Speaker 1: All right, folks, I feel like I should be very
Speaker 1: excited when I say welcome to the Happy half Hour,
Speaker 1: because Dave Canalis is here, and he brings the excitement
Speaker 1: with him wherever he goes, including now to Bank of
Speaker 1: America Stadium. So I think everybody was kind of picking
Speaker 1: up what he was putting down last Thursday during that
Speaker 1: press conference. And you know, when a new coach comes in,
Speaker 1: there's obviously all kinds of enthusiasm, but he brings an
Speaker 1: extra amount, doesn't tea. So it just from being at
Speaker 1: that presser, and we'll go through all that during this episode.
Speaker 1: But Cassidy, you were down in Mobile, got a chance
Speaker 1: to see him early on with Dan on that first
Speaker 1: day of work, and then slid over to Orlando for
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. So you've got all kind of good Dave
Speaker 1: Canalis anecdotes, don't you.
Speaker 2: I have to first ask, is this excited Darren? I
Speaker 2: don't know if I've experienced this to his full extent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it peeks out pretty early. I think over time,
Speaker 1: you know, my edges have been softened a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's it's harder and harder for me to reach peak
Speaker 1: excitement and stay that way for terribly long so yeah,
Speaker 1: I need.
Speaker 2: To prepare myself better for this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I should have. I should have gone radio DJ
Speaker 1: Boys Sunday, Sunday Sunday, Good Morning. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yes. I did get to spend some time with Dave
Speaker 2: Canalis last week in Mobile, and he wasn't in Orlando,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I got I took a little tour of
Speaker 2: the Gulf of Mexico last week, but got to spent
Speaker 2: about half an hour with Dave on Monday, and that
Speaker 2: was really cool. I don't even think he had made
Speaker 2: it to Charlotte yet at that point, or if he had,
Speaker 2: it had been a fly by night situation and they.
Speaker 1: Actually had not. He went straight from it. He connected
Speaker 1: in Charlotte and got on the same plane as Dan
Speaker 1: to fly to Mobile. So his experience in Charlotte at
Speaker 1: that point was limited. Where Charlotte Douglas internationally right.
Speaker 2: But got to spend some time with him and see
Speaker 2: not only just you know, interact with him, but see
Speaker 2: how so many other people sort of interacted with Dave
Speaker 2: Canalis as well, and how sort of you know, beloved
Speaker 2: he is amongst those those scouts and those coaches that
Speaker 2: have been in this league for a while, because you know,
Speaker 2: he spent a long time in Seattle and he spent
Speaker 2: the one year in Tampa Bay, so he's only been
Speaker 2: with two teams. But you go to these events, you're
Speaker 2: around folks, you get to know them, and a lot
Speaker 2: of people wanted to come up. He was also the
Speaker 2: only new head coach that was Inmobile for the Senior Bowl,
Speaker 2: or at least on Monday, and so I thought that
Speaker 2: was interesting as well, you know, especially because the Panthers
Speaker 2: don't have a first round pick, so they're looking at
Speaker 2: guys that are going to be taking in the second
Speaker 2: and third round. But I think more than anything, he
Speaker 2: just kind of wanted to hit the ground running, see
Speaker 2: this draft class up close, and get back into the
Speaker 2: groove of working with Dan Morgan. I think they shared
Speaker 2: this on Thursday in the press conference. But you know,
Speaker 2: there's a two guys that offices were a door down
Speaker 2: from each other in Seattle and now they're going to
Speaker 2: be working right around the hall from each other again
Speaker 2: as well. So I think they're excited about that. But
Speaker 2: enjoyed getting to visit with him Memobile and kind of
Speaker 2: just see what he's all about. He's an infectious guy,
Speaker 2: but uh not sometimes when somebody is very personable, it
Speaker 2: can almost come off a fate, but I don't get
Speaker 2: that sense at all with Dave. It's it's really genuine.
