Speaker 1: It's time for a Happy half hour with your friends.
Speaker 1: Chris Student Balboni, Will Bryant and Darren Gamp welcome back.
Speaker 1: It's the Happy half Hour. Darren and Will here with
Speaker 1: you through recap what's been an incredible month of March.
Speaker 1: But I want to start Darren with something that's been
Speaker 1: on everyone's mind here in the city of Charlotte. It's
Speaker 1: been all over social media. You can't miss it. It's
Speaker 1: the controversy of ages. I need your take on the
Speaker 1: boj Angler. Oh what are you trying to just do?
Speaker 1: I me in a poor mood that you just gotta
Speaker 1: seed the clouds to get me talking about my favorite
Speaker 1: food item in Charlotte fast food history. Yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: mean no, no, I just I want to hear it
Speaker 1: in you know, and not Twitter form. The boj Angler
Speaker 1: contains multi tudes. I love it every year Bojangles during
Speaker 1: Lent because a lot of people eat fish on Fridays.
Speaker 1: During Lent, Bojangles sells a delicious fish sandwich that they
Speaker 1: called the Bojangler. But in my quest for maximum deliciousness
Speaker 1: in my life and against the uh preferences of my cardiologist,
Speaker 1: I like mine on a biscuit rather than a bun. Now,
Speaker 1: if you if you want to confuse a fast food
Speaker 1: worker who really just don't need this in their life.
Speaker 1: They're just trying to you know, people just trying to
Speaker 1: go to work and send out some biscuits and chicken
Speaker 1: and get on with their day. And here comes this
Speaker 1: guy with a special order through the drive thru, and
Speaker 1: it's like boj Angler on a biscuit instead of a bun.
Speaker 1: There's your hashtag on a biscuit instead of a bun.
Speaker 1: You get that thing with tartar sauce it comes with
Speaker 1: when they give it to you, it as a sandwich.
Speaker 1: It's got tartar sauce and cheese. I've always thought, even
Speaker 1: back to the days of the McDonald's philet fish, the
Speaker 1: piece of cheese was kind of extraneous. We don't really need,
Speaker 1: you know, my fish experience, it does not need processed
Speaker 1: American cheese food. So I will usually do away with
Speaker 1: the cheese. Uh. Sometimes they put it in the area
Speaker 1: slips by the goalie, but the key is tartar sauce
Speaker 1: and hot sauce. Like if bowt Angles was really committed
Speaker 1: to this bit and would come up with a Cajun
Speaker 1: tartar sauce, something with just a little pop, just to
Speaker 1: kind of cut um. Just cut some of that cream
Speaker 1: us of the mayonnaise based tartar sauce. I could get
Speaker 1: down with that. But yeah, a little bit of heat,
Speaker 1: you know, it's got the bowtangle spice on the fish already.
Speaker 1: A little bit extra heat, little tar sauce on a
Speaker 1: biscuit and your day will be happier. And you have
Speaker 1: spent the so much of Lent. You know, Lent is
Speaker 1: about about giving things up. But you know Darren has
Speaker 1: taken this on this mission to to evangelize to the masses.
Speaker 1: I have given up personal grooming for Lent. I've taken
Speaker 1: that on as my burden. But I am adding as
Speaker 1: many bow j Anglers as I can. I think I'm
Speaker 1: up to six now so far. I've kept tracked for
Speaker 1: some ridiculous stres. So do you have a day of
Speaker 1: the week that you eat it on or is it
Speaker 1: just whenever the mood stream? I mean a lot of
Speaker 1: times I feel like doing it on Friday because your cause.
Speaker 1: But like Saturday when I was on my way in
Speaker 1: here for Dante Jackson and d J Moore. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: you know, Saturday was like the first time I slept
Speaker 1: past five thirty in two and a half weeks. And
Speaker 1: so I get up at ten and I'm kind of grogging.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, there we go, Here we go Dante's
Speaker 1: you know, see at the office. It too okay. So
Speaker 1: I get up and I get the news out and
Speaker 1: then drive through my neighborhood bow Angles third Street, represent
Speaker 1: it's my favorite. It's the home office. Um, and grabbed
Speaker 1: a couple of bow j Anglers and came on in
Speaker 1: and it girded my loins and I was ready for
Speaker 1: another day of around the clock football. Wow. Well, for
Speaker 1: those that are still listening, I wanted to get some
Speaker 1: football content today. Sorry, we're gonna we'll jump into it now.
