Speaker 1: Hey guys, on this episode of the Group Chats, we're
Speaker 1: going to take a look at what the Panthers did
Speaker 1: to get that big win against the Jaguars. Your number
Speaker 1: one objective, the number one thing you're putting on the
Speaker 1: board in front of your team is we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna try to stop Christian McCaffrey and make Kyli and
Speaker 1: beat us. Right. Well, teams haven't been able to really
Speaker 1: do it. And then we are previewing this big trip
Speaker 1: we have ahead of us to the UK. Didn't compare
Speaker 1: the eighth get a divorce? Well, we have like eight wives. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's look slightly different. I don't think they ever
Speaker 1: were officially divorced. That he killed He killed a lot
Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, we have all of this and so
Speaker 1: much more on this week's the Group Chat. You've been
Speaker 1: added to the group Chat with your friends Caroline, can
Speaker 1: Max Sensen, and Will Brian. Well, we're not quite in
Speaker 1: London yet, but it sounds like it. I love it
Speaker 1: in London. We're heading to London this week and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a ton of fun. My second trip over
Speaker 1: there with the NFL. It's going to be completely different, though.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna be able to pull from
Speaker 1: any experience because each of these trips are so different.
Speaker 1: But your Panthers are taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: second time around. Um in London, that's casual. Just a
Speaker 1: short little road trip over there. Yeah, just a quick,
Speaker 1: little little flight. We're gonna get to that and what
Speaker 1: we're excited about about that trip, what we hope to
Speaker 1: see and experience while we are over there. Let's first
Speaker 1: talk about this Panthers team with a winning record, thank goodness,
Speaker 1: to make that flight seem a little more enjoyable to
Speaker 1: take on this Tampa Bay buccaneer seeing that, I know
Speaker 1: they want this game back. This is one that they
Speaker 1: really felt like they let slip away. And you know,
Speaker 1: I wasn't really prepared, I guess for that first round
Speaker 1: in Week two, Cam Newton was the quarterback then. I
Speaker 1: mean a lot for this team has changed. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about this past week with the Jacksonville Jaguars, things
Speaker 1: that we like, what they've built on since the last
Speaker 1: time that they played this Tampa Bay Buccaneers team. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to first start with the most obvious, and
Speaker 1: that is yes, Christian McCaffrey should be the m v P. Great.
Speaker 1: Can we move on to the next topic, now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if the season ended today, I mean, is there anybody
Speaker 1: else even in consideration? Who? Who? Who? Could? I mean
Speaker 1: just because of the quarterback? I mean, I know we
Speaker 1: had a bad game against the Colts. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I think with what I mean obviously, the fact that
Speaker 1: they haven't had Cam and they've had to rely on
Speaker 1: Christians so much, I think just only strengthens his case, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's and he's so everybody pretty much knows
Speaker 1: going into these games, Like if you're a defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: playing the Panthers, you're number one objective, the number one
Speaker 1: thing you're putting on the board in front of your
Speaker 1: team is we're gonna we're gonna try to stop Christian
Speaker 1: McAffrey and make Kyli and be this right. Well, teams
Speaker 1: haven't been able to really do it, which I think
Speaker 1: just for Tampa Bay, which is which is what makes
Speaker 1: it makes an interesting rematch. That was but of course
Speaker 1: that was Cam Newton. As Caroline mentioned under center. Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just we're running out of ways to
Speaker 1: describe Christians dominance. Everyone from Leonard four Net to Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley across the league or just heaping praise. Uh, this
Speaker 1: is we're watching something very very special right now. I
Speaker 1: mean with the season this guy's having, He's on pace
Speaker 1: right now to set a new single season record for
Speaker 1: scrimmage yards. I know it's early, but this is just
Speaker 1: this is becoming almost insane, right I mean, like what
Speaker 1: you were on the sideline? What what are you What
Speaker 1: are you thinking when you see him flipping over two
Speaker 1: dudes landing in the end zone. It was just laying
Speaker 1: there with his arms like I wanted a snow angel
Speaker 1: really bad. I wanted him to just start flapping like
Speaker 1: a snow angel. But I've said this for the time
Speaker 1: that I got here. Just seeing Christian at practice was
Speaker 1: eye opening to me. I've I watched Frank Gore practice,
Speaker 1: but that was like at the end of his career
Speaker 1: and he, you know, he got to take some days off.
Speaker 1: He wasn't really running around. But as far as like
Speaker 1: a great back, completely different. But I was around Frank
Speaker 1: Gore for a couple of years, a great back. But
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, he's a lot younger number one, but they
Speaker 1: just play different. He's so explosive and he never takes
Speaker 1: a snap off. And that's not just in the game,
Speaker 1: that's in practice. He is explosive in every single rep
Speaker 1: that he gets. And I was blown away by that
Speaker 1: watching him the first couple of practices. So now to
Speaker 1: continue to be blown away weeks later, months later, after
Speaker 1: watching him every single day, it's it is truly unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I thought a really funny part was Eric Reid and
Speaker 1: Trey Boston were sitting on the sidelines and they we're
Speaker 1: going back and forth of like, man, like, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a great player. He's not just good, that's a
Speaker 1: great player. And they were having such hilarious commentary about
Speaker 1: how good Christian McCaffrey is. And then you asked the
Speaker 1: guys in the locker room afterwards, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: m v P and is he Thor's brother? And all
Speaker 1: of these crazy things that sound crazy, but because of
Speaker 1: the way that he's playing, there actually genuine questions like
Speaker 1: is he Thor's brother? Like is there something unnatural about
Speaker 1: this guy? Because I mean, what's going He actually plans
Speaker 1: red because he has this cut on his elbow that
Speaker 1: will not heal, never heal. He actually does bleed red.
