WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 99: Breathe 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.320 This week on The Happy half Hour, one of the 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:06.840 things they are going to have to figure out is 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.319 how to get safeties backed off the line of scream 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.920 at Jesse Bates was able to kind of break the rules, 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.560 as Frank Reich said, and cheat up on some passes 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.560 because in the absence of Djchart, the Carolina Panthers were 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:23.560 not exactly a high flying open TuS dow R, I 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.120 know it's time for the Happy half Hour with your 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:37.559 friends Kristin Balboni, Augusta Stone, and Darren Gannon. Hello, welcome 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.920 to the Happy half Hour. I'm strongly considering doing this 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.920 as an ASMR episode of The Happy Half Hour, just 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:50.519 to keep everybody back in the place they need to be. Augusta, 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:51.880 why are you shaking your head? 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.880 I am very fiercely anti ASMR. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.120 We've never talked about it, but honestly, like like you 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.800 saying the words gave me anxiety. A lot of people 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.680 say that ASMR like calms them down. I don't know 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.039 what it is, but that little tapping noise and the 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:11.119 squishy noises and the small whispers, and I have never 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:12.120 been able to get into it. 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:13.840 And you know what, I support people who do it. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.039 I know it looks really fun and it's an easy 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.440 way to make some money. I'm so scared of ASMR. Like, 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.400 just hearing you say that, I was like, no, no, no, no. 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.800 No, you're saying I should not run my hands across 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:24.880 this beaded curtain. 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.480 Oh my gosh, I might start screaming, like it's so 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:29.119 it's such. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:29.759 A weird trait. 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.280 I know, of all the things ASMR is like where 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:33.679 I draw the line, I've. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.880 Learned something about you here today. I'm not sure how 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:41.319 I feel about it either, but uh, yeah, welcome to 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.080 the happy half hour. You never know where this is 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.280 gonna go. Uh because I don't think she anticipated this, 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.760 and frankly I didn't either when I woke up this morning. 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.720 But no, it just kind of feels like we needed 0:01:52.720 --> 0:02:00.680 to take a minute and let everybody breathe after last week. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.200 One of the things, it is week two, all of 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.840 a sudden, and now the Carolina Panthers are zero to 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.320 one after a twenty fourteen loss at Atlanta last Sunday. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:12.399 Not the way I think a lot of people were 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.400 hoping the season was going to end. But certainly not 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:19.600 a sky is falling kind of loss to the Atlanta Falcons. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.680 I think after a lot of build up in the 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.440 off season, number one pick, all the excitement, new coaches, 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.120 all that stuff, it was kind of a letdown, for sure. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.560 But the one thing I know for sure is that 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:35.280 the season is not over. And I have tried to 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.120 take the long view on a lot of this stuff 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.799 throughout this kind of thing, and look back, I mean, 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.440 rookie quarter number one pick quarterbacks haven't won an opener 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.840 since two thousand and two. Frank Craig had never won 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.400 an opener period, and still has not. In twenty eighteen, 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.040 when he was Andrew Lux coach, they started one in 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.720 five and finished ten and six. That is not to 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.280 say that losing to the Falcons means the Panthers are 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.960 about to go ten and six this season, but it 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.040 also does not mean that they're about to go oh 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.400 in seventeen. So I would encourage everyone to take the 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.760 long view on this one, as I am choosing to 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.800 and try to figure out what it all means. 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.240 We have the home opener, too, Like I was thinking 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.160 about it this morning, we haven't even gotten into an 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.040 actual regular season game at Bank of America Stadium yet, 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.200 and you know, happy half hour, happy thing, It's going 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.320 to be on Monday night football, which is really cool 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.360 and actually might be one of the last milestones for 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.000 me in my young career that I haven't been able 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.480 to cover yet. I think I've done every other start time. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.560 We had a Thursday game last year, my first year, 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:39.720 so this will be my first time covering a Monday 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.200 night football game, which will be really fun for me personally. 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.320 But how cool is it that? You know? 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.960 And I love that Bryce Young is the quarterback here 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.920 because he is quite literally kind of one of the 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.280 last people to take the bait on asking questions about 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:53.760 things like that. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:55.640 Yesterday in his press conference, they were. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.920 Like, oh, you're starting at home on Monday night football, 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.200 and he said something about how he's like, well, you know, 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.000 the game's still on a football field even if it's 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:04.760 Monday night or something like that, and I was like, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:09.440 it's so it's just so like perspective at making it all, 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.440 you know, seem as regular as it can, which is 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.040 it's just very I went into yesterday like, oh, man, 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.640 that's that's a storyline of it, you know. The Bryce Young, 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.000 he's the kind of guy who I think and he 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:20.560 mentioned this too, he was like, I'll. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.520 Reflect on it afterwards, But going into. 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.440 It, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make the moment 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.039 bigger than what it is. But as a thing listening 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.240 to this and hopefully filling the stands, you can make 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.000 a lot out of it because I think it's pretty 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.600 dang cool, and I hope the atmosphere is really cool. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.960 Yeah it should be. I mean, the weather's cool and off. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.719 The weather's good. It's not oppressively hot the way it 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.360 was here in the preseason. They're all kind of cool. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.760 Rocks all over the place or are you allowed to 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:49.960 talk about rock set? Yes, rocks. So yeah, Monday night, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:54.240 bright lights woo. But as the noted Eastern philosopher John 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.240 Fox once said, it's not when you play, it's who 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.480 you play. And I think that it's cut out to 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.120 Bryce's point. I mean these Monday night and attention in 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.760 bright lights and all that stuff. It's cool for fans, 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.760 it's cool for you know, Hey, it's a nice visual 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.960 for all. This puts us on a national stage and 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.919 all that fun stuff. But players and coaches want things 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.400 to be as normal as often as possible. So I 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.159 think if you gave a lot of coaches and players 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.960 their choice. Every game would be Sunday afternoon at one 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.520 o'clock and they could keep the exact same schedule every 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.360 week and sleep at the same time and eat at 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.120 breakfast at the same time and all that fun stuff, which, 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.560 from what I know about my co host here at 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.640 Gusta Stone, would be just fine with her too. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.279 I love me a little bit of routine. 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.440 Before we started recording, I was talking about how I 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.080 do like things that I know. 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:44.520 I'm loyal to a fault. 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.200 We were talking about cell phone providers and how I 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.440 had to make a switch when I was in college 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.679 and for some reason I had a lot of issues 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.640 but it ended up being fine. But like the small things, 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.440 but no, I love me and I saw a routine. 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.200 That was another thing Bryce talked about. He talked about 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:58.840 getting into more of a routine, and I was like, 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:00.760 how ironic is it that he's not even in a 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.679 routine yet and he won't be until after the Monday 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.440 night game. Because he brought up a really good point 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.400 that I was able to write about the notebook yesterday 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:11.280 about how whenever he declared for the draft, you know 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.120 it kind of before you even know what team you're 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.120 going to you're thinking about week one, that first game, 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.640 Oh my goodness, what's it going to be, Like, what's 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.320 going to happen, how's it going to be? And then 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.400 you get into the preseason training camp all that stuff, 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.159 and you're just still like oriented. I mean, we've been 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.919 saying week one against Atlanta on September tenth since we 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.000 had schedule release, and I know Bryce said it, he's 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.159 been thinking about it even longer than that, just like 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:34.920 what will the first one be? And now he's kind 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.360 of he said he likes the routine of focusing on 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.479 this week it's the Saints. Which is so funny that 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.080 we've gotten into this for almost five ten minutes and 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:42.720 we're talking about who you play. We haven't even said 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.040 New Orleans Saints yet, will be the New Orleans Saints 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.760 here at Bank of America Stadium. But it's funny how 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.360 he kind of was talking about getting into that week 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.760 by week rhythm of not thinking about upon it for 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.480 a month, not thinking about them for a week. But 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.560 it's still not a regular week for him yet. So 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.400 I'm sure after this New Orleans thing and the quick 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.479 turnaround when he's able to get into the Sunday to 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.320 Sunday grind, which will happen between weeks three and four. 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:09.440 I suppose like good for him because he's definitely itching 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.280 for normalcy and he's getting more of it. But that 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.160 is kind of funny of such a routine oriented guy 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.320 that Bryce Young is that he's kind of with this 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.200 week two Monday night situation kind of being jerked around 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:20.920 a little bit. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:26.280 It's not ideal. It's not ideal, but there's not a 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.320 lot that gets to be ideal over the course of 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.840 an NFL season, and certainly last week's start was not ideal. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.520 We should probably talk about that Falcons game a little bit. 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.600 I think that, you know, and I've always told you 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.640 NFL games can often be really complicated. Last week's was 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.960 kind of simple. A team starting a rookie quarterback turned 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.400 it over three times on the road the end, Yeah, 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.200 and that's kind of the thing. And between the Miles 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.440 Sanders fumble and a couple of Bryce interceptions, you know, 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.960 that was kind of the story of that game. And 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.240 I think it creates a lot of the stuff we'll 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.920 be talking to guys about over the next couple of days, 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:07.480 for sure, because one of the things they're going to 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.760 have to figure out is how to get safeties backed 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.240 off the line of scrimmage. Jesse Bates was able to 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.640 kind of break the rules, as Frank Reich said, and 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.840 cheat up on some passes because in the absence of 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.880 DJ Hark, the Carolina Panthers were not exactly a high 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:27.080 flying offense. Three point eight yards per pass attempt. That's 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.239 not gonna win you a lot of games in this league. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:34.320 So I understand the temptation to keep Bryce safe and 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.240 to keep him making easy throws, but at some point 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.760 they're gonna have to cut a couple loose just to 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:43.439 create some lanes for the running game. I mean, they 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:48.200 still ran pretty well, honestly, between Miles and Cuba Hubbard. 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.400 They ran well last week. You know, Bryce completed a 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.440 fair amount of passes. He threw a number of balls 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.160 away just to stay out of trouble and keep things moving. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.400 But you know, until they hit a couple of deep 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.079 shots to loosen things up, that's going to be what 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.160 they see. So he'd better be accurate, and he'd better 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.520 be on target with all the short stuff because that's 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.079 what everybody's going to be playing. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.120 On exactly, and that's sort of the bread and butter 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.760 that we saw. I do think it's absolutely huge that 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.080 Chart gets back as soon as he possibly can, because 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.320 I was talking with a with a friend about it 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.760 about you know, the preseason and everything, and I was like, 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.520 I remember in training camp we had almost like you 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.720 could have scheduled the tweet of like the big connection 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.240 between Bryce and DJ and they had that really great 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.880 chemistry down in Wofford and it came back up here 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.400 in the in the I remember they had a big 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:36.360 one here at FanFest when we did that during training 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:37.920 camp and all the fans got to see it here 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.040 at the stadium, and it was one of those things. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.640 It was kind of a shame because he is that 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.280 guy that's are to blow open just the offensive playbook 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.840 for him. And I will say too, a couple of 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.720 performances that you know, because it was a lost gets 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.559 lost in the shuffle. But like you said, it was 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.000 pretty simple. It was the turnovers that really kind of 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.480 did him in I mean Atlanta Square, I think seventeen 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.760 off of the three turnovers. But Hayden Hurst and Cuba 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.840 Hubbard both looked like really good. I was impressed by 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.720 Cuba personally just because I mean, you see him last year. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.920 He was kind of a complimentary back to foreman when 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.920 he was here, and then New pair him with Sanders. 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:17.720 He's still got a decent bunch of carries, and he 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:19.720 was the one that was going for those explosive runs, 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.920 the ones that Frank Craik was talking about on Monday, 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:24.800 the ones of ten plus yards. I think I counted 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:26.160 two of them. One of them went for like twenty 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.840 twenty one. Like he was kind of a real big 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:32.280 part of the offense that of course, when there's a loss, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.640 you talk about what happened, how that happened, but lost 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.440 in the shuffle where some some good signs for the offense, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.760 and then hayden Hurst kind of being that reliable target. 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.960 The whole reason that they brought him here, something that 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.720 we talked about a lot for him, you know, that 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:47.000 veteran guy, and caught his first touchdown pass and promptly 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:48.439 threw in the air and then promptly got it back, 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.080 which we talked to him about in the locker room 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.880 yesterday and he said they just immediately threw it back. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:54.640 I mean, he was back in Atlanta, so I don't 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.520 think the fans were thrilled that he threw that ball, 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.960 but no, it was really I think that kind of 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.040 worked how they had anticipated in what they were looking 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.400 to see from her specifically. I mean, obviously Feeling didn't 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.000 get a ton of play, but he was coming off 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.800 that ankle. He looked fine. But I just think there's 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.640 a lot of different pieces that still need to fall. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.720 But Chuck is a big one that they need. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.440 No doubt about that. And you know that's the thing 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.040 and talking about this, yes, running game, check the offensive 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.160 line protected well. Check two sacks, but they were both 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.600 in the fourth quarter when things were kind of going 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.960 a certain direction and they were dropping back and passing 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:31.840 on every down basically. 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:31.640 So. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.520 There were things. And you know, Frank is an unfailingly 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.839 positive guy, and he's gonna say, you know, hey, saw 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:41.120 a lot of good and that kind of stuff. But 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.600 there were a lot of good things, honestly. I mean, 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.480 it just kind of gets lost when you turn it 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.480 over three times. On the other side of the ball, 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.800 we spent a lot of time last week talking about elephants, 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:56.880 fictional and otherwise, and Brian Burns came out and played 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.280 like an elephant in the first quarter. I mean, he 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:03.280 was all in the backfield. He was going one hundred 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.679 miles an hour, probably more of a Tasmanian devil than 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.080 a elephant, necessarily because Burns was getting after it, and 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:14.320 he was obviously asked about it after the game and 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:18.079 talked about with the recent contract negotiation stuff, and you know, 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.520 Burns is trying to stay above board with all this 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.840 and he is trying to keep it at arms distance, 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.040 but he honestly seemed at peace with the business side 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.920 of it, which remains unresolved and probably you know, will 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.600 until it isn't, honestly, so it's going to be part 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.160 of the subtext all year long or until that deal 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.240 gets signed. But he the thing we do know for 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.040 sure is that he's continuing to show up. He's continuing 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.480 to play, and he's continuing to look like the Brian 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.559 Burns we're accustomed to seeing. I mean again, second a 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.080 half tackle for loss right there in the first quarter, 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.160 and played well throughout the game and got to the 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:58.240 point where the Falcons were kind of scheming away from him. 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.240 It turned into a run game for them. It turned 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.719 into don't let Desmond rid Or drop back and put 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.880 himself in harm's way. So there weren't that many opportunities 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.720 in the second half, and when you can create that 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.040 kind of pressure and cause your opponent to change their 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.679 game plan, I mean, that's the impact Brian Burns can 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:17.560 have exactly. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:21.480 It feels like all the panic cussaw on Twitter and 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.440 all over social media was pretty well pretty quickly too. 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.000 As you mentioned, I mean, Burns really did kind of 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.880 flash the very very beginning of that game, and he said, 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.040 you know that it wasn't about making a statement, it 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.920 was about kind of, you know, reaching the pinnacle of 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:36.360 his game. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:37.520 But he's he's getting up. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:41.120 There really really quickly, and he really wasted absolutely no time. 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.480 I mean, the first big plays that I was making 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.760 notes of and tweeting about where all Brian Burns related, 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:46.199 and I was. 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.120 Like, Okay, so yeah, he's just fine. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.720 He's giving one hundred ten percent of for He definitely 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.160 has been practicing this week obviously, and I think that 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:58.840 was really reassuring. The bad news is when there's one 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.839 thing that you're not paying about on the defense as 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.960 a fan base, there's another one. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:04.640 As j C. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.959 Horn was injured again and it's looking like it may 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.599 be a little bit longer. From some of the conversations 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.440 or some of the words that Frank Reich used in 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.760 the press conference, he's sticking out a second opinion on 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.640 that hamstring, and he called it serious, used the word 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.240 pop yesterday. There were just some some keywords that were 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.800 kind of kind of rough and for for JC, I 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.000 mean just a gut punch after going through most of 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:30.760 last season that risk. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.360 At the end and now this didn't even finish the game. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.920 So I know that's something like you have one part 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:37.920 of the defense where you're like, oh, man, is Burn's 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.920 gonna play? What's going on? Burns looks good? And then 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.240 something happens with JC. It's like these stars they can't 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:44.040 really get a break. 