Speaker 1: How about do we want to go in reverse chronological
Speaker 1: order and and work our way. Panther's off season is
Speaker 1: the bo j Angler on a biscuit of off seasons.
Speaker 1: They've just crammed so much delicious nous into a condensed
Speaker 1: space that now it's, uh, it's weird because this offseason
Speaker 1: has been kind of drunk, even by NFL standards. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I just gotta push about craziest
Speaker 1: offseason Sharon Rodgers, Willie or Wantie didn't do full breadth far,
Speaker 1: but you know we had to go through that drama.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson gets traded today. I had my head down
Speaker 1: writing for an hour and I missed the Tyreek Hills saga.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean that thing. That thing began and
Speaker 1: ended in about it less time than it takes to
Speaker 1: watch a movie. Um So, yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff going on, and and the Panthers haven't done the gigantic,
Speaker 1: huge thing that creates that reaction, but all the stuff
Speaker 1: they've done, Yeah, while none of them individually rise to
Speaker 1: the level of, Hey, Martha, did you see that, it's
Speaker 1: still a more stable football team than it was a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. It's a more solid football team.
Speaker 1: It's a deeper football team, and it's a football team
Speaker 1: that's kind of checked off a lot of the boxes.
Speaker 1: When Scott Fitter went into this thing this offseason, he
Speaker 1: talked about the number one priority was being more solid
Speaker 1: on both lines, specifically the offensive line. And when you
Speaker 1: go out and you sign Austin Corbett, who started every
Speaker 1: game for the Super Bowl champion Rams, you go out
Speaker 1: and get a bargain deal on Bradley Bozeman, who started
Speaker 1: forty eight games the last three years for the Ravens,
Speaker 1: and he's coming in here to compete. That's not even
Speaker 1: a guarantee of a starting job for that guy. And
Speaker 1: he A lot of people around the league who do
Speaker 1: not work here have talked to me about that's good signing,
Speaker 1: you know, and when other football people are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good one right there. And on the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball, adding matt Ionidas gives them somebody
Speaker 1: to stick next to. Derek Brown, who is strong and
Speaker 1: is good against the run and has demonstrated the ability
Speaker 1: to rush the passer. I mean he had a he
Speaker 1: had a run in Washington two years in eighteen nineteen
Speaker 1: where he had sixteen sacks twenty seven quarterback hits. He
Speaker 1: can get after it. Now, he's had some injuries, like
Speaker 1: I think third most of defensive tackles in that span
Speaker 1: in those two years. And you know he is he
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald. No, he's not, nobody's Aaron Donald. But he
Speaker 1: is a guy who gets consistent pressure up the middle.
Speaker 1: And in a situation where you're kind of transitioning and
Speaker 1: you wanted to be a little bit bigger, upfront, and
Speaker 1: you didn't want to go through another season with less
Speaker 1: than five hundred pounds of pass rusher In Burns and
Speaker 1: Hassan Reddick, you know, suddenly you're a little more stout,
Speaker 1: you're a little better able. They've done some moves along
Speaker 1: the fringes, brought back Marquis Haynes, brought back Frankie Luvu.
Speaker 1: Burns is still there. But that line, both those lines
Speaker 1: are are not oh my god, would you look at
Speaker 1: but they're both better than they were a month ago.
Speaker 1: And that's the key. That's all you can do when
Speaker 1: you're in this situation. You fix what you can fix. Darren,
Speaker 1: I think we're both trying to pull this up. All
Speaker 1: of the free agent signings that have happened, and I
Speaker 1: think one of the themes for me so far, I
Speaker 1: think going into the last month of the season, it
Speaker 1: was this feeling like, oh my gosh, the Panthers are
Speaker 1: losing a lot of players on this current team. A
Speaker 1: lot of these guys are gonna walk. And then at
Speaker 1: this point, you know, obviously Hassan Reddick, you know, big
Speaker 1: contract with the Eagles, but and Gilmore are still out there.
Speaker 1: But otherwise, all these other guys Dante Jackson. DJ Moore extended,
Speaker 1: you know, Rashaan Melvin resigned today for some death piece
Speaker 1: in the secondary. But as you said, Marky's Haynes, Frankie Luvu,
Speaker 1: like all of these guys that are kind of coming back.
