Speaker 1: Hello friends, Happy holidays, and welcome to the Happy half Hour.
Speaker 1: We've got a few more weeks of the experimental edition
Speaker 1: of the Happy half Hour because we're in the midst
Speaker 1: of a transition up here in the digital team, as
Speaker 1: you're aware of. The football team might be as well.
Speaker 1: But I have good news to share right out of
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Speaker 2: How about this, d L.
Speaker 1: We are going to have a new regular on the
Speaker 1: Happy half Hour beginning very soon.
Speaker 2: Miss Cassidy Hill is.
Speaker 1: Joining Panthers dot Com Digital to help us write. She
Speaker 1: will be getting here next week. Here's a sick joke
Speaker 1: for you that's coming down the stretch of a season.
Speaker 1: She is coming to us from the Green Bay Press
Speaker 1: Gazette in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where she covers the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. Her first game as a member of the
Speaker 1: Panthers dot Com Digital staff, we'll be against the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers, so I feel pretty good about the know
Speaker 1: your foe that week.
Speaker 2: She probably knows that foe pretty well.
Speaker 1: So we are excited to get Cassidy in here, and
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna love her. She's got an enthusiasm
Speaker 1: about her. She is has been doing this job for
Speaker 1: a while she's covered the Jaguars, she's covered the Packers.
Speaker 1: I'll let her introduce herself when she gets here, probably
Speaker 1: on this podcast in a couple of weeks. We should
Speaker 1: probably break her in Christmas week, maybe something like that.
Speaker 1: She can tell us about packing up in the middle
Speaker 1: of the season and how her new boss is real
Speaker 1: jerk by making her drive a U haul from Green Bay,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin to Charlotte in the middle of December to come
Speaker 1: start a new job. But we're excited to get her
Speaker 1: in here. She will become a regular on the Happy
Speaker 1: half Hour, and you know, there may be all kind
Speaker 1: of other changes to the Happy half Hour. You never know,
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Speaker 2: You know, I think that would be perfect.
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Speaker 2: But what do I know? So here's what I know.
Speaker 1: There are four weeks left in the regular season, beginning
Speaker 1: with this week's game against the Atlanta Falcons. It seems
Speaker 1: like forever ago when we last saw the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 1: and that's because it was It was a coach a go,
Speaker 1: It was a lot of expectations ago. It was about
Speaker 1: three months ago when this season opened up. Down in
Speaker 1: the I started to call it to Georgia Dome. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, how old am I? That Building's not even
Speaker 1: there anymore. Come on there and wake up.
Speaker 2: Have some more coffee, another delightful beverage I could use
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Yes, it's been a long time since we've
Speaker 1: seen the Atlanta Falcons coming down the stretch of the air.
Speaker 1: It's weird to say, the first place Atlanta Falcons, but
Speaker 1: that's just kind of the state of this division.
Speaker 2: And you know, that made me think.
Speaker 1: Earlier this week in the mail bag, I pointed out
Speaker 1: just how close this Panthers team is to, you know,
Speaker 1: potentially getting back in the mix for you know, first
Speaker 1: place in a bad division.
Speaker 2: That kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I've joked forever that the NFC South's kind of like
Speaker 1: a trailer park and somebody's got to be the president
Speaker 1: of the hoa And that's the way it is. This year.
Speaker 1: The Falcons are six and seven, not a great team
Speaker 1: by any stretch of the imagination, but they're you know,
Speaker 1: in first in this division. But the Carolina Panthers, to
Speaker 1: put them into context with what's going on around them.
Speaker 1: They are thirtieth in the NFL in scoring this year,
Speaker 1: averaging about fifteen point two points per game. The NFL
Speaker 1: average is between twenty one and twenty two points a game.
Speaker 2: I think the.
Speaker 1: Chargers are sixteenth in the league and scoring. They're averaging
Speaker 1: twenty one point seven points per game per game. So,
Speaker 1: just for the sake of this exercise, let's round up.