Speaker 2: And I thought it was interesting when I did get
Speaker 2: back in the building on Monday to kind of see
Speaker 2: him bouncing around the hallway, and he remembered just about
Speaker 2: everyone's name, and if he didn't remember it, he stopped
Speaker 2: to make sure he got it and made sure to
Speaker 2: stop and speak to everyone along the way. So that's,
Speaker 2: you know, right, he's trying to set a new standard,
Speaker 2: I guess. And not to say that the last staff
Speaker 2: didn't do that as well, but whenever you've got a
Speaker 2: new head coach to come in and have guns of blazon,
Speaker 2: that gives a jolt of energy.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. He absolutely has that Pete Carroll vibe.
Speaker 1: I think they both like bounce because they're so like Tigger.
Speaker 1: I think I've used the phrase always on more in
Speaker 1: the last week and a half than I've used it
Speaker 1: in the previous twenty years. And he's just got that energy.
Speaker 1: And you know, again, one of the I thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting. Somebody commented on one of the links we
Speaker 1: sent out for something, and there's a segment of the
Speaker 1: fan base that has heard a lot of this before.
Speaker 1: This is the third coach in a short period of time,
Speaker 1: and everybody's like, Okay, yeah, great excitement, I love it.
Speaker 1: Show me something and listen. That's the bottom line on
Speaker 1: this thing. If Dave Canalis can get the Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: to score a bunch of points and win a bunch
Speaker 1: of games, all that energy and enthusiasm would be justified.
Speaker 1: And right now, based on the way the last five
Speaker 1: six years have gone, I think there there's reason to
Speaker 1: be skeptical of everything. Remember who it is now. If
Speaker 1: they would have hired Bill Belichick, it would have been
Speaker 1: he's too old. If they would have hired whoever, there
Speaker 1: was always going to be something because I think people
Speaker 1: are a little jaded based on what's happened around here
Speaker 1: in the last few years. But man, he has gotten
Speaker 1: a lot of people's attention. And when you do that,
Speaker 1: you know you need too. Honestly. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: after the way last year went, energy was something that
Speaker 1: was in short supply, especially coming down the stretch, and
Speaker 1: so when you walk into a situation like this, how
Speaker 1: are you going to attack it? He's doing it up
Speaker 1: on the balls of his feet and leaning into it
Speaker 1: every day. I mean just from talking to people he's
Speaker 1: working with. He's rolling in here at four forty five
Speaker 1: five o'clock in the morning early, Yeah, and he is.
Speaker 1: He is getting started because he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: catching up to do. I mean, he's learning an entirely
Speaker 1: new set of personnel, he's hiring a staff, doing all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, and so I think getting those
Speaker 1: guys in place is it's obviously a huge job and
Speaker 1: getting to know this this roster really before he makes
Speaker 1: some pretty important decisions on it. And he is able
Speaker 1: now now that he's here, now that he's in the building,
Speaker 1: now that the media car wash has been taken care of,
Speaker 1: he's done all the radio interviews and the press conferences
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. He's digging into the
Speaker 1: football and trying to learn all these people. So that
Speaker 1: is a full time job. So it doesn't surprise me
Speaker 1: that he's attacking this thing early.
Speaker 2: There were two things he said last week that I
Speaker 2: think stood out more than anything else, at least to me,
Speaker 2: and it was about the things he wants to kind
Speaker 2: of work on with Bryce, and one of them was
Speaker 2: getting the ball out in two point seven seconds getting
Speaker 2: it out much faster. That makes me curious because I
Speaker 2: want to know, Okay, what do you do to shave
Speaker 2: off a hundredth of a second here, a tenth of
Speaker 2: a second here? What are you doing especially behind you know,
Speaker 2: an offensive line with a younger guy, Like, what are
Speaker 2: you doing to kind of shave off that time here
Speaker 2: and there? To add up to shaving off enough that
Speaker 2: he's getting that ball out in two point seven seconds?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then the other thing he said was, you know,
Speaker 2: he'll know when when Bryce is there, so to speak.
