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Speaker 1: Kristen Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Brian. It's that time
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Speaker 1: the table with me and Will. Is Once again in
Speaker 1: the booth of shame. Hello, Well, it's hard to see
Speaker 1: you all the way over there. Yeah, I had a
Speaker 1: mask issue this morning, so I deserve this one. Mask on,
Speaker 1: mask on, mask on. I lost my masks and I
Speaker 1: couldn't find them, so I was late. But we just
Speaker 1: want to clarify for everyone worrying. You now have masks
Speaker 1: and you are here being safe. Right. I found my mask,
Speaker 1: It just made me later, so I lost my opportunity
Speaker 1: to get out at the fun the fun adult table.
Speaker 1: I'm back of the kid. You know, it's funny. It's
Speaker 1: one of these things now where you have your your
Speaker 1: check before you leave your apartment or your home key's
Speaker 1: phone wallet, you gotta add mask. I keep mind in
Speaker 1: the car, or keep mine several in the car, and
Speaker 1: I rotate them out when I need to wash. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I keep one in the car and I keep because
Speaker 1: I usually wear the thing that goes around your neck Christen,
Speaker 1: and we'll obviously know because they see me all the time.
Speaker 1: But I don't usually wear the one behind the ears
Speaker 1: because it starts hurting my ears. So I keep these
Speaker 1: masks by my keys in my wallet in my apartment,
Speaker 1: so I have to look at them before I leave
Speaker 1: the apartment. So well, maybe that's what you should start doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Well guys, we could go on and on
Speaker 1: and give you premium mask content for the rest of
Speaker 1: this podcast, but hey, we had some football this weekend.
Speaker 1: Week one is officially in the books. As great as
Speaker 1: it is to get back to football. Of course, we
Speaker 1: wish the Panthers, you know, would have been able to
Speaker 1: come away with the win. It was a close game,
Speaker 1: came down to the wire, but the Panthers ultimately lost
Speaker 1: to the Raiders thirty four to thirty at home on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And let's get straight to this week's edition of Overheard,
Speaker 1: He Overheard. I want to take a listen to what
Speaker 1: Matt Rule had to say about the game when he
Speaker 1: spoke on Monday. Obviously disappointed, uh at the result yesterday,
Speaker 1: but proud of the effort. I thought we had a
Speaker 1: lot of guys who fought scratch and claude to get
Speaker 1: us back in the game. You know, I think as
Speaker 1: a team, as we look at that game, you know,
Speaker 1: I think the stats are pretty much even across the board,
Speaker 1: So it really comes down to a play here and
Speaker 1: a play there, and not just that final fourth of
Speaker 1: one play, but a couple of different plays, and um,
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna work hard to correct those things.
Speaker 1: I thought we had some really strong performances by some
Speaker 1: unsung guys that kept us in the game, and we'll
Speaker 1: just continue to try to get better and look forward
Speaker 1: to going to Tampa this week and uh playing the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: But well, we'll never We'll never be okay with losing,
Speaker 1: but we will always uh, we will always find the
Speaker 1: positives and the negatives in the game from whether we
Speaker 1: win or lose. And I think there were a lot
Speaker 1: of positives we can build on and work working hard
Speaker 1: right now in meetings to correct the negatives. I'm not
Speaker 1: in the business of making excuses for teams. I don't
Speaker 1: really like to do that, but I will say that
Speaker 1: the Panther I think, for all, with all the teams
Speaker 1: that have new head coaches, I thought the Panthers played
Speaker 1: very very well, right, And part of that, I think
Speaker 1: is because they had a head coach who had been
Speaker 1: a head coach before. Now. Obviously, I think when we
Speaker 1: mentioned these things, we got to mention Ron Rivera up
Speaker 1: in Washington and the fact that they want and shout
Speaker 1: out to him, and I know a lot of you
Speaker 1: guys who were listening to this care about him um
Speaker 1: and obviously we wish him to the best on on
Speaker 1: everything that's going on with his health. But Matt Rule,
Speaker 1: I think had a really good plan because he's been
Speaker 1: a head coach before, so he knew what it takes,
Speaker 1: I think, to set up a game plan and to
Speaker 1: set up guys to be competitive, because, like did Mike
Speaker 1: Tyson say it, everybody's got a plan to win until
Speaker 1: they get punched in the mouth. And I think that
Speaker 1: what the Panthers did very well is they were able
Speaker 1: to not just take the punch, but they were punching
Speaker 1: back right. And the really where this game turned and
Speaker 1: where the difference was was in the third quarter because
Speaker 1: it started off with the penalty on the off returned.
Speaker 1: Then the Panthers go three and out, Then there were
Speaker 1: more penalties on the punt and the Raiders go down,
Speaker 1: they get a field goal, Panthers go three and out again,
Speaker 1: and then the Raiders go down there and they score touchdown.
Speaker 1: But Christian McCaffrey said it on Monday too, the Panthers
Speaker 1: fought back, and so when you look at it that way, no,
Speaker 1: the Panthers were not able to hold the lead, but
Speaker 1: I think that you can't say that they weren't ready.