Speaker 1: Let's say twenty two points a game. If your Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers scored twenty two points and only twenty two points
Speaker 1: in every single game this season, not one point more,
Speaker 1: not one point less, they would be six and seven
Speaker 1: and tied with those Atlanta Falcons for first place in
Speaker 1: this flying division. So it just shows you if the
Speaker 1: offensive fix comes in, if they can find a coach
Speaker 1: who's able to stabilize thing, you know, it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be that far. I know there's a lot of
Speaker 1: doom and gloom out there, and I'm familiar with the
Speaker 1: internet too. I look around and everybody's like, Oh, this
Speaker 1: team's five years away from competing. I don't really think
Speaker 1: it has to be that way. When you think about
Speaker 1: the opportunity to make some pretty significant changes this offseason
Speaker 1: in terms of the amount of money they've got to
Speaker 1: spend on free agency, they're going to be players, and
Speaker 1: I would imagine they're going to be players for some
Speaker 1: offensive targets. I would imagine there will probably be a
Speaker 1: player for maybe some line help fortify that guard position.
Speaker 1: And it makes sense to me when you've run through
Speaker 1: as many guards as they have this year, it's natural
Speaker 1: to want to address that area, and I think that's
Speaker 1: a possibility. So when I we pulled together that number
Speaker 1: earlier this week, it just kind of just kind of
Speaker 1: blew my mind that that's how close this team actually is.
Speaker 2: That if you can go from being down.
Speaker 1: Near the bottom of the rankings offensively to just the
Speaker 1: middle of the pack with what's on hand on defense,
Speaker 1: this thing could turn around pretty quickly. I truly believe that,
Speaker 1: because no matter what happens, and you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of things can change based on the preferences of the
Speaker 1: new coach who comes in here, whoever that happens to be,
Speaker 1: And we're a couple of weeks away from even thinking
Speaker 1: about what that coaching serch is gonna look like. But
Speaker 1: depending on what the next coach wants, there's a pretty
Speaker 1: good base of talent. I mean, you begin with Derek Brown,
Speaker 1: who's playing like an absolute beast right now.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 1: Somebody made the point to me that Cortes Kennedy was
Speaker 1: once named an NFL Defensive Player of the Year on
Speaker 1: a two and fourteen Seahawks team. I don't know that
Speaker 1: Derek's gonna win Defensive Player of the Year, but Derek's
Speaker 1: been one of the most impressive defensive players in the
Speaker 1: NFL this season, and to be able to make the
Speaker 1: kind of impact he's made on a defense where not
Speaker 1: much is going right around him on the other side
Speaker 1: of the ball has been impressive. But Derek Brown's gonna
Speaker 1: be back next year. Shaq Thompson's gonna be back next year.
Speaker 1: The secondary is turnkey, you know, Dante, JC Vaughn, Xavier.
Speaker 1: Those guys are all under contracting back. Brian Burns is
Speaker 1: gonna be franchise tagged. I'm certain, I'm almost certain of
Speaker 1: it if they don't get a deal done prior to
Speaker 1: free agencies. So I think you're looking at the beginnings
Speaker 1: of what could be a pretty good defense, no matter
Speaker 1: who the coach is, and then if you can make
Speaker 1: those additions on offense, you never know things could turn around,
Speaker 1: but that's to be determined at a date in the future.
Speaker 1: For right now, we're gonna continue. I've kind of gotten
Speaker 1: into this project a little bit. We started this as
Speaker 1: a little bit of a lark of Darren trying to
Speaker 1: fill a little time in this happy half hour by
Speaker 1: letting you listen to someone other than Darren Yell at
Speaker 1: the Cloud. And I've been going to around the building
Speaker 1: talking to the support staff folks who keep up football
Speaker 1: team moving. We started with Kate Callaway, director of Performance Nutrition.