Speaker 2: But you know, he said, we're going to grow to
Speaker 2: the capacity that he can handle. There's got to be
Speaker 2: a commitment and a discipline with that. When I see
Speaker 2: that back foot planet in the ground and that ball
Speaker 2: rips out of there without any hesitation, I know we
Speaker 2: got something.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of You can come in and just
Speaker 2: be justified in your opening press conference to give a
Speaker 2: lot of sweeping platitudes.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Those are two very specific things that it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm coming in right away with a plan to focus
Speaker 2: at least on these two things, and then we'll go
Speaker 2: from there.
Speaker 1: And that was one of the things that stood out
Speaker 1: to me at the press conference on Thursday. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was very specific about two point seven seconds and
Speaker 1: not two point eight. I used to have a buddy
Speaker 1: in college who would say, Hey, we're going to the
Speaker 1: waffle house in thirteen Minutes'd be like, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? But you know it's easy, like you said,
Speaker 1: I mean, the easiest thing to do is say, oh,
Speaker 1: we want to be aggressive on offense and that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. But to walk in with that kind of
Speaker 1: detailed plan I think speaks to the job in front
Speaker 1: of him and what he intends to do. I mean,
Speaker 1: he knows. When I had the opportunity to catch up
Speaker 1: with him on Wednesday for the story we published Thursday
Speaker 1: morning before the press er, I mean, he was very
Speaker 1: specific about things he wanted to go through with Bryce,
Speaker 1: and that begins with getting to know him. And that's
Speaker 1: going to be an important first step to build that relationship,
Speaker 1: because like it or not, these two are now going
Speaker 1: to be linked together and Dave Canals's success will be
Speaker 1: based on Bryce Young's ability to channel what he's trying
Speaker 1: to do out there. So getting those two on the
Speaker 1: same page them getting to know each other will be key.
Speaker 1: But again to say not just hey, we want to
Speaker 1: be aggressive, but to have it at two point seven
Speaker 1: seconds shows you how granular an approach he's bringing into
Speaker 1: this job right now.
Speaker 2: And you know, when I was in the in Orlando
Speaker 2: for the Pro Bowl, I talk to a couple of
Speaker 2: guys that had played which for Tampa Bay and Seattle,
Speaker 2: Tristan Wurz and DK Metcalf, and they both mentioned the
Speaker 2: detailed part of what Dave Canals brings to the job
Speaker 2: and said he's very, very detail oriented. And Metcalf went
Speaker 2: on to say, you know he's also going to do
Speaker 2: he did what Rust did well, he did what Gino
Speaker 2: did well, even mentioned Drew Locke. I think the death
Speaker 2: kill for a lot of coaches is forcing a player
Speaker 2: into their scheme instead of adjusting their scheme to their players.
Speaker 2: And so that's going to be I think the most
Speaker 2: important thing to watch is does this get adjusted around
Speaker 2: what Bryce young, these receivers, this offensive line can offer
Speaker 2: and sort of elevate what they do.
Speaker 1: Best, no, no question, And that's the thing. And I
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting seeing the stuff you were sending
Speaker 1: back from Orlando. I mean, you get a lot of
Speaker 1: that same stuff. I mean those guys talked about the
Speaker 1: level of detail in addition to the energy. I think
Speaker 1: that's the thing that kind of jumps off the page
Speaker 1: and its easiest to see, but it came through and
Speaker 1: talking to those guys about just how detailed, how he
Speaker 1: comes into every interaction with a plan for it. That
Speaker 1: kind of thing that Dave Canalis was in their experience.
Speaker 2: Right, So I know we keep going back to it,
Speaker 2: but I'm I'm very interested just the logistics behind how
Speaker 2: he's gonna shave that time off that throwing time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because you hear a lot of people too talk about
Speaker 2: like three seconds. You want to throw under three or
Speaker 2: around two and a half. But to have that specific number,
Speaker 2: I want to see how that comes about.
Speaker 1: Well, and again we've talked about this before on this podcast.
