WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 125: Only the Good Stuff 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:03.360 This week on a Happy half Hour. 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:09.240 There's a lot of bs in the world of professional football. 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.320 There's a lot of negativity, in case you haven't noticed, 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.400 surrounding professional football. But when you get to the Hall 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.840 of Fame, it's only the good stuff that everybody likes 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.360 and none of the bad stuff that everybody hates. 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:28.760 Touchdown, cow wha, It's time for the Happy Half Hour, 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:34.760 presented by Southern Star, an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.800 Here are your hosts, Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.280 Hello, friends, and welcome to a jam packed edition of 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.520 the Happy Half Hour, presented to you by Southern Star 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:53.520 and official bourbon partner of the Carolinas. Celebrate the spirit 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.800 of the Carolina Little Southern Star, and we've got plenty 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:02.279 to celebrate. Man, what a week since we last left you. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.759 You've been to Clemson, I've been to Canton. 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.000 We have been all around this world, and by that 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.880 we mean from anywhere Ohio to South Carolina. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.480 Right, we're about to get on airplanes and go to 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:19.760 suburban Providence, Rhode Island. Yeah, you know, Foxboro, Massachusetts is 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.679 kind of a made up place. I mean Foxboro in 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.640 and of itself, so a charming little village, but not 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:26.319 a place you would go unless you were going to 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:30.800 a football game necessarily. But yeah, a lot of stuff 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:32.760 going on, and it's kind of hard. I know we 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.360 talked about this in the last podcast, but we've reached 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.800 that time of year when I have lost all concept 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.440 of time. I don't know what day of the week 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.319 it is. I don't know what time of day. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:47.319 Someone said to me today something about, oh, today is Tuesday, Yes, Tuesday, 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.360 and I went, no, it's not. And then I sat 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:50.720 there and thought about it for a second and I 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.120 was like, wait, on Sunday, Monday, it is Tuesday. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:55.800 I'll be how about that. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.440 So is Foxboro on the Paul Revere Tour. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.000 I don't know. I'm not sure that it's on. There's 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:03.400 a dunkin Donuts. 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.200 There, of course there is. I would expect nothing less. 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.840 We're going to struggle to find Krispy Kreme, an official 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.160 doughnut partner of the Carolina Panthers, while we were there. 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.440 But there's a dunk. You can't swing a dead cat 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.519 without hitting a duncan in that town. So uh. Anyway, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.400 before we get to where we're going, we should probably 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:21.959 cover where we've been. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:23.839 Yeah, great life lesson. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.919 I know, right, we should we should take a look 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:30.120 back to inform the future. Uh, and let's start with Clemson. 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.600 I mean you you were down there the other night 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.600 for a fan fist practice, and you know, shoot the 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.600 nostalgia straight into your veins. There's Dom Caper's, It's Clemson. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.480 It's nineteen ninety five all over again. We found out 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.160 last week. You were alive in nineteen ninety five, but 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.120 only barely so I was barely alive. 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.840 That would have been the year I started kindergarten, the 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.080 fall of nineteen ninety five, and that. 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.919 Was a year I started covering the Carolina Panthers. This 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.440 is the part of the where feels old. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.320 The birth of the Panthers, the birth Cassidy's career in school. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.120 All good things happened in nineteen ninety five. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.839 It's been an education since then. I'll tell you that 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.519 it has. But what was the lag down there? I 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.960 mean that was kind of They had had a padded 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.799 practice before that, But after seeing that one, I mean, 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.080 was there could you pick up a vibe off what 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:19.080 was going on down there? 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.840 First of all, it was my first trip to Clemson. 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.480 Was a lot of fun, Yeah, how'd that go for you? Everything? 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.240 There was a blanket of humidity that settled over the 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:32.000 entire stadium. That was fun. But I was trying to 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.480 convince different people to touch the rock and run down 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.440 the hill. Dave Canalis said that he thought about it 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.360 and then he went and walked down the hill and 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.000 he was like, Yeah, this is way too steep. I'm 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.760 not running down this. You could just see somebody tearing 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:45.360 their acl Yeah, let's not. 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.840 Get hurt running down the hill. Dave, that's a good call. 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.880 It was essentially a mock scrimmage. The plan was to 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.760 hold a little bit of a practice and then go 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:55.760 into a scrimmage. They really just kind of ended up 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.440 doing warm ups and then jumped straight into the scrimmage. 