WEBVTT - NFL Report: Coaching QB Bryce Young, Covering Aaron Rodgers, Week 2 Matchup Breakdowns 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.200 All right, pencils down, heads up, Steve, It's time for 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:10.080 the NFL Report. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.160 Steve White, James Palmer with you, and we have the 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:14.840 man Steve who. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.759 Was spending every waking hour with the number one overall pick, 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:21.840 Bryce Young. That's Panthers offensive coordinator Thomas Brown gonna join 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.279 the show for an exclusive interview. Just wait, do you 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.480 hear what he asked to say about about the number 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:27.880 one pick? 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:28.480 I get? 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:29.560 Just wait until you have. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:31.880 I can't wait for it because I used to cover 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.559 Thomas and college when he was a running back at Georgia. 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.599 So I'm really excited about this. But Jay PMLO down 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.320 the dumps. You know, two days ago a water main breaks, 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:43.640 a waterminon breaks in the house, so I got a 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.559 whole room flooded. My wife's got her family up, My 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:48.400 wife D's got her family up from Jamaica, so we 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.720 got this whole room now that's flooded, waters everywhere. But 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:53.560 that's not why I'm really down on the dumps JP. 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:55.040 It was the plumbing. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:55.279 Duw. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.560 Yeah, you know, they're like it's gonna cost you this much. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.720 I felt like Vonte is perfect. When I got fined 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:05.440 by the NFL from my fifteenth hit for unnecessary roughness 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:07.640 and do you know how big that fine those fines are. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.160 Yeah, that's from Owen lawns around the neighborhood. 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:12.040 That's where I'm right now. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.320 But look, we're also gonna have Brian Baldinger, and we 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.120 are gonna have all kinds of different angles on this 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.440 Aaron Rodgers subject, from how you know Aaron Rodgers history 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.319 to how it affects not only the Jets moving forward, 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:25.800 but at least one of their opponents. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.160 You're not gonna want to miss that. We've got Stacey. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.520 DL's, Brian Baldinger, Mike Grefolo, Judy Batista joining us JP 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.920 and first up, this is a game I don't think 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.280 either one of us can wait to see. Coming up, 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.320 we've got the Kansas City Chiefs coming off the l 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.840 to the Detroit Lions playing the Jacksonville Jaguars who win 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.480 the opener and James. This doesn't say anything about the Chiefs, 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.040 but the fact that we're talking about how they could 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.840 open the season with back to back losses against the 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.600 Lions and Jags tells you the state of those teams 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.560 right now. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.080 Steve, you've been down to the dumps too much, so 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.200 I'm not gonna go negative. I'm gonna swing it over 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:05.680 to Jacksonville and go positive for us here. Imagine what 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.959 this benchmark game could be for the Jacksonville Jaguars organization. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.480 If they take down the defending Super Bowl champs in 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.120 Week two and this might happen. I think, Steve, because 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.760 of when this game is happening, it's early in the season. 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:20.960 We know Chris Jones is back, we know he's been 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:22.079 doing two a days down. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:23.720 In Miami, but he's not Nick Bosa. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.519 I'm curious how many snaps he can go and how 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.440 that affects them getting after Trevor Lawrence because there's some 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.440 issues injuries wise up front on that offensive line. Can 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.600 they still be explosive and they can put some points 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.480 on the board. And then on the other side, we 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.600 know Travis Kelce probably coming back for this game. I 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.520 was told when an injury happened, a one to two 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:46.480 week injury. Is he one hundred percent? This could be 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.760 shaking up for a really good spot in the season 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.679 for Jacksonville to come away with a win. The closing 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.840 part of this, Steve, is closing out games. That's something 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.840 that the Jaguars know that the Chiefs are very good 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:01.920 at We know that Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid are 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:02.639 great in the fourth quarter. 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.040 They get better as the game goes on. 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.600 But talking to people in Jacksonville, they believe that's a 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.560 trait that they're developing as well. And if they're able 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.280 to compete in the fourth quarter and win a tight 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.400 game over the defending Super Bowl champs, a game that 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.720 they believe they should have won in the postseason, right 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.600 talk to Doug Peters in this offseason. He truly believes 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.679 they should have won that game in Arrowhead. This could 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.200 be a massive game for the organization, for the Jacksonville Jaguars, 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.399 and they're treating it as such. It's a playoff atmosphere, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:29.160 I'm told down there in. 