WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour 123: New Faces & New Energy 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.960 This week on a Happy half Hour, they. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.440 Were hyping them up like, oh, brace yeah man, we're back, 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.000 We're back, and it was just a completely different vibe 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:12.239 and all like, this is how excited these guys are 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.360 to get back together. And this is always the fun 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.840 time of year. You know, it's long days, it's long nights. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.040 It can be draining, but it's also so much fun. 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.400 It's like being around the energy touts. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:28.760 Do cow whoa. It's time for the Happy Half Hour 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:34.760 presented by Southern Star, an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.800 Here are your hosts, Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.760 Hello, friends, We're back. 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.680 That's right, it's the Happy Half Hour, presented by a 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:53.720 Southern Star and official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. Celebrate 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:59.080 the spirit of the Carolinas and celebrate indeed, because football's back. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:00:59.480 Baby. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:04.200 The song I was singing a minute ago, yeah see 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.720 back again? Is that a copyright infringement? 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.560 It's either a copyright infringement or not the best version 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.560 of it I've ever heard. Personal, But yeah, it's reasonable 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:17.160 to be excited because after a long summer away, we've 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.800 missed you folks. It feels like it's been forever since 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.400 we were with you, but it was only but it 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.120 was only June in a lifetime, Yeah. 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.240 It does feel like forever ago. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.800 Many things have changed, but in fact, training camp is 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.680 in Charlotte. Normally we would be doing this podcast from 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.840 somewhere in Spartanburg after driving by the beach in Gaffney. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:37.759 But we're here. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.600 We're at home and we get to sleep in our 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.600 own beds and do our own stuff at the end 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.800 of the day, and that's worth something. So it's uh, 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.040 we are thankful. There is a lot of new to 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.360 get used to here with the Carolina Panthers. And as 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.280 you watch guys report to training camp today, it kind 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.280 of dawns on you how different this thing is because 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.360 for so long we're used to seeing a lot of 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.040 the same faces and then you walk in today and oh, hi, 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:07.160 Jadavian Clowney, right, you're here, welcome back to Charlotte, And 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.519 it was kind of interesting and listening to jed Avian today, 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:15.040 he flat out said, you know, I've been on good teams, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:16.720 I've been in places where they win. 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.079 This is the way to win. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.920 Yeah, this is what I kind of expect here, And 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.840 just hearing him talk both about his expectations for this 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.800 thing and just being at home and how excited he 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.720 is about being at home. That kind of brought back 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.560 one of the themes of the off season for me, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.160 because for all the other things, I mean, you change coaches, 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:40.000 you change gms, the personnel turnover with significant and no 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.400 more so on defense, where you know there is no 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.760 more Brian Burns, Frankie Louvu, all these familiar faces like 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.240 Dante Jackson that we got so used to, and they 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.320 brought in Clowney and a bunch of dudes who knew 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:55.280 as Gero everro back when and completely remade that side 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.440 of the ball. And just standing there looking at him 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.280 today kind of brought that home to me. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.239 I've been on six teams and I've never been on loser. 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.720 Really on all six of them. We have winning schedules, 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.440 probably one and I never went no win, just lost 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.200 an don't plan on come here and just losing. So 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.200 I've told them guys of my six team, and I 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.240 know what it looked like. I know what it takes 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.880 to win. So it's coming together every day and practice 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:19.600 and prepare. We all be here for a reason, We 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.600 all professionals in pro and we all got what it 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.079 takes to win here in this organization. So I think 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:26.919 that's what it's gonna come down to, everybody buying in 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.520 and hearing it from guys that has been from other 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.600 teams and telling them, man, we got what it take 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:33.760 and show up every day and come to work. 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.680 Yeah, a bunch of guys like you mentioned Jersey Jewel, 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:39.400 Jordan Fuller. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:41.520 Is, Shawn Robinson, Hey. 