Speaker 1: And this week of the group chat, we're using the
Speaker 1: RAMS game as a measuring stick to see where we
Speaker 1: want to see growth in week two. Honestly, what we
Speaker 1: saw from the offense Sunday felt a lot like two
Speaker 1: thousand eighteen. It was it was Christian and Christian and
Speaker 1: Christian again. And then we compare the preseason to a
Speaker 1: house Cats Cats are the worst in the preseason is
Speaker 1: the worst. That ends so much more on this week's
Speaker 1: the group chat. You've been added to the group chat
Speaker 1: with your friends Caroline Can, Max Sensen, and Will Brian.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't know how to start these things, So
Speaker 1: that's how we should start this one. Can we just
Speaker 1: roll with that? Guys? I struggle every single time coming
Speaker 1: out of like the open of like, oh, how do
Speaker 1: you follow that? I don't know? This is how we're
Speaker 1: doing it right now. Sometimes well, it would have been
Speaker 1: good if we started with your opening of the sprite
Speaker 1: can though, that would have been it was very loud,
Speaker 1: everyone like the subtle can that you heard a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago from that opening it no, mine was
Speaker 1: right in the mic, just don't wake everyone up. I
Speaker 1: literally jumped, Yeah, you did almost fall out before we
Speaker 1: get started here with what we originally planned to do
Speaker 1: on this podcast. We would like to introduce whoever is
Speaker 1: running our fan club. We would like to introduce a
Speaker 1: new name. Um, we'll probably the name because we don't
Speaker 1: have a president of a fan club, nor do we
Speaker 1: have a fan club. But if we want, if someone
Speaker 1: out there wants to start one the Groupies, if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a name the group piece, wouldn't our graphic
Speaker 1: designer Kelly be the president of our fan club? She
Speaker 1: hopefully because she called this the group Talk? Oh was
Speaker 1: it time to go? Do the group talk? Kelly? We
Speaker 1: love Keen though we love Kelly, So Kelly, thank you
Speaker 1: for listening every single week and giving us the name
Speaker 1: the Groupies. Yes, yes, all right, now we'll jump into
Speaker 1: the real segment. So this this last week, did you
Speaker 1: guys know the Panthers? They played the Ramps in Week one?
Speaker 1: Were you guys there? I was there? Max? Were you there?
Speaker 1: I was also there? Yeah? I was there. Did you
Speaker 1: see most president and accounted for? I did? Did you
Speaker 1: did you get it? I didn't get to watch most
Speaker 1: of ye So Will is not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: offer much in this segment. I guess he could tell
Speaker 1: us about how some of the mobile app things went. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the I wasn't serious. Okay, that wasn't actually asking Will
Speaker 1: is always reading? Was fantastic. I was also the game.
Speaker 1: But I did not see either of you. Yeah we
Speaker 1: saw you. Yeah I heard you. I was all the
Speaker 1: way from the press box. You could hear hoping that
Speaker 1: Mike will pick me up at some point, like if
Speaker 1: I'm loud enough, someone will listen. But then playing in
Speaker 1: this game. Something that came out of this game, a
Speaker 1: little catchphrase that we caught onto was this game was
Speaker 1: a measuring stick for this Carolina Panthers team. And so
Speaker 1: that made me think of you know when you walk
Speaker 1: into like old homes, or maybe it's just family homes
Speaker 1: not old ones. I'm sure anyone's have this as well,
Speaker 1: like a doorframe that has like, oh, at seven years old,
Speaker 1: little Johnny was this tall and at eight and nine.
