WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 41: Gaining Clarity 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:12.160 It's time for a Happy half Hour presented by Morris 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:18.360 Jenkins with your friends Kristen Balboni, Will Bryan and Tarn Gant. 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.680 This is the Happy Half Hour podcast presented by Morris Jenkins. 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.639 We are coming to you from Panther's training camp and 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.480 Mr Jenkins told me the Panthers make him proud and 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:33.760 he is honored to support the team. When you're plumbing 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.120 your air conditioning is acting up, called Morris Jenkins or 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:40.920 visit Morris Jenkins dot com. Darren Will, I know I 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.960 just said it, but we are podcasting from a very 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.159 different space than normal space. Both of you guys know 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.160 very well. But it's my first time down here in Spartanburg. 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.680 Happy first week of training camp in the books, guys, 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.320 I know. And it's just sublime. I mean, I thought 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.720 we were going to need Mars Jenkins down here because 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:02.720 it's always hot as lays is in Spartan Yes, and 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.760 here and here you go, it's not. It's beautiful in 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.280 Spartanburg right now. I mean, the temperatures were in the 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:13.120 sixties this morning, no humidity. It was just wonderful out here. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.959 And and I think it's almost you know, we're almost 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.559 spoiled because you want to come to Spartanburg and switch 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.760 your brains out so you appreciate the rest of the year, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.120 and we're not really doing that yet. Darren. I'm just 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.319 curious you were here last week, right, We got a 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.800 good five six days of sweating our brains out. Last 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.000 week it was warm ish, but morning warm is different 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.440 than the middle of the afternoon warm. And back in 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.000 the old days when they used to go two a 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:42.000 days and or go three o'clock in the afternoon practice, 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.920 that's when you really got the Spartanburg swelter. And so 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.280 even when it's hot out here like it was last week, 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.800 it didn't it doesn't really feel the same kind of hot. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.960 That's that's fair. It's not your own personal sona. If 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.840 they're doing morning practices, And just for for any of 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.680 the fans that don't know, they are mercifully in my opinion, 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.000 practic to sing in the morning eight thirty two about 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.480 ten thirty or eleven, depending on the day. So, as 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.480 Darren said, we do get the best part of the 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.880 day bar none, and today was fantastic. The this was 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.040 this recording us on Wednesday. Not only was the weather 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.480 really good, that We had a really great fan group 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.160 out there, probably the largest families to a lot of 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.040 player families, Um we're here. Is it was really, I think, 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.320 like you said, the largest fan presence aside from the 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.960 night practice on July thirty one, which they called Back 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.639 Together Saturday, which was in Gibbs Stadium, so a little 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.960 bit you know, bigger feel with the lights, and it 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.240 was a night event and there were cameras, NFL Network 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.280 and we had our own broadcast. But this was the 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.760 first traditional practice, like you said, well where there were 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.160 just a lot a lot of people out. Weather was 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.720 they were taking advantage of the great weather. Saw some 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.639 beach blankets out, some towels, and then a lot of 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.320 players families also came down for the day as well. 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.480 At least it looked like after practice, which was great. Yeah. Yeah, 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.560 And they relaxed some of the rules so some family 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.079 members can be around and that's helpful. I mean you 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.560 you saw last week on social media, Jamaine Carter was 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.720 a little salty about some of that. In the very 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.600 next day, the policy change so that family members can 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.840 come and see people after practice and and players are 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.000 relieved for that because that's the biggest thing for a 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.240 lot of these guys is you know, you're out of 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.040 your comfort spot. You're not in your own bed, You're 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.919 not you know, on your own schedule. But if you've 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.560 got a wife and kids at home or stuff like that, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.600 I mean, are family members that you want to be around. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.440 Not being around your support system take something out of you. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.400 So as much as I am an advocate for the 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.560 training camp experience, it's still hard. It's still tough not 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.360 being at home and around your people. So we've covered 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.120 you know, the weather, super important meals. I'm sure we'll 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.400 get into which you know, those are the things that 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.320 we hear at the Happy half hour podcasts are gonna 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.560 dive deep on make sure that all Panthers fans know. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.400 Let's talk about what's going on on the field. Now 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.040 that you've got the important stuff. Actually, Darren, what are 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.440 you seeing out there? It's been doing this? Well? Just 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.400 for context, first, I'm sorry I asked you a question 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.760 that immediately interrupted you. You have been coming to camp 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:04.040 on here since right, Yeah, and it's UH and this 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.800 one's different. This one's different from UH, from a lot 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.440 of levels, but the team is different. And I think 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.320 you know, we talked and we're gonna get into this 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.360 later in the show. There's a lot of stuff about 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.480 this football team that we don't know and we're still 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.120 trying to figure out, and we're still sort of in 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.599 that process. But at the same time, we've got a 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.800 week's worth of evidence. We've seen these guys in practices, 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.080 in and out of pads, so I mean, you're starting 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.640 to get a little sense of some of the broader themes. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.080 And I think, you know, on the whole, there's been 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.520 some sloppy days of practice, but it's it's probably better 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.599 than I anticipated it was going to look defensively, and 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.520 I mean, I am one I don't like getting too 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.120 far out of muskies. I don't like creating false hope 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.400 based on individual drills or anything like that. You're not 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.680 saying playoff run from the first two days and pads. No, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.760 they're they're obviously going to be a top five defense 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.680 in the NFL. Now they're getting a lot better and 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.080 they're they've got players over there on that side of 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.640 the ball that are doing things in camp that it's like, Okay, 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:05.160 that guy belongs. Jasey Horn is the genuine article. He's 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.279 a guy who could be that guy and he's got 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.240 his ups and downs, and Rule kind of gets on 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.080 him every now and then for getting a little grabby 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.280 at times. But he's a big physical corner. He's gonna 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.760 put hands on people. But Jase Horns also putting his 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.880 hands on a lot of passes that are coming from 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.520 the offense, and so were other guys. Jeremy Chen's out, 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.840 he's how to pick out here, Chin and and Horn 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.440 had picks on back to back days and it's like, Okay, 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.960 that's what a rebuild secondary looks like. That's what those 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.919 guys can do. So it's been probably for me, the 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.880 biggest takeaway from a week of camp is that defense 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:39.039 might actually be pretty good. Yeah, I completely agree about 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.120 j C. Horne. I talked to him the other day. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.080 It was after it was the day that he had 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.479 two picks in a single practice, so I think, I know, 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.719 we don't keep training camp stats, although Will might. If 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.640 anyone does, Will does, But by my account, he's had 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.800 three picks so far. And I was asking him about it, 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:55.880 and um, I said, you know, how are you feeling 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.360 this defense? And I loved his answer because it wasn't Yeah. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.160 He was like, I'm getting the hang of it, I'm 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.880 getting the hang of it. Just a very real, realistic answer, 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.720 Like clearly he's getting the hang of it, you can 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.000 see it on the field, but he's also not too 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.920 far over his keys where you know he's he's still learning. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:13.919 There's a and there's a lot to learn, and he 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.200 knows that. It's just another sign of just how ready 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.920 he is that just because he's had this hot start 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.360 and seems like he's he's really starting to to mesh 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.200 with the other defenders that secredary and and understand what's 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.240 expected at this level. He's not buying into any hype 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.120 or thinking, you know, of himself in a certain way. Um, 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:31.640 and you know who else is loving it. You get 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.160 there's a clip on on Panthers social media of one 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.599 of his interceptions from the other day, and you see 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.960 Dante Jackson going crazy as if it was his own interception. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.440 And you think about Dante, He's he's got some great 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.640 pieces around him. He looks good after battling that turf 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.520 toe all last season, and you had him back, and 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.600 it makes it's not just about these these new pieces. 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.680 And you put Jeremy Chin back there in the secondary. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.120 As you said, darren A lot, a lot to be 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.120 excited about the whole different look. I mean, Dante led 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.000 the team with three interceptions all of the last season, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.880 the team as a whole had seven interceptions in sixteen games. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.800 J C. Horns had three in the first week of 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.880 training camp. So I think they've got an opportunity to 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.320 be a little more turnover turnover driven. They ought to 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.680 be able to create more turnovers this year based on 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.720 the pressure they're going to be able to create up 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.400 front and having a better grade of player in the 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.720 second year. And they're talking about it every single day. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.480 Like I was down the fence today and you know 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.400 they're they're going through um, you know, their warm up drills, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.320 and you have assistant coaches out there like three three three, 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.200 we're getting three turnovers, three turnovers, Like you know, every 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.960 practice their focused they've got to get three turnovers because 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:36.840 that's what you know, they've seen for kind of their 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.160 goals for each game. It's like, we gotta get turnovers, 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.560 gotta get turnovers. So it's it's a mindset. It's not 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.120 just kind of like bend and bend, don't break. It's 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.720 we're being aggressive. We've got to go create that. I'm talking. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.600 I asked Jeremy Chin about that the other day because 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.360 that's something I've heard now. Granted we we get to 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.720 hear it with the music down. We're a little bit 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.080 closer than certainly I got to be last year, so 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.640 I'm hearing it more. The defense is talking a lot, 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.200 and well, you said, you always hear them count you know, Okay, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:03.880 that's one where we gotta get three, but you also 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.000 hear them say talk talk communicating, we got to talk 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.680 about this. Shack has been very vocal about that, no 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:13.400 pun intended vocal about talking um since since the season ended, 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.040 and just that is what is so valuable for this 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.760 young team, This young defense is learning each other out 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.720 there and communicating. And Jeremy said something I asked him about, 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.000 you know how much they're talking and communicating, and he said, 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.200 you know, not always getting it right, but even when 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.480 we're wrong, we're right because we're talking it through and 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.040 we're learning that stuff. And it does feel like these guys, 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.320 especially on that defensive side, have a sense of this 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.959 is a process. And we heard Steve Smith. We got 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.480 to do uh our first broadcast with him the other night, 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.640 which was great, and he almost had Darren a play 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.560 by play of what each week of training camp is 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.440 supposed to be. The first week you break the guys down. 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.400 Second week you get to learn a little bit more. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.920 I mean, and who knows better than than Steve exactly 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.160 how this is supposed to go and it and it 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:57.199 feels like those guys are embracing the challenges here at 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.199 camp this week as well, and it is. It's a 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.280 little bit. You know, they put on pads this week 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.160 and that always takes the intensity up a little notch too. 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.880 And you see a little more slap fighting, you know, 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.680 quote unquote training camp fights, even though they aren't fights. 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.959 It's not like what happened in Giants camp the other day, 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.440 but little smacking each other around each other you and 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:22.160 Will what's going on? Oh man? But yeah, you see 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.080 a little different level out here this week. And I 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.520 think so many times when you put pads on, you 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.320 get to that point a week week and a half 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.600 into camp where guys do get a little sick of 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.440 looking at each other and we're another week away from 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.079 seeing another team before we end up up in Indianapolis. 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.360 But uh yeah, I mean, guys are getting a little 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.160 sick of each other. It gets a little salty that 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.960 takes the takes the effort to another level. I've learned 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.880 a lot, I think in this this first week. It's 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.240 my first look at a traditional NFL training camp, at 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.920 least on a daily basis. But we're getting the full 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.920 camp experience, which is what those guys lacked last year. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.280 And and it's great. I mean, well, I know you're 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:00.959 old hat at this, but it's my its time down here. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.040 But you pointed to something earlier that coach Rules said, 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.120 and we're going to play it right here about what 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.959 camp is supposed to look and feel like. Let's take 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:13.240 a listen. Well, I thought today, I mean yesterday was 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.160 just not good at all for the offense, I you know, 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.800 so um I thought, yeah, they were much better today. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:19.439 You know, the first day in the red zone, I 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.640 thought we were really kind of really kind of functioned 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.040 well early and then you have to go on all 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:24.680 the way all the way through late nice two minute 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.000 drive there at the end. So um I said to 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:28.719 the fans, I said the fans, I don't I don't 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.080 want to be great on offense every day. I don't 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:31.520 I wouldn't be great on defense every day. I want 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:32.720 to kind of go back and forth. It means you 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.360 have a good team. So, um, yesterday the defense was sharper, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.440 Today the offense was sharper. I say sharp. I mean 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.440 sometimes I just think a guy gets beaten, right, it's 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.320 just one play. So but I thought the offense looked 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.960 a lot better today. So you're listening to that and 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.199 part of that the context it's here. On Wednesday was 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.960 a big offensive day. They started off in red zone 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:52.800 and it just felt like every other player was a 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.760 touchdown the first three right, and then they went in 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.400 and they did a