Speaker 1: This week, I'm a Happy half Hour.
Speaker 2: This is not all Bryce Shunk's fault.
Speaker 3: Bryshung was thrown into a ridiculous situation a year ago.
Speaker 3: I think it's reasonable to consider that that did some
Speaker 3: damage to him. And when this year got off to
Speaker 3: as bad a start as you could imagine on that
Speaker 3: first pass play in New Orleans, it just kept spiraling.
Speaker 4: Touch the cow ro.
Speaker 1: It's time for the Happy Half Hour, presented by Southern Star,
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Speaker 1: Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill.
Speaker 3: Hello friends, and welcome back to another episode of the
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Speaker 3: What are we going to talk about this week, CASTI
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: There's nothing to talk about. I will say that was
Speaker 4: one of the most docile Hello friends you've given in
Speaker 4: a while. Like do you need a cup of coffee?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I need many cups of coffee.
Speaker 3: There's a lot happening around here, so I need to
Speaker 3: keep my blood pressure up to the pace of life
Speaker 3: right now. So, yeah, there's there's some stuff going on.
Speaker 3: I'm trying one or two things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying on my gym nance golf.
Speaker 1: Boys.
Speaker 2: See if I like it, someday become a golf announcer.
Speaker 4: That's going to make me taken out.
Speaker 3: I think, after fifty some odd years of trying to
Speaker 3: ignore golf and remove it from my life, that might
Speaker 3: be a curious career change.
Speaker 2: But here we are.
Speaker 4: You know, I had a teacher in college, one of
Speaker 4: my sports journalism teachers, tell me that from a broadcasting
Speaker 4: and journalistic point of view, golf was the toughest sport
Speaker 4: to cover because everything was happening simultaneously on eighteen holes
Speaker 4: at one time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you want to watch all the niblicks
Speaker 3: and every thing, and people hitting nine irons into the sandtrack,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know. I'm more of a storyteller
Speaker 3: when it comes to this kind of thing rather than
Speaker 3: describing the action of a golf shot. But anyway, we
Speaker 3: didn't come here to talk about golf, though, did we.
Speaker 3: I wish we could what we're talking about instead. Perhaps
Speaker 3: you've heard the Carolina Panthers have a new quarterback, this week.
Speaker 3: Andy Dalton will start this week against the Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 3: The Andy eras beginning. It does not have an expiration date.
Speaker 3: No deadlines have been put on this thing, no proclamations
Speaker 3: have been made. They just needed to make a change,
Speaker 3: and they needed to make one right at that moment.
Speaker 3: You could tell from listening to Dave Canalis on Monday
Speaker 3: that this was not something they did lightly.
Speaker 2: You don't move on from.
Speaker 3: A guy you drafted first overall eighteen games ago without
Speaker 3: a reason to do so. And I mean, Matt, just
Speaker 3: queue up the first bit of tape. I mean Dave's
Speaker 3: initial response to making this change, more so than the
Speaker 3: words itself. Listen to the tone of Dave Canalis's voice.
Speaker 5: After yesterday, just went home, watched the film, had some
Speaker 5: conversations with coaches, with Dan Brandt, so had to gather
Speaker 5: a lot of information through this morning and made that
Speaker 5: decision after looking at it, that this is the best
Speaker 5: decision for our group, for our team going forward.
Speaker 3: That was not a man who necessarily wanted to do
Speaker 3: this thing right.
Speaker 4: And I think too, if you watch him, if you
Speaker 4: were sitting in the room, if you go back and
Speaker 4: you watch the video, you could just see from his face,
Speaker 4: especially considering what Dave canalis, you know, his personality and attitude,
Speaker 4: what it's usually like. I don't think he slept Sunday
Speaker 4: night when he said he went home and watched the tape.
Speaker 4: I think that's all he did from the moment he
Speaker 4: got home until the moment he walked back into the
Speaker 4: building on Monday morning. And you know, tape doesn't lie,
Speaker 4: and I think he saw enough there to think this
Speaker 4: is a change that we need to make, at least
Speaker 4: for the time being, for the best of everyone, for
Speaker 4: the best of Bryce, for the best of the rest
Speaker 4: of the team, for the best of the coaches, for
Speaker 4: the best of the game plan. Like you said, there's
Speaker 4: no for sure date on when this might end, if
Speaker 4: Bryce might come back, but for the time being, it
Speaker 4: was a change that had to be made, according to
Speaker 4: Dave Panellis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and listen, I mean the results were not good.