Speaker 1: I think that speaks to, you know, some of the
Speaker 1: foundation building they're doing right and Brandon and so there's
Speaker 1: a backup kicker on the roster. Now, um yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: and again, nobody's gonna freak out when you re signed
Speaker 1: Brandon Hilstra, but it's it's still a solid piece of
Speaker 1: business because he does feel so many roles. And one
Speaker 1: of the other things I guess an offseason inhus they
Speaker 1: wanted to get better on special teams and brought in
Speaker 1: a new coordinator in Chris Tabor, who's respected across the league.
Speaker 1: That's another guy when I was walking around Mobile or
Speaker 1: India at the combine and people would be like that
Speaker 1: was good, that that was a good thing they did
Speaker 1: and bringing him in. So um Tabor. Now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, he's got Zane Gonzalis back to kick. They
Speaker 1: go out and signed Johnny Hecker, who was only the
Speaker 1: all decade punter of the two thousand tens Um and
Speaker 1: can throw the ball around a little bit and is
Speaker 1: a funny guy and I think fans are gonna love
Speaker 1: getting to know him. And you've got J. J. Jansen back,
Speaker 1: so now there's stability on special teams. And you know,
Speaker 1: they've again not sexy moves, but solid moves, and solid
Speaker 1: is what you want to be in this situation. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're there are ways, you know, the one big question
Speaker 1: is still lingering up there, and anybody's gonna want to
Speaker 1: know what's going on at quarterback and that's still TBD,
Speaker 1: and they're going to continue to work through all the
Speaker 1: options and I think, you know, some options are better
Speaker 1: than others, but we can't say with any degree of
Speaker 1: certainty right now whether it's going to be x Y
Speaker 1: or Z at quarterback. But all the other stuff, they've
Speaker 1: kind of done a pretty good job of putting those
Speaker 1: pieces together. And we're gonna get to that in a second. Everyone,
Speaker 1: just fast forward about five minutes in your your podcasting here,
Speaker 1: Darren tell you who the next quarterback of the Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers is going to be. Little Teas, Darren, you've met
Speaker 1: some of these guys coming in. I think there's some
Speaker 1: really interesting stories. Um, and we're just beginning to kind
Speaker 1: of unwrap the onions on some of these guys. What
Speaker 1: are some of the tidbits that you've picked up that
Speaker 1: fans may not see in an article or in a
Speaker 1: tweet that you know, you you know this guy is
Speaker 1: going to be interesting, because yeah, I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of that. I think, Um, Corey Littleton, who is
Speaker 1: among the last wave of guys to come through. Littleton
Speaker 1: played in college with Shack Thompson, so there's some automatic
Speaker 1: familiarity there. Damien Wilson, Uh, no, Shack, And I said,
Speaker 1: how do you know Shack? And He's like, well, we
Speaker 1: were in the same draft and Wilson and Thompson we
Speaker 1: were kinda last in alphabetical order, so we were always
Speaker 1: in line next each other. Okay, well, you know, and
Speaker 1: Austin Corbett and Bradley Bozeman were roommates of the Senior Bowl,
Speaker 1: so it is kind of a small world. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: and we and we will, we'll get into all this stuff.
Speaker 1: Damien Wilson's actually got family members on staff here, so
Speaker 1: well we'll get to that at some point on Panthers
Speaker 1: dot Com. Stay tuned for all that. But Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is an interesting group of people. And I think there
Speaker 1: are a lot of characters in here that people are
Speaker 1: gonna respond well to. You know, Bradley Bozeman story about
Speaker 1: driving around in an RV and living in the r
Speaker 1: V with his wife for a while. It's fantastic. It's
Speaker 1: the kind of thing. Of course, an offensive lineman lives
Speaker 1: in an RV. Yes, sign me up for some of that.
Speaker 1: This is a person I can like. Uh, Johnny Hecker
Speaker 1: is is hilarious. We are going to have some fun.
Speaker 1: I I predict hijinks in the special Teams meeting room
Speaker 1: with you know, J. J. Jansen and Johnny Hecker in
Speaker 1: the same place. Yeah, that's gonna that's gonna be good content.
Speaker 1: So it is. And there are a lot of guys
Speaker 1: who just have a kind of a personality. If there's
Speaker 1: another through line with all of them, A lot of
Speaker 1: these guys do have something to prove, you know, even
Speaker 1: Austin Corbett, who was the big money contract of a
Speaker 1: lot of them. Corbett was a guy the Browns couldn't
Speaker 1: get rid of fast enough. They drafted him with the
Speaker 1: first pick in the second round in eighteen, you know,
Speaker 1: thirty third overall and he kind of disappointed there and
Speaker 1: they traded him to Rams for a sack of beans,
Speaker 1: and he turned into a pretty good player, and he
Speaker 1: talked I talked to him the other day about that
Speaker 1: and getting to the point of believing in yourself again.