Speaker 1: We've gone through the training room. We talked to assistant
Speaker 1: Special Teams coach Devin Fitzimmons, even though I used his
Speaker 1: government name there. Fitz told us some great Chris Tabers
Speaker 1: stories the other week, and this week I wanted to
Speaker 1: kind of get into another area that I don't think
Speaker 1: a lot of people have a clear picture of what
Speaker 1: actually happens in. I had the opportunity to sit down
Speaker 1: and visit with Jeremy Scott. Jeremy is the head strength
Speaker 1: and conditioning coach who oversees the entire weight room operation
Speaker 1: down there for the football team, and Jeremy was good
Speaker 1: enough to share some time with me and kind of
Speaker 1: explain how they go about keeping guys ready and keeping
Speaker 1: guys strong for what is really a grind of an
Speaker 1: NFL season, And it's pretty enlightening. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people have this perception that NFL weight
Speaker 1: rooms just a bunch of racks of bench presses and
Speaker 1: squat racks that you know, guys are in there grinding
Speaker 1: out heavy weight and banging around, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of a lab down there.
Speaker 2: But let's let Jeremy explain this.
Speaker 1: He's the scientist. He knows how this stuff works. So
Speaker 1: here's our conversation with Jeremy Scott. All Right, as promised
Speaker 1: head strength and conditioning coach, Jeremy Scott joins us here
Speaker 1: on the Happy half Hour. Jeremy, appreciate you taking a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes. No, it's a busy time of year.
Speaker 3: It is a busy time of year. But I'm happy
Speaker 3: to be here and you know, get some information out
Speaker 3: to the fans and give them a little insight on
Speaker 3: what we do here and the wait when during the.
Speaker 1: Season, Right, that's one of the first things I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you. I mean, it's we're going into the
Speaker 1: last month of the season. People talk about the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: How is strength training and what you do with guys
Speaker 1: here in the weight room different in December than it
Speaker 1: is in November or October, September, or even March.
Speaker 3: So March and the off season we obviously allowed to
Speaker 3: train them a lot more, a lot more volume, a
Speaker 3: lot more days. We'll run a four day split routine
Speaker 3: with those guys during the off season. Right now, our
Speaker 3: main concern is recovery, and they're so at this point
Speaker 3: in the year, their bodies are fatigued and beat up,
Speaker 3: but we still need to lift and move and keep
Speaker 3: ranges of motion active and allow them to recover from
Speaker 3: the game. So that's probably the biggest part of what
Speaker 3: we're trying to do right now. And if anything, we
Speaker 3: cut back a little bit of volume on the guys
Speaker 3: that are playing a lot of reps. We get a
Speaker 3: rep count every Monday morning and who had the most reps,
Speaker 3: and we'll go down through that list and we'll kind
Speaker 3: of go over their lifting plan and talk about where
Speaker 3: we might want to cut some things out of here
Speaker 3: and wait room to kind of make up for all
Speaker 3: the action day and on Sunday, because Sundays are so
Speaker 3: violent and the contact is so crazy and the outputs
Speaker 3: are so high in terms of their running and their
Speaker 3: efforts that the biggest thing we want to do on
Speaker 3: Mondays is kind of get them back to zero from
Speaker 3: the negative that they gave kind of put on their body,
Speaker 3: and that's our main focus on Mondays. And then they'll
Speaker 3: lift again one other time during the week, and I'd
Speaker 3: let them choose whether that's a Wednesday or a Thursday,
Speaker 3: and that'll kind of be like on the meat and
Speaker 3: potatoes lift of the week, where we're gonna come in
Speaker 3: and you know, have an Olympic variation whatever they're comfortable doing,
Speaker 3: their main squad movement's main bench movements, shin up those
Speaker 3: types of things and beyond that second day of the week.
Speaker 3: So right now, it's like I said, it's it's more
Speaker 3: about movement ranges of motion, keeping them active, keeping them
Speaker 3: from getting stiff, stretching them, mobility, all those types of
Speaker 3: things is our main concern.
Speaker 1: Is it fair to say that you mentioned in March,
Speaker 1: Is it fair to say that you build strength through
Speaker 1: the off season and then it's maintenance throughout the course.
Speaker 4: Of a four month regular season.
Speaker 3: I never, I never looked at it. I don't like
Speaker 3: that word maintained. I don't want guys coming in here
Speaker 3: with the frame of mind that we're just kind of
Speaker 3: coming in to go through the motions and maintain strength.
