Speaker 1: This week on the group Chat, we are handing out
Speaker 1: the preseason in VP awards. The obvious one of the
Speaker 1: preseason is Joey Sigh hits every kick he attempts in
Speaker 1: the preseason except for the one that gets blocked, including
Speaker 1: a fifty nine yard or here he is the swole
Speaker 1: kicker is now Caroline's kickers. And then we are previewing
Speaker 1: what we are most excited about with this two thousand
Speaker 1: nineteen Carolina Panthers roster. I'm excited for the return of
Speaker 1: North Turner, offensive plays, all of this and so much
Speaker 1: more including Liam Neeson. Yeah that in more. This week
Speaker 1: on the group chat, you've been added to the group
Speaker 1: chat with your friends Caroline, can Max Sensen, and Will Brian.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the group chat. This one actually counts now
Speaker 1: we're counting the group chats now, before they were just
Speaker 1: you know, sensors and just see if we were gonna
Speaker 1: make the acts group chat. But congratulations, you all made
Speaker 1: the final roster for the group chat this this week one,
Speaker 1: this is when it really counts. And I think we
Speaker 1: actually might get a special guest on this one, someone
Speaker 1: that we talked about, but you never there's still some
Speaker 1: waiver claims do this afternoon, So I hope that I
Speaker 1: make it through that true, It's true. I haven't heard anything.
Speaker 1: But you've had You've had a pretty good preseason though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you should feel pretty good about it. I think Max
Speaker 1: was a shining star. I had a great Yeah when
Speaker 1: I feel when when asked after the preseason how Max
Speaker 1: was feeling about making this team after last year potentially
Speaker 1: not making the team, he just said, I'm chilling. Is
Speaker 1: that what I said? Now? We're just making up quotes
Speaker 1: now that I thought you were going to say something else,
Speaker 1: But no, that's what did you think he was going
Speaker 1: to say. I thought he was gonna hearken back to
Speaker 1: a Cameron Artist Pain quote Sason last year, I was
Speaker 1: using this year's preseason quote, Yeah, I see where you're
Speaker 1: going now, Yeah, camera is paying. Last year, when it
Speaker 1: was up for debate whether or not he was going
Speaker 1: to make the team, he had a really good preseason.
Speaker 1: He was like, look, I'm gonna get paid somewhere, and
Speaker 1: they ended up bringing him back. Um, but that quote
Speaker 1: was just amazing and Cameras Pain is no longer here.
Speaker 1: As we saw, the running back competition was strong this year.
Speaker 1: Reggie Bonifon joined Scarlett on the active roster. No cameraaders paying,
Speaker 1: but great job bringing it back to this, bring it
Speaker 1: back to football. I will say there was this one
Speaker 1: interview that I did with a free agent that signed somewhere.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say his name or the team,
Speaker 1: but I would ask why here, like why he was
Speaker 1: like they paid me the most money and we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you got a point, Like okay, thank you for your
Speaker 1: honesty stirs. Yeah. So always interesting, but we made it. Guys,
Speaker 1: Congratulations you made the final roster for the Group Chat.
Speaker 1: Week one. This is the one that really counts. I
Speaker 1: love when the narrative changes for football, Like we haven't
Speaker 1: been covering meaningful football for months, but all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: right now it matters Week one. Are you guys excited? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, and what a what a matchup to kick
Speaker 1: it off, right? I mean, NFC champion rams tons of
Speaker 1: talent on that team opening up at home. You know,
Speaker 1: this time of year in Carolina, it's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those you just gotta feeling, it's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those beautiful Carolina Sunday's blue sky grass is gonna
Speaker 1: be crisp and green and it's exciting. Everybody's excited Week
Speaker 1: one of the NFL season. Every team thinks they're gonna
Speaker 1: be good. Every team there, everyone's writing all these optimistic
Speaker 1: stories about this guy is gonna break out, this defense
Speaker 1: is gonna be so much better, They're gonna be so aggressive,
Speaker 1: and it creates so many turnovers. I don't know which
Speaker 1: defensive coach ever says they're not going to do either
Speaker 1: of those two things, but it still happens every off season,
Speaker 1: and so it's time. It's time to find out who
Speaker 1: I mean, we know not everybody's team. No, no one
Speaker 1: is going to have a good team across the board.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna find out. We're gonna find out who's
Speaker 1: gonna be good and who's now it is. And that
Speaker 1: would be a perfect segue to a segment if we
Speaker 1: were doing that segment next that you jump the gun. Okay,
Speaker 1: So to get us back, I'm just excited to get
Speaker 1: us back on track here, Max, But stay tuned because
Speaker 1: we are going to talk about that and things that
Speaker 1: get you so excited the first time, but not quite
Speaker 1: right now. What we're gonna do right now, because some
Speaker 1: interesting things happen this preseason we're going to hand out
Speaker 1: a trophy. We don't have one here, for those of
Speaker 1: you wondering listening, there's not an actual trophy, but we're
Speaker 1: figuratively handing one out to our preseason m v P.