Speaker 1: So from that perspective, I think that there is there are,
Speaker 1: i should say, some good positives to build upon. I
Speaker 1: think that, you know, speaking with that, what Matt Rule
Speaker 1: kept telling everybody was be prepared for the things you
Speaker 1: can't prepare for, which, let's let's be real, in the
Speaker 1: first half, they couldn't hear what the play call was
Speaker 1: for what ten eleven plays because there's communication issues. They
Speaker 1: were working through defense on defense, so the guys were
Speaker 1: out there trying to figure out what to do. Coaches
Speaker 1: were calling plays that didn't get in so they were
Speaker 1: having to respond to that. One of those penalties happened
Speaker 1: because the gunner ended up a step out of bounds,
Speaker 1: got caught up in a TV chord he couldn't get
Speaker 1: back in, which then like caught Matt Rule's son as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you can't predict that, you know, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden that becomes a penalty because he
Speaker 1: stayed out of bounds too long because he got his
Speaker 1: foot stuck in a chord, and then you know, that
Speaker 1: gives the Raiders even better field position. I mean Obviously,
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs had a lot of big runs, and you
Speaker 1: knew some of that stuff was coming. You know, give
Speaker 1: credit to the Raiders for for playing really well, but
Speaker 1: you know, I think that the fact that this team
Speaker 1: had a fourth and one to go down and potentially
Speaker 1: take the lead with two minutes to go after all
Speaker 1: of those things happened, and and and even then, there
Speaker 1: were still no penalties in the first half. They didn't
Speaker 1: throw an interception, they didn't lose a fumble, all of
Speaker 1: these things that you're just expecting this team that, you know,
Speaker 1: then you lose Dante Jackson and you have a guy
Speaker 1: that you just signed on Wednesday come in and play
Speaker 1: the majority of the game and have two pass deflections
Speaker 1: on big plays. You know. I mean, I think all
Speaker 1: that speaks to their preparation for what they couldn't prepare
Speaker 1: for um and I you know, hopefully that continues as
Speaker 1: we move forward. I completely agree. I think we're I
Speaker 1: like to talk about media narratives, you know, we like
Speaker 1: to talk about this on the podcast, and I know
Speaker 1: that I went into this game thinking that every team
Speaker 1: in the NFL was going to need an adjustment period.
Speaker 1: We saw a little bit of that in college on Saturday,
Speaker 1: where you go, Okay, well, they've had less time, no
Speaker 1: preseason games, are not playing against any competition other than
Speaker 1: their own teammates, uh, truncated offseason. And this is a
Speaker 1: as Miles, as you said, a team with a new
Speaker 1: head coach, new coordinators, new quarterback. It's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: take a minute. And they came out, so crisp, I thought,
Speaker 1: and Will Will you said it about no penalties in
Speaker 1: the first half, and of course there were penalties in
Speaker 1: the second half. But they came out very very crisp
Speaker 1: and Miles, I think you put it well when you
Speaker 1: said he's been a head coach before, he knows how
Speaker 1: to prepare. But I think that's easier said than done.
Speaker 1: Look at all of the things that were thrown at
Speaker 1: every team this offseason. I was just very impressed by
Speaker 1: the way they came out. Yeah. Look, I think when
Speaker 1: you score thirty most of the time in the NFL,
Speaker 1: you should win. And the fact that they didn't, well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little bit tough, I think for
Speaker 1: this team defensively sometimes, and it certainly isn't made easier
Speaker 1: by the fact that Dante Jackson went out but at
Speaker 1: the same time, I don't know that the Raiders attacked
Speaker 1: the Panthers cornerbacks like they're going to be attacked this
Speaker 1: week when you look at Tom Brady and that wide
Speaker 1: receiving corps. So we'll see if Dante Jackson comes back.
Speaker 1: As we record this, the Panthers had not started their
Speaker 1: practice week yet. But that's something that, yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a little bit concerning because look, Troy Pride is
Speaker 1: still a rookie. Douglas I think acquitted himself very well,
Speaker 1: but again, I don't know that the Raiders really tested
Speaker 1: him all that much, but just the fact that they
Speaker 1: came out, they were competitive, it was good. But I
Speaker 1: think one of the things that last year happened with
Speaker 1: these Carolina Panthers as they gave up an astronomical amount
Speaker 1: of rushing touchdowns, that trend is still continued into this year.
Speaker 1: At least so far. Josh Jacobs had three, and Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs I think is one of the elite backs in
Speaker 1: the league. But that's something that the Panthers are definitely
Speaker 1: going to have to correct. So, yes, there are positives,
Speaker 1: but I think when you look at the fact that
Speaker 1: the defense couldn't hold the lead in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: after they got it and the offense though it's scored
Speaker 1: on all of its possessions in the first half, and
Speaker 1: then did a good job to erase that deficit and
Speaker 1: come back and score fifteen straight in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: You can't stall out with two three and outs at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the third quarter. It's it's a really
Speaker 1: important time. I mean, people talk about this all the
Speaker 1: time in football. If you have one of the last
Speaker 1: possessions in the first half, you go down the field
Speaker 1: and score, and then you get the ball back in
Speaker 1: the second half and you can go down the field
Speaker 1: and score again. That's huge. And the Panthers weren't they
Speaker 1: They got one part of that, but they couldn't get
Speaker 1: the second part of that. So how do you improve?
