WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 13: Week 1 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.760 Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkis 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.680 told me to always make it easy for the customer. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.600 That's you alive person will always be here to answer 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.800 the phone. We're here till midnight, seven days a week, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.080 so you never have to take off work, and it's 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.840 the same prices in the daytime. We're the ones you 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.160 want to call. We're the ones you want to call. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.520 We're the ones you want to call. You're gonna love 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:39.760 these people. I guaranteetee. Got to Morris Jenkins dot com. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.600 It's time for a Happy Half Hour with your friends 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:53.200 Kristen Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Brian. It's that time 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.760 of the week. It's the Happy Half Hour podcast presented 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.240 by Morris Jenkins. Here with Miles. We got Will in 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.080 the booth of Shame. We're happy to be here. We 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:03.880 are happy to be here in Christen. You know, you 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.679 know what Mr Jenkins told me. Speaking of Morris Jenkins, 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:08.800 what did he tell you? Mr Jenkins told me his 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.080 plumbers an a c Text secretly were Panthers jerseys under 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.040 their uniforms. So when you're plumbing conditioning, is acting up 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.560 called Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. And 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.720 what a coincidence that is because we are all wearing 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.560 Panthers jerseys underneath our regular work clothes, because we are 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.720 so pumped about Week one. It's game week, baby, it's 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.600 game week. We are here. We'll be honest. Did you 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.320 ever think we would get here, say, four months ago, 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.080 did you think we'd get to week one? I think 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.320 somebody did. I didn't think I would. You're like, the 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.280 team will take the field, but I may not be 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.240 here to see it. I don't know if I'm here anyway, 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.959 we'll find out. His will an illusion. Stay tuned for 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.680 more on Happy in the Booth of Shame. We can 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.280 barely see him. It's true. I like it this way. Yeah, 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:53.840 go far away from me. Took one for the team. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.400 Didn't even have a reason to be in the Booth 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.640 of Shame this week, but just you know, he walked 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.760 in and just went right to it. He's a team player. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:05.080 He is a team player. So, as you said Week one, Miles, 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.800 we could not be more thrilled. You know the Raiders, 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.800 they are coming to town. You have some history with them, 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.480 so give us, give us your big keys to the game. 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.160 About what we all should be looking for from an 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.880 opponent's perspective. It's funny. I did cover the Raiders last 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.400 year for the Las Vegas Review Journal, so I do 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.760 feel like I have a lot of familiarity with that 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.040 team because, look, they they've overhauled their defense a little bit, 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.680 especially the linebacker position with Nick Watkowski Cory Littleton, but 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.160 by and large, they are mostly the same team on 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.480 offense except for the addition of Henry Ruggs, and I've 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.720 got Edwards, another young wide receiver over there as well. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.400 So well, we talked about a lot how the Panthers 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.560 receiving corps predicated on speed. I think the Raiders are 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.520 a little bit less predicated on speed, but the addition 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.520 of Henry Ruggs, really, I mean, he can take a 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.520 top off a defense at any point in time, and 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.679 I think, you know, this is sec country, right, you know, 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.360 I think everybody knows what Ruggs was able to do 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.360 um at Alabama, and that's a exactly what the Raiders 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.480 want him to do for them. And so it's interesting 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.519 me last year, obviously, the Antonio brown saga that went 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.720 on for a really long time, and it was it 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:14.280 was it was bad as a reporter, like, I'll, I 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.000 mean it was weird. Um. There was one day I 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:18.840 guess it was probably the day that they ended up 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.320 releasing Antonio Brown, right, he had put out that weird 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.400 video that had Gruden's voice. Either a day or two before, 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.360 I think a day before that he had kicked the 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.560 football and practice and had the big blow up with 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.800 Mike Mayock. And then it was that Friday morning he 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.000 had put out the release me Raiders video. And so 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.040 I was sleeping because I were on the West coast 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.200 or whatever, and he posted this thing. It's something like 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.880 five or six in the morning Pacific time, right, and 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.400 so I get up at seven and I have twenty 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.560 text messages like, oh, Miles, wake up, Miles, Miles, have 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.360 you seen this from my boss? And so that made 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.840 my head explode. Um. But in terms of the Raiders, 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.560 I think that they don't necessarily have that kind of 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.080 drama going on, and it'll be interesting to see what 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.240 they can do in Las Vegas. Yeah, they don't have 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.000 the drama going on, but they do have Josh Jacobs. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.640 They do have Josh Jacobs. And that's not only somebody 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.480 that you know we're familiar with here I'm familiar with, 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.000 but you know, to your white Head is very familiar 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.400 with him too, and so I'm looking forward to to 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.839 speaking with white Head over the court later course of 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.640 this week just about what he knows about Josh Jacobs 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.960 and you know, going against him sort of in practice 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.080 and scout team and in training camp and things like that. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.800 And look, that guy is really really good at running 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.600 the football. Arguably should have been Rickie of the Year 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.320 last year. We have a guy that's pretty good at 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:40.120 running the football as well, which is a good thing, yes, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:44.000 no doubt. And well, you know, it's it's funny because 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.479 we as members of of the Panthers and Panthers fans 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.599 in general, this will really be our first chance to 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.880 see what Matt rule coach team looks like. I mean, 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.839 even Marty Hernie spoke earlier this week and he said 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.760 it's gonna be our evaluation period a Sunday, you know, 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.480 because we didn't have preseason. It's definitely gonna be weird 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.839 to see what that looks like. Um, you know, I 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.560 want to see how this offensive line does. You know, 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.559 we can talk about that a little bit in the second. 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.960 You know, even even now, there's still gonna be some 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.760 some shuffling along there. Um. You know you're gonna want 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.440 to see how how this defense does against all of 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.359 these weapons. For the Raiders, you know a lot of 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.320 young wide receivers. Darren Waller, we haven't mentioned him yet. 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.880 He was second or third in the NFL and receiving 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.240 yards by tight end last year. Um. You know a 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.040 lot of people don't necessarily know his name. But I 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.160 mean there's a ton of guys that people do know 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.839 from this team. You know, you have Clear and Ferrell Hunter, 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.280 renfro Za Jones went to East Carolina, Brian Edwards from 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.040 South Carolina. Um. You know a lot of these guys 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.960 that that are from Trayvon Mullen the cornerback that went 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.719 to Clemson. UM, so a lot of Clemson guys, a 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:50.360 lot of people from the Carolina is on this team. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.599 It's kind of weird for like a West Coast quote 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.800 unquote West Coast team to have so many familiar, young, 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.359 familiar faces to North and South Carolina. Um. But but 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.080 that's that's going to be interesting to see them all 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.880 come in here. The joke last year in the Raiders 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.680 media room was while Clemson West, it was just it 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.400 was interesting that pipeline that kept coming from um, you 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.040 know that the Carolinas all the way out there. Well 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.440 and speaking of you know, all of the Clemson ties 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.160 and the Carolina ties. Of course, in a normal year, 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.240 fans would love to see that. Of course you want 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:23.720 to come in a lot of the fans would be 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.200 there to support the Panthers. But then you've got your 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.240 guys that are now over on the West coast with 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.400 those Clemson or South Carolina ties that fans would drive 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.960 up and and come see. But no fans week one. 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.520 And it's something that I'm really interested in. We talked 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.080 either last week or the week before after the primetime 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.000 practice about hey, you don't look I felt pretty normal. 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.920 The juice was good in there, and then they had 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.440 a mock game last Friday the Panthers and Matt Rule 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.760 came out and said he was disappointed with the energy 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:54.599 and guys are going to have to figure out a 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.680 way to bring their own juice. And I think we're 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:01.839 gonna see that, um that adjustment period. How are guys 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.560 gonna handle that? Because I've been unsure is it a 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.440 media narrative that you know, really the players can come 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.200 in lock in play the game, or is this really 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.200 going to affect everyone across the league, anyone who doesn't 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:14.640 have fans, or even if you have a small amount 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.080 of fans. So that's certainly that something that I'm going 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.360 to be looking forward to see how it and if 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.400 it changes the psychology of of the players as they 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.320 step on the field, for sure. And one of the 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.000 interesting things I thought about last Friday, as opposed to 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.080 that night practice on the Wednesday, it was a lot 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.640 quieter in the building, you know, like I could hear 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.160 myself think, and you were on the field and trying 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.679 to do interviews with players and coaches for that night practice, 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.240 and you basically had like yell across thing right. Well, 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.120 the decibel level of the crowd noise was turned down, 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.680 and I believe it was at NFL standards during the 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:50.480 Mark Mock excuse me practice on Friday, and that was 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.520 lower than what it was during Wednesday's primetime practice from 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.320 a few weeks ago, because I don't think the required 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:01.280 decibels had been released yet from the NFL, Yes, exactly that. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.400 So you know, because of that, now, I think players 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.840 have a much better understanding of what it is that 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.080 they're going to be stepping into you know, and I 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.640 think that they're gonna it's gonna be interesting to see 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.280 how they exactly bring their own juice right, because some 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.280 guys you can see when they come out of the tunnel, 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.440 they want to go high five the fake fans and 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.240 like Burns. He told me that, he said, he visualizes 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.200 the fans and he goes over. He's he did it 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.400 on Friday, went over and pretended to high five and 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.480 I asked him about it. I kind of thought he 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.120 was having a little fun, and he said, no, I'm 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.240 visualizing my fans. And in fact, there was this one 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.839 little boy that always came to the railing to give 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:40.880 us high fives, and I'm thinking of him, and I 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.120 just loved that. That's really nice. Yeah, yeah, So, I mean, 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.160 you've got guys who are doing things like that. You've 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.800 got guys like waving their arms to pump up the 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.760 you know, the crowd that is not there. So how 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.400 different guys are gonna get motivated for different things. It's 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.480 it's going to be interesting because I wonder too how 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.520 NBA guys are doing it. And I wonder if some 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.600 of these guys has maybe no anybody in the NBA, 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.720 and they ask that because it it's weird to be 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.280 on a field and not have fans there, especially for 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.000 guys playing at this level of football. It's weird too. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.000 It was weird for me to think that this game 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.760 it's gonna have steaks. It's weird to think that there's 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.520 going to be a win or a loss on your 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.520 record at the end of it. Because it does, it's 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.280 probably gonna feel like a practice, at least to us. 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.840 I mean that's just my perspective, right, I'm sure. So 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.240 whatever the guys need to do to get themselves there 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.920 as as coach rule, and you said bring your own juice, 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:39.280 is the phrase, um orange juice. Yeah, to separate it 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.719 in whatever way from practice. It could be tomato juice. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.960 I wouldn't be bringing that juice personally if it were me. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.560 I think Will needs to make hype videos for every 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:53.559 single player lemon juice with with the lemon and the 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.200 lime juice. I I think we're gonna see some very 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:01.040 interesting things on the bench. Yeah, I think, you know, 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.920 and maybe and maybe there'll be some you know, line 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:05.959 of preserve your energy and all this kind of thing. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.520 But at the same time, you know, typically you see guys, 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:10.640 you know, if they're not on the field, you know, 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.280 they're sitting down, they're talking to coaches, they're they're looking 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.160 at tablets, they're just relaxing. I think early on you're 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.120 gonna see it might feel like a high school game, 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.960 Like people are standing up, everyone's lined along the sideline, 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:28.280 everyone's watching, and these guys are all cheering or you know, 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.440 yelling or or doing something. You know. I think there's 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.600 gonna be potentially more there in a way that we've 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.559 probably never seen an NFL game that will be curious 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.120 to watch. Like I'll be curious how you know, CBS 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.720 that's covering the game, you know, how how they choose 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.479 to show. I mean you think of like as a producer, 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.559 think of all of the shots that you go to fans, 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.520 like coming in and out of breaks, all of the 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:53.679 different things that you do to show the the atmosphere 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.400 of a game, Like what are they going to show? 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.880 Like what are they gonna do? Like it's just right, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.600 you know, Like I so I'm I'm curious to watch 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.680 the bench. I think that's gonna be there could be 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.120 some interesting things happening with how they try to provide 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.600 juice and energy and in more than what they would 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.040 usually do. Somebody mentioned that over the course of the 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.480 last week, and I wish I could remember that basically 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.240 exactly what you said, Will, that it's going to have 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.520 more of that college high school atmosphere than it usually would, 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.280 where guys on the bench are gonna have to be 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.839 really really engaged and uh and you know bring it 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:34.880 basically in order to um sort of spell quell the 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:39.400 difference from the crowd. Boy, I really petered out there. Huh, yikes. Look, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.560 it's it's week one. We're all feeling like this. We 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.800 all walked in and just like we're like, we're so excited. 