WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 5: The 99 Club 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:12.360 It's time for a Happy half Hour with your friends 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:22.000 Kristin Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Brian. That's right, it's 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.079 that time of the week. It is time for the 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:28.000 Happy half Hour podcast. Christen here with my good buddies 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.400 Miles and Will. Guys, how are you doing this week? Oh? 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:38.240 You know, listen that here and they're doing okay. Is 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.720 that your coach speak? Is that your coach speak? Well, 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:43.880 I think I have better coach speak. My coach beeak, 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.600 I think is too. Uh. It's very influenced by either 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:49.920 Shan McVeigh or John Brunen, because there's the coaches that 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.720 I've covered the most time. So I guess like if 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.520 I were to like imitate Sean McVeigh, I would probably 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:57.120 say that, you know, I have a great respect and 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.960 appreciation for the way the week has gone so far. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.160 Are and you know, I'm just really looking forward to 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.000 getting out there and getting back on the grass and 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.760 so we can do whatever we need to do. I 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.520 like that John getting back on the grass. Oh yeah, 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.319 it's all about the grass. And John Gruden might be 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.600 more like, I'll tell you what, man, you know what 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.520 you have to be here on the appyf Our podcast. 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.280 I like transitions that I should never do again. Oh 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.640 I love them, little Hall of Fame imitations. All right, 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:25.759 will give me how you're doing this week and your 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.640 best coach speak voice, Kristen, I'm sorry, I can't answer 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.200 that question right now. I'm talking to r V our 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.039 trainer Ray as soon as I get out of this 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.720 press conference, So, um, no no news to report until 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.759 I talk. I never talked to him before I talked 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.839 to you guys, So I'm just gonna we're just gonna 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.920 have to move on. Sorry, I'll find out how everyone's 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.920 doing after I talked to you. Guy. You don't know 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.440 anything about how you're doing. I got you, I got you. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.000 You don't know. Clue, no clue. I haven't talked to 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:57.840 r V yet. You guys know, I'm not going to 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:03.760 answer that. That is phenomenal. Oh my goodness. We're gonna 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.520 have to have some more fun with that and coming episodes, 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:08.720 because I feel like those are just we're just touching 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:10.360 the tip of the iceberg with the both of you 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.760 and your coach speak. Um. Well, I'm glad to hear 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.920 that that you guys are doing well. At least I 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.720 think Will is doing well. Um, I know one guy 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.760 who is definitely doing well this week, and that is 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.800 our good buddy, Christian McCaffrey, who was selected to at 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:29.200 the Mad ninety Club for a second straight season. Now, 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.480 for those of you who don't play Madden or you know, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.800 maybe I don't know, living under a rock. That is 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.040 the highest overall grade a player can have in the game. 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.880 And if anyone deserves that, it is certainly him. So 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.560 are are you guys? Mad? Guys? Will? Are you a 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:47.799 mad guy? Um? Back in the day, I haven't played 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.200 it in a hot minute. I was more of a 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.680 football guy. I love that game. I actually wrote a 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.880 full semester long thesis on n C Double a Football 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.520 in sophomore ye at college. All right, we're gonna need 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.919 to see that at some point. Yeah, So the thirty 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.680 second version of this. I took a class called Emerging 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.880 Digital Narratives, which is a fancy Davidson way of trying 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.240 to say we're gonna play video games and just make 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:17.520 it a college course. So my final uh like project, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.280 I chose that game because I tried to show how 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.519 it was the first iteration of the game that did 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.800 like the high school to the college I can't remember 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:28.320 the name of it, but you know, like the you 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.560 start off in a high school all star game and 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.560 then you get your attributes, and then that determines where 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.680 you get recruited, and then you have to decide whether 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.160 you want to go to class or work out and 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.600 all these things. So it's like the first version of 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.760 trying to create an actual personal narrative versus playing in 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:48.480 a corporate sense as a non member person of the 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.560 team where you can only play the wide receiver, so 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.680 you can only control the wide receiver. You couldn't control 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.160 the play call or the running back to the quarterback. 