Speaker 1: That's what it made me think of. So, if this
Speaker 1: is a measuring stick for this team, what do we
Speaker 1: want to see grow? What do we find like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that staying the same. I thought that
Speaker 1: was pretty good. So we're putting the Panthers up on
Speaker 1: the door frame and we're going to project maybe something
Speaker 1: that we think will change this week with the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers coming to town for Thursday night football. Um,
Speaker 1: or just something that we're like, you know, I liked
Speaker 1: that that doesn't need to grow. We that that can
Speaker 1: stay right there. So anyone want to go first, because
Speaker 1: the only real rule of this podcast is that Caroline
Speaker 1: never goes first. Yeah, well, I think that if if
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey's production grows any anymore than like his legs
Speaker 1: are going to fall off. I don't think we have
Speaker 1: a doorframe that big. I don't. I don't think we
Speaker 1: can do that anymore, and that can stay right where. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty much there. I would like to see, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, someone some other rushing numbers up there. I
Speaker 1: don't know there were necessarily going to see a ton
Speaker 1: of Jordan's Scarlett, a ton of Reggie Bonifon in the backfield,
Speaker 1: but last year the Panthers led the league in rushing
Speaker 1: yards by wide receivers. I'd like to see a little
Speaker 1: bit more of that. Curtis Samuel D. J. Moore. I
Speaker 1: was surprised we didn't see any end arounds the Curtis
Speaker 1: or DJ in that game. I don't know if that
Speaker 1: had something more to do with the Rams scheme and
Speaker 1: North didn't feel comfortable with it, but yeah, neither of
Speaker 1: them involved in the running game, and obviously Cam wasn't either,
Speaker 1: which is a big story, right, So yeah, I'd like
Speaker 1: to see a little more rushing production from others and
Speaker 1: not necessarily. It doesn't mean that Christians coming off the
Speaker 1: field for fifteen snaps, but it means that others running
Speaker 1: the ball. Doesn't mean that he's coming off the field
Speaker 1: for one snaper because that would be more than all right, Max,
Speaker 1: I would like to see the offense grow in the
Speaker 1: area of creating explosive plays. We had the longest completion
Speaker 1: of the game really for either team. What was Goffs
Speaker 1: Before I get into a cams with seventeen yards? What
Speaker 1: was goffs long is completion wasn't four. So neither team
Speaker 1: was particularly explosive through the air. But this is a
Speaker 1: thing that's always going to be following Cam and the
Speaker 1: Panthers after what we saw last year too, is where
Speaker 1: the big play is going to come from. Um, it's
Speaker 1: so hard to play in a box like this and
Speaker 1: to count on ten eleven, twelve play drives to get
Speaker 1: yourself down the field, and look, Christian can roll for
Speaker 1: five or six yards to carry and put up the
Speaker 1: numbers he did, but defenses are going to be willing
Speaker 1: to give that up. What they don't want to give
Speaker 1: up is big plays over the top or big chunks,
Speaker 1: and Caroline has got to figure out a way to
Speaker 1: do that. Whether it's d J. Moore and Curtis Samuel
Speaker 1: being the guys who are on the outside are doing it,
Speaker 1: whether it's Camm and his legs, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know when we're gonna be able to see that from
Speaker 1: him again, but it can all be on Christian, to
Speaker 1: Will's point, and they've got to They've just got to
Speaker 1: have more than plays that are seventeen yards longest through
Speaker 1: the air and I think Christian's longest rush was twenty
Speaker 1: three yards. And they need big plays, bottom line. They
Speaker 1: need to have that. So just one game, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to make too much of it from just you're
Speaker 1: making a huge deal out of this. But the thing
Speaker 1: about it is this was last year too. I Mean,
Speaker 1: we're talking about some track record here of honestly, what
Speaker 1: we saw from the offense Sunday, what felt a lot
Speaker 1: like two thousand and eighteen it was. It was Christian
Speaker 1: and Christian and Christian again, So that this offense needs
Speaker 1: to grow in that way for sure. Going forward to
Speaker 1: to play Devil's advocate to that, That's where I'm going
Speaker 1: because I'm okay with I don't think I want to
Speaker 1: feel like I literally put seventeen yards was the longest
Speaker 1: pass froom Cam Newton, and I'm okay if that stays
Speaker 1: the same. I thought you put twenty seven points up
Speaker 1: on the board with the turnovers that you had. I
Speaker 1: mean there's a missed field goal two and that too,
Speaker 1: So I mean we're talking over thirty points and you
Speaker 1: never had a big chunk play. I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1: I think it's fine because I think too, you have
Speaker 1: to let those plays develop. I don't think that's something
Speaker 1: that you know, maybe you get a handful of them
Speaker 1: throughout the year. But I also said, well, if Kurt
Speaker 1: Ko is going to go out there and have the
Speaker 1: year I think he's having, we need a couple of
Speaker 1: big plays. So, um, either I'm gonna be terribly terribly
Speaker 1: wrong about my prediction at the terribly wrong, or um,
Speaker 1: you know, they get a couple of big plays. But
Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. I mean, twenty seven points and
Speaker 1: when you look back at I mean they had actually
Speaker 1: came out of a time out, had to call another
Speaker 1: time out. You're you're having a lot of miscommunication there.
