WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 49: Cold Front 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.760 It's time for the Happy Half Hour with your friends 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:22.919 Kristen Balboni, Will Brian and Darren Gamp. It's that time 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.320 of the week. Welcome to the Happy Half Hour podcast 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.240 with your friends Will, Darren, Kristen and producer Matt Guys. 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:32.320 Before we started recording, we were just talking about everything 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.960 that has happened since we last recorded this podcast, which 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.199 was like two years ago and two years ago a 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.519 k a. Last Wednesday, Darren, will you give us a 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.199 rundown of all the things that have happened in a 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.720 one week span. Yeah, since we recorded this podcast a 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.560 week ago. Mick Jagger found the Thirsty Beaver. The Rolling 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.360 Stones played a concert in Bank of America Stadium, which 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.800 was amazing. The Panthers went to Dallas and kind of 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:00.480 got knocked around pretty good down there, and oh, by 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:02.840 the way, they came home and traded for Stefine Gilmore, 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.080 the former NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Other than that, 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:11.959 not too much. We're gonna tell all Panthers in just 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:16.160 a second, but only because Darren has been scooting around 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.759 Bank of America Stadium NonStop the last week covering all 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.559 those stories. Did the Rolling Stones play any of your 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.280 favorite songs, your deep cuts. They have not had a 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.720 chance to ask you did. Actually, the old, the old 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:31.040 Keith Richard's classic Before They Make Me Run was part 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.039 of the Keith section in the middle of the concert there. 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.480 So that was great and it and as it turns out, 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.880 one of the the internet, it's an amazing place full 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.440 of all kind of neat stuff and many terrible things. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.600 But there's a website I go to a lot called 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.960 cent list dot fm, and it had the cent list 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.000 from the ninety four concert I saw in Columbia, South 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.600 Carolina with the Rolling Stones. And as it turns out, 0:01:56.120 --> 0:02:00.960 they played twenty three songs that night. In four twenty 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.720 seven years later they played nineteen so four or fewer 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.559 songs from twenty three to nineteen and twenty seven years. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.440 Those old guys are really slowing down. So I have 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.320 a I have a scoop for you. I've heard from 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.520 an inside source that before the concert, when they were 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.160 going over you know, oh yeah, we you know we 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.600 played here in um in ninety seven, you know, the 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.240 first concert here. Uh, the Mick Jagger was the one 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.079 that remembered that they played here in nineteen sixty five. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.680 Nobody else on the crew or the people working here 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.000 had any idea that they were here in sixty five. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.320 And he's like, oh yeah, I remember the old Charlotte 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:38.880 colisseum down independence, No, no, no, no, don't give me shelter, 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.760 and that's all I gonna get. But anyway, we should 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:44.280 take the thirsty beaver. Now I founded a little German. 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.600 If I'm not, I can't do any accents at all. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.320 I really outside of Darren. I can do Darren's act. No, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.840 don't know, Well, well, we'll save that for later. I'll 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.800 do the I'll do the um special things to do 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.360 in Darren's accent at the end of the show. Well, okay, 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.560 no one knows what that means except for well's got 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:07.240 a segment coming and he'll do all right, I'm holding 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.760 you to that map. Please clip off the well Mick 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.320 Jagger impression. Let's all right. So now that we've gotten 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.679 to the important news that everyone came here for, which 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.840 was Darren's review of the Rolling Stones concert, let's let's 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:23.920 talk about Stefan Gilmore. I mean, yeah, what a whirlwind 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.600 last couple of days, at least for us, you know, 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.120 as we started to find out about it, and Darren 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.800 especially for you, What have you gleaned from from walking 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.960 around the building making your rounds, Like when you see 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.200 Darren on a mission, like I said, at the stadium, 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.440 you see him headed down to the second floor. You 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.400 know what's on. He's going down to get some really 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.720 good information. So what have you gathered? Well, I mean 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.920 this thing came together fairly quickly. They had been interested 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.160 in Stefan over the course of the summer. I mean, 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.600 at different points had made calls and it was kind of, 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.280 you know, exploratory at that point. But this thing ramped 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.800 up in a hurry. And and the short version is 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.120 as after the Patriots put out word that they were 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.440 going to cut him. You know, that's like dogs flushing 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.520 birds out of the underbrush. I mean they you know, 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.120 they weren't they were going to try to do exactly 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:11.920 what they did, and put out word that they were 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.680 going to cut him, and got a bunch of phone calls, 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.839 and rather than wait and hope that Stefan we just 