Speaker 1: They're basically going to be starting from scratch because I
Speaker 1: think everything Bryce Young did last season, you remember the experiences,
Speaker 1: and Dave talked about that. He said, you know that
Speaker 1: experience is valuable because he said, I go back to
Speaker 1: my evaluations of Bryce from Alabama, which he was doing
Speaker 1: when he was in Tampa, but he said, I get
Speaker 1: that guy, plus sixteen games of having seen it in
Speaker 1: the NFL but the specifics of the offense. Everything that
Speaker 1: was happening here last year was just so fundamentally broken
Speaker 1: that I don't think you kind of keep the scars,
Speaker 1: but you throw everything else away because it's starting fresh.
Speaker 1: None of that stuff worked. The routes were never timed
Speaker 1: up with his footwork, you know, the depth was never
Speaker 1: in line with the protection, all the things. It was
Speaker 1: just it was the most sideways offense I think I've
Speaker 1: ever I've ever seen, honestly, and there's you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of reasons for that. That probably not worth dragging
Speaker 1: back up right now because there is that fresh start
Speaker 1: and he gets to come in with his plan start
Speaker 1: over with Bryce and a brand new staff on that
Speaker 1: side of the ball.
Speaker 2: I like that phrase, keep the scars and get rid
Speaker 2: of everything else that was. You know, we got to
Speaker 2: talk to Peyton Manning and Orlando as well, and that
Speaker 2: was something he mentioned, Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 1: Needed I'm back. I'm back here at the office last
Speaker 1: week and I'm talking to Cass about what's coming, and
Speaker 1: she's like, oh, yeah, I talked to Peyton Manning too,
Speaker 1: and I said, yeah, do that now, right right that one. Now,
Speaker 1: let's just go straight to I've got the opinions of
Speaker 1: probably the one of the five greatest quarterbacks ever to
Speaker 1: play the game, who, by the way, also stunk his.
Speaker 2: Rookie right, He won what three games through twenty eight interceptions.
Speaker 1: Three and thirteen twenty eight picks.
Speaker 2: And then the next year he went thirteen and three.
Speaker 1: Yep, So uh, not to say that's what's going to
Speaker 1: happen here this season.
Speaker 2: Time is a flat circle. History will repeat itself. But
Speaker 2: you know, we've here, we hear more and more the
Speaker 2: past couple of years about the importance of letting a
Speaker 2: guy sit and I think there's I think there's some
Speaker 2: credibility to that, but then there's also something that can
Speaker 2: be taken from going through it the only you know,
Speaker 2: the only way to it is through it. And boy
Speaker 2: did he go through it, right. And it's all gonna
Speaker 2: for that to work, though, it's going to depend on
Speaker 2: the attitude going into that second year. Okay, am I
Speaker 2: gonna let that first year knock me down and kind
Speaker 2: of mess with my mindset? Or am I gonna take
Speaker 2: everything that went wrong and learn from it? And that's
Speaker 2: what Peyton Manning did, And you know, he said, you know,
Speaker 2: you go back and watch what Bryce did at Alabama.
Speaker 2: He's he's got the capability to do it. So it's
Speaker 2: as long as he can learn from that rookie year,
Speaker 2: and to your point, kind of just flush it all away,
Speaker 2: but keep the scars that could end up being in
Speaker 2: the long run. This is gonna sound crazy to say,
Speaker 2: but in the long run, the best thing that happened
Speaker 2: to him.
Speaker 1: Woof you. You do not want it. You do not
Speaker 1: want to have to get your education that way, but
Speaker 1: you can get an education that way. It's maybe not exactly,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like my college transcript, probably not the
Speaker 1: way you'd have drawn it up, but there was a
Speaker 1: degree at the end. I guess exactly.
Speaker 2: He's getting degrees. You told us that.
Speaker 1: Earlier this week, no doubt, no doubt, And I got
Speaker 1: too many of them. But she was a good day
Speaker 1: some years. At any rate.
Speaker 2: You know what they call a doctor who got a
Speaker 2: d in medical school and a doctor of got to
Speaker 2: a doctor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was an old John foxism. One of these
Speaker 1: days this is gonna be my book. I'm going to
Speaker 1: write the wit and wisdom of John Fox. He was
Speaker 1: he was famous for. I used to tease him about
Speaker 1: being a phys ed major from San Diego State, and
Speaker 1: he was like, well, you know what they call the
Speaker 1: guy who finished class in medical school, don't you? Doctor?