Speaker 1: So we can confirm that, but yeah, it really is
Speaker 1: just an amazing season that he's having considering that he
Speaker 1: has to have this kind of season. I think that's
Speaker 1: I mean, like you're saying defensive coordinators just saying this
Speaker 1: is the guy to stop the offense. Is scheming to
Speaker 1: get him the ball. Everyone knows it. And he's like,
Speaker 1: all right, well that's cute. And I want to throw
Speaker 1: out a name that hasn't been mentioned with any of this,
Speaker 1: but John Matsko, because this week going into it, you
Speaker 1: know you have you finally, you know, you get Greg
Speaker 1: Little in it left tackle. He's doing well, and then
Speaker 1: Greg Little goes in the concussion protocol. Dennis Daily like,
Speaker 1: are are you kidding me? Like, who knows what this
Speaker 1: offensive line was going to have with Darry Williams over
Speaker 1: at right guard? Your Pro Bowl? You know, right guard
Speaker 1: has been sitting out, and these holes were big. I
Speaker 1: mean there were some places where like Christian was untouched.
Speaker 1: Now obviously he ran twenty one point nine miles. We're
Speaker 1: in the open field, no one's going to catch him,
Speaker 1: but nobody touched him. He just went right up the middle.
Speaker 1: And this is nothing. It's nothing against Reggie Bonafon but
Speaker 1: like Reggie gets in there and then touchdown happens, and
Speaker 1: I think so I think at a certain point you
Speaker 1: gotta say, well, this offensive line, what are these guys
Speaker 1: doing up front to create these running lanes? But like
Speaker 1: you said, it was you could drive a truck through
Speaker 1: some of these. That's what GBR said after the games.
Speaker 1: He kind of joked to me, like, we're actually really
Speaker 1: happy Reggie also had a big run, so that people
Speaker 1: will know that, like, we are creating some really big
Speaker 1: lanes as an offensive line, and you never hear I mean,
Speaker 1: GBR was perfect to say that, because you never hear
Speaker 1: anything from the offensive line. They're very, very very team first.
Speaker 1: But gr was like, hey, dang it, we're creating these
Speaker 1: holes and we're happy that Reggie got off. Hey do
Speaker 1: you guys know sidebar how fast you could run? Like
Speaker 1: what what could you top out? I actually did this
Speaker 1: in high school. Did you run down the street with
Speaker 1: like one of those speed limit signs like the office.
Speaker 1: I've actually done this, d I did this once in
Speaker 1: high school. I had my mom drive beside me while
Speaker 1: I ran fifteen miles. Prower, thank you. And then it's
Speaker 1: a really scientific method. And then one of my former
Speaker 1: co workers. His phenometer on his car was broken, so
Speaker 1: he had an app on his phone, because there's an
Speaker 1: app for everything. So one night, after you know, dinner
Speaker 1: and a couple of beverages, we decided to hold this
Speaker 1: phenometer app in our and run with the phone and
Speaker 1: see how fast it would clock us. It was like
Speaker 1: fifteen point three, So it seems pretty good, I thought. So.
Speaker 1: I mean when I see these guys like six miles
Speaker 1: Prower and more, Oh my god, I mean that's not
Speaker 1: that much like if you know, maybe if I trained,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, how how long do you have
Speaker 1: to is it just? Yeah? It was not eighty four yards,
Speaker 1: but right you know, it was enough for me to
Speaker 1: be out of breath. Yeah, I mean it takes a
Speaker 1: little bit of time to really get up to tap speed.
Speaker 1: I mean we could we could do some math here
Speaker 1: in clack out, like a hundred yard like a meter sprint.
Speaker 1: You lost me at math? Okay, yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: don't think. I mean rather than like in our hand
Speaker 1: that we could do some math here. You lost me there.
Speaker 1: But we can be boring again. We can we can
Speaker 1: get back to football. Though. It really has been impressive.
Speaker 1: What I mean two d and eighty five yards. Rushing
Speaker 1: yards doesn't happen when you're offensive line isn't doing what
Speaker 1: they're supposed to do. So, I mean, you're you're five
Speaker 1: weeks in, it's been five different combinations on that offensive line,
Speaker 1: and they're they're getting it done. That it really is.
