WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 131: Perhaps You've Heard 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:03.400 This week, I'm a Happy half Hour. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:07.200 This is not all Bryce Shunk's fault. 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:10.600 Bryshung was thrown into a ridiculous situation a year ago. 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.480 I think it's reasonable to consider that that did some 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.320 damage to him. And when this year got off to 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:18.479 as bad a start as you could imagine on that 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.360 first pass play in New Orleans, it just kept spiraling. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.239 Touch the cow ro. 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:31.000 It's time for the Happy Half Hour, presented by Southern Star, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:37.360 an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. Here are your hosts, 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.960 Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill. 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:47.440 Hello friends, and welcome back to another episode of the 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.720 Happy Half Hour. Happy half Hour, of course, brought to 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.520 you by our friends at Southern Star and official bourbon 0:00:53.560 --> 0:01:00.920 partner the Carolina Panthers. Celebrate the spirit with Southern Star responsibly. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:02.760 What are we going to talk about this week, CASTI 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:03.560 I don't know. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.080 There's nothing to talk about. I will say that was 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.600 one of the most docile Hello friends you've given in 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.520 a while. Like do you need a cup of coffee? 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:10.880 Yeah? 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:12.680 I need many cups of coffee. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.080 There's a lot happening around here, so I need to 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.840 keep my blood pressure up to the pace of life 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.600 right now. So, yeah, there's there's some stuff going on. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:22.880 I'm trying one or two things. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:24.919 Yeah, I'm trying on my gym nance golf. 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:25.559 Boys. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.319 See if I like it, someday become a golf announcer. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:29.680 That's going to make me taken out. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.039 I think, after fifty some odd years of trying to 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.520 ignore golf and remove it from my life, that might 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:35.920 be a curious career change. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:36.520 But here we are. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.640 You know, I had a teacher in college, one of 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:44.440 my sports journalism teachers, tell me that from a broadcasting 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.840 and journalistic point of view, golf was the toughest sport 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:53.840 to cover because everything was happening simultaneously on eighteen holes 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:54.480 at one time. 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:57.440 Yeah, I guess. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.680 I mean, if you want to watch all the niblicks 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.840 and every thing, and people hitting nine irons into the sandtrack, 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.040 you know, I don't know. I'm more of a storyteller 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.760 when it comes to this kind of thing rather than 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.680 describing the action of a golf shot. But anyway, we 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.360 didn't come here to talk about golf, though, did we. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:19.000 I wish we could what we're talking about instead. Perhaps 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.200 you've heard the Carolina Panthers have a new quarterback, this week. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:27.320 Andy Dalton will start this week against the Las Vegas Raiders. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:32.120 The Andy eras beginning. It does not have an expiration date. 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.360 No deadlines have been put on this thing, no proclamations 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.480 have been made. They just needed to make a change, 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.840 and they needed to make one right at that moment. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.720 You could tell from listening to Dave Canalis on Monday 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:46.840 that this was not something they did lightly. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:48.520 You don't move on from. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:53.040 A guy you drafted first overall eighteen games ago without 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.320 a reason to do so. And I mean, Matt, just 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.480 queue up the first bit of tape. I mean Dave's 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.320 initial response to making this change, more so than the 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.679 words itself. Listen to the tone of Dave Canalis's voice. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.960 After yesterday, just went home, watched the film, had some 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:16.200 conversations with coaches, with Dan Brandt, so had to gather 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.840 a lot of information through this morning and made that 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.959 decision after looking at it, that this is the best 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.000 decision for our group, for our team going forward. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.440 That was not a man who necessarily wanted to do 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:29.360 this thing right. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.920 And I think too, if you watch him, if you 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.240 were sitting in the room, if you go back and 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.800 you watch the video, you could just see from his face, 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:41.080 especially considering what Dave canalis, you know, his personality and attitude, 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.680 what it's usually like. I don't think he slept Sunday 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.720 night when he said he went home and watched the tape. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.880 I think that's all he did from the moment he 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:50.560 got home until the moment he walked back into the 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:55.200 building on Monday morning. And you know, tape doesn't lie, 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.720 and I think he saw enough there to think this 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:00.600 is a change that we need to make, at least 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.320 for the time being, for the best of everyone, for 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.080 the best of Bryce, for the best of the rest 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.040 of the team, for the best of the coaches, for 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.480 the best of the game plan. Like you said, there's 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:16.800 no for sure date on when this might end, if 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.919 Bryce might come back, but for the time being, it 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:21.640 was a change that had to be made, according to 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:22.400 Dave Panellis. 