WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 78: Fat Bear Week 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.600 This week on the Happy Half Hour. They've been talking 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.400 for three years about building a defense so that you 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:09.360 can just get league average quarterback play. We're not close 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.039 to league average quarterback play right now. When passes get 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:14.560 batted down the client of scrimmage, they get picked off 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.320 all of a sudden. A defense that's been playing really 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:25.639 well is just sitting there exhausted. Text It's time for 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.560 the Happy Half Hour with your friends Kristen Balboni, Augusta Stone, 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:35.640 and Darren Gannon. It's that time of the week. This 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.839 podcast is brought to you by Prowling Vineyards, which is 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.360 the official wine brand and wine club of the Carolina Panthers. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.800 Each handcrafted wine mirrors the panthers bold attitude and the 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.760 iconic flavors honor the two states we are proud to 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.680 call home. Plus a portion of the proceeds support the 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:56.440 Carolina Panthers charities, So learn more at Prowling Vineyards dot com. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.600 All right, it is Thursday morning, guys. How we feeling 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.520 a stuff? I feel great. I have my coffee. I 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.880 got some new disposable cups so I can stop like 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.760 having to wash the same one over and over. Um, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.360 what are we putting in the coffee because I know 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:10.800 there was a while where you were on a coffee 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.160 and lemonade kick. I was, I was, So this is 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.360 I just got the creamer yesterday. It's an almond sweet 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:20.800 cream something like that. It's delicious. Now, something tells me, 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:26.320 Darren is a black coffee. You know what, Darren? I 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.600 am too. Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't need a 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.560 lot of stuff. It's just about the drug. I need 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.960 caffeine inside me. So it's uh, it's just a delivery. 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.120 Dre just gets an ivy of Yeah, just shoot it 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.480 right into my vein every morning. It's like going in 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.160 getting the old changed. Let's go. So we're gonna talk 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.880 about everything today. We're gonna talk about the office. We're 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.600 gonna talk about the defense. We're gonna you know, some good, 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.720 some bad. But before we do, we're gonna have a 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.280 little palate cleanser with Darren. Darren, you told me something 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.200 right before we came on the air, as if I 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.400 should know about this, and I'd never heard about it. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.720 So can you please explain? It's only the greatest thing 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.280 on the internet this week It's called fat Bear Week. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:10.000 It's Fat Bear Week. Everybody, let's celebrate um a National 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.840 park in Alaska takes pictures of its bears every summer 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.760 and fall, and then you know the bear. Yeah, the 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.160 bears try to bulk up for hibernation because you know, 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:21.799 if you're not gonna eat for a couple of months, 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.680 you gotta load up in advance. There's a bear called 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.200 Otis who wants ate forty two salmon in one day. 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:31.240 It's amazing, um But they take before and after pictures 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.320 of these bears, and you go online, if you just 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.720 google Fat Bear Week, you can see the fat bears, 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.120 and you know, you vote for your favorite fat bear. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:43.080 And I'm not trying to influence democracy. I want everybody 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.520 to have a voice in this. But the correct fat 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.120 bear this year is Bear nine oh one. Some of 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.920 them just have numbers, but Bear nine oh one may 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.480 or may not be pregnant, and she has loaded up. 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.239 She is the bestest fat bear of them all. So 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.200 vote early, vote often. I've today's the day nine o 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.320 one is on the ballot, so maybe we're in the quarterfinals. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.040 I don't know. But Otis is a like a three 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.360 time champion. I mean, my god, if he forty two 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.760 salmon in a day, you ought to do something. But yeah, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.400 I think nine oh one is coming strong this year, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.320 and she is a big fat bear. I did just 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.760 google Fat Bear nine oh one, which is not something 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.800 I ever thought I would google. And I see exactly 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.080 what you're saying. I hope everyone who's listening is googling 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:33.440 as well. She does look pregnant, yes, but awesome but 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.080 not but and also yes, that's one of those things 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:38.880 my wife taught me. She said, when you start a 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.520 sentence with I love you, but you don't, don't do that. 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.280 That's I love you, but you folded my shirts wrong, 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:48.840 and I love you anyway. Where where are we fat 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.120 Beer We? Yeah? I think that's what the whole podcast 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.160 is going to be about. Right to talk about William 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.120 the refrigerator Perry that brings it right back to football? 