Speaker 1: You're right, John Masco, he got the game ball. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there was something there were fourteen yards away
Speaker 1: from a franchise record, and as Will pointed out, they
Speaker 1: did it with a rookie making his first started left
Speaker 1: tackle and without Trade Turner at right guard, their Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl guard. I mean, that's that says a lot about
Speaker 1: about what Masco did upfront with those guys, and of
Speaker 1: course the oldignman, while they did make a point to say,
Speaker 1: especially g v R that look, you know clearly there
Speaker 1: were some holes open to there, also be the first
Speaker 1: to tell you that they're blocking for the MVP of
Speaker 1: the league right now. I mean, I think that's the
Speaker 1: thing coming out of this locker room. You rarely come
Speaker 1: out of an NFL rocking room, and you just don't
Speaker 1: see this often. The players are in awe of somebody
Speaker 1: because these guys are all elite athletes. You know, like
Speaker 1: they've all, you know, coming from college programs where they've
Speaker 1: been around five star recruise. You get to the NFL.
Speaker 1: Everybody here is good, everybody here belongs. But what Christians
Speaker 1: doing is sort of everyone is like seriously, like in disbelief.
Speaker 1: And I haven't seen that since cam in fifteen, when
Speaker 1: it was a sort of this is like this is
Speaker 1: almost like a magic that he's making and they're like,
Speaker 1: we can't really explain to you why this is happening,
Speaker 1: but this guy is just special. And I think that's
Speaker 1: the same sort of feeling I'm getting right now with Christian.
Speaker 1: He's these guys feel confident because they're going down to
Speaker 1: the field with the guy that they know is the
Speaker 1: best guy in the field there, and that gives you
Speaker 1: a bit of a lift. There was a moment, I
Speaker 1: think it was in the first half where he just
Speaker 1: got a passing the flat and he just kind of
Speaker 1: paused and then made a defender just completely miss, like
Speaker 1: out of bounds, and the way the stadium was like
Speaker 1: waiting to react. I mean, it felt like like a
Speaker 1: pickup basketball game, you know. It felt like Rucker Park
Speaker 1: where it's just like Kevin Durant doing his thing, and
Speaker 1: that that's rare. I think someone's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Christians just gonna break someone's ankles or make someone look stupid,
Speaker 1: like that's rare in the NFL, I think, And that's
Speaker 1: kind of the fever pitch of what he is now.
Speaker 1: The Jags linebackers Quincy Williams and Miles Jack, we're chasing
Speaker 1: ghosts all day. It was I have I have not
Speaker 1: seen a four quarter performance like that where those guys
Speaker 1: were literally I mean it was Duke one way the other.
Speaker 1: They were trying and prepare for the move. He was
Speaker 1: going to set them up with. It didn't matter what
Speaker 1: they were doing. A Christian was just he was almost
Speaker 1: untouchable at times. Scary. Who said this, But when he
Speaker 1: flipped over, the guys like they ran into it. The
Speaker 1: defenders ran into it, like I can't remember who pointed
Speaker 1: that out to me. It was on Twitter, but I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that's actually fantastic. I didn't even like
Speaker 1: the guy up top, Brandon Todd shooting the game. Got
Speaker 1: some amazing photos of that too. These guys, yeah, they
Speaker 1: just collide. It was really awesome. Let's give the defense
Speaker 1: some love too, because they're continuing to prove that even
Speaker 1: though they're down KK and Dante at the moment, two
Speaker 1: very big starters for them. That's okay. And Gardner Minshew
Speaker 1: is a good quarterback. He gave him he is a
Speaker 1: good quarterback. I believe Panthers Bill said he was a booker.
Speaker 1: He was a slippery, little little book little booger. I
Speaker 1: believe that's what or something like that, some some kind
Speaker 1: of like weird. And then of course Mario's quote about
Speaker 1: how he was chasing them and then his mustache went
Speaker 1: one way and he went the other and he chased
Speaker 1: after the mustache. Oh my gosh, it was really funny.
Speaker 1: After in the locker room, I mean, Jery McCoy and
Speaker 1: Bruce Irvan were both like, man, when when did these
Speaker 1: guys get so good? These little little guys, When did
Speaker 1: they get so good? When did this happen? Like and
Speaker 1: it's true, I mean, you're getting some quarterbacks that don't
Speaker 1: fit the bill the like, hey, this is your NFL
Speaker 1: prototypical quarterback garnerment. She fits out. I remember seeing him
Speaker 1: run in pregame and the only reason I knew that
Speaker 1: he was an NFL quarterback is because of the mustache.
Speaker 1: I was like oh that must be government show. He
Speaker 1: doesn't look like an involved quarterback. It looks like the
Speaker 1: guy fielding punts, you know, Oh gosh, like working for
Speaker 1: the work Easy equipment. He's the equipment guy. Yeah, very
Speaker 1: very crazy what he's been able to do with this opportunity.
Speaker 1: But the defense they took advantage of it, and I
Speaker 1: thought this was a great game where you hear Jerry
Speaker 1: McCoy all the time and the defense say, we have
Speaker 1: a lot left on the table. There's more we want
Speaker 1: to get done. Well, they finally score on defense. They
Speaker 1: get the scoop and score Brian Burns um taking into
Speaker 1: the house, which I thought was really really fun to see,
Speaker 1: especially a rookie that has been as disruptive. It's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, someone that doesn't get as many snaps or
Speaker 1: hasn't been as disruptive makes that playoff. It was really
Speaker 1: really cool that Brian Burns was the one. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought it was really really cool how Mario Addison obliterated
Speaker 1: former Panther Andrew Norwell to make that happen. Norwal is
Speaker 1: great because he normal comes out of the tunnel every
Speaker 1: time and he like does this. He's a scary man.