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.880 The story of the first half was Jadavian Clowney. He 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:06.680 was everywhere at multiple sacks. He kind of just exerted 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.000 his dominance and reminded every one of who he can 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.360 be and also gave a little bit of breathing room 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.719 to what this past rushing unit can be because there's 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:21.720 been some uncertainty. There is still the question of depth 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.760 behind him. But if the bulk of this responsibility does 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.080 land on Jadavian Clowney's shoulders. He reminded everyone that he 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.640 is capable of handling it, and so that was nice 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.240 to see, just to kind of see how much of 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.520 a game wrecker he can be. It made it tough 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.080 going for the offense though, something that Dave canalis I 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.760 timed it. It took him fourteen seconds into his press 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.760 conference after that mock scrimmage to address the offensive woes 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.440 from the first half and then into the second half, 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.320 and a lot of that, again had to do with Clowney. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.440 There were also a lot of pre snap penalties, false stars, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.880 delay of games. I mean, granted, Darren, this was the 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.479 first like game like structure that they had really been in. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.960 You would rather work these things out in a mock 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:12.480 scrimmage on August first than you would and free at 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.920 the end of September. But they were still things that 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.880 I think it put a big glaring issue up on 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.680 the board for them to work on this week. And 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.560 so we've seen a lot, a lot, a lot of 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.359 times this week where there might have been a slight 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.800 delay a game in practice, and normally in a practice 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.760 you might just let it go to keep the play moving. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.039 Canalysis stopped it every time and made them rehuddle and 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.720 start again. So I think that's been a huge emphasis. 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.960 In the second half, we saw both Bryce Young and 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.240 Jack Plumber kind of get things moving a little bit easier. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:46.839 Some of that had to do with the fact that 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.159 Jenevin Clowney was no longer on the field, but move 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.880 things a little bit easier. Bryce to Deontae just seems 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.880 to get a little bit stronger every day. Bryce to 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.320 feeling Adam Thielen tried to do a gritty Actually he 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.320 didn't try, he did it, but you know, it's always 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.320 a little weird to see Adam thelen versus Justice Everson 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:09.880 doing that. Some good play from a couple of the 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.240 tight ends that had to step up with injuries like 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.080 Felipe Franks, and then you know, like the running back 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.720 Mike Boone. We've seen some of these guys that are 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.880 going to be fighting for these final roster spots and 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.560 maybe these practice squad spots really kind of take advantage 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.960 the past few days. Overall, good trip to Clipson, my 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.240 first time being out there, good bit of fans that 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.080 ended up filtering in. You know, it was raining when 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.200 we first got there, so it made it hard for 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.080 people to get in, but as they got in, it 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.159 was a lot of fun. The best part may have 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.799 been JC Horn walking out in a South Carolina gamecock. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.200 Shirt, which was petty, and I respected it. 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.120 You can respect the pettiness. And he said he specifically 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.360 called the equipment manager out South Carolina as soon as 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.560 this clips in practice was announced and said, I need 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:56.200 some new stuff. And he made sure to walk out 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.440 in that shirt so that every Clipson fan and Dabosweeney 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:00.840 who was on and could. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.200 See it, absolutely love that. Now there's one thing I 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.400 was disappointed about, and I've got a bone to pick 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.560 with you. We haven't really gotten into this. Oh God, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.840 but I sent you to Clemson with one direction and 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.320 you failed me for the very first time in your 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:18.720 career here at Panthers dot com. Listen, you were given 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.600 explicit instructions. You have to take a picture of the 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.200 peachoid as you go down eighty five on the bus 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.640 and tweet it out. It's not training camp. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.600 If you don't got into my head, I could not 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.720 have told you when we passed that peach It's not 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:34.640 like I saw it too late and didn't get my 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.040 phone out. I never saw it one time. 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:42.160 You know, Ron Rivera would call that a missed opportunity, Cassie, 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:42.960 I'm not gonna lie. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.520 I'll just have to drive back down there, Matt. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.880 Can we get a soundboard here where we've just got 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.720 the voice of Ron Rivera saying missed opportunity, where if 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.880 I wave and give you the high sign, we can 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:55.840 just have that. I think that would be a lot. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.080 Of fun or a bunch of people going boom. 