Speaker 1: I have some obscure nominees for this, but then we
Speaker 1: will have one winner. Okay, but let's go around. Who
Speaker 1: is your nominee for the preseason m v P. I
Speaker 1: never go first, so I'm not going to start now.
Speaker 1: One of you guys, should I should I continue with
Speaker 1: the football team because you guys are gonna go a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, in a different direction, because you guys
Speaker 1: are going off the wall, which is more fun, more fun,
Speaker 1: lets are better. I think the obvious winner of the preseason.
Speaker 1: The obvious winner of the preseason is Joey Sigh right,
Speaker 1: I mean, incredible story. This is someone Panther fans had
Speaker 1: never heard of a few weeks ago. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Graham Gonno's leg issue keeps popping up and Panthers really
Speaker 1: aren't sure what's gonna happen with that. Meanwhile, Joey sly
Speaker 1: hits every kick he attempts in the preseason, except for
Speaker 1: the one that gets blocked. Including a fifty nine yard
Speaker 1: or um and here you get here. He is the
Speaker 1: swoll kicker is now Caroline is kicker. This is the
Speaker 1: first time since two thousand twelve of Graham Gono has
Speaker 1: not been the kicker on opening day. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: been a long time. Panthers have had some stability there
Speaker 1: for a while. Uh, but what a story for Joey
Speaker 1: and I think we're all curious to see, you know,
Speaker 1: wants the kicks are for real now how he handles it.
Speaker 1: But I mean, without a doubt, I think Joey Slies
Speaker 1: is the preseason m v P winner of the preseason
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. He's been He's been
Speaker 1: wearing the same five shirts for like three weeks. Now.
Speaker 1: If you have not read this story on Panthers dot Com,
Speaker 1: you have to go read it. This man has been
Speaker 1: doing laundry just to be like dressed every day. Like
Speaker 1: not not because he just likes the same thing like
Speaker 1: some of us do when wear it over and over. No,
Speaker 1: he had to watch the same five shirts just to
Speaker 1: make it through a week. And it's like go into
Speaker 1: a laundry map. Yeah, I mean I think that in
Speaker 1: in that story, it really kind of it shows that
Speaker 1: it's not all these draft picks then you think they
Speaker 1: get these million dollar bonuses and immediately by these big cars.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy has had opportunities and each time
Speaker 1: it evaporates. And he was, you know, not counting anything
Speaker 1: on this one, you know, just taking it day by day,
Speaker 1: never knowing what's coming next, and you know, you don't
Speaker 1: know if you're gonna be back, you know, living with
Speaker 1: living with your parents, trying to find a job, coaching
Speaker 1: camps or whatever it is. I think initially he thought
Speaker 1: it was gonna be like it was at other places,
Speaker 1: where like you're just a leg for a few weeks,
Speaker 1: like okay, we got our kicker. We're gonna take it
Speaker 1: easy on him, like you're gonna come in and kick
Speaker 1: some kicks and then you're gone. Um, of course it
Speaker 1: was different this time for obvious reasons. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not a glamorous life being a journeyman kicker. I mean
Speaker 1: there's only thirty two. You get a signing bonus. You
Speaker 1: get a signing bonus of five. That's in the story
Speaker 1: got Snybou It's a five hundred dollars which he needed
Speaker 1: to use to have a hotel and to get back home.
Speaker 1: He was not going out, and that's not a nice
Speaker 1: hotel either we're talking about. He was like, I just
Speaker 1: you know, for however long, and I was like, whoa,
Speaker 1: Like where are you? I don't care what kind of
Speaker 1: deal the team gets at that certain hotel. My goodness, sir. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go read it on Painthers dot com. It's a very
Speaker 1: interesting story and he'll probably win this competition. But I
Speaker 1: like the other nominees better. I like the other nominies
Speaker 1: to I mean, we're all Joey Sly, We're all rooting
Speaker 1: for you. His you know what his nickname is from camp,
Speaker 1: which I thought this is one of I don't know,
Speaker 1: is Tweeter Varsity Blues. I just kept going with didn't
Speaker 1: make sense, but I heard and I was like, I
Speaker 1: thought to myself, this guy doesn't tweet, so it's not
Speaker 1: like Tweeter off Twitter, Like oh wait, wait wait, there's
Speaker 1: a certain character on football. All right, that was your one.