Speaker 1: I mean he just the beard, the hair. He's six
Speaker 1: ft seven pounds and he like walks kind of like
Speaker 1: he's his ogre, like he tries to like get you.
Speaker 1: So I saw him coming out of the tunnel and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh God, here's normal. What what what sounds?
Speaker 1: He just grunts, you know, it's just like, yeah, he
Speaker 1: spits a little bit. It just like tries to look
Speaker 1: as disgusting and mean as possible, and Mario of course
Speaker 1: dealt with it in practice a lot um so to see,
Speaker 1: they lined up Mario inside on that play and he
Speaker 1: just like stabs Norwell and drives him back a good
Speaker 1: seven yards into Menshew and that's how the ball pops
Speaker 1: out and then burns. Is just Johnny on the spot
Speaker 1: picks it up and scores. But uh, there was a
Speaker 1: lot made of Norwell when he left here, became the
Speaker 1: highest paid guard in the NFL at the time. That
Speaker 1: was a moment that he is not going to enjoy
Speaker 1: watching in the film review. Mario is though, Mario Mario, So,
Speaker 1: I tweeted the video of that about five minutes later
Speaker 1: at session Mario Addison, He's like, yo, Max and you
Speaker 1: sent me that video. Uh yeah, it was It was
Speaker 1: a very impressive another impressive defensive our performance out there.
Speaker 1: I also thought Eric Reid had a fantastic game. He
Speaker 1: was all over the field. Here's the thing. Here's the
Speaker 1: thing about the defense though, well, and I'm right on
Speaker 1: the start, right, this is the first time they've allowed
Speaker 1: five yards in a game in one so like some
Speaker 1: big plays, right, we got the defensive touchdown from Burns,
Speaker 1: saw the strip sack late from Burns in the clutch situation.
Speaker 1: Of course they had that Minshew had the mixed up
Speaker 1: with a fullback where they dropped it. Another fumble that
Speaker 1: Carolinas they look capitalize on. But on the whole of
Speaker 1: the game, Jacksonville's offense kind of had their way. You
Speaker 1: know dj Chart hundred sixty four yards on eight catches.
Speaker 1: That dude that's had stuck in my head the whole game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was always and they couldn't find an answer for him.
Speaker 1: And men shoot three seventy four yards two touchdowns. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were getting beat over the top. I thought that's
Speaker 1: where you saw the Dante jackson would have been really
Speaker 1: nice to have in this game because they were and
Speaker 1: that that's what coach Rivera said at halftime was that's
Speaker 1: what we're getting beat up. We're doing all of these
Speaker 1: things like keep the momentum on our side, we're making
Speaker 1: some place. We're getting beat over the top by Gardner
Speaker 1: Minshew who And I think that's the interesting point. When
Speaker 1: you get these quarterbacks and are not your starters, they're
Speaker 1: not the franchise, they're not you know, they have these
Speaker 1: things about them that you're not really prepared for. And
Speaker 1: I thought that's what that was. Yeah, Ron, and mid
Speaker 1: after the game, he was disappointed with the coverage breakdowns.
Speaker 1: He just felt like that was that was something that
Speaker 1: didn't expect coming into the game. Thought they were weren't
Speaker 1: really where they needed to be in some cases, like
Speaker 1: you know, Russ cockrolls like a fingertip away from tipping
Speaker 1: the pass. And but that's that's a difference in this game,
Speaker 1: you know sometimes and you give Mention a lot of credit.
Speaker 1: I thought he put the ball on the money time
Speaker 1: and time again. They didn't really have an answer for
Speaker 1: him until they could get to him, and that those
Speaker 1: were the big moments late in the game we saw
Speaker 1: Brian Burns get to him and and obviously down at
Speaker 1: the end, the defensive frustration was really starting to build
Speaker 1: because it was like, are they going to allow this
Speaker 1: game to end or are we just going to continue
Speaker 1: to see Jackson closer and closer to the Eventually it's
Speaker 1: gonna be hill Mary like and that the best, the
Speaker 1: absolute best quote. Yeah, after the game, I saw Luke
Speaker 1: in the locker room and I was like, because he
Speaker 1: has this competition with t D obviously now is playing
Speaker 1: out West for the Chargers about their stats each week,
Speaker 1: and I was like, man, you didn't want to get
Speaker 1: that pick to add it to your state. You would
Speaker 1: have had one on t D. And he was like, man,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to go home. And you look at
Speaker 1: the way Luke reacted to that, and everyone was like,
Speaker 1: it's a smart play, you know you don't want to
Speaker 1: risk in it. It was like, I get it that
Speaker 1: that wasn't the point though. The frustration in his swat
Speaker 1: was just literally like I'm so done with this, Please
Speaker 1: be that want just to end. I really kind of
Speaker 1: would have loved that, Like when I saw that that,
Speaker 1: he was like, I was just ready to go home.
