WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 23: Accountability 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.520 Hi, this is Dewey Jenkins. When the team that manages 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.840 our Morris Jenkins website told me the most often asked 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.600 question is who is Mr Jenkins married too? You could 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:13.280 have knocked me over with a feather. I went home 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:15.800 and told my wife that I was so surprised that 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.320 I didn't know what to say. She laughed and said, honey, 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.800 my name is Renee. So now you know the team 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.720 at Morris Jenkins and I are here for the Panthers, 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.760 and we're here for you too, whenever you need us. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.479 It's time for a Happy half Hour with your friends 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:50.840 Kristin Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Bryan. That's right, it's 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:52.400 that time of the week. It's the Happy Half Hour 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.400 podcast presented by Morris Jenkins. And Mr Jenkins told me 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.480 that he loves football and he looks forward to this 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.880 show all week. When you're plumbing her air conditioning is 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:04.360 acting up, called Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:09.280 Here with my good buddies Will and Matt. Guys, how's 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.640 it going. I'm a little cold, actually, well chilly outside 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.920 to Yeah, it's a bit cold. Somebody in my house 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.200 left the cold air on. So it's like sixty two 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.080 and I woke up, So that just makes it and 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.200 you feel like it's woke up in a blizzard. Oh, 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.479 we appreciate you joining us this week. Um, so we're 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.760 gonna talk about Sunday's game, but first, will you said, 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.400 we gotta update everybody on on Teddy Bridgewater because it's 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.039 it's good news. He went down a relatively good news. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.399 I would say, uh, he went down at the end 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:41.800 of Sunday's game. But what we know at this point, um, 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.640 Matt Rule has said it is not a serious injury. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.000 That is how he is classifying. It's to that right knee. 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.760 But that's especially good news considering Teddy's past right and 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.160 it's you know, again, the previous injury was his other 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.000 his other knee on the other leg. Um, you know, 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:02.080 reports out there from Palsero after that, Um, you know, 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:04.880 a mild kind of sprain I think, I think, is 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.640 what they're saying on NFL Network. Obviously, we're recording this 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.280 Wednesday morning, so by the time you hear this, the 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.359 practice report, the injury report will probably be out. Um, 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.920 so we'll find out more, you know from Wednesday's practice 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:17.560 kind of you know, what his status will be coach 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.960 Will We'll update that again, um, and then we'll could 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.880 just kind of see, you know, today, tomorrow, Friday, you 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.080 know how much he's able to go and practice, Um, 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.880 you know how much how many reps PGA Walker Will 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.600 Greer get um and see what that looks like. Yeah, UM, 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.480 and I think that UM. You know, it's it's good 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.840 to know, even depending on what the practice reports says today, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.200 but the fact that meant Rule on Monday said he 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.240 was hopeful that Teddy would be able to practice today, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.639 um and then hopefully play in the game on Sunday. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.600 Whether either of those things happen, um, it's still a 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.680 nice sign that things are trending in the right direction 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.359 of it not being a serious injury. As Yeah, you 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.840 don't want, you know, him potentially to this to be 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:56.800 the season ender, you know, all that kind of stuff 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.280 there could have been. There's so many questions after Sunday's game. UM, 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.960 so hopefully these are all trending in the positive direction. Yeah, 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:07.120 let's talk about Sunday's game. The Panthers lost to the 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.440 Bucks at home, and it was it was a very 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.560 tough second half. Will, Um, I mean it was it 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.760 just there's no way around it. Especially the third quarter. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:20.000 It was seventeen seventeen going into the half and then um, 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.200 you know, the Bucks just took over. And you know, 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.680 I always look at numbers, is kind of the first 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.959 thing I look at, and you know, they just it 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.639 really hurt to kind of look at some of those 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.720 second half numbers in terms of both defense and and 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.119 total yards on offense. But I mean it really does 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.000 defense and offense offense. And you know, I mean the 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.480 kickoff return was great, so that was that was fun. Um. 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.120 But yeah, I mean just they that third quarter, there's 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.920 just something in there's something going on there, and you know, 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.240 they all talk about it. The media talks about it. 