Speaker 1: I'll go next. Um. I would like to nominate the
Speaker 1: snack supplier for the Panthers sidelines. While sidelining this preseason,
Speaker 1: I noticed gummy bears, gummy worms, multiple different flavors of
Speaker 1: sunflower seeds. And there was one particular player who may
Speaker 1: or may not have eaten a steak out of a
Speaker 1: to go box out of the buried in in the
Speaker 1: snack box on the sidelines by hand. By hand. It
Speaker 1: was like a tea boat, like there was a bone
Speaker 1: for him to hold onto. I don't think it was
Speaker 1: like a pork chopper or a steak or what was
Speaker 1: going on. But he would just lean down in the
Speaker 1: box and just rip it out. And this is during
Speaker 1: the game. We have so many questions about this. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I want to share the identity of
Speaker 1: this player only because people will love this. People, I
Speaker 1: think immediately are going to assume this was a large individual,
Speaker 1: like I am, I have a picture of like an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman grabbing a t but is that can you
Speaker 1: tell us if it was a like it was it
Speaker 1: was a large individual, but well they're all kind of
Speaker 1: large offensive lineman or are we talking like skill position?
Speaker 1: Like not as quite as tall as producer Matt. No
Speaker 1: one has any idea how tall him that is? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, not quite as tall, doesn't have as long
Speaker 1: of hair as producers, doesn't have as long as hair.
Speaker 1: Although that's kind of misleading because it's not like he
Speaker 1: has that long of hair. But it's also true we're
Speaker 1: creating this mythical creature. He's not as tall, but he
Speaker 1: is tall. Matt Matt our producer. He's tall, Matt. How
Speaker 1: tall are you? I am six ft one. Welcome to it.
Speaker 1: What a great way to introduce yourself to Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: six ones. Of course he's standing up. Yeah, he stands up.
Speaker 1: He likes to look down on us. Thanks. It's like
Speaker 1: we're being watched, all right, back to more question back
Speaker 1: to our award, more questions. What brand gummies are we
Speaker 1: talking about? Like what kind? That's the thing. There was
Speaker 1: no placement of product, and there they were inside like
Speaker 1: they were hidden. They were hidden in it looked like
Speaker 1: equipment bags, but there was gummies. So it's like sugar
Speaker 1: picked me up on the sideline and they would I
Speaker 1: know that it was a really big hit in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I mean it was the defensive line. The linebackers. People
Speaker 1: were having to put them down then come to interviews
Speaker 1: with right. I thought they were doing them with they
Speaker 1: were like still have them in their hands. No, I
Speaker 1: just noticed that they would be laying them down before
Speaker 1: they came out. Remember it was a couple of years.
Speaker 1: I believe jin that the nutrition gin was setting them up.
Speaker 1: So she's I want to say it was two years ago.
Speaker 1: Do you don't know if you remember this, but they
Speaker 1: remember a picture we had in the site of Cam
Speaker 1: on the sidelined during a preseason game and he had
Speaker 1: like trolley gummy worms in his hand, like you could
Speaker 1: see that like that, like that he was literally holding
Speaker 1: a bag of them and trying to pull that out.
Speaker 1: But so, I mean, we know get like Cam has
Speaker 1: a huge thing for gummy worms. I'm curious who else
Speaker 1: was really digging into it. Like Curtis, he was enjoying
Speaker 1: them pretty much the entire Dee. This is what I
Speaker 1: thought of Flos Lesley whoever ate the steak. I feel
Speaker 1: like there was some floss thing that had to happen
Speaker 1: before the end of the game. Can you imagine were
Speaker 1: they trying to like they were trying to be secretive
Speaker 1: about it as they were eating the stage. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it definitely wasn't something they were doing. I'm fascinated by
Speaker 1: this sideline steak. Yeah, we'll get to the bottom of it. Really,
Speaker 1: it's just me telling you who it is. But I
Speaker 1: just don't think I can do that quite yet, I
Speaker 1: don't want to out them like that. I'm still building.
Speaker 1: I'm still building relationships here. People. You said it was
Speaker 1: in a to go box, it was box restaurant. It
Speaker 1: was like, no, I'm pretty sure like the kitchen staff
Speaker 1: here made it. And he was just chowing down on
Speaker 1: the sidelines. So did anyone did you see anyone else? Like? Haven't?