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.120 We could do it with well, we could do it 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.560 with many of the coaches in Panthers history. I'd like 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.320 a Dom Caper's where he says sense of urgency. I 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.800 would like a John Fox it is what it is, 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.480 And for now, I'll take a Ron Rivera missed opportunity 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.160 and we'll just leave it at that. And I think 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.240 I think that could become a lot of fun and 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:21.040 could become topical as we developed this podcast further. But yeah, 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:21.880 you had one. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.000 Job do the sound effects, even if they're at my expense, you. 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.840 Had one job. I'm sorry, I don't know what to 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:32.040 tell you. It's uh, it's my life the same. Yeah, 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.200 the good news for you and your punishment probably would 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.720 have been more severe, except I was in the happiest 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:44.199 place on earth. Somebody, somebody asked, how how'd cast he 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.920 end up in Clemson, and you got Can't Ohio, I said, 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:51.240 I picked first, right. There is no people, this is 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.079 a funny thing. I enjoy the Pro Football Hall of 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.320 Fame a great deal. I love the city of Can't, Ohio, 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.400 and so many people when I spec ho else my 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.679 love for my second home. I'm currently researching real estate 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.440 investment possibilities in Canton, Ohio. But people keep looking at me. 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.640 Investment if you're just gonna use it for yourself. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.240 Right, People keep looking at me like I'm kidding, Like 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.240 is he being serious or is this snarky Darren right now? 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.240 And I'm like, no, Canton is the happiest place on earth. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.079 The only good things happen in football. And I am 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.920 sincere about this because when you are there for the 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.840 Pro Football Hall of Fame, you know there's a lot 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.760 of bs in the world of professional football. There's a 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:35.160 lot of negativity in case you haven't noticed, surrounding professional football. 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.000 But when you get to the Hall of Fame, it's 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.439 only the good stuff that everybody likes and none of 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:46.120 the bad stuff that everybody hates. Nobody's charting practice snaps 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.600 being dropped, nobody's talking about your GMS an idiot for 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.079 passing on this guy in the fourth round. It's like, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.200 hey man, there's Julius Pepper's getting a hug from me 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:59.679 and Joe Green, and that's pretty cool and that's kind 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.640 of the week for me. I mean, obviously I enjoy this, 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.000 and we enjoyed bringing you guys a lot, and there's 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.760 more to come on Panthers dot Com. We got some 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.360 cool video elements and a whole lot of pictures. We 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.760 were basically firing the entire time. We were there for 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.200 four days, and that's part of the reason we've got Yeah, 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.880 there's a lot to capture because there was constantly something 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.000 going on. From him walking out on the field Thursday 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:28.040 night during the Hall of Fame game, you know, hugging 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.079 up on DJ Moore, his one time teammate who's now 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:35.240 with the Bears, was a cool little moment. Friday, I 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:39.080 mean Friday, Julius goes to the team picture. We had 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.960 him micd up for that. It's super cool. Orlando Pace 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.960 comes rolling up late and people are like, yeah, come 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.280 on and on, and you just hear Pip in the backgroundling, 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.839 and you could tell he was just enjoying himself so much. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.440 It's not just me who loves the Canton experience, but 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.920 everything from that to the gold jack at dinner, seeing 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.600 Julius chose min Joe Green to put the jacket on him, 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.079 and it was kind of it was kind of a 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.520 theme throughout the weekend that here is this utterly modern 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:16.040 football player, this freakish athlete, who can do things other 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.400 football players could never do in a way that they 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:23.200 can't even consider, and the old dudes have a respect 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.880 for him. One of the cool moments for me was 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.240 talking to Dave Robinson, who you've spent time in Green Bay. 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.560 That name's probably itched in your memory. I mean, it's 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.439 probably on walls in Green Bay. Dave Robinson, outside linebacker 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.080 on the great Packers defenses of the sixties, you know, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.560 played in Super Bowl One, won three championships with the Packers, 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.120 lined up to some cat named Raid Ninchke. So he 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.080 kind of knows about the football and whether it was good. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.440 And I was talking to Dave Robinson and he said, listen, man, 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.560 not all of these young guys could play when I play. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.960 That one could, and he pointed to Julius. He said, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:04.240 Julius Peppers absolutely could. And to me, that's like almost 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.480 the summation of the whole week was all the legends 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.880 of football recognizing Julius was a different sort of cat 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.640 and now one of them, and then again seeing him 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.720 kind of come to the acceptance of, yes, this is 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.840 the place I belong, Yes this is the place I 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.520 will now reside forever. And it was pretty cool to 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:32.280 bring it all home seeing his speech. I mean, Julius 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.800 gave one of the better Hall of Fame speeches I've 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.960 seen personally, and I think a lot of people have 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.560 seen in a long time. And as you know from 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.559 Readingpanthers dot Com, Julius writes his own material, which made 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.320 it that much more impressive to see him pull that off. 