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:48.000 Yeah, it's it's definitely unfortunate for JC, and his teammates 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.360 are kind of angry and frustrated for him. We hadn't 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.200 seen a lot of JC again. He's out solicting opinions 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.440 on how to get this thing treated and what the 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.720 nixt steps for him is going to be. But you know, 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.440 Don Jackson talked about in the locker room after the game, 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.200 he said, you hate it for him because you know 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.320 what people are going to say, it's going to be. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.320 This guy has always heard it's going to be. You know, 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.680 can't stay on the field, and that's a frustrating part 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.360 of it for them because they see what JC puts 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:20.040 into this deal. I again kind of leaned back on 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.680 the long view of things. I remember a guy who 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.960 they drafted pretty high one year and had a lot 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:28.920 of big plans for and they needed him to make 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:32.880 impact plays early on. He made a few. He was 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.480 a big physical freak, but he couldn't stay on the field. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.960 I mean, his first couple of years, he was not 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.520 what you would refer to as a reliable player. They're 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.080 going to put him in the Hall of Honor here 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.080 in October because Mussin Mohammad figured out a way to 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.280 get past some of that physical stuff and really became 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.840 one of the more reliable players in the latter stages 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.560 of his career here. I mean, he was always available 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.320 after he got through that. So the hope is that 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.960 JC is able to push through the way Moose did 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.080 and figure out what it takes to keep himself on 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:08.360 the field. I am not going to draw too many lines. 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.920 I mean, you can't really connect a broken foot, a 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.880 broken wrist, and a hamstring. Those are three different things. 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.280 And it's not as if you can say aha, because 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:21.360 he fill in the blank. He always breaks bones and 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.920 pulls muscle. I mean, those things aren't connected. So it's 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.480 not a satisfying explanation. But sometimes dumb luck is a 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.920 big factor here in our little NFL, and a lot 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.520 of people are hesitant to acknowledge that. But I mean 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.440 other than you know, other than that, yeah, and that's 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.440 a kind of a hard one to say. Other than 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.440 that about you know, not a bad day for a 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.160 defense that had a lot of questions about it coming 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.600 into the game. I mean, when you look at two 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.960 hundred and twenty one yards allowed, two of ten on 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.880 third down, they only face i think forty seven forty 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.320 eight plays, fewer than fifty plays for sure, and it 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.920 was a pretty solid performance for a lot of guys 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.199 that you didn't quite know what to expect from. And 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:06.320 you know, the Falcons are going to be able to 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.760 run it. They're an unconventional offense. They are going to 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.440 put up numbers against a lot of people this year. 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.520 The defense I think was pretty good all things considered, 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.480 and obviously loosing JC is going to be tricky, but 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.320 I don't think this is a situation where you say, 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:25.160 oh god, they're doomed at one week end of this thing. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.520 I completely agree, and I wanted to segue into something 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.879 that you wrote yesterday that I really enjoyed reading personally, 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.680 but about the guy or one of the guys that'll 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.840 step up in JC Horn's absence. We've heard Troy Hill, obviously, 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.280 they have Dante, but you got to write about CJ. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:42.720 Henderson if you wanted to share. 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.080 Some of that, because I thought it was a very 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.440 compelling story in a way where CJ's not the kind 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.960 of guy that talks a ton to media and reporters, 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:51.920 but you were able to really get some stuff out 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.680 of helm that I think personalized him in a way 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:55.800 that I found really interesting and I enjoyed it. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.639 Yeah, CJ's quiet guy, and when you move around in 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.400 a locker room where there's a Anti Jackson and O'Brian 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.440 Burns and cats like that, quiet guys getting lost every 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.520 now and then. I think it's funny that Jeremy Chin's 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.520 over in that corner of the locker room now, because 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.119 Ten's like the accountant in the middle of a frat 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:15.600 party or something. But no, CJ's a quiet guy. But 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.560 he did talk a little bit about kind of what 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.239 this season means to him, he's got a lot. You know, 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.000 CJ had a lot of expectations on him coming into 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:25.880 the league. I think when you think of a guy 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.720 through the lens of being a top ten pick, as 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.280 he was in Jacksonville, it would be easy to say 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.560 he hasn't delivered on that potential. At the same time, 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.639 the Carolina Panthers acquired him for a third round pick basically, 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.720