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.360 We have a thousand things going on. So no one 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:52.080 holds this against us. It's not right. Yeah, I feel like, 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.400 hold on, let's take a quick break. Let Miles get 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.960 his thoughts together. Let's Will and I get our thoughts together, 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.120 and we'll be back with more Week one talk. Mr 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.480 Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkis told me. Mr Jenkis told 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.679 me to always make it easy for the customer. That's 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.560 you alive person will always be here to answer the phone. 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.120 We're here till midnight, seven days a week, so you 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.960 never have to take off work and it's the same 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.520 price as in the daytime. We're the ones you want 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.280 to call. We're the ones you want to call. We're 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.640 the ones you want to call. You're gonna love these people. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:33.280 I guarantetee got a Morrish Jenkins dot Com. Okay, we 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.680 are back, um, and let's get into our overheard segment. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:44.240 We had some some great soundbites this week and something overheard. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.880 We know Miles is familiar with John Gruden and the Raiders. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.319 So is Matt Rule. He talked about his relationship with Gruden. 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.760 You know, he's a guy that in my previous life 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.800 I would have considered, you know, a sort of a 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.040 mentor from afar UM. You know, I got to know him. 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.800 We hit it off, um even a couple of years 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.240 ago when I had another NFL opportunity, you know, trying 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:06.400 to figure out what to do. He's one of the 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.679 first people that called. UM. I haven't talked to him 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.600 very much. Mistaken this job is because I think we've 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.880 all you know, it's been a it's been a unique 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.719 set of circumstances. Mike Mayock is another guy that I've 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.439 known for a long time. My first year as the 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.000 head coach at Temple. He came in and talked to 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.760 my team about the draft process. So there's a lot 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:25.840 of people that that I respect, but I really respect 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.600 John Gruden. Um. You know, here he is, you know, 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.960 super Bowl winning coach Monday Night football at the time, 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.760 and he's got the head coach and you know, Temple, 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.520 he's pouring into and spending time with, and so I 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.600 I'm very grateful to him, and so I think it'll 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.320 be it'll be an honor to take the field with 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.160 with someone that staid him and he's done and I'm 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.280 excited to get on the field. I just love that 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.920 even two guys that you may not associate immediately together, 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.040 although of course John Green has spent a lot of 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.520 time as a commentator and Matt Rule in college, so 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.080 you could say, oh, there's maybe a possibility there. But 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.200 two guys that you wouldn't necessarily associate together, there's just 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.680 this coaching fraternity and they all talk to each other 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.520 and provide mentorship, and I just think it's so cool. Yeah, 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.720 some sometimes coaches like to downplay that stuff too, um 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.280 at least in terms of um like what they get 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.400 from other coaches, because it's like you don't want to 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:28.920 have a perception of like the other coaches doing this, 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.200 the other coach doing that. It's it's interesting I think 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.440 about that with like Sean McVeigh and Bill Belichick, because 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.800 those two guys have texted a lot, and that kind 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.160 of became a storyline at one point and McVeigh tried 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.240 to downplay it. But I think it's nice to see 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.480 something like when Matt Rule was talking about Jon Gruden 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.320 and he was like, Hey, you know, I was this 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:50.200 coach at Temple and Jon Gruden didn't have to spend 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:51.840 any time with me. He didn't have to do this, 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.760 but he did. And I think that really shows just 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.000 how much of a coaching fraternity it is, as you 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.400 were just saying, Kristen, people, especially if you're not in 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.680 a situation where it's competitive. You know, like right now, 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.880 Matt Rule and John Gruden not family. They're not necessarily 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.320 all that close, and so that's why they're not necessarily 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.600 going to go back and forth clash and whatever. But 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.640 I think in a in a situation where Gruen's a 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.560 commentator and rules a young coach and he's trying to 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.400 learn as much as he possibly can, that's exactly the 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.000 kind of thing that coaches want to do. They want 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.440 to help each other, you know, they want to make 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.440 sure that people can get better, especially those who have 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.560 an interest in getting better. Um so I like it too, Miles. 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.600 I have a request. What can you do your best? 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.520 John Group? I was going to ask you will, since 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.600 you're the impression guy. No, no, no, no, Miles has 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.080 been around him far longer than I have. I will. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.840 I don't know exactly how much you want me to 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:48.440 do it, John Gruden, All right, man, I'll tell you what. Man. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.920 This will guy. He's stuck in the radio booth over there. 