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.000 But about nineteen minutes, the very best part to me 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.440 was about the last minute of that speech, after he 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.520 thanked everybody, you know, all his old friends, all his 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.920 old coaches, all that you know, all the people he 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.480 talked about throughout the course of the speech. He kind 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.479 of brought it home in a way that wasn't about football, 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.320 And you know, it was pretty cool to hear it 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:08.680 in Julius's own words. 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.640 Now I'm going to close with what being a Hall 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:14.120 of Famer means to me. It's not about how many 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.640 touchdowns you scored or how many Super Bowl rings you have, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.720 even though those things are nice. It really comes down 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.760 to who you are, to your core and what's in 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:26.960 your heart. Are you resilient, do you stand tall in 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.920 the face of adversity when things get tough or do 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:34.280 you quit? Do you acknowledge other people's contributions to your 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:38.360 success or do you make it all about you. Being 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.120 a Hall of Famer is one of my crown and achievements, 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.080 but it extends far beyond pro football. It extends to 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:50.120 my family, and it extends to my daily life. Everyone 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.280 can't play in the NFL, and everyone can't have a 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.360 bus here and can but everyone can be a Hall 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:00.840 of Famer in your own life. Be a Hall of Fame, 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:05.840 d a hall of Fame student, teacher, spouse, coworker, friend, 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.760 whatever it is, Whatever it is that you do, do 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:15.960 it with respect, integrity, passion, resilience, dedication, and gratitude. That 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.559 alone will make you a Hall of Fame person, and 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.560 you two can have a legacy that lives on forever. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.160 Thank you and God. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:27.120 Bless and I mean when you hear that, you're just 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:31.880 left with the thought, hey, this guy gets it. Be 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.160 he might be better at riding than I am. But 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.360 I mean there was a genuine appreciation of the moment, 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.920 and I think Julius rose to it as he did 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.400 so many other times through his career. But yeah, you 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.800 can't get me to say enough good things about the 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.360 city of Can't, Ohio. They even have a bow Jangles 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.960 now right off everhard Road. They're bow Berry Biscuits in Can't, Ohio, 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.280 the birthplace of professional football, are in the shape of 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.520 little delicious footballs. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.600 That's like all of your favorite things together. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.680 I got both j Angles, I got the Hall of Fame, 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.120 I got Canton, Ohio, I got Panthers dot Com and 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.040 our crew with me alongside. It was just you couldn't 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.080 beat the smile off my face for about four days there. 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:14.600 I mean, we put in a lot of time, but 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.800 we do it for you are readers and listeners. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.760 You said something, no, go ahead, you said something about 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.240 getting there and realizing for the guys, realizing this is 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.000 where they're gonna be, this is where they're gonna be 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:32.240 enshrine forever now and justifiably so. When Julius was first 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.640 announced that he would be in the Hall and y'all 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.520 were in Vegas for that announcement, you talked about how 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.160 he kind of was almost like wide eyed, like, am 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.520 I really a part of this group? Did you feel 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.280 like it had sunk in by the time he got 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:44.880 to camp. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.600 It's he was coming to that realization. Yeah, that was 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.680 the cool moment in Vegas when he looked at me 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.560 and he said, because the night before the announcement, he's 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.120 checking into the hotel and Barry Sanders is in front 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.640 of him in line, and Julia says, I'm sitting here 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.840 looking at Barry Sanders like the same now, you know, 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:05.080 And it just he was giddy about it, and and 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.360 it was hard for him to wrap his mind around it. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:11.160 But again, seeing the reaction of other people to Julius, 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.840 seeing his reaction to it all, it was a super 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.280 cool weekend. He had a party. We've got some shots 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.880 of that coming on Panthers dot com. A lot of 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.800 old coaches and teammates and friends were there for him. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.840 I mean, Julius got to see you know, former UNC 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.360 basketball legend and assistant coach Phil Ford, and he was like, 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.680 wasn't expecting to see Phil Ford walking into the door. 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.200 We got to say, Michael Jordan, No, Michael shows up. 