WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 114: Always On 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:06.880 All right, folks, I feel like I should be very 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.320 excited when I say welcome to the Happy half Hour, 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.760 because Dave Canalis is here, and he brings the excitement 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.920 with him wherever he goes, including now to Bank of 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:20.400 America Stadium. So I think everybody was kind of picking 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:22.919 up what he was putting down last Thursday during that 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.960 press conference. And you know, when a new coach comes in, 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.760 there's obviously all kinds of enthusiasm, but he brings an 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:34.080 extra amount, doesn't tea. So it just from being at 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.640 that presser, and we'll go through all that during this episode. 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.360 But Cassidy, you were down in Mobile, got a chance 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.960 to see him early on with Dan on that first 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.080 day of work, and then slid over to Orlando for 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.200 Pro Bowl. So you've got all kind of good Dave 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.120 Canalis anecdotes, don't you. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.760 I have to first ask, is this excited Darren? I 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.400 don't know if I've experienced this to his full extent. 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:01.200 Yeah, it peeks out pretty early. I think over time, 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:03.920 you know, my edges have been softened a little bit. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.080 It's it's harder and harder for me to reach peak 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.000 excitement and stay that way for terribly long so yeah, 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:10.479 I need. 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:11.679 To prepare myself better for this. 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.360 Yeah, I should have. I should have gone radio DJ 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:19.600 Boys Sunday, Sunday Sunday, Good Morning. Yeah, exactly. 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:21.880 Yes. I did get to spend some time with Dave 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.280 Canalis last week in Mobile, and he wasn't in Orlando, 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.959 but yeah, I got I took a little tour of 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.840 the Gulf of Mexico last week, but got to spent 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.640 about half an hour with Dave on Monday, and that 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.840 was really cool. I don't even think he had made 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.720 it to Charlotte yet at that point, or if he had, 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.040 it had been a fly by night situation and they. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.040 Actually had not. He went straight from it. He connected 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.440 in Charlotte and got on the same plane as Dan 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.160 to fly to Mobile. So his experience in Charlotte at 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.960 that point was limited. Where Charlotte Douglas internationally right. 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.320 But got to spend some time with him and see 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:02.920 not only just you know, interact with him, but see 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.080 how so many other people sort of interacted with Dave 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:11.160 Canalis as well, and how sort of you know, beloved 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.320 he is amongst those those scouts and those coaches that 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.720 have been in this league for a while, because you know, 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.280 he spent a long time in Seattle and he spent 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.280 the one year in Tampa Bay, so he's only been 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.840 with two teams. But you go to these events, you're 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.880 around folks, you get to know them, and a lot 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:28.600 of people wanted to come up. He was also the 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.720 only new head coach that was Inmobile for the Senior Bowl, 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.160 or at least on Monday, and so I thought that 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.680 was interesting as well, you know, especially because the Panthers 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.560 don't have a first round pick, so they're looking at 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.000 guys that are going to be taking in the second 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.360 and third round. But I think more than anything, he 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.600 just kind of wanted to hit the ground running, see 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.840 this draft class up close, and get back into the 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.560 groove of working with Dan Morgan. I think they shared 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:54.560 this on Thursday in the press conference. But you know, 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.799 there's a two guys that offices were a door down 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.679 from each other in Seattle and now they're going to 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.280 be working right around the hall from each other again 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.400 as well. So I think they're excited about that. But 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.000 enjoyed getting to visit with him Memobile and kind of 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.040 just see what he's all about. He's an infectious guy, 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:17.240 but uh not sometimes when somebody is very personable, it 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.359 can almost come off a fate, but I don't get 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.320 that sense at all with Dave. It's it's really genuine. 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.480 And I thought it was interesting when I did get 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.519 back in the building on Monday to kind of see 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.920 him bouncing around the hallway, and he remembered just about 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.360 everyone's name, and if he didn't remember it, he stopped 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.840 to make sure he got it and made sure to 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.320 stop and speak to everyone along the way. So that's, 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.800 you know, right, he's trying to set a new standard, 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.040 I guess. And not to say that the last staff 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.880 didn't do that as well, but whenever you've got a 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.240 new head coach to come in and have guns of blazon, 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:49.960 that gives a jolt of energy. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.640 No doubt about it. He absolutely has that Pete Carroll vibe. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.080 I think they both like bounce because they're so like Tigger. 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.160 I think I've used the phrase always on more in 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.080 the last week and a half than I've used it 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.080 in the previous twenty years. And he's just got that energy. 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.520 And you know, again, one of the I thought it 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.080 was interesting. Somebody commented on one of the links we 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.800 sent out for something, and there's a segment of the 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.839 fan base that has heard a lot of this before. 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.280 This is the third coach in a short period of time, 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.880 and everybody's like, Okay, yeah, great excitement, I love it. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.960 Show me something and listen. That's the bottom line on 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.000 this thing. If Dave Canalis can get the Carolina Panthers 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:30.520 to score a bunch of points and win a bunch 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.200 of games, all that energy and enthusiasm would be justified. 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.440 And right now, based on the way the last five 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.560 six years have gone, I think there there's reason to 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.360 be skeptical of everything. Remember who it is now. If 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.240 they would have hired Bill Belichick, it would have been 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.800 he's too old. If they would have hired whoever, there 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.160 was always going to be something because I think people 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.480 are a little jaded based on what's happened around here 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.520 in the last few years. But man, he has gotten 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:58.080 a lot of people's attention. And when you do that, 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.920 you know you need too. Honestly. I mean, I think 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.520 after the way last year went, energy was something that 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.160 was in short supply, especially coming down the stretch, and 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.840 so when you walk into a situation like this, how 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.720 are you going to attack it? He's doing it up 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.840 on the balls of his feet and leaning into it 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.360 every day. I mean just from talking to people he's 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.279 working with. He's rolling in here at four forty five 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.640 five o'clock in the morning early, Yeah, and he is. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.120 He is getting started because he's got a lot of 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.440 catching up to do. I mean, he's learning an entirely 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.520 new set of personnel, he's hiring a staff, doing all 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.760 that kind of stuff, and so I think getting those 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:40.360 guys in place is it's obviously a huge job and 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.360 getting to know this this roster really before he makes 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.480 some pretty important decisions on it. And he is able 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.320 now now that he's here, now that he's in the building, 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.640 now that the media car wash has been taken care of, 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.479 he's done all the radio interviews and the press conferences 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.640 and all that kind of stuff. He's digging into the 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.279 football and trying to learn all these people. So that 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.719 is a full time job. So it doesn't surprise me 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.480 that he's attacking this thing early. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.080 There were two things he said last week that I 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.560 think stood out more than anything else, at least to me, 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.440 and it was about the things he wants to kind 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.240 of work on with Bryce, and one of them was 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.359 getting the ball out in two point seven seconds getting 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.680 it out much faster. That makes me curious because I 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.559 want to know, Okay, what do you do to shave 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.200 off a hundredth of a second here, a tenth of 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.159 a second here? What are you doing especially behind you know, 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.840 an offensive line with a younger guy, Like, what are 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.159 you doing to kind of shave off that time here 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.640 and there? To add up to shaving off enough that 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.760 he's getting that ball out in two point seven seconds? 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:40.279 Yeah. 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:44.160 And then the other thing he said was, you know, 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:49.080 he'll know when when Bryce is there, so to speak. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.520 But you know, he said, we're going to grow to 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.680 the capacity that he can handle. There's got to be 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.160 a commitment and a discipline with that. When I see 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.360 that back foot planet in the ground and that ball 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.320 rips out of there without any hesitation, I know we 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:00.920 got something. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:01.360 Yep. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.440 There's a lot of You can come in and just 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.760 be justified in your opening press conference to give a 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.240 lot of sweeping platitudes. 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:09.800 Mm hmm. 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.679 Those are two very specific things that it's like, Okay, 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.800 I'm coming in right away with a plan to focus 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.640 at least on these two things, and then we'll go 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:19.080 from there. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:20.960 And that was one of the things that stood out 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.240 to me at the press conference on Thursday. I mean, 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:27.120 he was very specific about two point seven seconds and 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.120 not two point eight. I used to have a buddy 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.640 in college who would say, Hey, we're going to the 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.360 waffle house in thirteen Minutes'd be like, what are you 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.960 talking about? But you know it's easy, like you said, 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:38.680 I mean, the easiest thing to do is say, oh, 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.560 we want to be aggressive on offense and that kind 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.840 of stuff. But to walk in with that kind of 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.400 detailed plan I think speaks to the job in front 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.200 of him and what he intends to do. I mean, 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.040 he knows. When I had the opportunity to catch up 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.679 with him on Wednesday for the story we published Thursday 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.880 morning before the press er, I mean, he was very 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.320 specific about things he wanted to go through with Bryce, 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.520 and that begins with getting to know him. And that's 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.440 going to be an important first step to build that relationship, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.640 because like it or not, these two are now going 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.520 to be linked together and Dave Canals's success will be 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.920 based on Bryce Young's ability to channel what he's trying 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.120 to do out there. So getting those two on the 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.720 same page them getting to know each other will be key. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.440 But again to say not just hey, we want to 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.640 be aggressive, but to have it at two point seven 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.320 seconds shows you how granular an approach he's bringing into 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:33.280 this job right now. 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.480 And you know, when I was in the in Orlando 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.040 for the Pro Bowl, I talk to a couple of 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.240 guys that had played which for Tampa Bay and Seattle, 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:45.080 Tristan Wurz and DK Metcalf, and they both mentioned the 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.080 detailed part of what Dave Canals brings to the job 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.880 and said he's very, very detail oriented. And Metcalf went 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:54.880 on to say, you know he's also going to do 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.199 he did what Rust did well, he did what Gino 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:02.120 did well, even mentioned Drew Locke. I think the death 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.760 kill for a lot of coaches is forcing a player 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.680 into their scheme instead of adjusting their scheme to their players. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.840 And so that's going to be I think the most 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.840 important thing to watch is does this get adjusted around 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:20.160 what Bryce young, these receivers, this offensive line can offer 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.640 and sort of elevate what they do. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.400 Best, no, no question, And that's the thing. And I 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.400 thought it was interesting seeing the stuff you were sending 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.800 back from Orlando. I mean, you get a lot of 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.400 that same stuff. I mean those guys talked about the 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.640 level of detail in addition to the energy. I think 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.640 that's the thing that kind of jumps off the page 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.560 and its easiest to see, but it came through and 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.600 talking to those guys about just how detailed, how he 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.400 comes into every interaction with a plan for it. That 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.120 kind of thing that Dave Canalis was in their experience. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.640 Right, So I know we keep going back to it, 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.640 but I'm I'm very interested just the logistics behind how 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.680 he's gonna shave that time off that throwing time. Yeah, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.680 because you hear a lot of people too talk about 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.200 like three seconds. You want to throw under three or 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.800 around two and a half. But to have that specific number, 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.000 I want to see how that comes about. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.479 Well, and again we've talked about this before on this podcast. 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.520 They're basically going to be starting from scratch because I 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:19.160 think everything Bryce Young did last season, you remember the experiences, 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.880 and Dave talked about that. He said, you know that 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:27.160 experience is valuable because he said, I go back to 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.480 my evaluations of Bryce from Alabama, which he was doing 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.320 when he was in Tampa, but he said, I get 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.840 that guy, plus sixteen games of having seen it in 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.160 the NFL but the specifics of the offense. Everything that 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.199 was happening here last year was just so fundamentally broken 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.640 that I don't think you kind of keep the scars, 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.679 but you throw everything else away because it's starting fresh. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.400 None of that stuff worked. The routes were never timed 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.240 up with his footwork, you know, the depth was never 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.720 in line with the protection, all the things. It was 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.520 just it was the most sideways offense I think I've 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.840 ever I've ever seen, honestly, and there's you know, a 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.640 lot of reasons for that. That probably not worth dragging 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.480 back up right now because there is that fresh start 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.079 and he gets to come in with his plan start 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.200 over with Bryce and a brand new staff on that 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:18.880 side of the ball. 