Speaker 1: And a lot of these guys have that that. You know,
Speaker 1: this is you know, Bozeman's here on a one year
Speaker 1: deal when a lot of people thought he would make
Speaker 1: more money on a longer term deal at twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Uh So, all these guys kind of have something to
Speaker 1: prove and and and that should make for a more
Speaker 1: competitive environment. And at the same time, they also have
Speaker 1: some experience in the playoffs. You know, putting these guys
Speaker 1: bios together, a lot of these guys not only played
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, they advanced, you know, they played in
Speaker 1: conference championship games, They won conference championship games, went to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. You know, obviously Corbett won it last year.
Speaker 1: MS three Super Bowl rings walked in the door this week,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, Wilson in a couple of rams in,
Speaker 1: Hecker and Corbett, yeah, and and and other guys that
Speaker 1: that were there, and we're close and have that experience
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. So you know that that can do
Speaker 1: a lot to a locker room, even if it's not
Speaker 1: the guy that you see on the poster. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a guy that, hey, you know, I know what
Speaker 1: it takes to win in this league. Yeah, no doubt,
Speaker 1: And I think that is important. And you know Bozeman
Speaker 1: comes from. You know, if there is a team lately,
Speaker 1: and I say lately over the last twenty years that
Speaker 1: you would kind of consider this stable franchise in the
Speaker 1: NFL would probably be the Ravens. So go get guys
Speaker 1: who played for the Ravens, Go get guys who played
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs. Go get guys. You know, the Steelers
Speaker 1: are a team that's kind of always been considered that category.
Speaker 1: And they hadn't brought him boy in from Pittsburgh, but
Speaker 1: you know, those those consistent winners and guys who have
Speaker 1: been in that environment. I do think it matters when
Speaker 1: a team is this young, and you know, the Carolina Panthers,
Speaker 1: there are a couple of stray guys around here who
Speaker 1: have been on teams like that, but this team is
Speaker 1: still so young and so new in its development that
Speaker 1: I think the more of that you can add to
Speaker 1: the room, the better it will be for those young kids.
Speaker 1: All right, So the big question everyone wants to know,
Speaker 1: and I think it's probably it's gonna be one of
Speaker 1: the people sitting around this table. I'm just kidding that
Speaker 1: the Panthers. This week, everyone's been out looking at these
Speaker 1: pro days. On Monday we had Kenny Pickett and Pitt,
Speaker 1: we had Malik Willis yesterday with Liberty, and then Matt
Speaker 1: Corral with Old Miss this afternoon. Darren, what are the
Speaker 1: things they're looking for? You know? So the coaches, the staff,
Speaker 1: you know, Scott Fitter, they're all there. You know, what
Speaker 1: are the things they're trying to get out of these
Speaker 1: pro days? Right now? Listen, I'm as I'm as jaded
Speaker 1: as anyone can be about this process, having been around
Speaker 1: it for so long. Of course, a pro day work
Speaker 1: out is scripted to highlight a guy's strength. So to
Speaker 1: have a bad Pro day workout is negligence on somebody's part,
Speaker 1: probably the people who scripted your pro day. So you
Speaker 1: you do things to make him look good. And what
Speaker 1: we know about Malik Willis, we know he throws a
Speaker 1: good deep ball, so they set him up to get
Speaker 1: off platform and he've won sixty five yards down the
Speaker 1: field and everybody saw it and he jumping up and
Speaker 1: down and and laughing and having fun, and everybody goes
Speaker 1: who and I And we know it's scripted. We know
Speaker 1: it's supposed to look like that, but when it looks
Speaker 1: like that anyway, it's hard for your eyes not to
Speaker 1: be like the cartoon dog and sort of bug out
Speaker 1: of your head like that. Um it was. It was interesting.
