WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 94: Full Circle 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.160 This week on the Happy Half Hour. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.520 It is such a full circle kind of moment for 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:09.879 the franchise, and it's really cool that Frank Reich, I mean, 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:11.960 he made a point of it during OTA's in Mini 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.800 caamp that he wanted to incorporate these guys bring him here. 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:16.800 I mean he's holding up his into the bargain. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.040 They're showing up and it's absolutely awesome to see them 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:21.360 interact with the current team talks. 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:26.880 To try It's time for the Happy Half Hour with 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.760 your friends. Kristin Balboni, Augusta Stone, and Darren Gannon. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.720 All Right, good morning everybody. I think it's morning. I 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.560 think it's Thursday. Question Mark, I think it's the day 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.239 after fan Fest. Yes, we are in Charlotte. It is 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:48.560 post fan Fest, pre another week of training camp. I'm Darren, 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.559 she's Augusta. This is the Happy Half Hour. Welcome to it. 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.080 Augusta, good morning, Good morning. 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:56.360 We talked about what day of the week it was 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.640 before we started recording, because to be honest with you, 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.920 every day it feels like every day of the week, 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.600 and also none of them. Yeah, like I don't know 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:05.680 where we are Thursday. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.320 It's kind of like a Saturday now. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.160 Because we're in the lull between the four day the 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.200 four day weeks. Frank Craig talked about it last night 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:13.720 and I was like, you know, you're right camp is 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.000 being split up like that, but it doesn't. So it 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.880 just kind of like, I guess herky jerks your way 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.399 through the whole week. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:21.280 So here we are. 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:28.920 Frank has rent the bonds of time by creating four 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:33.160 day weeks instead of seven day weeks. There is nothing 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.880 tradish about this schedule. He's also taken some liberties with 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.480 the English language. We'll get into FanFest and all the 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.360 stuff we've learned in training camp in a second, but 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.200 I just need to start there because that shook me 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.200 last night when we are sitting there, and you know, 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:52.240 I asked Frank about Kamu Grugia Hill with another interception 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.080 his third of camp, and in the context of Shaq 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.040 Thompson was talking about and the other day, and he said, 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:58.920 the way that guy's making plays, we got to get 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.960 him on the field. So Frank, I said, with the 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.520 way this defense is set up, I mean, Shaq and Frank, 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.760 you are pretty entrenched. I said, is there a way 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.920 to use somebody like that within the scope of the system, 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.120 and Frank goes on to talk about, you know, the 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.800 way the Camus made plays that kind of thing, and 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:20.000 he said, not everything has to be tradish. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.360 It was so good it was. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.680 It was so good the way he delivered it that 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:27.480 nobody in that act media room even noticed it. Like 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.280 and then it ends and we all kind of look 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.360 at each other and we're like, did he just draw 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:32.920 like the newest like. 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.600 Slang term of twenty twenty three tradish? I love it. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.680 I need to go talk to his daughters or something 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.080 to see if this is a thing he says a lot, 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:46.160 or if there are other conventions that he is using 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.400 or you know, breaking conventions. I guess you could say, 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.960 but who knew Frank r like linguistic pioneer. He is 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.880 out there inventing words and saying stuff that I was 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.400 not expecting a sixty one year old Frank Craig to say. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.960 So the best part of it all was whenever you 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.880 asked Jeremy Chin about his role, which I mean, it 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.080 was so perfect that he's out here saying in a 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.960 non tradish way. And then we bring in probably the 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.200 one of the more non tradish role players on the defense, 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.359 and then you found just a beautiful way to ask 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.600 the question. Jeremy chen as earnest as ever. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.720 Yeah, And I just asked Jeremy, I said, Jeremy, Frank 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.640 was just in here and he uses this word tradish. 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.360 Do you think of Frank as someone who uses words 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.440 like that or does he do it a lot? And 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.120 Jeremy just dead pan looks straight at me and he says, 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.160 I don't even know what that means. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:38.160 It's beautiful. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:39.760 It makes you think that it was one of those 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.640 you know, it was late after FanFest. We've been doing 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.680 practices early, like kind of delirium, like BLUs Frank. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.760 I'm sure he was like, oh my goodness, here I go. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.800 You know, I truly am curious now. And this is 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.600 my journalistic vow to you, our listeners at the Happy 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.200 half Hour and our readers at Panthers dot com. We're 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.480 gonna find out more about this if there are other things. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.960 Frank Reich says, I just, I mean, Frank Reich has 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.560 big dad joke energy, and he and I are of 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:12.280 an equivalent generation, or at least nearby each other generally generationally, 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.520 so I feel like we can kind of communicate in 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:20.680 dad joke and he you know, I think there's more there. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:22.400 I think we've got to get to the bottom of 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.480 this and and see what else he's dropping in staff 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.440 meetings or team meetings or or what. Because that one 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.360 caught me quite by surprise. That was not anything I 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.760 was expecting. That'll go down in the lexicon along with 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.039 John Fox's he picked a bad day to have a 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:43.160 bad day. It's gonna be the great one liners in 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:48.800 stadium history. That and Frank Reich describing something as tradish 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.240 is definitely gonna be up there. So other than that, 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:57.040 other than his stylings with the English language, has there 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.600 been anything or I guess we should just start with 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.560 fan because that was last night. Yeah, as you kind 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.599 of took in that practice, and a lot of times 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.680 fan fast is almost glorified walk through there out there 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:09.840 in shorts and shells and running around and as long 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.760 as somebody throws the ball deep every now and in, 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.760 fans seem to enjoy that. But last night was a 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.640 little bit closer to an actual football practice as you 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.640 kind of watched that thing in the context Augusta of 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.520 what we've learned in the last week and a half. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.720 Was there anything last night that kind of jumped out 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:25.120 at you. 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.479 Yeah. I think one of the main things was again 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.240 we saw I think we talked about it a lot. 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.640 It may become not a tired storyline, but just the 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.360 locked in nature of Bryce Young and it was really 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.680 cool to see kind of in the place where he's 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:39.599 going to end up playing, you know, all of his 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:43.680 games here. I think there were I was talking with 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.080 one of my friends in the press box, but the 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.719 way the crowd erupted every time they completed a pass, 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.919 it was just a and you get to. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.000 See the fanfare of it all. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.760 I think my favorite thing about FanFest is that, especially 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.559 this year, because it was a great crowd. It feel 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.000 it felt, you know, football is back, everything is everything 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.960 his gram but no, I mean Bryce, Bryce is comfortably 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.520 obviously QB one, which we knew before we even got 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.240 to training camp. And then Frank right just went ahead 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.000 and squashed that bug first day and he was out there, 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:12.800 he was in command. He was making past it or 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.520 making throws. I think DJ Chark caught his you know. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:18.760 A daily big catch. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:19.240 Uh. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:20.640 DJ Shark is just. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.880 The star of camp in a way that all the fans, 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:25.880 you know, light up the second he catches the ball, 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.080 and he's always doing some sort of aerobics, whether it's 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.120 been in his back or turning around or just he's 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.440 he's really flashing. It was a lot of the and 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:34.880 again a lot of the same. I know you talked 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:38.240 about Kamu, but I mean his third pick. It's like, basically, 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.960 we took what we've been seeing in Spartanburg brought it 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:42.320 here very similar. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.160 And that's that's not necessarily a bad thing. I think 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:45.640 it's showing that consistency. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.840 I mean, it looked like it had looked and now 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.480 it's you know, on the field, on the turf, in 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:50.839 front of all the all the fans. 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:51.720 I thought it was really cool. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.120 Yeah, speaking of nomenclature, I'm not particularly comfortable with. I'm 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.520 still a little bit at odds with QB one. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.240 I'm still not on board with QB one. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:05.039 I'm not sure, Uh, we really needed to shorten starting 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.000 quarterback in that way. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.320 But apparently that's a thing that's taken hold. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.000 Is that generational, that's a young person thing gotta be. 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:13.960 I think it has a lot to do with texting too, 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.760 because I think I've probably texted or typed out QB 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.840 one more than I say it It's like sometimes if 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.640 I'm if I say something funny or you say something funny, 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:22.680 I'll say LOL to you. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.240 It's the same thing. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.280 It's like we started speaking like that, like l O 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.160 l O MG QB one B y. 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:34.200 Nine Bryce young nine B why nine? That's I'm pinning it. No, 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:35.880 I've never heard it, but I'm pinning it right now 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:36.680 on the Happy half hour. 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.080 Oh okay, calling your shot. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:40.120 You're nine. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.120 You're like Frank Raich. You're just inventing new words as 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:43.800 you go along. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:49.160 This is not numb. There are rules of it at 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:49.720 any rate. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.720 At any rate, No, I always get a kick out 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.000 of fan Best because fan Fest is probably along with 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.360 training camp. If you're if you're not able to get 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.680 to Spartanburg, and again I've said it before, I said 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.920 it again. Everybody should make that trip at some point 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.920 in their life. If you haven't been ninety minutes down 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.080 the road, if you're in the greater Charlotte area, here 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.400 easy to get to. Traffic's not that bad, the construction 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.000 is not nearly as bad as it's been in past years, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.320 so it's pretty accessible. You get to see the players 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.240 in a different kind of way. You're up close you 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.800 get to see them before and after practice when they're 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.200 walking in and out and everybody's in a pretty good mood. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.680 So I just think from a fan standpoint, it's having 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.520 that kind of close contact with these guys because this 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.079 is the last chance you're going to get once the 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.440 regular season starts. Football teams are basically sequestered and they're 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.640 not out there where you can see them and touch 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.480 them and talk to them and laugh with them that 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.240 kind of thing. So I think training camps, neat and 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.559 FanFest has its same kind of energy. I mean, you 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.760 look up in the crowd and you see one of 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.319 the long timers like Jones. She's up there with her 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.680 big frank head up in the crowd, and everybody's just 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.520 having a good time and there was an energy and listen, 0:08:59.600 --> 0:08:59.920 I know. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.240 Soh It's easy. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.079 For people to get caught up in the new every offseason. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.920 I mean, whether it's Detroit, whether it's Miami, whether it's 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.280 Houston with a brand new quarterback, every team is sitting 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.160 there right now saying, hey, I really like where we're at. 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.680 There's an enthusiasm here, there's an excitement, and it's natural 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.520 for every team to feel that way, right now, but 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:26.160 right now with the Carolina Panthers, that sense of optimism 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.840 is tangible. I mean you don't have to watch practice long, 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.480 you don't have to turn around and survey the crowd. 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.959 And those crowds in Spartanburg have been huge. I mean 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.840 since we did this last I mean that first day 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.360 of camp down there, people were lined up at five 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.120 point thirty in the morning before practice, before the gates 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:48.080 opened at nine for a ten fifteen practice to get 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:49.400 in to see this football team. 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.720 And it's been a minute since we've been there. 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:57.000 And I think the combination of what Frank's brought, you know, 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:01.199 so much excitement with Bryce Young, there's just a different 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.520 feeling now. The other day at Back Together Saturday, just 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.839 seeing the way fans responded to realizing Chris Gamble was 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.040 in the house, the great old cornerback from the teams 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.920 of the two thousands, who is moving back to the 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.319 Charlotte area and is is going to kind of get 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:17.400 entrenched here again. 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:18.160 Uh. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:22.160 Seeing seeing Charles Johnson, seeing Mike Rucker and those guys 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.520 milling around, even from them talking to them on the sidelines, 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.360 you can sense that something's cooking here. You can sense 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.920 that they want to be around it. They want to 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.920 see it because there is a thing happening. 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:36.960 Well, you wrote down the roster of people who were 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.440 here yesterday being on it before fan fas. Twenty four 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:40.600 was the official count. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.880 I think the four legends in twenty. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.839 Four legends and I mean they just kept rolling out. 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:45.720 The name's kept, you know. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.000 I mean it was so cool to me, Like Kaywan 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.319 Short was there, We had a who is Mike Rucker 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:51.960 was there. 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:54.640 On and on train Captain. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.560 Boston. He was over there, fist pumping fans. It's on 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.280 an monocrass in the stands like it was. It was 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:02.040 so cool. 