Speaker 3: They're making this change, and Dave kept saying over and over,
Speaker 3: this is about the Raiders. This is about having the
Speaker 3: best chance to beat the Raiders. And it's hard to accept,
Speaker 3: you know, the logical mind kind of rebels that the
Speaker 3: idea of a thirty six year old backup quarterback giving
Speaker 3: you a better chance to win a game than a
Speaker 3: guy you invested so heavily in acquiring not all that
Speaker 3: long ago. But when you watch the way Bryce has
Speaker 3: played in the last couple of weeks, and again, I
Speaker 3: want to be careful to say, because there's a lot
Speaker 3: of piling on in a lot of different directions this week,
Speaker 3: this is not all Bryce Young's fault. Bryce Young was
Speaker 3: thrown into a ridiculous situation year ago. I think it's
Speaker 3: reasonable to consider that that did some damage to him.
Speaker 3: And when this year got off to as bad a
Speaker 3: start as you could imagine on that first pass play
Speaker 3: in New Orleans, it just kept spiraling and it kept
Speaker 3: getting worse and worse, and sometimes you just need to
Speaker 3: take a guy out of that situation. I was having
Speaker 3: a conversation with Jake Delom the other day and we
Speaker 3: were talking about the time period when his elbow was
Speaker 3: starting to let go before he needed Tommy John surgery,
Speaker 3: and Jake had some rough outings in a row, and
Speaker 3: I remember remarking at the time, does somebody need to
Speaker 3: get Jake in out of the rain? And I think,
Speaker 3: to me, that's what this looks like. This is a
Speaker 3: chance for Bryce Young to reset. It's a chance for
Speaker 3: Bryce Young to get his feet back underneath him. Take
Speaker 3: a breath. You know, they did some things this offseason
Speaker 3: to make his life easier. The protection has been better,
Speaker 3: there are more targets, but he hasn't been himself. I mean,
Speaker 3: if you go back to the game he played on
Speaker 3: Christmas Eve, your very first game covering the Carolina Anthers,
Speaker 3: he goes for about three bills against the Packers, thirty
Speaker 3: some odd points, and he's thrown for furner and fifty
Speaker 3: one yards and scored thirteen points since then, So something
Speaker 3: was obviously wrong.
Speaker 4: I think something might have even changed even between training
Speaker 4: camp and that first season. I'm that first week because
Speaker 4: you go back and you watch that joint practice with
Speaker 4: the Jets, and I know you can't hang your hat
Speaker 4: on just one day, but that was a really good
Speaker 4: day for Bryce Young, and it seemed to be he
Speaker 4: seemed to have it to move the ball to kind
Speaker 4: of nowhere to go to not be afraid to make
Speaker 4: those throws. That's what they wanted when they drafted him,
Speaker 4: and that's what they're looking for on the field, and
Speaker 4: right now, maybe not.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen it.
Speaker 4: I mean I'm saying from that from the just that joint.
Speaker 2: Practice, oh yeah, yeah yeah. I mean it's you can't.
Speaker 4: You can't hang your entire future on one joint.
Speaker 2: Practice, right, and you you've got to do it in
Speaker 2: live action.
Speaker 3: I mean, and that's why all the people who were
Speaker 3: a poplectic about preseason snaps, thank you. I word for
Speaker 3: a living. People who were all up in arms about
Speaker 3: preseason snaps or this, that or the other. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's no I was talking to Theling about it the
Speaker 3: other night out after the game, and I basically asked, Adam,
Speaker 3: how do you how can you explain him looking so
Speaker 3: polished in that joint practice, setting him looking so polished
Speaker 3: in Buffalo, and then what he's done out on the
Speaker 3: field the last couple of weeks. And Adam just said, man,
Speaker 3: it's different, he said, And until you're in the NFL,
Speaker 3: until you get those snaps, you're not going to recognize
Speaker 3: those differences. And you know, it's not that Bryce Shun
Speaker 3: can't keep up with speed of the game. He obviously can.
Speaker 3: Look at what he did in Alabama. He was, you know,
Speaker 3: to the comeback when at Auburn, I mean or against Auburn,
Speaker 3: you don't do those kind of things if you're not
Speaker 3: seeing it. You don't do those kind of things if
Speaker 3: you can't process, if you can't understand, if you can't apply.
