WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 32: Ready For Mobile 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.760 Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkis 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.680 told me to always make it easy for the customer. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.600 That's you alive person will always be here to answer 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.800 the phone. We're here till midnight, seven days a week, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.080 so you never have to take off work, and it's 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.840 the same prices in the daytime. We're the ones you 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.160 want to call. We're the ones you want to call. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.520 We're the ones you want to call. You're gonna love 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:36.800 these people, I guarantee. See. Got to Morris Jenkins dot com. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.400 It's time for the Happy Half Hour with your friends 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:51.879 Kristen Belboni and Will Brian presented by Morris Jenkins. That's right, 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:53.840 it's that time of the week. The Happy Half Hour 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.920 podcast is presented by Morris Jenkins and Mr Jenkins told 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:58.960 me that he loves football and he looks forward to 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.680 this show all week. When you're plumbing or air conditioning 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.000 is acting up, called Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.640 dot com. Kristen here as always with my good friends 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.000 Will and Matt and uh guys. We have a lot 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.600 to catch up on since the last time we spoke 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:18.039 last Wednesday morning. Number one being Scott Fitterer is officially 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.800 the Panthers new general manager. It seems like forever ago, 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.480 right we were still debating all the candidates that that 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.840 was just last week. Oh my gosh, at this time 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.640 last week have happened. So one thing I would love 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.360 to do and will certainly get into the people that 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.440 we've we've talked to about him and kind of what 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.319 the rest of this week looks like, um as he 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.280 gets settled in his role. Um. But one thing I 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.640 think would be cool because up until about a year ago, 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.479 I didn't know how all this stuff work. Is Like, Will, 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:46.600 I would love for you to start out and myself 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.640 as well in terms of how this all played out 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.520 from our end, you know, because when you get the 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.680 when you get the news, you got to spring into action, 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.880 and you're one of the people that has to be 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:56.800 I mean, you really had to be ready at any 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.960 time because of the website. Yeah, I mean, I think 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.160 one of the things that we had to do was 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.840 do our best to kind of prep um as many 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:07.080 of these guys as possible as their names kind of 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.400 popped up. Um. I think one of the things that 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.280 this since usually this happened so quickly, as we kind 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.120 of talked about over the last couple of weeks. UM. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.600 I think that the two week element of it maybe 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.000 kind of lulds us to sleep a little bit. But 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.280 as soon as kind of we I I gotta push uh, 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.960 and then all the slack messages, all the text and 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:27.480 all of a sudden, you know, you're kind of going. 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.359 So it's it's building out, it's getting as many pictures 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.840 as possible. UM, It's it's reaching out to folks from 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:39.239 Seattle to to get in contact for uh, you know, bios, pictures, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.960 potential interview people. But I have to imagine about this though, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.920 is which I think is really interesting, is that I 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.240 have to imagine that you can't you know, I mean, 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.240 we knew who the candidates were this time last week, 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.280 we knew that it was down to the final four. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:54.800 The Panthers released that UM on Panthers dot Com. But 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.799 I have to imagine that while you're prepping, you can't 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.480 get too far ahead of yourself in terms of reaching out. 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.160 You just said you reached out to people in Seattle, 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.200 where it's like, I imagine you can't tip your hand 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.760 too much, right, Yeah, I mean you kind of try 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.000 to you tiptoe around it, and a little bit. It 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.280 was easier with some of the candidates for whom I 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:17.320 already had some personal connections, you know, I knew some people, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.359 um with some of the other teams with where those 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.400 candidates were, so it's a little bit easier to kind 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.360 of navigate that than maybe a team where, um, you 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.480 didn't have as many people that you kind of knew 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.440 already in place. Um and uh and so yeah, I 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:32.800 mean I think there was a little bit of kind 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.200 of some some blind cold emailing there with Seattle, but 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.600 I mean they were great. And the thing that was 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.200 interesting was that all the different people I talked to, 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.000 and I've heard this from everyone else. I mean, you 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.560 can certainly say this is as soon as kind of 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.480 the news broke, everyone was like, oh my god, you're 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.800 gonna love what a great guy. Now, I will say this, 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.800 I have heard that quite a few times, but I 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.760 will change it up a little bit. I was talking 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.000 