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.560 I mean it's it's I mean, not to labor the 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.200 Frank Reich, you know, full circle moment, but you have 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.079 all this, you know, nostalgia coming in. You know, all 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.400 the legends being honored. They're around all the time. Luke 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.560 Keigley was at practice the other day. I mean he's 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.520 all around all the time, but he was there in Spartanburg. 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.079 You know, Steve Smith showing up and doing really awesome 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.559 features with Jonathan Mingo, which you can see on Panthers 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:23.720 dot com, Grilling the Rookie on the Grill. 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.080 Awesome awesome. 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:30.920 It is such a full circle kind of moment for 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.280 the franchise, and it's really cool that Frank Reich, I mean, 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.360 he made a point of it during OTAs in mini 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.200 camp that he wanted to incorporate these guys bring him here. 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.360 I mean, he's he's holding up his into the bargain. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.480 They're showing up and it's it's absolutely awesome to see 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.640 them interact with the current team this, you know. I 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.480 mean you look around the field and like you said, 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.559 there's a lot of changes. I mean, the whole offense 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.720 other than the offensive line, is brand new guys. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.560 A lot of them are rookies and young guys, and 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.040 it's so exciting. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.280 I think it's the time where we're marrying the past 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.560 with the president and they're all kind of getting in, 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:00.320 like you said, on the excitement going on right now. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:01.760 And I thought the Legends thing was awesome. I just 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.400 wanted to give a shout out for that because that 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:04.480 was so cool. 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.280 Yeah, Jeremy Kelly and David Monroe, Heather Arlan, So those 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.880 guys are doing a great job, you know, bringing those 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.640 guys back around and then making them feel welcome once 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.480 they're here. So I just think that it's it's cool 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.280 having those guys around and you could see it. 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.760 I mean, it's one thing for young guys. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:22.240 I mean a lot of these guys aren't going to 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.960 know who Mike Rucker necessarily was, although Chris Tabor knows 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.880 him because Chris Tabor's father was Mike Rutgers high school 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.679 football coach back in Missouri. No way, fun fact. Oh 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.560 my goodness, store that away. That'll there will be a 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:41.160 test later. But I was talking to JC after the 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:45.920 back together Saturday practice, and again, if you're a fan 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.360 of recent vintage Chris Gamble was j C. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.040 Horn Before j C. Horn. 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:55.680 I mean, he was a big, tall, fast, rangy corner, 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.760 supremely athletic. Now, Chris wasn't as thick as JC, wasn't 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.800 ascessarily as physical as JC, but Chris played at Chris 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.720 played at a consistently high level as you can possibly 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.480 play without ever making a Pro Bowl, which still kind 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:11.320 of surprises me. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.760 But Chris was just so consistently good for such a. 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.880 Long time, and Jac was like, hey, I remembered watching 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.320 him play against my dad. I remember those games. I 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.520 remember seeing them go back and forth, and you know, 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.480 part of that is JC Horn watches a lot of football. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.440 But part of that is there's a respect among players 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.920 and there is a very real sense of I can 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.760 learn things from Chris Gamble in JC Horn and it 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.440 was cool listening to him talk about, you know, catching 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.200 up with him before practice and just talking about the 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.840 game itself. And so I think from that standpoint, beyond 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.440 the sheer nostalgia of it, which is and nostalgia is 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:54.480 the most powerful drug in sports, I think beyond that, 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.800 there is something for the players to gather from it. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.800 I mean, Shaq talked about, you know, seeing Charles Johnson 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.160 and remembering what it was like during the twenty tens 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.920 when were when things were better and those guys were 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.560 going good. There's there's something to it, and when those 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.439 guys are around, it means something exactly. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.000 What also plays into the coaching staff a lot of 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.360 them being former players themselves, some of them former Panthers, 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:17.560 you know. 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.240 I mean one. 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:20.800 Image that I can't get out of my head that 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.000 I just think it's so cool is Josh McCowan signing 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.640 interviews or signing autographs after practice. I Mean, he's you know, 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.360 just about as popular as some of the guys on 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.280 the roster because I mean, he's a face in himself 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.360 and he's over here on the staff stuff like that's 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.360 just really really cool to me. And that's again just 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.720 an extension of all the football knowledge. Is a lot 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.840 of on field knowledge with this staff and with the 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.120 guys coming in. So that's I mean, you know, can't 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.320 get can't get much more, you know, from the source than. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:46.600 That, right, no doubt. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:48.680 The other thing I wanted to touch base on in 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.320 this podcast, and again, there's going to be a lot 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.320 of Bryce Young content this training camp. This just in 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.240 people are excited about the kid, want to know everything 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.640 about him. And you had a chance it's last week 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.600 to kind of catch up with the Young family. Mom 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.280 and dadd Craig and Julie been there every day during 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:09.040 practice so far. They are a we're figuring out in 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.600 a hurry that that's a pretty tight knick crowd and 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.400 they have been around camp and as we've seen Bryce 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.600 sort of start to get a little more and more 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.920 comfortable here, he's cracking jokes and stuff. And you know, 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.200 there was a lot of talk about his singing at 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:25.760 the team meeting the other night when he did the 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.760 Kisha Cole song. My sources tell me that he's maybe 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:33.240 not necessarily the best singer, oh really, but he's the 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:38.720 best crown. He is an entertainer, he's a guy. Maybe 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.280 it's like Sammy Davis Junior, who's a pop culture reference 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.360 that means nothing to a gust I know that, but 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.360 not the best singer. But when he's on the stage, 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.200 all eyes are on him. And that was my report 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.200 that I picked up from some guys who were in 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.080 that room, that he just kind of knows how to 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:56.760 command the room. 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.920 But in talking to Craig and Julie, I mean, we're there. 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.960 Things they shared with you that kind of point to 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.200 that to you know, it takes him a minute to 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.280 get warmed up, but this is kind of. 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:07.720 Who he is. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.360 Yeah, well, I will say, And I couldn't find the 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.040 perfect way to weave this into the story, So this 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.320 is a perfect little podcast nugget. But his parents were 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.320 also cracking some jokes with me, because this was my 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:17.000 third or fourth. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:17.760 Time interviewing them. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:19.880 And at one point, you know, I talked about, you know, 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.880 the closeness of the family and frame my question with that, 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.840 and I can't remember if it was Julie or Craig. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:27.960 I think it may have been Julie, but she she 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.200 quips back, Oh, this is just for the media, This 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.520 is just for show, and we all start dying laughing, 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.000 because I mean, when you say those people have been 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.160 there every single day of practice, I saw him up. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.440 We actually captured a photo of it in the article. 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:41.640 They were sitting on the grass with the fans like 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.800 they weren't even in the family ten every day because 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:45.040 they're getting every angle. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:46.600 I mean, they're there as much as we are. I 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:47.880 think that's awesome to see. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.520 But but no, I mean, I think one of the 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.400 stories and I led with this in the article that 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.600 I found very compelling, was you know, they're there a lot, 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:58.160 and you can say a lot about the closeness of 0:16:58.200 --> 0:16:59.960 the family. At the same time, they'd done a really 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.600 good job with kind of the boundary setting. And Bryce 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.159 told them on his twenty second birthday, it was the 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:05.880 day veterans report big meeting day. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:07.200 He wanted to lock in on. 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.880 Being around his teammates, so he didn't have the birthday 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:11.840 dinner with his family on his actual birthday. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:13.640 He waited until after that practice. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.639 I just thought that that was really loud of the 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.240 type of person he is but also I think what 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.639 he needs to do to feel comfortable, right, he wanted 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.919 to make sure that he was with his teammates around 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:25.760 even though you know, it was a pretty big day 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:26.040 for him. 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:27.320 I mean it was the day that he reached the 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:28.440 age of everyone else on the roster. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:33.199 I'll say that he's the youngest guy, but when he 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.879 got when he was there, you know, they said that 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.800 they wanted to, you know, respect that. And then that 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:40.960 was the press conference too, where we first noticed that 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.240 he was cracking jokes and feeling comfortable. It's something about 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.960