Speaker 1: This week on a Happy half Hour.
Speaker 2: No one is suggesting this thing is fixed and they're
Speaker 2: going to turn into the two thousand Rams all of
Speaker 2: a sudden. But if they are deliberate, if they run
Speaker 2: the ball well, if Bryce continues to do these little
Speaker 2: things well and take care of the ball, and he's
Speaker 2: reasonable to see some substantial improvement on offense.
Speaker 1: Touchdown Cow. It's time for the Happy Half Hour, presented
Speaker 1: by Southern Star, an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1: Here are your hosts, Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill.
Speaker 2: All right, hello friends, and welcome to the final Happy
Speaker 2: half Hour of the preseason. You ain't getting out of this.
Speaker 2: You ain't getting out of this that easy. There'll be
Speaker 2: more Happy half hours come to the regular season. But
Speaker 2: this is the final preseason edition of the Happy pre Hour.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's the final pre Happy.
Speaker 2: And this final pre Happy half Hour is as always,
Speaker 2: presented by a Southern Star, an official bourbon partner of
Speaker 2: the Carolina Panthers. Celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas and
Speaker 2: celebrate the end of the preseason. It's like a weekend
Speaker 2: off and stuff, a whole weekend. Yeah, well not Monday.
Speaker 2: They don't get the holiday, and then there won't be
Speaker 2: another one of those for about thirteen weeks.
Speaker 3: Thirteen.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't look at this schedule. I'm
Speaker 2: like Dave Canalis, I look at what's right in front
Speaker 2: of me. If you ask me, I have a vague
Speaker 2: sense that the Carolina Panthers play in Germany sometime in November.
Speaker 2: Question Mark, I'm ron Burgundy, But I'm not really sure.
Speaker 3: I honestly, you could convince me so easily that it's
Speaker 3: in October, because I have no idea.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've got friends who have asked me. You know, hey,
Speaker 2: what do you think about the first three games? Who
Speaker 2: were the first three games?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know New Orleans is the first one? Yep,
Speaker 2: well yeah, New Orleans.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm gonna do, Darren, I'm gonna bring
Speaker 3: my passport with me for every away game because I
Speaker 3: don't know which one of them that I don't know
Speaker 3: which time that plane is taken out.
Speaker 2: I do have a feeling we're gonna have enough build
Speaker 2: up and enough lead time on it in front of
Speaker 2: that Germany trip that we will in fact know we
Speaker 2: are going to Germany when that plane leaves. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's uh. Yeah. Here we are the end of the preseason.
Speaker 2: The Panthers wrapped up practice today and they've got the
Speaker 2: weekend off. Dave Canal has talked about giving everybody a
Speaker 2: chance to see their families again one last time, because
Speaker 2: this is a long haul once they get to that point.
Speaker 2: But we got a lot of stuff to go through
Speaker 2: in the next little bit. And now I wanted to
Speaker 2: kind of circle back a little bit because you know,
Speaker 2: the last time we talked to you, there were ninety
Speaker 2: people on this roster. Now there are fifty three, and
Speaker 2: some of them have come and gone, and that's changed
Speaker 2: a number of time. But yesterday was one of those
Speaker 2: days that it's like, look at them all walking in
Speaker 2: the door. Six waiver claims at once. So you go
Speaker 2: from the initial shock of okay, there goes ninety to
Speaker 2: fifty three, and all of a sudden, fifty three had
Speaker 2: to turn into forty seven and then back to fifty
Speaker 2: three real quick. So plus sixteen, yeah, is twelve so far.
Speaker 2: Twelve so far on the practice squad. It means there's
Speaker 2: four spots left to go. Those ought to fill up quick.
Speaker 2: But again, just as you go through the exercise of
Speaker 2: looking at that initial fifty three man roster and then
Speaker 2: the waiver claims. You realize how far this thing has
Speaker 2: come and how much work there is to do, maybe
Speaker 2: in certain areas, but it was pretty dramatic to see.