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.120 So those were like, uh, kind of my way of 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.720 showing that, like the ball was trying to create this 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.440 personal avatar that you had a different understanding of rather 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:10.960 than a corporate nature of the team. That's awesome, and 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.320 I'm sure that you got to, um, you know, play 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.960 as much as you could just for research purposes to 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.240 oh completely. The worst though, was when I actually like 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.520 failed the project because I couldn't get through the whatever 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.440 level of Grand Theft Auto three because I couldn't like 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:31.680 hijack the car quick enough. I wasn't very good in 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.279 video games, So that was kind of ironic. I just 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.200 can't believe that you didn't you failed part of a 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.640 project in that course. That's amazing, and I just want 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.200 to point out really quickly, are awesome. Producer Matt is 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.440 letting us know that the n C Double A game 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.039 mode is called Road to Glory, and he says it 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:52.280 is the best. Yeah, road to glory. You know what, 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.320 I was never too big of a road to Glory person, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.400 because I just liked um doing the sort of big 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.520 cat thing and you know, you go to a program 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.599 and then you win a couple of championships and then 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.920 now go off to wherever else you want to go. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.480 But to answer the original question, like I love I 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.039 used to love Madden more than I do today because 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.800 I always felt like Mad was easier when I was 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.279 a kid growing up, and I was one of those 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.360 people that was big into franchise mode. So I think 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.480 in Madden OH eight, like I took one of the 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.920 franchise I think it was the Dolphins because I don't 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.960 think the Dolphins were very good in OH seven in 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.279 that game, and so I took him. I've simulated the 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:32.919 first season they were really bad, and so then I 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.120 relocated them to Manhattan and called them the Manhattan Kings, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.480 and it made them the this random third New York team, 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.159 but like a New York team that was actually in 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.640 New York, with apologies to Buffalo, but yeah, and then 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.880 I was, I'm pretty sure deep into the ties in 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:54.719 that game, which you know, Madden pretty ridiculous. So that 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.960 was probably the height of my being an avid Mad player. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:59.800 But that I've gotten more into it, like since I 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:01.559 got out of PS four, and you know, I don't 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.400 play against people. I just kind of do my own 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.720 thing there because it's kind of fun. But I actually 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.280 I like the um I guess what the equivalent of 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.600 Road to Glory whatever that is in Madden, Matt, can 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.039 you give us whatever that is too? It's like the 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.080 QB one franchise mode. I don't know. That was fun 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.000 in the last game because you actually got to you 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.320 have to sort of play as a college player, as 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.400 a college quarterback, and that also gave you like a 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.000 little sample of what an n C double a game 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.479 would be like in you know, the YR So I 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.880 missed that game too. In conclusion, I like it. I 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.640 like you could write your own research paper about that, 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.599 I mean about your the fact that you relocated the 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:48.880 Dolphins to New York. Matt says he believe it used 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.040 to it used to be called He believed it used 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.400 to be called Superstar. Does that ring a bell? Miles 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:59.719 the version you were talking about? Okay, um, okay. So 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.239 one thing I want to do. I am not great 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.520 at video games. I don't know if I don't have 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.080 the thumb dexterity for it or what. But you know, 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.479 I enjoy I enjoy watching them and enjoy keeping up 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.080 with everything, but I never been great at them, no surprise. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.600 But I always love when you see the ratings come 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.560 out because it makes you think, like, what is the 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:21.920 one so CMC rating of nine can't get any better 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.280 than that? What is the one random thing that you're like, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.840 I would get a ninety nine in and just you know, 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.720 not the boring stuff, Like what's something that's just so 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.400 random that you're like, I'm awesome at this, Miles, Do 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.280 you have anything that you would feel like you would 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.680 get a ninety rating in? But this is very random. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:45.840 Going through the security line at the airport, I see 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.760 I feel like I'm pretty good too. So let me 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:49.600 hear it, let me hear your your pitch for why 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.880 you get the ninety nine, Well, first of all, I 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:55.120 always know when to have my idea out and when 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.720 to put it back. But also not only like you 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:01.080 have to understand where the phone is supposed to go, 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.280 and how much brightness you should have on your phone. 