Speaker 3: And he did all that, but it's just for whatever reason,
Speaker 3: hasn't worked out for the last four games he's been
Speaker 3: on on the field. And I just think it's a
Speaker 3: possible benefit for him in the long term because it's
Speaker 3: taking him out of a situation where he's not getting
Speaker 3: any positive feedback.
Speaker 4: Right And to quote Josh Lyman from one of our
Speaker 4: favorite shows we play with Live Ammo around here, And
Speaker 4: if that's the case, then maybe he just needs to
Speaker 4: have a little bit of time to learn how to
Speaker 4: protect himself better.
Speaker 3: I think so, and I mean, listen again, I would
Speaker 3: be stunned if this is the last we ever see
Speaker 3: of Bryce Shong as starting quarterback in the NFL. Too
Speaker 3: many other guys who've done a whole lot less get
Speaker 3: more chances. We've seen redemption arcs from guys like Matt Stafford,
Speaker 3: from guys like Jared Goff, from guys like Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2: You know, Sam.
Speaker 3: Darnold's playing pretty well from Minnesota right now. Call me
Speaker 3: again in Week eight and let's see if it's still
Speaker 3: holding up. I mean, I like Sam as well as
Speaker 3: any football player who's ever walked through the door. But
Speaker 3: Sam's had sustainability problems throughout his career. But it looks
Speaker 3: good right now. So I mean, Bryce is inevitably going
Speaker 3: to get another chance, But for the moment, Dave Canal
Speaker 3: has kept saying the best chance they've got is Andy Dalton.
Speaker 3: And I mean, just listening to Andy this week, if
Speaker 3: there is a if there is a way to project
Speaker 3: calm and to project normal, Andy's doing it. I mean,
Speaker 3: he is obviously excited to get another chance. But if
Speaker 3: you just listen to him talk about getting this opportunity,
Speaker 3: even though he's excited about his chance to play, hearing
Speaker 3: him describe it sounds just about as anadyne as possible.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm really excited for this opportunity. You know,
Speaker 6: when I came here, I wasn't sure if I was
Speaker 6: going to get another opportunity to start again, and so
Speaker 6: I'm I'm really looking forward to it. I'm excited about
Speaker 6: what's what's ahead. And you know, it's a it's a
Speaker 6: tough situation. I've been on both sides of it and
Speaker 6: it's not hard. I mean, it's hard on everybody, so
Speaker 6: but for me, I'm I mean, I'm looking.
Speaker 4: Forward to it. And you know, sometimes that's just what
Speaker 4: you need when you need to settle down your whole team.
Speaker 4: You need, for lack of a better word, and adult
Speaker 4: in the room. And that's what Andy Dalton brings. At
Speaker 4: thirty six years old, he's seen a lot of football.
Speaker 4: Walking into that Raider stadium and facing Max Crosby is
Speaker 4: not going to make him blink one bit. I mean,
Speaker 4: this is a guy that's three to oh and his
Speaker 4: starts against the Raiders and his last time facing Max Crosby,
Speaker 4: Crosby had twenty nine pass rush snaps got and registered
Speaker 4: zero pressures on one Andy Dalton. A lot of that
Speaker 4: probably has to do his offensive line too, but he
Speaker 4: went I think like twenty for twenty seven against him
Speaker 4: in those pass rush snaps. So somebody who's not going
Speaker 4: to be faced by someone like Crosby, someone who who
Speaker 4: can project confidence in the huddle. And not to say
Speaker 4: that Bryce hasn't done that, but like we said, Andy
Speaker 4: thirty six years old, he's been playing in the NFL
Speaker 4: since twenty eleven. That carries with it an intrists in
Speaker 4: trust and respect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he does. He has a calming effect. And
Speaker 3: one of the things as I look over the scope
Speaker 3: of this franchise's history, Andy Dalton's got a lot in
Speaker 3: common with cats like Jake Delom and cats like Steve
Speaker 3: Berlin who came in here in their thirties and played
Speaker 3: some pretty good football at times, and especially Steve back
Speaker 3: in the early years. Steve walked into some weird situations
Speaker 3: in ninety six. You know, he had to step in
Speaker 3: when Carrie was hurt for a little bit, He had
Speaker 3: to step in when Carrie stepped away from the team.