Speaker 2: I don't know that there were a ton of surprises
Speaker 2: in those cuts. I mean, when you're coming off a
Speaker 2: two and fifteen season, the roster cuts sometimes get a
Speaker 2: little obvious, and there were a couple of mild surprises.
Speaker 2: I think some people were surprised to see Jordan Matthews
Speaker 2: go away initially, but I don't think he was ever
Speaker 2: going very far because he went from practice squad and
Speaker 2: right back here today. But I think as they got
Speaker 2: down to that thing, you know, you kind of saw,
Speaker 2: I think in a little clearer focus what some of
Speaker 2: the off season plan was. Because when you look at
Speaker 2: ninety sometimes it's easy to get lost in the weeds.
Speaker 2: But when you look at a fifty three and say, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: Robert Hunt, Damian Lewis, Deonta Johnson, yes, you people are
Speaker 2: all new and here to help Bryce cool, I think
Speaker 2: that comes into a little clear focus.
Speaker 3: And then Dan Morgan said, today you know that they
Speaker 3: that he sat down with Dave Canalis, he sat down
Speaker 3: with Everroh and they went over what they want each
Speaker 3: position to look like. And then they went out and
Speaker 3: they targeted the prototype for each individual position. And he
Speaker 3: used the corners as an example. That's a perfect example too.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you look just typically at that group
Speaker 3: you've got. They brought in four new corners over the
Speaker 3: past seven days. Mike Jackson, who I actually learned today
Speaker 3: likes to be called Mike Jack.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is.
Speaker 3: He is really putting in that line of demarcation between
Speaker 3: him and Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2: The scene my in a related story, my rap name
Speaker 2: is Auxcord.
Speaker 3: Did you go through like a little BuzzFeed quiz to
Speaker 3: figure that out?
Speaker 2: No, I just Mike jack hawks Cord. It was right there.
Speaker 3: Some of these, oh, Mike Jad didn't even think about that.
Speaker 3: Mike jack Anyways, Mike Michael Jackson's aka Mike Jack comes
Speaker 3: in seven days ago. Matt said, that was a bad joke, Darren.
Speaker 2: I'm here for the bad, the bad dad jokes, and
Speaker 2: the good dad jokes. All dad jokes are welcome here,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: And then they signed three or they claim three corners
Speaker 3: off of waivers, including uh Schmoar Bartholomew, who had the
Speaker 3: most waiver claims of anyone on the waiver wire. Four
Speaker 3: different teams wanted this guy. So I thought that was
Speaker 3: pretty interesting. But they Dan Morgan, as we were saying,
Speaker 3: use the corners as an example of them chasing after
Speaker 3: prototypes of what they wanted each position to look like.
Speaker 3: He said, with the corner specifically, they wanted them to
Speaker 3: be big and physical. Before seven days ago, when you
Speaker 3: look at who they had on this roster, including the
Speaker 3: guys who would eventually make their way to the practice
Speaker 3: squad after Lamar Jackson was hurt, that corner unit j C.
Speaker 3: Jackson was the biggest guy. I'm sorry, Jase Horn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, JC being a large human being.
Speaker 3: Right, he was six one, two hundred Yeah. Everyone else
Speaker 3: and corners are supposed to be fast and scrappy, so
Speaker 3: this is not necessarily detriment. But everyone else was five
Speaker 3: ten or five eleven maybe no one over one hundred
Speaker 3: and ninety pounds. Of the four that they brought in
Speaker 3: this over the past seven days, all of them are
Speaker 3: six foot or higher, and three of the our two
Speaker 3: hundred pounds are heavier. The smallest one is one ninety seven. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And so I think that really kind of speaks to
Speaker 3: what Dan Morgan was saying. You know, we're gonna We've
Speaker 3: got an idea of what we want each unit to
Speaker 3: look like, and if the roster needs to turn over
Speaker 3: to make that happen, we're gonna challenge every part of
Speaker 3: the roster to make it happen, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, after all, football is a big man's game,
Speaker 2: and they've decided they want to play big people football.
