WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 87: Sunday Is Saturday 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.600 This week on the Happy Half Hour. They've got an 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:07.400 opportunity this week again Detroit is I keep having to 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.000 check myself because things that don't make any sense are 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.880 actually true now, Like the Detroit Lions are really good. Yes, 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:15.560 but you know, Steve didn't want players talking about playoffs. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.040 But if you beat the Lions, you're effectively going to 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:25.239 Tampa next week to play for the division type. It's 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.560 time for the Happy Half Hour with your friends Kristin Balboni, 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:35.400 Augusta Stone, and Darren Gannon. That's right, it's that time 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.440 of the week. It's the Happy half Hour podcast with 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:41.440 your friends Darren, Augusta and Kristen. We are recording this 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.120 on Wednesday morning, which is actually Thursday morning because Sunday 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.360 is Saturday, and that has thrown me for a loop completely. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.120 And it's the shortest day of the year and it's 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.440 freezing so how are we all doing? I didn't even 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.120 realize it was the shortest day of the year. I know. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.400 Darren Bliss, his heart is struggling with the with the 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.560 days of the week. We've we had a good few 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.160 conversations about it yesterday. Darren, You've got to bless your 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:09.000 heart already yeah, and I need it to be blessed. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:13.400 It is very needed. When football coaches start saying started 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.160 talking about the schedule and they say, all right, Wednesday's Thursday. Uh, 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.440 and then Tuesday is going to be a Monday and 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.160 what what what day is it? Actually now they were 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.920 you know, I published a story yesterday with a transaction 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.040 saying Andre Roberts was activated Wednesday, and it ghost It's 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:36.800 like there Tuesday, it's in the future, you know, in 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.040 the future Panthers dot com. It's not just an app 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.279 and a source of all your news for your favorite 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:47.039 football team. It's a time machine. I completely agree. This 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.200 has thrown me off more so than the Thursday game 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.120 because it's just one day, is off right, Everything on 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.200 a short week is truncated, but this everything is just 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.280 one day. But then some of your meetings that are 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.520 normally on a certain day are still on those days. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.400 So I've I've had to write everything down this week. Um. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.200 But I did ask Steve Wilkes as far as the 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.720 short week. I was like, does that it's one day shorter, right, 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:13.000 everyone we're playing on Saturday. Does that affect recovery time? 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:15.400 And he was like not really like it seems like 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.600 the football side is dealing with this a little bit 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:22.119 better than the original side, right and and thankfully so, 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.480 because they've got the jobs and everybody's concerned about because 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:30.400 it's it is just a thing in terms of I 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:34.120 think with this roster. I remember which trip was one 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.240 of the road trips we came back from, and Wilkes 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.839 had had the guys go straight back into the stadium 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:45.080 to begin the process. Thursday was the short week Sunday before, 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.800 and so the recovery time is a huge deal for 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.799 these guys, and and if they are one short, that 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.920 is something they can make up by being intentional with 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.080 other things. But yeah, it just throws us for a loop, 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.519 especially with you know, major religious holidays coming up the 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.280 end of the week that I'm not nearly prepared for. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.120 Me same, isn't that all of us again in the 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:12.360 in the digital offices? Um, all right, well, let's let's 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.160 go back to I mean, it started out so fun 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.680 and and uh warm, let's let's go back to the 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.480 game that was that was less so with the Steelers game. 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:23.919 Let's just kind of have a little post mortem on 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.000 it if we can. Uh, Darren, I got we were 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:31.080 your biggest takeaways from that game. Basically, what happened was 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.440 two things happened. Number One, the Steelers did to the 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.080 Panthers what the Panthers been to another people. And number two, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:42.640 you got Mike Tomlin by Mike Tomlin, and he's great 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:46.360 at this job, and he had his guys ready. They're 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.680 kind of messy right now. The Steelers aren't classic Steelers 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.920 teams that are played in the way we're used to 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.240 seeing them play. But this guy has been coaching for 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.640 sixteen years. Uh, this is this If he can't steer 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.000 him out of the skin, and when out will be 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.240 his first losing season in sixteen years. So you kind 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.680 of know what you were getting. And they just sort 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.600 of walked in and punched him in the mouth. And 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.760 all these guys around here were a little bit shocked. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.320 I mean, Bradley Bozeman Sunday Night was on the verge 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:19.680 of tears because they're just so unaccustomed to that happening 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:21.960 to them. They're the ones used to punching people in 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.640 the mouth lately, and to have it done to them. 