Speaker 1: You turn the ball over, you miss a field goal,
Speaker 1: You're not you know, a couple three and ounce. I
Speaker 1: get the big play. We all want them, like come on,
Speaker 1: like I would love to have a highlight, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not asking for a time We just need at
Speaker 1: least one. I mean, you got to stretch the field
Speaker 1: of defense. Otherwise, like I said, they're going to be
Speaker 1: crowned the line of scrimmage, and over a sixteen game schedule,
Speaker 1: that's going to make it hard. And and again, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to rely on those long drives, all
Speaker 1: it takes is one holding penalty. All it takes is
Speaker 1: one sack, and all of a sudden, now you're behind
Speaker 1: the change. So that's what I'm kind of projecting forward
Speaker 1: and being like, you can't one game is fine. They
Speaker 1: almost got away with it, right, I mean they lost
Speaker 1: by three points. But I think over the course of
Speaker 1: the season, an offense that lacks big play potential is
Speaker 1: much easier to defend. Absolutely, And going off of that too,
Speaker 1: I think this back to back on a short week,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of time that your offense is out
Speaker 1: on the field. If you're doing you know, like you're saying,
Speaker 1: ten play drives, and that's a lot of time that
Speaker 1: your offense is out there, so your defense. I mean,
Speaker 1: I I do agree if you get a couple of
Speaker 1: big plays. Now we're saying a couple, give me a
Speaker 1: couple in the game, not just one. But if you
Speaker 1: get you know, a big play out there, then that
Speaker 1: allows your offense to come off and you get more rest.
Speaker 1: It's going to be hot spoiler alert. It won't be
Speaker 1: sunny and I won't get a sun burned down there
Speaker 1: like I did on Sunday. But it's still going to
Speaker 1: be warm. It's going to be humid. These guys have
Speaker 1: had a short week. I think this, why not dial
Speaker 1: it up and see if you can get one. But didn't.
Speaker 1: I mean they did call one. They called there was
Speaker 1: It's not that they're not calling it, it's but Cam's
Speaker 1: gotta prove that you can hit it. I mean that
Speaker 1: huge third down, you know, we're talking about the block
Speaker 1: punt and then they get the ball back with it
Speaker 1: after Bradbury's interception with a chance to go down and
Speaker 1: take the lead in the fourth quarter, they had that
Speaker 1: third down, the Curtis wheel route was there and just
Speaker 1: missed it. And so yeah, I'm not saying it's not
Speaker 1: because they're not calling them, but the execution has just
Speaker 1: got to be there. That was you talk about quote
Speaker 1: unquote missed opportunities. That was That was the biggest one
Speaker 1: to get it. That was the biggest one right there.