Speaker 2: So it's not a surprise that Keenan, Isaac Shamar, Bartholomew
Speaker 2: to reak Castro Fields and Mike Jackson are all big dudes.
Speaker 2: As It reminds me of something one of my old
Speaker 2: college buddies, Clayton, used to say. If you ever thought
Speaker 2: there might be trouble, he would say, Beggins lineup, Liland's
Speaker 2: bunch up. Yeah, he was ready to go one at
Speaker 2: a time. Yeah. But uh, I miss Clayton. I wonder
Speaker 2: how he's doing.
Speaker 3: But any maybe he'll rite into the mailbag.
Speaker 2: Yeah he might. But uh oh boy, that that brings
Speaker 2: back some memories at any rate, back to cornerbacks. I
Speaker 2: mean it does show. I mean how they want to
Speaker 2: change the roster and they know it's not a one
Speaker 2: year process. And I thought that was kind of interesting
Speaker 2: because in today's press conference, Dan got asked a number
Speaker 2: of times about the difference between a rebuild and what
Speaker 2: he turned a retool, and you could tell from listening
Speaker 2: to him that he doesn't really care what you want
Speaker 2: to call it because he's just kind of focused on
Speaker 2: the job at hand.
Speaker 4: I think it's like a retooling and not a rebuilding, right, So,
Speaker 4: you know, I think every day there's challenges with the roster,
Speaker 4: whether injuries or you know, there's all different circumstances. I
Speaker 4: think at the end of the day, we have a
Speaker 4: really good core of guys that we're excited about. We're
Speaker 4: excited about the season. We don't want to put any
Speaker 4: expectations on the season, but that's not to say that
Speaker 4: we're not confident in the season. So we're going to
Speaker 4: work our bucks off and that's all we know how
Speaker 4: to do. We're going to work hard, we're going to
Speaker 4: put the hours in. The players are going to do
Speaker 4: the same. They understand that they're for the season as well,
Speaker 4: just talking to everybody out on the field. So yeah,
Speaker 4: we just got to put the work in them. We've
Speaker 4: got to go do.
Speaker 2: It and I mean that's Dan, you know. I mean
Speaker 2: in Dan Morgan's world, there are simple solutions to every problem.
Speaker 2: It's like, what do we need to do? We need
Speaker 2: bigger cornerbacks, Okay, let's go get them. And then you
Speaker 2: turn around and there's four new dudes who weren't here
Speaker 2: a week ago. So I don't think they're going to
Speaker 2: be able to remake every position on the roster that
Speaker 2: way or that rapidly, although you know, at this point
Speaker 2: nothing will surprise me in terms of roster moves. But
Speaker 2: I do think they they understand this is going to
Speaker 2: be a gradual thing. You know, people always ask about
Speaker 2: pass rushers and outside linebackers and how do you find
Speaker 2: somebody to go next to, you know, Jadevian Clowney out
Speaker 2: there on the other side. And the reality is any
Speaker 2: team that has one of those usually wants to keep them.
Speaker 2: The one pass rusher they claimed off waivers was Jamie Sheriff.
Speaker 2: And yes, someone already has made the new share in joke,
Speaker 2: new Sheriff in town joke. Tell you, I don't even
Speaker 2: know who it was. It was me, you know, what
Speaker 2: were the odds of that? At any rate? Jamie Sheriff
Speaker 2: has got a fascinating backstory. He was a rookie mini
Speaker 2: camp invite as a tryout player. Seahawks watched him for
Speaker 2: a weekend like yeah, we're good. Guys got hurt in
Speaker 2: the middle of training camp and they needed somebody to
Speaker 2: come in mid training camp, and so they called this
Speaker 2: familiar name just because he was available, and not when
Speaker 2: ninety guys are on thirty two rosters, the people who
Speaker 2: are available are usually available for a reason. So Sheriff
Speaker 2: shows up to Seahawks camp and gets three sacks in
Speaker 2: three games, right, and then all of a sudden, it's like, wait,
Speaker 2: whoa look at this guy. And that's what Morgan talks
Speaker 2: about in turning on tape and seeing things. They just
Speaker 2: let the tape talk, as the old football cliche goes.
