Speaker 1: It's time for the Happy Half Hour with your friends
Speaker 1: Kristen Belboni and Will Brian, presented by Morris Jenkins. Welcome
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Speaker 1: or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. Well, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we're just doing this episode, no real reason we thought
Speaker 1: we'd do, and an off season update. You know, how
Speaker 1: is your holiday weekend? Pretty quiet? Right? Yeah? Very quiet?
Speaker 1: I was reading about the NFL rule changes, like That's
Speaker 1: what I've been doing for the past month. I'm really
Speaker 1: excited about this new onsete kick format and we're gonna
Speaker 1: spend thirty minutes talking about that today. We thought it'd
Speaker 1: be a good a good focus. Really, you know, not
Speaker 1: a lot going on in the Carolinas, not at all, certainly,
Speaker 1: not quarterback wise. But yes, as every Panthers fans certainly knows,
Speaker 1: certainly everyone who's listening to this podcast, is that the
Speaker 1: Panthers traded for Sam Donald on Monday, which was a
Speaker 1: company holiday which was fun. Where were you when you
Speaker 1: found out? I was when when when you when you
Speaker 1: got a push on your phone? Found out before the
Speaker 1: bush Will? But yeah, if you ever get a push
Speaker 1: notification from the Panthers, just know that it is at
Speaker 1: Panthers stats guy Will Brian on the ones and twos
Speaker 1: pushing through time there's a there's an apostrophe error, or
Speaker 1: there's a misspelling, you know where it came from. I
Speaker 1: still think it's cool though. We were talking about this
Speaker 1: the other day when I get a push notification like
Speaker 1: that's Will, that's that's Will. Um. I was at home,
Speaker 1: which was odd because I'm always here, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: always at the stadium, And because it was a holiday,
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I'm gonna hang out. It
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like anything's happening, and um, it kind of
Speaker 1: gave me so Actually, April six was my one year
Speaker 1: anniversary and it kind of reminded me of being starting
Speaker 1: work at home. You know, it's been a while since
Speaker 1: I've been at home and some big news broke Panthers wise,
Speaker 1: because I worked in the stadium, is very lucky to
Speaker 1: be able to come in and be part of the testing.
Speaker 1: Um since training camp. So it's really the first time
Speaker 1: in eight or nine months where I had been at
Speaker 1: home working on this big thing for the Panthers, and
Speaker 1: it felt it felt odd. Where were you tell me
Speaker 1: your story driving Range. I had spent the entire weekend
Speaker 1: just kind of chilling, being at home, you know, doing
Speaker 1: some odds and ends work. And then Monday I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's a beautiful day. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: up a beautiful day. I'm gonna go. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna play eighteen, not gonna play nine, just gonna go,
Speaker 1: you know, get some swings in. And you know, I
Speaker 1: was told get back to your computer immediately. Yes, First
Speaker 1: of all, well why would you ever not have your
Speaker 1: computer on you? Honestly, almost everything you do. I almost
Speaker 1: did bring it with Is it not handcuffed to you
Speaker 1: at all times? It's right here? But no, I almost
Speaker 1: did bring it. But then I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm only like ten minutes away, five minutes away. I
Speaker 1: can get back if nothing happens, and I didn't need
Speaker 1: it to. We're gonna get into all of that, and
Speaker 1: we've got an incredible guest coming up. If you want
Speaker 1: to end depth analysis on Sam Donald and this trade.
Speaker 1: I mean, who better to talk to than Jake tooloone.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to him in just a little bit
Speaker 1: and we'll Brian pantherstan I obviously on Twitter. I think
Speaker 1: I think you were looking at me, and I think
Speaker 1: you might have thought I was gonna say you, and
Speaker 1: then I said Jake, and you kind of just like no.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, it's the real quarterback. Um. So
Speaker 1: you know, really really big news. We're going to break
Speaker 1: all of that down, but first, and we got to
Speaker 1: talk about you know, even bigger than the same Donald
Speaker 1: trade in Panther's news is the fact that our very
Speaker 1: own producer, Matt Hogan got married. And this is the
Speaker 1: first time we're getting a chance to see you after
Speaker 1: after the big event honeymoon. How was everything? It was,
Speaker 1: Thank you will, it was it was great. Um. I
Speaker 1: came back today and you handed me a gift from
Speaker 1: the Panthers digital team, so that was a nice little
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was telling my friends and like,
Speaker 1: how does it feel to be married? And I just
Speaker 1: said that I feel less important now because the week
Speaker 1: in two weeks a month before I was the guests,
Speaker 1: you know, the guest of honor and everything, and now
Speaker 1: I'm just like a regular working guy. Now it is funny.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm married as well, and there is this like
Speaker 1: V I P thing that comes along with it. And
Speaker 1: now you walk in back to work and you're like,
Speaker 1: you know, does anyone want to get me anything? Like,
Speaker 1: does anyone want to you know, take my jacket from me?