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.640 Are all ramp out of this? Also, forty salmon in 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:06.480 one day? Not all right? I appreciate Darren you setting 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.119 the tone. I mean, it is the happy half hour 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.440 podcast after all. But but now we've got to get 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:14.200 to some business. Yeah. Um, look, let's let's talk about 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.480 the offense here. I mean, I don't know what another 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.000 transition from Fat Bear Week to the Panthers is so 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.000 we're just going to talk about the offense. I think 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.120 if you're listening to this podcast, aside from learning new 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.520 things about fat Bear and i Oh one, you want 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.240 to know what's going on. And I think the two 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:33.560 of you have great insight into um the tenor around here, 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.760 what what people are working on, and what you think. Yes, 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.919 it's less happy, Uh this week the news hasn't been great. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.279 I mean, the offense is not in a good spot 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.440 right now. And one of the things I've yelled about 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.760 for years and years and years. When you watch this stuff, 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.760 when you talk to coaches, when you talk to players, 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.800 when you watch practice, you realize it's very seldom as 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.280 simple as one thing. Absolutely, people want to make it 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.040 about one thing and it's only this and only that. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.680 And listen, there are things that the Carolina Panthers are 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.280 doing offensively that do not make it easy on Baker Mayfield. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:11.840 But right now, Baker Mayfield is kind of the biggest 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.839 thing that's not working. I mean, Baker is not the 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:20.040 player they've hope they were going to get. They've all 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.640 they've been talking for three years about building a defense 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.960 so that if you can just get league average quarterback 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.360 play we're not close to league average quarterback play right now, 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.360 Baker's down near the bottom. I mean, oddly enough. As 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.479 I was going through this week's stats, he's actually third 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.400 in the league and fourth quarter passer rating, which is weird. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.479 But I think a lot of that was built on 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.080 a couple of big plays. The Robbie play that Levis 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.320 could play, and then that long drive at the end 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.960 of the Cardinals game the other day, when you know, 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.120 the Cardinals were up to scores, which makes it a 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.440 little bit easier. But Baker has not been great. He's 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.240 not been great on third down. Uh, He's getting past 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.440 his battered down Atlanta scrimmage. He's tired of hearing people 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:06.200 ask him about that already. But until the narrative changes, 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.440 until he does something to give us something different to 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.960 talk about, that's gonna continue to be a thing. Because 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.960 when passes get batted down the client of scrimmage, they 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.440 get picked off. Cardinals take short field and score all 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.839 of a sudden, defense that's been playing really well for 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.800 the first four weeks is just sitting there exhausted, like, 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.640 you know, we can hold these guys to field goals, 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.880 but we're still down now, and it's just until that 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:36.640 stuff gets squared away, you don't know you see things. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.680 I mean, I honestly I talked to these people downstairs 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:44.080 and they're like, there are moments when it looks right there, 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.440 moments when it looks put together, but out there on 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.560 Sundays it hasn't so far. I think one question that 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.000 the fans have, and I mean maybe a lot of 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.240 people have, is is why are the passes getting batted down? 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.560 I don't necessarily think it's a high thing. We saw 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.200 and Kyler Murray is wick and and shorter than Baker Mayfield. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.640 We've seen like Drew Brees, right, yes, right? Do you 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.520 have insight for either of you from from talking to 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.000 people about what that is? And if it's a fixable problem, 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.800 it can be fixable, and it can be fixed by 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.160 offensive lineman. I mean, I guess to talk to Austin 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.640 Corbette the other day about this and and the stuff 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.600 that they do exactly exactly well. I mean the first 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.720 thing is, you know, getting out in front of them, 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.040 making sure you're going at them on their shoulders, keeping 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.600 their hands, getting there. It's all about placement and like 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.680 things like that. One person I did talk to was 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.560 p J. Walker. He had a lot of just very 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.520 specific mechanical things like he's like, I mean I've seen this, 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.120 I know what it is, and he you know, as 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.800 tangible as an answer he could, He's like arm angles 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.640 sometimes to look less predictable, um of where exactly it's 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.040 going to go. Um. But yeah, a lot of it's 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.560 where you kind of attack people and you've got to 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.440 make sure if you see their hands going up to 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.080 it's like a visual thing. There's a lot of different 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.600 pieces to it, sounds Brady Christiansen kind of made it 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.640 sound kind of complicated, you know what I mean, Like 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.720 there's so many different factors. I think there are. And 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.400 that's the thing what Darren said, as we all try 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.000 to pin it on one thing, but football is a 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.320 chess game and there's so many different things that go 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.400 into it. I think it's a great point, exactly exactly. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:14.720 I mean, I think about all of the roles that 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:16.840 they have to play, and that's just another one of them. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:18.640 I think in general, I mean, I would say the 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:22.120 offensive line looks pretty good. I mean, you know, in general, 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.200 but it's just those tiny, tiny little things and and 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.720 they're very focused on, you know, trying to figure that out. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.680 But at the same time, it's like, you know, sometimes 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.760 they just beat you and they're just all I gotta do. 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.600 Just hands up. You watch the place happen. It's just 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.400 so quick. And that's what D linemen are trained to do, 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.160 is get your hands up. J. J. Watt is someone 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.800 that's done that for years. And some of it is 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.160 some of it can be solved by play calling. You 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.280 can do certain things, I think one of the things. Yeah, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.160 and again, all this stuff is very complicated. But right now, 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.840 I know people roll their eyes every year when they 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.520 hear a coach talk about getting back to basics. But 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.640 right now, Baker looks like a guy was making two 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.760 men decisions at the line of scrimmage, and could they 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.360 streamline things for him? Could they make it a little bit? 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.240 You know, there's there are a lot of things going on, 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.560 and when there's a lot of stuff going on, I 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:17.120 think what you want to strip down and do is, um, 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.320 you know, take the things you're good at, do more 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.800 of those. The stuff you're struggling with, don't worry about 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.360 that right now. Do the stuff you know you can do. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.560 And I think they can. That's the coaching cliche put 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.880 guys in positions to succeed, and I think that's kind 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.200 of where they have to get to right now. They've 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.839 got to take the things Baker can do well we've 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.640 seen some of them, and just do more of that. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.360 And also it would follow and we've heard um, Matt 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.320 Rule say this, uh, and players other members of the 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:50.679 coaching staff. Um. If you want to the capitalize on 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.079 things that are done well in this offense is run 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:57.120 the ball right. Christian two straight hundred yard games, gets 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.200 eight carries last week. That's probably not enough carries out 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.480 They're running the fewest offensive plays of any team in 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.040 the league because their last in the league and third 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.920 down conversion percentage. So again, this thing spirals a little bit, 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:14.240 but I think if you people could have a do over, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.160 they would probably want to put the ball in Christian's 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:21.040 hands more than two times running in the second half 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.600 of last week's game. As our friend Jake Delone will 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.800 say on the radio broadcast, you can't go wrong by 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.920 putting it in the hands of your best player, or 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.600 very rarely can you go wrong. Um. Another one another 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.880 question that I you know, have been hearing a lot 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:36.880 and that has been focused on a lot in the 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.560 press conferences in the media is Baker's footwork. So I 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.480 wanted to get you guys insight on what you've learned 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.680 about that. I was talking to Matt Ryle yesterday for 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.800 our TV interview and I said, you know, what are 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.400 you challenging Baker with this week? When you want to 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.520 see he said, I want his footwork to look the 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.240 way it does in practice. And we see him in 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.520 practice as well. So you know, again knowing that all 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.560 the stuff is way more complicated than than the three 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.960 of us know or anyone at home knows hypothetically, what 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.120 are the reasons in which your footwork would look good 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.960 in practice but it doesn't in games? Been in a 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.960 hurry thinking about a lot of stuff. I mean being 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.320 in a new environment where you don't know. I think 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.040 that's the biggest thing too. And and listen, if they 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.400 could you want to talk about getting in a time machine, 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.920 if you could make this trade in April, so he 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.320 had O T A S. So he's had plenty of 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.760 practice time with all these people. You do that, but 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.400 they trade for him in July for a lot of reasons, 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:39.040 and um, you can't do that over now. But it's 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.000 just a matter of reps. I think it's one of 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.240 the things I looked at the other day is Baker 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.360 has always and somebody made this point in the mail 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.760 back in a question. You know, he's changed offensive coordinators 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:55.480 a lot, and his best numbers came in weeks nine 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.080 through twelve, you know, I mean, and it makes sense 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.360 the more you do something, the better you get at it, 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.880 and getting more reps and getting more comfortable seems to 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.520 be a reasonable answer. But at the same time, it's 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.800 week five o'clocks sticking and you're one in three right now, 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.439 so you need to get some stuff fixed in a 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.600 hurry if it's gonna get fixed. And I think it's 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.560 that goes back to what I was saying earlier about 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.640 looking like he's in a hurry because he knows what 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.720 to do, he's been told what to do, he's seen 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.000 how to do it. But when the game, when he 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.520 takes a snap from pad elf Wine, all of a sudden, 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.760 a lot of stuff gets loose. And when you're get 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.400 in a hurry, bad things happen. So coaches talk about 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.680 all the time, and I know, you know Matt's answer 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.040 is the correct one. You know, be the same guy 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.960 every day do the things you know that are correct 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.040 and do them over and over, and things ought to 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.480 work themselves out. But it's frustrating when you get in 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.640 the course of a game and things the one thing 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.559 goes wrong and then it's just this cascading series of problems. Well, 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.880 the margin of air is so granular too. I talked 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.959 with widers eivers coach Joe Daily last week just kind 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.440 of about you know, we hear building chemistry with receivers 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.480 all of the time, and last week Matt Role challenged 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.480 the receivers to you know, just all of these things 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.880 like get open and all that. But but I've found 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.360 Daily's insights so fascinating because, um, I kind of hearing 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.480 him talk made me think about my marching band roots 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.920 where it's like they need to be in step, and 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.240 I mean from like the second, like the way Baker's 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.360 feet need to mirror the receiver's feet in the way 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.320 where they know exactly what's going on. It's so much more. 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.040 It's so just the margin marror is like so tiny, 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:34.440 like you can't see my hands, but like I'm just 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.600 it's eat batty. He's like there's no space between her 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.440 and none zero. No, it's just so gran granular is 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.080 so small, and and when you're like, like Darren said, 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.720 you know, panicked isn't the word, but just you know, 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.200 kind of getting in, getting loose, you know, thinking in 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:55.440 your head too much. It keeps that from progressing. So 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.160 you see these throws that you watch them and you're like, 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.960 where in the world was that going? But it's because 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:05.400 they're they're these tiny little things. And and whenever Joe 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.000 Dailey told me that, I was like, wait a minute, 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.920 this makes a lot more sense because you know the 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.920 receivers there, d J. Moore and Robby Anderson, they're very 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.800 you know, generally pretty calm, cool, collective people in general. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.760 But and you have Baker over here, who's still getting 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.600 adjusted to things. He's still but but again, like Darren said, 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.240 it's week five times a chicken, and there hasn't been 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:27.320 marked improvement. There's an argument that things have not gotten 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:31.040 any better, if stagnated to worse almost, So it's like 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.880 where where do you go from that point? But it's 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.600 it's the walking and step thing was just so fascinating 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:39.360 to me. It's like you have to know exactly where 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.800 the steps are planted, and that's the way to kind 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.080 of get that chemistry, the word that we always hear, 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:50.200 and it's fascinating. And again, the little things make big differences. 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.600 You go back to that Giants game and you look 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.960 at that thing again. One of the things that I 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.920 think as armchair analysts look at films and read pff gray. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.280 It's that kind of thing. You don't know what the 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.480 play call is. But but if a guy is who 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.280 is supposed to run a fourteen yard route or break 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.640 at fourteen yards and he breaks at twelve, he's gonna 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:15.400 make his quarterback look like an idiot. And without knowing 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.680 all that, you know, you know, people say, oh my god, Baker, 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.560 did you know? That was horrible? How can he And 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.600 a lot of times it's not necessarily Baker, and a 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.200 couple of times early on it wasn't necessarily Baker. But 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.120 he's also missed. I mean, he has straight up missed 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.480 some balls and not been accurate. That's what's amazing is 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:39.280 he is, you know, effectively a sixty percent career passer 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:43.320 or completion percentage guy, and he is not at sixty 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.280 percent guy right now. As he said, I think it 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.280 was a week one, there was some excuse between him 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.520 and Chi Smith. He said, I'm a very accurate quarterback 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.080 and so I should put the ball And that is 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.480 what you would associate with him in college, and um, 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.640 with the Browns, you know that that is not something 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:03.680 that has ever been an issue. And so that's why 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:07.160 I appreciate you guys insight into these things because I 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.840 think that's what what fans are wondering, which is like, 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.120 on a granular level, what are these things that we 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.000 hear about that we see in the games, and can 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.440 they get fixed? And he talked about it yesterday. I 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.000 asked him if he kind of compares it to last 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.800 year in Cleveland when he was hurt and not playing well. 