Speaker 1: Who's very proud of that. So it's uh, I can
Speaker 1: do John fox'sm's all day long. But why would we
Speaker 1: do that when there's a new coach and a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and all this stuff. Oh the other thing on
Speaker 1: your travel blog, you got to visit with our guy
Speaker 1: Derek Brown down in Orlando. Since Derek is an actual
Speaker 1: pro bowler now and not just a guy who bowls.
Speaker 1: He is a pro bowler. And was there anybody in
Speaker 1: Orlando having the kind of fun he was having?
Speaker 2: I don't think there was. He was having the time
Speaker 2: of his life. He helped them win both the help
Speaker 2: the NFC win the relay by doing the sled push
Speaker 2: at the end. I think he was pushing to Marcus Ware. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the Chug of War, I mean he was an
Speaker 2: anchor on that thing. A lot of attention got put
Speaker 2: on Aiden Hutchinson because he was at the front of
Speaker 2: the rope. But anybody who's ever been through second grade
Speaker 2: can tell you the importance in Tug of War is
Speaker 2: the anchor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you got Dexter Lawrence and Derek Brown at
Speaker 1: the back end of that rope for the NFC, it
Speaker 1: was it was going to be hard to move those
Speaker 1: two cats.
Speaker 2: And they not only did they win, they won like
Speaker 2: bat both back to.
Speaker 1: Back pretty convincingly. But yeah, it was It was good
Speaker 1: to see Derek be rewarded for the season he had.
Speaker 1: We talked a lot about it coming down the stretch
Speaker 1: of the season. I mean, he was the bright spot.
Speaker 1: He was the thing that was going well. So I
Speaker 1: just think from a human standpoint there is it was
Speaker 1: good for him to be recognized. It was good for
Speaker 1: people to see it, and you know, he's going to
Speaker 1: be one of the people they build around here. And
Speaker 1: when you know, when Dan Morgan talked on Thursday about
Speaker 1: the kind of people he wanted to see, he wanted
Speaker 1: to see dogs. He kept talking about dogs. Somebody asked me,
Speaker 1: would you spell this dawg or are you going d
Speaker 1: og dawg? See, I'm a traditionalist. I guess I went
Speaker 1: d og when I wrote these stories and somebody asked
Speaker 1: me about it and I looked it up. And when
Speaker 1: the Godfather of funk, George Clinton, recorded Atomic Dog on
Speaker 1: the album cover, it was dog and I was like,
Speaker 1: if George Clinton says it's dog, I'm going with dogs.
Speaker 2: I just think that actually reminds me. I had a
Speaker 2: dog growing up that we called him dog like Italian
Speaker 2: when you say it slow yeah, d og.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anyways, d g versus dawg, that's two completely different people.
Speaker 2: Like a dog, dog that's somebody who you know can
Speaker 2: can stand up for themselves. But a dawg that's somebody
Speaker 2: who's like gonna go out there and fight the fight
Speaker 2: every time, no matter like he'll he'll bring the fight
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll continue this debate throughout the years. I think
Speaker 1: it's situational their time for dogs and their time for dogs.