Speaker 3: At a different point, he had to play for a
Speaker 3: coach and George Seaffert who did not want him and
Speaker 3: played pretty well at times. I mean, there are a
Speaker 3: lot of Steve Berline highlights that people remember very fondly,
Speaker 3: and Andy's got that same kind of quality that regular.
Speaker 2: That normal, let's do normal football things.
Speaker 3: And if you think about what Dave Canalis has been
Speaker 3: talking about since he walked in the door, it's it's
Speaker 3: always amused me that when you get pigeonholed as oh
Speaker 3: he's an offensive guy, people expect sixty passes game. Mike
Speaker 3: Martz Greatest Show on turf kind of stuff. What Dave
Speaker 3: Canalis has been promising is a very traditional, hey, let's
Speaker 3: run the ball, let's be physical upfront, let's dictate the
Speaker 3: pace that way, and when we take our shots, take
Speaker 3: them downfield. I mean, if you didn't know better, you
Speaker 3: would think that was Dan Henning talking. And Dan Henning
Speaker 3: is eighty three years old, not Dave Canalis. So I
Speaker 3: just think that because of what Dave wants to do offensively,
Speaker 3: Andy might be the antidote for the entire team right now,
Speaker 3: just because he can settle things down, he can lower
Speaker 3: the temperature on this thing and get them back.
Speaker 2: On a more normal footing.
Speaker 3: I think getting under center, turn around handed to Cuba
Speaker 3: and Miles Sanders twenty five thirty times, and hitting some
Speaker 3: play action shots downfield might be the difference this team
Speaker 3: needs right now.
Speaker 4: Speaking of the play action shots, Dountfield something that Andy
Speaker 4: has done well his time. I mean, this is also
Speaker 4: a guy that played with Aj Green. You know, he's
Speaker 4: he knows how to take advantage of a downfield receiver.
Speaker 4: It almost makes me wonder if we'll see I don't
Speaker 4: want to use the word exotic, but maybe just a
Speaker 4: little bit more swirliness to the offense. But it's actually
Speaker 4: a real word from one of my favorite podcasts. But
Speaker 4: I say it's a real word. Shakespeare made up wards
Speaker 4: all the time. Don't lay off anyways.
Speaker 2: Effectively, all words are made up.
Speaker 4: All words are made up. They're all just a collection
Speaker 4: of twenty six letters. Anyways, it makes me wonder if
Speaker 4: you'll see a little more swirliness, just because Andy's experience
Speaker 4: allows him to maybe diagnose some of these defenses a
Speaker 4: little quicker, and you know, and maybe instead of spread out,
Speaker 4: we'll see a little more stacked formations, a little more
Speaker 4: bunch formations, just something to kind of throw the Raiders
Speaker 4: off a little bit, because you know, you've got somebody
Speaker 4: that's been back there for fourteen seasons now and can
Speaker 4: kind of recognize us some disguises in the defense.
Speaker 3: And the recognition is another piece of this. And I
Speaker 3: want Matt to play another Andy Dalton clip. I mean,
Speaker 3: he talked about very specifically the benefit of being fourteen
Speaker 3: years in the league because it's going to.
Speaker 2: Be hard to surprise him.
Speaker 3: I mean, there are things that the Raiders can do,
Speaker 3: obviously to create problems, but I doubt they're going to
Speaker 3: show him anything he's never seen before.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I just think I've seen a ton
Speaker 6: of defensive schemes. I've seen a ton of different ways
Speaker 6: that teams have played, and so there's times where you
Speaker 6: see something you're like, oh, I remember that from my
Speaker 6: time in since here. I remember that, Oh Baltimore did this,
Speaker 6: and it may be is something similar to what another
Speaker 6: team does. So I mean I think there's things like
Speaker 6: that just on pulled from my experience. But I think
Speaker 6: just the way you process things now versus being early
Speaker 6: on in my career, and he can process things a
Speaker 6: lot faster and focus on other things because you're not
Speaker 6: worried about some of the small details of it all.
Speaker 3: So yeah, when you refer, oh, yeah I did that
Speaker 3: in since he Yeah, Baltimore did that one time. I
Speaker 3: mean that's just the benefit he brings that recognition, and again,
Speaker 3: I think it opens some things up. The other thing
Speaker 3: and you missed this delightful game but out in Seattle
Speaker 3: last year. And he's also got some yellow to him.