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.200 But and that's the weird thing about what's going on 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.920 right now, what he's done over the last four weeks 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:31.800 is worse than what he was putting on the streets 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.600 when he was hurt last year. So that's kind of 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:39.800 the red light that indicates it's more than just one thing. Um, 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.400 because he's not been the same guy we're we're used 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.120 to seeing. And I think, uh, he knows that. But 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:50.160 he his whole thing yesterday was it's not philosophy, it's 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:54.040 not a theory, it's I've got to do X, Y 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.960 Z in the correct order and then everything will start 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.640 to That's that's a thing when when Rule talks about 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.480 we see it on tape. That's that's what he means 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.040 when they turn on the tape. They're very specific. And 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:10.679 Christian was funny, not funny, but insightful talking about it 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.640 yesterday in the locker room. He's like, you know, they're 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.440 not coaching bad football. The stuff they're showing us is correct, 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.680 it works. It's on us to do it. And that's 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.720 kind of where they are with Baker and everybody execution. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.960 Now that we've had a lot time to do it, 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.000 let's talk about the defense. So we'll get the unfortunate 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.680 news out of the way, because there's a lot of 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:37.640 optimism going forward with this defense. They are an impressive unit. 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:41.760 But unfortunately bad news. First, Jeremy chin Um is on 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:45.280 injured reserve now with a hamstring injury. Darren, what is 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.400 the what is the latest with that? When you heard 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.359 you could tell that one wasn't great. Uh. During the 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:55.439 game Sunday, in the moment I play he plays six snaps, 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.639 comes off the field and he tried to get on 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.320 that bike. He tried to keep it warm him. He 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.119 tried to move it around and then there was just 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.560 you could tell there was that recognition of yeah no. Uh. 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.000 And it's a shame because Jeremy is such a valuable 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.159 piece and the way they move him around, do different 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.960 stuff with him. You know, we saw when he was 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.560 blitzing and impacting plays early on. I mean, they can 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.600 do so many things with Jeremy. You don't replace that 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:22.760 with one guy. And I don't think they planned to. 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.280 I mean it's gonna it's gonna be some combination of 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:31.520 Miles Hartsfield, Justin Burroughs, maybe even Marquise Blayer, you know, 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.960 different guys. Sean Chandler is primarily a special teams guy, 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.720 but he can play some defense too occasionally. And and 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.160 they're just going to have to mix and match personnel 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:44.520 because you don't replace somebody like Jeremy with one guy. Uh. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.520 And it's tough. I mean, that's that's the thing. When 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.080 you look at this defense for all the spots they've 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:54.119 been in, they're pretty good in red zone rankings because 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.080 they're holding people to field goals when they have to 0:18:56.119 --> 0:19:00.119 defend short fields, They're they're getting pressure on people. Then 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.720 if there aren't big sack numbers. You know, Burns is 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.919 playing well, frank you luvuh my god, playing out of 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.200 his mind. Yeah, I mean, and he's he's doing he's 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.720 beat up and and Frankie's on the injury report with 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.159 those shoulders again this week. And I think that's just 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.000 gonna be kind of the way with him because he's 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.600 a guy who's probably been a snap a game on 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:25.119 defense guy, and because the defense is playing a lot 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.719 of snaps, suddenly he's snap a game guy and that 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.160 comes with a physical toll. And Frankie's starting to show 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.480 some of that right now. But he's also always on 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.760 the field and always around the ball, so I um, 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.760 you know, there are a lot of things to latch onto. 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.640 The They're in a similar spot to places they've been previously. 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.520 And I don't just mean in twenty and twenty one. 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.800 I mean I think back to oh two when Rodney 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.800 Pete was the quarterback, and it's like, we're gonna win 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.439 games twelve to nine, We're gonna we're gonna play you 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:01.080 sixteen thirteen games and be perfectly tent with it. And 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:03.639 that's kind of the spot they have to get themselves 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.360 to right now. While they're getting stuff stored in on offense. 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.359 And it should be said that Myles Hartsfield Shohn Chandler 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:11.560 came in and played very well. Um, as you said, 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.919 Jeremy Chin just six naps before you tell that that 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:19.200 hamstring immediately, uh something was wrong and did not play 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.119 most of the game. And this defense looked really good 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:24.760 and performed well without him. And as you said, Justin 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.840 Burrs now on the active roster from the practice squad, 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.840