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.880 Shawn Robinson. So you know, guys that are going to 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.760 be playing a lot, if not starting, and so we'll 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.480 definitely make a difference. But yeah, it was fun to 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.160 watch the guys come in today. I was walking through 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.040 the hallways around nine forty five going up to a 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.520 meeting of ours, and so because I saw when he 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.720 came in this morning, and you know, he was he 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:07.280 was Bryce, you know, probably Bryce before caffeine and you know, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.880 a little quiet like he normally is. And then when 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:12.960 I saw him in the hallway about twenty minutes later, 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.000 it was right as he ran into Amir Smith Marsette 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.480 and a couple of his offensive linemen and they were 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:19.400 hyping him up like. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.440 Oh Bryce, yeah, man, we're back, We're back. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:23.880 And it was just a completely different vibe and all like, 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.679 this is how excited these guys are to get back together. 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.040 And this is always the fun time of year. You know, 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.640 it's long days, it's long nights. It can be draining, 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.800 but it's also so much fun and just like being 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.000 around the energy. 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.280 Right, And that's where I always get kind of a 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.880 kick about out of training camp, because you learn so 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:46.359 much about both your co workers who you're around basically 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.880 all day and all night every day for the next month, 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.039 but also this team. I mean, you really get a 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.120 sense of what these guys can be about. I mean, 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.960 there were some signs last year that things maybe weren't 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.240 going to go according to plan, and nobody knows how 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.560 this year is going to go. But it is interesting 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.440 listening to people talk and Matt's going to pull the 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.440 cuts for us and plug it in here. I know, 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:14.440 because Dan Morgan was pretty interesting talking about kind of 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.640 the expectations. I mean, Dan sort of teed it up 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:22.039 and said, you know, we're not gonna worry about expectations 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:23.760 because the focus is on work. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.440 And the reason that kind of hit me again. 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.360 It's one of those things that brings it back, just 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.400 in talking to guys about Dave Canalis. 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:31.680 I mean, what's Dave Canalis. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.320 He's young, he's good looking, he's energetic, he's you know, 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.000 and everybody thinks he's just run around hair on fire. 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.920 But you know, we posted a story earlier this week, 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:44.080 one hundred years ago where guys said Canalis's focus has 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.800 always been on the work, and when you hear Dan 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.560 Morgan talk about it, it kind of drives that message 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:50.119 home again. 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.480 You know, I'm not going to put any expectations on 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.159 anything right now. What I do know is that there's 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.120 a lot of work ahead of us, not only from 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.560 a personnel's down point, but the players. You know, the 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.200 players know that they got to put the work in 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.599 out there. We have a lot of new players that 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.919 got to gail together out there and become a team. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.320 So in terms of playoffs, you know, we'll reach that, 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.120 you know, when we're ready. But I think right now 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.440 we're focused on today, tomorrow and just trying to get 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.839 better as a team and as an organization. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.160 It's funny that you mentioned that, because you know, there 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.919 was a thread that kind of went not viral but 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.080 semi viral a few days ago with a former player 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.520 from Seattle talking about that and how you know there 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.360 was He said, there was one coach that would go 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.279 out there and get out there first to the practice 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.679 build and make sure every single tackling dummy was lined 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.920 up perfectly in the right spot and had that sort 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:49.440 of attention to detail coupled with infectious energy. And he 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.600 was like, and that guy's now an NFL coach, and 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.600 he's talking abou Dave Canalis as he went on to say, 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.840 and so to your point, like, yeah, the hair's on fire, 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.800 but this is also somebody who understands from what we 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.400 have seen in his previous stops, this is somebody who 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:07.320 understands the details and how important those can be. And 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.560 those two things together, I think it's going to be 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.440 fun to watch. And we've of course had OTAs. We've 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.000 had voluntary mini camp, we've had mandatory mini camp, we've 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.760 had rookie mini camp. Training camp, to me is where 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.280 you really start to see it all come together, because 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.520 it's a lot less about learning the playbook, it's a 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.720 lot less about learning the installs. It's a lot more 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.280 about Okay, now let's put this team together. Let's start 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.480 taking all these puzzle pieces and creating an actual picture. 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:34.920 Yep, no doubt. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.120 And really, I mean on the other side of the 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.760 ball too. You know talk about all that, you know, 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.520 renovation of the defense, I mean on the other side 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.080 of the ball. That's the thing that everybody's focus was 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.840 on early in the off season, because when you invest 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.320 a number one overall pick in a quarterback, you know 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.800 the expectations are going to be different than what you 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:57.000 saw last year. But after Bryce Young takes sixty two sacks, 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.760 tying a franchise records, body said. 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.960 Today, we saw you take a hit or two and 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:02.560 I was like, a. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.600 Hitter two or sixty two. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.760 And yeah, poor Steve Berlin thought he was going to 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.480 be off the hook, but he's not. He's still tied 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:14.720 for that franchise record. And you know, it obviously wasn't good. 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.240 But to Dan's point, there was a plan. There was 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.040 a concerted effort to do things a very specific way, 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.040 and that included spend that much money on big old 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.480 Robert Hunt and big old Damian Lewis and Austin Corbett 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.520 moving inside, and that ought to on paper, create a 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.600 much more stable interior than they had at any point 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:38.160 last year. I think I should probably retire the number. 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.240 I feel like I said it about a million times, 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.640 but when you go through a season and play seven 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.040 different left guards and eight different right guards, it wasn't 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:46.800 gonna go well. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:47.680 And it didn't. 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.720 So that was to Dan's point, kind of that plan 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.840 was to stabilize the middle of the offensive line, give 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.360 Bryce a chance to see the field a little bit longer, 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:58.199 run the. 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.200 Ball, and do those normal things. 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.000 And I think that's probably gonna be my buzzword for 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.559 the next couple of months, because until it's back the normal, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:08.880 you know, that's going to be the place you're trying 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:09.280 to get to. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.040 Let me ask you a question, Darre because someone brought 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.120 this up to Bryce today in his press conference, and 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.280 I was not here last training camp. So I'm just 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:16.959 curious that. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.720 God, that is right, you weren't here last year at 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.040 training camp. Where were you last year at training Why 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:23.400 couldn't you have been here last year? 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.440 I was here for two games, and so. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.320 She's lived, ladies and gentlemen. 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:34.640 But they mentioned Bryce not even really having his full 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.760 offensive line in the off season as well, and so 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:43.160 did he ever have a healthy five man offensive line 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.400 at any point his rookie season, off season or regular season? 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.560 Yeah, I mean it was triggered during you know, last year, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.320 during the off season, the assumption was you knew Austin 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.040 Corbett was going to be out for a little bit 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.199 coming off that knee injury, but Brady Christiansen was back, 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.960 and you felt like, based on what they had done 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.319 year before and the way they'd run the ball, okay, well, 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:03.959 you can kind of survive with four out of you 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.440 five pieces. But then Brady goes out and immediately gets 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.080 hurt in the opener and you don't ever see him again, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.120 and that just started that snowball rolling downhill and it 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:18.320 never turned around. So it you know, because Austin wasn't 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.640 out there, they were cycling through different guys at right 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:24.760 guard throughout camp last year and it never stabilized at all. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.520 But you know, what they're hoping is that by putting 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:32.640 all that money and poundage and then you know, really 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:36.079 making an emphasis of that position, that they're giving him 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:36.880 a better chance. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:37.960 And you could just tell. 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.240 I mean, Bryce talked today about going through his process 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.520 getting himself ready and really trying to it's almost a 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.119 start over for him. 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.640 For me, there's always like an urgency. There's always a 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.080 sense of wanting to be the best that I can 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.040 be the best that we can be every day, and 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.360 that's definitely something that I don't want to lose and 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.400 I want to make sure we're at and I don't 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.400 feel like for me, I guess there's I don't look 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.720 at it as as pressure from outside things. I think 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.920 really for us, it's making sure we can be the 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:10.600 best we can be every day and then accomplish our 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.640 goal shout the year. And that's a big picture thing 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.199 and it's not something that's really gonna change. We can't 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.360 get that done tomorrow. We're not gonna get it done 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.360 next week. It's going to be throughout the year. So 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.480 because of that, I try to keep my focus on 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.720 just the small stuff what I can do right now. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.120 We have a meeting in however many minutes, trying to 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:29.640 make sure we're locked in for that. I'm locked in 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.839 for that, So I think kind of just that's kind 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.800 of the mindset. And because of that, you don't really 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.960 feel I don't really feel the over like this, the 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.480 overhanging pressure, whatever it is that it may come from 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.959 the outside. So I guess that it's kind of my 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:44.240 approach towards it. 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.600 It's a start over with an understanding of what the 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:51.440 NFL is now, yep, And so that can be I 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.880 think what makes a big difference is he's not wide 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.560 eyed anymore. He has a better understanding of how a 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.680 calendar works, what the schedule looks like. He knows his 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.400 way well, actually, I was gonna say he knows his 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.439 way from the meeting room to the training camp field. 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.400 But it is a different training camp field this year. 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.439 But it's still the same practice field. You know, it's 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.640 he's going. He's got a new coaching staff, but he has, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.560 you know, a lot of the same guys still around 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.120 him with but now he gets a fresh start with 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:23.160 that familiarity. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.640 Sure, and listen what it looks like last year's scar 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.600 tissue at this point. I mean, everything's kind of pointing 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.360 forward for him. And in addition to all those offensive linemen, 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.800 you walk in today and you see, oh there's Deontae Johnson. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.480 That's different. Oh there's Xavier Legat. There's a first round 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.120 pick at wide receivers. So again, they were very systematic, 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.920 very methodical of that, the way they put pieces around 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:47.840 Bryce to kind of enhance the chances. 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.960 And Dan Morgan told us today that that was really 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.640 their intention and that they wanted to make sure that 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.760 they gave him the best pieces around him. But then 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.880 he also made sure to say that as far as Bryce, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.240 but the team as a whole, that the expectation was 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.880 going to be there were no expectations. I mean, you've 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:08.280 been around this game a long time. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:09.760 Is that a. 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.200 Safe philosophy is that? 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.760 I just think, you know, the only way you can 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:21.040 do this job well and in a stable and long 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.800 term fashion is by keeping your eyes right in front 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.400 of your feet and the next step, you know, the 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.240 old coaching cliche, be where your feet are, do that 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.680 thing you're working on. And again it's Dan, it's Canalys, 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:38.240 it's all of them. They are very workmanlike in their 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.760 approach to this thing. I mean, everything is about getting 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.920 the football right. We've heard Dave Canalis say that a 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.680 hundred times already and we're not even on the practice 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.360 field for the first time, but that's going to be 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.760 the thing. And I think Dan, Bryce and Dave all 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.559 sort of have that same mentality. They work the same 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.920 way in that regard. They're not going to be big react. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.679 There's two things. They're very planned out, very prepared, and 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:06.800 you know, we'll see where it takes them. I mean, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.440 the first step is improvement, and after two and fifteen 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:14.040 that shouldn't be terribly hard. But how many numbers does 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.439 that mean? What does that mean? 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:15.920 Four wins? 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.920 Six wins a when nobody knows, you know, and they're 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.000 not focused on that right now, And I don't think 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.280 it helps to think about how many games you're gonna 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.280 win or whether you're gonna go to the playoffs. What 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.880 they need to be focused tomorrow when they walk out 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.480 on the practice field is are we going to do 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:31.280 Wednesday right? 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:31.680 Right? 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:33.840 And then after you do Wednesday right, you work on 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.640 Thursday and you just keep stacking those days. And that's 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.200 really the only way to fix this thing. 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.160 Dan Morgan might not have expectations, but and I'm not 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.480 saying that we will, but I do have a question. 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.720 I feel like you can usually kind of tell at 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.560 some point during the off season, in the case of 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:54.280 the NFL, during training camp, what a team is gonna be, 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.600 or at least for me, you get a vibe and 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.280 you might not know how how many games they're gonna win, 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.160 but you kind of can figure out what side of 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.360 five hundred they're going to be on at what point 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.320 for you do you feel like you have a good 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.080 feel for a team. You're gonna say six games into 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:12.800 the season, aren't you. 