Speaker 1: I mean, because I know Caroline, we talked about it before,
Speaker 1: you know, the other day of practice. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know, throughout the course that game, it sort of
Speaker 1: felt like, man, the ball is just not bouncing their
Speaker 1: way today, and it was on the ground a couple
Speaker 1: of times they couldn't recover for it, and I had
Speaker 1: that feeling as well. But then between the Black punt
Speaker 1: and and Bradberry's interception, they had everything they wanted, They
Speaker 1: had the ball. It was up to them to go
Speaker 1: down and take the game by the throat, and they
Speaker 1: didn't do it. Speaking of James Bradberry, I feel like
Speaker 1: he's about to have a growth spurt, Like he has
Speaker 1: the interception that he had all last season. He's there
Speaker 1: like he's already he's already clocked in, like, oh, little
Speaker 1: little James here, he's gonna he's gonna grow this year. Chad.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite nickname that he has. You haven't read
Speaker 1: the article on Panthers dot com about his alter egos,
Speaker 1: You need to go Chad. I think I just want
Speaker 1: to call him Chad. Chad. I don't know if I'm there,
Speaker 1: I can't do Chad is the best. When they when
Speaker 1: they told me some what somage was, I was like,
Speaker 1: somage and then down it was like, yeah, James spelled backwards,
Speaker 1: like that's all it is. But I think I think
Speaker 1: James Bradberry is in for a growth spurt. I think
Speaker 1: if we keep the like growth track going, he's this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a big year for him. And it
Speaker 1: needs to be a big year for him because in
Speaker 1: that contract here, I like, I like when these stories
Speaker 1: kind of come together, of these not as big of
Speaker 1: names kind of flown under the radar a little bit,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they start peaking at the
Speaker 1: right time. Another guy in that same boat, Jack Thompson,
Speaker 1: was great against the Ranch. Also in a contract here,
Speaker 1: I mean, those two are off to great starts, and
Speaker 1: you know, if they get the kind of production they
Speaker 1: got from those two going forward, the defense I think
Speaker 1: will be fine. They got some stuff to figure out. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the defensive line was frustrated. They didn't get the pressure
Speaker 1: they wanted to against Goff. They used that kind of
Speaker 1: three man rush and six DV package. I'm curious to
Speaker 1: see what Ron does in Week two, but overall, I
Speaker 1: think the defense is going to be in pretty good shape.
Speaker 1: Let's do a measuring stick on them so that there
Speaker 1: wasn't the stat line wasn't as crazy as we wanted
Speaker 1: it to be. For that defensive line. We've kind of
Speaker 1: said this entire offseason as they were putting together that
Speaker 1: line and in the preseason they look great coming off
Speaker 1: the bus. On paper, they're amazing. We've seen some good
Speaker 1: things from them on the field, but as far as
Speaker 1: stat lines go, like what do we think happens in
Speaker 1: this Tampa Bay game? They need they need to create
Speaker 1: more turnovers. Jameis Winston came in through two pick six
Speaker 1: is last week. I mean, he's known for making decisions
Speaker 1: sometime of giving the ball away, and you know, this
Speaker 1: is a team that you know, we've seen them at
Speaker 1: their best is when they're creating short fields, when they're
Speaker 1: they're being ball hawkers and they're they're they're making plays,
Speaker 1: they're being aggressive, and you know, you get one play
Speaker 1: in special teams, you get something like that punt block,
Speaker 1: it gets a big return and then you're able to
Speaker 1: get something that can set you up with a short
Speaker 1: field and all of a sudden, you know these ten
Speaker 1: play twelve play drives that need precision, that need three
Speaker 1: or four third down conversions, you don't have to do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was the recipe in fifteen, and you know,
Speaker 1: if you can get that, they talked about in seventeen
Speaker 1: when the team went to the playoffs and I think
Speaker 1: they went maybe six seven weeks with like one interception
Speaker 1: or one turnover to start the year, and they said,
Speaker 1: you know, turnovers coming, bunches, so this could be a
Speaker 1: good start to really kind of playing James Winston generally
Speaker 1: is a good time to get some turnovers and bunches. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been careless with the football, so I think I
Speaker 1: think you're absolutely right. And you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: how many people in their pools had James Bradberry as
Speaker 1: the guy who was gonna get the first stack of
Speaker 1: the year. He's still the only guy in this defense
Speaker 1: with a sack. They've got to get some production from
Speaker 1: the guys up front. I mean, you're you're you're paying
Speaker 1: some pretty big money, um for guys to look they're
Speaker 1: gonna be disruptive even if they're not recording sacks. And
Speaker 1: that's that's all well and good, um, but I think
Speaker 1: we we want to see Brian Burns innishoff of play
Speaker 1: that he was maybe inches away from making. You are
Speaker 1: several of those Geryl McCoy get back there, kk short Um,
Speaker 1: I think those guys get in the face of Winston.
Speaker 1: Getting the sack total up a little bit will be
Speaker 1: something definitely to keep an eye on Thursday night. How
Speaker 1: many times did it feel like Golf literally got the
Speaker 1: ball out as he was getting hit. I mean there
Speaker 1: are a number of not as much as you saw
Speaker 1: with DeShawn Watson on Monday night. Pray for that guy.