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.600 I don't necessarily like this guy all that much, but 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.360 really I think wolves and no, okay guy, I mean 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.720 you know he likes to do all the things with 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:06.520 the Panthers stats. How's that you run the ball, you 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:10.440 stop the run? This is Raida's football. Knock on wood. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.440 If you're with me, man, knock on wood. I like it. 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.120 I like it. Good job. Yeah, I gotta give Miles 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.800 this edge there. But it had a little bit of 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.920 like a Tony soprano, just a hint. Definitely had some 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:27.440 mob vibes. Wow, okay, I mean there's some frank Caliendo 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.640 in there. But you know, it was good. Not not much. 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.800 I'm not a very good impressions person. It was I 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:36.360 thought it was great. Thank you, really truly, I promise, no, 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.600 I'm kidding. I really really thought I really really thought 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.560 it was great. All right. Next up, we are going 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.760 to hear from Miles. This guy, Miles Hartsfield and Miles, 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.600 I know you have spent some time with the other 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.320 Miles this week. Yes, I have, and it's interesting there 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.600 are not too many people that I've ever met who 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.040 spell Miles like me, you know, with a y. So 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.640 we talked a little bit about how he actually started 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.800 running the ball for the Carolina Panthers because he was 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.200 a defensive back in all of college. So one day 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.240 after practice, it was just a rookies out there. Was 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.640 one of those early practices when the vets were still 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.280 coming in but they couldn't really do much. So we 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.280 were out there, Um, we went through the whole practice 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.080 with the DBS coach, Coach Ruyle. That came out to 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.160 me like right before and I was like, all right, 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.159 after practice, you know, we're gonna, you know, see if 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.359 you could still do some running back drills. And I 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.919 was like, Okay, you know, maybe he just wants to 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.120 see how I have let us how athletic I am. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.760 So I'm like, I go over there, they're doing the cuts, 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.600 so I'm doing all the cuts, jump cuts and all that. 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.919 So it's starting to come back, starting to feel familiar. Um, 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.640 and what was going through my head. I was excited 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.439 because I felt like going to college, I should have 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.560 played running back, and I wanted to play running back, 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:50.520 but going to score as an athlete, and you know, 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.320 growing up with the parents I grew up with, you know, 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.639 you know, you don't you don't second guests with a 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:56.200 coach is trying to tell you he's gonna put you 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.240 in the best position to win for the team. And 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.040 I've always been a team player, so I didn't argue 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.280 when I when my coaches put me at dB at college. 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:07.320 So uh, you know, I was bussed with the opportunity 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.119 to show them what I can do on offense. And 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.639 you know, I took full advantage because I know deep inside, 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.560 like my true heart, that I want to play running 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.959 back in the National Coball League. Even when I was 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.080 five years old, I didn't start playing do you be 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:24.560 really until I got to old Miss Hartsfield story is 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:29.280 very interesting because he was a running back in New Jersey. 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.920 He was recruited as a running back out a New 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.960 Jersey and by Matt Rule at Temple. So he had 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.400 gone up to Philadelphia a couple of times on unofficial 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.520 visits um and then he actually ended up going East 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.240 Coast Prep um up there in Massachusetts, and that's when 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.719 he really started becoming a defensive back. So he had 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:49.800 the sort of a gap year between high school and 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.880 then going to Old Miss, and then once he got 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:53.960 to Old Miss, he was really entrenched as a defensive back. 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.760 So what he told me is that his coaches at 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:01.439 Old Miss were a little bit surprised wised when he 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:03.800 got to the NFL and they saw him taking carries 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.760 and they were like, you were running back. I didn't 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:07.840 even know. And it's because of just the way that 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:09.920 things worked out for him. So he's a guy you 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:12.879 root for. You know that. Um. You know, now that 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:14.639 he's on the fifty three, he's probably gonna play a 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:16.760 lot of special teams. I think it will only see 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.600 him really as a running back, probably in an emergency situation. 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:23.760 But you know, asking Marty Herney, general manager yesterday, about 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.920 Miles Hartsfield and everything and her and he said, look, 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.000 he's got a chance to contribute at two places and 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.240 in a year where versatility is key because we don't 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.000 know really what's gonna happen in a couple of weeks 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:39.320 with COVID, you know that that's something that's pretty valuable. Yeah. 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.000 I just love that. He was like, yeah, I should 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:46.000 have been playing running back. That's that's talent, that's some confidence. Yeah, 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.200