Speaker 1: And then you know that he could have had an
Speaker 1: interception there and all this, I'm like I kind of
Speaker 1: would have loved and it would not have been on
Speaker 1: brand for Luke. But catch the ball and then like
Speaker 1: just need it. Just like catch the ball, get the interception,
Speaker 1: go to your knee, or like dramatically hop out of bounds,
Speaker 1: like just do something to like, hey, I got the
Speaker 1: stat but now I'm just gonna hop out of bound
Speaker 1: somewhere to go home. Like that would have not been losing.
Speaker 1: He just would have grabbed it and then just taking
Speaker 1: it into the locker room like it. Just just walked
Speaker 1: off the field like tries to tackle him, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take this home with me. We're down, just starts jogging off.
Speaker 1: There's nobody there. That was Everyone's feeling in the entire
Speaker 1: stadium was oh, thank God, Like yes, it was exhausting.
Speaker 1: Mario had the legal hands to the face when the
Speaker 1: it was absolutely was the off size was real, but no,
Speaker 1: Mario had him like right on the car. It was
Speaker 1: not hands in the face. And even the review like no.
Speaker 1: A couple of plays before that, Trey Boston nearly had
Speaker 1: Dan James Barry Berry dracks picking. It was like, seriously,
Speaker 1: what is happening? I mean it was like that Jackson
Speaker 1: wounds up, I don't know where we're that like twenty
Speaker 1: four yard Lyne. Yeah it was. It was just like
Speaker 1: a legitimate play. It was. But it feels very on brand,
Speaker 1: right doesn't that feel like so on brand for the
Speaker 1: Panthers Cardiac hats man. You know, Jake Delme's in the building,
Speaker 1: it's Jacksonville. Of course it's going to be a twenty
Speaker 1: yard play at the end. I'm just glad it wasn't raining,
Speaker 1: That's all I gotta say. It was so it had
Speaker 1: brain in the forecast at the beginning of the week
Speaker 1: and then we talked about as monsoon game and I
Speaker 1: was like, I know, no, just no, don't do it. It
Speaker 1: It was a beautiful day for football. But I thought
Speaker 1: I was also fitting that they took on the Jacksonville Jaguars,
Speaker 1: who really could be the home team in London permanently
Speaker 1: because they play there every single year. Their owner is
Speaker 1: very open about the fact that, you know, would love
Speaker 1: to have a franchise there and the growth in the
Speaker 1: UK with football, and that's actually who when I would
Speaker 1: have there seen with the Colts, we played the Jacksonville
Speaker 1: Jaguars um did not win. So I'm really looking to
Speaker 1: go over there and I'd like to leave with a
Speaker 1: one in one record get five hundred in the UK
Speaker 1: if the Panthers can do that for me, and I like.
Speaker 1: I like this matchup. I like the the attitude that
Speaker 1: the Panthers have right now, the fact that they wanted
Speaker 1: that game back, and we're going to preview that. We're
Speaker 1: actually gonna do what bonus group chat while we're in London.
Speaker 1: So we're going to preview that game later on. It'll
Speaker 1: be on Saturday, look for it. We're gonna have some
Speaker 1: special guests. We're gonna have a lot of special guests
Speaker 1: on that one. So get excited. I'm about an additional
Speaker 1: group chat. But let's first just we're on in London.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about that. Yeah, let's talk. Can we talk
Speaker 1: about we were talking about pre show? Yeah, we're having
Speaker 1: a good conversation. Here was telling us about how she
Speaker 1: loves the royals, and I don't know about you will,
Speaker 1: but I don't understand these types of people. Why there's
Speaker 1: so much interest, Like do you care? I don't. Apparently
Speaker 1: my mom did. Yeah, I didn't surprise me because she
Speaker 1: named me after one of them. Yeah, oh you are
Speaker 1: named after a royal, that's why. But I mean I
Speaker 1: know that, I know that name, but like that's why,
Speaker 1: and that wasn't like a fan I mean, it was
Speaker 1: a family name too, but she, you know, she liked it.
Speaker 1: He was born like a year to for me, so alright,
Speaker 1: So yeah, Caroline, you get up early the Royal Weddings.