Speaker 1: Good gracious, he got rocked. I just changed the subject.
Speaker 1: But when you said that, all that came into my
Speaker 1: mind was Sean Watson, how is he feeling this week? Yikes?
Speaker 1: Back to the Panthers. Is there anything else. You guys
Speaker 1: want to see them like grow in this this week,
Speaker 1: I couldn't went with targets. I'll answer my own question.
Speaker 1: I set myself just said that you never go first
Speaker 1: we first started. I'm only the targets because we heard
Speaker 1: you know, they want to spread the ball around. They
Speaker 1: want to be able to get it to a lot
Speaker 1: of different guys and not just rely on these like
Speaker 1: same big playmakers. It's one thing that Ron has kind
Speaker 1: of said, there were five guys that got the ball
Speaker 1: from Cam and yes, okay, that's fine, but I want
Speaker 1: to see more. I mean, get get you know, the
Speaker 1: other tight ends involved, and get some of these other
Speaker 1: running backs involved. And um, I mean the five that
Speaker 1: got the targets, they were you know, ce mc, were Olson, Curtis,
Speaker 1: Samuel and right. So it's I want more. I want
Speaker 1: to see more. CMC had ten um of those and
Speaker 1: then d J. Moore had seven for three and one
Speaker 1: for the rest of you know, the three of those.
Speaker 1: So I want to see more guys get the balls,
Speaker 1: spread it around a little bit. And I think in
Speaker 1: the red zone two we saw CMC getting there twice.
Speaker 1: Fantasy owners are super pumped about that. UM, but then
Speaker 1: Alex Armand getting in there running the ball. I'm just
Speaker 1: interested to see. I know it was one game. We're
Speaker 1: talking about one game here, people, but I just I
Speaker 1: want to see it. What who are the other targets?
Speaker 1: Who are who are they relying on in these other
Speaker 1: big moments, because you are going to have to spread
Speaker 1: the ball around a little bit to be able to
Speaker 1: throw off some of these defenses. Yeah, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's a good one. I just think overall, just playing
Speaker 1: cleaner football. I think the and again this was from
Speaker 1: both teams here Sunday, the Rams included. It was it
Speaker 1: was pretty sloppy, um, and the Rams were just a
Speaker 1: little bit better when they had to be. But you know,
Speaker 1: like yoution of Caroline, like the you know, the miscommunication,
Speaker 1: the headset stuff, the penalties whatever it is, like even
Speaker 1: the timing, I think the timing of Cam Newton to
Speaker 1: his receivers. Ever, and then I think that's one thing
Speaker 1: I noticed with the Rams offense versus the Panther. The
Speaker 1: Rams offense was much more precise in that way. Um.
Speaker 1: And I mean you saw it on the you know
Speaker 1: backward pass that set up gifted the Rams with a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I mean the Rams are running a lot of those
Speaker 1: sideways plays around the course of the game. Obviously didn't
Speaker 1: have any issues. Panthers tried to run one deflected fumble
Speaker 1: touchdown Rams a couple of days later. I mean, so
Speaker 1: just cleaner football from the Panther's no excuses. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got the week one rusty excuse out of the way, Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: now it's time. You're in a you can't lose this game.
Speaker 1: You can't go into your first division game at home
Speaker 1: on a short week against the Buccaneers. You gotta play
Speaker 1: clean football and do what it takes to make sure
Speaker 1: that you don't beat yourself in this one. First and foremost.
Speaker 1: I will say this though, in the second half, it
Speaker 1: felt like it felt like it was about to explode.
Speaker 1: You know, you am are kind of going into halftime,
Speaker 1: you feel like all these things are going wrong. There's
Speaker 1: there's a bad way. It's in a bad way, like
Speaker 1: like you know, like there's frustration everywhere. You know, like
Speaker 1: there was there were booze at times in the stadium.
Speaker 1: And then to come out to put the drive together, uh,
Speaker 1: you know that that Christians scored on you know, to
Speaker 1: even to even come back and have that last drive
Speaker 1: to pull within three. Obviously it's a little too little,
Speaker 1: too late, but there were signs that you look across
Speaker 1: the NFL as these games were all unfolding, and there
Speaker 1: was just so much there were there were teams that
Speaker 1: were not being competitive, that we're that we're just rolling over.