to Jim Naggi, who's the head of the Senior Bowl, 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.160 and we'll get into that little bit later, but he 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.320 worked with um Scott Fitterer for five years. They were, 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.560 you know, both in the scouting department with the Seahawks 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.320 and I'll tell you what he says. Well, oh my god, 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.560 you're gonna love Fit. So I told him my goal 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:12.920 is to to one day get to the level where 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.160 I'm calling him fit too, because I think that's that's 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.400 the thing, that's how you know you're in right. He 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.640 was like, oh, fits the greatest And I was like, oh, Fit, 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.120 I like that. What's what's he going to call you 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:31.160 if you call him fit? Kristen hopefully? But yeah, I mean, 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.000 and yeah, so things, I mean, things happen fast. I mean, 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.120 that was what Thursday night and then we were getting 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.000 getting stuff up. We you know, we we went out 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.039 with something that was a little maybe unorthodox kind of 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.320 in this world, but we posted and went live with 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.120 um an offer that we had offered him, not that 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.640 he had accepted the offer, but just that we had 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.680 offered him, which I think in this uh in the 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.080 world from kind of the team side, you don't really 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.119 see all that much this time of year in terms 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.120 of you know, the the head coach announcements, the GM announcements, 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.200 all that kind of stuff. But knowing that that new 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.919 story was going to be everywhere else and it was 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.159 true we had offered him UM, so I think we 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.080 kind of made a little some waves there from a 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.159 Panthers dot com, you know, Panthers Social just kind of 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.280 our whole our whole set of accounts that we announced that, 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.240 and then four hours later later that night, um, we're 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.280 able to follow back up and said that he agreed 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.039 to terms. Um. So yeah, I mean, I think it 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.279 was a really interesting sort of set of hours there 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.359 of of doing something that maybe we weren't exactly expecting 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.479 because we hadn't done it before. And I think a 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.360 lot of kind of the professional media and the NFL 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.440 world were a little surprised by that too. I like 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.440 it though, And so I had a I had a 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.719 front row seat to all of those conversations. You know, 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.720 we're all on the on the same text chains or 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.360 slack chains, um. But but I really get to look 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.760 at it, um from a completely detached perspective, because that's 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.640 not you know, social and and the website are not 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:02.120 necessarily my world unless I'm I'm hosting something for one 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.680 of those places. Um. But so it was interesting for 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.839 me to see kind of how that discussion played out. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.040 And you know, I think, like you said, people are like, oh, 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:12.919 this is this is new, and this is different. But 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.640 as you said, uh, stories are out there and you 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.320 have to be when you're the team, you have to 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:20.480 you can't just be like, oh, yeah, this is happening. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.000 He just like tweet out like, hey, this is happening. 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.320 By the way, it's got to be you know, very specific, 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:28.720 and the specificity there was, Um, the Panthers have extended 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.120 a formal offer. And by that point, at least in 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.040 my own experience as someone who's had contracts before, certainly 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:35.359 I can't speak to that. I was not in the 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.839 negotiation room here, but that's that's you know, both sides 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.400 at that point are on board, and then there's you know, 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.359 a more formal process and that that does by no means, 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.920 Um that by no means, doesn't mean that he's still 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.160 taken some time. Usually it's like okay, yeah, like let's 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.680 do this, and then there's like the formal process of it. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:57.960 And I thought it was very cool that, um, the 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.640 Panthers were updating every step of the way, because, as 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.119 you said, well, a lot of times, as as a team, 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.080 you don't always get to do that because you have 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:10.200 to really, especially when it involves negotiations, really stick to 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.560 the facts. Whereas someone else can have a report out 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.160 from sources. UM, you can't do that on the official 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.720 Panthers Twitter. No. I mean, and I think that that's 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.440 been part of the goal over the last three or 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.800 four years really is to kind of continue to keep 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:28.160 pushing pushing those limits, pushing those boundaries of of what 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:32.960 this world is and essentially of the Panthers UM, and 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:37.280 our official voices are official accounts, are official platforms, really 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.160 being in the mix of the way that a fan 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.880 understands and is informed about this team. You know, we 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.760 want fans to not only just subscribe to the different 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.840 media outlets and their pushes, but you know, if they 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:52.680 get it from us, they're getting it from us at 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:56.040 the same time, UM, and they're they're being informed about it, 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.760 and then hopefully from you know, yourself, and from Bill 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:03.480 both and Darren Gant and from you know, excuse me 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.760 maybe maybe you know, but like that from that within 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.520 this group of really getting good insight and understanding why 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.600 this not that UM, and trying to to not just 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.280 hear you know, a potential hot take or you know, 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.240 a clickbait link, but really you know, stepping through this 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.720 is why this is happening, and these are the reasons 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.640 behind it, and this is why you should be excited 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.440 about it, or even you know, saying this is why 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.480 this didn't work, um, and and this is what, you know, 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.040 what the organization is going to try to do to 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.760 fix it. You know. I think throughout the season, you know, 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.280 I think we were trying to be as honest as possible. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.040 You know, I wasn't only just giving stats that that 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.040 we're the good ones, you know, we we said these 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.880 are the things that that aren't very good, and these 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:48.560 are the things that they're gonna keep talking about and 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.240 working on, and this is you know, what they are. 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.319 And I think that honesty and that that openness UM 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.240 hopefully has has been good for our fans and um 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.599 maybe attracted some new ones. I think that's certainly a 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.280 better way of break news. Then. I think it was 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.920 the Falcons not too long ago that said, sources say 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.800 we're close to doing something, and it was the Falcons 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.720 own page, so they were they didn't even they were 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.760 the team, yet they were using sources. I wonder who 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.199 their sources were, right, and and that and that's because 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:19.119 they're so there. If you don't really have good alignment internally, 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.920 and you don't have people that are the power burgers 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.559 in the room vouching for Hey, oh, by the way, 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.000 I need confirmation on what we can do on our 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.800 social channels. You know, when you're when you're kind of 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.240 a too far steps outside of that process, you kind 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.960 of have to play a little bit safer. And we 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.400 we've got some really important people, um that have that 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.960 have really vouched for the uh, the ability to do 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.079 this night. I think it's it's invaluable. Are I mean 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.120 it might seem like a small little niche all you know, 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.040 who cares, Like four hours later they said it and 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.280 I heard it anyway, so I knew about it. But 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.680 I think it does make a difference, um a little 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.000 bit when the team and us and when we can 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.600 all kind of be a part of the conversation UM 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.280 or A l L. Yeah, I agree, And I think 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.120 we should make it clear that we're not saying that 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.400 the Falcons or any other team doesn't have that backing 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:11.920 from there um higher ups. I just think that for us, 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.160 for the Panthers, um, you know, because we don't know 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.440 what's going on in any other organization. But I think 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:20.040 for the Panthers we have been lucky and we've all 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:24.800 felt it UM to have people who UM are higher up, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:29.080 who really value transparency and UM keeping fans in the 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.720 know in an honest way and trying to do it, 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.199 you know, as quickly as possible, UM all throughout the season. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.240 And I think that's been incredible for me to come 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.120 into and and see it happen in real time because 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:39.880 I'm still a fan, you know, and so when there's 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.520 something like this that happens that I'm not directly involved in, 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.679 you know, we expect to do. You know, I've done 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.040 interviews of people who who know Scott Fitterer expect to 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.120 be talking to him soon. But really, when it comes 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.360 to the breaking news like this that goes on the website, 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.199 I got to sit back and see how it all happened. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.360 And it's very cool for me, as someone who was 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.280 a fan of this organization before coming into work here 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.080 UM to see all that play out in real time 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:08.600 in the commitment to keeping the fans in the loop 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:12.520 and and not letting the story go by, just because 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.080 we have to be a lot more buttoned up about 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.400 the way in which we express things and how you know, 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.520 it's an important part of every conversation is you know, 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:21.920 we got we gotta put this out there, like we 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.040 got we gotta put this out there for the fans. 