Speaker 3: Every time they come in here, I want them to
Speaker 3: push themselves and you know, give effort and kind of
Speaker 3: try to you know, get stronger. You know, worst case scenario,
Speaker 3: they keep the strength at the rat So what we
Speaker 3: like to do is we run three week blocks during
Speaker 3: the season. In those three weeks, you'll have like a
Speaker 3: moderate week of volume, a low week of volume, and
Speaker 3: a higher week of volume, and that's how we wave
Speaker 3: it throughout the whole year. So on the high volume weeks,
Speaker 3: the weight, the intensity or the weight on the bar
Speaker 3: isn't as much as it would be like in a
Speaker 3: low volume week. And those lovel volume weeks, we tried
Speaker 3: to reach eighty percent intensity on the squad bench like
Speaker 3: those main movements, and we feel like doing that every
Speaker 3: three weeks where they touch eighty plus percent keeps them
Speaker 3: strong throughout the year. And we just did that last
Speaker 3: week and you know, everybody did pretty well with it.
Speaker 3: And we also tracked the velocity based training will track
Speaker 3: the bar speed as well. You see, are they still
Speaker 3: moving the same weight as fast as they did in September,
Speaker 3: you know, in terms of meters per second. So we
Speaker 3: keep track of all those things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's way deeper than number of pounds on
Speaker 1: the bar, a number of rips each guy's doing. You
Speaker 1: you had talked me through some of this with Austin
Speaker 1: Corbett's recovery from the ACL when he was in here,
Speaker 1: really in that active phase for him.
Speaker 4: Getting back in here.
Speaker 1: Talk about that velocity component and how big a deal
Speaker 1: that is. I mean, you guys track every number that
Speaker 1: these guys do, but I mean that that's one that
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people are aware of that.
Speaker 4: You would track or keep up with.
Speaker 3: So we utilize the gym aware technology and that's basically
Speaker 3: a TENDO unit, and there's a bunch of different ones
Speaker 3: out there, but we feel this one that we attached
Speaker 3: to the iPad gives us the best information that we
Speaker 3: can have and it just measures the bar speed. So
Speaker 3: if a guy's moving let's say four hundred and five
Speaker 3: pounds on the squad at point eight meters per second
Speaker 3: in September, and you know, if we put that on
Speaker 3: the bar now and it's point five, then we see
Speaker 3: how the fatigue is set in and his ability to
Speaker 3: produce force has been affected by the game and the
Speaker 3: accumulation of everything that goes on during the season. But
Speaker 3: it allows us to kind of self regulate where we
Speaker 3: have the certain rep schemes, the certain weights that we
Speaker 3: want them to use, but we also have the speeds
Speaker 3: that coordinate with those weights, and if they can't hit
Speaker 3: those speeds, we will lighten the weights up to make
Speaker 3: sure that they hit those speeds. So it's kind of
Speaker 3: like a self autoregulatory process with the central nervous system
Speaker 3: that if we have a certain weight on the bar
Speaker 3: and the guy played a lot and is just shot,
Speaker 3: then this speed will tell us that he's shot, and
Speaker 3: we'll adjust the weights from there to get them up
Speaker 3: to the speeds that we want them at. So let's say,
Speaker 3: like I said, at four h five is move and slow,
Speaker 3: then we'll drop the weight to try to get them
Speaker 3: up to the same point eight for you know, just
Speaker 3: as the number thrown out there, and we'll adjust the
Speaker 3: weights they get them back up to that speed. Because
Speaker 3: the speed of the movements really what we're focused on right now.
Speaker 3: And you know how the movement pattern looks you know,
Speaker 3: this is how's the squad look, you know, because a
Speaker 3: lot of guys, you know, if if they're not looking
Speaker 3: good on the warm upsets, you're not gonna look good
Speaker 3: on them. We're starting to add the weight, so we
Speaker 3: always keep that in mind as well. So and we
Speaker 3: also have a lot of modifications so we'll make with
Speaker 3: the guys during the year, you know, to your point
Speaker 3: with you know, a guy that maybe started off to
Speaker 3: your squatting and now does a belt squad because say
Speaker 3: it's taking an alignment for example, because his low back
Speaker 3: is so shot and the knees are sore and those
Speaker 3: types of things. So, you know, mister and missus Stepper
Speaker 3: have given us the opportunity, you know, with Fit and
Speaker 3: Down to get all this equipment that we need to
Speaker 3: kind of train around all these injuries that we see
Speaker 3: during the year.