Speaker 1: But they go up there too to talk to support personnel,
Speaker 1: talk to coaches, talk to equipment people who knew him,
Speaker 1: and you how I think you can learn things from
Speaker 1: how a guy who treats the equipment manager and the
Speaker 1: scouting department goes through all that over the course of
Speaker 1: the year anyway, And they've got a file on these guys,
Speaker 1: but it's just a chance to sit down with them,
Speaker 1: talk out, I have a meal, you know, get to
Speaker 1: know these guys at a little different level, because when
Speaker 1: you're talking about quarterbacks, that personal relationship is huge because
Speaker 1: you've got to be able to trust this guy for
Speaker 1: multiple years, and you've got to make sure you're not
Speaker 1: jumping on the wrong train because this is a commitment
Speaker 1: and it is I think that decides people's careers and
Speaker 1: and whether you get to stay in certain jobs. Um
Speaker 1: long enough. So it's a crucial decision for a lot
Speaker 1: of people around here, and you use this time at
Speaker 1: these pro days to get to know these guys. So, um,
Speaker 1: pick it is. You know, I think if we're trying
Speaker 1: to characterize these guys, pick it's probably the high floor
Speaker 1: guy like Mac Jones was last year. Like you can't
Speaker 1: imagine Kenny Pickett go into the league and becoming terrible
Speaker 1: at football. I just donna, I don't think anybody anticipates that, Um,
Speaker 1: Malik Willis is the high ceiling guy where it's like
Speaker 1: it might take him a minute to get there. Boy
Speaker 1: what if? And that what if is tantalizing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the kind of thing that's you know, intriguing for
Speaker 1: teams when they see that kind of raw talent. Mac
Speaker 1: Real has got a lot of good tape to if
Speaker 1: you look at what old Miss did over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, specifically last year, he's played some high
Speaker 1: level football in a system that you know, he's had
Speaker 1: to make some checks, he's had to do something. So, uh,
Speaker 1: it is a fascinating conversation and they're continuing to look
Speaker 1: at all those guys they're continuing to look at just
Speaker 1: about everybody else under the sun, and they're trying to
Speaker 1: figure out if there's a way to get Tom Brady here. Know,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding that it's not possible. I don't think
Speaker 1: maybe next year, because Tom Brady's gonna play until he's
Speaker 1: seventy five years old. Um, I may never get to
Speaker 1: vote for Tom Brady for the Hall of Fame because
Speaker 1: he's just not ever going to retire, at least not
Speaker 1: before I do. So. Anyway, that's a long way of
Speaker 1: saying there's a lot of stuff still going on, but
Speaker 1: the bulk of the bulk of the roster construction is
Speaker 1: now done. Other than the quarterback thing, this is kind
Speaker 1: of what it's gonna be. And I think over the
Speaker 1: next month, we we look to the draft, and right
Speaker 1: now they're sitting there at six, and then you wait
Speaker 1: a while, it's gonna be one thirty seven until they
Speaker 1: pick again at the tail end of the fourth round
Speaker 1: after the trades they made last year, which is not ideal.
Speaker 1: But I also don't know that that's a final number either.
Speaker 1: I think there are things they could do, you know,
Speaker 1: and we can spend the next month talking about what
Speaker 1: do you do at six? Or who's the target at six?
Speaker 1: And you know, I think for today what they've done
Speaker 1: is and this is the way smart teams use free agency.
Speaker 1: It's to fill in as many blanks on your depth
Speaker 1: chart as possible, so you don't walk into a draft
Speaker 1: with glaring knees and have to pick certain players at
Speaker 1: certain positions just to feel your depth chart right. You know,
Speaker 1: best as they say best available, you know it, as
Speaker 1: many times as you're able to do that, the better um.
Speaker 1: And they'll have a lot of options there at six.
Speaker 1: And we'll have plenty of time to to kind of
Speaker 1: talk through that. You know, we have another month of
Speaker 1: of Darren writing five, six, seven stories a day. And
Speaker 1: this this is all this man does around here. You know,
Speaker 1: you got to give him the clicks, Darren. It's it's
Speaker 1: and maybe it talk me off, this talk me off,
Speaker 1: this rant. Does it feel like this offseason is some
Speaker 1: sort of see change for the way that the NFL
Speaker 1: may work in function in terms of the stars of teams.
Speaker 1: You know, you looked at the NBA of the last
Speaker 1: five ten years and these guys, you know, Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: wins the championship the next year, he's somewhere else. You know,
Speaker 1: these guys just move around. You know, I can't even
Speaker 1: keep track with where James Harden has been over the
Speaker 1: last five years, or Kevin Durant or whoever else. And
Speaker 1: now you have what Russell Wilson and Denver Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: and Andy Carson Wentzon Washington. You have all of this
Speaker 1: quarterback movement, Jimmy Garoppolo and potentially leaving San Francisco after
Speaker 1: a after a playoff run. And it doesn't it feels
Speaker 1: like these things can just kind of keep changing now
Speaker 1: in a different way. Is that something that's gonna linger here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, if if you thought my biscuit thoughts were
Speaker 1: gonna set this podcast off in a new direction, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the tectonic shift of labor relations in the
Speaker 1: United States at the present moment, that'll really drive this
Speaker 1: thing straight into the ditch. No, it is fascinating because
Speaker 1: the NFL has always taken advantage of the fact that
Speaker 1: the NFL players Association, as unions go, is a relatively
Speaker 1: weak one. And you know, the system is designed to
Speaker 1: put people in a certain place, uh and keep them
Speaker 1: there and give teams the ability to exercise all the leverage.