Speaker 1: It was just him. He was the only and he
Speaker 1: had his name on the box. And the best part
Speaker 1: him and I made eye contact like mid like just
Speaker 1: so I can't like I just would have just looked
Speaker 1: at you and like you want to Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: feel like I can't, like we we had a moment,
Speaker 1: and I just feel like in that moment we were friends,
Speaker 1: and you can't tell on a friend like that. No
Speaker 1: one else has picked it up yet, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: We might see it again. This particular person is pretty
Speaker 1: regimented in the diet, but we will. I think preseason
Speaker 1: is kind of there are more Sidelini antics. I mean,
Speaker 1: I agree, I don't think that's I don't think if
Speaker 1: we don't see it again, will you promise that, like
Speaker 1: and the season's over, at least you'll tell us who
Speaker 1: start a list of things we must tell at the
Speaker 1: end of the season, and we need we need a
Speaker 1: white board of you'll tell us things that Caroline will
Speaker 1: out and that's writing it down forget done either. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's what nominee. Other nominee is there. There's an
Speaker 1: equipment staff intern who runs everywhere everywhere. This man does
Speaker 1: not walk. He runs constantly. I've tried to track down
Speaker 1: his name, but I don't think anyone has actually had
Speaker 1: time to meet him because he's just running everywhere. So
Speaker 1: who I've asked. We're not sure of his name, but
Speaker 1: we're going to find out because he deserves at least
Speaker 1: is carrying things. Yeah, he's always like getting a guy's helmet,
Speaker 1: or oh, we need to move this piece of equipment.
Speaker 1: We need to do that. Like just running. Has have
Speaker 1: you guys ever seen Taken? You know, the like daddy
Speaker 1: runs everywhere, So he's going everywhere. The daughter, though, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this, she never walks in
Speaker 1: the movie. You gotta go back and watch this again.
Speaker 1: She's constantly running. Granted she's being chased the whole movie.
Speaker 1: I get it. But from the time she leaves America
Speaker 1: and is taken, and then we don't see her again
Speaker 1: until the end. She runs everywhere she runs from even
Speaker 1: when they're getting off the plane in France. Just watch
Speaker 1: It's No, No, No. The whole movie. You don't see
Speaker 1: her do anything other than staying there and be excited
Speaker 1: or take off running to her next day. Never see
Speaker 1: a walk. I know she jump under the bed, yeah,
Speaker 1: which I understand would I would too, But there's just
Speaker 1: a lot of Even at the end when she's like back,
Speaker 1: when she goes back to her parents and her mom
Speaker 1: is at the airport, she runs to her mom, you
Speaker 1: don't see her walk anyways. Those are my two novels.
Speaker 1: Quite the segue taken that was what do you have Will?
Speaker 1: So my mind is a little bit kind of on
Speaker 1: the same the same sphere there exactly the preseason m
Speaker 1: v p uh Don Toner who is we do know
Speaker 1: his name. He's in charge of this equipment intern and
Speaker 1: in charge of all of our equipment. Second year as
Speaker 1: our director of um of all the equipment has been
Speaker 1: with the Panthers. He's no g from the beginning, back
Speaker 1: when we were all just little children and the uniforms.
Speaker 1: This year that he was able to acquire for this
Speaker 1: team are fantastic. The there's some viral pictures going around.
Speaker 1: It seemed to display quality of stretchiness that are involved
Speaker 1: with these uniforms, and I wanted, I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: this up to uh kind of uh doubt that conspiracy
Speaker 1: theory that literally that the uniforms aren't that stretchy. Those
Speaker 1: are the undershirts under them. But we wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that our our our listeners out there new. Yes,
Speaker 1: but the uniforms are awesome. The players love them. They're
Speaker 1: Donnie have to do some quick work on that because,
Speaker 1: first of all, the uniform stories that we've pust on
Speaker 1: the website are like our best performing stories, so clearly
Speaker 1: there is significant interest in this. There's been a ton
Speaker 1: of interest from the players standpoint for a while because
Speaker 1: Panthers and the Packers were the only teams that didn't
Speaker 1: have these new Nike Untouchable I think they're called uniforms. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then once Dave Tepper arrived and he had heard
Speaker 1: from the players that we really want these uniforms, he
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, let's make it happen. It's make it
Speaker 1: happen before season. So Donnie and his crew had to
Speaker 1: work like three speed to get this thing ready. And
Speaker 1: I think they just got the shipment of him in
Speaker 1: right before the Chicago game, so it was it was
Speaker 1: pretty crazy to turn around to get all that they needed. Um,
Speaker 1: but hey, this is what the owner wanted, is the
Speaker 1: players wanted, and the fans love him. So it's been
Speaker 1: a huge hit all across the board. I'm curiously what
Speaker 1: the blue ones look like exactly too. I was gonna
Speaker 1: ask Max, You're you're the official uniform on the jersey,
Speaker 1: but you're the Jersey beat writer, so I can tell
Speaker 1: you anything. You are the black and the blue one
Speaker 1: is gonna look like this too, and they're all the
Speaker 1: same template. Yeah, it's just and Donnie even told me
Speaker 1: this too. He hasn't seen it yet, Like he's literally
Speaker 1: waiting for the boxes to arrive, like it's taken you know,
Speaker 1: this this thing. So they're waiting on Nike for those
Speaker 1: to come in. And then Andy, Yeah, I'm curious see
Speaker 1: about the pants because he said they only had the
Speaker 1: white pants through preseason. I think they had plans. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be our most listen to podcast. We're talking
Speaker 1: just literally just put Jersey discussion in the headline. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is going to be the most talked about podcast because
Speaker 1: last year we saw them experiment with a lot of
Speaker 1: different combinations of black pants, white pants, blue tops, whatever,
Speaker 1: and I think Donnie's cool with doing that stuff again.