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.440 So I think that's awesome. So since we've put it 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.160 out for the fans, what are the things that you 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.800 feel like you've learned, um, from all of your conversations, um, 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.080 from the people you've talked to, from the people that 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.920 Darren Gan has talked to over the last week about 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.200 Scott Bigger. Yeah. I think this is gonna sound cheesy, um, 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.760 but it's the truth. Like I'm not just saying this, 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:44.880 this is really the truth. It's it's really what you 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.760 said earlier, will As when you said people are like, 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.280 oh my gosh, you're gonna love him, and talking to 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.720 people on video and seeing their faces, you know, Darren 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.480 said a lot of phone conversations. I'm sorry he's had 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.960 some video conversations as well, but seeing a few of 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.360 the people the same and Farmers who's a good family 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.200 friend of him, as well as being just an amazing 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:07.120 NFL writer for the l A Times, and um, um, 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.920 Jim Naggie of the Senior Bowl, as I mentioned, their 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.960 face like lights up, you know, like they just have 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.240 a smile talking about him and you can tell that 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:21.520 it's deeper, um than just a professional relationship. And I 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.079 think that's pretty cool. And just you know, Sam Farmer 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:25.839 talked to me about him being just like such a 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.400 good guy, and uh, Sam Farmer said, you know, I 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.920 was texting with a colleague the other day and sometimes 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.240 in this industry there are people who are great at 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:40.880 their jobs, but not necessarily the most genuine people, um, 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.520 and you see them go on to succeed. And he said, 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.160 it's it's kind of rare, um that you see a 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.720 guy that you just know, Man, this is a good 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.640 dude that everyone is gonna like. And also he's gonna 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.920 do his job so incredibly well. And so I've gotten 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.440 that sense will um. And I don't know if that 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.080 I think that's also come through articles and and the 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.440 people that Darren has talked to as well. And that 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.640 seems to be the general consensus is like for the 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.120 purposes of this higher no one has a bad word 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.920 to say. Everyone is so incredibly complimentary of the job 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.320 that he's going to do, and so Panthers fan should 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.760 be excited about that. But then in addition to that, 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.000 it seems like a real good dude and everyone I've 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.439 talked to us, mentioned his wife whose name is cherished, 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.120 his kids, Like, you can tell that that stuff is 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.640 um and those are you know, former co workers, are 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.640 a writer who's to cover him, who developed into a 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.240 family friend, and so I think there's a that's told 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:36.320 me a lot about him and so Um, as Sam 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:40.560 Farmer said, it's cool to see good people, you know 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.400 from everything we've heard, succeed at this higher level. And 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.200 I think I'm excited to get to know him better. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.000 The one of the quotes from John Schneider, who's the 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.640 GM of the Seahawks, who is Fitters boss over the 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:57.480 last a decade or so, Um told Darren and I quote, 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.080 first thing you told Darren you guys are going to 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.800 kick ass. It'll be a really fun culture. Can I 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:08.800 say that on the podcast? Okay? I mean I will 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.480 put it on Matt if we get fine. MAT's going 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.360 to take care of it and cash it's it's on 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.400 my back that that just speaks to I mean, that's 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.320 the first thing that he said when he, you know, 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.840 talked to this writer from the Panthers. Oh man, you 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.960 guys are gonna kick ass. Like he was so excited 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.600 to talk about who Scott is and what Scott's going 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.880 to do well. So much of it is is relationships, right, 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.720 I mean, especially coming up through the scouting world, it's 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.000 it's relationships. And that's what we've heard a lot about. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.160 And I'm sure that's yeah, no, no, I mean, and 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.320 I was saying, I mean, in some ways, it's almost 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.800 it's it's kind of sad that like he's walking into 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.360 this sort of COVID world, you know, where like I 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:46.840 I want to get in there and meet him, you know, 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:48.400 and you know, you want all these other people to 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.320 kind of be around him, because he seems like this 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.920 person that in the pre COVID world where you could 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.640 really kind of uh have this you know, tight knit 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.080 community and have all these people really relating and being 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.680 close and being in physical proximity to each other. That 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.640 that's just a world where he thrives um and so 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.160 you know, hopefully we can we can quickly get back 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.920 to that world and um and and kind of utilize 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.600 some of those those aspects of him. But like one 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.720 of the things that I think kind of moving moving 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.800 forward of you know, what our fans want to know 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.720 is Okay, so drafts coming up in three months Senior 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.840 Bowls next week, Like, what is this guy's approach? And 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.200 I think that one of the things that that Schneider 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.440 again said was that he's really calm and really level 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.240 and even um and has this kind of level headed 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.920 spirit to him. Yes. UM, I think that's gonna be 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.120 really interesting to see how that takes place both within 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.680 kind of a draft weekend scenario, um, and in the 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.320 ways that he kind of handles his scouting department. It's funny. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.640 Jim Nagy said the exact same thing. Um. He called 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:57.960 him a calming influence. He tweeted it and it got 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.960 a lot of UM, got a lot of was and 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.760 he said, you know, he's he was such a calming 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.520 influence in the draft room. And I don't think I've 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.760 ever heard anyone described that way. And he said, well, hey, 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:08.440 I just want to I just want to make it known. 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.080 As I was talking to him, he was like, the 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.000 rest of us weren't crazy, Like we didn't need like 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.760 we didn't necessarily need the calming influence. But that's how 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:20.280 he described him. Um, so that's really interesting. We gotta 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.560 he was like the co director with Trent Kirshner, who 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.000 also used to work for the Panthers back in the day, 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.200 and um, Schneider kind of called them fire and ice 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.760 a little bit that Kirshner was was kind of the 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.520 fire and kind of really you know, push the limits 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.360 and was and then uh, Scott was more the ice 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.640 of of kind of pulling, pulling things back and really 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:45.960 centering where where things needed to be. Um. And this yeah, 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.160 again this calming influence. And I think you look at 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:52.640 the success of these Seahawks drafts and a big notable 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.320 thing that sticks out to everybody is their ability to 0:16:56.440 --> 0:17:00.000 trade back. Um. And that's something you know, obviously a problem. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.520 Really wasn't just Scott pulling the trigger on that. It 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:06.320 was a group effort. Um. But you know, this propensity 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.760 to trust the work that they've done, that they had 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:11.960 done with their scouting, with the way they set up 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:15.560 their draft board, and knowing that they could still find 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:19.119 value and find really good value by trading back and 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.240 doing it correctly and doing it well. Um, which will 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.639 be really interesting to see. You know, what does he 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:26.639 what does he do with the eighth overall pick? What 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.080 does he do in the second and third round? Um? 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.840 You know how you know he's found a bunch of 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.119 guys that have been starters in really big contributors for 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.560 the Seahawks, you know after the third and fourth round, 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.720 you know, and he he really feels that there's a 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.320 lot of value to be found there. Um, and that's 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.119 something that I think the Panthers haven't always had in 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.679 recent years. Um, you know, late round draft picks that 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:52.240 have really flourished. So uh, that that will be something 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.439 I think everyone's really looking forward to. Yeah, and so 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.320 let's let's continue that. Let's start to look ahead after 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.640 we take a quick break right now. Mr Jenkins told me. 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.040 Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkis told me to always 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:09.000 make it easy for the customer. That's you. A lave person, 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.520 will always be here to answer the phone. We're here 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.280 till midnight, seven days a week, so you never have 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.000 to take off work. And it's the same prices in 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.080 the daytime. We're the ones you want to call. We're 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.640 the ones you want to call. We're the ones you 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:27.440 want to call. You're gonna love these people, I guarantee. 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:31.359 See gotta Morris Jenkins dot com. All right, well you 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.399 brought it up, and I think it's it's so smart. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.080 As we look forward, I mean, he's gonna come in 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.720 and be thrown right into it. Not that I mean, 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.760 not that that's something he's not prepared for at all. 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.440 But he's gonna go right into the Senior Bowl. Because 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.399 the Panthers coaching staff will be one of the staffs 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.399 that's um, that are coaching in this game. And and 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:53.240 that starts really this weekend, even though the game is 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.920 not until next weekend because it's a full week. Um. 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.720 But but what a great opportunity for um Fitterer and 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.560 this coaching staff to get so much time with these guys. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.639 And we saw over this week, h Mac Jones. It 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.240 was announced yesterday the Alabama quarterback is not only gonna 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.240 be down there with several um other guys from that 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.240 championship team, but um, he's also going to be on 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:20.520 the Panthers team. So what a great opportunity for everyone 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:24.000 to just hit the ground running and start, especially this 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:28.399 year when you know, the combine situation is different, the 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.960 off season will be different, um, And and the draft 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.040 is really right around the corner in terms of you know, 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.480