Speaker 4: And that's one of the things that is kind of amazing.
Speaker 1: I think people have this perception in their mind of
Speaker 1: what a weight room looks like, but this looks like
Speaker 1: a computer lab attached to a weight rec I mean,
Speaker 1: everything in here is is regulated, calculated, documented. I mean
Speaker 1: that's the data component of this. To me, seems like
Speaker 1: the thing that nobody realized what's going on. This is
Speaker 1: not a guy walking around the gym carrying his clipboard
Speaker 1: with him writing down.
Speaker 3: Number our rips.
Speaker 4: This is this is science.
Speaker 3: It is science, and you can ignore it. And you know, shoot,
Speaker 3: when I started, I was back at Pennstane in ninety six,
Speaker 3: that we don't have any of this right right, but
Speaker 3: the ability to track guys, to see the speeds that
Speaker 3: they're moving at things, they get them on the force
Speaker 3: plates during the week. We have them to do nord board,
Speaker 3: which is any centric hamstring monitor, so we can see
Speaker 3: you know, any fatigue and the hamstrings fatigue and their jumps,
Speaker 3: their ability to jump, their ability to absorb force as
Speaker 3: that kind of goes down during the year. It just
Speaker 3: allows us. It's another tool that allow us to make
Speaker 3: the adjustments we need to kind of, you know, get
Speaker 3: them back. I always use the word move the needle
Speaker 3: in the right direction, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 3: that's our main focus right now. So like the other
Speaker 3: modalities that we have, you know that we're seeing right
Speaker 3: now is a lot of party. Like again, I always
Speaker 3: go back through the line because they're in a battle
Speaker 3: every play, so sometimes their first lift of the week
Speaker 3: or training session, will do it in the pool, you know,
Speaker 3: unload the joints, get them in there. There's a compression
Speaker 3: with being in the water to kind of help flush
Speaker 3: out all the you know, the byproducts are playing in
Speaker 3: the game. So we'll utilize the pool a lot during
Speaker 3: this year as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is there a misconception that you think people have
Speaker 1: about what happens in that weight room in there that
Speaker 1: doesn't match up the reality of what you guys do
Speaker 1: today today.
Speaker 3: I think everybody just thinks it's always like heavy squats
Speaker 3: and heavy bench and it's not. You know, you can't
Speaker 3: come in here and just can continually beat down, you know,
Speaker 3: their muscle scalable system in here with everything else they're
Speaker 3: having to deal with. It's not just games, you know,
Speaker 3: and either's practice. There's player loads that are in practice,
Speaker 3: and you know, it's not it's not like they don't
Speaker 3: do anything during the week. So there's that accumulation going
Speaker 3: way back to it. You can even go back to
Speaker 3: oks if you want, but especially during August, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of accumulation on their bodies right now. So what
Speaker 3: we're doing here again is that the main thing is movement.
Speaker 3: Want them to move well, so again with all the
Speaker 3: modifications that we have the ability to make in here,
Speaker 3: I think that's you know, the misconception that it's kind
Speaker 3: of like the grassroots train training. Well, we have to
Speaker 3: utilize a lot of other things because a lot of
Speaker 3: guys don't have the ability to squad anymore. They struggle
Speaker 3: with some of the Olympic variations that we do, so
Speaker 3: we have things for them for that, like med ball
Speaker 3: work and those types of things. We have a furnomax.
Speaker 3: So everything we try to do right now is train
Speaker 3: them hard, train smart, but everything is trying to be
Speaker 3: joint friendly at this point in time because we still
Speaker 3: feel like their ability to come in here, you know,
Speaker 3: and move the weights we want to move is important.
Speaker 3: Even with three weeks left, it's still important. So it's
Speaker 3: not like we get to the point where we stop training.