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.640 I like that phrase, keep the scars and get rid 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.920 of everything else that was. You know, we got to 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.240 talk to Peyton Manning and Orlando as well, and that 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.120 was something he mentioned, Yeah, you know, I. 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.280 Needed I'm back. I'm back here at the office last 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.520 week and I'm talking to Cass about what's coming, and 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.640 she's like, oh, yeah, I talked to Peyton Manning too, 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:39.400 and I said, yeah, do that now, right right that one. Now, 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.680 let's just go straight to I've got the opinions of 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.839 probably the one of the five greatest quarterbacks ever to 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.920 play the game, who, by the way, also stunk his. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:54.040 Rookie right, He won what three games through twenty eight interceptions. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.320 Three and thirteen twenty eight picks. 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.800 And then the next year he went thirteen and three. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.839 Yep, So uh, not to say that's what's going to 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.200 happen here this season. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.520 Time is a flat circle. History will repeat itself. But 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.880 you know, we've here, we hear more and more the 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.959 past couple of years about the importance of letting a 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.160 guy sit and I think there's I think there's some 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.160 credibility to that, but then there's also something that can 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.680 be taken from going through it the only you know, 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.720 the only way to it is through it. And boy 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.000 did he go through it, right. And it's all gonna 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.280 for that to work, though, it's going to depend on 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.839 the attitude going into that second year. Okay, am I 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.280 gonna let that first year knock me down and kind 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.320 of mess with my mindset? Or am I gonna take 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.520 everything that went wrong and learn from it? And that's 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.680 what Peyton Manning did, And you know, he said, you know, 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.040 you go back and watch what Bryce did at Alabama. 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.160 He's he's got the capability to do it. So it's 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.480 as long as he can learn from that rookie year, 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.120 and to your point, kind of just flush it all away, 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.400 but keep the scars that could end up being in 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.720 the long run. This is gonna sound crazy to say, 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.600 but in the long run, the best thing that happened 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:01.960 to him. 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.040 Woof you. You do not want it. You do not 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.800 want to have to get your education that way, but 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:12.000 you can get an education that way. It's maybe not exactly, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.640 it's kind of like my college transcript, probably not the 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.440 way you'd have drawn it up, but there was a 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.360 degree at the end. I guess exactly. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.360 He's getting degrees. You told us that. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.520 Earlier this week, no doubt, no doubt, And I got 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.240 too many of them. But she was a good day 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.000 some years. At any rate. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.079 You know what they call a doctor who got a 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:31.920 d in medical school and a doctor of got to 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:33.599 a doctor. 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.600 Yeah, that was an old John foxism. One of these 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.719 days this is gonna be my book. I'm going to 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.720 write the wit and wisdom of John Fox. He was 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.640 he was famous for. I used to tease him about 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.400 being a phys ed major from San Diego State, and 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.240 he was like, well, you know what they call the 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:53.040 guy who finished class in medical school, don't you? Doctor? 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.480 Who's very proud of that. So it's uh, I can 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.280 do John fox'sm's all day long. But why would we 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.839 do that when there's a new coach and a Super 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.040 Bowl and all this stuff. Oh the other thing on 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.200 your travel blog, you got to visit with our guy 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.600 Derek Brown down in Orlando. Since Derek is an actual 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.840 pro bowler now and not just a guy who bowls. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:17.720 He is a pro bowler. And was there anybody in 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.040 Orlando having the kind of fun he was having? 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.120 I don't think there was. He was having the time 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.600 of his life. He helped them win both the help 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.760 the NFC win the relay by doing the sled push 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.640 at the end. I think he was pushing to Marcus Ware. Yeah. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.240 And the Chug of War, I mean he was an 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.640 anchor on that thing. A lot of attention got put 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.680 on Aiden Hutchinson because he was at the front of 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:42.000 the rope. But anybody who's ever been through second grade 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.360 can tell you the importance in Tug of War is 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:44.840 the anchor. 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.960 Yeah, and you got Dexter Lawrence and Derek Brown at 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.000 the back end of that rope for the NFC, it 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.320 was it was going to be hard to move those 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:52.880 two cats. 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.160 And they not only did they win, they won like 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:56.960 bat both back to. 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.760 Back pretty convincingly. But yeah, it was It was good 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.600 to see Derek be rewarded for the season he had. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.680 We talked a lot about it coming down the stretch 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.040 of the season. I mean, he was the bright spot. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.440 He was the thing that was going well. So I 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:15.320 just think from a human standpoint there is it was 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.640 good for him to be recognized. It was good for 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.240 people to see it, and you know, he's going to 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.040 be one of the people they build around here. And 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:27.080 when you know, when Dan Morgan talked on Thursday about 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.200 the kind of people he wanted to see, he wanted 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.920 to see dogs. He kept talking about dogs. Somebody asked me, 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.240 would you spell this dawg or are you going d 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:40.840 og dawg? See, I'm a traditionalist. I guess I went 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.640 d og when I wrote these stories and somebody asked 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.480 me about it and I looked it up. And when 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:53.000 the Godfather of funk, George Clinton, recorded Atomic Dog on 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.840 the album cover, it was dog and I was like, 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.600 if George Clinton says it's dog, I'm going with dogs. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.640 I just think that actually reminds me. I had a 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:07.440 dog growing up that we called him dog like Italian 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.000 when you say it slow yeah, d og. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:10.920 Yeah. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:16.520 Anyways, d g versus dawg, that's two completely different people. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:21.320 Like a dog, dog that's somebody who you know can 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:27.000 can stand up for themselves. But a dawg that's somebody 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.800 who's like gonna go out there and fight the fight 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.840 every time, no matter like he'll he'll bring the fight 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:33.080 to you. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.520 Well, we'll continue this debate throughout the years. I think 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.960 it's situational their time for dogs and their time for dogs. 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.120 But you know, Dan talked about needing more of them 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.280 and and specifically you know, when I asked him who 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.960 those guys are here, the two cats he mentioned immediately 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.280 were Derrick Brown and Frankie Lou And Frankie is almost like, 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.680 having been around and watched Dan play his rookie year 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.520 and beyond, he always played that way. I mean, hair 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:05.200 on fire, running around one hundred miles an hour. Dan 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.680 was a more analytical player. I mean Frankie is another 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.720 one of those energy guys. But Dan had that kind 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:16.040 of Luke Keekley type of recognition, read and react ability 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.960 coupled with just burning hot and one hundred miles an hour. 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.720 And Frankie is that guy. Now. Frankie was put in 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.600 a position this year without Shaq Thompson around, where he 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.720 was forced into more of a call the play leadership 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.439 type role. But when Frankie's at his best, it's just 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.040 wind him up and let him go. And that's what 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.080 Dan talked about needing more of. And they're gonna look 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.199 to add some of those guys on both sides of 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.680 the ball, honestly, and they're gonna need it, and we'll 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.320 we'll have opportunities to get into the offseason plans and 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.800 all that kind of stuff as we go. But you know, 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:53.080 I just early on when I think about what they're 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.159 trying to do here and create a new start around 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.080 a bunch of existing parts and to change the tone 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.720 you know they they went to in fifteen last year, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.480 and nobody wants to think too much about how that happened, 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.919 but creating that kind of mindset, creating that culture is 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.719 the word that gets thrown out a lot at introductory 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:15.560 press conferences. They were very intentional about that. I mean, 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:19.240 I went back and looked at a transcript to that 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.919 press conference, and if you search the word dog, I 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.520 think the only word they use more often was alignment. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.639 And they just talked about speaking off the same page, 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:33.000 everybody kind of following the same pattern and creating something 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.520 new here. That's the challenge for Dave canalist Dan Morgan, 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.080 and it's a big one. It's not going to be 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.440 something that gets fixed immediately. And Dan was very careful 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.520 about talking about that with me. He's like, this might 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.960 take a minute because we have to do this right 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:53.240 and be very intentional about it. But right now, at 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.280 the point they are at, they have checked that box. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.440 I mean, they've kind of locked in on what they're 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.959 looking for. Staffed there, trying to hire all the stuff 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.160 that's going on. So so far, so good. There will 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.760 be a lot of ground to cover in the days 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.120 and weeks to come, and we will get to all 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:12.880 that here on the Happy half Hour. But the other 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:16.600 thing we have to get to this week is, oh, 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:20.360 by the way, super Bowl, Yeah, Vegas. 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:20.640