Speaker 1: It felt like in least in terms of the scoreboard.
Speaker 1: In terms of the scoreboard, that's actually and it's an
Speaker 1: interesting point. I want too literally that voice positive I
Speaker 1: head and I looked at the two guys of like,
Speaker 1: who is this. Wow? I had a question for you guys.
Speaker 1: Max brought up a good point, and I was wondering,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you that I was wondering what you
Speaker 1: guys thought of this this thing that I'm seeing on
Speaker 1: social media and everything about how there's like a movement
Speaker 1: of people that think that the reason why Week one
Speaker 1: was so bad was the lack of people playing in
Speaker 1: the preseason. I was one of what you guys thought
Speaker 1: about them. I mean, yeah, like, I think that's a
Speaker 1: valid point, but I would rather Week one be a
Speaker 1: little messy than have your you know, a star guy
Speaker 1: get hurt Week three. The preseason, the way the way
Speaker 1: it's set up, you just can't be teams just the
Speaker 1: way it is now. It's just the new normal that
Speaker 1: you you just you can't. You can't have guys out
Speaker 1: there in week three. The preseason are teen weeks to
Speaker 1: this season. If this was an eight week season, absolutely
Speaker 1: not like playing in the preseason. Get them ready because
Speaker 1: you have this like run of eight games. There are
Speaker 1: seventeen weeks, you get sixteen games and then you go
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. No, I don't. I'm fine with it
Speaker 1: as long as like both teams are doing it and
Speaker 1: it's just your team. It Yeah, like I it's just
Speaker 1: your team doing it. That's a bit fresh rain. But
Speaker 1: i'st also a pretty good test because both the Rams.
Speaker 1: The Rams like started this trend of not playing anyone,
Speaker 1: so they didn't do it, you know, the Panthers didn't
Speaker 1: really do it, so you're starting to see. I thought
Speaker 1: it was like it was a great measuring stick. There
Speaker 1: was just a lot of bad football across the league
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and I was just want to that which
Speaker 1: is not on common and like, look, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't care how much preseason football you play, Like the
Speaker 1: regular season is such a different animal anyway that I
Speaker 1: still think that's always good anymore? Is it? It's different?
Speaker 1: What's the preseason animal question? What's the regular season animal?
Speaker 1: What do you think? I think you can't answer? First,
Speaker 1: she answers her own questions. I don't know, that's not
Speaker 1: what it is. We had already talked about what we
Speaker 1: wanted to see change in the game. I was just
Speaker 1: jumping out on that. Is kind of answered it with
Speaker 1: a question. So he did answer her question. Matt. Matt's
Speaker 1: the producer and he runs this thing, and he's the
Speaker 1: rule keepers rules, but we'll keep track of stats. And
Speaker 1: I wasn't paying attention that it sounds like the refused animals.
Speaker 1: I just shouldn't talk anymore. I confuse every animals the
Speaker 1: preseason um kind of like a it would be like
Speaker 1: a gentle animal, right, Like it's not something everyone's like,
Speaker 1: really still a predator, but like a nice one, like
Speaker 1: a house cat versus like a panther. Hip can be
Speaker 1: really mean. Yeah, I know, but like you don't you
Speaker 1: don't expect the hippo. Okay, I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: a house cat the house cat because the house cat
Speaker 1: will like staying cut a little bit. But also very
Speaker 1: split on if people like the house cat or if
Speaker 1: they're not cat people. So this could be a really
Speaker 1: good Some people really like the preseason, some people don't.
Speaker 1: Producer Matt maybe one on this one. The preseason is
Speaker 1: a house cat, and I like it because cats are
Speaker 1: the worst in the preseason is the worst. Panthers are great,
Speaker 1: house cats aren't good. Thank you for proving my point.
Speaker 1: So then we would say that we regular season is
Speaker 1: then like the rat Wilder, like you know, everyone's coming
Speaker 1: out of Barkain the Teeth or show and it's going
Speaker 1: to get vishes Caroline, do you know the do you
Speaker 1: know the viral? What is happening that Matt? Is that Matt? No,
Speaker 1: that's Caroline? You know like that don't don't don't be
Speaker 1: like a cat world be like a dog, like a dog.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna say? You know the video from
Speaker 1: the Coastal Carolina Coach on like ten years go ahead?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna saying that? Was it great? We're really
Speaker 1: organized here group. I do have something for us. We
Speaker 1: have updated reviews. Is it reviewed? I was going to
Speaker 1: bring this up, well, I haven't looked at this because
Speaker 1: I didn't tell people who ate the steak, But it's
Speaker 1: actually already out there? Who ate a steak? So I
Speaker 1: it was Christian McCaffrey. For those of you, does it
Speaker 1: all a couple of weeks ago? He was. I was,
Speaker 1: we were talking about snacks on the sideline, and I
Speaker 1: said that particular player may have brought an entire steak
Speaker 1: and was eating it with his hands. That player was
Speaker 1: Christian McAffrey. How did he get out there? Kevin Donnelly
Speaker 1: on the radio in the review. Yeah, that's very that's
Speaker 1: very Kevin like Kevin. Yeah, like, that's great job, Kevin
Speaker 1: of doing that, because that's on brand for you to
Speaker 1: just like and you're like a former player, he can
Speaker 1: do that. I was playing it safe, and I apologize.
Speaker 1: I let you guys down. I let the group. He's
Speaker 1: down a little bit. Sorry, It's okay about that. Can
Speaker 1: I ask you guys a question about what I like
Speaker 1: the Panther fan reaction to Week one. I think it's
Speaker 1: been a little all over the place. I can't get
Speaker 1: a read on it. So yeah, I mean, like, I
Speaker 1: think this is what happens with every fan base week
Speaker 1: one to a certain extent, right, it's like whatever happens,
Speaker 1: good or bad, people are going to take way too
Speaker 1: much out of it, but I see, I'm curious where
Speaker 1: you guys fall on it is was weak one's performance
Speaker 1: concerning was it uplifting because hey, that was the NFC
Speaker 1: champions and nearly beat him, or uh something else? Entirely,
Speaker 1: I think the next three weeks are far more of
Speaker 1: an indicator to me than week one, because that's not
Speaker 1: what the question was like some people, like somebody came
Speaker 1: at me and was like, well, this team is going
Speaker 1: eight and eight, I'm done, And it's just like all right,
Speaker 1: so cool man, don't watch the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: That's great, But like, what what's your reaction to what
Speaker 1: you saw Sunday? And is it, as Caroline prompted with
Speaker 1: us the measuring stick, does this the way this team
Speaker 1: measured up to the Rams give you encouragement because hey,
Speaker 1: that team went thirteen and three, patters didn't play their
Speaker 1: best football almost came out with a win against that football. Well,
Speaker 1: I think I think the Rams didn't play their best football. Agreed,
Speaker 1: I think that it was, which is why I just
Speaker 1: don't see it as enough of enough of anything to
Speaker 1: really get a feel. You're not playing along? What do
Speaker 1: you I'm really not What do you think I was encouraged.
Speaker 1: You're encouraged because we beat ourselves. Like the things that
Speaker 1: I think went wrong in that game, it wasn't anything
Speaker 1: that like Aaron Donald really came through and rocked that one.
Speaker 1: You know, we weren't saying like, oh, the Rams did
Speaker 1: that and caused the Panthers to do this. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's uh missed field goal, there's you know, fumbling the
Speaker 1: ball and so you know, no one was coming after
Speaker 1: and like knocking that ball out. It was it was
Speaker 1: turned over by the Panthers. And I think there's just
Speaker 1: things that when we're saying the ball wasn't bouncing our way,
Speaker 1: it was like, but it's not necessarily because the Rams
Speaker 1: were pulling it away from us. And I think that's
Speaker 1: the part that is encouraging. Frustrating, yes, but encouraging when
Speaker 1: we look ahead to the rest of the season that Okay,
Speaker 1: they don't play their cleanest football, they don't play their
Speaker 1: smartest football, but they scored twenties seven points against the
Speaker 1: defending NFC champions like and and hold not hold thirty
Speaker 1: points is not being held to anything. But I think
Speaker 1: you keep it a close game with an offense that
Speaker 1: is known for throwing up some serious points. The defense
Speaker 1: did I think what they were supposed to do Aaron Donald,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think he got his first hackle
Speaker 1: until the second half. You saw some other guys break
Speaker 1: through the line and get hands on cam and you
Speaker 1: know you don't want to see that. But when you
Speaker 1: have a guy like Aaron Donald was gonna pull up
Speaker 1: a lot of attention. I just thought there were some
Speaker 1: good things that can they be better. Absolutely, they need
Speaker 1: to be better, but I was encouraged. I walked away thinking,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, a win would feel a lot better.