Speaker 3: And I think the other thing that we get that
Speaker 3: I didn't mention before with the gymalware technology is creates
Speaker 3: intent and it creates competitiveness where guys might be working
Speaker 3: out on the same rack and you might see someone
Speaker 3: move a weight at a certain speed, Well, the next
Speaker 3: guy's going to try to move that way to certain speed.
Speaker 3: So it kind of keeps it interesting with the guys,
Speaker 3: and it kind of helps us with the culture and
Speaker 3: the environment that we want here. Were guys are pushing
Speaker 3: each other and competing, so that never changes, you know,
Speaker 3: that's always the same guys. You can kind of get
Speaker 3: on them another, and that's what we want.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an environment in here. It absolutely is.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you see when guys are in here,
Speaker 1: especially during the off season, if guys recovering from an
Speaker 1: injury or something, that pushing each other is a pretty
Speaker 1: important component of what you do here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. And I always looked at this place
Speaker 3: as like their refuge because you know, there's there's no
Speaker 3: cameras in here. It's just them being themselves and being
Speaker 3: around their teammates and pushing themselves to get better. And
Speaker 3: I always thought, you know, you know, champions and championships
Speaker 3: are one when no one's watching, and that's basically what
Speaker 3: the weight room is. You know, there's just them and
Speaker 3: us and their coaches and they're solving here together kind
Speaker 3: of pushing one another. So I think I love the
Speaker 3: atmosphere these guys come in with. You know what, you know,
Speaker 3: we're talking about misconceptions. You know, there might be that
Speaker 3: misconception out there that you know, when you make a
Speaker 3: team the NFL, then they don't train as hard. You know.
Speaker 3: I've heard that when I was in college, and that's
Speaker 3: I couldn't be further from the truth, especially here. You know,
Speaker 3: these guys come in they're no business like, take care
Speaker 3: of their stuff. They understand the importance of it, and well,
Speaker 3: you know, they're making their living with their bodies, so
Speaker 3: they understand the importance of everything that we do. And
Speaker 3: I'm really happy with the mindset they always come in
Speaker 3: here with, you know, especially you know we're having a
Speaker 3: rough year, but they're still coming in here and pushing
Speaker 3: one another and continually trying to get better. And I
Speaker 3: think that's what pays off it, you know, at the
Speaker 3: end of the.
Speaker 1: Day, no doubt, no doubt. Now tell me how long
Speaker 1: you've been with the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 3: This is my fourth season. Previously it's twenty four years.
Speaker 3: At the college level, so I started at Penn State.
Speaker 3: Then my first head strength job was at Temple University,
Speaker 3: and then I was at Baylor University and now here.
Speaker 1: So what's the biggest difference in dealing with an eighteen
Speaker 1: year old college body and a twenty five to thirty
Speaker 1: year old NFL body.
Speaker 3: Well, the eighteen year olds can recover really quick, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. You could basically beat them down
Speaker 3: wherever you want, they're going to recover. So that's probably
Speaker 3: the biggest difference, quite honestly. But as the you know,
Speaker 3: the guys get older, and obviously the biggest difference is
Speaker 3: we're dealing with mature professional guys that I again understand
Speaker 3: the importance of making their living with their bodies. So
Speaker 3: they're going to do all the things. They're going to
Speaker 3: get the soft tissue work, they're going to get the massages,
Speaker 3: they're gonna use a lot of the modalities that we
Speaker 3: have here like the red light therapy and the dry
Speaker 3: floating and those types of things, you know, to take
Speaker 3: care of themselves. So that's probably the biggest difference quite honestly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how old would a football player need to be
Speaker 1: to benefit from getting in a weight room. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's a big topic with you players and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. How young can you be and still
Speaker 1: get the benefit of strength training.
Speaker 3: Well, I think you could. You could start fairly early.