Speaker 1: But you know, Dan talked about needing more of them
Speaker 1: and and specifically you know, when I asked him who
Speaker 1: those guys are here, the two cats he mentioned immediately
Speaker 1: were Derrick Brown and Frankie Lou And Frankie is almost like,
Speaker 1: having been around and watched Dan play his rookie year
Speaker 1: and beyond, he always played that way. I mean, hair
Speaker 1: on fire, running around one hundred miles an hour. Dan
Speaker 1: was a more analytical player. I mean Frankie is another
Speaker 1: one of those energy guys. But Dan had that kind
Speaker 1: of Luke Keekley type of recognition, read and react ability
Speaker 1: coupled with just burning hot and one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 1: And Frankie is that guy. Now. Frankie was put in
Speaker 1: a position this year without Shaq Thompson around, where he
Speaker 1: was forced into more of a call the play leadership
Speaker 1: type role. But when Frankie's at his best, it's just
Speaker 1: wind him up and let him go. And that's what
Speaker 1: Dan talked about needing more of. And they're gonna look
Speaker 1: to add some of those guys on both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball, honestly, and they're gonna need it, and we'll
Speaker 1: we'll have opportunities to get into the offseason plans and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff as we go. But you know,
Speaker 1: I just early on when I think about what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do here and create a new start around
Speaker 1: a bunch of existing parts and to change the tone
Speaker 1: you know they they went to in fifteen last year,
Speaker 1: and nobody wants to think too much about how that happened,
Speaker 1: but creating that kind of mindset, creating that culture is
Speaker 1: the word that gets thrown out a lot at introductory
Speaker 1: press conferences. They were very intentional about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I went back and looked at a transcript to that
Speaker 1: press conference, and if you search the word dog, I
Speaker 1: think the only word they use more often was alignment.
Speaker 1: And they just talked about speaking off the same page,
Speaker 1: everybody kind of following the same pattern and creating something
Speaker 1: new here. That's the challenge for Dave canalist Dan Morgan,
Speaker 1: and it's a big one. It's not going to be
Speaker 1: something that gets fixed immediately. And Dan was very careful
Speaker 1: about talking about that with me. He's like, this might
Speaker 1: take a minute because we have to do this right
Speaker 1: and be very intentional about it. But right now, at
Speaker 1: the point they are at, they have checked that box.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've kind of locked in on what they're
Speaker 1: looking for. Staffed there, trying to hire all the stuff
Speaker 1: that's going on. So so far, so good. There will
Speaker 1: be a lot of ground to cover in the days
Speaker 1: and weeks to come, and we will get to all
Speaker 1: that here on the Happy half Hour. But the other
Speaker 1: thing we have to get to this week is, oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, super Bowl, Yeah, Vegas.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I should probably pack some clothes or something, because I
Speaker 1: think I have a flight in the morning. I'm heading
Speaker 1: out there for a lot of stuff going on this week,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I should probably get ready for that. I mean,
Speaker 1: all I really know is she's forty nine ers Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift are playing in the Super Bowl. I don't know
Speaker 1: how the scoring works, but yeah, Taylor Swift will be
Speaker 1: in Vegas, and so will I.
Speaker 2: At a certain point, if you meet her, then you're
Speaker 2: my hero.
Speaker 1: I remember. I remember being at Super Bowls and you
Speaker 1: see certain people and it's like when you see Beyonce
Speaker 1: walking down the hall of the Media Center, It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: and Beyonce, how about that? You know, you kind of
Speaker 1: have those moments where, oh, yeah, I don't know that
Speaker 1: we're gonna have that kind of interaction with Taylor while
Speaker 1: we're there, But I.
Speaker 2: Don't look right behind me one time.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know what, may maybe we will, because we
Speaker 1: will be in Las Vegas to chronicle the events to
Speaker 1: see if our very own Julius Peppers is announced as
Speaker 1: a member of the Hall of Fame on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: It'll be exciting to see if that comes to pass,
Speaker 1: and everybody will be on the edge of their seats
Speaker 1: Thursday night, probably around ten ish, midway through the honor show,
Speaker 1: which you can enjoy for yourself and watch that moment
Speaker 1: with us. But I don't know. Maybe if she hears
Speaker 1: we're hanging out with Julius and we know Julius Peppers,
Speaker 1: that'll be enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she'll definitely run over there to that. But that's
Speaker 2: that's going to be an exciting time for Julius Peppers
Speaker 2: to just to kind of see what happens, and you know,
Speaker 2: well deserved if he does get in either way, Do
Speaker 2: you take a gold jacket with you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I don't get I don't get a gold jacket.
Speaker 2: It's like a Donnie Osmond black sequin jacket.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's the thing. I need to call
Speaker 1: my tailor to see if we can get something cranked out.
Speaker 1: I don't have enough sequence in my wardrobe right now.
Speaker 2: But are you gonna go see the U two show?
