredible videographer,
Speaker 1: incredible editor. Um, it was his birthday and so we
Speaker 1: got onto the topic very quickly of birthdays and um. Melissa,
Speaker 1: one of our photographers, asked the newer people like Miles
Speaker 1: and myself when, um, when our birthdays were. I jumped
Speaker 1: in for February eight, and there's like this long silence.
Speaker 1: She's like, Miles, when's your birthday? And all I hear
Speaker 1: will back me up on if I've got the sound
Speaker 1: right is U? And that was it. That was it, Miles,
Speaker 1: what was going on? I'm like, oh, I've heard that before.
Speaker 1: I've heard that sound. Miles, still four days later, has
Speaker 1: refused to answer when his birthday is, which we're going
Speaker 1: to find it out, Like, well, you and I will
Speaker 1: figure it out. But that was that was the response.
Speaker 1: And then there was just no kind of explanation or
Speaker 1: offering of the birthday. Miles, what's up? No, there was not.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that that's all you guys heard, because I
Speaker 1: think you guys heard me curse. So like that's where
Speaker 1: I thought the story was going, because I definitely said
Speaker 1: a bad word because I couldn't figure out how to
Speaker 1: unmute myself. But yeah, like that's something you gotta get
Speaker 1: control of. Were doing a lot of zoom pressers like,
Speaker 1: we gotta get that mute button under control. Usually it's fine,
Speaker 1: but on this particular morning, I was panicking in my laptop,
Speaker 1: was messing up. And yeah, I literally I thought that
Speaker 1: everybody was like, what was that because they heard me
Speaker 1: say a really bad word that I should not have
Speaker 1: said in a formal setting. But now I know that
Speaker 1: that's not what happened, so I kind of feel better
Speaker 1: about it. The sound you made was strange. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie, I make a lot of strange. It was
Speaker 1: like it was like you didn't know when your birthday was.
Speaker 1: It's what it sounded like. We are going to find
Speaker 1: out when it is and report back, Okay, I promise, Um,
Speaker 1: We'll get to the bottom of it. We will, It
Speaker 1: will happen. Um. So yeah, now I know, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought I knew a lot about you guys, But
Speaker 1: now I know that Will has bad ankles and Miles
Speaker 1: doesn't have a birthday. So all right, it is time
Speaker 1: to wrap this up with our weird question of the week.
Speaker 1: And I kind of thought, you know, an honor of
Speaker 1: getting to see Teddy and the other new guys in
Speaker 1: their uniforms for the first time this week at such
Speaker 1: a great photo shoot production day. You get to see
Speaker 1: everyone in their fresh ge r. I kind of thought,
Speaker 1: I think this is something we've all thought about. What
Speaker 1: would your football number be if you played in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And again, let's let's all admit it. We all know
Speaker 1: right off the top of our how what our number
Speaker 1: would be. So will what would your number be? Well,
Speaker 1: it's the number that I wore, which is number eight.
Speaker 1: Like it was a great number. It was the number
Speaker 1: I got in like j V because it was a
Speaker 1: small jersey and it was the only thing that would
Speaker 1: like fit over my little pads. So yeah, j V football.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure what sport we're saying, Sorry, j J football,
Speaker 1: my little pads. Yeah, I was. I was eight. I've
Speaker 1: always been number eight. And back in those days, like
Speaker 1: that was when eight was cool. You know, you had
Speaker 1: like I had a Steve Young Troy eightman jersey growing up.
Speaker 1: You know, like there was some you know, Cal Ripkin
Speaker 1: was number eight, you know obviously Kobe, So like eight
Speaker 1: was just this like great number in the nineties, early
Speaker 1: two thousand's and then you know it's never really kind
Speaker 1: of been that for the Panthers though, So but yeah,
Speaker 1: I would definitely be number eight. Yeah, I mean, the
Speaker 1: path is clear for you to make that impact. Bring
Speaker 1: eight back, right, I mean, David Carr, Andy Lee, Brad Nortman,
Speaker 1: and Reese Lloyd aren't going to do too much to
Speaker 1: uh to stand in the way of my eight greatness
Speaker 1: in Panthers history. I love town unbelievable. Alright, Miles, what
Speaker 1: would your number be? My number would also be a
Speaker 1: number that I wore seventy four. With apologies to Greg Little,
Speaker 1: not just trying to take your number, sir, but that
Speaker 1: is the number that I wore in high school when
Speaker 1: I played offensive lines. So that is the number that
Speaker 1: I would still continue to where I like that number.
Speaker 1: It is still weird to me that you played on
Speaker 1: he sat that on we were doing them. We did
Speaker 1: the series with the coaches and we were talking to
Speaker 1: Pat Meyer, um and do you started off You're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I I played a little old line myself, and you
Speaker 1: talked about schemes and concepts with them. I just was
Speaker 1: surprised because you're you're not a big guy. I mean
Speaker 1: not so yeah. I know everybody gets on an offensive
Speaker 1: line type guy, I know, but that's how I always
Speaker 1: like ingratiate myself with offensive line coaches. I was like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know when we were running power and then they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: were you. I was like, I was the poller and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, I can, I can confirm that exact
Speaker 1: conversation happened, and I do think kasch Meyer was impressed.
Speaker 1: I like it, all right, I'm gonna go. My number
Speaker 1: if I were in the NFL would be eleven. Uh,
Speaker 1: same thing. It's just always been kind of my lucky number.
Speaker 1: Same thing. I also wore that. Guys, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you something Church basketball. I was number eleven for five years,
Speaker 1: career high four points in all of five years, four points.
Speaker 1: So needless to say, it's a lucky number that's really
Speaker 1: brought out my talent. I think it would be great
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Those who can't play become broadcasters. Are
Speaker 1: you Are you a fan of the most famous number eleven?
Speaker 1: He of sunshine? Of course? Yeah, number eleven. Of course,
Speaker 1: great hair. I mean, who's not. I'm a it of
Speaker 1: any number eleven, but of course better than you're here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, no question about it, no question. Um yes, uh,
Speaker 1: number eleven. I wouldn't be a Breton person, but that
Speaker 1: would be. That would be my number. Um, it's about
Speaker 1: It didn't bring me any athletic prowess, but maybe that'll
Speaker 1: change one day. Doubtful. Um all right, I think with
Speaker 1: my embarrassing church basketball stories, that's a good place to
Speaker 1: leave it for this episode of the Happy Half Hour podcast. Guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for doing this everyone, thanks for listening, and we'll
Speaker 1: see you next week.