Speaker 1: And make sure I don't need anything? Photographer following me,
Speaker 1: my egos shrinking. But it's nice to be back. Welcome back,
Speaker 1: congratulation you we are. We are so happy and happy
Speaker 1: to see you. But but back to the Donald news,
Speaker 1: the second biggest news of course. So well we gotta
Speaker 1: do you know, like I said, gonna talk to Jake
Speaker 1: in just a minute, but we got to bring back
Speaker 1: will Staut of the week. What is your Donald's statist
Speaker 1: of the week. Well, there's a lot of Donald stats,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go with this one. Um. The Panthers
Speaker 1: have not been known as a team that's been a
Speaker 1: trader or very big in the trade market over their
Speaker 1: last twenty six years. Donald's only the third quarterback they've
Speaker 1: ever traded for. Really yep, and the other two weren't
Speaker 1: you know, big names. It was Jeff Lewis four from
Speaker 1: Denver for a couple of late round picks, and then
Speaker 1: Josh McCown. Okay, Josh McCown's a big name. Don't disrespect
Speaker 1: Josh McCown is a big name, because that was we
Speaker 1: traded for Josh McCown in two thousand eight, thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: here's this you know, veteran, you know, kind of you know,
Speaker 1: second half of his career. No, he was just beginning
Speaker 1: in two thousand eight. You're kidding me. Um, So Josh
Speaker 1: McCown obviously, like he knows Sam Donald, he's the Jets
Speaker 1: like a couple of years ago. I mean, Josh McCown
Speaker 1: has been playing football for forty five years. So but yeah,
Speaker 1: the pant has traded a seventh round picked for him
Speaker 1: back in two thousand eight. So Josh McCown, Josh mcown,
Speaker 1: Pa the Lowe. You gotta ask you gotta, we gotta
Speaker 1: ask Jake about that. Yeah, that's awesome. You're gonna blow
Speaker 1: his mind with that. Dad. I love that. You're you're
Speaker 1: laughing so hard at your own discovery. Right, that's going
Speaker 1: to make a great tweet later on Panthers At Panthers,
Speaker 1: dat I gotta I gotta figure out whether McCown was
Speaker 1: still in New York or if he had just left
Speaker 1: when they drafted Donald. I mean, he was close, he
Speaker 1: was there. It feels like he was there. But what
Speaker 1: do I don't have I don't played there in the
Speaker 1: year before they drafted Donald. I'll check, I'll check the
Speaker 1: math there, all right, So let's go back to to
Speaker 1: what Monday looked like. I love doing these behind the
Speaker 1: scenes kind of um look into what your job looks
Speaker 1: like or what my job looks like, our mats when
Speaker 1: something like this happens, because of course, when the news
Speaker 1: is announced, there's articles, tweets, gifts, memes, um coming out
Speaker 1: at a rapid pace once it's announced, and it's really
Speaker 1: incredible to see. And you know, I was helping a
Speaker 1: little bit in terms of some production stuff and and organizing,
Speaker 1: but but really, because Sam was not available for interviews,
Speaker 1: my role on Monday was was much less than yours.
Speaker 1: And you are right in the thick of everything, as uh,
Speaker 1: someone who's controlling the website and and push notifications and
Speaker 1: editing and all sorts of different stuff. So what does
Speaker 1: that look like? You're at the driving range. You get
Speaker 1: the call that says like, how dare you leave your
Speaker 1: computer for less than three minutes? It should be you know,
Speaker 1: attached your to your hands at all times. I'm just
Speaker 1: kidding that would never happen. But what happens after that?
Speaker 1: So thankfully for most of us, we've we've been through
Speaker 1: things like this before. You know that this kind of
Speaker 1: the vets of this group. You know, you've gone through
Speaker 1: so many breaking news events that you kind of know
Speaker 1: what what the elements are, what the buttons to push,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of the order of things, how it
Speaker 1: all works, and knowing that when it happens, it's going
Speaker 1: to be a fog. Like I think part of the
Speaker 1: things that I think some some people when they come
Speaker 1: in there, like what's the you know, what's the process?
Speaker 1: You know how what's the you know, who has to
Speaker 1: approve what? It's just kind of like you do your best,
Speaker 1: but it's a fog. Like you're just you're you're gonna
Speaker 1: double check things as much as you can, but quick,
Speaker 1: quick has to happen. It's got to be quick. So um,
Speaker 1: you know when you know, when when I got back,
Speaker 1: you know, you're working on building photo galleries. Looking at
Speaker 1: it highlights one of the things that you know, there's
Speaker 1: this whole kind of back end of NFL highlights that
Speaker 1: I was trying to find. You know, Donald's career long
Speaker 1: pass was a yard to Robbie Anderson in two thousand nineteen.
Speaker 1: But the problem was it wasn't still on the NFL's
Speaker 1: back end. So it was like, well, I really want
Speaker 1: to have this video published as soon as we go
Speaker 1: live with this, but I don't want to alert anybody
Speaker 1: because the NFL, they would have found it and put
Speaker 1: it in our back can immediately, but it's like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to tell them yet. So I mean, and
Speaker 1: this is you know, this is when we're we're just
Speaker 1: finding out. You know, it could happen any minute, you know,
Speaker 1: so we're just trying to go as quickly as we
Speaker 1: can to get all this uh this content and uh
Speaker 1: so you know I'm waiting on that and just trying
Speaker 1: to get everything in places. Bio gotta write a bio,
Speaker 1: gotta photoshop his his jet's head shot into a panther's jersey,
Speaker 1: you know, working on all that, um, you know, knowing
Speaker 1: that there's a whole other crew in some other space
Speaker 1: doing all the things for social and getting all those
Speaker 1: things ready and um you know, videos all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and then just kind of you know, having a couple
Speaker 1: of calls with hey, we're gonna do this, We're gonna
Speaker 1: do this, all right, We're good the story, gonna get
Speaker 1: the story, okay, and then it's like boom, it's happening.