Speaker 1: They just gotta get the pants in so we'll see
Speaker 1: see what they're able to break out in time. I
Speaker 1: do get a phone call every single week of there's
Speaker 1: a security guard down at training camp. He's famous. If
Speaker 1: you've ever been a training camp, you know slick Daddy.
Speaker 1: It's like Daddy calls me every week to ask about
Speaker 1: the uniforms. He does every week because he wants to
Speaker 1: match when he watches the game unless the Tigers are on.
Speaker 1: Because he did call me last week and said that
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to watch our game because Clemson was on.
Speaker 1: I'm on the broadcast. He's calling to tell me I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna watch you. I'm gonna watch the Tigers. That
Speaker 1: hurt a little, but that's okay. So yeah, everyone, there's
Speaker 1: your scoop on uniform before before we leave it, what
Speaker 1: is everyone's favorite unique combination? And you get to chime
Speaker 1: into I'm a big color rush girl blue and blue
Speaker 1: bloom blue bloom blue. What's the nickname for those the blueberries.
Speaker 1: But wasn't there like a nickname nickname for the blue
Speaker 1: on blue. I don't know who there was, like the
Speaker 1: Mermaid or something. That's pretty funny, because yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I just felt like all the pictures from the Dallas game,
Speaker 1: they just look like a lot of aquarium. Yeah, the aquarium.
Speaker 1: I think. I think, like I wish they were the
Speaker 1: blue Moore, the blue pants and the blue tops. The
Speaker 1: blue tops. Yeah, I don't think we get to see
Speaker 1: them enough. You only wear them twice. But I think
Speaker 1: people like seeing those just because they're different. I'd probably
Speaker 1: say blue top, white pants. I like that. Look, that's
Speaker 1: the that's the favorite from Luke. I know in that
Speaker 1: in that video we post, it's obviously what's the second
Speaker 1: blue game? Because last year there was only one regular
Speaker 1: season blue game? We did one in the preseason one
Speaker 1: the regular This year it's Tampa. And let's go back
Speaker 1: and look it might be Matt save pull up that's
Speaker 1: Jersey schedule story and see it might just be that
Speaker 1: one this year. Actually, think there's another Oneld's say, can
Speaker 1: we play some like music? At this point in this
Speaker 1: show is in our mission? Alright, so what about the
Speaker 1: black on black. Yeah. Look, I mean the internet loves
Speaker 1: the black on black. It won it won the best
Speaker 1: uniform of all time a couple of years ago, thanks
Speaker 1: to some handywork from some Panther fans. It's a Week
Speaker 1: two and Week five. Week Five's Jack's Jacksonville Game, the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Game, two very good games. Thur's the
Speaker 1: Night Football in Hall of Honor. The black on Black
Speaker 1: doesn't have the greatest success rate right when it comes
Speaker 1: to wins and loss. I think that's what's kind of
Speaker 1: got people's opinions changed about it a little bit. I
Speaker 1: I kind of partly because of what happened in the game.
Speaker 1: I like the white tops, black pants, blue socks. Now
Speaker 1: you're going socks now too, because like the black socks
Speaker 1: are a bit are a bit much, No, But when
Speaker 1: you have the blue socks contrasting with the I mean
Speaker 1: that was that was the Eagles game uniform last year.
Speaker 1: I just love I love the way that looked. What
Speaker 1: about a white out just all white. I'm a big monochromatic, like,
Speaker 1: just give me one thing. So to that point a lot,
Speaker 1: especially when we talk about black jersey, black pants, the
Speaker 1: next question always is black helmet are we ever going
Speaker 1: to see a black helmet? I don't know that we
Speaker 1: ever will. But if that happened, I think panther Nation
Speaker 1: would literally explode. I really they would. I don't think
Speaker 1: they could handle it. It would literally just would be.