Speaker 1: But you make that field goal, and it's a tie
Speaker 1: ball game, you don't turn the ball over on that
Speaker 1: first drive, you get in the know and you're playing
Speaker 1: from ahead. I think there's just like two things in
Speaker 1: that game that I really think, you know, early on
Speaker 1: in the game, if we would have capitalized on that,
Speaker 1: if if the Panthers would have capitalized on that, not
Speaker 1: if the Rams wouldn't have forced us to do this,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's what the different narrative is.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know, you come back in the
Speaker 1: meeting rooms, you fix those couple of things, you make
Speaker 1: sure they don't happen again. And those are things that
Speaker 1: you can control. It's not something that I think the
Speaker 1: Rams did. Yeah, I think overall with you. I think
Speaker 1: the frustration comes from the fact that this Rams team
Speaker 1: could have been had they not play their best football
Speaker 1: at all, And I thought that's kind of what the
Speaker 1: Panthers needed to have happened. So the game was there
Speaker 1: for the taking, but they didn't take it. I still
Speaker 1: think losing by three points to defending NFC champions is
Speaker 1: not the worst way to start your season. I think
Speaker 1: some people are reacting that way, and it's it would
Speaker 1: have been one thing if they lost by four scores
Speaker 1: to a mediocre team last year, then I could I
Speaker 1: could understand some of the reaction. But if we take
Speaker 1: a step back for a second, yes, this is a
Speaker 1: you know, results based business, and they didn't get the
Speaker 1: result they wanted. But to play that Rams team pretty tough.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think that should be a
Speaker 1: sign of some encouragement. Let's see what happens Thursday night
Speaker 1: against the Bucks. I think if if there were one
Speaker 1: on one at the end of this week, then you
Speaker 1: can feel pretty good about the direction this team said. Yeah,
Speaker 1: certainly a lot of things to still follow going into
Speaker 1: this Thursday night game. Um, and if you've been following along,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pub my own social media here. If you've
Speaker 1: been following along on my Instagram, I've been showing you
Speaker 1: how early the trucks got here for Thursday night football,
Speaker 1: how many trucks they're are, of broadcast trucks that are
Speaker 1: out there. It is so tight. But Thursday Night, if
Speaker 1: the build up to Thursday Night has been any indication,
Speaker 1: it's going to be absolutely insane. It's going to be
Speaker 1: so fun to be that kind of opening Thursday not
Speaker 1: not kind of. It is the opening Thursday night football game,
Speaker 1: So get excited about that. We hope everyone can come
Speaker 1: down to Bank of America Stadium and join the party
Speaker 1: with us. But if not, of course, there are plenty
Speaker 1: of ways to tune in for that Thursday night game
Speaker 1: on the NFL Network and of course the radio broadcast
Speaker 1: and Jake Blow We're gonna give a little shout out here. Okay,
Speaker 1: Jake DeLong joined the radio broadcast. I mean I'm speechless.
Speaker 1: I mean he literally just can't even speak right now.
Speaker 1: Is is that a tear coming out of it? It's
Speaker 1: a little embarrassing. How much we love but it's true,
Speaker 1: I just get it together will. But yes, it was
Speaker 1: really really great to hear him on the broadcast. He
Speaker 1: goes a lot of great insights, so tune in anyway
Speaker 1: that you can, and on Thursday night, we appreciate you
Speaker 1: joining us for another week of the group Chat, and
Speaker 1: if you really do start calling yourselves the Groupies, we
Speaker 1: would really love that. We'll see you next week.