Speaker 1: You just get the text is happening in five minutes
Speaker 1: like that, that's what you get. Um, and and then
Speaker 1: you just kind of go to work. It's it's push
Speaker 1: unifications to the web, to the app. Um, it's bio published,
Speaker 1: it's putting breaking news alert all across the website. It's
Speaker 1: uh photo gallery. It's then getting the videos from the NFL.
Speaker 1: It's looking for more ones. It's fighting a tweet for
Speaker 1: Panther stats guy, which um, I wish there was a
Speaker 1: Twitter edit button. I'll just say that for all of
Speaker 1: my my great followers that pointed some things out to me,
Speaker 1: it was passerrating and not completion percentage. For those that know,
Speaker 1: um oh that that would be a big difference. I
Speaker 1: did not get to see that in the midst of
Speaker 1: It happened very quickly, and by the time that I
Speaker 1: really break, you're doing eight thousand things. So that's what
Speaker 1: it was, guys. It was eight eight point five passerrating. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so you and then you're looking for stuff
Speaker 1: like that, you're completion need. Yeah, it's I mean, we
Speaker 1: need to edit button on Twitter, right, I think that
Speaker 1: could lead to that's a whole different rabbit hole. But
Speaker 1: for but for honest, hard working people like you, Yes,
Speaker 1: like you could have one, but not everyone. You can
Speaker 1: have the you can have the first and only. By
Speaker 1: the time I saw it, it was like we're already
Speaker 1: way down this road. I wasn't going to delete it
Speaker 1: at that point. I just can't. So um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, so there's a lot going on. And then
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, now you're you're trying to look at
Speaker 1: you know, now we have Scott Fitterers press conference, and
Speaker 1: you're really trying to think, Okay, what's the analysis here, Like,
Speaker 1: what's the you know, what are the because I'm also
Speaker 1: I'm writing copy for everything that's going on the website, headlines,
Speaker 1: you know, byline, subheads, you know, for all these videos,
Speaker 1: and you're trying to figure out, Okay, you know, what's
Speaker 1: the you know, what is really the tone? You know,
Speaker 1: how are we projecting this? What's the uh, the way
Speaker 1: that we're analyzing this, and I think that was such
Speaker 1: an interesting part of the afternoon, was you know, going
Speaker 1: through Okay, you know, it's it's this sixth round pick
Speaker 1: this year, which is really just a gift because that
Speaker 1: was a cop pick, so we weren't even expecting that anyway,
Speaker 1: and then you have a second and forth next year.
Speaker 1: But then when you hear Scott Fitter talk about it,
Speaker 1: you know, now I'm started going into a little analysis
Speaker 1: of it. But you know, you talked about the optionality
Speaker 1: of you know, now you're at eight with with all
Speaker 1: these different options, including getting a quarterback, trading back, you know,
Speaker 1: getting you know, defensive offensive line, cornerback, all that kind
Speaker 1: of things. So then you're trying to integrate all that
Speaker 1: into the tone and kind of the perception of the
Speaker 1: things you're publishing, you know, because then you have you know, six, seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: NFL Network videos coming through with Kurt Warner and Jerdy
Speaker 1: Batista and all these people analyzing the stuff, and you're
Speaker 1: really trying to make sure that that's, um, you know,
Speaker 1: that that's going out at the right rate and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So, yeah, it was it's just in a
Speaker 1: whole afternoon, the whole day, and then you get all
Speaker 1: these people that are texting you like and I'm like,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on sending out the push notification. That
Speaker 1: is a really interesting What you just said is something
Speaker 1: that I went through on Monday night as well. And
Speaker 1: this might be just specific to the people in this room,
Speaker 1: but the fact that you said it. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know anyone listening also understands this, but when
Speaker 1: you're so in it, and that's not to say we
Speaker 1: have any type of of knowledge, but we're you know,
Speaker 1: you're in the you are in the mix with with
Speaker 1: putting all of this stuff out and and writing and
Speaker 1: making sure you know it's going out concurrently with with
Speaker 1: what the social media team is doing, and you're pulling
Speaker 1: all these clips that I found myself on Monday going Okay,
Speaker 1: what's the what's the hundred foot view of this from
Speaker 1: everyone else? Because we are so embedded in panther Land?
Speaker 1: You know, did you find that as well? It seems
Speaker 1: like that's what you're saying, which is like, I'm making
Speaker 1: sure when I'm writing copy on everything that I not
Speaker 1: only have all the facts, I'm seeing what other people
Speaker 1: are saying and and getting a sense of kind of
Speaker 1: the overall view from everyone else to that. I think
Speaker 1: I think it certainly helped that, you know, that Scott
Speaker 1: Fitter of the GM, you know, spoke to kind of
Speaker 1: set that on on Monday, so that there were, um,
Speaker 1: maybe not answers, but at least you know, an approach
Speaker 1: to context. Context. I mean, the context of this year's draft,
Speaker 1: the context of next year's season, the context of the
Speaker 1: QBS on the roster, you know, all of those things that,
Speaker 1: um that you you kind of need that guidance from
Speaker 1: because I think you know, certainly, yeah, within our bubble,
Speaker 1: we certainly know um in general. You know, we saw
Speaker 1: the trade rumors. We know all the rumors that are
Speaker 1: getting tweeted at us every day. We've got these, we've
Speaker 1: got the Google alerts and trater alerts on. You know,
Speaker 1: we certainly know all the things that are out there.