Speaker 1: It would be the Be the Matt, the Matt Black.
Speaker 1: It would be cool. Yeah, that'd be cool. We've totally
Speaker 1: gone off the rails. So we're going to award the
Speaker 1: Preseason Um Trophy m v P. Obviously to the uniforms
Speaker 1: because they weren't even really I mean, they were stretchy.
Speaker 1: It was gonna go to Joey slide. But after we
Speaker 1: spent eight minutes important, we just spent a good while.
Speaker 1: Although there was a review this week from Lazy Bunny
Speaker 1: thirty three years years zero five shout out send these
Speaker 1: aren't long enough. Well, you're welcome, because we just spent
Speaker 1: a good time time talking about uniforms, Lee and Neeson
Speaker 1: uh stakes on the sideline. And now we're gonna switch
Speaker 1: to football. Here we go, the Rams are coming to town.
Speaker 1: There are some things about this game that we would
Speaker 1: like to preview, so we're gonna do that now. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it in a way of that new
Speaker 1: car smell. You know, when you get that new car,
Speaker 1: everything's great about it. You read the reviews, you've done
Speaker 1: your homework, there's zero milea john it, you drive it
Speaker 1: off the lot. You're just so excited about it, and
Speaker 1: then you learn a thing or two about it, like, man,
Speaker 1: I really wish that maybe it had a sunroof. Should
Speaker 1: have gotten that with the sundry for oh man, that
Speaker 1: part is really expensive when it breaks. Okay, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna do that with your Carolina Panthers. We're talking about
Speaker 1: what excites us the most about this team right now,
Speaker 1: when it's that new car smell beginning of the season.
Speaker 1: What are we most excited about with this team? Kick
Speaker 1: us off? Well, all right, so I'm gonna break the
Speaker 1: rules aga in Sorry. Yeah, from Jersey guy to app guy,
Speaker 1: I am. I am most excited about how many guys
Speaker 1: have mc C the first three letters, they're a last
Speaker 1: three of them. That's the best. That shouldn't be How
Speaker 1: many people reply to that, come on, should not be free.
Speaker 1: That's content. That's content. Okay, continue, all right. So I
Speaker 1: told this to Chris Manherts and Alex Armer yesterday in
Speaker 1: the locker room and they were extremely excited. So that
Speaker 1: means you used to be excited to you should this
Speaker 1: weekend for those of you that have the Panthers at
Speaker 1: which should be all of you after I'm telling you this.
Speaker 1: Now you will have the chance to predict things happening
Speaker 1: in the game. Who's going to win the coin toss,
Speaker 1: who's going to score on the first drive, what the
Speaker 1: outcome of the next drive is going to be right
Speaker 1: before it starts, who's going to get a hundred yards rushing?
Speaker 1: And if you get your predictions right, you get points
Speaker 1: to win very cool prizes. Okay, this is cool, I'll
Speaker 1: give it back to you. Yeah. I was going to
Speaker 1: make fun of you, but that's actually pretty cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm very excited about it. I'm very nervous about it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to play along on the sidelines. Well you
Speaker 1: technically you can't win, but well I can't win a prize.
Speaker 1: You can't win a prize. You can win, you can
Speaker 1: win points. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can compete. You can compete.
Speaker 1: I just can't win because I'm a part of the organization. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how that works. That's unfair, all right, that's fine, though,
Speaker 1: I'm so going to play. Yeah, it's actually really cool.
Speaker 1: That's going to be everyone. Download the app, get your
Speaker 1: mobile tickets on the app, put them in your mobile wallet,
Speaker 1: and then start playing are awesome game? Do you have
Speaker 1: to put the tickets in the mobile wallet and then
Speaker 1: play the game? No, but it would be better if
Speaker 1: you did, because then you wouldn't be standing in line
Speaker 1: trying to get on just making sure these people just
Speaker 1: make it, make it quick. Actually, that is really cool.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of teams have tried to do
Speaker 1: this and do things in Bowl with this. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really and and the cool part about
Speaker 1: this is that you can do it if you're at
Speaker 1: the game in Bowl, or you can do it at home,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to be yar to do this.
Speaker 1: Panther Stack guy coming in strong, it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. If you haven't seen his
Speaker 1: tweet about how many mix are on the team and
Speaker 1: in history, and for those of you that have listened,
Speaker 1: you know that I'm a Mick. You know I'm a mcfattening.
Speaker 1: So it was the joy, the joy, the joy that
Speaker 1: I got to say by talking about McCoy, McCaffrey and McCloud. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was great when Will was at his desk and
Speaker 1: he was like, this is the most repliance to a
Speaker 1: tweet I've had a long time. Does mcmixon come as
Speaker 1: a mix? Someone brought up yeah, because I asked people
Speaker 1: to list the mix and someone's like mcmixon and then
Speaker 1: someone said body mcboth face. Oh gosh, I love the Internet.