Speaker 1: I remember waking up for Kate and Williams, like very
Speaker 1: very early. It was before school and my mom, I
Speaker 1: mean I think we had to wake up at like
Speaker 1: two or two or three. And we woke up and
Speaker 1: Mom made tea and we had biscuits and we watched
Speaker 1: the Royal Wedding. My uncle now lives in London, and
Speaker 1: so he actually left London when it was the Royal
Speaker 1: Wedding because it was so crazy and hectic and all
Speaker 1: these people were coming in and he lives he lives
Speaker 1: like twenty minutes from downtown and he was like I
Speaker 1: had to leave for it, but that would have been
Speaker 1: my dream to just like I don't know, I'm not
Speaker 1: really big with the crowd. So I enjoyed watching it
Speaker 1: on TV. But I've seen every documentary that is, like
Speaker 1: on Netflix or Amazon or anything. I've watched, you know,
Speaker 1: the Queen. I did check that out. King's speech. Have
Speaker 1: you seen that I've seen Kings speech. Yes, I am
Speaker 1: one of those people that is highly obsessed with the
Speaker 1: Royal family. Megan markle go girl. Yeah, you know, a
Speaker 1: big fan. I'm a big fan. I just think it's
Speaker 1: like such a different world. It's you can't even like
Speaker 1: fathom what it's like to be in that type of Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like not a it's not real, right, Like it's
Speaker 1: not you're not like a real person. Different. I think
Speaker 1: about how interesting it was when she married into the
Speaker 1: royal family. All these people that tuned into this for
Speaker 1: football are like, are you kidding me? But when she
Speaker 1: became a member of the royal family, she had to
Speaker 1: give up, you know, her Instagram. This is actually before
Speaker 1: they were ever married, Like, she had to give up
Speaker 1: her Instagram, had to give up her Twitter. The government
Speaker 1: seized all of those things and so she doesn't even
Speaker 1: own them anymore. So I think, like that whole thing
Speaker 1: is so fascinating that she's she is obviously more famous
Speaker 1: now than she ever was, but there's this bit of
Speaker 1: mystery about and that's why she has like people are like,
Speaker 1: what are you know, what is she doing now? How
Speaker 1: you know when she was dating celebrities, they could find
Speaker 1: out everything. But now she's with the royal family, do
Speaker 1: you think like some of it the you know, the
Speaker 1: traditions are kind of the more rays, like you can't
Speaker 1: touch the queen and all these like that's what makes
Speaker 1: the Royal family the royal family. So it's actually and
Speaker 1: I think there's a really good um episode of The
Speaker 1: Crown that is about Margaret, who is the younger sister
Speaker 1: of the queen, and she's getting her portrait done for
Speaker 1: her like coming of age most things, you know, her
Speaker 1: announcement to society, and the portrait is very just exactly
Speaker 1: what you think of when you think of a royal
Speaker 1: portrait in front of like this backdrop, and she's all
Speaker 1: made up and she is saying in there, I don't
Speaker 1: like that. This is not me. So then her future
Speaker 1: husband is the photographer. He takes this very where she
Speaker 1: looks nude and and you can see her whole shoulder.
Speaker 1: She actually gets that turned into the newspaper and she
Speaker 1: and and then the royal family is just like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? This is not us because there is
Speaker 1: this in the royal photo shoot. The mother says, there's
Speaker 1: this is what people expect. They want the industry, they
Speaker 1: don't want to know. They this is what makes us
Speaker 1: us is the facade and that this is perfect and
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean that's what you have to like
Speaker 1: buy into. I think that's why people are so obsessed
Speaker 1: because you can't know everything. So it's like, what are
Speaker 1: they doing? What's it like buying closed doors? And that's
Speaker 1: why William and Harry are so interesting because they are
Speaker 1: more outward and there there they are the younger generation
Speaker 1: because just like two generations ago, you couldn't get a divorce,
Speaker 1: and then if you like then Princess Diana they get
Speaker 1: a divorce, and now Harry is marrying a divorcee. It
Speaker 1: was to generate like that's just two generations. His royal
Speaker 1: family has had to change so much and it's because
Speaker 1: of like these two seven didn't carry the eighth get
Speaker 1: a divorce there. Well that yeah, that's that's slightly different.
Speaker 1: I don't think they ever were officially divorced. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot. There's just it's so fascinating. We'll go
Speaker 1: back to your welcome to the group where we just
Speaker 1: talked about the royal family. But I don't expect to
Speaker 1: see any of them, although the last time that I
Speaker 1: was in London. We did have dinner at Kensington Palace.
Speaker 1: As an organization, we were allowed to go. And are
Speaker 1: we doing that, Max? I don't think I didn't see
Speaker 1: that treating. I can't get you. Maybe Caroline, Caroline, Caroline can.
Speaker 1: It was a fascinating night though. It was very very good.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful and and then you you have like a
Speaker 1: cocktail hour beforehand, and this was my very I was
Speaker 1: hired in the NFL in in August. We went to
Speaker 1: London I believe it was November, so two months into
Speaker 1: this job, and I'm in a cocktail hour and Roger
Speaker 1: Goodell is there and I was working for the Colts
Speaker 1: at the time, and the ursay Jim Er says, big
Speaker 1: rock star. He has all these memorabilion friends with a
Speaker 1: lot of rock stars, so there's rock stars there. But like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm overwhelmed just by the fact that
Speaker 1: I'm in London with the NFL at Kensington Palace at
Speaker 1: the time, I was twenty two, somewhere pretty cool. It's
Speaker 1: just I was so overwhelmed. But it was a really
Speaker 1: cool experience. And that's why I can't pull from any
Speaker 1: of that experience because I don't remember. All I remember
Speaker 1: is that my phone did not work for two days.