Speaker 1: And you know, honestly, like I thought, this month could
Speaker 1: go any number of ways, and there's it still can
Speaker 1: there's still a number of other ways it can now go.
Speaker 1: But you know, you kind of prepare your mind a
Speaker 1: little bit too. Okay, So what is this month with
Speaker 1: this this trade or this trade not happening? Or this
Speaker 1: draft pick happening, and then this trade happening after that,
Speaker 1: you kind of look through all these scenarios that you
Speaker 1: know that you try to prepare for. Okay, what does
Speaker 1: this mean? And then what does this mean going forward?
Speaker 1: And I think all of a sudden, it just kind
Speaker 1: of hits you on Monday. It's like, Oh, this is it,
Speaker 1: this is this is the scenario. And then you're kind
Speaker 1: of working back from there. Do you ever get a
Speaker 1: little do you ever get butterflies in your stomach when
Speaker 1: you press send on a notification? Oh my gosh, yes,
Speaker 1: like I because I feel like you're so calm and collected,
Speaker 1: and I would be nervous to do that. Oh you
Speaker 1: haven't seen me on days like that. Then I closed
Speaker 1: I'm upstairs. I closed the door, I put my phone,
Speaker 1: I put all my notifications on mute, because I know
Speaker 1: that not only because you get Yeah, you gotta focus
Speaker 1: in on the thing that you're doing. Getting it with texts,
Speaker 1: I'm getting it with like Bleacher Report, ESPN, Like every
Speaker 1: single push that you're getting from everyone else that's all happening,
Speaker 1: you know, knowing that you're just gonna get flooded, and
Speaker 1: so it's yeah, it's having to kind of be calm.
Speaker 1: Like there is a time when I used to like
Speaker 1: wear my Apple Watch during these things, and I my
Speaker 1: blood pressure was so high because I kept getting I
Speaker 1: just took it and through it against the wall because
Speaker 1: I I can't handle it. I do that sometimes I
Speaker 1: don't think it quite compares because there have been a
Speaker 1: few times where I've been on the air, not in
Speaker 1: this job where breaking news has happened, but if I'm
Speaker 1: doing if we're doing a show or whatnot, Like I
Speaker 1: can't even try not even look at my phone in
Speaker 1: a commercial break because but sometimes we're getting like so
Speaker 1: say we're doing the Panthers pregames or the draft. There
Speaker 1: are things that that maybe you would say to me
Speaker 1: or or Amy or social media manager that are important
Speaker 1: to getting on the air. This person has won a
Speaker 1: prize or whatnot. But you really have to separate those
Speaker 1: things where unless it's something like that, I really try
Speaker 1: not to look at my phone and distract myself, even
Speaker 1: though even when the cameras are off, because it does
Speaker 1: take you out of that mindset. And so I can't
Speaker 1: imagine trying to press send on something and having seven
Speaker 1: notifications on my wrist. As I'm trying to make sure
Speaker 1: that I, like you said, put the apostrophe in the
Speaker 1: right place. I mean, you you kind of get used
Speaker 1: to knowing what's coming, and I think that that's been helpful.
Speaker 1: I think the first couple of times that I did it,
Speaker 1: I was, you know, with Luke, I was unprepared for well,
Speaker 1: everyone was just just in that. I remember where I was.
Speaker 1: You talked about where we were for this. I remember
Speaker 1: as a fan, I was not. There was no inkling
Speaker 1: that I would ever work for the Panthers. I remember
Speaker 1: where I was sitting on my couch in Chicago with
Speaker 1: my husband and and seeing that video. So I can't
Speaker 1: imagine what it was like to be a part of that.
Speaker 1: And how could you be prepared? Right? I mean, and
Speaker 1: they're and they're not here today, but like you know,
Speaker 1: we've had Amy and Angela on this podcast before. Are
Speaker 1: amazing social media team, and I think it's such a
Speaker 1: credit for them to be able to, you know, to
Speaker 1: pull these ideas together and to be able to execute
Speaker 1: them so well, knowing that you know, hey, there's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of ways you can go with this, but
Speaker 1: let's be bold, let's really lean into it and let's
Speaker 1: let's figure out ways that, um, you know, this content
Speaker 1: exists on its own, and I think that they did
Speaker 1: that on Twitter, so I mean and and Instagram and
Speaker 1: like all the different platforms. They did it so well
Speaker 1: that there was like the secondary story behind the story
Speaker 1: of like, oh, did you see the way the Panthers
Speaker 1: did this on social media? It was incredible, It was awesome.