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.520 Michael was at the ceremony. He got a hug from 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.080 Julius as you saw in her socials. But you know, 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.480 you kind of look around that party and hey, over 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.120 there's Luke Keigley hugging up on Julius. And Luke didn't 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:46.560 want to stand next to Julius. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.440 He told us that yesterday he said, I have to 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.320 make sure to stand like six feet away like force perception, 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.440 because I look like a child next to Julius. 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:57.320 Yeah, and that's Luke Keighley who's saying that ladies and gentlemen, 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.360 not a small person. It sat like Steve Smith said 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.920 that Steve used to always laugh because they were eighty 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.800 nine and ninety. He said, when we'd be in team pictures, 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.119 I'd be like up on my tippy toes trying to 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.840 get even close to where he was. But it's like, 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.360 you look at that party over there, as John Fox, 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:19.359 what's Marty Hernie doing here? You know, there's Hannibal Navies 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.320 was at the party. And for David Langton, who's on 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:23.679 the other side of the room, and some of the 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.840 old heads. You'll remember that one. But it was a 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.119 great blend. I mean, Kevin Dine only a lot of 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.919 a lot of his old teammates and friends from across 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:36.520 the eras were there. Stephen was here the other night 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.600 for I don't I don't recall if Steve. 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.680 Was there someone in the crowd that I thought was him. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.400 Yeah, there was a lot of people. Steve Wilkes was there, 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:47.160 former Panthers interim coach and friend of the programme, Steve Wilkes. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.280 It was good to catch up with him. He saw 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.240 the long hair and he said, nice hair there, and 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.520 I said, I'm taking it back to my boon roots Steve, 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.160 and Steve, being an Appalachian state man, appreciated that. He said, 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.400 you're going out to put the birkenstocks back on too. 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:03.120 We can make that happen too. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.520 Here will come the Sam Elliott character from Parks and 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.160 rec So. 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:11.959 So anyway, great weekend, and again we enjoyed bringing it 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.680 all to you. Hopefully it wasn't too much for you. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.159 Hopefully you didn't get tired of Julius Peppers, because frankly, 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.160 I think I could talk about him and write about 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.080 him all day Long. He's just that big of a 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:27.119 personality and big of a character in this franchise's history, 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.280 so it was appropriate that he goes in as the 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.960 first drafted as a Panther member of the Pro Football 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:37.359 Hall of Fame. So on to worldly matters. I walked 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.280 back into practice Monday, and I was like, how are 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:40.760 you going to send him back to the farm when 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:42.240 they've seen the bright lights of Canton. 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.760 But here we are, Oh Jangles like just shines across campon. 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:50.320 I know, right, but we are back to work now 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.320 and we're about to get on those airplanes and go 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.960 see a preseason game. And what a preseason game it 0:18:56.080 --> 0:19:00.320 promises to be. Dave Canalis told us today that we 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:05.040 will not see Bryce Young and likely you know, I 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.080 think they're going to be smart about playing a lot 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.479 of the starters here in this first game. But with 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.199 no Bryce Young and Andy Dalton kind of dinged up 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:16.120 on the sidelines, that means Jack Palmer, ladies and gentlemen, 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:21.760 Jack Plumber, the undrafted rookie from Louisville via Purdue in California, 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.880 is going to be likely starting. I mean, Jake Lwton's here, 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.960 but he just rolled up on Sunday or Monday. What 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.880 day is it, can't remember. Yeah, he got here Monday. 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.000 He'll play probably a little bit later in the game. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:38.640 But this is going to be a lot of work 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:41.800 for Jack Plumber. If you're a local fan here in 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:43.919 the Charlotte market, you may have seen him in his 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:47.040 last college game, which was the ACC championship game at 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.560 Bank of America Stadium. That one didn't turn out too 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:53.680 well for him, But Dave Canalis was actually pretty enthused 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:55.919 about Jack Plumber and what he's seen from the rookie 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:56.440 so far. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:58.880 The guy's a hard worker. I've learned that he's very 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.720 detailed in what he does. I feel like he's been 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.840 really sharp, you know, with the the different changes that 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.480 happen at the line. Really just like the mechanisms, the 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.080 cadences and all that stuff. I think he's been sharp there. 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:13.400 He's a great athlete, you know, he can. He's got 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.800 a big arm and he's showcased that a couple of times, 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.600 you know, and love his mobility, and he's got a 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:20.640 really cool demeanor about him. So I really like the guy. 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:24.359 I'm excited for Jack for this opportunity. A lot of 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.080 times you kind of get those those the late quarter work, 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:28.480 you know, and he gets to kind of go out 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.199