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.880 Yeah, and listen, I mean the results were not good. 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.599 They're making this change, and Dave kept saying over and over, 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.440 this is about the Raiders. This is about having the 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:34.520 best chance to beat the Raiders. And it's hard to accept, 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.080 you know, the logical mind kind of rebels that the 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.039 idea of a thirty six year old backup quarterback giving 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:41.719 you a better chance to win a game than a 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.800 guy you invested so heavily in acquiring not all that 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.800 long ago. But when you watch the way Bryce has 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.120 played in the last couple of weeks, and again, I 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.360 want to be careful to say, because there's a lot 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.080 of piling on in a lot of different directions this week, 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.000 this is not all Bryce Young's fault. Bryce Young was 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.479 thrown into a ridiculous situation year ago. I think it's 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.560 reasonable to consider that that did some damage to him. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.240 And when this year got off to as bad a 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.480 start as you could imagine on that first pass play 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.560 in New Orleans, it just kept spiraling and it kept 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:16.240 getting worse and worse, and sometimes you just need to 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.880 take a guy out of that situation. I was having 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.280 a conversation with Jake Delom the other day and we 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.000 were talking about the time period when his elbow was 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.680 starting to let go before he needed Tommy John surgery, 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.680 and Jake had some rough outings in a row, and 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.840 I remember remarking at the time, does somebody need to 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.279 get Jake in out of the rain? And I think, 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.560 to me, that's what this looks like. This is a 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.480 chance for Bryce Young to reset. It's a chance for 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.000 Bryce Young to get his feet back underneath him. Take 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.320 a breath. You know, they did some things this offseason 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.440 to make his life easier. The protection has been better, 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:55.520 there are more targets, but he hasn't been himself. I mean, 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.440 if you go back to the game he played on 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.479 Christmas Eve, your very first game covering the Carolina Anthers, 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.040 he goes for about three bills against the Packers, thirty 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.679 some odd points, and he's thrown for furner and fifty 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.920 one yards and scored thirteen points since then, So something 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:11.719 was obviously wrong. 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.440 I think something might have even changed even between training 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.919 camp and that first season. I'm that first week because 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.919 you go back and you watch that joint practice with 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:23.880 the Jets, and I know you can't hang your hat 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.320 on just one day, but that was a really good 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:31.440 day for Bryce Young, and it seemed to be he 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.599 seemed to have it to move the ball to kind 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.360 of nowhere to go to not be afraid to make 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:40.720 those throws. That's what they wanted when they drafted him, 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.400 and that's what they're looking for on the field, and 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.120 right now, maybe not. 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:46.360 We haven't seen it. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.680 I mean I'm saying from that from the just that joint. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.679 Practice, oh yeah, yeah yeah. I mean it's you can't. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.160 You can't hang your entire future on one joint. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.760 Practice, right, and you you've got to do it in 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:57.360 live action. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.640 I mean, and that's why all the people who were 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:04.720 a poplectic about preseason snaps, thank you. I word for 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.200 a living. People who were all up in arms about 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.920 preseason snaps or this, that or the other. I mean, 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.920 there's no I was talking to Theling about it the 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.240 other night out after the game, and I basically asked, Adam, 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.760 how do you how can you explain him looking so 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.920 polished in that joint practice, setting him looking so polished 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.120 in Buffalo, and then what he's done out on the 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.080 field the last couple of weeks. And Adam just said, man, 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.120 it's different, he said, And until you're in the NFL, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.760 until you get those snaps, you're not going to recognize 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:37.160 those differences. And you know, it's not that Bryce Shun 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.120 can't keep up with speed of the game. He obviously can. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.400 Look at what he did in Alabama. He was, you know, 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.760 to the comeback when at Auburn, I mean or against Auburn, 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.040 you don't do those kind of things if you're not 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.040 seeing it. You don't do those kind of things if 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.760 you can't process, if you can't understand, if you can't apply. 