Speaker 1: As I said, I've been here for a year. It's
Speaker 1: almost my one year anniversary a couple of days after,
Speaker 1: and I still I'm my gosh. I know those people
Speaker 1: like the creativity comes out of their brains, and of
Speaker 1: course we you know, we have to include Daniel and
Speaker 1: Brandon and everyone who works to make that's those social
Speaker 1: media posts so incredible. Um, it's it's really cool to
Speaker 1: see in action. And I didn't get to see it
Speaker 1: as much in action this time because we were all
Speaker 1: at home, which was, like I said, it that's a
Speaker 1: that's bringing full circle back to me as I always
Speaker 1: like to do. It was it was a different experience.
Speaker 1: But like you said, there's so many times we're certainly
Speaker 1: in your career here at the Panthers that these things are,
Speaker 1: that these things happen, and you have to be prepared
Speaker 1: for them. And then of course you have the added
Speaker 1: experience of of the last year having to work primarily
Speaker 1: from home. And so even though it's new and different
Speaker 1: every single time, based on the situation, based on the trade,
Speaker 1: based on the player, at least none of that stuff
Speaker 1: was like in your way, like you're just getting out
Speaker 1: all the things you have to do. It's not the
Speaker 1: fact that, I mean, you know how to communicate from home.
Speaker 1: We're all on slack. Things are happening, and I just
Speaker 1: thought it was without having as much to do because
Speaker 1: we weren't doing interviews. It's it's so cool to see
Speaker 1: the way that you guys seemlessly work together and get
Speaker 1: all this stuff out as soon as it's ready to
Speaker 1: be announced. It's really cool. It's organized chaos, but there's
Speaker 1: also kind of the there's like a shared heartbeat. I
Speaker 1: think even when like you're not in the same room,
Speaker 1: when you're not right next to each other, you just
Speaker 1: you know what everyone else is doing, so that you
Speaker 1: know what you're doing how that fits into what everyone
Speaker 1: else is doing. So I think that's that's such a cool,
Speaker 1: uh kind of learned organism. You know, it's not something
Speaker 1: that's natural, but you know, over over time, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: build it with people, and I think that's a really
Speaker 1: special thing. Well, congrats to to Sam Donald and the
Speaker 1: Panthers front office and Will great job. Like honestly, it was.
Speaker 1: It was really cool to see all of you guys
Speaker 1: work together in concert to get all that stuff out.
Speaker 1: How quickly did you leave the golf course? Oh, so
Speaker 1: I was did you break into a run? I didn't
Speaker 1: break into a run. So I was working my way
Speaker 1: up from my nine iron and I was on my seven,
Speaker 1: so I still had, you know what, maybe maybe so
Speaker 1: I just give them to somebody. Yeah, I got the
Speaker 1: and I pulled out my driver. I'm like, let me
Speaker 1: just whack a couple adrenaline. Yeah, And they were horrible,
Speaker 1: Like I can't hit my driver anyway. But and then
Speaker 1: I'm just like, all right, not for that, And then
Speaker 1: yelled to the guy over there, I'm like, these are
Speaker 1: all yours, man, I gotta go, and he kind of
Speaker 1: looked at me. I'm like, I'm serious, I gotta go
Speaker 1: take them. He's like, what's just happen? Who leaves the driver?
Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. All right, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and when we come back. We have got Jake alone
Speaker 1: joining us to break down the Sam Donald trade. Mr
Speaker 1: Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkis told
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Speaker 1: is a this is an honor because well, Jake and
Speaker 1: I have have done a lot of stuff together. And
Speaker 1: will you worked with Jake back when you were an intern.
Speaker 1: We've never had him on the Happy Half Hour podcast.
Speaker 1: I mean usually, you know, it's only big time stuff
Speaker 1: Jake and Jordan's, so this is this is exciting. Jake,
Speaker 1: Thanks for doing this absolutely. I um, you know, my
Speaker 1: agent had to pull some strains I didn't want I
Speaker 1: didn't want to do. You were trying to get out
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, yeah, listen, the quality that Jordan and
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Speaker 1: That's why we're you know, award winning. So I will
Speaker 1: try to do my best today. Well if I can
Speaker 1: keep that up, well, appreciate you gracing us with your presence.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the obvious question is just what
Speaker 1: do you think of the trade for for Sam Donald?
Speaker 1: What was your first reaction when you saw the news?
Speaker 1: You know, I always thought in my mind, um, because
Speaker 1: of where we were picking at and kind of it
Speaker 1: was evident we were in the market for for a quarterback,
Speaker 1: and you know, speculation about Matt Stafford and you know,
Speaker 1: uh you hear some things about the Shawn Watson and
Speaker 1: then with that situation, you knew that was kind of
Speaker 1: an untouchable situation, um, right now, So you just kind
Speaker 1: of wondered what was gonna happen there? Um, And uh, listen,
Speaker 1: I like it, I really and truly do. I think
Speaker 1: this is an uber talented kid that just a few
Speaker 1: years ago. Um, you know he's he was a top
Speaker 1: three pick, and uh he's so young. Um. I just
Speaker 1: think a change of scene where he can do wonders. Um.
Speaker 1: And I do like what we can put around him
Speaker 1: talent wise. Um. And then yet we we have a
Speaker 1: draft where we pick eight. Um, we have second third
Speaker 1: round pick, so who knows what other pieces we can add.