Speaker 2: And now Jamie Sheriff, who is an undrafted rookie, I
Speaker 2: don't think he may expecting him to come in and
Speaker 2: have seven teen sacks or anything this year. But you know,
Speaker 2: they're going to continue to turn this thing and continue
Speaker 2: to look for answers.
Speaker 3: And I think that there's definitely he has a shot
Speaker 3: at that outside linebacker position because they are looking for
Speaker 3: answers there. You know, DJ One of them is still recovering.
Speaker 3: They have iq Lieto.
Speaker 2: Come on, you can do better than that.
Speaker 3: Echo Leota, Echoleota. I put my emphasis on the wrong vowels,
Speaker 3: Echo Leota. They have Calevion Chase on and they've got
Speaker 3: guys that are They're starting to put more bodies into
Speaker 3: that unit, which had been dangerously sparse at times during
Speaker 3: the off season. But both Dave can Allis and Dan
Speaker 3: Morgan have said over the past twenty four hours that
Speaker 3: is an open competition. Opposite Jadavian Clowney, We're waiting on
Speaker 3: someone to step up and take it. And so you know, Sheriff,
Speaker 3: here's your shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's turn on the blue lights. Go get that thing.
Speaker 2: That song that's like I shot thee Yeah, no, YA
Speaker 2: don't want the.
Speaker 3: One I'm thinking of that. What's the other one that's
Speaker 3: like I fought the law and the law one in
Speaker 3: this case that can be case.
Speaker 2: I think it goes like that exactly. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping there's a copyright complaint just to keep us
Speaker 2: from singing on the radio anymore. I know this is
Speaker 2: a podcast and not the radio, but when I put
Speaker 2: these headphones on my head and talk into a microphone.
Speaker 2: I just think it's radio. So if if you're listening
Speaker 2: to it for the first time, it's radio for you.
Speaker 2: But anyway, oh, so much new on both sides of
Speaker 2: the ball and that is going to continue. But uh,
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm I'm struck by the fact that and
Speaker 2: again I've said it before on this podcast a lot
Speaker 2: lately during the preseason portion, I lose track of time.
Speaker 2: We haven't talked to the people since Buffalo, have we?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: We we have not talked to the people since all of.
Speaker 3: The people being the listeners. I thought you were talking
Speaker 3: about the players, and I was like, well, Brice, we
Speaker 3: talked to Bryce a.
Speaker 2: Long our people, our Happy half Hour family inside this
Speaker 2: building and without and the people in this building who
Speaker 2: listen to the Happy Half Hour. I know who you
Speaker 2: are and I'm grateful. So anyway, that sounded mildly threatening
Speaker 2: to Brennan. No, I love all of our listeners, even
Speaker 2: if they're especially if they're co workers, but all of them.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: In fact, one of the things in all of the
Speaker 2: confusion of cuts and claims and all this stuff we
Speaker 2: haven't really discussed yet is the greatest drive in the
Speaker 2: history of preseason football.
Speaker 3: Was that drive worth the admission price of admission?
Speaker 2: Yes, it was worth the price of me going to
Speaker 2: Buffalo and back. Although Buffalo is delightful in August, it
Speaker 2: is the time of year you want to be in Buffalo,
Speaker 2: for sure, but I ain't that, you know, seeing Bryce
Speaker 2: go twelve plays eighty five yards, A lot of people
Speaker 2: were kind of struck by it, and it stands out
Speaker 2: in start contrast because he hadn't played in the preseason.
Speaker 2: But to me, seeing that drive was kind of the
Speaker 2: culmination of a lot of work.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was similar to what we saw from Bryce throughout
Speaker 2: training camp in practice, especially the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: especially the joint practice against the Jets. He was moving
Speaker 2: the ball well, he was moving the ball down field,
Speaker 2: hidding some shots and creating plays with his feet and
Speaker 2: not turning it over. I mean, I think that was
Speaker 2: one of the big things for me and watching Bryce
Speaker 2: over the last couple of weeks. But seeing that in
Speaker 2: that game kind of brought it back into focus of oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: this offense is different. It does look considerably different than
Speaker 2: it did a year ago.
Speaker 3: I think there was a time in training camp I
Speaker 3: want to say it was our guy Jordan Matthews that
Speaker 3: made the comment that Dave Canellis has a very specific
Speaker 3: plan for the track. He wont to keep Bryce on
Speaker 3: the offense on as they went through the off season
Speaker 3: and training camp, and he didn't want to jump ahead
Speaker 3: of that and start working on something different just for
Speaker 3: the sake of working on something different. That He was
Speaker 3: very adamant about sticking to his plan, and there were
Speaker 3: times where we thought where we kept thinking, well, is
Speaker 3: Bryce gonna work on this? Is Bry's gonna work on that?
Speaker 3: Why haven't they done this ship? And by the time
Speaker 3: we got to that third preseason game, to your point, Darren,
Speaker 3: he had sort of worked through everything he wanted Bryce
Speaker 3: to work through, and they had put the entire playbook
Speaker 3: in by that point. And then we saw it all
Speaker 3: come together on that drive and it was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is the sum total of what they've been working
Speaker 3: on throughout training camp. We saw it kind of come together.
Speaker 3: And it also was a reminder that we probably should
Speaker 3: temper some expectations going into this season because this is
Speaker 3: not going to be, you know, a one day or
Speaker 3: a one year retool to borrow Dan Morgan word, but
Speaker 3: that there might be a plan that doesn't always make
Speaker 3: sense at the time, but it's like, Okay, what can
Speaker 3: this offense handle right now in its current iteration versus
Speaker 3: what can it handle down the road, and how do
Speaker 3: we get them there without blowing the ship up in
Speaker 3: the process.
Speaker 2: And listen, I do think that this is going to
Speaker 2: be a very deliberate offense. I think they're going to
Speaker 2: do things intentionally. You know, we talked a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago, Dave Canalis didn't b essen y'all about wanting
Speaker 2: to run the ball. I think that's going to be
Speaker 2: at the core of it. And chewba Hubbard goes three
Speaker 2: carries for fifteen yards I think on that drive, but
Speaker 2: it was those were kind of tempo runs and like,
Speaker 2: all right, almost catch a breath, run the ball, lean
Speaker 2: on somebody a little bit to set something up down
Speaker 2: the field. But I think that seeing them run the ball,
Speaker 2: especially the way they did in certain times during training camp,
Speaker 2: seeing Bryce move out of the pocket and create plays,
Speaker 2: and I think the one that people are always going
Speaker 2: to remember, if anybody ever remembers a training camp or
Speaker 2: a preseason play at all, is going to be that
Speaker 2: fourth and three when he rolls out of the pocket
Speaker 2: to the left. See Deonte down the field seventeen yards Boom,
Speaker 2: big conversion. Keep the chains moving, you know. And I
Speaker 2: think that's going to be important for them in the
Speaker 2: regular season, because again, no one is suggesting this thing
Speaker 2: is fixed and they're going to turn into the two
Speaker 2: thousand rams all of a sudden. But if they are deliberate,
Speaker 2: if they run the ball well, if Bryce continues to
Speaker 2: do these little things well and take care of the ball,
Speaker 2: I think it's reasonable to see some substantial improvement on offense.
