WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 28: The Final Pre-Happy Half Hour 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:03.360 This week on a Happy half Hour. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.479 No one is suggesting this thing is fixed and they're 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:10.799 going to turn into the two thousand Rams all of 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.560 a sudden. But if they are deliberate, if they run 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.120 the ball well, if Bryce continues to do these little 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:17.880 things well and take care of the ball, and he's 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:21.000 reasonable to see some substantial improvement on offense. 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:29.760 Touchdown Cow. It's time for the Happy Half Hour, presented 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:34.760 by Southern Star, an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.800 Here are your hosts, Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:48.159 All right, hello friends, and welcome to the final Happy 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:52.479 half Hour of the preseason. You ain't getting out of this. 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:55.600 You ain't getting out of this that easy. There'll be 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.360 more Happy half hours come to the regular season. But 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:03.080 this is the final preseason edition of the Happy pre Hour. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.800 Yeah, and it's the final pre Happy. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:11.319 And this final pre Happy half Hour is as always, 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.480 presented by a Southern Star, an official bourbon partner of 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:18.640 the Carolina Panthers. Celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas and 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:23.840 celebrate the end of the preseason. It's like a weekend 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.319 off and stuff, a whole weekend. Yeah, well not Monday. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.560 They don't get the holiday, and then there won't be 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.520 another one of those for about thirteen weeks. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:33.600 Thirteen. 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.440 I don't know. I don't look at this schedule. I'm 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.920 like Dave Canalis, I look at what's right in front 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.679 of me. If you ask me, I have a vague 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.640 sense that the Carolina Panthers play in Germany sometime in November. 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.880 Question Mark, I'm ron Burgundy, But I'm not really sure. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.000 I honestly, you could convince me so easily that it's 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:54.920 in October, because I have no idea. 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.480 I mean, I've got friends who have asked me. You know, hey, 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.360 what do you think about the first three games? Who 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:00.480 were the first three games? 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:01.160 Oh? 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.520 Yeah, I know New Orleans is the first one? Yep, 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:04.960 well yeah, New Orleans. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.280 You know what I'm gonna do, Darren, I'm gonna bring 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.240 my passport with me for every away game because I 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.520 don't know which one of them that I don't know 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:13.720 which time that plane is taken out. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.840 I do have a feeling we're gonna have enough build 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.480 up and enough lead time on it in front of 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.760 that Germany trip that we will in fact know we 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.920 are going to Germany when that plane leaves. But yeah, 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:30.240 it's uh. Yeah. Here we are the end of the preseason. 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.760 The Panthers wrapped up practice today and they've got the 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.480 weekend off. Dave Canal has talked about giving everybody a 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.000 chance to see their families again one last time, because 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.840 this is a long haul once they get to that point. 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.400 But we got a lot of stuff to go through 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:47.519 in the next little bit. And now I wanted to 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.960 kind of circle back a little bit because you know, 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.320 the last time we talked to you, there were ninety 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.360 people on this roster. Now there are fifty three, and 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.120 some of them have come and gone, and that's changed 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.639 a number of time. But yesterday was one of those 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.920 days that it's like, look at them all walking in 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.919 the door. Six waiver claims at once. So you go 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.160 from the initial shock of okay, there goes ninety to 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.720 fifty three, and all of a sudden, fifty three had 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.400 to turn into forty seven and then back to fifty 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:22.720 three real quick. So plus sixteen, yeah, is twelve so far. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.560 Twelve so far on the practice squad. It means there's 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.800 four spots left to go. Those ought to fill up quick. 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:33.640 But again, just as you go through the exercise of 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.840 looking at that initial fifty three man roster and then 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.320 the waiver claims. You realize how far this thing has 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:44.000 come and how much work there is to do, maybe 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:48.640 in certain areas, but it was pretty dramatic to see. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.080 I don't know that there were a ton of surprises 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.360 in those cuts. I mean, when you're coming off a 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:57.240 two and fifteen season, the roster cuts sometimes get a 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:01.279 little obvious, and there were a couple of mild surprises. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.480 I think some people were surprised to see Jordan Matthews 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.560 go away initially, but I don't think he was ever 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.360 going very far because he went from practice squad and 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.000 right back here today. But I think as they got 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.560 down to that thing, you know, you kind of saw, 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.919 I think in a little clearer focus what some of 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.400 the off season plan was. Because when you look at 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.000 ninety sometimes it's easy to get lost in the weeds. 