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.360 You know, I don't know one can really pinpoint what 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.600 it is, um, but everyone knows it's got to get 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.320 fixed because teams everyone, the opponents no too, you know, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.600 like don't think that this is just something we're talking 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.720 about here in Charlotte. You know, I guarantee you the 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.000 Detroit Lions know they want the ball or they want 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.240 to be on defense, you know, to get a three 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.880 and out. You know, Carolina coming into the game was 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.679 first in the NFL with the fewest three and ounce 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.599 in the in the league, and then you have these 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.719 three ounces in the fourth you have to turnover. You 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.800 have unable to force a punt. You know, yet another 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:27.640 game that's four games in a row where they've only 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:31.599 forced two total punts. You know what offense can function 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:32.960 when you just don't think you're going to get the 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.600 ball back. Yeah, as you said, it's it's something that's 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.360 got to get fixed, and certainly UM, coaches and players 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.880 know that. UM and I thought we're gonna do a 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:50.159 segment of overheard, Overheard. These are two quotes that really 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.640 stuck out to me. Um after the game and then 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.160 on Monday, and uh, it's it's about the way that 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:01.160 Shack addressed the team after the tem had this very, 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.480 very tough loss. So here's what Rusul Douglas had to 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.760 say on Shack's message to the team after the game. 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.000 I'm not gonna curse every other word on the media, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.279 but he said some things and he basically tell everybody, 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.280 look in the mirror, you know what I'm saying. Everybody, 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.560 like the coach has been preaching all week details leverage, 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.800 assignment and winning your one on ones, and none of 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.400 us did any of that, Like the whole team. We all, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.200 we all did bad, and he basically cursed everybody out 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.480 and said, we ain't fight hard enough, we didn't want 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.440 it more. It's a lot of stuff, he said, but 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.559 he basically just told everybody about themselves. And then Shack 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.520 elaborated further about what he had to say when he 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.320 was asked about it on Monday. Why didn't you be 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:43.640 embarrassed what happened at home? I mean, well, yeah, we're 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:47.160 damn good football team, but we gotta play as a team. Um, 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.640 and I was just frustrated. I love my teammates, love 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.520 my brothers, and I know we're gonna turn this thing around. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.360 Just happened. We didn't make our line stunt and I 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.240 just hit it is what it is. But I know 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.880 and leave that. We're gonna get that corrected. Then we're 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.680 gonna fight on and play on next week. He was 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.320 referring when he said the ninety just happened. That was 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:10.040 the Ronald Jones touchdown. Um. I thought I thought we 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.760 should start there because we can say everything we want. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.800 But I think it's it's really powerful hearing it from 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.279 Shack and the players. There's an issue. There's an issue 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.640 in that second half, there's an issue and they aren't. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.560 They aren't letting it go, which I think is good. 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:25.760 You know they you know, after that Tampao gay game 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.039 and week two is Rosal Douglas again like, hey, I 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.640 don't like this. You know you can say, you can 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.920 come up with all the reasons why, Hey we were 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:34.279 you know, if we would have gotten that two point 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.240 conversion after the kickoff Retorney would have been a seven 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:37.640 point game. And then you know, you get a stop 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:38.960 and you get the ball back and then you can score, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.960 like you can do all those things, you can do 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.040 those mental exercises. But at the end of the day, 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.480 they the score was what it was, the plays were 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.320 what they were, and they didn't like it, and that's good. 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.640 It's good to be angry and it's good too to 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.919 have that sort of like this week, this is unacceptable, 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.760 and I liked that. Not only did they not like it, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.640 Jack was preaching and were school took that message out 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.719 to the media. You know, it's it's assignment, it's being 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.520 where you're supposed to be, UM, and those were the 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.960 things that they missed. So there was a reason, um 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.320 that they've identified very quickly. It wasn't just like, oh 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.600 we got out played. We um, they beat us on 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.240 certain things like it was, it was this is the 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.040 reason why this is happening because we're not um being 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:23.640 where the coaches are telling us to be. Like I 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.200 just like that a lot that there was shock said, 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.559 this is what's going on. We need to get in line. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.280 We need to um listen to the coaches. We need 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.200 to do what we're supposed to be doing. And and 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.600 when you have guys like Douglas and Shack that not 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.320 only listening to coaches listen to them, they looked at 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.560 the tape to they know exactly who was out of position. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.040 You know, they can There's something about when your teammate, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.320 when you're holding your teammate accountable, versus maybe a coach 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.520 that you kind of hear from all the time that says, 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.040 you know, kind of the same things. When when it's 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:54.880 the guy sitting next to you in the meeting room, 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:56.920 who's next to you on the line, he's like, look 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:58.560 at the tape, like I went here and then you 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.480 went to the wrong place. You know. I think that 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.680 there's something about that accountability that really and and also 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.840 like knowing like Douglas right after he said that in 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.200 his press conferences, they asked him about third down and 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.280 he said, shoot, like we've been making excuses or we've 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.200 been saying this, that and the other. Like, I know 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.640 I messed up. I let the team down. I know 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.760 there are a number of third downplays where I didn't 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.640 make the play. And if they can't count on me, then, 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.160 you know, like, I have to be held accountable to 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.240 This isn't just like on the young guys or on 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.080 some somebody else. No, this was me. I messed up too, 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.120 So I gotta hold myself accountable. And you know, I 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.200 think that leadership, you know, is going to be you know, 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.120 that's something you can lean on and you know that 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.240 that's a bright spot in all this. Yeah, this is 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.920 the Happy half Hour podcast presented by Morris Jenkins, and 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.439 Mr Jenkins told me his plumbers and a c Tex 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.760 secretly where Panthers jerseys under their uniforms. So when you're 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.360 plumbing or air conditioning is acting up a Morris Jenkins 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.040 or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. Do you think that 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.800 this could potentially be some kind of a a turning 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.720 point or a look in the mirror moment for the 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.320 rest of the season. I certainly think it could be, 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.200 and I think there's some historical context for this. So 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.000 if you look back to the two thousand two seasons, 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.199 Carolina started three no and this was the first year 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.320 of John Fox, so new head coach. The year before, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.679 they had gone one and fifteen, you know, blew everything up. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:17.880 So they started three and oh and it's like, oh, 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.280 here we go, new head coach. You know, things are 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.079 looking great. Then they went and eight, oh and eight. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.680 By the end of November they were three and eight. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.480 In the last game in November, they lost forty one 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.640 to nothing to the Falcons, and then they finished the season. 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.319 Um yeah. And then then they finished the season four 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.480 and one to finish the year at seven and nine. 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.360 And then the next year they go to the Super Bowl. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.240 And here's part of in. You know, fans around and 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.400 be like, oh man, you know, if if you're three 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.360 and eight, just lose out, you know, go three and thirteen, 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.280 you know, try to get that second or third draft pick. 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.160 Like what are you doing? Why finished seven and nine. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.120 It's really hard to go three and thirteen, and it's 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.640 really bad to go three and thirteen in a lot 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:00.480 of ways. And part of that, right, and but you know, 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:01.760 fans are just like, oh, you know, at this point, 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.960 who cares? And they don't really see that larger picture 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.800 of what it takes to lose all those games, because like, 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.600 for instance, Jake Dilone, you know, you've done so many 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.400 things with him, you know, over the course of the 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.080 spring and summer, and he tells this story about when 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:16.560 he was a free agent at the end of that 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.400 oh two season and he was looking between Carolina and Dallas. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.920 He could have gone to Dallas, and one of the 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.200 things that was a deciding factor for him was the 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.400 fact that the last game of that season, Carolina had 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.200 nothing to play for, nothing at all. New Orleans did. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.280 New Orleans was still potentially getting in onto a playoff spot. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.640 You know, they could have had some things fall their way, 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.320 and Carolina came into the Superdome and they kicked their butt, 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.320 and Jake was on the sideline being like, who is 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:46.679 this team that is out here fighting for everything, scrapping 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.560 for every loose ball, you know, with so much energy 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.080 that's just killing us. You know, like, who are what 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.880 are they about? I'm interested in them because there's something 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.600 about them that when there's nothing to play for and 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.320 you're playing for everything that you want to be part 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:01.800 of that group. And so that was a big part 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.520 of why he came. And then all ofviously, you know, 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.240 we know what happened to know three, you know, and 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.040 so like that. I think those things speak to not 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.679 only the group internally in the locker room, but as 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.800 a part of, you know, a larger statement to the 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.640 NFL two potential free agents, to everybody about this is 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.719 the culture we have. And I think a lot of that, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.439 you know, continued on in in kind of the Panthers. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.200 You know, they've always been really good in December, much 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.679 to like our fans chagrined about wanting to get these 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:34.880 high draft picks. The Panthers always keep fighting, they keep pounding. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:36.720 I mean, let's be real, you know, and and know 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.080 four they finished four and one December to finish seven 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.240 and nine. They went to the playoffs next year. In 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.720 two thousand and seven, you know, they were way under five. 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.760 They finished three and two with Matt Moore's quarterback after 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.719 everyone got hurt, you know, and then they went to 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.600 the playoffs next year. Like there's something about, you know, 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.640 a team that keeps fighting that that there. I do 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.240 believe that carries into the off season in a way 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.600 when you have the same people, when you know this 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.840 group is coming back, you want them to keep fighting. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:04.760 You want them to have that taste going into the 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:08.560 off season. Well and and so, uh my perch home 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.200 games is the operational zone in the first row. And 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.679 from where I was, I did not think there was 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.760 a lack of effort. Um execution, yes, but effort those 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:21.559 guys we were fighting until the end um and I 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.680 like to see that. So I think that I think 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.319 this game against the Lions on Sunday at home again, 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.480 I think is going to be um is going to 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.600 tell us more about maybe what we'll see going forward 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.760 the rest of the season than that one half did. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.040 Because because here's my next question to you, how much 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.640 does this one bad half change the outside narrative or 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:46.360 the overall picture of this team right now? Because because look, 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:50.280 Tampa Bay coming into this game against the Panthers got 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.839 she lacked by the Saints three. Do you think they're 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.480 a bad team. I think a lot of people were 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.360 thinking they were a bad team after that game, which 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.360 is why I think the outside narrative a lot of 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.360 ways is just weak. Yeah, it's week to week it 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.680 is what it is to say that, you know, I 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.760 think this Panthers team for for the third quarter issues, 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.200 the third down issues, um you know, not being able 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.040 to get off the field on on defense, I think 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.160 this team is is the team that keeps it close 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.959 and and placed until the very end it is within 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.840 one score of of winning the game versus the team 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.200 that we saw have a really bad half versus Tampa Bay. Now, 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.560 I think we'll we'll know more, um against the lines 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:37.200 to see how they respond. But I I think that um, 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.959 everyone's allowed a bad half, a bad game. No, I'm 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.839 not saying that's you know, they are on a losing streak. 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:47.600 But I think that this team is the team that 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.040 keeps it close despite those issues. I I do too. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.360 I also think that you know, there's there's there are 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.480 more things that have continued to happen outside of just 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.560 that half that they need. They Yeah, I would love 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.720 more than anything. I mean, if they go out there 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.480 and they forced Detroit into a three and out in 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.000 the first drive of the first quarter, like that sideline 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.760 is gonna erupt, you know, and it's it's gonna take 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.240 They've got to do something like that, you know, and 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.160 that's why you know Shatt came out there. He's like, 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.520 I'm gonna punch that ball out, like I'm gonna get 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.040 this ball this first drive, you know, and they've got 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.120 to keep doing that. You know, they've got to figure out, okay, 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.280 this when we're coming out of the halftime locker room 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.760 hair on fire. You know, we've got to come out 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.240 and make a play because there's this narrative in our 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.480 heads that you know, we hear from the coach, we 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.360 hear from the media, we hear from everybody. We hear 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.320 from our girlfriends and wives and kids at home, Hey 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.800 why can't you? And it's like everyone's talking about it. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.920 And for them, I think it's a matter of coming 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.080 out and just making one stop, making one first down, 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.160 making one touchdown, making one big play in the third quarter, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.200 to like, hey, enough enough from all of you, enough 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.560 from everything, like we're we're over this, We're done with this, 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:58.880 We're moving on. And that role has talked about that 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.680 where um, I'm gonna paraphrase him here and um, but 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:08.400 he said essentially, sometimes players are trying so hard to 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.560 make that big play that they get a little bit 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.000 outside of what their job is, and so I think 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.040 his messages what yours is, which is like, don't think 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.640 about the fact that it's the third quarter and we 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.720 have these third quarter problems and we're down by this much. 