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:30.679 Jacksonville, well as it should be. 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.720 Look Kevin Calvin Ridley and the way he performed in 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.840 his debut last week is great reason for that optimism. 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:38.880 And the fact that he talked about that the. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.640 Jags actually had the Chiefs on the ropes to some 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.520 degree in that playoff game last season, I mean that 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.200 says a lot about where they are. And I remember 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.160 this was the game when Patrick Mahomes first had that 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.119 got that high ankle. Spraint lingered all the way through 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.080 the Super Bowl, so that was part of it. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:54.440 But you brought up Travis Kelcey. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.280 He had fourteen catches and two touchdowns in that game. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.760 He is that much of a difference make. But we'll 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.920 make a difference with this receiving corps that did not 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.960 play well without him in Week one? Or will arrest 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.360 of the guy step up to help booie Travis Kelsey, 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.240 Because all of a sudden, if Kelsey's not one hundred percent, 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.720 those guys aren't showing up that and we have to 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:16.640 start to wonder if the Kansas City Chiefs have I 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.679 have some greater underlying issues. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.479 All Right, I'm really curious where Joan Taylor is going 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.320 to line up, Steve. I'm really I'm really curious how 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:24.320 far back he's. 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:28.359 Gonna going to left tackle. You were talking about depth 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.240 from the line of scrimmage. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.680 And guess what, I think Doug Peterson knows a thing 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.920 or two about about his former tackle. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.240 Let's move to the game that I'm going to be Yeah, 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.520 and I think this is a great game. This is 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.560 Ravens at Bengals. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.040 And I had a chance to talk to a couple 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:44.960 players on the phone this week, had a chance to 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.039 talk to Tyler Boyd, who told me that, yes, that 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.080 is the worst he has ever seen Joe Burrow play. 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.440 But the interesting part Steven in our conversation is he said, 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.719 you know why he's so even keel all the time, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:57.760 because he said, this week, nothing has faced him. He's 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.440 been the same guy each and every day. Bothered him 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.080 that he went out and threw for eighty two yards. Yes, 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:03.560 he did to get a haircut. He said that was 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.279 partially because of the way he played, not entirely, but 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.080 he said, this is why he's wired this way. He 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:13.040 goes to Ohio State, my university, makes a terrible decision 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:14.360 and moves on from him. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:15.799 He transfers to LSU. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.560 And his point with this is he has had to 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.960 grind each in every spot he's been. Nothing's been handed 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.640 to him in any of the spots he's been, which 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:26.880 is an interesting thing to say for a former. 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:28.240 Number one overall pick. 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.520 But he said that's why he has this mentality that 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.919 he can go out and bounce back from things because 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.359 of what's happened to him in his path getting to 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.680 the NFL and being the highest paid player in the 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.040 history of the league right now. 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.839 JP, if we think he is not going to bounce back, 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.520 that we need to go get drug tested or something. 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.560 You know, I need to go have more pipes in 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.120 my house burst or something. 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.560 Because he's going to bounce back. He's gonna bounce back. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.120 The issue of this game is not going to be 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.200 Joe Burrow against This Ravens defense is down some dbs 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.279 right They've already had some injuries on their defense. The 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:04.080 issue is going to be Cincinnati's defense because no matter 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.640 what we want to say about this expanded Ravens offense, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:07.640 they're still going to try. 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.880 To run the ball. And Baltimore's offense. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.640 Was not great in their opener against Houston. They barely 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.640 surpassed one hundred yards on the ground. Lamar Jackson was 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.039 a little bit here and there when it came to 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:17.719 the pass game. 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.160 They've got some things to work out. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.040 But after seeing the Bengals surrender more than two hundred 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.359 rushing guards against the Browns and they really didn't adjust 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:26.000 to fix it. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:27.680 Now, the Ravens they don't have JK. 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.080 Dobbins, you know, they don't have Nick Chubb that Cleveland did, 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.920 But that defense has got to button it up or else, 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.680 John Harbaugh, Todd Munket, and that that run offense is 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.440 going to continue to trying to pound the rock. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:41.080 Steve. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.200 I look at one word that sums up I think 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.560 this entire game, and that is communication, and that involves 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.040 the Ravens. What are the two position groups that need 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.440 the really the best amount of continuity communication within a game. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.040 It's offensive line and it's the second death second right, 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:57.840 those are the two spots that need to continue to 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:59.080 talk to each other throughout a game. 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:00.000 You mentioned it. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.720 Marcus Williams, the leader of that secondary, most likely not 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:04.640 playing in this game, hasn't practiced all week with the 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.680 peck injury. Marlon Humphrey not back yet from the foot injury. 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.440 Down both those guys. Kyle Hamilton talked about it at 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.600 length this week about how communication is an issue back there. Yes, 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.400 they all play call of duty with one another. That 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.400 does happen in the secondary when they're having their downtime, 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.520 but on the field, having the proper amount of communication 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.800 against these three dynamic wide receivers is important. And then 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.960 Ronnie Staley and Tyler Linderbaum, their center and their left 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:29.320 table have not practiced all week. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:31.080 The game on Sunday. 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.040 That's difficult upfront, when you're working in a new system 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.040 and just your second game with it. You want to 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.560 run the football, and we know DJ Reader and company 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.080 up front with Luena Romo can make some damage. Those 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.280 are the two spots I'm really keeping an eye on 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:45.880 in this game when I'm going to be there on Sunday. 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.720 Yeah, I mean talking about interesting defenses. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:53.120 We saw the Dallas Cowboys put a forty long dunk 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.520 on the Giants in the open of Micah Parsons. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.680 At every level they dominated. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.160 Well, guess what they've got Zach Wilson and the one 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.200 to o Jets this week. But on paper, it looks 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.920 like an absolute domination for this Cowboys, going up against 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.760 a quarterback who has still not found himself. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:12.280 He was Aaron Rodgers backup. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.000 But this is what we're gonna do because we're gonna 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.560 talk about Aaron Rodgers exclusively. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:19.240 But I'm gonna tell you how Aaron Rodgers injury affects 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.239 more than just the Jets. 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:26.720 Within minutes of him going down Monday night, you better 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:31.960 believe all the Cowboys coaches, analytics people, scouts, everybody had 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:36.240 to scrap their game plan for their defensive install against 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.000 Aaron Rodgers. Remember there are coaches on the Cowboy staff 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.160 who were with Mike McCarthy and the Packers that you 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.920 know how Aaron Rodgers operates, scrap. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.000 That get ready for Zach Wilson. 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.240 So what do they have with Zach Wilson preseason tape 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.320 with him in the Daniel Hackett system. So they had 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.880 to go scour that and we know in the preseason 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:54.920 they don't do too much. They had to watch this 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.120 game again to see what worked for the Jets, and 0:08:58.160 --> 0:08:59.800 then they had to also go back and maybe look 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.320 at some of Jack Wilson stuff that he did the 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.480 last couple of seasons when he didn't play well. You 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.440 have your scouts going back look at their their reviews 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.800 out of him. But he was coming out of BYU. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:14.280 So there's a lot of detail for the opponent this week, 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.280 the Dallas Cowboys that. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.520 They had to go to that they were not expecting 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.760 to go to. That's just another. 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.280 Trickle down aspect of Aaron Rodgers' injury JP. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.559 And you have to think it's week two, right, So 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.880 some of this work is done by some people in 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.280 that building during the end of preseason. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.199 I mean they were probably a weighs. 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.240 Down in terms of their preparation about where they were 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.600 with this and because of their understanding of Nathaniel Hackett 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.000 and the thunderstanding specifically of Aaron Rodgers, and I'd like 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.360 to talk about Rogers moving forward, and we're going to 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.160 talk back up quarterbacks and their importance with Damas Brown 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.079 coming up in his interview, because I think they have 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.800 an experience, very good one there in Carolina. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:54.520 And so. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.679 There were questions Steve, going, all right, where do the 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.319 Jets go? Who should they bring in? 