Speaker 1: You know, you look at the positives. Yes there are some,
Speaker 1: but there are definitely some easy things that you can
Speaker 1: look at and say, are that's where they need to
Speaker 1: get better? Absolutely, I feel like my rule has been
Speaker 1: very forthright about that those things already and we'll see,
Speaker 1: um how they put those into practice in practice this
Speaker 1: week and ultimately what it looks like when they go
Speaker 1: up against Tommy Brady and Tampa Bay on Sunday. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about one thing that may be either
Speaker 1: surprised or impressed you um about the game or the
Speaker 1: atmosphere because we were there in the stadium when there
Speaker 1: were no fans. So just a takeaway that maybe you
Speaker 1: didn't expect. I'm gonna go for mine with one that
Speaker 1: maybe surprised me but really impressed me. And you mentioned
Speaker 1: Dante Jackson going out very early in the game. He
Speaker 1: was questionable to return all game with the right ankle,
Speaker 1: and but he didn't leave the field, so he didn't
Speaker 1: have his helmet, but he was on the field the
Speaker 1: entire game and he was you could tell he was
Speaker 1: trying to get back in the game, and ultimately I
Speaker 1: guess the call was made that it just wasn't, you know,
Speaker 1: the right thing to do. He went over. I swear
Speaker 1: to six or seven different players talk to them, I
Speaker 1: mean encourage them, and not just defensive guys. I stopped
Speaker 1: talking to Joey Slide for a long time. You know,
Speaker 1: he's patent guys on the shoulder. I mean he was
Speaker 1: really a force on that sideline. And I was so
Speaker 1: impressed by that. When Nelson Aguilar got the best of
Speaker 1: Troy Pride. He spent the rest of the first half
Speaker 1: with Troy Bride talking to him, coaching him up, you know,
Speaker 1: giving him multiple paths on the shoulder. I just I
Speaker 1: imagine that's got to be really, really hard your first
Speaker 1: game back, a lot, you know, riding on your shoulders,
Speaker 1: a lot of big expectations. You could see how much
Speaker 1: he wanted to go back in the game, but he
Speaker 1: was out there doing his part on the sidelines even
Speaker 1: though he couldn't, you know, be out on the field,
Speaker 1: which I just I absolutely loved. That is awesome. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you have a guy who goes out for an injury,
Speaker 1: that's exactly the kind of leadership that you want. And
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we talked about captains and guys
Speaker 1: who are the leaders of the team. I think I
Speaker 1: don't remember who said that. I think it was Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: Last week too, we talked about the fact that are captains,
Speaker 1: but there are leaders also at every position. And I
Speaker 1: think when you talk about what you're just talking about, Kristen,
Speaker 1: that shows the leadership that can come from anybody does
Speaker 1: not just have to be a captain. Well, what was
Speaker 1: something that either surprised or impressed you. I think the
Speaker 1: offensive line really impressed me because you know, coming in
Speaker 1: there are some question marks you had, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you had an injury, you had Schofield having to to
Speaker 1: hop in there. Um you know for for for Dynis
Speaker 1: daily kind of late in the week. And then really
Speaker 1: they only gave up one sack and Teddy Bridgewater has
Speaker 1: already said that that sack was pretty much on him. Um,
Speaker 1: you know that he should have gotten the ball you know,
Speaker 1: out sooner. Um that you know, it really wasn't It
Speaker 1: wasn't a coverage sack. It wasn't a line sack. You
Speaker 1: know that that was just him not not making the
Speaker 1: right read and making the right place. So I think
Speaker 1: that you know, that offensive line was able to get
Speaker 1: you know, get the Panthers over a hundred yards rushing. Um.
Speaker 1: I really felt like there were some question marks there,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that they answered all of them,
Speaker 1: but I think there's a lot of worry upfront for
Speaker 1: how they were all gonna look with all of these
Speaker 1: new faces. And I think against a pretty good Raiders
Speaker 1: defensive line and a pretty good Raiders pass rush, they
Speaker 1: they held their own. You don't think so well Okay,
Speaker 1: it's it's less about the Panthers and more about the Raiders,
Speaker 1: because I gotta tell you, man, having watched that team
Speaker 1: last year, their pass rush is better and they have
Speaker 1: some guys who can do some things right. Cleland Furrel,
Speaker 1: though was a disappointment as a first round pick last year.
Speaker 1: Max Crosby had showed some flashes last year and getting
Speaker 1: over ten sacks, and they added Carl Nasse and they've
Speaker 1: added Lee Collins on the defensive line. But I think
Speaker 1: if there were an ideal front that you want to
Speaker 1: start against, it might have been the Raiders because they
Speaker 1: just have not necessarily been that good at pass rushing
Speaker 1: since they got rid of um, gosh, the guy who
Speaker 1: went to the Bears, Cleil mac. Wow, that was a
Speaker 1: little bit of a brain fart right there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think as things continue, the Panthers will continue
Speaker 1: to get tested and we'll see if Dennis Daily is
Speaker 1: able to come back or not. But yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to take anything away from what the Panthers did,
Speaker 1: because yes, they were able to keep Teddy Bridgewater clean
Speaker 1: for the most part, and then the Raiders really didn't
Speaker 1: have um many quarterback hits and at all either. So, look,
Speaker 1: it was a good performance, but I think that I
Speaker 1: don't know if I really want to judge them too
Speaker 1: well on what they did against the Raiders, right, I
Speaker 1: think it's obviously still early. But I also think that
Speaker 1: you know, everyone was kind of looking, you know, own,
Speaker 1: you know, what's gonna happen with this defense? What's gonna
Speaker 1: happen with this defense? But there are a lot of
Speaker 1: people that were you know, what's going on with this
Speaker 1: offensive line that we haven't seen against a full you know,
Speaker 1: you know we're full speed. You know everyone's getting hit,
Speaker 1: you know they're going after the quarterback now, and who
Speaker 1: knows how these guys are all going to do together.
Speaker 1: So I mean, yes, I I agree that there's still
Speaker 1: there's still a lot more tests to come. UM, but
Speaker 1: I think, not having seen any of these guys, I
Speaker 1: think that they did enough all right. I would say
Speaker 1: that my thing that I was surprised by or impressed by. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, you mentioned the cornerbacks, um, Chris, and I'd say,
Speaker 1: we're soul Douglass man like that performance was was hard
Speaker 1: for somebody who walked in the building on Wednesday really
Speaker 1: for the first time. UM. And then for him to
Speaker 1: get thrust into duty, I think one thing that they
Speaker 1: might have prepared him for was just the fact that
Speaker 1: he was going to play. Matt Rules said that the
Speaker 1: plan was to rotate him in with Troy Pride, and
Speaker 1: so that probably helped at least mentally. But I think
Speaker 1: when you get thrust in there after an injury, a
Speaker 1: lot of times teams are going to attack you and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. And he's he quitted himself very
Speaker 1: very well. I mean there was a play that he
Speaker 1: wasn't the closest in coverage for on Darren Waller, and
Speaker 1: Waller made the catch, but it wasn't for a lack
Speaker 1: of trying by Russell Douglas. I mean that guy, he
Speaker 1: came in there and really made that tackle and Waller
Speaker 1: did a really nice job to just hold onto it.
Speaker 1: Most guys wouldn't have done that. So I think if
Speaker 1: you're looking for a real positive on defense, he's one
Speaker 1: of them. And then Eric brown Man. There have been
Speaker 1: some clips floating around on Twitter and I hope you
Speaker 1: guys have seen them, and if you want to rewatch
Speaker 1: the game on NFL game Pass, I encourage you to
Speaker 1: do it, But you look at what he does with
Speaker 1: his hands, just the explosion he's blowing Gabe Jackson off
Speaker 1: the ball in the right guard of the of the
Speaker 1: Oakland Goodness, Las Vegas Raiders. I can't believe I did that.
Speaker 1: That's okay, it's just it's new somebody that Teddy called
Speaker 1: them Oakland post game like more than once, which was
Speaker 1: kind of funny. Anyway, Teddy under the bus to make
Speaker 1: yourself feel better, alright, definitely did. But Gabe Jackson is
Speaker 1: a really good right guard, a really good starting caliber
Speaker 1: right guard in this league. And for Derek Brown in
Speaker 1: his first game action to blow him off the ball
Speaker 1: in multiple spots like he was, that's exactly what I
Speaker 1: think you want to see from a guy you draft
Speaker 1: number seven overall. So that was also an encouraging thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw him get double teamed one time and he
Speaker 1: started to drive both of them back and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is all grown man. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta take the positive with the negative.
Speaker 1: And he's a rookie and they're one of those touchdown
Speaker 1: plays where uh, Rodney Hudson the greater center and left
Speaker 1: guard Ridgie Incognito, I mean they kind of blewed there
Speaker 1: Brown off the ball, but that they'll do that to
Speaker 1: anybody because that's the kind of a caliber offensive line
Speaker 1: they are. So Matt Rules said this too. You know,
Speaker 1: when you have a rookie, you gotta take the good
Speaker 1: with the bad. There were some great plays by Derek Brown,
Speaker 1: but there's of course stuff that he can improve onto.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, of course, I don't think anyone expects this
Speaker 1: team to come out and be perfect week one. Um.
Speaker 1: But the important thing is we saw a lot of
Speaker 1: positives and I'm looking forward to see how they adjust
Speaker 1: some of the things that they need to work on
Speaker 1: for next week. I do want to talk really quickly
Speaker 1: about where we all were and how we all watched
Speaker 1: the game, because of course this is the first time
Speaker 1: in Bank of America history that there were no fans there.
Speaker 1: We all were in different positions than we would normally be. UM.
Speaker 1: So Miles and Will you guys were together, right, Well,
Speaker 1: how did that go? Yeah? So we were up in
Speaker 1: a suite kind of near the press box. So the
Speaker 1: press box usually holds fifty people in it maybe, and
Speaker 1: I think he was down to um because of all
Speaker 1: the spacing that they had to put out. UM, for
Speaker 1: you know, just for a much more limited number of
Speaker 1: media that we're in there, so we weren't able to
Speaker 1: be in the press box where we usually would be. UM.
Speaker 1: So there was a you know, since obviously there weren't
Speaker 1: anyone in any of the sweets. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: number of sweets that are open, so kind of right
Speaker 1: down the hallway, uh, in the windows, and yeah, you
Speaker 1: know we uh but I mean you think about it,
Speaker 1: you think, oh, you know, you're in a seat. Well
Speaker 1: there's there's not like there was food service, so there's
Speaker 1: no food. So I brought snacks for everybody. I I
Speaker 1: brought Miles some some some jerky over there, which I
Speaker 1: think he enjoyed, right, Miles, I did. It was very nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I brought I brought a lot. I brought some goldfish
Speaker 1: for Amy. UM. But then there weren't there was there
Speaker 1: weren't power outlets. Okay, I'm sorry, guys, I was. The
Speaker 1: sun was beating down on me for three and a
Speaker 1: half hours out on Row one, UM, and then I
Speaker 1: had to run in and do a show. I had
Speaker 1: a pre game out there for an hour and a
Speaker 1: half on the radio, ran in and did a digital
Speaker 1: show in the studio. Ran back up. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: rationing my water out there, and Will is talking about
Speaker 1: no outlets in the suite. Yeah, Kristen, power outlet on,
Speaker 1: come on. We had we had to like run a
Speaker 1: power cord to the back of the suite and then
Speaker 1: we had to make sure we didn't trip over it.
Speaker 1: What is this castaway? You know, I didn't realize how
Speaker 1: hot it was because in the suite it was actually
Speaker 1: very nice. It was. It wasn't that windows were open
Speaker 1: and everything, And I like the fact that the windows
Speaker 1: were open because you know, in closed spaces is how
Speaker 1: the virus spreads and went up. So I when John Gruden,
Speaker 1: I heard him talking about the you know how he
Speaker 1: didn't have his mask on his face properly, and really
Speaker 1: coaches across the league just did not do this mask
Speaker 1: thing properly, and so then they've got reportedly the sternly
Speaker 1: worded memo from the league. So it was really that
Speaker 1: hot down on the field, wasn't because like Gruden was
Speaker 1: talking about, it was hot. That's why I had my
Speaker 1: mask down at rule said, he's got to do a
Speaker 1: better job of keeping it on his face. What how
Speaker 1: hot was it, Christen? It was hot? It was really
Speaker 1: really hot, and then you're wearing your mask at the
Speaker 1: same time, which just is kind of trapping the moisture.
Speaker 1: And but look, no complaints at all. I was just
Speaker 1: teasing you guys. It was warm. It was it was bright.
Speaker 1: Any of the Panthers fans who have been to a
Speaker 1: game and said on the home side, no, um that
Speaker 1: it's you're kind of right in the sun. But I
Speaker 1: had a great view. I was on row one in
Speaker 1: the operational zone. I could kind of move around within
Speaker 1: reason and uh, you know, really follow the game back
Speaker 1: and forth up the field. So uh, yeah, it was
Speaker 1: it was warm, but it was okay. No complaints at all,
Speaker 1: considering I was one of the very few people that
Speaker 1: got to be down there and see the game up
Speaker 1: close and personal. How different was it than really being
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. I think there were actually some positive
Speaker 1: So it's no surprise anyone. I'm very short, and sometimes
Speaker 1: when you're on the sidelines and everyone's kind of standing
Speaker 1: in front of you, it's your view is not always
Speaker 1: um And so being on this row one and being
Speaker 1: able to move around at an incredible view all the time,
Speaker 1: now you couldn't hear a lot because the fans were
Speaker 1: going and the misters and all of that. So there's
Speaker 1: definitely I'm sorry, yes, not the fans. The only fans
Speaker 1: that were allowed in the stadium for this game were
Speaker 1: the ones that keep guys cool. But no, it was different.
Speaker 1: It had its positives and it had its negatives. As
Speaker 1: many things do, as as many as many things do.
Speaker 1: It's fair. All right, We're gonna get will Sta out
Speaker 1: of the week in just a second, but first let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkis
Speaker 1: told me. Mr Jenkis told me to always make it
Speaker 1: easy for the customer. That's you alive person will always
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Speaker 1: the debut of your stat of the week here on
Speaker 1: this podcast. I mean your panther stats guy, is it
Speaker 1: stats stats suck guy? Stat guy, which one I can't
Speaker 1: remember hat Sky. There's one S missing because Twitter didn't
Speaker 1: give me enough characters to have more s. I knew
Speaker 1: there was an S somewhere, alright, what's the stat of
Speaker 1: the week? The week? So my stat of the week
Speaker 1: this week. Carolina is obviously going on the road in
Speaker 1: Week two, and every team in the NFL is actually
Speaker 1: doing that. They're flipping home and road for Week one
Speaker 1: and week two. No team is doing two straight home
Speaker 1: games or two straight road games. That's the first time
Speaker 1: that's ever happened to open a season in NFL history.
Speaker 1: And there's a reason behind that. Yes, it was because
Speaker 1: of the virus. I mean when they when they announced
Speaker 1: the schedule back in May, they really said that that
Speaker 1: was one of the precautions that they were taking. Um
Speaker 1: is was that you have one home game and one
Speaker 1: road game just in case things happen. And I think
Speaker 1: that there are gonna be some benefits to that, um
Speaker 1: just simply from the fact that you know, you'll know
Speaker 1: more about what the procedures are that you have to
Speaker 1: have for the rest of the season. UM going Week
Speaker 1: one to Week two, if you were at home and
Speaker 1: then you have to go on the road, or if
Speaker 1: you were on the road and now you finally get
Speaker 1: a home game, and I think it's likely that we
Speaker 1: might see some adjustments and protocols. Maybe that's crowd noise,
Speaker 1: maybe it's other types of protocols, but they are testing
Speaker 1: it out, they're seeing how everything goes once every team
Speaker 1: has a home game and a road game for that matter,
Speaker 1: and we might see some some changes after a week two.
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, they've got to make sure
Speaker 1: that it's fair for everybody, no matter what it is,
Speaker 1: and so you know, we could see maybe that crowd
Speaker 1: noise change, crowd noise change, who knows. Uh. It's interesting
Speaker 1: I think watching the games on television because when you
Speaker 1: just watch them, it's almost like there's not a pandemic
Speaker 1: going on and there's nothing that's really too weird about
Speaker 1: the television viewing experience. But I think there are sometimes
Speaker 1: when you just notice that there are no fans in
Speaker 1: the building. Right. I watched the Bucks and Saints game
Speaker 1: just to sort of get ready for this week, and
Speaker 1: especially when you're talking about the Superdome, the fans have
Speaker 1: an incredible effect on the way that that game atmosphere
Speaker 1: usually is. And I saw some quotes coming out of
Speaker 1: New Orleans that the dome is not the same basically
Speaker 1: when you don't have fans in the building, and I
Speaker 1: think that that's very true. Um, but just watching the
Speaker 1: games on television, I think it's really interesting to see
Speaker 1: how the there's not too much that's different other than
Speaker 1: some crowd reaction shot that you just don't get, but
Speaker 1: the television viewing experiences practically the same. Well, sometimes it's
Speaker 1: felt like the piped crowd noise is the wrong one,
Speaker 1: Like the road team makes a big play and then
Speaker 1: they accidentally put in like it's like someone's just over there, like,
Speaker 1: oh man, my bad hit the wrong one. That's the
Speaker 1: road team. That's the wrong sound for that. That's not
Speaker 1: how that usually sounds. Well. Also, there's a difference. Not
Speaker 1: to get too technical, I swear I will stop after this,
Speaker 1: but um, the crowd noise that's in the stadium is
Speaker 1: different than the one that's being broadcast on TV. I
Speaker 1: was watching the Steelers Giants game and I was like,
Speaker 1: what sounds way louder than our game? But then I
Speaker 1: remember that it is a different feed that's going through,
Speaker 1: so right, that's not actually what it sounds like in
Speaker 1: the stadium. But it's also weird because you know, the
Speaker 1: TV producer is picking up sound beds that are just
Speaker 1: the wrong sound for the opponents to be scoring a touchdown.
Speaker 1: We're all learning, We're all learning. Week one. Uh. This
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Speaker 1: take a look at Game two. Panthers are going on
Speaker 1: the road to Tampa Bay as it is called Now Bay.
Speaker 1: What I did there, Miles? I know we talked about
Speaker 1: things that the Panthers need to work on before week two,
Speaker 1: But what do you think is the key here to
Speaker 1: go up against Tommy Brady. Well, whenever you're facing Brady,
Speaker 1: it's all about can you generate a pass rush and
Speaker 1: can you get pressure? Um, I think anytime you're talking
Speaker 1: about those two Super Bowls at the Patriots lost and No.
Speaker 1: Seven and then in eleven to the Giants, the Giants
Speaker 1: were abled out well, and then also in seventeen I
Speaker 1: forgot with the Eagles, they all those teams could get
Speaker 1: pressure with four. Can the Panthers get pressure with four
Speaker 1: this week? Because look, they did not get any pass
Speaker 1: rush or any pressure on Derek Carr last week. Frankly,
Speaker 1: they had no quarterback hits, no sacks. Matt Rules said
Speaker 1: that the team said that that in watching their film,
Speaker 1: the team determined that they had five quarterback pressures, which
Speaker 1: I don't really know what that means, if I'm being
Speaker 1: completely honest, right what I I what we know and
Speaker 1: what our universal stats. Those are the quarterback hits and
Speaker 1: those are the sacks. And obviously there's more two pass
Speaker 1: rush than just that. But look, the Panthers have to
Speaker 1: do a better job of getting after the QB. That
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean more blitzing. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: it has to do with the fact that the Raiders
Speaker 1: were in so many third and manageable to third and
Speaker 1: short situations. So they converted six third downs, and a
Speaker 1: lot of those were third and five or fewer. And
Speaker 1: when you have that, that makes it so much easier
Speaker 1: for an offense. Third and one with that Raiders offense
Speaker 1: is almost automatic, cause you can hand the ball to
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs and he's gonna bowl over a defender. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just gonna fall forward basically and get you that yard.
Speaker 1: So from that, the Panthers have to do a better
Speaker 1: job in first and second down. Can you stop the
Speaker 1: run earlier in those early downs, gets yourself in those
Speaker 1: third and seven or longer situations so that your guys
Speaker 1: up front can pin their ears back and they can
Speaker 1: get going towards the quarterback. Because if you can't do that,
Speaker 1: then Tom Brady is probably gonna stand back there pat
Speaker 1: the ball all day and he's gonna find somebody with
Speaker 1: those multitude of skill players that he's got over there,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna carve you up. I think that where
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna talk about Tom Brady. Everyone's gonna talking about Godwin.
Speaker 1: You know, people talk about Gronk because he's Gronk. You know.
Speaker 1: I I'm worried about Ronald Jones and Leonard Fournette. You know,
Speaker 1: like those guys. Jones said seventy something yards last week.
Speaker 1: They're gonna start there and then if you if you
Speaker 1: can't stop them, they'll just stay there. You know, they're
Speaker 1: gonna keep going with that. Um you know, I'll be
Speaker 1: real curious to see where Mike Evans is this week.
Speaker 1: Evans was was injured or kind of banged up going
Speaker 1: into that Saints game and was completely shut down and
Speaker 1: had like one catch for twelve yards. Um, so we're
Speaker 1: talking about skill players. But you know, obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone has injuries, and it's not just Carolina. You know,
Speaker 1: there's there's guys that are banged up elsewhere. So we'll
Speaker 1: be tracking his his status throughout the week, and you know,
Speaker 1: if he's not fully healthy, that maybe is a little
Speaker 1: bit of ease on the outside in terms of of
Speaker 1: what you're covering. But again, it starts with you have
Speaker 1: to stop the run early. As Miles said, you have
Speaker 1: to get third and long situations, and then you have
Speaker 1: to get pressure with four. You know, you can't always
Speaker 1: be blitzing, but you know they also have they gotta
Speaker 1: find some blitz packages that are going to be confusing.