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.960 Well an amount of games into the season at least, 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.400 because I just think, you know, they need to because 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.040 of the way last year went, they need to get 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.560 into preseason score some points, right Seeing a touchdown would 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.520 be kind of cool after they get shut out the 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:27.800 last two games of the year. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:29.880 Not that I meant to remind you of that. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.000 Speaking of carrying scars, I think everybody listening to this 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.640 podcast is too so score some points. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:36.920 You know. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.280 And I think when you base an offense the way 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.400 they I think they're probably going to they want to run. 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.680 They want to be intentional about running, and I think 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.800 when you do that, you give yourself opportunities. Again, it's 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:51.880 not going to be flashy and dramatic, but I don't 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:53.920 think you need flashy and dramatic. You need to be 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.320 stable for a second and then you can build. 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.080 One of the more interesting things that I thought came 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:03.080 out of the Press Conforce today is previewing training camp, 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.800 was Davian Clowney saying, you know, he's been on teams 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.680 that have had success. He's been on teams that have 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.560 gone to the playoffs. The Baltimore Ravens last year one 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.000 of the best teams in football, and he was saying 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:20.680 that a large part of that is simply the attitude 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.120 that the team comes in with, and you know, followed 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.960 up with that, I was like, that's such a easy 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.080 thing to kind of say, have a good attitude, But 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.520 can that really make a difference between a winning team 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.480 and a losing team? And he said absolutely, And he 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.640 used Baltimore as an example, and he was like, you know, 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.160 on the defensive side, we were led by Roquan Smith. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.560 We came in every day with a good attitude about 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.160 being there. And you know who is a poster child 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:51.880 for that, Darren Is Dave Canallis. And so I thought 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.600 that was really interesting. And this is an eleven year vet. 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.720 We've been around Clowney enough the past couple of months 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:02.040 now to know he's not gonna He's not gonna. I'm 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.119 trying to figure out what's a word I can use 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.719 that won't get us caught by the FCC. He's not 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.440 gonna tease you. He's he's gonna tell you what he's 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.760 thinking of what he really believes. And so him saying 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.280 that I thought stood out because that's something you can control. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.400 Listen, if there's a Happy half Hour Bingo card out 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:23.240 there amongst our listeners, no one has Cassidy being the 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:29.320 first FCC final. Okay, absolutely nobody. That's Darren saying bad. 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.439 Word is like the free space in the middle that 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.120 everybody just kind of assumes, all right, so don't don't 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:35.399 go stepping on my turf. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.440 So anyway, but it was cool, Yeah, I mean, it's cool. Though. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.719 It was interesting to hear from Dan from Bryce from 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.800 Jadavian today and again, we're gonna walk out there on 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.240 that practice field tomorrow and it's gonna be different. We've 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.680 been on that property, we've seen the things he wrote 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.440 about the new cooling trailer. Players are gonna get the 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.119 duck in out of the heat into a twenty degree room. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.639 Twenty degrees and let me tell you, twenty degrees is cold. 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.600 Yeah, it's just a little bit less than what it 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.320 is in this studio right now. We can see our 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:10.160 breath as we're taping the Happy half Hour. But no, 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.280 I mean they it's a pretty significant investment in and 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.480 the health and wellness and athletic training staff talk to 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.359 us about it. Today, and it's basically a two hundred 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.439 thousand dollars investment in having guys ready because when it's hot, 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:25.760 you want guys to be able to duck in, cool 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.400 themselves off, come back out and continue to practice. It's 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.280 not a big dramatic jumping into ice kind of thing. 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.560 If you're starting to feel a little hot, and it's 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.320 all about getting more work done, that's the thing and 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.040 I and I think that's going to be a theme 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.639 throughout this entire training camp for everybody. 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:42.960 So that was the interesting part to me because I'd 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.800 never really thought about it until Kevin King had athletic 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.320 trainer and Andrew Altov sports science ault. I think now 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.080 though his title is Director of Human Performance, it's a 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:57.600 great time, right. It is just all humans are under 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:58.360 Andrew alltop. 0:18:59.359 --> 0:18:59.920 They made the. 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.000 That you know, this allows them to let players get 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.600