Speaker 1: I mean, the franchise tag is a way of keeping
Speaker 1: the best your best player off the market and reducing
Speaker 1: the leverage they have. But players have taken it back
Speaker 1: and listen for all the other storylines that go with
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, the fact that he got a fully guaranteed
Speaker 1: contract is a game changer. I mean, not even Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers did that. So you know, we're getting to a
Speaker 1: point now where the next quarterback that comes up, I mean,
Speaker 1: what happens when it's time to talk about Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: in the future. Well, of course he's gonna want fully
Speaker 1: guaranteed five years at a time, because this guy got it.
Speaker 1: And then you keep advancing it a little more and
Speaker 1: more and you get you know again, Russell Wilson dictated
Speaker 1: terms and decided Denver is the place he wanted to be,
Speaker 1: so Denver was his next destination and that had to
Speaker 1: get worked out. So um, you saw it a little
Speaker 1: bit too with Matt Ryan when the Falcons sort of
Speaker 1: had to circle back and make things right by him.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, now we've done this, where do you
Speaker 1: want to go? And they didn't get a lot of return.
Speaker 1: They got a third round pick from Matt Ryan. But
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan's hold and uh, he's on the downside of
Speaker 1: a of a great career. But it's just it's weird
Speaker 1: to me that out of all this stuff that at
Speaker 1: for the first time since what two thousand six, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna cover a Panther's Falcons game and Matt Ryan's not
Speaker 1: gonna be at it. That didn't make any sense. So, um,
Speaker 1: it has taken a turn. Players are more empowered. I
Speaker 1: am generally in favor of labor in these situations and
Speaker 1: people having as much liberty as is humanly possible. Um,
Speaker 1: but it is a different way of doing business for
Speaker 1: the NFL, and a lot of people are gonna have
Speaker 1: to get used to it. And a lot of people
Speaker 1: are gonna have to get used to this news cycle
Speaker 1: spinning at a pace it has not spun in the past. Well,
Speaker 1: that that's fun for both of us. He sleeps overrated. Well,
Speaker 1: on that note, I don't want to keep Darren any longer.
Speaker 1: I think our our listeners would love more and more
Speaker 1: of our half hour. But Darren needs to go get
Speaker 1: a nap. No, honestly, and I know I sound like
Speaker 1: a horrible person, but you could literally talk about this
Speaker 1: stuff all day. There's that much happening. I mean, we
Speaker 1: we talked for thirty minutes here about what's going on
Speaker 1: in the Panthers offseason, and we didn't even mention Xavier Woods. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that guy's walking straight into the starting lineup and
Speaker 1: they're going to depend on him to do some pretty
Speaker 1: important stuff back there, and we didn't even get to
Speaker 1: it because, you know, while he's a key piece for
Speaker 1: a defense that's kind of retooling around some of those
Speaker 1: young guys. It's like flashing light, flashing light over here, explosion,
Speaker 1: look over there. And that's just kind of the way
Speaker 1: March has become. It's it's madness. I see what you
Speaker 1: did there. Yeah, that's good, not bad. Will Brian good?
Speaker 1: Well we'll end on this, Darren. Who's your final four?
Speaker 1: Do you have one out of this this group that's left?
Speaker 1: I'm going St. Peter's St. Peter's Yes, if only because
Speaker 1: I grew up a member at St. Peter's Lutheran Church
Speaker 1: in Conover, North Carolina. I may or may not know
Speaker 1: the guy who does the church sign out front. I
Speaker 1: suggested to him for the church signed that he should put. St.
Speaker 1: Peter's is still dancing in Parhaeses, unlike those Baptists down
Speaker 1: the street. Uh he did not go with my suggestion.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I'm I'm all in on the peacocks.
Speaker 1: I love it. Peacock Nation, you heard it. Darren Gant
Speaker 1: is all behind you. Win one for d G this weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm a