WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 12: The Initial 53 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.760 Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkis 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.680 told me to always make it easy for the customer. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.600 That's you alive person will always be here to answer 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.800 the phone. We're here till midnight, seven days a week, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.080 so you never have to take off work, and it's 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.840 the same prices in the daytime. We're the ones you 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.160 want to call. We're the ones you want to call. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.520 We're the ones you want to call. You're gonna love 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:39.320 these people. I guarantee. See gotta Morris Jenkins dot com. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.159 It's time for a Happy half Hour with your friends 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:53.080 Kristin Balboni, Miles Simmons, and Will Brian. Hey, everybody, welcome 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:57.520 to the Happy Half Hour Podcast presented by Morris Jenkins. 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.960 That's right, you've got Miles Simmons here on the mic. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.440 I am starting this thing off today because we're doing 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.040 a little something different. We wanted to do the more 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:10.040 you can do, and I think that melds well into 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.880 what is the last week of the preseason here, and 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.520 so because of that, you've got all kinds of guys 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.560 trying to fight for their last spot on the fifty 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.800 three man roster. So we're maybe doing a couple of 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.440 things differently this week. So I'm gonna be hosting at 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.680 least for right now until maybe I mess something up. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:32.360 But we've also got Will behind the board as the producer. Will, 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.120 how are you today? I'm great? How's your levels right now? 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:36.959 You know what? I think that they're pretty good. But 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:38.760 also we got to go to Kristen now, who is 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.600 in the booth of shame, And honestly, I think I 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.880 should always probably be there, but this week, miss Belboni, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.000 Mrs excuse me. I don't want to insult your husband. 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:52.080 How are you? It was good until you insulted my husband. No, 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.640 I am great. I am taking one for the team. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.000 I'm in the booth of shame. I've handed over my 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.200 podcast hosting duties to you, Miles, because look, I'm a 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.560 team player. I'm trying to be versatile, you know. So 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.080 if it's if it's me taken second, Mike and Will producing, Um, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.040 I might throw a little analysis and who knows. We're 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:09.960 all just trying to be Corey Vedvick, right, We're all 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.399 just trying to be Jeremy Chin. We're trying to make 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.640 that fifty three man roster and show off what we 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.960 can do. I would actually say Myles Heartfield. You know, 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.200 he does have a Hall of Fame caliber. First name, 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.160 isn't that right? Matt, who is usually our producer. But 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.920 today you're at the mike, aren't you. I am, I 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.760 met the mike, and uh, I don't I still feel 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:33.480 like I have the same type of involvement. He got 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.360 upgraded to the table and he's he's still just you know, 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.440 I'm just sitting here. Yes, but that is Here's the 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.800 thing though, as we go through this, I think that 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.840 all we want to do is just make sure that 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.800 everybody knows that we can be as versatile as anybody else, 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.840 because we're professionals, aren't we aren't we all professionals speak 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.160 for yourself. I mean, I have I get paid. I 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.600 don't know what that means. I don't know if it's 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.680 get paid to do this. Do I need to have 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.400 like stats? Do I need to be will should I 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.440 have to sticks? Yeah? I mean, just make sure make 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.520 sure make sure they're not wrong. Because I got called 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.160 out on something this morning. Wait, what was that? So? 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.440 I was looking through the media guide and I thought 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.840 that this year's Thursday night home game against the Falcons 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.080 was the first time we've ever hosted them in primetime. 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:21.440 Someone on Twitter reminded me that it happened in in 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:26.040 October the one other time. Well, can I just say, 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.120 how dare you? How dare you go on Twitter without 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:33.600 remembering that game? Wow? I feel very ashamed. You should 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.200 be very ashamed, you know. And that's okay, though, Will, 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:40.839 because again, it's the more you can do, right I mean, yeah, 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:42.880 I think I'm doing a great job producing right now. 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.400 I think you are too. And every everybody's audio goes 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.280 out every time Miles says that. I think of that 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.440 NBC commercial where it was like the more you know, 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:56.240 and it was thought I thought we were doing the basketball. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.520 Now we lost. Your podcast is going off the rails here. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.840 I'm checking in from the booth of shame over here. Well, 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:05.760 you know what, Kristen, I think that because it's going 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.640 off the rules, you should probably take back over because 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:08.800 I don't know how to get this back on the 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.320 rules from being Matt. I'm gonna switch with you. Is 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.280 that okay? That would be perfect? I want my I 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.080 want my seat back. You come do this thing, do 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.359 this thing, produce our podcast, Come do this thing. That 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.440 was fun while it lasted, it I'm still in the 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.719 booth of shame over here. But that's okay, that's okay. Um, 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.360 that was that was fun of fun exercise in versatility. 