Speaker 1: All right, Max, I'm gonna try to bring this back
Speaker 1: to football again. Sorry, I'll back you up on this
Speaker 1: one three or four defense, something shiny and new. I
Speaker 1: think people have been curious to see for a while
Speaker 1: what this defense would look like with some three or
Speaker 1: four elements mixed in. Um, they've drafted guys who fit
Speaker 1: that scheme, and Burns and Christian Miller and even Marky's Haynes,
Speaker 1: who's a much kind of more natural fit for this,
Speaker 1: who was drafted a couple of years ago. And they've
Speaker 1: added guys like McCoy upfront. Um, the whole how this
Speaker 1: whole thing is gonna work. Ron Colin plays again. I'm very,
Speaker 1: very excited to see this defense in both rottle. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've only gotten to see a little taste in the
Speaker 1: preseason with the starters playing just a handful of snap.
Speaker 1: So for me, it's without a doubt this shiny new
Speaker 1: defense and what it's gonna look like with this new scheme.
Speaker 1: It does look pretty and the parts look really pretty too,
Speaker 1: because one of the things that I was excited about
Speaker 1: is the d line. But I I think Joey Sly
Speaker 1: is my I'm excited to see him. He's said today
Speaker 1: on the radio that he feels comfortable from seventy yards.
Speaker 1: He told w fn Z that what seventy yards? I
Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable from ten, like no, and he's comfortable
Speaker 1: from seventy yards. It definitely it opens up all sorts
Speaker 1: of play calling in the middle of the field. You know,
Speaker 1: you start to think, you know, this is either four
Speaker 1: down territory, this is a you know, a polarity, you know,
Speaker 1: pooch punt. But no, this is where now in in
Speaker 1: sly range. I think that's crazy because he got that
Speaker 1: fifty nine yard or in the preseason. So you can't
Speaker 1: say that he hasn't done ten yards to spare it
Speaker 1: did and did it hit the middle of the net.
Speaker 1: So yes, it's not real football, and you know, but
Speaker 1: yes it is. I mean for him, that was not
Speaker 1: you can translate field goals. Yeah, I agree, he didn't know.
Speaker 1: I mean that was high pressure, he said. In an
Speaker 1: article also on payings not commun need to go read this,
Speaker 1: he said that in little league baseball he used to
Speaker 1: walk loaded bases just so that he could feel the
Speaker 1: pressure of then I need to strike these three out.
Speaker 1: If that is true, I don't know if a ten
Speaker 1: year old has the capacity to think like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: so good, let me just toy around here. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's a grain of truth like, yeah, maybe happened a
Speaker 1: couple of times and you got three strikeouts. But I
Speaker 1: can't imagine like he is saying that he stood up
Speaker 1: there on the mountain and thought, I'm kind of bored,
Speaker 1: I'm so good on board, let's walk these players and
Speaker 1: then strike them out. So he's been putting himself in
Speaker 1: these high pressure situations. I think Joey Sly is a
Speaker 1: good look a new car and you're so excited that
Speaker 1: the gas mileage is unbelievable and you're about to take
Speaker 1: him on a road trip. But it is. The baseball
Speaker 1: story is so great. It's also extremely arrogant, which I love,
Speaker 1: like the arrogance to say like I'm gonna just load
Speaker 1: these up so I can actually start trying. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: Come on, I think he's just gonna be fascinating. It's
Speaker 1: it he has. It is an unbelievable story. I I
Speaker 1: get a loss for words because I really don't think
Speaker 1: I was asked about this kicker Gate. Kicker Gate, Oh
Speaker 1: is this happening? I just didn't buy into it. I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, no, I believe what they're saying, that they're
Speaker 1: just bringing him in for a camp like and I
Speaker 1: think that was it until it got to the point
Speaker 1: where it was like, we actually need more than this,
Speaker 1: and thank goodness, we took the time to reach out
Speaker 1: and find someone that can handle this. And his stories
Speaker 1: are so cool. Him and Reggie bon Bon Bonifon have
Speaker 1: two of them, I think the best stories on this
Speaker 1: team right now, as far as some bubble guys that
Speaker 1: made the team. So he's that. I also am excited
Speaker 1: for Curtis Samuel and DJ more, the two of them,
Speaker 1: because you had predicted that Curtis Samuel is going to
Speaker 1: have like a I think you said. I think it was,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was somewhere in that. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: How does that work? Actually? He can mute us. We
Speaker 1: can't mute him. But yeah, I'm excited about those two
Speaker 1: because I think still that it's so high for them
Speaker 1: of like what we think they're capable of. Looking at
Speaker 1: last year, what they were able to do with no
Speaker 1: Cam Newton all all season cool stat. Curtis Samuel and
Speaker 1: d J. Moore number one and two wide receivers on
Speaker 1: this team. Really interchangeable, youngest duo for a number one,
Speaker 1: number number two wide receiver in the entire league. Two
Speaker 1: the the average rost rage is six point one going
Speaker 1: into this year, which fans were very upset about the
Speaker 1: last several years when it was up near the thirties.