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.720 Just go out there and and one snap at a time, 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:25.880 make sure that you're doing your job. You hear the 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.800 players say, like doing your one eleven, Like make sure 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.720 that you're doing your job on this play, and the 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.080 rest will take care of itself. And I think that's hard, 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.040 you know, I think that's hard for all of us. 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.400 It's a larger discussion of you know, trying to just 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.600 focus on the task at hand and not get overwhelmed 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:44.760 by everything else. But I mean that makes sense. We'll see, 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.400 We'll see if they can get into that mindset. On Sunday. 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.040 Do you play golf? Not? Well? Can you tell? I mean, 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.920 like I always feel like there's it's it's that kind 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.400 of that back nine when you just like had three 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.880 or four quadruple bogies. This is why I'm not good 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.320 at golf. And you just the next shot, you just 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.960 want to hit it so hard and you just grip 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.960 it so tight and you swing so hard, and man, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.680 it goes horribly, you know, and it's you know. It's 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.400 just like you know how to hit the ball and 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:14.600 you know that the people around you are going to 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:18.040 make plays. So relax, be calm, and don't try to 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.080 hit it too hard because if you do, you're you're 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.280 gonna miss it. Or I like that you brought in 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.120 a golf analogy, but in the middle of that you 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:25.720 said you know the people around you were going to 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.680 make plays on what are you on a golf team 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:34.280 in that scenario? Be Yeah, absolutely captain's choice. I always 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.600 know that someone else is going to hit a better 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.560 drive than me, so I don't worry about it. Yeah, yeah, 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.120 I can play best ball, that's no problem. All right, 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.360 let's take a quick break. We're gonna be back for 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.400 with more. Hi, this is Dewey Jenkins. When the team 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.480 that manages our Morris Jenkins website told me the most 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:53.440 often ask question is who is Mr Jenkins married too? 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.360 You could have knocked me over with a feather. I 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.560 went home and told my wife that I was so 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.720 surprised that I didn't know what to say. She laughed 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.280 and said, honey, my name is Renee. So now you 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.399 know the team at Morris Jenkins than that are here 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.560 for the Panthers, and we're here for you too, whenever 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.080 you need us. All right, we'll got some stats for 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:26.040 us the time fist of the week. This week we 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.479 have a special edition of stad the week. We have 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.399 no context stats of the week. I'm excited. So I 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.119 did this a couple of weeks ago at halftime and apparently, 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.520 you know, as the kids say, it blew up on Twitter. 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.119 So I'm going to try it again and use Twitter. 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:48.679 They use Fleet. Now do you use fleets? Yeah, it's 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.760 called fleets? All right, Well, I don't wanna. I don't wanna. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.600 Yesterday in our we have a we have a weekly 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.040 content meeting and Will is acting like he's the kids 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.720 do this, and the kids do that. Fleets just debuted 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:01.879 the other day, and you said something in our content 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.320 meeting that was like, if you retweet my fleet on 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.679 my It was just I don't know. Do you know 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.000 a lot about fleets? I know nothing about fleets. That's 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.159 what I was asking the questions to the kids. If 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.720 they could if I posted a stat on fleets, would 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:18.320 they be able to retweet my fleet? You know? Is 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.520 that the is that the the optimal way to tweet fleet? 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.000 I don't know. Maybe not. I don't even know what 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.000 we're talking about. Most people don't. All right, back to 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.480 no context stats. So again, these are there is no 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.760 context for these all these are bad stats. That's the point. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.080 So everyone at home that are going to yell at 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:39.000 me over the computer screen, the point is that there's 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.960 no context and they don't mean anything. Okay, So which 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.280 player Kristen or Matt is second on the team in 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.240 yards per catch behind d J Moore yards per catch? Well, 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.840 it's got to be someone. It's got to be someone 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.199 that has like two catches. I know the answer, but 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.119 you're really you're right. I know the answer because he 0:18:58.119 --> 0:18:59.680 told me this one before. Well, now I can't say 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.920 who I was because you're thinking is correct though. So 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.159 it's just someone with a very small amount of catches. 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.040 Do they have more than one catch? Have two catches? 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:13.320 Brandon there is? I was thinking about sixteen yards per 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.640 catch because uh he had the twenty eight yard catch 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.399 from Joe Charlton with a fake punt, which leads to 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.720 my next one. Did you know that Joe Charlton leads 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:26.119 the NFL in yards per passing attempt first in the NFL, 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:28.200