really good two minute drill kind 0:10:58.400 --> 0:10:59.720 of at the end of practice. You know, they had 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.760 some other a good really bright spots um and kind 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.000 of different sequences throughout practice where the offense just seemed 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.160 like they were they knew they were clicking, they were 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.920 doing it well. The context is yesterday it was the opposite, 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.040 or it felt like the opposite. There are mistakes, there 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.160 are drop balls, there were you know, missed routes, all 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:15.840 that kind of stuff, and the defense was you know, 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.760 making turnovers, just kind of seeing you know, everywhere. And 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:20.520 I think what he was kind of saying is to 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.520 the crowd, like that's why it's supposed to be like 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.040 this is you can't just think every time there's an 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.400 interception it means it's a bad throw by the quarterback, 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.640 or every time there's a really good uh, you know, 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:31.520 throw and catch, it means that it was really bad 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.880 coverage by the defense or a bad rush by the lineman. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.320 You know, like that, you have to take a broader 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.480 stroke at it and really kind of think big and 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.480 it's gonna flow back and forth each day. Yeah, and 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.280 and he's been really careful talking about that, but it's 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.480 it's one of the truisms about Camp. I mean, the 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.040 other side practices too. And just because you know, we 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.840 hear Jacy Horne had two interceptions. That's not the same 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.720 as Sam Donald stinks. And that was talking the other 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.439 day about how you know, if one person does one 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.280 wrong be among the eleven and creates a space, it 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.400 makes Sam look bad for something that's not Sam's fault. Now, 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.920 I will say, and I kind of appreciate this, and 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.440 I respected about him. Sam has been willing to raise 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.640 his hand for stuff. I mean, if he throws a pig, 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.480 Sam will be like, yeah, I should have done this, 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.760 this and this. Sam's raising his hand for stuff that 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.360 ain't necessarily his fault. I mean the picks the other day. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.839 You know, Matt circled back the following day and said, 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.640 after we look to film it, clearly the first one 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.839 wasn't Sam's fault. So he runs a bad route and 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:29.600 all of a sudden there are guys where they shouldn't 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.640 have been, makes for an easy pick for the other side. Um, 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.240 there was a false start in practice on Tuesday. What 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.760 day of the week it is, I lose I lose 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.760 track of time when I come to Spartan birg Um. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.040 But you know there was one on Tuesday where there's 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.079 a false start that may or may not have been 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.680 Sam's fault. Sam took off and ran the lab. So 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.520 I mean he is showing an accountability and I think 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.400 dudes in the locker room appreciate that, and and they 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.679 want to see, you know, their quarterback. I mean, these 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.520 guys are still learning Sam, and Sam walks in the door. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.559 He is among the first handful of players out there 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:06.040 on the field every day. He is accountable and owns's mistakes, 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.120 and he's out here grinding and getting better. And and 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.240 we'll find out over the course of the year whether 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.840 Sam is not up great at quarterback or Sam is 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.199 what they think he could be. But the signs are 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.560 pretty positive right now, or they're at least not negative. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:23.080 And I think when people here big interception numbers, I think, 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.720 oh god, the offense must be a disaster. What's wrong 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.600 with Donald? But Sam's been okay, And and as we 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.640 just said, I think we're willing to hear it with 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.559 the defense. But training cap is the time to work 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.120 these things out, like right now, the first week down 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.520 early second week, this is the time where it's okay 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.880 to figure all these things out, go up against good 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.080 competition and to you guys point about you know, one 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.320 day it's going to be the offense that's shining, the 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.880 next day it's going to be the defense, or vice versa. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.840 You don't want one unit looking great the entire time 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.040 because when one unit looks good, and even though as 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.000 you said, it's it's a lot more nuanced than that. 