Speaker 1: You know, they've got to do it sometimes and they've
Speaker 1: got to make it work when they do it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny. I mean, well, you said twelve year it
Speaker 1: was two yards. It was a two yard touchdown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. It was in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 1: So it might have been basically around that, but you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of air yards and and catch whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it. But yeah, he was targeted Mike
Speaker 1: Evans four times in that game and only had that
Speaker 1: one catch. So Bruce Arians, head coach of the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers, said that they have to do a better
Speaker 1: job of targeting Mike Evans. And I think was also
Speaker 1: interesting is that Bruce Arians has blatantly called out Tom
Speaker 1: Brady for his play and said the top Brady has
Speaker 1: to play better. So there are a lot of interesting things.
Speaker 1: Look Tom Brady, there there are two things that are undefeated,
Speaker 1: and one of them as father time, all right, so
Speaker 1: there's only so much that Tom Brady is going to
Speaker 1: be able to do. But I think if you look
Speaker 1: at that game, he was still making solid downfield throws.
Speaker 1: There was one play where he was getting pressured up
Speaker 1: the middle and he starts turning away and he still
Speaker 1: throws a strike down the seam. And so he's still
Speaker 1: got the arm talent at least now early in the season,
Speaker 1: and I think he's going to be motivated as ever
Speaker 1: to come out and to show that he still has
Speaker 1: the goods, especially in their first home games. So this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a tough one I think for the Panthers. So, Kristen,
Speaker 1: you're you're going down there, right, I am. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about that first road trip. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we are going on um well, because so first of all,
Speaker 1: let me just say the plane that the media, the
Speaker 1: team media would normally travel on with the players and
Speaker 1: the coaching staff that that, of course, as you might imagine,
Speaker 1: has been paired down almost completely. So it's just very
Speaker 1: much essential personnel in order to keep everything as safe
Speaker 1: as possible. So we are going down on a little
Speaker 1: party bus, if you will. The radio crew, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a great time. Yes, our executive producer David Lincoln
Speaker 1: just walked in. He'll be there with me. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be having a good time cruising all the way down
Speaker 1: to Dampa Bay. Well, Kristen, one thing I will warn
Speaker 1: you about is as you roam around the moat on
Speaker 1: the outside, be careful of the cannon. I have heard
Speaker 1: about that, yeah, Canon that those cannons are like, they're scary. Man.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing that's nice about being in the
Speaker 1: press box down there in Tampa is that it's enclosed.
Speaker 1: I mean it's an outdoor stadium, and that's what happens
Speaker 1: most of the time in those kinds of places, but
Speaker 1: those things are allowed whenever they score. I don't I'm
Speaker 1: not sure which is worse. If it's there with their
Speaker 1: those cannons or in Minnesota where like they start they
Speaker 1: where if they score touch down, it's like four explosions
Speaker 1: in rapid succession, and then they play the loudest version
Speaker 1: of Princes Let's go crazy that you've never The first
Speaker 1: time I was there in sixteen, it was still a
Speaker 1: preseason game and it was the fourth preseason games, so
Speaker 1: you know how that goes, right, But they scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown and like those things start going on boom, and
Speaker 1: I ducked. I literally do because that there it's open, right,
Speaker 1: so you can hear really everything. And I think that
Speaker 1: US Banks Adame is one of the best game day
Speaker 1: atmospheres and everywhere. But if those things go off, you
Speaker 1: want to duck your head and then it's loud Let's
Speaker 1: go crazy, And I'm like, so be aware of the cannons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see if I come back here and we record
Speaker 1: this next Wednesday. If I'm just like what huh, like
Speaker 1: just lose my Hearing company acoustic expert. But I would
Speaker 1: imagine that having nobody in those stands make those things
Speaker 1: echo even more than they would if if the stands
Speaker 1: were full. So it's gonna be real out. Thanks guys
Speaker 1: for the support, looking forward to it, and now appreciate that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's wrap this up with the weird question
Speaker 1: of the week. So, in honor of the panthers first
Speaker 1: road game, Will let's start with you, what is your
Speaker 1: biggest pet? Peeve wild traveling? I think the people that
Speaker 1: take phone calls in very crowded planes and busses and
Speaker 1: you know, there's just there's just a time for like
Speaker 1: it's quiet. There's always it's always a long phone call
Speaker 1: to you know, it's like we're all quiet, like we
Speaker 1: can text now, let's you know, unless it's like an emergency,
Speaker 1: which like I certainly understand, but if it's just like
Speaker 1: a normal, like long conversation that we're just you know,
Speaker 1: you're sitting behind me in the plane, You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's just you know, it's like, come on, I don't
Speaker 1: like those people either. It's always it's always someone on
Speaker 1: a you know, a business trip. Back when we could
Speaker 1: travel and he's having you know, he or she or
Speaker 1: having the long, long conversation. You know, if you're sitting
Speaker 1: beside one of those people, and I had to do
Speaker 1: that traveling a lot, you know everything about their business
Speaker 1: by the time it's over. You know, it's never a
Speaker 1: five minute check in. When they're answering the phone too,
Speaker 1: it's a thirty minute conversation. Okay, my traveling pet, peeve,
Speaker 1: I'll go with a couple. I don't like when people
Speaker 1: can't just step out of the aisle after they put
Speaker 1: up their bag on a plane. Like I understand that
Speaker 1: not everybody travels as much as I do, and so
Speaker 1: they don't necessarily have the awareness, but man, it is
Speaker 1: it's so easy to put your bag in the overhead
Speaker 1: compartment and step out of the aisle so everybody else
Speaker 1: can get on the plane. It's not just about you, everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm like, he's staring at the world does not revolve
Speaker 1: around one person. And I wish that more people understood that.