Speaker 1: I don't know what I mean. I truly it sounds insane,
Speaker 1: but I don't really know what I'm gonna do when
Speaker 1: I get to Vegas. Yeah, planning is not my strong suit,
Speaker 1: as my wife will often inform me. But we're we're
Speaker 1: trying to investigate some tickets. Maybe go see a show
Speaker 1: if Wayne Newton's playing. I'm a big Donka Shane guy,
Speaker 1: as you well know, so.
Speaker 2: Go see Adele if we could.
Speaker 1: If we could get Wayne Newton tickets, that would be
Speaker 1: a good day.
Speaker 2: Cool. Have you ever seen Certain Discile in Vegas?
Speaker 1: I have not seen anything in Vegas because I've never
Speaker 1: been first in Vegas. I am. I have been on
Speaker 1: the earth a lot of years and have never been
Speaker 1: to that fine city. But so I feel like everything's
Speaker 1: gonna be brand new. I almost don't want to know
Speaker 1: a whole lot going into it, just to kind of
Speaker 1: see it with fresh eyes. But I understand that you've
Speaker 1: got a perception in your mind of which you think
Speaker 1: Vegas is supposed to be. So I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing what it's all about.
Speaker 2: Here are my three things I tell people to do
Speaker 2: in Vegas if they have time, and then, well, I know,
Speaker 2: we gotta wrap up. Go see something like Certain Disilay
Speaker 2: or a show like that. It's really worth it. It's incredible.
Speaker 2: Go see the Greenhouse and the Bellaggio Lobby. Everybody talks
Speaker 2: about the fountains. The fountains are incredible. Go inside to
Speaker 2: see the Greenhouse.
Speaker 1: All right, it's really really row plant.
Speaker 2: If you've got a day, drive to the west southwest
Speaker 2: entrance of the Grand Canyon. It's about a two and
Speaker 2: a half three hour drive there, and if you go
Speaker 2: to the National Park entrance, it's gonna take you two days.
Speaker 1: But if you go to the.
Speaker 2: Reservation entrance, you can get there in about three hours.
Speaker 2: And it's incredible.
Speaker 1: It's I'm trying to figure out with all the events
Speaker 1: we've got to hit this weekend, don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get to the Grand Camp. There's other two I
Speaker 1: feel apreci Oh.
Speaker 2: Ride the roller coaster in New York, New York. You
Speaker 2: can do that instead of going to the Grand Canyon.
Speaker 1: There you go roller coasters. I feel like canyon. You know,
Speaker 1: I would have to pack my boots in my camping
Speaker 1: gear and stuff like that. I don't know that that's
Speaker 1: necessarily happening on this trip. But all right, so you
Speaker 1: are our swifty in chief around here, our residents swifty
Speaker 1: badge I wear proudly. Yeap. Is she going to be enough?
Speaker 1: Is she going to lift the forces of her boyfriend's
Speaker 1: team to victory?
Speaker 2: You know, Darren, I get kind of riled up about
Speaker 2: this because I think that he played perfectly well before her.
Speaker 2: He'll play perfectly well if she's not there. He does, though,
Speaker 2: play better when she is in attendance. That is statistically proven.
Speaker 2: What I'm most curious about is how quickly she makes
Speaker 2: it there from Tokyo the night before. But she can
Speaker 2: do it because the international dateline exists. What's really funny
Speaker 2: is this exact conversation about getting from Tokyo to the
Speaker 2: middle of America over one night happened years ago on
Speaker 2: the West Wing, and it's like West Wing actually already
Speaker 2: figured it out. Taylor Swift can totally do it. But
Speaker 2: I'm excited about her new album coming out. It's a
Speaker 2: birthday present to me because it's right before my birthday.
Speaker 1: There you go, so happy birthday to you. Coming up
Speaker 1: in April with a brand new album. How many albums
Speaker 1: does she have? I don't know, like thirty, a lot
Speaker 1: of albums. I think this will be like titter Lovin
Speaker 1: many many albums. So hey, good for her, good for him,
Speaker 1: young love.