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.120 If you're using your phone, is your boarding pass, which 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:07.880 I do because I lose a piece of paper and 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.760 I will never lose my phone because that thing is 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.400 connected to my body like it's an extra appendage. So 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.160 if you have your brightness up, that makes it easier 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.120 too for the little thing to scan. So you put 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.360 it down, then you pick it back up, and then 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.240 right now, if you're going on an airplane, you have 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.240 to take your mask down and then you put that 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.080 back up as you hand the person the I D 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.480 then you take it and so then the key is 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.760 especially if you have t S a free check, which 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.800 maybe everybody shouldn't get it, but you should get it. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:36.560 But I also don't want you in the line, but 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.920 I guess we're not strugling right now anyway. But I'll 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.440 tell you what, it's the best I've ever spent in 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.960 my life. So you get into the line, and then 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.560 you don't have to take off your shoes. You don't 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.040 have to take out your laptop. But somehow people still 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.320 mess this up sometimes when they're in the T s 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.400 A line. But all you have to do is when 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.319 you start getting closed, you put your phone, your keys, 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.559 and your wallet into your bag and then you put 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.600 that thing up on the little conveyor belt. You put 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.760 your suitcase up, boom, you walk right through. It makes 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.440 it so much easier. And you also have to know 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.920 which things you can and cannot wear right because there's 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.040 a certain belt that I have that will always go off. 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:13.960 But I know now that I can't wear that belt, 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.840 so I gotta keep that belt in the bag at it. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.680 I'm I'm with you. I I don't want to steal yours. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.719 I think i'd be up there. Maybe not a ninety nine, 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.280 but you're right there there those little things. You got 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.160 to pick the right line too, because you don't want 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.920 to get behind the people that that don't know that 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.480 you you can leave your shoes on. I've gotten really 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.240 good at when I lived in Chicago and I was 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.920 flying two or three times a week. Sometimes in the 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:39.959 T s A line you might have to take off 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:41.840 a heavy jacket, so I got really good at like, 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.720 while I was putting the stuff back in the pockets 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.439 and going towards the line, kind of making eye contact 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.839 with a T S A officer and being like, can 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.960 I leave this jacket on? And he'd be like, yeah, 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:54.439 you can leave it on, you know, because sometimes you 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.000 got the heavy jackets in the cold weather. So I'll 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.439 give you that. I'll give you the ninety nine in that, 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.640 all right, will what is the one random thing you 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:07.200 would make you would have rating for so much to 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.360 the chagrin of my girlfriend, I can pretty much crack 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:17.440 every knuckle or joint in my body, my nose, I 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:21.720 can crack my Yeah, I feel like that's not good. 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:27.400 It probably isn't What is the one that just gets her? 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.280 Is it just do you do the full body crack? 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.520 And she's like, oh my god stop. Yeah, it's the 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.119 it's the wake up, and then it's the hip, the knees, ankles, 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.559 and then when you go with the elbows and then 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:47.920 the fingers like all kind of in a yeah, yeah, 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.160 it's just like you're gonna die. And I'm like, no, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.760 read I've read articles about this. This doesn't actually cause 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.480 our art, right is? Maybe I don't know well, from 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.920 what I know about cracking knuckles and stuff, it's just 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.319 really it's releasing gas. So in some ways it's maybe 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.920 good that you're doing that because it reallyves the pressure 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:11.800 on a weird way to say that look and release 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:17.120 the gas. But yes, you're right on a technical tertain. 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.600 All right, you get the ninety nine and that love it? Um, okay, 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.600 mine is I feel like I get a nine nine 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:32.480 in identifying random celebrities voiceovers and commercials, Like, I feel 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.000 really good about that. And I've always it's always been 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.600 a thing that I'm like, oh, yeah, that's the dad 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.319 from Modern Family doing that Zyrtec commercial. I don't even 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.800 know his name, you know, Um, that's Lenaway doing that 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.559 A T and T. I think there's a weird Holly 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.840 Hunter did I think? Like a Pepperoni commercial ten years back. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.600 I still think about that sometimes. I just I don't 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.719 know what it is, and I'm not even super familiar 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.960 with all of the actors or no a lot of 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.320 stuff that they're in. But man, I can just if 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:03.920 I hear their voice once, so I'm like, oh, I 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:05.480 know who that is. And if I can't figure it out, 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.640 it just it gets to me so talent that no 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.559 one ever asked for. But I do. I would give 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.840 myself a ninety nine on that one. Interesting. I don't 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.040 think it's that interesting, but thank you for saying that. 