Speaker 3: He has he has been willing to go up over
Speaker 3: the top. He's still i mean, for his career, he's
Speaker 3: still got a more than a hu hundred more touchdowns
Speaker 3: than he does interception. So he's been pretty careful with
Speaker 3: the ball, but he'll take shots now. Last year in Seattle,
Speaker 3: he also threw it fifty eight times, which is probably
Speaker 3: more than you want to throw in any particular game.
Speaker 3: But he also hit eight passes of fifteen yards or
Speaker 3: more downfield, so including some big ones. I mean he
Speaker 3: hit the bomb to DJ Chark goes about forty seven.
Speaker 3: I think think Uh for a touchdown. I mean he's
Speaker 3: got that in him. He's always had a good deep arm,
Speaker 3: and I think that's going to be music to the
Speaker 3: ears of cats like Mingo Le you get Uh and
Speaker 3: Deonta and Adam. I mean they're not straight downfield runners,
Speaker 3: but leg It is a go get it kind of receiver,
Speaker 3: and so having somebody like that to offer it up to.
Speaker 2: Him downfield can only help this offense.
Speaker 4: So you were almost you were almost down to the number.
Speaker 4: He has one hundred and two more touchdowns than interceptions. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's impressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when big numbers it's like two forty something something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, that's one hundred.
Speaker 3: I don't know, do you know where my keys are?
Speaker 3: Did I lock my home when I live this morning?
Speaker 4: But you know how many more touchdowns Andy Delta.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my brain is a weird and scary place, so.
Speaker 3: Anyway, it is going to be fascinating to see how
Speaker 3: that comes together.
Speaker 4: That Seattle game too, a game that I do regret
Speaker 4: having not been at. I've never been to Seattle. I
Speaker 4: want to go. I feel like I need to go
Speaker 4: to the original Starbucks to complete my white girl pilgrimage,
Speaker 4: and so that needs to happen one day. I've always
Speaker 4: wanted to see a game there too, just to see that.
Speaker 3: As you'll be surprised by this, I walked into Starbucks
Speaker 3: one yeah, one trip to Seattle, and I ordered a
Speaker 3: medium coffee black. I refuse to say the silly Starbucks words.
Speaker 2: When tall means small.
Speaker 3: I am not playing your reindeer games. Okay, give me
Speaker 3: coffee in a medium sized cup. No, I do not
Speaker 3: want space for other stuff in it. I want more caffeine.
Speaker 3: That's why I drink the coffee.
Speaker 4: Have you ever seen You've Got Mail? Ah? Yes, it
Speaker 4: has a whole die tribe about people that are trying
Speaker 4: to order too much at Starbucks when really it should
Speaker 4: just be tall DCAF cappuccino. But even that's the word.
Speaker 4: That's one of the starbucksers point being in that Seattle
Speaker 4: game as well. One of the storylines that I think
Speaker 4: came out of it was Dalton's connection with Adam Thelen.
Speaker 4: I want to say they connected eleven times for about
Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty five yards in a touchdown something
Speaker 4: like that. That's something that I think is a lot
Speaker 4: to do with the fact that these are two veteran
Speaker 4: guys that no defenses, that know what they're facing, and
Speaker 4: that let me go back to the Monday Night football
Speaker 4: game this week when Kirk Cousins ran that flawless two
Speaker 4: minute drill. Something that Peyton Manning said on the Manning
Speaker 4: Cast was when you're someone that has seen enough football
Speaker 4: like Kirk Cousins, sometimes moments like these are the easiest
Speaker 4: because you're not trying to necessarily get back into the playbook.
Speaker 4: You just you're doing what you know to do as
Speaker 4: a football player. And part of me wonders if that's
Speaker 4: what came out of the Dalton to feeling connection and
Speaker 4: if that's something that could show itself again on Saturday.
Speaker 4: You know, when you're trying to settle things down like
Speaker 4: Dave Canalis and you're trying to just okay, let's just
Speaker 4: take what they give us, and let's run the ball,
Speaker 4: and let's see what we've got and move down the field.