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.840 want to sign with his hometown team, they went ahead 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.640 and gave up that sixth round pick in three, which 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.560 is as close to nothing as you can actually give 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.760 someone to, you know, acquire a player of this caliber. Now, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.680 you know, I think there are reasons to be interested 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.440 in how Stefine comes in. I mean, obviously hadn't played 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.919 this year, he had the quad injury last year. But 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:43.680 in two thousand nineteen, not seven years ago, not ten 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.880 years ago. Two years ago, this man was the NFL 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:53.080 defensive Player of the Year and you got him for 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.599 a sixth round pick in Yeah, and just in case 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.160 any Panthers fans, which I'm sure you have if you're 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.120 listening to the podcast, you're obviously dialed in with you know, 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.760 the best information, But just in case anyone um isn't 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.600 up to date, the Patriots cut him from everything that 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:12.440 we're hearing or wanted to cut him, uh for for 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:16.200 cap purposes and for contract purposes, not because they think 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.560 anything is Um is wrong with him or they don't 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.039 want him to contribute. It was they were what like 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.520 fifty thousand dollars under the salary cap, needed to make 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.320 some moves, and he couldn't come to an agreement contract 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.119 and he and he won't be able to play until 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.880 Week seven, and he was going into the final year 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.559 of his contract, so they wanted to extend. They wanted 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.880 to do something to spread out cap Hit couldn't come 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:39.880 to any kind of agreement on that because he still 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.240 wants to get paid at the level commensurate with his abilities, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.719 and they weren't able to reach common ground on that. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.400 I would love to know he's a hometown guy. How 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.720 much does that matter to Panthers fans? I think it's 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.240 amazing he's a rock Hill guy. He lives in the 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.960 Charlotte area when he's uh, when he's not in seas 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.280 And what does it mean to to Panthers fans or 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.080 especially you know, the South Carolina portion of Panthers fans 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.000 to have a guy like this joining the Panthers. I 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.719 think it's huge And and having spent fourteen years of 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.280 my life working for the rock Hill Herald, I can 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.600 tell you the other hometown guy in Football City, USA 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.800 is pretty excited about this, and they should be. I mean, 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.160 he's one of their own. And rock Hill has a 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.680 long history of of pumping guys into the NFL. I mean, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.600 Stefens far from the only you know, first round pick 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.800 to ever come from such a small town, but they've 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.200 got a culture of it down there, and and it matters, 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.560 and it's a huge deal. And I remember I was 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.080 looking back through my files and I sent Will a 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.080 copy of the story this morning before I put it 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.120 on Twitter, before Stefan was drafted. That was right before 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.520 I left the newspaper in two thousand twelve. Um before 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.039 he was drafted by Buffalo in twelve. I talked to 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.040 him in a bunch of the other rock Hill NFL 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.640 people and just about this latest link in the chain, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.600 the guy eyes from that town who we're gonna make good. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:04.960 A lot of defensive backs, great names, I mean, from 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.240 Rick Sanford to Jeff Burrows to Sheldon Brown, I mean 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.920 so many guys. Jear Old, Gerald Dixon, Ernest Dixon. Ernest 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.560 Dixon was actually here briefly, I think in ninety eight, 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.720 maybe in training camp from Fort Mill, but at you know, 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.040 never been a guy from York County on this roster 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.200 prior to now. And you asked what does it mean 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.560 to Panthers fans? I mean, also what does it mean 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.120 to him? You know, I think that's important to be 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.960 especially as you know this year goes on and you 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.120 know what sort of contract negotiations go on for the future. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.200 You know, how how much does that factor into uh, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.760 you know, what he can do to stay here versus, 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:41.560 you know, go somewhere else as a free agent. So 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.200 I mean yeah, I mean he lives right next to 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.080 Scott Fitterer and w Will I wasn't I wasn't going 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.720 to say it, and we'll just put that out on 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.400 the podcast and Dan Morgan. Apparently they all live on 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.240 the same block. Their their car pool and work. I think, 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.760 you know, from now, that'll be fun during contract negotiations, right, 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.040 we need we need video of that. I wonder if 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.080 they'll sing when they car pool. I think they might. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:07.400 I think they received sources close to me tell me, 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.400 but uh, we'll see. I mean it's gonna be interesting. 