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:28.080 But when you look at a fifty three and say, oh, okay, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:33.240 Robert Hunt, Damian Lewis, Deonta Johnson, yes, you people are 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.120 all new and here to help Bryce cool, I think 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.080 that comes into a little clear focus. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.000 And then Dan Morgan said, today you know that they 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.480 that he sat down with Dave Canalis, he sat down 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.680 with Everroh and they went over what they want each 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.919 position to look like. And then they went out and 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.599 they targeted the prototype for each individual position. And he 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.360 used the corners as an example. That's a perfect example too. 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.239 I mean, if you look just typically at that group 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.359 you've got. They brought in four new corners over the 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.919 past seven days. Mike Jackson, who I actually learned today 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:09.760 likes to be called Mike Jack. 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:11.240 Yeah, he is. 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.600 He is really putting in that line of demarcation between 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:15.440 him and Michael Jackson. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.840 The scene my in a related story, my rap name 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:19.719 is Auxcord. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.039 Did you go through like a little BuzzFeed quiz to 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:25.720 figure that out? 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.200 No, I just Mike jack hawks Cord. It was right there. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.920 Some of these, oh, Mike Jad didn't even think about that. 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:37.799 Mike jack Anyways, Mike Michael Jackson's aka Mike Jack comes 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.680 in seven days ago. Matt said, that was a bad joke, Darren. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.000 I'm here for the bad, the bad dad jokes, and 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.880 the good dad jokes. All dad jokes are welcome here, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:48.760 ladies and gentlemen. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.320 And then they signed three or they claim three corners 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.719 off of waivers, including uh Schmoar Bartholomew, who had the 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.400 most waiver claims of anyone on the waiver wire. Four 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.920 different teams wanted this guy. So I thought that was 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:06.440 pretty interesting. But they Dan Morgan, as we were saying, 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.680 use the corners as an example of them chasing after 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.880 prototypes of what they wanted each position to look like. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.280 He said, with the corner specifically, they wanted them to 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:19.360 be big and physical. Before seven days ago, when you 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.760 look at who they had on this roster, including the 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.480 guys who would eventually make their way to the practice 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:27.960 squad after Lamar Jackson was hurt, that corner unit j C. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.440 Jackson was the biggest guy. I'm sorry, Jase Horn. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.839 Yeah, JC being a large human being. 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:38.040 Right, he was six one, two hundred Yeah. Everyone else 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.000 and corners are supposed to be fast and scrappy, so 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:45.240 this is not necessarily detriment. But everyone else was five 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.680 ten or five eleven maybe no one over one hundred 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.360 and ninety pounds. Of the four that they brought in 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.800 this over the past seven days, all of them are 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.520 six foot or higher, and three of the our two 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:05.159 hundred pounds are heavier. The smallest one is one ninety seven. Yeah, 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:06.960 And so I think that really kind of speaks to 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.880 what Dan Morgan was saying. You know, we're gonna We've 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.240 got an idea of what we want each unit to 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.840 look like, and if the roster needs to turn over 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:16.880 to make that happen, we're gonna challenge every part of 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.360 the roster to make it happen, right. 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.640 I mean, after all, football is a big man's game, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.400 and they've decided they want to play big people football. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.920 So it's not a surprise that Keenan, Isaac Shamar, Bartholomew 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.640 to reak Castro Fields and Mike Jackson are all big dudes. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.400 As It reminds me of something one of my old 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.040 college buddies, Clayton, used to say. If you ever thought 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.480 there might be trouble, he would say, Beggins lineup, Liland's 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.200 bunch up. Yeah, he was ready to go one at 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:47.000 a time. Yeah. But uh, I miss Clayton. I wonder 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:47.720 how he's doing. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:49.440 But any maybe he'll rite into the mailbag. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.800 Yeah he might. But uh oh boy, that that brings 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.680 back some memories at any rate, back to cornerbacks. I 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.520 mean it does show. I mean how they want to 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.960 change the roster and they know it's not a one 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.000 year process. And I thought that was kind of interesting 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.560 because in today's press conference, Dan got asked a number 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.720 of times about the difference between a rebuild and what 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.560 he turned a retool, and you could tell from listening 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.440 to him that he doesn't really care what you want 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.000 to call it because he's just kind of focused on 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:21.840 the job at hand. 