Speaker 1: But uh, I think this is a I think this
Speaker 1: is a win win honestly for both organizations. Um. And
Speaker 1: if it works out for us, it's it's it's a
Speaker 1: home run. It truly it truly is. You're getting someone
Speaker 1: like I keep saying, so young, so talented, was very
Speaker 1: that was an awkward situation he was in in New York,
Speaker 1: so a breath of fresh air for him. I think
Speaker 1: he'll embrace it. It certainly looks that way a little
Speaker 1: video that I saw of him, I guess in his
Speaker 1: home or whatnot, with the panther hat and the panther
Speaker 1: balloons and things like that. So, um, I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna get someone who extremely hungry. Um. It's not not
Speaker 1: to say that he was never hungry, because the word
Speaker 1: is this kid was beloved, and he worked his tail off,
Speaker 1: he fought through injuries. Um and and really it was
Speaker 1: not a good situation in New York the whole way around.
Speaker 1: So fresh start and and very excited about it. Jake,
Speaker 1: I promise I'm gonna let we'll speak at some point.
Speaker 1: But I do want to ask this question because it's
Speaker 1: it's something I've been wanting to ask someone who would
Speaker 1: know and who better than you. When you are a
Speaker 1: quarterback going to a new team and you're coming in
Speaker 1: with new coaches, what's that like? Well, listen, my first
Speaker 1: six years in New Orleans, UM, you know, undrafted, so
Speaker 1: really had you know? Um uh, there wasn't much expectation,
Speaker 1: I know for me. And then we had two coaching staffs,
Speaker 1: one of New Orleans the first three years, and then
Speaker 1: Jim Hasler came in and Mike McCarthy was the offensive coordinator. UM.
Speaker 1: And that's when, really and truly my eyes opened up.
Speaker 1: Two NFL play how to prepare um and and and
Speaker 1: a true offseason, a quarterback school offseason that Mike something
Speaker 1: that the West Coast offenses used to do way back when,
Speaker 1: and something Mike used to expand on. And that was
Speaker 1: huge for me. And it was great. And then I
Speaker 1: leave there come to Carolina, run a completely different system
Speaker 1: than what we ran UH in New Orleans, and you're
Speaker 1: around you get to learn more. You got to be
Speaker 1: around new coaches, uh, a new staff and new players
Speaker 1: and it just it was a great fit for me.
Speaker 1: I know it was awesome for me to be able
Speaker 1: to do that. Um. I don't want to use the
Speaker 1: word breath of fresh air because I really I enjoy
Speaker 1: on my time in New Orleans and I learned a
Speaker 1: great deal. But I was able to come into a
Speaker 1: place and get a new mindset. I guess you could
Speaker 1: say with the head coach like John Fox Um and
Speaker 1: then Dan Henning, you know, someone who has multiple Super
Speaker 1: Bowl rings, Um, and just Dan's mindset. And then Mike
Speaker 1: McCoy and the quarterback coach was very young at the time,
Speaker 1: only a couple of years older than me. Mike kind
Speaker 1: a West Coast background and then changed um when he
Speaker 1: was in Carolina with Dan, and it just it all worked,
Speaker 1: and I know it was it was, it was, it
Speaker 1: was great. It was fantastic for me, And I'm hoping
Speaker 1: the same for Sam. Yeah, Jake, I mean with with
Speaker 1: Joe Brady being so young, I mean, I think there's
Speaker 1: there's some comparisons there with you know, coming to coming
Speaker 1: to this place. You know obviously, um, you know you
Speaker 1: have Teddy Bridgewiter still in the roster right now, but
Speaker 1: you know, with with Sam coming in, you know, going
Speaker 1: from a New York market. People talk about that as
Speaker 1: if you know, like New York is really kind of
Speaker 1: this pressure cooker. You know, obviously you played in Houston
Speaker 1: and Cleveland as but do you really do you still
Speaker 1: feel like that's the case in terms of the difference
Speaker 1: between playing in Charlotte or playing in New York. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really and truly believe that. And listen, that is
Speaker 1: just you know, it's the same thing with the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: type of situation, in any New York situation, even Dallas.
Speaker 1: I mean the media, and I say the word pressures. Listen,
Speaker 1: there's pressures when you play any professional sport because you're
Speaker 1: getting paid. So the media deserves the right to be
Speaker 1: objective and critical of you. Um, because you're getting paid handsome,
Speaker 1: handsomely and and this is a business. Um. But I
Speaker 1: just think that whole situation and a lot had to
Speaker 1: do with the head coach with Adam. That was a
Speaker 1: I don't even want to say I love hate relationship
Speaker 1: with the media there. It was a hate hate relationship
Speaker 1: with the New York media and Adam. And I just
Speaker 1: think that played into everything with Sam um and so
Speaker 1: you're gonna come to Charlotte. Um, I truly believe this
Speaker 1: community will embrace him. This team will embrace him. Uh.
Speaker 1: The talent on the roster is probably the most talent
Speaker 1: he would have ever had around him. Uh. And a
Speaker 1: fresh approach, you know, Matt Rule came in and UH
Speaker 1: really kind of change things up. And you know there's
Speaker 1: a singular voice to me from the outside looking in
Speaker 1: that Hey, Matt's in charge. Um, and he has a
Speaker 1: way of building a team. And you saw a team
Speaker 1: in Carolina that I don't know how um overly talented
Speaker 1: we were last year, but a team that just played
Speaker 1: in every game and went down to the wire and
Speaker 1: every game and just fought and scratch and claude and UM,
Speaker 1: I think you'll see a big jump with the youth
Speaker 1: on this team. And it's it's it's the perfect marriage
Speaker 1: it would seem with a young kid. And contractually when
Speaker 1: you look at it, gosh, it's it's pretty darn good.