Speaker 4: You've now got two guys in Dalton and Thiland who
Speaker 4: just who know what it means to play football, If
Speaker 4: that makes sense, yep, and with aren't trying to overthink it,
Speaker 4: and so I can't help but imagine that's a connection
Speaker 4: we're going to see get taken advantage of again on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yep, we will see. It's going to be fascinating. We've
Speaker 3: spent all this time talking about offense, which is what
Speaker 3: happens when teams change quarterbacks in Week three. And I
Speaker 3: am going to tell you one thing for sure, it's
Speaker 3: too soon to start talking about the long term, what
Speaker 3: this means for Bryce, what it means for the team,
Speaker 3: what it means for the anything. And I will tell
Speaker 3: you if you try to send me draft questions to
Speaker 3: the mail bag, you will be ignored. I am issuing
Speaker 3: right now, a draft moratorium until Halloween, no draft questions
Speaker 3: until November. I will not participate. So if what you're
Speaker 3: dying to know about is what I think of Shadar
Speaker 3: Sanders and Carson, is that his name?
Speaker 2: The one at Georgia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, and then there's Quinn somebody at Texas. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: there you go. I know the college football names apparently,
Speaker 3: and there are many more. But I ain't talking about
Speaker 3: him in the mail bagg It's too soon for that.
Speaker 3: There is another side of the ball to worry about
Speaker 3: this week. I don't think run defense is going to
Speaker 3: be the same concern it was last week against the Chargers. Obviously,
Speaker 3: the Raiders don't have Jim Harbaugh and they don't have
Speaker 3: the same kind of backfield, and that's a good thing
Speaker 3: because the Carolina Panthers are running out of guys up front.
Speaker 3: Shy Tuttle did not practice yesterday. Ashaan Robinson didn't practice
Speaker 3: on Wednesday, but he was at least on the property
Speaker 3: out there on the practice field, so we'll see if
Speaker 3: he gets back out there. But if you go into
Speaker 3: a game without obviously Derek Brown, who was lost for
Speaker 3: the year in Week one, if Shy is not able
Speaker 3: to bounce back and play this week, you would not
Speaker 3: want to play the Chargers without those two cats.
Speaker 2: They've got some guys who can fill in well.
Speaker 3: Lebrian Ray, Nick Thurman jumped in and played a lot
Speaker 3: of snaps last year after being training camp tryouts. Jaden
Speaker 3: Peebee was not on the roster at the beginning of
Speaker 3: training camp, showed up in middle August and has impressed
Speaker 3: some people as a guy who can help them out
Speaker 3: in a lot of ways. And they go out and
Speaker 3: bring back Deshaun Williams, who was here a year ago,
Speaker 3: and we saw him Buffalo a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 3: and he was very happy to see us when he
Speaker 3: walked back in the door. So they're still sorting things
Speaker 3: out defensively. The run defense is hopefully not going to
Speaker 3: be as big of a concern this week, but Gardner
Speaker 3: Minshew and DeVante Adams have made some plays.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have. And you know, to the point about
Speaker 4: the run defense, we talked to a Jerre Evro today
Speaker 4: and he said, you know, I know that they haven't
Speaker 4: necessarily had the success the first two weeks that they
Speaker 4: would want to on the ground, but I fully expect
Speaker 4: Piers to continue to run it. Pierce being the head coach,
Speaker 4: Piers to continue to want to run the ball. And
Speaker 4: so that's something that we're expecting and you have you
Speaker 4: have to expect it in some way because you know,
Speaker 4: if you devote too much attention down field to Davonte Adams,
Speaker 4: to Brock Bauers, You're gonna leave the middle of the
Speaker 4: field wide open. And so you do have to still
Speaker 4: be stout there because Zamir White is not a second
Speaker 4: rate back. He can be a really good back if
Speaker 4: given the chance and given the grass. But that being said,
Speaker 4: you are going in there and you're facing one of,
Speaker 4: if not the best wide receiver of our generation and
Speaker 4: something that you know, even Evro called him today, he
Speaker 4: said he's he's one of the best wide I think
Speaker 4: he's his exact words were, arguably the best receiver of
Speaker 4: his generation. You know, one of the best get off
Speaker 4: guys in the NFL. And it's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 4: see if they, you know, do they pair JC with
Speaker 4: him the whole time? Do they kind of move guys around,
Speaker 4: because now you've also got to deal with brock Bauers,
Speaker 4: you know, one of the better rookie tight ends in
Speaker 4: the league, and somebody that has found a groove with
Speaker 4: Gardner Minshew as well. I think if you look at
Speaker 4: the first two weeks, Gardner Minshew's around sixty percent of
Speaker 4: his passes have been to those two guys. So you
Speaker 4: know that's where they're going. You know that's who they're
Speaker 4: going to depend on. And I covered Gardner Minshew long
Speaker 4: enough to know that he's always got a little bit
Speaker 4: of Minshew magic to him. He's such a wild card, Darren.