Speaker 1: But you don't realize it's not working because you can
Speaker 1: get on Wi Fi. So like I was still getting
Speaker 1: some things. But then like we would be on the
Speaker 1: bus going to where and all these people would be
Speaker 1: like on their phones. I'm like wait, I was just like,
Speaker 1: where's my phone? And I'm twenty two I need my phone? Like,
Speaker 1: and you're the person everyone was gonna be asking about
Speaker 1: how to make sure their phone. Yeah that's why, Well
Speaker 1: you got my slack. I just I just sent in
Speaker 1: the entire our digital department a reminder like, hey, you're
Speaker 1: on Verizon, is really easy. Please go turn your plan
Speaker 1: on for international. It's gonna be really cool. What are
Speaker 1: you looking forward to the most about this trip? Guys? Um,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the second game NFL game played
Speaker 1: at Tottenham, and it sounds like the first one was awesome. Uh,
Speaker 1: you were at Wembley, correct for that one. Just like
Speaker 1: this huge, kind of expansive stadium. The Tottenham Stadium is
Speaker 1: much more intimate and the fans, it sounds like this
Speaker 1: is an extremely hot ticket. It's gonna be packed loud,
Speaker 1: and I'm just excited I'm a Premier League fan myself,
Speaker 1: so to be in Tottenham's new stadium, which is state
Speaker 1: of the art, uh, and to see this atmosphere. There's
Speaker 1: a large Panthers contingent in London which has been waiting
Speaker 1: a long time for this game. Panthers and the Packers
Speaker 1: believe the only two or maybe that was that was
Speaker 1: the third one Panthers in one of the final teams
Speaker 1: to do this. Um, so they've been waiting a long
Speaker 1: time for this. So I'm excited to see the game
Speaker 1: day environment in Tottenham Stadium for this. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty cool and pretty raucus. Did you see
Speaker 1: the Charlotte Airport tweeting out pictures last night? They had
Speaker 1: like all of the international terminals like branded for the Panthers.
Speaker 1: Was a big set of like flight of Panthers fans
Speaker 1: leaving last night. So yeah, I mean, I think just
Speaker 1: seeing that and you know kind of when you do
Speaker 1: this week to week, kind of get numb by the
Speaker 1: brand or numb by it's the same stadium we've been
Speaker 1: coming to. It's the same, but you know, like then
Speaker 1: to see you know, like to go to the the Barrow,
Speaker 1: the pub at the foot of the London barrow boy
Speaker 1: or yeah, yeah, and you know, and that just to
Speaker 1: like to see that be completely branded for the Panthers
Speaker 1: this week, and you know, I just think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be really cool to kind of see that with within
Speaker 1: the London context, I mean, and and walking around like
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to go do some man on the
Speaker 1: Street interviews. Just I'm just curious to like see people's
Speaker 1: reaction with Christian McCaffrey. You know, like what do they
Speaker 1: do they know about the Panthers, I mean, and if
Speaker 1: they do, I think that's kind of cool. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think that's like the most fascinating part that I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to as well. As the fans are different, and
Speaker 1: they're just they're extremely passionate and like you're saying, where
Speaker 1: we get numb to it as employees, Like so do
Speaker 1: the fans a little bit? You know, coming to the
Speaker 1: same stadium they expect some things. These fans have no
Speaker 1: expectations and they just love to be there. And there
Speaker 1: is going to be jerseys from every single NFL team.
Speaker 1: There will be some people in like a you know
Speaker 1: what Miami Dolphins jersey and a Brown's hat, Like that's
Speaker 1: how you know, just they they love the NFL. They
Speaker 1: get really excited for the kickers to go out and
Speaker 1: special teams. So big week for special somethingtable week, big
Speaker 1: week for a special team. So I'm excited, and I
Speaker 1: think you're right. Well, it is a wake up call,
Speaker 1: a little bit of get your head out of the
Speaker 1: sand and realize how big this brand is and how
Speaker 1: much fun it is. Like this is a game, and
Speaker 1: and I think it is going to be really fun
Speaker 1: that that bar. I think it's borrowed Boy and Banker.
Speaker 1: If anyone's listening and you're wondering, that's like the one
Speaker 1: of the pubs. I think there's a couple of pubs
Speaker 1: that are. I think that's that's the main one. I
Speaker 1: think it's at the foot of the London Bridge on
Speaker 1: the south side of the Thames. And what's what's interesting
Speaker 1: about this conversation with we're having is that Ron and
Speaker 1: his staff are having a very different one. Their conversation
Speaker 1: is like, how do we keep this as normal and
Speaker 1: business like as possible, which I think is a real challenge.
Speaker 1: The Panther has never done this before. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you felt the Colts handled it when you went
Speaker 1: out there, but did you feel like they played what
Speaker 1: did they play poorly in that game? Because of the
Speaker 1: factors involved of going out to London, where did you
Speaker 1: think that You know, it has changed a bit and
Speaker 1: since so when when we landed, it is gonna be
Speaker 1: same as far as travel. We went over on a
Speaker 1: Wednesday night. You're there Thursday, and the trick is to
Speaker 1: not sleep on Thursday. A lot of guys are gonna
Speaker 1: me included, are gonna want to sleep on Thursday, but
Speaker 1: you stay awake all that Thursday to get your body
Speaker 1: as quickly on that time zone as possible. But what
Speaker 1: is different is there used to be a big fan
Speaker 1: event UM on Regent Street. I think is is what
Speaker 1: it's called um a Region Street. But and it was
Speaker 1: huge and players would go to it. And so where
Speaker 1: the Colts were staying was about an hour and a
Speaker 1: half outside of London at a resort, and so you
Speaker 1: you never left the resort. That's where meals were. The
Speaker 1: practice fields weren't It wasn't even a real football field.
Speaker 1: It was just this like open area that I believe
Speaker 1: they could put like sixty yards on and that was
Speaker 1: the practice field for two days. The media room was
Speaker 1: a Greenhouse and they cleared out one side of the
Speaker 1: Greenhouse and so it was this very long, narrow I mean, gosh,
Speaker 1: if you didn't have headphones on in the back, you
Speaker 1: couldn't hear what they were saying. Like everything was off
Speaker 1: and they're the big event there for the NFL. Was
Speaker 1: really tough for the Colts players because it was an
Speaker 1: hour and a half away, so they I think what
Speaker 1: the NFL has done now is they're moving teams closer
Speaker 1: there there. They took away the big fan event. Now
Speaker 1: there's just these pub locations, so that way the team.
Speaker 1: I think that was the big thing for these teams
Speaker 1: is like, hey, look, we're so for going over there,
Speaker 1: and I think it's great, but this is also a
Speaker 1: divisional game Number one is what they've scheduled. This does
Speaker 1: still count for us. This is not just like a
Speaker 1: fun exhibition game that we're going over here for, so
Speaker 1: we need to have the resources to make it as
Speaker 1: normal as possible. So I think that's what you're seeing
Speaker 1: now is Okay, we're gonna get you over there, and
Speaker 1: it's we're gonna give you the freedom to do what
Speaker 1: you want. But the players will have some time off
Speaker 1: on Friday, and I think that's where the team a
Speaker 1: little bit gets probably a little nervous, just because it's
Speaker 1: London and you know, families are going. And I remember
Speaker 1: being in Arizona and we had that extra day off
Speaker 1: and like I was off on game day, even even
Speaker 1: us as you know, the staff, we I felt a
Speaker 1: little bit off because we have that off day to
Speaker 1: go explore and do everything. This mess with the routine.
Speaker 1: Routine is everything in this league. So I'm actually I'm
Speaker 1: talking a round today and that's what I'm gonna ask him,
Speaker 1: how how are you doing this? Because this team has
Speaker 1: not gone so you don't have that to lean on
Speaker 1: to know. So it is gonna be like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be really really interesting, and the time difference is real,
Speaker 1: and if you don't get on it quickly, you're gonna
Speaker 1: feel that nine thirty start am start over there. And
Speaker 1: for you know, just a random small part of this
Speaker 1: is I think now they've made it more of an
Speaker 1: emphasis on the home and road team. So Carolina is
Speaker 1: the road team, and you know Tampa is losing a
Speaker 1: home game. They're losing you know what would be a
Speaker 1: game in their stadium in Tampa Bay. So this isn't
Speaker 1: going to be like a neutral site sort of both
Speaker 1: teams get equal footing. Like it's going They're gonna make
Speaker 1: it feel like a Tampa Bay game. There's no Tampa stuff.
Speaker 1: After they send the Cannons over to London. That would
Speaker 1: be that would be interesting their end zone. I would
Speaker 1: not be surprised if they had something similar, because they
Speaker 1: did the They did outfit Wimbley in Jags. It was
Speaker 1: a Jags home game and it was outfitted for Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: But I am interested to see with it being a
Speaker 1: smaller environment, they'll hand out like towels probably or or
Speaker 1: t shirts with Tampa to make it, you know, seem
Speaker 1: that way. So it is just it's one of those
Speaker 1: where we can prepare all we want for it, and
Speaker 1: you know people have faster. Are you ready for London?
Speaker 1: I'm like, right is, I'm never gonna be like it's
Speaker 1: still you know, we're still going over there and working.
Speaker 1: We're trying to get this great content and you you
Speaker 1: want to get caught up in the moment realize how
Speaker 1: cool it is. I don't even know what time our
Speaker 1: bus leaves, like, I don't know. I just I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make it to the plane. I'm gonna make sure my
Speaker 1: bag gets on the plane and and then you know,
Speaker 1: just make it back. Just make it to both planes,
Speaker 1: and do not mess with the gate agents, the border,
Speaker 1: the border security. Yeah, that was that was like a
Speaker 1: note in our Yeah, Packett was like, don't joke around here.
Speaker 1: The answers you provide, don't mess with them. It is.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a really really fun week. And we
Speaker 1: are adding another group chat because we just feel like
Speaker 1: too much is going to happen over these next few
Speaker 1: days that we want to make sure we tell you
Speaker 1: all about our experience over in the UK. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for listening to this week of the group chats.
Speaker 1: We will talk to you maybe when we have slightly
Speaker 1: more British accents and we've had some tea and some
Speaker 1: crapes and just enjoy all the London has to do.
Speaker 1: I guess we'll talk to you in a few days. Wow.