Speaker 1: If it's got hits, you know, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: very rewarding, right. You know they talk about the rookie contracts.
Speaker 1: You know, Donald's gonna be in his his fourth year
Speaker 1: and then the potential for you know that fifth year options.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you have that that that QB on the
Speaker 1: rookie contract and then you know you're looking at at
Speaker 1: what you can do from there. One of the things
Speaker 1: that we're gonna be talking about this week is the
Speaker 1: kind of Kevin Bacon of the NFL. Do you do
Speaker 1: you know that you shared a teammate with Sam Donald?
Speaker 1: I do, and I shared. I shared a couple of
Speaker 1: teammates with Sam Donald. Um, let's see how good you are.
Speaker 1: So I was going with Josh McCown and there was
Speaker 1: also a guy who was pretty darn good in Carolina
Speaker 1: that was in New York for a little bit. Oh,
Speaker 1: Ryan Khalil, Ryan Khalil, Right, hello, usc Alume. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I did share a couple and a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I did speak with Josh about Sam not long after
Speaker 1: this trade occurred, and that was glowing remarks from Josh
Speaker 1: because I believe uh Sam was a rookie when Josh
Speaker 1: was with him, if I remember correctly. So, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: so a couple of teammates, and I do know Ryan
Speaker 1: thinks very highly of Sam, and I think uh Ryan
Speaker 1: understood the whole dynamic with the media and with the
Speaker 1: head coach and that that kind of situation that was
Speaker 1: going on in New York. So one thing before I
Speaker 1: let you go, and this is kind of a wider
Speaker 1: view of the NFL right now. So I saw a
Speaker 1: stat out there that this is the first time that
Speaker 1: there's five quarterbacks who were all drafted in the top three.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be with different teams this year. Jared Goff,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, Mitchell Drobiski, Matt Stafford, and now Sam Donald.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the way that the NFL
Speaker 1: has kind of changed in terms of the the way
Speaker 1: that quarterbacks kind of are moving around now, Well, I
Speaker 1: think there's a couple of things wanted goes to show you. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're picking eight, and we're not so sure if one
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks would be available to us at eight.
Speaker 1: So because it's a quarterbacks league, and I think, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe some of these quarterbacks ten years ago they would
Speaker 1: be first round picks, but they some would be number ten,
Speaker 1: some could be number twelve, some could be number thirty
Speaker 1: in the first round. Whereas now if a team doesn't
Speaker 1: can if they don't think they have one, it's it's
Speaker 1: a free for all that I mean, they're trying to
Speaker 1: get these kids in a top five. Just take the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks off the board and and hopefully one of them,
Speaker 1: one of them work. So it just goes to show
Speaker 1: you it's an inexact science to picking a quarterback. And
Speaker 1: I think a foundation around a young quarterback, a good
Speaker 1: football team, a solid head coach, and uh just maybe
Speaker 1: more so kind of chemistry positivity, Uh plays a huge
Speaker 1: factor in that because all these young kids, they're so young,
Speaker 1: and and they're being traded to other teams, and certain
Speaker 1: teams have given up on them, and we're we're seeing
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks can play for ages. Uh. You know, Matt
Speaker 1: Stafford gets traded and he's you know, thirty three or
Speaker 1: thirty four, that's still young. That's still extremely young in
Speaker 1: quarterback in quarterback year. So to get a twenty three
Speaker 1: year old, um, really it's a you just you're looking
Speaker 1: for sunny, sunny days ahead, and I think that's kind
Speaker 1: of where the Carolina Panthers are at in in regards
Speaker 1: to this trade. Awesome, Well, Jake, thanks for taking your
Speaker 1: time and hopping on our podcast today. We're very happy
Speaker 1: that we can now compete with Jordan and Jake. Well,
Speaker 1: I I appreciate it, hopefully. I uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: brought that same level of quality to this podcast, um,
Speaker 1: that that Jordan and I bring each and every week.
Speaker 1: So no, it was a pleasure to be on. I
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thanks man. It is always so great
Speaker 1: to talk to our buddy Jake. We are right here
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Speaker 1: him proud and he is honored to support the team.