Speaker 1: You know. Julius Peppers kind of brought that, brought that.
Speaker 1: Mike Adams also brought the number up a little bits Davis,
Speaker 1: but still some older guys. That was a good stat.
Speaker 1: So I got one more to jump back in with
Speaker 1: some football welcome. So playing off the Curtis in DJ,
Speaker 1: I'm excited for the return of North Turner. Offensive play calls,
Speaker 1: every classic, everything's you know, it's kind of it's that
Speaker 1: in the preseason, it's you know, not showing anything, you know,
Speaker 1: I haven't He's barely read in the end, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: hadn't done anything. You know, I think he's ready to
Speaker 1: go sit down there, you know, like take a look
Speaker 1: at that smoke and be like, all right, let's go.
Speaker 1: I'm just picturing NORV Turner Time sixties convertible cruising down.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely. I honestly, I can't believe we haven't yet.
Speaker 1: There's there's going to be something. In that first quarter
Speaker 1: they were like, yeah, Norm's back. The North phil the
Speaker 1: hard Phillip. The North Turner Wade Phillips matchup I think
Speaker 1: is fascinating. Yes, uh, Wade has given this Panther's team trouble.
Speaker 1: You might remember Super both fifty and then for defense,
Speaker 1: he is one of the best defensive coordinators in the league,
Speaker 1: brings a ton of pressure. He also runs one of
Speaker 1: the best Twitter accounts. Yes, son of them, I mean
Speaker 1: he way Phillips is awesome. Panther fans don't like him
Speaker 1: very much, and for good reason. To mean, his defenses
Speaker 1: have always been really, really good against him. So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm very excited to see those two kind of play
Speaker 1: chess against one another. Wade in his defense for the Rams,
Speaker 1: which is loaded with town and you gotta deal with
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, which is just a beast in it of itself. Um,
Speaker 1: and nor of his will was saying, I mean super
Speaker 1: creative play calling last year. Um, I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: see even more of it. So those two coordinators squaring off,
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be pretty fascinating to watch.
Speaker 1: It is gonna be a funny I mean, really, the
Speaker 1: more you think about this matchup, it's a good, good
Speaker 1: Week one matchup. Is there's a lot of really tough
Speaker 1: matchups for this Panthers team, but there's also something that
Speaker 1: I think are super favorable for the Panthers, which is
Speaker 1: what you want to see in a Week one and
Speaker 1: I think this is one of them too. I mean,
Speaker 1: Week one teams are not gonna be at their best right.
Speaker 1: The starters haven't played a whole lot in the preseason.
Speaker 1: There's some rusty you gotta shake off. Everyone's kind of
Speaker 1: finding each other out. So I think it's a good
Speaker 1: time to get the Rams coming off super Bowl loss.
Speaker 1: We saw what happened this Panther's team coming off their
Speaker 1: Super Bowl loss. It's not cross stuntree across the one
Speaker 1: o'clock kick. Yeah, I don't know that the Panthers are
Speaker 1: better than the Rams right now, I can't say that,
Speaker 1: but I think they very well might be the better
Speaker 1: team on Sunday and the one the one big area
Speaker 1: this Rams team struggled with last year was run defense.
Speaker 1: So I'd be really curious to see because one of
Speaker 1: the thing about North Turners that he's he doesn't try
Speaker 1: to do everything against everyone. He's going to know I
Speaker 1: have an advantage here, I'm going to use it and
Speaker 1: use it and use it and use it. And I
Speaker 1: don't care if I have to like be you know,
Speaker 1: if if we're if we're better in this one area,
Speaker 1: We're just gonna keep going back to the well on it.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be surprised to see how he tries
Speaker 1: to manipulate that. You know, your corner Aaron Donald, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're going the other way, and
Speaker 1: you know, who knows what McCaffrey can do. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a ton to watch. More storylines will come out as
Speaker 1: we get closer and closer to the game, but right
Speaker 1: now it looks like Cam Newton will be there. It
Speaker 1: is exciting to see these starters that we didn't get
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