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.000 I think it's like a retooling and not a rebuilding, right, So, 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.480 you know, I think every day there's challenges with the roster, 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:34.760 whether injuries or you know, there's all different circumstances. I 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.880 think at the end of the day, we have a 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.600 really good core of guys that we're excited about. We're 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.960 excited about the season. We don't want to put any 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.960 expectations on the season, but that's not to say that 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.360 we're not confident in the season. So we're going to 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.000 work our bucks off and that's all we know how 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:54.760 to do. We're going to work hard, we're going to 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.200 put the hours in. The players are going to do 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:01.320 the same. They understand that they're for the season as well, 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.520 just talking to everybody out on the field. So yeah, 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:05.920 we just got to put the work in them. We've 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:06.560 got to go do. 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.880 It and I mean that's Dan, you know. I mean 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.840 in Dan Morgan's world, there are simple solutions to every problem. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.520 It's like, what do we need to do? We need 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.400 bigger cornerbacks, Okay, let's go get them. And then you 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.600 turn around and there's four new dudes who weren't here 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:22.880 a week ago. So I don't think they're going to 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.400 be able to remake every position on the roster that 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.520 way or that rapidly, although you know, at this point 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.000 nothing will surprise me in terms of roster moves. But 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.360 I do think they they understand this is going to 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.440 be a gradual thing. You know, people always ask about 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.760 pass rushers and outside linebackers and how do you find 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:45.520 somebody to go next to, you know, Jadevian Clowney out 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.080 there on the other side. And the reality is any 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.640 team that has one of those usually wants to keep them. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:56.720 The one pass rusher they claimed off waivers was Jamie Sheriff. 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.600 And yes, someone already has made the new share in joke, 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.720 new Sheriff in town joke. Tell you, I don't even 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.120 know who it was. It was me, you know, what 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:12.120 were the odds of that? At any rate? Jamie Sheriff 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:16.400 has got a fascinating backstory. He was a rookie mini 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.800 camp invite as a tryout player. Seahawks watched him for 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.120 a weekend like yeah, we're good. Guys got hurt in 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.080 the middle of training camp and they needed somebody to 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.600 come in mid training camp, and so they called this 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.640 familiar name just because he was available, and not when 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.360 ninety guys are on thirty two rosters, the people who 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.800 are available are usually available for a reason. So Sheriff 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.200 shows up to Seahawks camp and gets three sacks in 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.080 three games, right, and then all of a sudden, it's like, wait, 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.680 whoa look at this guy. And that's what Morgan talks 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.040 about in turning on tape and seeing things. They just 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.120 let the tape talk, as the old football cliche goes. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:57.120 And now Jamie Sheriff, who is an undrafted rookie, I 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.360 don't think he may expecting him to come in and 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.320 have seven teen sacks or anything this year. But you know, 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.240 they're going to continue to turn this thing and continue 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:07.160 to look for answers. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.119 And I think that there's definitely he has a shot 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:15.320 at that outside linebacker position because they are looking for 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:19.679 answers there. You know, DJ One of them is still recovering. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.960 They have iq Lieto. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:24.800 Come on, you can do better than that. 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:29.120 Echo Leota, Echoleota. I put my emphasis on the wrong vowels, 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:33.600 Echo Leota. They have Calevion Chase on and they've got 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.280 guys that are They're starting to put more bodies into 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:41.000 that unit, which had been dangerously sparse at times during 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.040 the off season. But both Dave can Allis and Dan 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.520 Morgan have said over the past twenty four hours that 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.200 is an open competition. Opposite Jadavian Clowney, We're waiting on 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:54.520 someone to step up and take it. And so you know, Sheriff, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:55.400 here's your shot. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.640 Yeah, it's turn on the blue lights. Go get that thing. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.679 That song that's like I shot thee Yeah, no, YA 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:05.559 don't want the. 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.480 One I'm thinking of that. What's the other one that's 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:12.440 like I fought the law and the law one in 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:13.560 this case that can be case. 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.959 I think it goes like that exactly. Yeah, I don't know. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.040 I'm hoping there's a copyright complaint just to keep us 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.040 from singing on the radio anymore. I know this is 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.160 a podcast and not the radio, but when I put 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.520 these headphones on my head and talk into a microphone. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.720 I just think it's radio. So if if you're listening 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.400 to it for the first time, it's radio for you. 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:39.719 But anyway, oh, so much new on both sides of 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.480 the ball and that is going to continue. But uh, 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:49.600 I'm just I'm I'm struck by the fact that and 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.320 again I've said it before on this podcast a lot 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.720 lately during the preseason portion, I lose track of time. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.880 We haven't talked to the people since Buffalo, have we? 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.360 Uh? 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:04.640 We we have not talked to the people since all of. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.800 The people being the listeners. I thought you were talking 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:08.400 about the players, and I was like, well, Brice, we 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:09.240 talked to Bryce a. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.480 Long our people, our Happy half Hour family inside this 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.080 building and without and the people in this building who 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.560 listen to the Happy Half Hour. I know who you 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.959 are and I'm grateful. So anyway, that sounded mildly threatening 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.400 to Brennan. No, I love all of our listeners, even 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.400 if they're especially if they're co workers, but all of them. 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:30.040 Uh. 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:34.640 In fact, one of the things in all of the 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.839 confusion of cuts and claims and all this stuff we 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:42.960 haven't really discussed yet is the greatest drive in the 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.679 history of preseason football. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.160 Was that drive worth the admission price of admission? 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.440 Yes, it was worth the price of me going to 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:55.880 Buffalo and back. Although Buffalo is delightful in August, it 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.360 is the time of year you want to be in Buffalo, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:02.640 for sure, but I ain't that, you know, seeing Bryce 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.200 go twelve plays eighty five yards, A lot of people 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.880 were kind of struck by it, and it stands out 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.920 in start contrast because he hadn't played in the preseason. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.920 But to me, seeing that drive was kind of the 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:15.400 culmination of a lot of work. 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:15.719 It was. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.760 It was similar to what we saw from Bryce throughout 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.840 training camp in practice, especially the last couple of weeks, 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.240 especially the joint practice against the Jets. He was moving 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.320 the ball well, he was moving the ball down field, 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:32.160 hidding some shots and creating plays with his feet and 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.800 not turning it over. I mean, I think that was 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.840 one of the big things for me and watching Bryce 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.240 over the last couple of weeks. But seeing that in 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:43.320 that game kind of brought it back into focus of oh, yeah, 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.920 this offense is different. It does look considerably different than 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:47.720 it did a year ago. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.480 I think there was a time in training camp I 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.600 want to say it was our guy Jordan Matthews that 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.960 made the comment that Dave Canellis has a very specific 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.960 plan for the track. He wont to keep Bryce on 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.560 the offense on as they went through the off season 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.920 and training camp, and he didn't want to jump ahead 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.680 of that and start working on something different just for 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.520 the sake of working on something different. That He was 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.600 very adamant about sticking to his plan, and there were 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.760 times where we thought where we kept thinking, well, is 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.680 Bryce gonna work on this? Is Bry's gonna work on that? 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.560 Why haven't they done this ship? And by the time 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.600 we got to that third preseason game, to your point, Darren, 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:28.080 he had sort of worked through everything he wanted Bryce 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.200 to work through, and they had put the entire playbook 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.200 in by that point. And then we saw it all 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.080 come together on that drive and it was like, Okay, 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:40.800 this is the sum total of what they've been working 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.680 on throughout training camp. We saw it kind of come together. 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:49.400 And it also was a reminder that we probably should 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:53.360 temper some expectations going into this season because this is 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.680 not going to be, you know, a one day or 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.840 a one year retool to borrow Dan Morgan word, but 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.160 that there might be a plan that doesn't always make 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.760 sense at the time, but it's like, Okay, what can 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:10.400 this offense handle right now in its current iteration versus 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.200 what can it handle down the road, and how do 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.120 we get them there without blowing the ship up in 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:15.680 the process. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.040 And listen, I do think that this is going to 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.120 be a very deliberate offense. I think they're going to 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.680 do things intentionally. You know, we talked a couple of 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.400 weeks ago, Dave Canalis didn't b essen y'all about wanting 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.680 to run the ball. I think that's going to be 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.360 at the core of it. And chewba Hubbard goes three 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.160 carries for fifteen yards I think on that drive, but 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.680 it was those were kind of tempo runs and like, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.520 all right, almost catch a breath, run the ball, lean 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.760 on somebody a little bit to set something up down 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.000 the field. But I think that seeing them run the ball, 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.120 especially the way they did in certain times during training camp, 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:57.000 seeing Bryce move out of the pocket and create plays, 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.000 and I think the one that people are always going 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.560 to remember, if anybody ever remembers a training camp or 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.119 a preseason play at all, is going to be that 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.320 fourth and three when he rolls out of the pocket 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.680 to the left. See Deonte down the field seventeen yards Boom, 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.240 big conversion. Keep the chains moving, you know. And I 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.000 think that's going to be important for them in the 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:20.479 regular season, because again, no one is suggesting this thing 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.760 is fixed and they're going to turn into the two 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.960 thousand rams all of a sudden. But if they are deliberate, 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.480 if they run the ball well, if Bryce continues to 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.560 do these little things well and take care of the ball, 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.400 I think it's reasonable to see some substantial improvement on offense. 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.800 And you know, again you've heard me say it improved 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.520 to medium and all of a sudden, this is a 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.760 different team last year. If the Carolina Panthers had scored 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:47.640 the league average twenty two points in every single game 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.120 and no more, they would have gone eight to nine 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.560 and won the division and went to the playoffs. So 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.760 that's how thin the margin is. But it's you know, 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.479 I think it's reasonable to see some of that kind 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.040 of improved just from watching Camp and the Jets and 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:07.200 certainly the greatest drive in the history of preseason football. 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.560 I feel like your voice should be echoing, like very 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.480 odds when he says that. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.760 Yeah, can you tell make that happen. Yeah, can you 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.680 make that happen, Matt? He said, yeah, I'm getting a 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.520 thumb emoji from Matt from the other side of the screen. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.359 All I'm getting you're like the neighboring Home improvement. All 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.280 I'm getting in is arm like not even elbow, just 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.720 like wrist up. But I got thumb, So that's good. 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:30.800 You know what the name of that character was, I 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:32.919 do not Wilson Wilson. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.440 Wilson, Wilson, Wilson, Wilson, Wilson, that was. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:38.359 And his last name was Wilson Wilson. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.879 I looked at my wife the other day because, in 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.160 addition to time, personal grooming gets away from me sometimes 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.320 during training camp, and I had something of a beard 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:50.879 the other day, and I said, I swear to God, 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.440 I'm gonna start talking to my volleyball if training camp 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.960 doesn't end at any rate. 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:58.080 We where were we? 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.480 We were talking about volleyball, right, No, we were talking 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.440 about oh yeah, well, no, Matt, can he can tart 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.240 up my voice a little bit, make me sound like 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.200 John Facinda or something that would be nice. I would 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.440 I would like to go through life sounding like that, 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:14.760 just for one day, just for one day. Yeah, just 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.359 for one day, not any longer. I would call. I 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.399 once asked Kevin Harland during a radio interview. You know 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.879 Kevin Harland, the amazing voice announcer, And I said, do 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.359 you just like use that voice to order pizzas? Do 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:31.879 you ever call Domino's and just say Hi, this is Kevin, 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.440 And He's like, yeah, people tend to recognize me. I 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.680 think when you're I think when you're Kevin Harlan, it's 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:37.399 hard to do anything. 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:39.920 He's one of those voices. I think there's about five 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.000 that everybody who watches any form of football can recognize. 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:44.360 I'm I put him on that list of five. 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:49.480 Yeah, he is the best. But anyway, so we've covered cuts, 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:54.359 We've covered waiver claims, we have covered the greatest drive 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.160 in pre season history. Now that one started to sound 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:03.240 like Monster Truck announces, right, the Sundays Sunday Sunday, This Sunday. 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:04.640 The Great tost Show on Dirt. 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.840 Now we will not be in a football stadium, at 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.879 least I hope we're not. Because it's the last Sunday 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.520 off for a long long time, which means when we 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.080 come back and you hear from us next, it will 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.320 be regular season football baby, You in a game, baby, 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:23.639 we'll be talking about Saints. We'll be getting ready to 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.120 go to New Orleans and ready for the long haul 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:28.320 of a seventeen game season. 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.440 That might have a break around Week thirteen, might not. 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:35.680 We don't know, thirteen ish thirteen ish. We're just gonna 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:36.800