Speaker 4: You never know week to week which you're gonna get
Speaker 4: from this guy on the field or off the field.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, is this where me Ma and
Speaker 3: Ninja's swords come into play?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 2: He's gonna go full Samurai on us at something point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you never know. And you talk about a yolo mentality,
Speaker 4: that is someone who lives his life by yolo mentality.
Speaker 3: And I thought it was perfect when he was in
Speaker 3: Jacksonville because if there was ever a Duval.
Speaker 2: Spirit, it was Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 3: But him as a raider, I mean, I don't think
Speaker 3: he's he's certainly not as accomplished, but he's got some
Speaker 3: Ken Stabler energy about him.
Speaker 2: That young man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that didn't fit to be with the cults, like
Speaker 4: his vibe didn't fit with the Colts vibe.
Speaker 3: No, he is not Midwestern wholesome family values. I would
Speaker 3: not say so anyway. Hey, speaking of things that are
Speaker 3: not Midwestern wholesome family values, you had me listen to
Speaker 3: another one m Taylor Swift songs this week. That girl's
Speaker 3: got some problems, all right, She's been through a lot,
Speaker 3: She's seen some things.
Speaker 4: Although I think the song I had you listen to
Speaker 4: was not one of her autobiographical songs, that one.
Speaker 3: Of her narratives, I would hope not, because that song
Speaker 3: IVY is about some messed up stuff.
Speaker 4: Actually inspired by Emily Dickinson.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say.
Speaker 3: I mean, I did not know that, but I remember
Speaker 3: writing down in my notes somewhere Taylor Swift is Emily
Speaker 3: Dickinson in Red Lipstick.
Speaker 4: You know what's so funny that you said that and
Speaker 4: made that connection. That song is inspired by Emily Dickinson
Speaker 4: and they are related. That is one of her ancestors.
Speaker 2: I did not know that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, really, yeah.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 3: It tracks because she's you know, I my only and
Speaker 3: I'll admit I'm not as fifty benny stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 2: As you are aware.
Speaker 3: But I thought she was kind of a poppy singing
Speaker 3: songs about feeling good and things and love and happiness
Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: And now she got it and she got a dark
Speaker 2: side to her.
Speaker 4: That one That's why I started with these two songs
Speaker 4: for you, because you are a storyteller at heart, and
Speaker 4: those are actually, She's got some other girlies, great storyteller ones.
Speaker 4: These are not even her storyteller songs.
Speaker 3: I think much in the way last week when I
Speaker 3: had you listen to Ponto and Lefty the towns Van's
Speaker 3: ant classic, and you came back and said.
Speaker 2: Did Lefty sell him out?
Speaker 3: I'm starting to think Taylor might have had something going
Speaker 3: on with another fella there in that Ivy song.
Speaker 4: I like Ivy because it is it is layered metaphors.
Speaker 4: From the opening line, it's nothing but metaphors, and you
Speaker 4: can kind of get something. Everybody who listens to it
Speaker 4: gets something different from it. But the first line of
Speaker 4: the chorus says, my pain fits in the palm of
Speaker 4: your freezing hand, and like the day, the day that
Speaker 4: I figured out that means the pain represents the wedding
Speaker 4: ring that the other one's wearing, because it's about somebody
Speaker 4: who is married to a guy but in love with
Speaker 4: someone else, and it's told from the perspective of the
Speaker 4: wife who's in love with someone else, and so the
Speaker 4: pain is the wedding ring, and it fits into the
Speaker 4: palm of her lover's hand. Yeah, Yeah, that one's a
Speaker 4: good one.
Speaker 2: And I gave you such a happy song.
Speaker 3: I told you to go with shovels and wrote Mary
Speaker 3: Anne and One Eyed Dan an upbeat number.
Speaker 4: I am a fan of any song that starts with
Speaker 4: a paunchy banjo like that and as it did, and
Speaker 4: that takes me along on a journey and tells a
Speaker 4: story as that one did as well. Yeah, that's one
Speaker 4: of those that I can imagine sitting around a fire
Speaker 4: and somebody plucking that out and everybody kind of singing along.