Speaker 2: Who are you taking in that game?
Speaker 1: I you know what, here's the thing. It's hard for me.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm like everybody else. You enjoy seeing Taylor
Speaker 1: and Travis do their thing, and that's fun. But San
Speaker 1: Francisco's where all our friends are, you know, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean all our old friends. I've told people, you know,
Speaker 1: when your parents tell you your dog died and they say
Speaker 1: it's gone to a farm in the country where it
Speaker 1: gets to run around in the grass and be happy
Speaker 1: with all this friends. That's like the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: right now. So whether it's Sam Darnold, Christian McCaffrey, Steve Wilks,
Speaker 1: all those people we got to know well here are
Speaker 1: enjoying themselves right now. I think, I mean not, there
Speaker 1: is plenty of football content in the world, and we're
Speaker 1: not going to dive too deeply into it. I think
Speaker 1: that the forty nine ers are the better team. I
Speaker 1: think they are set up to win a game like
Speaker 1: this on both sides of the ball. And I think
Speaker 1: based on what Kansas City does, you could imagine Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey having a big game. You know, he's going to
Speaker 1: get the ball a lot. You know. Run defense is
Speaker 1: not a strength of the Kansas City Chiefs, but the
Speaker 1: thing about it is. And I kind of reached this
Speaker 1: point with Tom Brady and the Patriots at a certain
Speaker 1: point in my career. I just got tired of being
Speaker 1: the idiot who thought this was the year Tom Brady
Speaker 1: was going to fall apart. No way he can do
Speaker 1: this again. He's getting too old. It'll never work. I
Speaker 1: just can't. I'm a little I heard a little bit
Speaker 1: of Jake and Jordan as we were coming in here,
Speaker 1: and I'm a little bit like Jake. It's just really
Speaker 1: hard for me to look at Patrick Mahomes and the
Speaker 1: way he's playing now and yeah, that'll.
Speaker 2: Never work, exactly Like, it's really really hard to count
Speaker 2: out Patrick Mahomes in the postseason, especially this time of year.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: For that matter, it's hard to count out Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: and Travis Kelsey what they can do this time of year.
Speaker 2: And then you look at Chris Jones on that defense.
Speaker 2: What I keep coming back to. On paper, the forty
Speaker 2: nine Ers should win this game, but I've seen almost
Speaker 2: this exact forty nine Ers team lose to this Kansas
Speaker 2: City team. The biggest difference is going to be I think,
Speaker 2: you know, Christian McCaffrey can take over a game a
Speaker 2: little bit more than Raheem Moster could, and so ken
Speaker 2: is Christian mc It is very rare to say a
Speaker 2: team is a running back away, but the forty nine
Speaker 2: Ers were truly a running back away, and now they
Speaker 2: have that run.
Speaker 1: This was the moment, and they are loaded up with
Speaker 1: guys on the defensive side of the ball. They've got
Speaker 1: the best back in the game and Christy McCaffrey. And
Speaker 1: again my head tells me that the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: are the best team. I just don't know that they're
Speaker 1: going to win this game because again, the way Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes has played, what he's done in the postseason in
Speaker 1: a short amount of time, He's one of those guys.
Speaker 1: We were talking about Hall of Fame with Julius Peppers earlier.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is going to be one of them. Short
Speaker 1: conversations based on what he's done already. I mean, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't say this about very many players, but even if
Speaker 1: he did nothing else after this season, Patrick Mahomes going
Speaker 1: to Hall of Fame, kids, He's that guy. So it's
Speaker 1: going to be a fascinating week. I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing all the events in Las Vegas, looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing what happens Thursday night, and then when we get back,
Speaker 1: it'll be straight into combine prep. Right, you know, the
Speaker 1: offseason never really is off, not around this place. But
Speaker 1: we will get into it all next week and we'll
Speaker 1: break it all down for you, and I'll tell you
Speaker 1: if I actually got on to that roller coaster, war
Speaker 1: saw Wayne Newton or what we happen to do. We'll
Speaker 1: hit you next week on The Happy Half Hour. Firefour