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Speaker 1: gotta end with the weird question of the week, but
Speaker 1: before that, you have a very important update from the
Speaker 1: beginning of the show. So yeah, from the beginning show,
Speaker 1: I was talking about Josh McCown. The Panthers traded for
Speaker 1: him in two thousand eight Um, you know, as we
Speaker 1: talked to Jake, Jake played with McCown here. McCown played
Speaker 1: with Donald in New York. So I did confirm he
Speaker 1: was with Donald in two thousand eighteen. So Josh McCown
Speaker 1: is the Kevin Bacon of the NFL six degrees. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny because I think you mentioned this to me
Speaker 1: on this podcast if I'm not mistaken, or maybe if
Speaker 1: not on the podcast in one of our conversations were
Speaker 1: Thomas Davis, who recently retired, has that career spanning arc
Speaker 1: as well, where he was, you know, such a great
Speaker 1: player and had such a great career that he really
Speaker 1: played with some of the uh, the older guys, especially
Speaker 1: on the defense, and then you know guys like Shack
Speaker 1: as well. So he's another one of those Josh McCown
Speaker 1: guys where really the career spans two real generations of
Speaker 1: footballs and hopefully with with Thomas retiring here in Charlotte,
Speaker 1: will be hearing a lot more from him in the
Speaker 1: last in the next couple of years, right, no, stay tuned,
Speaker 1: maybe potentially. Um, alright, it's time for the weird question
Speaker 1: of the week. So as we were just bragging on
Speaker 1: our coworkers on the social team, they had this awesome
Speaker 1: picture of Sam Donald as Hey Arnold with it Hey Donald, Um,
Speaker 1: that's what it's said on the picture. They even had
Speaker 1: like the chin hair, it's a movid football head. It
Speaker 1: was incredible, It was absolutely amazing. So in honor of that,
Speaker 1: what are your top three cartoon shows of all time?
Speaker 1: Will go first. Uh, Doug. Dam'm not surprised at all,
Speaker 1: just just done Doug. I'm Doug and that's and there's
Speaker 1: no others. I mean there are others, but Doug takes
Speaker 1: such a pantheon in my mind because it happened at
Speaker 1: this point in life where you're just so uh, you know,
Speaker 1: like when that age when just everything that happens in
Speaker 1: those ages just means everything for forever, and then you
Speaker 1: look at it now and it's kind of like, but
Speaker 1: you know, at that time, it just made such an impression,
Speaker 1: and so it is a great show. The one the
Speaker 1: Doug is on my list as well, Matt. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's on yours, but I didn't enjoy it
Speaker 1: too young. Um, why were there two Dugs? Do you
Speaker 1: remember Patty Man? Is that different hair? And like one
Speaker 1: was on one channel like Doug grows up or whatever?
Speaker 1: Was it? No? I think it was just regular Doug.
Speaker 1: But I think it was like it was the Disney
Speaker 1: one versus the Nick one. Yes, so yeah, it changed
Speaker 1: a little bit. I didn't really watch much of the second,
Speaker 1: which you did your Patty mane is have longer hair
Speaker 1: or like a like a very short short o g Doug.
Speaker 1: We were talking about the one with her hairs like this.
Speaker 1: There's one where she has like like your hair cut
Speaker 1: right now, right? I think that was the second that
Speaker 1: was a Disney Doug. Yeah, O G Doug. Alright, dude,
Speaker 1: dude dail man, um, all right, so he's only got Doug. Matt.
Speaker 1: Where are you going for number three? I'll probably put SpongeBob.
Speaker 1: I watched that too much as a kid. Great, it's
Speaker 1: just wholesome, and my dad used to watch it with me,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, that's just a special place in
Speaker 1: my shot. I watched that for a long time ago.
Speaker 1: That's great. You get me to go to the rest
Speaker 1: of them, Oh yeah, very different, But I'd probably say
Speaker 1: Rick and Morty up there. I've enjoyed that a lot
Speaker 1: these last few years. And then I don't know if
Speaker 1: this counts as a cartoon. It is a cartoon, but
Speaker 1: Dragon ball Z was like my life even now, I
Speaker 1: watched that every now and then. That's just like my favorite.
Speaker 1: That's really good, I am now that we're including adult cartoons.
Speaker 1: I did not. I should have put the Simpsons in
Speaker 1: there somewhere. I love Simpsons Family Guy yeah and Archer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I grew up watching the Simpsons brother this is
Speaker 1: the Family Family Family Podcast. Um, but I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: Doug is definitely on my list. Hey, Arnold is my
Speaker 1: number one. I actually as an adult, I remember doing
Speaker 1: a tournament at Barclays for Thanksgiving and it was the
Speaker 1: like the Doug movie. I mean, excuse me, the Arnold
Speaker 1: movie came out recently. This was like three years ago,
Speaker 1: and as soon as I got back from the tournament
Speaker 1: that I was working, I sat down and was like,
Speaker 1: all right, we're what you know is Nickelodeon in my
Speaker 1: Brooklyn hotel because I have to watch the hair on
Speaker 1: Old movie. I absolutely loved it. Um, I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: throw one more out quickly. It's number two on my list. Matt,
Speaker 1: you might be too young for this, so well, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Did you watch Recess like on one Saturday morning? Oh?
Speaker 1: It was my favorite. I loved Recess. Towards the end
Speaker 1: of the show's run, which was probably my first exposure
Speaker 1: to it, I think I need to go. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was like in theaters a lot. Yes, So I watched
Speaker 1: the movie and I was like, well, I gotta go
Speaker 1: watch this cartoon. They had like the tires remember the
Speaker 1: tire fort like under the playground. That was a good show. Alright,
Speaker 1: I digress, but that is the point of the weird
Speaker 1: question week. Well, I would suggest checking out It's It's
Speaker 1: a cool recess, all right. That's gonna do it for
Speaker 1: us on the Happy Half Hour Podcast. Thank you, Jake, Thinking,
Speaker 1: Matt and we will. Thank you, Sam Donald, We'll see
Speaker 1: you next. Se Fa