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.839 I mean, I went back and looked at some of 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.520 the tape with some of the guys downstairs the other day, 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.520 and when you see it on film, a lot of 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.760 it's just getting physically whipped and a lot of it's 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.279 just getting beat to a spot, having your head in 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.279 the wrong place, and an offensive line that had become 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:45.320 the identity of a team was suddenly a liability. And 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:49.360 when that happens, that like shakes the foundation of everything 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.720 the team's trying to do in that moment. And then 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.600 the Steelers come out of halftime and take the ball 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.040 and basically spend the entire third quarter with the ball, 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.800 and I was about that, Yeah, close to twelve minute 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.680 drive and the third quarter there it's hard to win 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.440 the other team has the ball for an entire quarter, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.359 I guess. So what were some of your biggest takeaways 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.320 from this game? Kind Of like Darren said, I think 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.600 it was just deflating, especially at certain points, um like 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.080 where Darren left off, But that that drive. I talked 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.080 with a lot of the defense about it, and and 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.680 they had a very like somber tone, I think, especially 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.760 with how things had been trending so upwards since Cincinnati, 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.040 it was one of those things where, I mean things 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.560 were just they were going well, and in that drive, 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.680 I mean third down after third down after third down. 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.080 I think they converted five third hounds on that one 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.840 drive and ended up in getting a touchdown even though 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.320 there was the penalty. And I was just looking back 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:39.440 and I was like, I mean, it says they went 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.000 like nye yards, but they actually went more because they 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.800 were It was just it was it was that that 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.120 was They talk a lot on the other side of 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.120 the ball about demoralizing, and I felt like, I mean, 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.080 it's perfectly put that it was what the Panthers had 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.800 been doing to other teams. It was almost like that's 0:05:55.839 --> 0:06:00.000 what happened to the Panthers at home. But what's crazy 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.919 y about it is that even though that game, you know, 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.560 was deflating and in that locker room afterward it felt 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.240 really bad, about two hours later, Panthers still controlled their 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.120 own destiny. We wrote about it on Panthers dot com. 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.720 Bucks lost to the Bengals and and it was one 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:16.359 of those things where it was like, well, actually, I 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.039 mean not to throw it, throw it out, but you 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:19.880 can move forward, you know, you can move forward, win 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.120 it all, and it's you're in the same place. It's 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.560 it's fascinating. I was just I was just thinking about that. 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.800 I started laughing. So when I got home from talking about, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.279 you know, um, the Bucks Bengals game. When I got 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:35.560 home from our game, of course, you know, knowing that 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.440 that game was on and that did have a huge 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:42.520 part um in um in how good or bad that 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.400 day was going to end? Right, um? So I got 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.080 home and um, I asked my husband, I said, we 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.120 got to, you know, turn on this game. Is it 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:51.880 on TV? And he said, yeah, it's on, but the 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.240 Bucks are up seventeen to nothing and I went, oh, no, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.960 you know that's oh, this is not going to be good. 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.320 And then slowly as we watched, the tide really really turns. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.000 So you know, it's a it was a weird week 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.359 in the NFL all around, but as you said, Panthers 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.520 are still in charge of their own destiny. Yeah. And 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.320 the amazing thing about this trashy little neighborhood that we 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:14.200 live in called the NFC. So what you're going to 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:18.320 say after that, it's somebody's going to win this division. 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.240 It's possible that somebody could win this division at six 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:27.240 and eleven, oddly enough, But you know the reason immediately 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:31.000 after that game, I mean that game last Sunday, I 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.560 don't want to say it felt like a funeral. That's extreme, 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.960 but it was super deflating for those guys because they 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.840 had build a little momentum. The Seattle game was a 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.200 big turning point. You had finally gone on the road 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.920 beating a playoff level team, beating a good team, period, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.480 and it's what they needed. And then to come back 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.320 with that, it's like it took some of that away. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:56.720 Now they've got an opportunity this week again Detroit. Is 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.680 I keep having to check myself because things that don't 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.280 make any sense are actually true now, Like the Detroit 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.360 Lions are really good. Yes, they're one of the hottest 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.640 teams in the NFL, won five of the last six. 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.679 Jared Goff suddenly can't turn the ball over. Um, and 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.120 they're playing really well. They've got um, they've got one 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.320 of those bright young minds and Ben Johnson calling plays 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.000 for him and and that's the kind of people everybody 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.600 seem to want this time of year. But it's going 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.800 to be fascinating to see if they can, if they 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.600 can get a win. And I almost used the phrase 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:35.000 steal a win against the Lions, which again sounds insane 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.959 because it's the Lions were talking about Yeah, that game 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.320 looks different on the schedule. When the schedule comes out 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.640 or even in the preseason, you go okay, right, you know, 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.920 and then to look, there could be one of the 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.560 toughest games in this last stretch, which you know, Steve 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.960 didn't want players talking about playoffs. But if you beat 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.040 the Lions, you're effectively going to Tampa next week to 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:59.240 play for the division title basically, you know, at least thematically, 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:03.080 if not math radically. And it's it's just alarming to 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.600 think about with all the twists and turns of this season. 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.120 So I mean, I'm kind of curious to go out 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:13.200 to practice today Wednesday. Hey, I gotta rise. I could 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.200 not have. I've already forgotten. Its Wednesday, and they're gonna 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.720 be in full pads for the last time this season, 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.520 and that's gonna be I want to watch this practice 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.000 because that's where you'll kind of get a sense of 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.320 where they're at. I mean, I've seen enough of these 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.040 things where teams kind of you hate to say it, 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.400 but check out a little bit and it's not the 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.760 same intensity. But we talked the other week prior to 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.000 the Seattle game, I was like that practice in the 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.600 bubble that day that was different. He told us that 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.920 on this podcast you couldn't just tell and so I'm 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.520 kind of curious to see what it looks like when 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.520 we go out there today. I imagine they're going to 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.439 be as ramped up as as they can be this 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.840 time of year. But it's um yeah, it's obviously a 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.040 huge game for a lot of people for a lot 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.800 of reasons. And I do think that's interesting. I want 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.839 to go back to that because I asked Wilkes of 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.640 out putting on the pads, you know, and and Augustie 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.360 wrote a great article on Panthers dot com about the 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.760 logistics of all of it, and they only have Darren, 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:12.319 as you said, one more padded practice. Um So I 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:13.920 talked to him. I said, well, okay, when you have 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.720 a game where you don't do the things that you're 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.920 known for that have become your identity, how do you 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.679 get back to that in a week that's short by 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.559 one day? And that was one of the first things 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.120 he said, was was putting on the pads for the 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.320 last time. So Augusta, what what is he trying to 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.120 do to get these guys back to what they know 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.319 they can be. I found it interesting because he was 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.800 he was explaining himself in that press conference, like, I 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.840 don't know if that was it was the first week 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:42.880 since he had gotten here that they had not been 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:44.440 in full pads. At one point he was like, I 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.920 don't want to say that was why. You know, this 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.680 was last week. Yeah, yes, coming off of a long 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.000 Seattle trip exactly. It was like between Seattle and Pittsburgh. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.840 That was the first one. And and he was like 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.400 in his press conference on Monday, I didn't want it 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.280 to be like, I don't think that's why necessarily, But 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:02.800 I think it's going back to basics. That's one thing 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.280 he's talked about a lot that I find really interesting. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:09.800 It's like fundamentals, not doing the most but doing the 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.120 little things and everything, kind of like back to square 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.000 one and perfecting that. And so it's like, if we 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.800 go back to basics, go back to what like since 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.120 since Wilkes had gotten here, what the Panthers had done. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.160 And I also find it interesting and I want to 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.760 ask about this, but putting the pads on Wednesday, if 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:27.360 we're talking about the days of the week thing, Wednesday 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:32.000 is a Thursday. He had moved it from Thursday under 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.960 rule to Wednesday here, which Tuesday would have been Wednesday, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.400 so you know what I mean, Like it's in the 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.640 day of the week the same, but it is different 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.280 game prep because we have been doing it the way 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.400 that we had been here. It would have been Tuesday 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.480 versus Saturday. Wait a minute, right there a Thursday night 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:55.040 football game tonight? I mean, no, is there? It's Wednesday. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.400 We are at the point where we are so loopy 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:02.520 and confused if anyone can follow us in our if 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.079 Thursday Night football happened on a Wednesday, because it's a 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.800 short week for everybody because of Christmas, that would have thrown. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.400 That would have just caused the head to just launch 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.240 right off, so you wouldn't be capable of it now. 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:14.959 I would have to end the podcast right now if 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.480 that was the case. But yeah, I think that's interesting, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.360 and I haven't had the opportunity to ask about that 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.120 because it just clicked. But this is later in the week. 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.120 Then they've had full pads practice since Wilkes has been here. 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.120 He moved it up, So I wonder if that is 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.880 really just a get it in their head physical game, 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.000 not as many days to turn around, go back out 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.199 there kind of thing. You know, Coop just hit me. 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.520 So that is that that is some of the things 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.839 that they are trying to get right on a on 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.160 a short week. Now something else that is also going 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.640 to be a challenge. Not just the fact that the 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.240 Lions are on a hot streak and they're playing great 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.079 football right now. Um, it's also going to be potentially 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:56.199 the coldest game in Panthers history. And Augusta. I'm looking 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.679 over at your computer and you have a weather chart. 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.839 I mean it's like got bay ends of wind. Um. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:03.240 And I'll tell you what. It doesn't look good for 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.560 me out there from that chart. What have you? You said? 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.600 You've become an expert on this game. So if you're 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.960 coming to the game, Um, what can you expect from 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:16.520 our weather person? So cold? So cold? So um, I'm 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:23.320 looking at this from weather brown horrible. So the teens 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.360 are in red, not blue or purple, but red, which 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.600 looks so much more intimidating than if it were blue. 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.679 So the whole Carolinas is just red. This is the 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.640 wind shills expected at one pm Saturday, Okay, seventeen degrees 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.160 around our little area in Charlotte. So I mean, if 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.559 it's not cold enough, just cold, the windshill is going 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.440 to be ridiculous, but it is on pace to be 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.760 the coldest home game in the history, which would be 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:50.080 above the eighth coldest ever no matter where the Panthers 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.040 have gone, according to the long list of the coldest 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.079 games everywhere, which I also have pulled up here because 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.560 weather expert. Yeah, so here's all of them. The other 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.400 the coldest game at the at the Bank America Stadium 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.120 in the in the history eight it was thirty at kickoff. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.600 They're expecting it to be colder than that. So its 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.679 my friends who cover the Packers. They kind of point 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.640 and laugh when I start talking about cold weather. Uh, 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.920 and everything is relative. I mean, yes, there are a 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.760 lot of field eights at this great post earlier this 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.080 week that showed some of the temperatures that are going 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.720 to be on Saturday kickoffs across the country, and most 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.680 of them are colder than than the Panthers. But for 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:34.600 you know, the southern people here, it's it's cold. We 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.440 don't spend time up there, right. We chose to live 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.440 here people. I'll tell you what. I lived for two 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.560 years in Chicago and three years in Connecticut, and um, 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.920 I'm glad that the coldest game is going to be 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.000 in the you know, twenties or thirties. Oh and I 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.840 mean listen, I I looking at that chart. I was 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.600 at the NFC Championship game in Green Bay and nine 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.960 when it was three and I don't ever, I don't 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.560 ever want to experience Arian's three again in my life. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:06.680 That's not enough degrees. It should be manymore than three 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:11.520 anytime I'm outdoors ever. But yeah, I mean it is. 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:16.440 It is a factor. And I do think not everything 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.600 has to be about football, but when you think about 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.160 the way this game sets up, I mean, the Lions 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.720 are a throat around team. Jared Goff is a guy 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.440 who's He's not Kenny Pickett, but he's got his hands 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:33.280 are on the smaller side. So and he traditionally has 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:37.560 not played well in cold weather, now does he? I 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.200 I don't know. This is a whole different situation than 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.440 when he was playing in l A before. Um, you know, 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:47.160 the Lions play their games in a comfortable seventy degrees 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.920 inside of Ford Field. I don't know if it's going 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:51.840 to become an issue, but if you think about it 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.760 from a football perspective, because of the way the Lions 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.800 operate offense versus what the Carolina Panthers want to do, 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.520 which turn around and hand it to beond tape form 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.800 and thirty five times. You would think if the weather 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.440 is an advantage to anyone, it would be an advantage 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.360 to the home team. And it's weird to say the 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.320 Lions aren't as used to play an in cold weather. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.240 It's Carolina Panthers. But this may be true, and this 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.360 it is the truth. But don't you also just feel like, 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.160 from what we know about Dan Campbell, he's got them 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.960 out there with like ice packs strapped to their you know, 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.120 the pads today or something, just trying to get them 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.640 ready for the cold weather. Like there's something I can't 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.240 wait to find out if he did something crazy. But 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.680 you're right, Dan Campbell is probably out there in shore 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:38.240 to like Ben McAdoo, Yes, absolutely, and like a tank top. 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.880 Right absolutely. But yeah, I asked Steve Folks, I said, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.200 is the weather a factor or is it not a factor? 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.360 And he said, no, it's not you know, which is 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.480 what you gotta say, right, It's yes, That's exactly what 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.840 he said in AUGUSTA. If if you've been listening to 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.800 this this podcast every week, AUGUSTA has always said that 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.480 about you know, Wilkes will say, here are the it's, 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.200 and we can't focus on that, And that's what he said. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.720 It's the it this week is is the weather and 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.240 we can't let that distract us. He'll bring up it's 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:06.800 all the time. I did want to have a shout 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.280 to to when I was at practice yesterday, Um a 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.399 bunch of heaters where out players were going putting their 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.240 gloves under and putting their helmets under them. But I 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.560 had a chance to speak with Cuba Hubbard, who is 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:20.760 from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and Uh Kenny, our photographer, and 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.680 I were just you know, having some some quick small 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:26.159 chie in between drills about how cold it was, and 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.800 he goes, y'all look up what it is at home 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:30.439 for me right now. So I looked it up. It 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:34.280 was negative when chill's negative forty, they're not getting out 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.040 of the negatives until Friday at Cuba's hometown. So I 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.679 know of anybody on the roster who isn't going to 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.480 care um if that's what he grew up, and I 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.240 think it's northern Canada. Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.080 I was like, yeah, you know what you're right, because 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:49.440 I don't think I've ever even experienced sub zero negative. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:56.440 I was shocked. I can't imagine. I cannot imagine. Yep, 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.359 that was an interesting part of my day. All right, Well, 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:03.640 before we say goodbye, I want to do a little something. Um. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.040 I've been thinking about this a lot. What are the 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.520 definitive big three holiday rankings? For you? So I just 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:10.840 want to end on this and I would love to 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:15.600 have anybody tweet these in Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween? Where did 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:19.280 they rank for you? This is easy for me, It's easy. 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:23.720 It's easy for Darren's. Darren's taking a stretch taking his 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.400 glasses off. So August, if it's easy for you, where 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.080 are you going? I like Thanksgiving the most, less pressure, 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:33.159 love the food. Halloween's fun and que I've never been 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:38.400 a Christmas s gal controversially, but that was easy. Yeah, Chris, 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.000 Christmas is I hate you hate to say the birth 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:46.120 of Jesus Christ is second to anything, but um, but 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.560 here we are. I have always and I think it's 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.600 partially because of the job I'm in, and and Christmas 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.119 always falls it just endo football season, and it it 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.160 always feels like you don't get to spend as much 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:00.240 time doing the stuff you really want to do, because 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.199 you spend all the time doing the stuff that you 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.560 got to do, and it's so Christmas always been kind 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.800 of tough. From that same point, I love Thanksgiving. I'm 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.400 a sucker for it. I am not into Halloween at all. 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.440 Halloween can just kind of I think once you're once 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:18.639 you're past the age of like six or seven, you know, 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.879 small children, I'll give you eight, nine, ten, maybe whatever, 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.880 But until you know, once you're past the small child 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.399 trick or treating phase, I think Halloween can just go away. No, 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:33.159 I'm not into the whole inflatable yard decoration. So did you? 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.840 So did you? But where did you go thank Christmas 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:39.000 and Thanksgiving? What did the ultimate I think I'm going 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:43.359 Thanksgiving one. I think I'm going thanks Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving has 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.920 been a riser for me. I'm still gonna go Christmas first. 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.800 But I think also because working in this job, you know, 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:51.920 typically you have to choose, at least working for a network. 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.560 Now football schedule is different, but working for networks in 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:56.639 my in my past life, you have to choose one 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.440 or the other right Thanksgiving or Christmas. I would usually 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.360 choose ChRI sans to fly across the country and see 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.399 my family. So a lot of Thanksgivings I didn't just 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.800 not participating in. Right, this year, I got to go 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:09.879 to the family Thanksgiving, and it does feel like it 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.480 really sets the mood for the holiday season. It's kind 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:14.879 of more Christmas Eve than Christmas right, because it's like 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.320