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.640 If one unit is consistently looking amazing, what's going on 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.960 with the other side. So I mean, that's what that's 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.920 what we're seeing out here, and uh and and it's 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.360 been it's been a good first first full week. And 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.840 not to get too far ahead of ourselves. But next 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.120 week when you do, I mean, this year there's two 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.600 sets of joint practices, which is just adds a whole 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.440 other element to it. But I remember the first time that, um, 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.880 you know, I went up to Tennessee back in seen 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.880 when they played the Titans, and you know, practice up 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.040 there with them. You're so used to watching the one 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.160 on ones with these guys, and then all of a sudden, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.800 you see our guys going against guys in Titan Blue, 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:35.480 and you see, oh, that's how that stacks up. You know, Oh, man, 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.280 this guy maybe can't cover some other receivers that you know, 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.640 he's covering the threes for you know, the Panthers, and 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.320 now here's the one for Tennessee and you know, or 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.280 the vice versa. Man like he just really, you know, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.080 beat this guy and he's really pretty good. So there's 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.760 a lot of interesting things that you're gonna start seeing 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.840 next week when there is another team over there, and 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:55.840 it's like it's a different look, it's a different feel, 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.440 and a very good team too. Yeah, although they've had there, 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.680 they've had their issues this past couple of weeks. Someone 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:06.000 on the Hill said something to me last week about 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.200 this camp is almost a little boring. One of the 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.280 fans said something like that, and I was like, no, no, no, no, 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.080 you don't want an exciting camp. The Colts are having 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.160 an exciting camp right now. They're without their quarterback. They're 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.120 without Quinton Nelson for the next five to twelve weeks 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.120 with foot surgeries. They've got all kind of stuff going 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.160 on up there. You don't want that. You would like 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.200 to have boring, uneventful, nobody's getting hurt. Knock on wood. 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.960 Boring very rarely is a good thing at trually, I mean, 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.640 excuse me, Excitement is very rarely a good thing at 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.880 training camp. Usually that trends in the wrong direction. Yeah, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.120 you don't want that, for sure, and the Colts have 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.440 got their share of it right now. But you know, 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:43.720 I mean that being said to Will's point, one of 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.960 the things I was looking forward to this summer is, Okay, 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.680 people keep talking about Derek Brown looking better. Over there's 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.520 Quintin Nelson. Now we'll see, you know, And you get 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.880 in situations like that, and you know, unfortunately Nelson's injured 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:56.160 right now. I'm not going to be able to be 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.320 out there, unfortunately for Quinton more so than us. But uh, 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.600 you know, it's it is going to be a good 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.040 barometer when you get into that and seeing them against 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.280 other guys. And I know the coaching staff is very 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.040 much looking forward to that. Again, not to compare always 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.480 to to last year, but you think about this coaching 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.160 staff and many of these players, this this is their 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.040 first time to be able to go up against competition 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.480 short of a game, right, So so last year the 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.480 first time and the only time that they got to 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.520 see some of their guys, some of their twos or 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:26.760 threes that might have had to come in against other 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.240 competition was in the regular season. That was just the 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.640 way things went. So you see them in practice against 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.280 the guys that go up against every day, or you 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.440 see them in a game when they're when they have 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.760 to go in. And my favorite part about next week, 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.560 the first depth chart is going to be really Yeah, 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.560 those are always fun time for me. Yeah, it's very unofficial, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:50.720 very unofficial or unofficial and subject to change, but fans 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.320 are fans are gonna love. They're gonna be looking to see, 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.000 you know, I mean things that yeah, you know, we 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:56.800 kind of see who's out there running with the runs 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.040 when we're going with the two is like that that's changing. 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.360 You know, it's not in stone. But you know, unless 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.520 you're really here and unless you're really you know, diving 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.240 deep into Darren's tweets, you know, I mean, so Darren, 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.520 who is starting at left tackle? Or am I jumping 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.520 the gun on on some questions that we have to 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:14.920 answer later. Thing, Let's hold onto that. Ye sorry, I 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.200 only because I want to talk about one thing now. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:18.639 Will is You know this is not going to be 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.119 nearly as exciting as the depth chart that Will is 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.200 looking for. I want all of your clicks next week. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.840 Give me them clicks. Let me just say what I 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.160 am excited about really quickly before we get into those questions. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.600 A little something called fan Fest. I'm just really looking 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.080 forward to it because, as I said, we had that 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.199 July thirty one back together Saturday practice. It was a 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:41.399 little precursor, a little sneak peek to fan Fest. It 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.600 felt like down here in Spartan Burgret Gift Stadium. It 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.199 was the first time I've been a Panthers fan for 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.119 a long time, but it was the first time on 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.840 the job that I was down there and I got 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.720 to see the top Cats perform for an audience, and 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.520 there was about six thousand people. Um, top Cats perform 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.280 for an audience. The black and Blue crew, the percussion 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.960