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.640 But we do want to get to everything that's been 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:36.000 going on here this week. Um. It's officially not training 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.760 camp anymore. Going by the schedule, we are now in 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:43.920 regular season mode. Miles stop, Yeah, what do you mean? Why? 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.479 Why stop? I'm not ready yet. I'm not ready. You 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.240 better get ready? Wait? What are you not ready for? 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.719 Everything that? I'm not ready at all. We're supposed to 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:54.880 have games where we like test things out and make 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.479 things like break and then we fix them because they 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.920 don't count, you know, Like you know, it's it's just 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.680 as much of a preseason for us as it is 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.520 for the players. You want that preseason for everybody. Thing. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:10.480 Need I need a game three? I need a game four. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.560 Game four was a nice relaxing sort you wear the 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.760 polo shirt to the press box, started a game. Yeah, okay, 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.479 well here do you guys? I mean usually when you 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:23.400 go through preseason, like is for one of those games 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.680 where you're going on the road, Like, how far do 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.240 you usually have to go in game four? Okay, it's 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.280 always Pittsburgh every single year. Actually I should know that. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.320 I remember reading that on the schedule now, but since 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:34.920 it's not happening and this is my first year, I'm 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:36.560 going to give myself a pass. But like in the 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.760 past when I was with l A with the Rams, 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.680 we would have to go to like far away places 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.960 like we go to Green Bay, we go to Minnesota, 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.320 we went to one year. I think that sounds those 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.960 sound like nice trips to take in the preseason versus 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.359 the regular season. Yes and no. In the Minnesota's obviously, 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.080 there was one year we went to New Orleans and 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.200 that obviously was fun going to Bourbon Street Um the 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.239 night before the fourth preseason game. But at the same time, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.320 I think the last place you want to be on 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.559 the preseason is on the road in week four because 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.520 it's just like it's this slog and all you want 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.640 is for the clock to keep running and running and 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.240 running so you can go home. All I do in 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.559 the week four the preseason is just eat hot dogs 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:23.599 the entire second half, and I do it obviously with Okay, 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.679 well the right choice. Well, Miles, you're in luck because 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.520 there's certainly no traveling this preseason. We will be home. 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:32.839 You got your wish here. I know, yeah that the 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.960 last for the last preseason game tomorrow in the Bizarro universe, 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.680 that is true. True. But let's let's talk about a 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.160 training camp, and I do want to hear starting with you, Miles, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.880 what have you taken away from this very unique, strange 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.400 training camp. Well, honestly, I think it's a lot of 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.480 it is how we started. The more you can do, 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.440 and we've seen that from so many different players, including 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.440 a guy like Myles Hartsfeld, who you know, plays both 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.320 defense and offense. And I think we mentioned this on 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:05.960 the podcast before, but I don't know that I've ever 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.640 seen that at the pro level at all. You when 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.120 you think of two way players, you think of high 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.320 school and sometimes you see that in college occasionally with 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.720 a guy who's a super good athlete, but you don't 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.160 really ever see that at the professional level. And I 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:23.360 think it's been kind of funny to see um Miles, 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.360 who I just like using this first name. Usually I 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.640 won't do that for for players, but when you see him, 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.160 sometimes he's going literally on the same drive from playing 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.280 defense to playing offense. That's kind of ridiculous, and you know, 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.080 sometimes they've changed his jersey in the middle of practice. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.840 Other times he's put on a penny to UH to 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.840 signify that he's gone from being a defensive player to 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.440 an offensive player. So when you get guys like that, 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.760 when you get guys like Jeremy Chen who've been playing 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.840 all over the defense, UM, I think that once you 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.120 see that versatility, that's gonna have to be something that 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.360 is really important for these Panthers in Well, how hard 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.880 do you think it is UH to do what Mile 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:04.480 Hartsfield is doing, not only physically, but also you gotta 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.600 be in more meetings, you gotta you gotta learn different schemes. 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.080 I just can't imagine, um, the mental capacity that would 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.920 take to to not just be good and competent at 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.560 one position, but but multiple. But I also think yes, 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.640 but this current coaching staff, this current group is trying 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:26.080 to make that a possibility in the NFL. I think 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.800 they're looking down the road. They're seeing, you know, the 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.120 uncertainty of this season of guys you know, potentially you know, 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.040 being put on you know, maybe a COVID list at 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.080 some point, you know, and who knows and saying, you know, 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.240 Coach Roll has said this all the time. He wants 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:43.440 to make this thing quick and fast, and you're playing 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:45.960 with you know, with your instincts and not with your head. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.840 You know, you're going out there and you're playing football 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.160 as well as you can and you're not being slowed 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.400 down by having to think about it. And so I 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.880 think they're trying to set up a guy like Miles, 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.400 set up these these players that are young that just say, hey, 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.839 here's a here's a framework, you just go play. We're 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.880 going to try to create a system that makes that 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.439 as as easy as possible for you so you can 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.720 have success, so we can have success. So yes, I 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.480 think that it's very difficult, but I think that this 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.640 particular group is trying to lean into it rather than 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.480 seeing it as you know, a hindrance. That's a great point, Yeah, 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.520 setting setting these versatile players up for success as much 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.040 as possible because it is such a focus. Well, I 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.679 do want to know, since um, you're the only one 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.840 of us that have been to normal training camps with 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.400 the Panthers as we say goodbye to it, what's the 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:36.400 biggest thing that you missed out on this season? Was 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.760 it stand in a dorm? Was it the bucket hat 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:44.080 look all the time? Was it. Yeah, I mean obviously, 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:45.920 I think that's that's for all of us. I mean, 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.160 that's for fans, that's for all of the staff. I mean, 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.440 so many people were used to being at practice UM 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.920 and just being around you know, you there's a certain 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.160 sense when you go down to Spartanburg you can can 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.280 just kind of like leave your world behind and just 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.120 you know, I've into football, UM. And I think that 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.199 a lot of us missed that. And I think sometimes 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.600 you know, even you know, coaches, players, you know, they 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.280 kind of missed that too to an extent um. But 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.880 I think that they did a good job here of 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:13.840 trying to keep it light, you know, doing all those 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.559 things on Fridays, to kind of keep the guys really engaged, 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.880 having fun, making it feel like this is something different 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.960 rather than just an extended four more weeks of regular 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.360 season practice here in the stadium. UM. So, I think 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.400 they did a good job from the player perspective of 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.720 really trying to instill that difference in camp UM. And 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.439 I think that the guys aren't burned out. It doesn't 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.480 feel like you know, it feels like they everyone keeps 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.360 asking them in these media conference calls like hey, are 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.319 you burned out yet, are you tired of playing against 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.240 your own people? You know, are you tired of this? 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.760 You know you used to play four preseason games against 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.080 other teams. You didn't get do that? You know, do 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.040 you hate this? And they're like no, like word, we 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.960 there's a different energy and we're not worn out. You know. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:56.719 One thing that we didn't hear about. And I don't 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.840 think I heard about this from any training camp at 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:03.080 all is training camp, right, And I think I didn't 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.080 see one here, And I thought I remember thinking for 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.000 a couple of days when watching practice, like you know, 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.400 on a regular uh schedule, this might be a place 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.200 where you're in the middle of August, it's hot, is 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.040 all get out, it's humid, and all these different things, 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.319 and this is probably a place where guys might want 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.160 to start fighting, and you just didn't see it. And 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.120 you know, I scanned Twitter as much as anybody for 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.520 news all along the league, and I don't recall really 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.160 hearing about any training camp fights anywhere. And I think 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.199 that's a credit to a lot of different things. But 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.920 I think people are so very singularly focused on how 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.040 do we actually just even make it to week one? 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.440 And how do we make it to week one safely 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.800 and with everybody healthy, and like getting in a fight 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:43.480 right now would just be one of the dumbest things 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.120 you can do. It's a good point. Yeah, I haven't. 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.000 I haven't heard of any either. So talking about making 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.559 it to to week one, you gotta cut down the 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.960 roster before we can get to that and start focusing 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:59.600 on the first real game that we're gonna see. So, Miles, 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.160 how hard do you think it's gonna be this season 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.360 to cut down to fifty three as opposed to other 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.920 years where you get to see, you know, how the 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:15.600 preseason games look, you get to evaluate in a different way. Um, 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.760 what do you think this is gonna be like on Saturday? 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.840 I think it's gonna be unique. I think in some 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.920 ways it might be easier, and in some ways it's 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.240 probably harder. Easier in the sense that you've only got 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:28.600 to go from eight down to fifty three, but also 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:30.560 you've got to think about the fact that you're gonna 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.560 have a sixteen man practice squad and a lot of 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.920 those guys get to be veterans who don't have the 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.080 restrictions that you usually would on what a practice squad 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:42.120 player can be. So really, instead of thinking of it 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.160 is you're cutting down to fifty three, you're almost cutting 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.120 it down to sixty nine, because that's what fifty three 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.400 plus sixteen is. So it's it's yes, it is for it. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.920 I'm glad you made that the joke, fright. I wasn't 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:55.320 going to do it. I didn't make a joke. I 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.400 just said, no, it's it's a nice number. So you 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.240 really you need to get rid of eleven guys, right, 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.400 And I think if you're one of those eleven, it's 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.599 gonna stink. It is because you're not necessarily going to 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.800 know what your future holds. But then there are those 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.480 other sixteen in there where maybe you're not on the 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.599 active roster. But I think at a certain point you 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.520 gotta figure I have a good chance of being elevated 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.319 at some point this year. And there are some other 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.679 rules this year to where you can bring up guys 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.480 and send them back from the practice squad without them 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.800 being exposed to waivers. So it's gonna be different this year. 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.520 But I think just from the standpoint of trying to 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:34.520 craft a roster, it's not necessarily easy when you've only 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.880 had so much about a month, really a month and 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.440 a couple of days worth the practice time for this 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:44.080 coaching staff, this new coaching staff to be around these guys. Well, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.240 I got a question for you. How many of both 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.520 this fifty three? You know, let's say there's a fifty 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.880 three on Saturday, there might be a different one on Tuesday, 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.360 almost certainly will be a different one. Yes, So how 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.240 much of that and probably this practice squad is guys 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.600 that aren't currently out there right now? You know, how 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.520 much is based on what happens around the league over 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.839 this weekend? Of guys that all of a sudden, in 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.080 that twenty four hour period after you have to cut 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.240 down and before you can sign someone back to your 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.040 practice squad, are they going out and finding maybe you know, 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.440 I don't know. Maybe part of it is, these are 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.679 these sixteen guys that we all feel really good with. 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.400 They've been working with us for three weeks. We want 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.280 to keep all of them. You know, how much is 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.360 you know, someone that all of a sudden becomes available 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.920 out there that uh, you know, Marty Herney feels like 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.640 he can make a move for Yeah, I think that's 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.920 always huge. And this is why it's sort of annoys 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.160 me when people call the fifty three man roster, the 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.080 final fifty three. It's not final anything, because odds are 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.960 within twenty four to forty eight hours, it's gonna change, 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.560 and based on the way that things happen around the league, 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.280 as you were just saying, well, so to me, it's 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.440 always the initial fifty three. And from that standpoint, it's 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.080 always like you want to if you're gonna try to 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.680 profile a guy, you want to make sure that that 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:52.960 guy that you're profiling is gonna be there in another 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.920 day or two because sometimes when you know, guys don't 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.040 usually get a call that they've made the roster. They 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.760 just don't get called that they didn't get cut, right, 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.040 So you don't want to necessarily be like, wow, congratulations, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.520 you've made the roster, and then you know twenty four 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.760 hours later it's sorry, my guy, you're out. Like that's 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.400 sad in some ways, But I think what you said 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.080 is true. Will There's gonna be some movements somewhere along 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.440 the bottom end of this roster, and I think over 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.720 the past few weeks we've seen that they are not 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.280 afraid to churn guys in and churn guys out, and 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.680 that also creates a much larger base. There's guys out 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.480 there right now that are or you know, on reserve 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:31.000 list or in various different spots that have some familiarity 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.440 here that we have some tape on that coach Rule 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.360 has you know, has a relationship with So you know, 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.120 there's there's more than just meets the eye in terms 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:39.840 of how this thing gets played out. And you know 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.040 how the practice squad and in the fifty three get 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.520 you know, created no doubt. Yeah, and and Rule has 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.200 spoken to that, as you said, you know, bringing guys 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.200 in he said, it's almost I think he said something 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.800 like it's almost our duty to get as many guys 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.000 as we can in front of us and see how 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.240 they do. Because our goal is to build the best team, 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.000 and that's how we think we should go about it, 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.680 is to get them in front of us. So I 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.080 certainly think that that carries over um. Speaking of Rule, 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:09.080 he actually spoke about the cutdown to fifty three. We're 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:16.560 gonna start with that in our segment called Overheard Overheard. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.720 Rule said, you know, on Saturday, our fifty three man 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.080 roster is going to look a lot different from last 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:27.120 year when our three comes out on Saturday and you 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:28.800 go back and look at last year's fifty three, I 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.160 don't you know, you'll see a lot of turnover. And 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:32.640 I don't know if you see that much turnover in 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:34.160 a lot of NFL teams. And that's for a lot 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.840 of reasons, and that I'm not bragging about that. I'm 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.760 just saying we have had a lot of players leave 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.600 and we had to We had to rebuild UM with 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.840 good players and a good draft, and I think Marty 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.400 and his staff have done a great job, and I 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.720 think our coaches have helped UM supplement that. So we 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.040 got a good team. It's a young team, UM, and 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.280 I want them to I want them to fight to overachieve, 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:03.160 fight to overachieve. I really like that phrase, because this 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.480 is going to be a tough year, I think from 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.640 any standpoint, especially when we were just talking about it. Look, 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:14.080 coaching staff is still getting familiar with their players, and 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.080 they're still getting familiar with everybody's strengths. And I think 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:22.440 Matt Rule has talked about how they don't necessarily know 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.560 how this team is going to stack up against others. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.400 You can't necessarily compare this team to any other team 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.919 quite yet. So it's it's about, you know, the me 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.480 against me thing that we heard Will Greer talk about, 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.240 how can these guys continue to try to improve over 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.040 the course of the season so that they're playing their 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.080 best football in December and building on something not just 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.040 for this year, but for the years to come. And 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.560 I think it's it's both a corporate sense in an 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.679 individual sense. It's how does this team as a group, 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.359 you know, whatever their final record is, how is that 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.919 record better than maybe what they are on paper? You know, 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:56.840 they want that record to be better than what they 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.000 actually are overachieved there? And how do they as into 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:01.960 visuals that are fighting for spots on this team, that 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.640 are fighting for their careers, you know, to be better 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.520 to to land, to get to take the next step 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.520 at whatever that is. How do they do better than 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.439 what they are on paper? I mean Christian McCaffrey, you know, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.840 consensus number one overall fantasy draft pick, you know, best 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.080 running back in the NFL, probably maybe one of the 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.040 best offensive players in the NFL period. He's like, how 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:25.520 do I overachieved? How is it possible for him to overachieve? 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.000 But that's his mindset, that's the mindset up and down 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:29.840 the roster. How do I over it? The mindset of 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.320 all great players. And I spent a lot of time 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.440 around Aaron Donald, and you know, you get a guy 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.119 that reached twenty sex as an interior linement that just 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.920 doesn't ever happen. Now, how does he try to get better? 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.560 It's this. It's a mindset and mentality of guys that 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.080 are at this or that are easy for me to say, 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.720 my god, you can overachieve on this one mile us 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.520 I could. I would ask you to edit that out, Matt, 0:18:53.600 --> 0:19:02.160 but you know what, yeah, sometimes more than that anyway, 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.080 it's a mindset and the mentality of guys that are 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.720 elite in this game that they always want to make 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.320 sure that they're getting better with whatever they're doing. That's 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.200 what I was trying to say, Well thanks, Well yeah, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.560 it's it's going to be even harder for everyone, just 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.560 considering all of the obstacles that everyone has face to 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.760 get to this point. And I I'm so excited that 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.800 we're here. I'm so excited that we're talking about week one. 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.800 But you know, there's no denying that it's gonna look 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:33.480 a lot different this season. And a big part of that, 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.120 at least for us at first um, is that there 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:39.000