Speaker 1: The other thing, and this happened to me one time.
Speaker 1: I was on a red eye flight from Los Angeles
Speaker 1: to Cleveland. I was going home to visit family, and
Speaker 1: this woman was sitting next to me and I had
Speaker 1: my noise canceling headphones on. They were amazing. I was
Speaker 1: ready I take my drama meme. I was ready to
Speaker 1: go to sleep, and she starts bothering me about like
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what it is that I was
Speaker 1: watching on my iPad? Like is that Netflix? How did
Speaker 1: you get that on there? Can I get that on
Speaker 1: this TV? What are you doing? Don't talk to me?
Speaker 1: Why are you talking to me? This is that doesn't
Speaker 1: sound that bad. I was trying to get some help
Speaker 1: for a long flight. You don't talk to people, absolutely, no, No,
Speaker 1: you don't talk to people, know which I mean. Look
Speaker 1: she was, she was being self star. She's like, look,
Speaker 1: I want to get this done so then I can
Speaker 1: leave you alone. No, did you help her? How did
Speaker 1: you respond? I don't remember what I said, but I
Speaker 1: was obviously not very happy, but it was it was
Speaker 1: a good thing that I'd taken my drama name, because
Speaker 1: otherwise probably would have freaked out. But I like, there
Speaker 1: was one point to where my eyes were closed and
Speaker 1: she like woke me up. Wasn't just it was not
Speaker 1: to just go to the bathroom, Like if you have
Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom, you got to go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom. I understand that. But if you're just trying
Speaker 1: to like get my attention for no good reason, absolutely
Speaker 1: not that. It's not something that we can stand. Alright, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: I like them, So mine is gonna be I mean, look,
Speaker 1: we can we can have the age old discussion about
Speaker 1: do you put your seat back? Do you not? That's
Speaker 1: of course everyone's pet peeve, and I feel like we've
Speaker 1: heard about it so many times, but as much as
Speaker 1: I fly, it definitely is a pet peeve of mine.
Speaker 1: Here's mine though, when you get on a plane with
Speaker 1: somebody and they've got the food, like the full greasy
Speaker 1: or like super potent smelling food, and you know it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a long flight. You know, if it's a
Speaker 1: quick flight, okay, but if we're talking four or five
Speaker 1: hours and you've already pulled out you know, Panda Express,
Speaker 1: it's just and the sauce is over here. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a real thing that you know, you
Speaker 1: get the food court food and and then it's just
Speaker 1: staying with you the entire flight and is a big no, no, yes, no,
Speaker 1: there's I feel like I've had all of that or
Speaker 1: like you know, the smell of old fries, Like if
Speaker 1: someone goes by a fast food place and they just
Speaker 1: kind of have their fries and they're just hanging out
Speaker 1: under the seat for a long time. That I've a
Speaker 1: lot of smells, a lot of smells on a plane,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, let's you know, like I get
Speaker 1: that you need to eat, but come on, I get that,
Speaker 1: I get that. I don't know, I feel like sometimes
Speaker 1: I've been that guy, but like not really intentionally as
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it. No, it's that's the thing. It's
Speaker 1: totally fair that you would want to eat a good
Speaker 1: meal before you go somewhere. It's just the residual smells
Speaker 1: of it. I'll tell you what. The best airport food
Speaker 1: that I have have had in a while when and
Speaker 1: this was last year because I was covering this team,
Speaker 1: but like at the Oakland Airport, they had a really
Speaker 1: good burrito place, so I would always stop there before
Speaker 1: getting onto the plane. And the great thing about the
Speaker 1: Oakland Airport too, is that there were not many people
Speaker 1: who would like need to go through the security line,
Speaker 1: so I had my t s a pre check. I
Speaker 1: waltzed right through there. I mean from getting out of
Speaker 1: the uber to getting my burrito to getting on a plane,
Speaker 1: it could take maybe twenty five minutes. Well, then here's
Speaker 1: the thing. You eat your burrito before you get on
Speaker 1: the plane, so that not everyone has to smell the
Speaker 1: burrito around you most of the time. I will that can.
Speaker 1: Britos and planes do not make well. Apparently they do
Speaker 1: for Miles. Look, if we ever, if we ever get
Speaker 1: to travel again, I will keep that in mind. We
Speaker 1: need to get far away from Miles the next time
Speaker 1: that we all get to travel. Yeah, guys, I feel
Speaker 1: like we could go on about this for two hours.
Speaker 1: We're starting a new podcast based exclusively on travel pet
Speaker 1: Pee's but yeah, it's gonna be It's gonna be weird
Speaker 1: when we actually get to travel again. We'll see if
Speaker 1: all these things get knocked off our list. All right, um,
Speaker 1: thank you everyone for listening to the Happy Half Hour
Speaker 1: podcast presented by Morris Jenkins. We'll see you next week.