Speaker 2: And you know, again you've heard me say it improved
Speaker 2: to medium and all of a sudden, this is a
Speaker 2: different team last year. If the Carolina Panthers had scored
Speaker 2: the league average twenty two points in every single game
Speaker 2: and no more, they would have gone eight to nine
Speaker 2: and won the division and went to the playoffs. So
Speaker 2: that's how thin the margin is. But it's you know,
Speaker 2: I think it's reasonable to see some of that kind
Speaker 2: of improved just from watching Camp and the Jets and
Speaker 2: certainly the greatest drive in the history of preseason football.
Speaker 3: I feel like your voice should be echoing, like very
Speaker 3: odds when he says that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can you tell make that happen. Yeah, can you
Speaker 2: make that happen, Matt? He said, yeah, I'm getting a
Speaker 2: thumb emoji from Matt from the other side of the screen.
Speaker 2: All I'm getting you're like the neighboring Home improvement. All
Speaker 2: I'm getting in is arm like not even elbow, just
Speaker 2: like wrist up. But I got thumb, So that's good.
Speaker 3: You know what the name of that character was, I
Speaker 3: do not Wilson Wilson.
Speaker 2: Wilson, Wilson, Wilson, Wilson, Wilson, that was.
Speaker 3: And his last name was Wilson Wilson.
Speaker 2: I looked at my wife the other day because, in
Speaker 2: addition to time, personal grooming gets away from me sometimes
Speaker 2: during training camp, and I had something of a beard
Speaker 2: the other day, and I said, I swear to God,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start talking to my volleyball if training camp
Speaker 2: doesn't end at any rate.
Speaker 1: We where were we?
Speaker 2: We were talking about volleyball, right, No, we were talking
Speaker 2: about oh yeah, well, no, Matt, can he can tart
Speaker 2: up my voice a little bit, make me sound like
Speaker 2: John Facinda or something that would be nice. I would
Speaker 2: I would like to go through life sounding like that,
Speaker 2: just for one day, just for one day. Yeah, just
Speaker 2: for one day, not any longer. I would call. I
Speaker 2: once asked Kevin Harland during a radio interview. You know
Speaker 2: Kevin Harland, the amazing voice announcer, And I said, do
Speaker 2: you just like use that voice to order pizzas? Do
Speaker 2: you ever call Domino's and just say Hi, this is Kevin,
Speaker 2: And He's like, yeah, people tend to recognize me. I
Speaker 2: think when you're I think when you're Kevin Harlan, it's
Speaker 2: hard to do anything.
Speaker 3: He's one of those voices. I think there's about five
Speaker 3: that everybody who watches any form of football can recognize.
Speaker 3: I'm I put him on that list of five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is the best. But anyway, so we've covered cuts,
Speaker 2: We've covered waiver claims, we have covered the greatest drive
Speaker 2: in pre season history. Now that one started to sound
Speaker 2: like Monster Truck announces, right, the Sundays Sunday Sunday, This Sunday.
Speaker 3: The Great tost Show on Dirt.
Speaker 2: Now we will not be in a football stadium, at
Speaker 2: least I hope we're not. Because it's the last Sunday
Speaker 2: off for a long long time, which means when we
Speaker 2: come back and you hear from us next, it will
Speaker 2: be regular season football baby, You in a game, baby,
Speaker 2: we'll be talking about Saints. We'll be getting ready to
Speaker 2: go to New Orleans and ready for the long haul
Speaker 2: of a seventeen game season.
Speaker 3: That might have a break around Week thirteen, might not.
Speaker 2: We don't know, thirteen ish thirteen ish. We're just gonna
Speaker 2: go with ish for now.