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.719 The best quarterback if you ask around the league for 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.720 the Jets right now, is Zach Wilson because he has 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.040 an understanding of the system, and anybody you bring in 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.600 that has to learn that system and play x mentally 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.080 better than him probably doesn't really exist for your liking 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.840 or your ability to go and get that quarterback. What 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.920 I'm curious about is because these two have sparked up 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.880 a very good friendship throughout this training camp, and that's 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.160 Aaron Rodgers and Zack Wilson. Is Rogers going to stick 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.040 around and work in the room with Zach Wilson and 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.600 Nathaniel Hackett and company and making sure this young quarterback 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.120 is set up to succeed the best he can. Now, again, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.520 I should put this clearly, that is not Aaron Rodgers' 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.040 job right now. His job is to get healthy, and 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.080 his job is to rehab and go through all this. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.079 But he has talked about how rejuvenated he has Ben 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.800 Steve coming and wing with these guys, throwing with everybody 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.440 in the offseason and being around this young group. He 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.200 could do wonders for helping out Zach Wilson because he 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:54.920 knows this better than anybody else. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.719 I'm curious to see what role he plays moving forwards. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:10:59.760 And this is why I'm so glad. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.120 I asked scy Dale's on Rye Stacia, world class athlete and 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.720 Olympic basketball player. It seems like it's a fairly simple 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.920 ask of Aaron Rodgers. Hey, once you've had your surgery, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.160 come back and help. But we don't know what Aaron 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:11.960 Rodgers is going to be going through. We don't know 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.360 what he could be dealing with. We've heard so many 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:18.320 athletes talk about maybe going into dark pockets during rehab. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:19.040 And things like that. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.280 So to say Aaron, you need to be there for him, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.160 that's not necessarily as simplistic of an ask as it 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:26.520 could be. 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.040 But I think your point of the fact that just 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:29.600 a few. 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.040 Months that he's had together with Zach Wilson, the relationship 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.760 that they've had, he might be able to have sprinkled 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.520 some of that magic faery dust on him that it 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.240 looks like he sprinkled for three seasons on Jordan Love 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.200 based on how Jordan Love came out of the gate 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:43.280 last week. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.200 Man, I was talking to Tracy Wilson in Foxborough last Sunday. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.880 She goes, we have the Jets Cowboys. Can you believe it? 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:51.840 I can't remember last time we did a Jets game 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.440 for our big broadcast on CBS. Well and Zach Wilson 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:56.600 against the Cowboys. 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:57.640 Well, coming up, we. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:01.560 Have the number one overall pick, Bryce Young's mentors sidekick, 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.360 the guy who was molding him, Thomas Brown, the offensive 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:06.800 coordinator for the Carolina Panthers. 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.719 This is going to be ridiculous. Stick with us on 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:10.840 the NFL Report. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:18.400 All right. 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.720 Now, we have a very very special guest and JP. 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.640 This is what we love, right We're bringing people insiders 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.640 and information that they're not going to get anywhere else. 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:30.560 And we got Panthers offensive coordinator Thomas Brown joining us here. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:31.680 On the NFL Report TV. 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.240 Let's go, let's go. Excited to be here. 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:35.880 That's what I'm talking to. Man, you're looking good. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:37.280 Hey, shit, hey, appreciate it. 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.240 You know for the folks who are listening on the podcast, 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:40.680 they want to see. But Thomas, he's got off the 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.840 shrugs machine. He's kind of jacked and swollen right now. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.800 In our shot, you only get one body of life, right, 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.320 got a maximize that take care of it, work out 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:48.800 every day. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.520 Yeah, they had to widen his shot to fit him 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.320 in there. We're scrunched on the sides. Make sure he 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:55.160 looks good in the middle. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:59.120 Hey a Thomas, Just just for timeliness of this before 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.400 we get on to a couple of years ago, you 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.600 blew out your achilles tendon, you know, when you were 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:06.120 with the Rams. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.040 You're rolling around on the scooter and everything. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.720 What you look You're you're a former world class athlete, 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.800 NFL running back, college running back. But what is that 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.280 experience like and just kind of walk as quickly through 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:15.960 your rehab. 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:17.880 Yes, it was rough. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.360 So I would say I was going through a number 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.679 routine on the field, doing the individual drill. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:22.959 So every day we have. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.400 I would say twenty minutes of individual So I have 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.480 the running backs and quarterbacks going through ball handle and 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.680 so I'm just kind of making those guys react. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:31.760 Off of me. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.599 And I make one step and I feel like that 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.600 somebody just threw a football at the back of my ankle. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.079 So I turned around looking behind me try to see 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.200 the ball was on the ground. I realized there was 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:42.760 no ball there, so I tried to go take a 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:43.800 step and I just helped. 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.280 My whole kind of ankle and foot drop. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.360 So I turned to Reggie Scott and Sam McVay was 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:49.720 kind of standing by each other, and said, I think 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.080 I just told my achilles, and so they thought I 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.520 was joking, but I was. I was very serious about 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.040 tarring the achilles, and so Reggie asked me, are you sure, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:13:59.680 And I said, Reggie, I'm not a doctor, but I'm 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.520 pretty try. I know what happens, will goes in between 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.079 the same little spot, and it's missing right now. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.560 And so my first thought was. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.080 You know, can I get off the field and I 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.480 walk off the field, So I tried to. I did 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.080 walk myself to the training room, and so a number 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:15.240 of motions are going through. 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:16.160 My brain, you know. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.600 Luckily, for me in that position, I'm no longer playing, 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.400 so it won't affect that aspect of it. I can 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.240 imagine from a players standpoint, right how devastate it is 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.720 going to be when it comes to the initial injury 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.840 being out for the entire year, but thinking about just 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.120 the rehab process going back and kind of recovering from 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.960 the injury. And for myself, I mean, I'm a fairly 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.760 older dude now, I try to still be somewhat relatively young, 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.880 but it took me a good, you know, eight to 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.840 nine months to get back to doing everything I want. 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.840 You're like thirty, you know, you're younger than Rogers, Yeah, 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:48.520 for sure. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.040 So I mean I think being able to try to 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.240 build back and get back into one hundred percent shape 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.360 was was a tough challenge for me my life. But 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.160 it's different when it comes to being a washed up 0:14:58.200 --> 0:14:59.480 coach versus being a player. 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:00.920 And you're problem right now. 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.200 But I'm kind of curious in this so when this happens, 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.720 and not just what we saw Monday night with Aaron Rodgers, 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.240 but in any instance where you know your starter goes down, 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.520 what's the first conversation on the sideline that you have 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.120 as a play caller, as an offensive coordinator, as a 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.920 part of the offensive staff. With that backup quarterback that's 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:25.080 going in what initially happens on the sideline right away, Well. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:26.200 The first thing for me is just trying. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.040 So it makes me ease his mind when it comes 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.360 to the moment of having a to come in that 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:31.120 top opportunity. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.080 I think every time you have a major injury on 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.200 the field, I think every player. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.680 Kind of has that that thought in the back of 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.640 their mind about some significant injury happening. So my role 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.240 is going to be a tight hole. All those guys 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.320 done as much as possible. All those guys will play 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:45.760 with a quiet in mind and kind of get those 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:46.400 guys rolling. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:47.840 I want to play starts. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:52.120 So Thomas, with that situation, you know, so we know 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:53.680 the big deal with Aaron Rodgers going to the Jets 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:58.200 the quarterback, you guys have a very capable backup and 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:02.000 Andy Dalton. I mean, right as we're looking around the NFL, 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.040 not every team is as fortunate as you to have 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.280 somebody like that. What about you guys in Carolina having 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.080 someone like Andy Dalton who's there just in case of 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:11.080 a worst case scenario. 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:13.560 I mean, I think just from the standpoint of what 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.000 you mentioned Steve about being worst case scenario, but I 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.560 think more importantly the everyday process of him being a 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.880 poor into Bryce from his experience right his exposure for 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.240 being in this league for a very long time, how 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.600 open Andy is, how he communicates in the media room, 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.200 but also given Bryce kind of just subtle tips and 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.680 sails on the football field, that was what his overall 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:33.920 development is awesome for us. 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.880 So he's been through a lot of games, Andy Dalton, 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.160 and he's watched the film the next day with coaching 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.720