Speaker 3: And again it's all about movement. You're not going to
Speaker 3: you know, put a thousand pounds on a new year
Speaker 3: old's back or anything like that. But like, you know,
Speaker 3: basic movement patterns or basic movement patterns. So like my
Speaker 3: son is thirteen, you know, and I already have him
Speaker 3: doing a lot of things, you know. But again, it's
Speaker 3: just about the movement. It's not about the weight. So
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be afraid to train kids as long as
Speaker 3: you know you're being smart with what they're doing. You know,
Speaker 3: they're they're pretty you know, at that age, they can
Speaker 3: move pretty well. You know, they haven't had the rigors
Speaker 3: of anything else on their body, so their ranges of
Speaker 3: motion are pretty crazy. But I think it could benefit everybody,
Speaker 3: you know, as long as you're smart how you're going
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's the key of what's going on in here.
Speaker 1: I think of anything I've learned and being around this
Speaker 1: staff and the people trying to keep all these people together, it's.
Speaker 4: The being smart about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, everything down here is very intentional, it's very measured,
Speaker 1: it's very calculated. It's a big job keeping a football
Speaker 1: team strong and ready for a seventeen game season.
Speaker 4: You guys have done a good job with it.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. And I think the biggest thing is
Speaker 3: the communication with the players. You know, they have ownership
Speaker 3: over what they do too, so we'll always have the
Speaker 3: conversations with them. If they don't feel like doing that
Speaker 3: this week for whatever reason, hey let's do this instead.
Speaker 3: So it's not like they're ever getting out of anything,
Speaker 3: but we will make adjustments where they're going to train
Speaker 3: the same way, but maybe use something different, you know,
Speaker 3: And for sake of argument, if a guy's shoulders are
Speaker 3: beat up, will put them on a chest press machine
Speaker 3: instead of making them do dumbelt and a barbell bench.
Speaker 3: So little things like that. I think that helps guys
Speaker 3: understand that we're here to take care of them and
Speaker 3: we'll work with them, and they'll work with us and
Speaker 3: try to get the best results as we can, you know,
Speaker 3: during the course of the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very good, Jeremy. I appreciate you taking a few minutes. No,
Speaker 1: it's a busy day down here.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you coming in, man, keep.
Speaker 2: Bounding there we go all right.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I'm ready to go
Speaker 1: lift heavy things, maybe flip a car over, something like that.
Speaker 1: Every time I come out of Jeremy's office or walk
Speaker 1: past the weight room.
Speaker 2: I feel like Hans and Franz, I want to pomp
Speaker 2: you up.
Speaker 1: There's your dated pop culture reference from Darren this week.
Speaker 1: That's about what DL's over here behind the board right now.
Speaker 1: That's probably what a thirty year old pop culture reference
Speaker 1: Kevin Nelan, Dana Carvey, Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2: Hans and Franz, what are going to pomp you up?
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's what you people came here for, dated
Speaker 1: pop culture references.
Speaker 2: Those are my specialty.
Speaker 1: Fortunately, Jeremy Scott's specialty is something far more important to
Speaker 1: a football operation, so we appreciate him taking a few
Speaker 1: minutes to visit with us. We will continue this exercise
Speaker 1: at points in the future. I will figure out who
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to at some point in the next
Speaker 1: week before we have a chance to visit again, and
Speaker 1: very soon when we visited again, as I mentioned in
Speaker 1: the top of the podcast, we will be joined by
Speaker 1: my new BFF, Cassidy Hill, who is en route from
Speaker 1: the frozen tundra to the unfrozen tundra off Bank of
Speaker 1: America Stadium. And oh, by the way, it's still Bank
Speaker 1: of America Stadium. That's this week's big news. Or our
Speaker 1: friends at Bank of America had decided to continue their
Speaker 1: relationship with this organization. So that's great because it means
Speaker 1: I don't have to learn another new thing, and as
Speaker 1: we all know, when Darren has to learn new things,
Speaker 1: things get messed up. So anyway, we appreciate you guys
Speaker 1: visiting with us, We appreciate Jeremy Scott sharing a little
Speaker 1: bit of his time, and we will see you next
Speaker 1: week or a Christmas week edition. Maybe would that be
Speaker 1: a Christmas week edition. It's leading into a Christmas Eve game,
Speaker 1: so we'll call it the Christmas Eve edition of the
Speaker 1: Happy Half Hour. I don't know, you never know. We
Speaker 1: may have eggnog. We'll see, but we'll see you next week.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us.