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.520 No I do, because they're they're like car commercials. I'm 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.040 being into cars, So there are car commercials where it's 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.959 like that sounds like or that sounds like, well, Will 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.679 Arnett is a big voiceover guy. But you know, Brian 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.360 Cranston just did the new Fort Bronco. Anyway, all right, 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:39.120 I'm gonna stop talking about this. I could go on, yeah, yeah, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.240 if you ever need to know who is doing that, 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.720 I don't know Reese's commercial. I got you. It's will 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.839 our nut. Um. Alright, So I mean, look, who can 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.080 say who's more talented us or Christian McCaffrey after us 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.120 talking through all those things. I really don't know. I 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.400 really don't know. I think we're right up there. Um. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.040 So that is that is some news that we got 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.559 this weekend. Again, congratulations it to him on that so 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:06.440 well deserved. Um. But aside from that guy, is not 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.400 a lot of news as it pertains to what's going 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.160 to happen in the future with the NFL. Not a 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.079 lot of solid news and full disclosure. We waited on 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.800 recording this podcast until Thursday in the hopes that we would, 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.800 you know, know a little bit more about training camp 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.920 and be able to talk through all of it. Uh, 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.040 but short answers. Right now, we still don't know a lot. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.400 You know, we're operating as if everything's going to go 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.800 on schedule. But you know, Miles, I know you've been 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.920 keeping up with with all of the reports and things 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.679 like that between the NFL and NFL p A negotiations. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.880 So what are you kind of seeing in terms of 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.480 where we are right now. Yeah, I think the biggest 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.400 thing that's come out in the last day or twos 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.000 from Tom Paul Sorrow of NFL Network who basically said 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:53.240 the NFL's latest proposal to the p A still included 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:57.160 two preseason games, and the union doesn't want any preseason games, 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.920 and so the union is trying to get frequent tests 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.440 injury protection for players, UM and and things like that. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.960 So it's it's a matter of still not having answers 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.640 um and so. Plus are also reported that there's a 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.160 call scheduled for Friday between the NFL, the league in 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.240 the NFL p A and the issue with that really 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.920 is that. Look, there are two teams and the Chiefs 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.640 and the Texans who at least as of right now, 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:26.280 can have rookies reporting to training camp on Saturday, and 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.240 the rest of the league has their rookies able to 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.440 report on Tuesday as of right now. So I think 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.600 either things are going to get pushed back for rookies 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.120 um coming out of this call on Friday, and we 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:44.680 will have some sort of uh finalized report date, or 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.040 maybe we'll still just be in limbo. But I think, 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.320 you know, as I was talking to tell your white 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.600 Head last week and I talked to Russell Koon this week, 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.280 you're the the NFL is just it's necessarily running out 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.760 of time, but it's starting to get to a place 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.640 where you need to have a little bit more urgency. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.560 And I think that there is urgency, but there you 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.360 want to get something settled so that everybody can start 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.080 to really plan their lives and figure out, Okay, this 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.240 is where we need to be. And also so gms 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.040 can say, if we are going to have to reduce 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.960 our rosters to seventy five players or eighty players, is 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.080 was rumored, then how are they going to be able 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:23.680 to do that like, who do they need to cut? 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.600 They need to inform these players of those types of things. Um, 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.240 so coaches need to be able to say, all right, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.200 here's what our practice schedule is definitively going to be. 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.080 Whether it's strength and conditioning and you ramp up for 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.800 a week or two and then you start getting into 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:42.440 real practice or not. You just don't have any certainty, 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.920 and it's just really hard, I think for everybody to 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.360 deal with. And I'm sure it's hard equally to come 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.840 up with a plan that is definitive because of the 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:55.320 way things keep changing throughout the pandemic. So it's it's 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.400 a tough situation for everybody. And I guess, you know, 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.280 you just got to try to figure out what a 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.720 proposal that works for both sides and then go from 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.640 there and if you have to adjust, you do. Yeah, 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.440 I agree. I think with rookies reporting within the next 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.400 few days, we're going to have to hear something soon, 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:17.880 don't you agree, Miles, Like it feels like tomorrow, whether 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.400 it gets shared with the media or not, it feels 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.200 like there have has to be some answers, right, Yeah, 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.480 I think that they're definitely have to be answers especially 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.480 because of that, you know, rookie reporting date that is 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.000 so quickly approaching, not only for the Chiefs and the Texans, 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.840 who they have their reporting date earlier because they're supposed 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.720 to start the season or a couple of days earlier 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.320 than everybody else on that Thursday night on that Thursday 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.840 night date, and that's why they have their first date. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.960 And then everybody else is on Saturday. Um, excuse me, 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.960 everybody else is the following Tuesday. But that, yes, to 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.320 answer your question, yes, you have to start getting some 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.080 sort of answers soon because of those types of things, 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.320 because these dates aren't coming up fast and furious, and 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.200 not only next Tuesday being that report date for everybody 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.080 within the following Tuesday is supposed to be the opening 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.639 day of training camp for everything else. So again, like it, 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.840 you have to be able to, I guess, get the 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.280 wheel turning on whatever is going to be the end 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.680 result here. Absolutely, And of course, you know, as we've 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.040 talked about a lot on this podcast, and you've talked 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.520 with players about, you know, number one priority is safety. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.199 But I think you've made such a good point that 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.320 we know what the NFL p A is fighting for 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.200 and what the NFL is fighting for and they're all 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.919 really important points that need to get worked out. But 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.680 then at a certain point, you're sure players just and 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.120 coaches and and and like you said, gms just want 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.080 to know what's what's going to happen. How are we 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.119 going to approach this? So, you know, I think by 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.679 the time we talk next week, we will have a 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:49.479 lot to to talk about, hopefully, UM in terms of 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.480 kind of the direction of training camp and and maybe 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.679 the season. You know, but one thing that we do 0:17:55.800 --> 0:18:02.359 know is that season will not be operating stadium wise 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.240 at full capacity for fans. UM And will I know 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:09.800 you've been involved with the Panthers efforts, UM to inform 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.119 PSL owners and fans about what's going to happen with 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.239 a reduced capacity, So can you kind of fill us 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.240 in on on where we are on that. Yes, So, 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.840 I think one term that everyone's going to get a 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:22.720 little more used to because you're gonna be hearing a 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.560 lot is this term like opt in and opt out UM. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:27.480 And I know that that was something you know, back 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.119 to the players that was being discussed with the NFL 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.919 p A. I'm not sure where that has kind of 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.680 in those negotiations. But the idea that you know, maybe 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.200 a player on a certain type of contract that might 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.800 have you know, a family or you know, have to 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:45.160 have reasons for you know, not wanting to go put 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.720 themselves in the harm's way, and you know that's kind 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.040 of part of what was what went out this morning 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:55.480 to all PSL holders was this opportunity to opt in 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.680 to say yes, I'd like to still come to as 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.240 many games as possible, I'd like to use tickets, or 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.520 just say nope, I'm good. I want to keep my 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:06.600 PSLs for either get a refund or a credit, but 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.320 I'm I'm good to stay home this year. UM. So 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.480 that was what went out this morning, essentially the idea 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.560 that if there are home games in the stadium, you're 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.680 not going to have more than twenty thousand people in it. Um. 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.520 And what went out this morning was the ticket office 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.880 essentially asking people to find out where they are. Um. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.560 I think that's the big first challenge for them is 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.679 to in order to kind of figure out how you 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.920 have groups of two or three or four socially distant 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.240 from each other in the seats in the bowl in 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:39.439 different places. You have to know how many people are 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:41.879 actually gonna try to come to games UM, and of 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.320 course they prioritize the season ticket holders UM to try 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.159 to figure out how many people want to come, how 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:50.120 many people are saying I'm good. And then once they 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:52.680 know where those people are, you know, then the next 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:54.440 steps of these things start happening. They have to figure 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.639 out where where they're gonna sit, they have to start 0:19:57.720 --> 0:19:59.720 showing the protocols they have, and you know, one of 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:03.000 the things who are working on is if your seats 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:05.920 are assigned in section one oh three for whatever, there's 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.800 gonna be times to come to the gate in order 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.919 to make sure that not all everyone company of the 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.600 game aren't all crushing in at twelve. You know, we 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:17.760 need we need space and time. So you might be 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.480 in a section that comes in between eleven thirty and 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.640