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.120 And he did all that, but it's just for whatever reason, 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.880 hasn't worked out for the last four games he's been 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:03.000 on on the field. And I just think it's a 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.160 possible benefit for him in the long term because it's 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.560 taking him out of a situation where he's not getting 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.200 any positive feedback. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.760 Right And to quote Josh Lyman from one of our 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.840 favorite shows we play with Live Ammo around here, And 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.080 if that's the case, then maybe he just needs to 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:19.520 have a little bit of time to learn how to 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:20.520 protect himself better. 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.600 I think so, and I mean, listen again, I would 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.880 be stunned if this is the last we ever see 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.720 of Bryce Shong as starting quarterback in the NFL. Too 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.800 many other guys who've done a whole lot less get 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:36.359 more chances. We've seen redemption arcs from guys like Matt Stafford, 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:40.319 from guys like Jared Goff, from guys like Baker Mayfield. 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:41.560 You know, Sam. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.480 Darnold's playing pretty well from Minnesota right now. Call me 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.320 again in Week eight and let's see if it's still 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.120 holding up. I mean, I like Sam as well as 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.400 any football player who's ever walked through the door. But 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:56.120 Sam's had sustainability problems throughout his career. But it looks 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.040 good right now. So I mean, Bryce is inevitably going 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:03.640 to get another chance, But for the moment, Dave Canal 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.240 has kept saying the best chance they've got is Andy Dalton. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:10.080 And I mean, just listening to Andy this week, if 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.640 there is a if there is a way to project 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:18.000 calm and to project normal, Andy's doing it. I mean, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.719 he is obviously excited to get another chance. But if 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.920 you just listen to him talk about getting this opportunity, 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.920 even though he's excited about his chance to play, hearing 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.240 him describe it sounds just about as anadyne as possible. 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:37.000 You know, I'm really excited for this opportunity. You know, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.040 when I came here, I wasn't sure if I was 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.360 going to get another opportunity to start again, and so 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.720 I'm I'm really looking forward to it. I'm excited about 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.840 what's what's ahead. And you know, it's a it's a 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.720 tough situation. I've been on both sides of it and 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.360 it's not hard. I mean, it's hard on everybody, so 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:00.760 but for me, I'm I mean, I'm looking. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.000 Forward to it. And you know, sometimes that's just what 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.720 you need when you need to settle down your whole team. 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.640 You need, for lack of a better word, and adult 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.959 in the room. And that's what Andy Dalton brings. At 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.920 thirty six years old, he's seen a lot of football. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.360 Walking into that Raider stadium and facing Max Crosby is 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:22.160 not going to make him blink one bit. I mean, 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:23.800 this is a guy that's three to oh and his 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.760 starts against the Raiders and his last time facing Max Crosby, 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.599 Crosby had twenty nine pass rush snaps got and registered 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.120 zero pressures on one Andy Dalton. A lot of that 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.520 probably has to do his offensive line too, but he 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.800 went I think like twenty for twenty seven against him 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.800 in those pass rush snaps. So somebody who's not going 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.600 to be faced by someone like Crosby, someone who who 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.280 can project confidence in the huddle. And not to say 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.400 that Bryce hasn't done that, but like we said, Andy 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.200 thirty six years old, he's been playing in the NFL 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.599 since twenty eleven. That carries with it an intrists in 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:01.880 trust and respect. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:06.120 Yeah, and he does. He has a calming effect. And 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.760 one of the things as I look over the scope 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.000 of this franchise's history, Andy Dalton's got a lot in 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.959 common with cats like Jake Delom and cats like Steve 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.280 Berlin who came in here in their thirties and played 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:22.559 some pretty good football at times, and especially Steve back 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.960 in the early years. Steve walked into some weird situations 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.640 in ninety six. You know, he had to step in 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.520 when Carrie was hurt for a little bit, He had 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.920 to step in when Carrie stepped away from the team. 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.560 At a different point, he had to play for a 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.240 coach and George Seaffert who did not want him and 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.880 played pretty well at times. I mean, there are a 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.720 lot of Steve Berline highlights that people remember very fondly, 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.840 and Andy's got that same kind of quality that regular. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.360 That normal, let's do normal football things. 