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.840 I think it obviously matters. One of the things I 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:17.520 thought was kind of funny. There's a perception outside of 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.320 Charlotte that no one would want to come here, and 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.400 that the Patriots had somehow done this man a disservice 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.440 by trading him to a place rather than allowing him 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.360 to choose his next destination. It's like, listen, he might 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:33.120 have chosen this anyway. This is home. And it's not 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.760 like the team's awful or anything. I mean, they're they're 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.679 playing okay right now. They could certainly use somebody likes 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.960 to find Gilmore, but every team in the league could do. 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.319 Somebody likes to find Gilmore. Let's not kid ourselves. Um, 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.080 but I thought it was kind of funny when they 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.280 said they did this man wrong, and he might have 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.400 actually preferred it come down this way than get in 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:58.959 a situation where a place not Charlotte was going to 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.719 be calling and and making the offer to bring him in. Yeah, 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.880 there are worse places to be, That's darned sure. I 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.319 want to just go back to Darren talking about the 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.760 article he wrote on Stefan Gilmour in two thousand twelve. 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:12.720 I saw it on Twitter, he said it to Will 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.280 It didn't send it to me beforehand, but that's okay. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.640 I just thought I saw it on Twitter, and you 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.560 know what I thought. I was like, gosh, how good 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.800 do you have to be to just dig up an 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.320 article from almost ten years ago and be like, this 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.360 is good. I'm going to post it. I would hope 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.800 nobody sees my stuff from two thousand twelve. That's all 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.800 I'm saying. Laron strikes again. I was at the peak 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:37.440 of my game. So now you're on a team friendly 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:48.800 deal here, you know your career m guy veteran present. Now, well, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.160 let's let's talk about some of the impetus for signings 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.480 to find Gilmore and clearly, as we said, cannot play 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:58.560 until week seven because he's on the publist. But that 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:03.400 Cowboys game, you know they're they are looking ahead at 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.120 at help in this secondary um and I think when 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.160 you look at the way that the Cowboys game went, 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.760 UM could use it. Yeah. I mean, well you could 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.800 use the help stop in the run. That's the first 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.800 thing everybody's been talking about this week. But yeah, I 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.760 just think in the way they play defense and the 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.320 way they want to play defense, you've got to have 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:29.000 multiple guys who can cover. They've been really clear that C. J. 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.559 Henderson was a trade for long term, not short term. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.200 J C. Horn cover. So this gives c. J. Henderson 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.240 a chance to learn this defense which is new to him, 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.640 and get acclimated and get his feet underneath him a 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.520 little bit so he can be more comfortable. Now you 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.720 can put starting in week seven. Now you can put 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.560 Dante Jackson, who speaking of guys at the top of 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.200 his game right now, he's playing his best football right now. 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.960 Dante Stefan, Gilmore and A. J. Boy A and that's 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.360 a lot better than and okay, where are we gonna 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.600 And this is nothing against any of these guys, but 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.319 Rashaan Melvin is a is an old vet who's a 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.120 journeyman who's been on a lot of different teams. Started 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.280 this season on the practice started season on the practice 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.040 squad and got caught up a couple of weeks and 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.440 then they put him on the active roster. He's he's good, 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.200 he's somebody they want. But other than that, it's Keith Taylor, 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.880 who's a rookie at Stanley, Thomas Oliver, who was a 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.680 seventh round pick a year ago. None of those guys 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.600 are Stefan Gilmore. And I just think that the chance 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:35.280 to add a pedigreed corner so that right now, I mean, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.240 I thought it was so telling last night that when 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.520 somebody asked fitter or about j. C. Horne and his 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.280 injury got the broken foot. It's gonna be two or 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.079 three months probably, it's what most people think. And somebody 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.920 asked Scott if it was absolutely season ending, and he said, no, no, 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.840 not necessarily. We'll see how he comes back, but you know, 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.560 we're playing on, going to the playoffs. And it was 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.440 so casual the way Scott said it. I mean, and 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.640 it's gone from a month ago no one knew what 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.840 to expect from this team to now they're thinking about 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.080 going to the playoffs. And if you're going to be 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:11.400 that kind of team, you need that kind of secondary. Absolutely. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.959 And if you talk to to Dan Morgan, who I mean, 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.439 he will say it you. He can't go a few 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.680 sentences without saying the goal is to win a Super Bowl. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.720 And I love it. I mean, he's staying it multiple times. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:26.319 Um uh, you know a sentence when he when you're 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.480 talking to him, which which I love to hear. And 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.600 it needs someone that understands the gravity of what that 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.720 takes from from all levels. So I like it. I 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.439 like the aggressiveness. I was talking to Matt Rule about 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.280 that yesterday and we saw in the in the Cowboys game. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.000 You know you've got like fourth and eight and Brennan 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.920 Zilstrick converts. Um. He's not afraid to go for it. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.680 And it really feels like this front office matches him 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.800 in that sense that that they are gonna do whatever 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.720 they can to get this roster in the right place 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:00.480 in order to push for games beyond the red their season. 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.640 It's So it's an interesting thing when you know, the 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.960 news of the morning, you know, shakes the NFL world, 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.240 and then the news by lunch includes the Panthers in 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.120 it like that. Those just those aren't necessarily the things 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.520 that have been happening around here for you know. I mean, 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.079 it's just a kind of a different reality. That's that's 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.160 a lot of fun to be a part of. Right 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.400 And oh, by the way, the big news yesterday morning 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.600 was going to be Christian McCaffrey's back on the practice field. 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.000 Right by the end of the day, that was about 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.800 the fourth most important thing that was going on. So 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.600 I mean, that's yeah, I mean, that's the personality they've 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.120 taken on. And and credit to Will for helping dig 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.920 this up. When they traded for Darryl Johnson right before 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.640 the start of the regular season, the Bill's defensive end. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.080 They trade for him. That was their eleventh trade since 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.120 Scott took over his g M in January, which matched 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.560 what they made in the three previous years. They've since 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.760 tacked two more onto that, so we're at thirteen trades 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.360 and counting for Scott Fitter in this calendar year. And 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.719 it's just that's that's the m oh now, that's the 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.679 way they operate. And and Scott admitted yesterday he's out 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.240 working the phones, trying to see if there's offensive line 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.920 help available, you know, seeing what else is available, you know, 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:14.840 as they go through some stuff where they're a little 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.320 thin a linebacker and different things. I mean, Scott's out 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.720 there working the phones. And and he admitted he said, 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.720 when you get the reputation for making all these deals, 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.920 you hear stuff that other people don't because people know 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.760 you're open for business, it can only help. I mean, 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.480 they're not all gonna work out. Not every trade is 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.000 going to be a home run. You know, sometimes things 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.240 just aren't gonna work. But right now, I mean the 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.880 excitement they're creating with this, I think it's got a 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.000 lot of people fired up. And and neither here nor there, 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.120 but you know, it's something that I think Panthers fans 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.240 should to take a lot of comfort in scoff fit 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.800 or despite being busier than like pretty much any other, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.400 GM always has time to be a lovely human when 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.920 you talk to him. I mean, really, it just it's 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.240 it's awesome. Scott's easy people to get along, and it 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.720 doesn't ever feel like he's overwhelmed by any more. I 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.360 talked to him before the draft, after the draft. You know, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.240 if you see him right now, you wouldn't know anything 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.720 was going on. It's just real calm um on the surface. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.640 And I mean he could be it could be negotiations 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.480 with like three different teams right now, and you just 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.520 you know, and he's just, hey, how's it going, how's 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.920 everyone doing? You know, let me let me stop and 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.040 talk to you about this, which is which is awesome. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.440 And it also feels like if Stefan Gilmore walked over 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.840 a couple of doors down and knocked on Scott's door 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.960 and said, hey, Mike Lalmower is out of gas, I 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.160 would be like, oh, here's here's a tank. You can 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.280 have mine. Just bring it back whenever you feel well. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.040 For multiple reasons, I think any GM would do that 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:42.560 if signed nineteen or traded for defensive Player of the Year. 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.080 But yes, he would do that no matter who the 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.880 neighbor was. That's right. Let's talk about the Cowboys game. Obviously, 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.080 the run defense was a was a big issue. A 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.040 line is something that a lot of other people are 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.360 talking about. So starting with that run defense, that was 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.800 really the strength of this team. In the first three games, 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.840 and then both Tony Pollard and Ezekiel Elliott just I 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.440 mean just gash the run defense um, like the screeching 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.600 tire sound effect goes here. You're averaging forty five yards 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.800 a game and Dallas runs for two. And then you 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:17.840 look at the Eagles and Jalen Hurts is their leading rusher. 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.160 So what do you think if you're this coaching staff, 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.440 what are you telling these guys who are clearly incredibly 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.640 talented but just got knocked down a peg in order 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.640 to get that confidence. We talked about this momentum versus confidence. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.400 What do these guys need to do, uh, in order 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.480 to to be ready aside from film study right um 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.760 for these Eagles game and Jalen Hurts And you know what, 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:49.200 We'll have a story about this very topics dot com 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.600 that I've heard in a while on this po I thought, really, 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.200 it's like right off the top. Yeah, I thought it 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.880 was interesting. When Jermaine Carter was talking the other day, 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.360 he used the phrase we put blood in the water 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:04.160 twice during about a seven minute interview on Monday. And 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.800 they know that everybody's watching that tape now and and 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.040 they put out the blueprint. I mean, you want to 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.240 run at the Carolina Panthers, here's what you gotta do. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.920 Load it up, put an extra linement on the field, 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.560 bring all your tight ends to the party, and just 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.720 go straight at them. And and until they stop it, 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:25.440 that's going to be Philadelphia is not built the same 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.720 way as Dallas. Not many people are, but and not 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.160 everybody's gonna be able to pull it off. But they 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.960 know they're marked now and people are gonna try them. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.480 So they've got to get it fixed. And they've got 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.439 to get it fixed hurry, in a hurry. I mean, 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.639 de KWin talked, de Kuan Johns talked about you know, 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.800 technique and everybody being in the right gap and all 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:49.280 those little bitty things. But mostly it got their attention, 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.560 and I think those guys, you know, they've got pride 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.639 in their work, just like everybody else. And when it 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.400 doesn't go the way you're expecting, you know, that kind 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.760 of caught everybody. And they knew walking in this week 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.200 they were in store for. And this one may feel 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.720 a little different because of you know, Ezekiel Elliott. There 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.720 were times when everything looked correct, the gap integrity was 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.160 there that everyone stepped up and they made the contact 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.680 exactly as they've made the three weeks before, and then 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.679 Zeke tacks four to five four yards onto it. I mean, 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:20.639 that's just who Zeke is right now. And you know 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:22.720 you could tell he was playing with a chip on 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:24.560 his shoulder. You know, he was tired of kind of 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.040 being written off. Um, you know the way he was 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:28.480 a little Oh you know that it's a two back 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.000 system now and Tony Pollard may be better and all this. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.200 You know, Zeke was running with with fire. But this week, 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.320 you know, it hurts as a guy. He's not trying 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.040 to run through you. He's gonna trying to run by 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.800 you or make you fall down and miss. So that 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:42.760 is gonna be you know, how do these corners do 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:44.199 out in the edge? You know, how did guys do 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.879 in space? It may not be you know, people that 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.440 are getting knocked back and just a huge pile of 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.359 dust that's moving five yards down the field. It's gonna 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.159 feel a little bit different, but it's still gonna be 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:56.600 very dangerous. Yeah, And it's also a little bit out 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:58.879 of necessity that they might have to play along the 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.240 edges anyway, because with Shack Thompson out this week. I mean, 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.640 you know, Rule mentioned stuff yesterday about one linebacker defenses, 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.359 and you know, it's a good thing. You've got a 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.280 guy like Jeremy Chen who's got some linebacker background that 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.560 you can move around and do different stuff and they'll, 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:18.640 you know, they'll have different ways to play this thing. 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.879 But right now, I mean, they were they were pretty 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.040 thin at inside linebacker anyway when it was Jermaine and Shack. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.160 And now there's no shock at least for this week, 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:31.280 maybe for Negs, probably for Eggs, but um, that's another issue. 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.880 But they you're gonna have to be fast on defense, 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.040 and you're gonna have to be correct. I mean that 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.960 front four has got to get their gap covered, you know, 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.400 and they've got to do as much contained as they 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.040 can to keep this thing from getting to the edges 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.080 and getting away from them like it did last week. 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.760 And there's some things in the NFL where if you 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.800 do the right things and you kind of give the 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.400 effort and put yourself in the right position, a lot 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:56.520 of times the ball will start bouncing back your way. 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:58.919 It felt like the last couple of weeks, you know, 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.440 out in Texas, just like I mean, let's be real, 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.760 the Jeremy Chinn. Thing was a fumble, that was a mistake. 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:07.440 Ref messed it up period, you know, no forward progress, 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.560 that's b S. You know, sorry, but when you get home, 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.920 apologize for saying b S. Yeah, okay, alright, just checking 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.280 you can. You get home and you keep doing you know, 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:20.760 it's kind of just the way of football. You keep 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:22.600 putting in the effort and the ball kind of starts 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:25.200