Speaker 3: And I'm looking forward to getting to a point though,
Speaker 3: even though I know it means a crazy calendar. I'm
Speaker 3: looking forward to getting to a point where we can
Speaker 3: actually start to see where the rubber is going to
Speaker 3: meet the road with this team. Sure what it's going
Speaker 3: to look like, and of course we don't really know
Speaker 3: what is their identity is gonna be till probably five
Speaker 3: six weeks into the season, right, but you know, what
Speaker 3: are they gonna look like? What does this look like
Speaker 3: when it's all together? Was that drive versus Buffalo an
Speaker 3: anomaly against backups or was it more of what they're
Speaker 3: gonna be total and what they're gonna do because and
Speaker 3: that is the caveat that comes there. You know that
Speaker 3: was against that was not Buffalo starters, but starters are
Speaker 3: not You still have to be able to execute it
Speaker 3: on offense, and they did very well, but you know,
Speaker 3: is that more of what we're gonna see. That was
Speaker 3: also a different drive because Bryce never went under center
Speaker 3: with Austin Corporate, not there at home having his baby,
Speaker 3: which I actually learned yesterday. He and his wife did
Speaker 3: not find out what they were going to have. They
Speaker 3: had a boy and a girl already, so they decided
Speaker 3: let's just have a surprise, and they didn't name him
Speaker 3: until he was born. They looked at him and said,
Speaker 3: that's a Cooper anyways, fun little aside, but not a.
Speaker 2: Mini Cooper, not a mini Coups. That's a ten pound baby.
Speaker 3: Right, but without Austin Corbett there, you know, Bryce, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: go ahead, No, I was good.
Speaker 2: Say we got sidetracked by baby talks.
Speaker 1: So it happens.
Speaker 2: That happens to me a lot. But anytime I see
Speaker 2: an adorable baby, I just can stop in my tracks
Speaker 2: at any rate. No, I mean you you were talking
Speaker 2: about Corbett not being air Rain was under center. The
Speaker 2: undrafted rookie who has made the fifty three is he
Speaker 2: is still among us and is on the roster. So
Speaker 2: they just didn't want to do too much with Bryce,
Speaker 2: you know, try to put him under center with a
Speaker 2: guy he had and worked with a lot at that point,
Speaker 2: but now it's real.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Now, the next time they line up and play, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be Corbett in the ones, it's gonna be the
Speaker 2: full book of stuff, and we'll see what it looks like.
Speaker 3: Do you do predictions?
Speaker 2: I try so hard not to. H you want me
Speaker 2: to predict this season? Is that what you're going for here?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say week one, But we can worry
Speaker 3: about that next week.
Speaker 2: You know what? Here, here's what I will say. The
Speaker 2: only prediction I make is is I think it will
Speaker 2: be better?
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 3: That's a fair one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree. I am going better with that one.
Speaker 2: And that feels like an optimistic note matter for everybody.
Speaker 2: Maybe we should go out on that note, call it
Speaker 2: a weekend, put our feet up, maybe go see the folks,
Speaker 2: relax a little bit.
Speaker 3: So much college football on Saturday. That's gonna be my plan.
Speaker 3: And at three point thirty Florida kicks off versus Miami
Speaker 3: in the swamp. Darren, if you call me with breaking
Speaker 3: news from three thirty to seven thirty, I'm not answering.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder how our connection is going to be
Speaker 2: In general, because I'm going to try to turn a
Speaker 2: phone off for a minute too. But maybe if anything
Speaker 2: big happens, Dan Morgan can reach out by a smoke
Speaker 2: signal or something.
Speaker 3: There that that'll be my prediction. I think Florida beats
Speaker 3: Miami twenty four nineteen.
Speaker 2: I am not going to pretend to have the least
Speaker 2: bit of insight into this college football process. I know,
Speaker 2: I know my beloved Mountaineers are gonna give. They're gonna
Speaker 2: give the hated East Tennessee States what Patty gave the drum,
Speaker 2: and then we'll just get on about business with bigger opponents.
Speaker 2: Former Southern Conference rival East Tennessee State.
Speaker 3: What a rivalry?
Speaker 2: Yeah, at any rate, we'll get into all that. We'll
Speaker 2: talk about actual things during a regular season edition of
Speaker 2: The Happy half Hour when we see you next week.