Speaker 4: I'm a fan of any storytelling songs such as that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I really really enjoyed that one.
Speaker 3: Will make you a shovels and rope fan. I reserve
Speaker 3: the right to withhold judgment on Taylor Swift until I
Speaker 3: hear something that's actually happy. But anyway, speaking of music,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna take this, we'll we'll work on recommendations
Speaker 3: for next week. In a second, the big news today
Speaker 3: coming out of Bank of America Stadium.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Metallica is coming.
Speaker 4: You sound like a commercial for it.
Speaker 2: Saturday May thirty.
Speaker 3: First, my friends, come see Metallica and me at Bank
Speaker 3: of America Stadium because I'm gonna be right down there
Speaker 3: in the middle of it all. I've been waiting for
Speaker 3: this show for so long, and so the ability to
Speaker 3: see Metallica and Pantera right here in this very building,
Speaker 3: that's gonna be a sight. We're gonna We're gonna be
Speaker 3: on one that night. You a big Metallica fan.
Speaker 4: I could not gun to my head name you a Metallica.
Speaker 3: That is extremely disappointing. I'm not I may assign you
Speaker 3: double listening this week just to go through the entire
Speaker 3: Kill Them All album. I told podcast Matt before we
Speaker 3: got started here today, when I become a Major League
Speaker 3: Baseball relief pitcher, my walk up music is going to
Speaker 3: be the Four Horsemen.
Speaker 2: Uh, there's still time, right Matt.
Speaker 3: Matt's giving me the thumbs up. He thinks I could
Speaker 3: come in bring it Rob Dibble style. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I'm going to give.
Speaker 2: You required listening. You do have to go listen to
Speaker 2: the entire Metallica Kill Them All album?
Speaker 4: Your album? Yeah, what kind of time you think I got?
Speaker 4: You know, I got a demanding boss.
Speaker 3: I've heard I've heard you talk about what you watch
Speaker 3: on TV. You got time to listen to some Metallica.
Speaker 4: Hey, Secret Loves of Mormon Wives was required viewing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the secret.
Speaker 3: I think the Mormon wives could stand to listen to
Speaker 3: a little Pantera in Metallica too. It ain't like it's
Speaker 3: gonna rattle them and cause them to do something ill advice.
Speaker 4: You said, Pantera pan Tara.
Speaker 2: I mean think about it. The Caroll and Tara. They're
Speaker 2: from Texas though, so it's just count Yeah.
Speaker 4: The people that wrote Sweet Home, Alabama were from Jacksonville.
Speaker 3: Rip Down Back, Darryl Pantero is still getting it done.
Speaker 3: It is going to be quite a show. May thirty,
Speaker 3: first Saturday night. Come see James and Lars and Kirk
Speaker 3: and the boys and me because I am going to
Speaker 3: be out in there, probably sitting on top of the speakers.
Speaker 3: When I saw him at Charlotte Coliseum a couple of
Speaker 3: years back, before the pandemic, I was.
Speaker 2: Like four rows off the rail. Did some permanent hearing damage.
Speaker 4: Then, guys, Daron, please wear head please her aphone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my wife, who's smart and responsible in a doctor,
Speaker 3: made me take earplugs and that lasted for about half
Speaker 3: a song.
Speaker 4: And I know you can hear them sing better when
Speaker 4: you wear the earplugs.
Speaker 3: Nope, I'm gonna take the full sonic assault right here
Speaker 3: in my ear holes.
Speaker 2: And it was amazing.
Speaker 3: So looking forward to Metallica. If you only have to
Speaker 3: enjoy one song, the Four Horsemen is what you is
Speaker 3: what you you have to enjoy. But I could give you,
Speaker 3: I could give you recommendation after recommendation on this one.
Speaker 4: Is that my homework for the week.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, that'll be your homework for the week. So what
Speaker 2: do you got from me?
Speaker 4: You asked for a happy song. By God, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: give you a happy Taylor Swift song.
Speaker 2: It is called paper Rings, Paper Rings.
Speaker 4: It is from the Lover album.
Speaker 3: All right, I'll listen to Paper Rings, you'll listen to Metallica.
Speaker 3: We'll watch the Panthers and the Raiders, see what Andy
Speaker 3: Dalton does, and we'll come back and talk to you
Speaker 3: you about it all next week on the Happy Half Hour.