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.600 And if you think about what Dave Canalis has been 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:59.079 talking about since he walked in the door, it's it's 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.040 always amused me that when you get pigeonholed as oh 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:06.120 he's an offensive guy, people expect sixty passes game. Mike 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.040 Martz Greatest Show on turf kind of stuff. What Dave 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.560 Canalis has been promising is a very traditional, hey, let's 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.360 run the ball, let's be physical upfront, let's dictate the 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.000 pace that way, and when we take our shots, take 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.640 them downfield. I mean, if you didn't know better, you 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.040 would think that was Dan Henning talking. And Dan Henning 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:29.200 is eighty three years old, not Dave Canalis. So I 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.520 just think that because of what Dave wants to do offensively, 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.000 Andy might be the antidote for the entire team right now, 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.040 just because he can settle things down, he can lower 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.160 the temperature on this thing and get them back. 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:43.360 On a more normal footing. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.480 I think getting under center, turn around handed to Cuba 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.520 and Miles Sanders twenty five thirty times, and hitting some 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:55.200 play action shots downfield might be the difference this team 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:55.960 needs right now. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.920 Speaking of the play action shots, Dountfield something that Andy 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.840 has done well his time. I mean, this is also 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:03.960 a guy that played with Aj Green. You know, he's 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.600 he knows how to take advantage of a downfield receiver. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.200 It almost makes me wonder if we'll see I don't 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.400 want to use the word exotic, but maybe just a 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:22.280 little bit more swirliness to the offense. But it's actually 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.400 a real word from one of my favorite podcasts. But 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.760 I say it's a real word. Shakespeare made up wards 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.360 all the time. Don't lay off anyways. 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.120 Effectively, all words are made up. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:33.960 All words are made up. They're all just a collection 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.240 of twenty six letters. Anyways, it makes me wonder if 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:43.120 you'll see a little more swirliness, just because Andy's experience 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:48.199 allows him to maybe diagnose some of these defenses a 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.640 little quicker, and you know, and maybe instead of spread out, 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.280 we'll see a little more stacked formations, a little more 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.880 bunch formations, just something to kind of throw the Raiders 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.920 off a little bit, because you know, you've got somebody 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.880 that's been back there for fourteen seasons now and can 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.800 kind of recognize us some disguises in the defense. 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.160 And the recognition is another piece of this. And I 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.520 want Matt to play another Andy Dalton clip. I mean, 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:18.720 he talked about very specifically the benefit of being fourteen 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.840 years in the league because it's going to. 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.200 Be hard to surprise him. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.680 I mean, there are things that the Raiders can do, 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.280 obviously to create problems, but I doubt they're going to 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:28.880 show him anything he's never seen before. 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:33.160 Yeah, I mean, I just think I've seen a ton 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.320 of defensive schemes. I've seen a ton of different ways 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:43.200 that teams have played, and so there's times where you 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.200 see something you're like, oh, I remember that from my 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.480 time in since here. I remember that, Oh Baltimore did this, 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.280 and it may be is something similar to what another 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.280 team does. So I mean I think there's things like 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:59.480 that just on pulled from my experience. But I think 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:04.000 just the way you process things now versus being early 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:05.720 on in my career, and he can process things a 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.560 lot faster and focus on other things because you're not 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.800 worried about some of the small details of it all. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.280 So yeah, when you refer, oh, yeah I did that 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.040 in since he Yeah, Baltimore did that one time. I 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:20.120 mean that's just the benefit he brings that recognition, and again, 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.280 I think it opens some things up. The other thing 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.600 and you missed this delightful game but out in Seattle 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.480 last year. And he's also got some yellow to him. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.600 He has he has been willing to go up over 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.080 the top. He's still i mean, for his career, he's 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:40.000 still got a more than a hu hundred more touchdowns 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.360 than he does interception. So he's been pretty careful with 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.920 the ball, but he'll take shots now. Last year in Seattle, 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.920 he also threw it fifty eight times, which is probably 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.200 more than you want to throw in any particular game. 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.240 But he also hit eight passes of fifteen yards or 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.880 more downfield, so including some big ones. I mean he 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.520 hit the bomb to DJ Chark goes about forty seven. 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.520 I think think Uh for a touchdown. I mean he's 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.280 got that in him. He's always had a good deep arm, 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.160 and I think that's going to be music to the 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.720 ears of cats like Mingo Le you get Uh and 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.320 Deonta and Adam. I mean they're not straight downfield runners, 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.240 but leg It is a go get it kind of receiver, 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.240 and so having somebody like that to offer it up to. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.080 Him downfield can only help this offense. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:29.120 So you were almost you were almost down to the number. 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.680 He has one hundred and two more touchdowns than interceptions. Yeah, 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:35.120 it's impressive. 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.560 Yeah, when big numbers it's like two forty something something. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.040 Yeah, wow, that's one hundred. 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.200 I don't know, do you know where my keys are? 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.040 Did I lock my home when I live this morning? 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.320 But you know how many more touchdowns Andy Delta. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.640 Yeah, my brain is a weird and scary place, so. 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.720 Anyway, it is going to be fascinating to see how 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:56.640 that comes together. 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.880 That Seattle game too, a game that I do regret 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.520 having not been at. I've never been to Seattle. I 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.040 want to go. I feel like I need to go 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.000 to the original Starbucks to complete my white girl pilgrimage, 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.760 and so that needs to happen one day. I've always 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.720 wanted to see a game there too, just to see that. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.560 As you'll be surprised by this, I walked into Starbucks 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:21.040 one yeah, one trip to Seattle, and I ordered a 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:26.760 medium coffee black. I refuse to say the silly Starbucks words. 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:28.359 When tall means small. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.560 I am not playing your reindeer games. Okay, give me 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.720 coffee in a medium sized cup. No, I do not 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.919 want space for other stuff in it. I want more caffeine. 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:39.920 That's why I drink the coffee. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.159 Have you ever seen You've Got Mail? Ah? Yes, it 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.800 has a whole die tribe about people that are trying 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.800 to order too much at Starbucks when really it should 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:52.640 just be tall DCAF cappuccino. But even that's the word. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.680 That's one of the starbucksers point being in that Seattle 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.679 game as well. One of the storylines that I think 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.000 came out of it was Dalton's connection with Adam Thelen. 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.720 I want to say they connected eleven times for about 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.359 one hundred and thirty five yards in a touchdown something 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:14.720 like that. That's something that I think is a lot 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.000 to do with the fact that these are two veteran 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.959 guys that no defenses, that know what they're facing, and 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.199 that let me go back to the Monday Night football 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:28.320 game this week when Kirk Cousins ran that flawless two 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.200 minute drill. Something that Peyton Manning said on the Manning 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.640 Cast was when you're someone that has seen enough football 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:39.000 like Kirk Cousins, sometimes moments like these are the easiest 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:43.480 because you're not trying to necessarily get back into the playbook. 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:45.800 You just you're doing what you know to do as 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.600 a football player. And part of me wonders if that's 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.919 what came out of the Dalton to feeling connection and 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.879 if that's something that could show itself again on Saturday. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:57.960 You know, when you're trying to settle things down like 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.679 Dave Canalis and you're trying to just okay, let's just 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.480 take what they give us, and let's run the ball, 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:04.679 and let's see what we've got and move down the field. 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.320 You've now got two guys in Dalton and Thiland who 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.000 just who know what it means to play football, If 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:15.159 that makes sense, yep, and with aren't trying to overthink it, 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:19.119 and so I can't help but imagine that's a connection 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.680 we're going to see get taken advantage of again on Sunday. 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.160 Yep, we will see. It's going to be fascinating. We've 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.199 spent all this time talking about offense, which is what 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.639 happens when teams change quarterbacks in Week three. And I 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.040 am going to tell you one thing for sure, it's 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.600 too soon to start talking about the long term, what 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.560 this means for Bryce, what it means for the team, 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.160 what it means for the anything. And I will tell 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.080 you if you try to send me draft questions to 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.960 the mail bag, you will be ignored. I am issuing 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.680 right now, a draft moratorium until Halloween, no draft questions 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:56.440 until November. I will not participate. So if what you're 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:58.720 dying to know about is what I think of Shadar 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.360 Sanders and Carson, is that his name? 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:02.800 The one at Georgia. 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:07.440 Yeah, okay, and then there's Quinn somebody at Texas. Yeah yeah, 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:10.639 there you go. I know the college football names apparently, 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:13.480 and there are many more. But I ain't talking about 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:16.280 him in the mail bagg It's too soon for that. 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:18.560 There is another side of the ball to worry about 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.919 this week. I don't think run defense is going to 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:25.600 be the same concern it was last week against the Chargers. Obviously, 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:27.960