WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 105: Hall of Honor 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.400 This week on the Happy half Hour. 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:10.039 Julius was surrounded by studs Mike Rucker and Chris Jenkins 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.720 and Brinson Butner and Dan Morgan and Mark Fields and 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:14.480 Mike Minner. 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:16.000 And he was that guy. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.360 I mean, he was the one they all looked at 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:23.720 and like, Yep, that dude's different. Tut's I know. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.560 It's time for the Happy half Hour with your friends. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.720 Kristin Balboni, Augusta Stone, and Darren Gannon. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:38.280 Hello, friends, Welcome to the Happy half Hour. The post 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.920 bye week condition of the Happy half Hour. 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.440 Augusta Stone, how was mama? 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.040 Mama's great? Everyone was good. The one thing that I 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:49.720 needed to follow up on was that we weren't able 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:51.400 to go to the high school football game because they 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.120 moved it to Thursday night instead of Friday night and 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.000 we already had plans. They claimed it was for weather. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:57.600 There was no weather the whole time I was home, 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.000 so not sure what's up with that. But everything else 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:01.440 this was really good. How about you, Darren? 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:02.360 Everything was good. 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.280 I went to the went to Raleigh to see the kids, 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.600 dropped by the State Fair. I am a huge fan 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.280 of State Fair food, as you can tell by my physique. 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.960 I am committed to fitness, especially if it includes food 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:20.080 items on a stick. I had many of those while 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:24.559 I was gone, some some less. The deal pickled doughnut 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:29.160 was underwhelming. I wasn't prepared to enjoy it, and I didn't. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.240 There were many fine items, though. The delight, the true 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:35.720 delight of the State Fair. 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.520 Was the red velvet banana pudding. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.959 Oh my goodness, that sounds divine. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.800 Yeah, it was exactly as good as it sounds. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:46.800 I think more more things should come with a mix 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.600 of red velvet cake in them, you know, like red 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.240 velvet pork chops, red velvet mashed potatoes, cheapers. 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.160 No, I thought for a second you were going somewhere 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.920 really normal with it, like, oh yeah, like red velvet. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.880 Well you said put it, but like brownies or cookies. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.200 Red velvet cookies, by the way, very good. But you 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.200 just went off the rails. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.040 Man red velvet fried chicken. 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.520 Oh well maybe okay, but there's a chicken and waffles 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.360 thing that's really really good when you put the syrup 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.880 on it. I'm not actually going to swat that one 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:19.720 down as much as mashed potatoes. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.160 Yeah, but it could be good. Maybe that was a 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.200 bridge too far. I did go brisket. 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.440 And waffles on a stick. It was kind of you know, 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.960 it was it was interesting. It was interesting. I give 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:31.679 it a solid B. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.440 There you go, There you go. I love maple syrup 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.840 on like savory things like that. I think it's a 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.360 cool like way to balance each other out. I had 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.720 vegan chicken and waffles up in Boston, Massachusetts once, or 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.840 it was actually Cambridge, which is right outside of Boston 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.720 where Harvard is. It was awesome. It was so good, 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.480 so out of tim would recommend, and I'm sure it's 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:51.560 even better not vegan. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.240 I was gonna say, I'm trying to imagine, you know, 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.880 because there is an egg component in most of your 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:01.400 baked goods or waffle type products. So you went vegan waffle, 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.800 which is one thing, but vegan chicken and. 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:08.080 Yeah, yeah, Apple sauce is a great egg substitute just 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.000 in general, if you're like looking, I know when eggs 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.440 were super expensive back then, I was like loving Like 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.720 I'd see random like Facebook posts about like things to 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.720 do other than eggs, and I'm like pretty familiar with that, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.120 like flax seeds mixed with oil or apple sauce. Apple 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.400 sauce is so good in like different, Like you could 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.120 literally use cake mix put apple sauce in it instead 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:27.799 of eggs. It does the same thing and you can't 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.720 tell it honestly makes it feel like more like gooey. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.320 When my kids were younger, I would make banana bread 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.400 when the bananas were starting to go bad. And you know, 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.440 when you got kids around the house, there's always a 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.880 cup of apple sauce somewhere they got stuck in a 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.480 lunch box and carried home because nobody wants to eat 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:44.880 a cup. 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:45.520 Of apple sauce. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.880 But so yes, I have used that baking hack before sex. 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.800 All right, all right, I guess we I guess we're 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.280 obligated on this football podcast to eventually, at some point 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.600 talk about football, and we'll get to that, but not yet, 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.040 because first and foremost this week, coming out of the 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:07.839 bye Sunday, the Houston Texans are in town. But more importantly, 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.480 I don't know more importantly, but very very important, the 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.440 Carolina Panthers are adding to the Hall of Honor Musin 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:20.359 Mohammad Julius Peppers will join that esteemed list of greats 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.880 along the opposite wall of Bank of America Stadium here, 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.240 and it's going to be regardless what's going on with 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:28.920 the season, regardless what's going on. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:29.440 With the game. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.000 I just think it's such a neat opportunity for the 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.240 franchise to see these two guys come home. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.200 And the content has been awesome this week. If y'all 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.080 haven't checked it out yet, the videos that our video 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.479 team has made for Julius and Moose are both so 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:49.200 incredibly good, like totally must watch content, so fun, so cool, 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.920 how many people they got to sit for those interviews, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.760 and I really enjoyed those videos. They were just so 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.680 well done. So definitely check that out. But yeah, that's 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.320 an exciting time. I mean, I think it's really cool 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.800 whenever the franchise. I love like you talk about, you know, 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.680 the nostalgia of the franchise because it is, you know, 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.279 young in general, but you have this kind of really 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.640 cool legends, living legends aspect of this whole thing, and 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.160 you get to see it kind of come to fruition 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.440 on Sunday. I think it's really exciting. And I mean, again, 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.680 the content's been awesome. Darren's written amazing stuff, the graphics 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.720 have been great. The wallpapers that they posted on social 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.520 media a couple of days ago just everything has been 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.039 so cool, and I think it's a good opportunity to 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.440 flex the department for a minute. It's awesome stuff. 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.440 Those two guys too, I mean occupies such a unique place. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:40.080 I mean you mentioned a fairly young organization. And also, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.080 Happy Birthday, Carolina Panthers. Thirty years ago today the NFL 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.680 granted a franchise to the Carolinas, and here we are 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.839 it is today. Happy Birthday, Carolina Panthers. You are now thirty, 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.760 you're old enough to run for Senate. Maybe they should, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.200 but it's uh, but no. 0:05:58.600 --> 0:05:59.400 In that time. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:04.560 I think sometimes in this conversation's come up with Hall 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.679 of Fame selection committee meetings. I've actually had other voters say, 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.640 you know, for a team that hasn't won a Super Bowl, 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.720 for a team that's so young, you're up here talking 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.520 a lot. And it's going to become more in the 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.520 coming years, with Julius being eligible next year, with Luke 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:25.479 Keighley coming a year after that. Steve Smith's eligible and 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.200 has been a semifinalist the last couple of years, so 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.520 it's possibility we'll talk about him. But you're reminded at 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.960 times like this, how rich the history of this franchise 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.680 is when you can talk about a musin Mohammed who 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:44.640 at large stretches of his career wasn't even the best 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.560 receiver on his own team. And yet when you look 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.719 at his numbers, I mean, he is, I think twenty 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.799 eighth in receptions, thirty fourth in receiving yards all time 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.359 in NFL history, He's in the top thirty five in 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.359 both categories. And to think about one hundred years of 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:07.640 football across thirty plus teams at different points in football's history, 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.320 you know, what Moose was able to do was amazing. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.200 And just walking around talking to players now, I mean, 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.280 there's a piece we'll have coming up tomorrow and Panthers 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.840 dot Com about current players talking about what they actually 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.640 recall of these guys, and Jonathan Mingo flat out admits 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.880 he was like, I didn't really know that much about 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.520 Moose until I met him in Spartanburg and started cooking 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.200 burgers with him. So you know, that's the age difference, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.840 you realize. But in talking to Feeling and Djhark and 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.480 guys with a few more years on him, they remember 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.440 Moose for his physicality, They remember the way he would 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.800 block people. They remembered him going and getting plays. I 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.800 mean a lot of receivers. When you think about big 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.600 yardage guys, you think about guys like Steve, guys who 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.440 were fast guys who are getting downfield. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.120 Moost did the dirty work for fourteen. 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:01.880 Years and also caught a bunch of passes, made a 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.520 bunch of plays, and was able to create really a 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:05.560 unique place. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:06.960 In Panthers history exactly. 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:08.920 And I like the I mention that because the thing 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.120 that I've kind of appreciated and respected so much in 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.040 you know, just thinking about their careers and digesting all 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.920 the content, is the longevity of both of their careers. Again, 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.400 you wrote a great story this morning on Panthers dot Com, 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.040 posted about an hour ago about kind of them getting 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.760 to come back home again and to both of them 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:28.840 spend over a decade in the league. It's really cool 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.800 that they were able to loop right back around where 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.040 they started. And I love the Julius Peppers side of it, 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.040 you know about the I've been in North Carolina. I 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:36.960 needed to get away, but then he wanted to come back. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:38.840 You know, It's just it's so special and it's so 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.400 cool that you look down and you read the amount 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:42.960 of years that they've been here and it it's so 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.640 it's so cool to think about how their careers are 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.160 really long and they ended up back, you know, here 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.640 in the comfortable place, in the place where they were 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.360 meant to be. It's just really really cool. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.959 And it does blow my mind because it practically never happens. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.880 I mean, I you remember Jared Allen for all his 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.320 years in Minnesota or Kansas City, and Jared Allen finished 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.120 here in twenty fifteen. You know, I remember Reggie White's 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.040 final year in the NFL was as a Carolina Panther, 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.360 and it was just weird the whole time when you 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.720 saw him in the locker room. It's like, this is 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.280 not where you're supposed to be. You're you're supposed to 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.880 be wearing some shade of green. You're not supposed to 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.720 be in black and blue and silver. It was just 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.800 it was so unusual at the time. It remains unusual 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.160 in my mind. But for those two guys to be 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.560 able to come home and finish this thing up is 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.439 you know, it's a special layer of the story, Julius says, 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.800 And we're going I predict we're going to have a 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.680 lot more Julius content in the next year. Because with 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.720 him being eligible for the Hall of Fame for the 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.520 first time this year, I don't think it's going to 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.040 be a very long wait before I end up getting 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.920 shipped back to Ohio to do more Hall of Fame 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:55.120 content again, because Julius is just He's special, and again 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.760 talking to guys in that locker room, even the young 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.840 kids who weren't able to fully appreciate him in like 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.440 a film watching capacity, you know, not watching him as 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.320 a peer the way football players are used to watching 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.120 other players, but just when you hear them talk about it, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.439 it underscores the fact that Julius is just so different. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.080 I mean, he is just otherworldly. I was watching NBA 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.880 games last night and you see Victor wimbin Yama and 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.280 a guy that size isn't supposed to do those things, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.640 and that's what Julius did for seventeen years. I mean, 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.840 I just think about the fact that Julius was surrounded 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:37.480 by studs at every level on almost every team he 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.080 played on. Early on his first couple of years with 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.000 the Panthers, He's out there on a defense that also 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:48.160 includes Mike Rucker and Chris Jenkins and Brinson Buckner and 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:52.200 Dan Morgan, and Mark Fields and Mike Minner and I 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.520 could go on and on and on, and he was 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.880 that guy. I mean, he was the one they all 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.760 looked at and like, Yep, that dude's different. And he 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.800 comes back in twenty seventeen and you see the pictures 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.800 of him standing at midfield next to Thomas Davis, next 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:13.480 to Cam Newton, next to Greg Olsen, and when you 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.360 put it in that context, you realize that this is 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.199 one of the most incredible football players any of us 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:23.200 have ever seen. For a course of a seventeen year career, 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.520 it just never ever happens. And for it to be 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.240 Julius and for him to so casually discuss. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.120 I mean I could have played a couple more years 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:33.640 if I wanted to. I just yeah. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.319 You think it's like you understand you're talking about something 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:42.520 that's never happened, and you just casually, oh, yeah, I 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.040 could have played another couple no question about that. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:46.520 It just blows my mind. 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.560 I know it's gonna be so cool to see them 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.080 all here. I think it's going to be such a 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.199 such a gift for everybody. He gets to cover the game, 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.400 everyone who gets to come. I love It's funny. I 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.520 have noticed in the NFL schedule, and again, you know, 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.720 I'm still pretty novice. This is my second year. But 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.080 when the Panthers have like a home game, like a 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:03.600 crucial catch game, then we'll go on the road and 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.400 we'll be at their crucial catch game. We have a 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:06.720 Hall of Honor game. When we were in Miami, they 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.000 were inducting someone. So it's like, I get I love 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:10.760 that I saw it in Miami, and now we get 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:12.720 to see the Panthers version of it with the speeches 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.640 and everything. You know, everyone's getting honored, and I think 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.800 it'll be really cool. I'm really excited. I think there's 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.040 a banquet as well that you'll be covering this week, Darren. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:20.160 That'll be really cool. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.520 Saturday ninth, there's a dinner where all that and the 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.040 neat thing about it is. 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:26.839 And I thought it was cool talking to J. J. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.280 Jansen about this because JJ has lived half of this 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:34.520 franchise's existence as the long snapper, played more games than 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:39.320 anybody here. JJ was talking about that sense of place 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.320 that this creates. He said, when you see Julius in Mooch, 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:46.960 you're reminded of the two three teams. You're reminded of thirteen, 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.600 fourteen fifteen. You're reminded of seeing Julius come back here 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:55.160 in seventeen, and it's just you get a sense for 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.440 what it means to all these people, not just the 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.880 guys in the locker room, but the fame, the stands. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:02.800 And that's why you know Sunday's going to be a 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.400 need opportunity to share that there are going to be 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.040 a lot of team legends coming back for the weekend. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.600 You know, just looking at the guest list for the 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.520 different events, you realize it's going to be a who's who, 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.079 and you know you just casually get guys like Jake 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:22.160 and Jordan talking about these guys and to hear the 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.440 respect they have for both these cats is it just 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.240 brings home the point that this is going to be 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.599 a special weekend for a lot of people exactly. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.439 And on top of that, where after the bye Panthers 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.480 are playing the Texans, I will I think we can 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.760 kind of redirect now to the what's going on on 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:39.160 the field. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.800 We've covered mam All red velvet, banana pudding and the 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.160 Hall of Honor. We now must talk about the current 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:47.160 Carolina Panthers. 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.240 But you've written about it and I think it's true, 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.720 and we've been saying it for a while. This stretch 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:56.480 of the schedule is more friendly. It is more teams 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.200 that are kind of in the vein, like you said 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.560 of the Panthers, kind of the you've you've mentioned the 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.600 jury of their peers. I think is what you've said 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.240 and what you wrote this week in the mail bag, 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.920 and it's true. I mean, you look at the next 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:09.360 few games and I think this is kind of the 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.120 start of that stretch where okay, these are teams that 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.040 are Adam Peel was actually talking about it yesterday in 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:17.320 the locker room in similar standings with a new head coach, 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.360 with their rookie quarterback c J. Stroud, who is very 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.240 well stored, very good friends with Bryce Young since middle school. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.000 First and second overall pick we've heard it all, but 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.400 we'll be hearing even more of it, I'm sure. But 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.760 you know, kind of in similar similar boats, obviously not 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.520 the same, but similar. They're coming here and then you know, 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.520 it kicks off kind of the Colts Bears part of things, 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.240 and I think it's a it's an interesting starting point 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.040 to come off the buye. The newness of Thomas Brown 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.920 calling plays, which we talked about last week, and we'll 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.200 hear from him again today and kind of hear how 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:52.200 that's been going in practice and in preparation. But I mean, 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.600 you know, that's that's something to look forward to. It'll 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.000 be different and it'll be a different opponent. It won't 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.520 be the Detroit Lions, it won't be the Miami Dolphins. 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.680 And I think that's something that Panthers fans despite the 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.040 O and six start, which you can't ignore, but I 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:06.640 think it's something that you can look forward to and 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.640 be like, Okay, the next few games are not against 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.320 the NFL's top five offenses. That's not bad, right, Yeah. 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:17.080 Not facing the Detroit Lions and the Miami Dolphins back 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:18.800 to back, I think is a good thing, not a 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.080 bad thing for these guys. And it is I am 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.320 constantly reminded one of the most amazing things to me 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:28.440 about football players in general. But you know, just kind 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.040 of this, when you get in this situation, the thing 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.680 they are able to do is compartmentalize and kind of 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.360 put that to six in its box over there. Can't 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.640 do anything about it. Obviously, hate it. Nightmare start couldn't 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.280 have gone any worse, But you take a week off, 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.440 and it gets a little easier to kind of put 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.640 it in its little box and just stick it in 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.560 the attic and forget about it if you will. Now 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.400 it obviously where I am not, it is my vow 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.760 to not talk about playoffs or any of that kind 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.800 of stuff. That it's not pertinent win a game, win 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.560 two games, do something for a little bit before I'm 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.280 even going to entertain any of that talk. But I 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.280 think what they have the opportunity to do is kind 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.440 of hit reset in a lot of ways. As you mentioned, 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.160 there's a new play caller now, Thomas Brown's in charge 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.600 of this offense now and gives Frank Raich a chance 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.640 to step back and sort of be the CEO, be 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.480 over the top of the entire operation. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:22.720 And it can't hurt. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:24.720 It's not going to get worse than an zero to 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.120 six starts, So I think from that standpoint, it helps. 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.200 The schedule helps, and I think these guys there are 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.240 reasons to believe, based on what we've seen of Bryce 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.040 young It at stages of this season, that he is 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:38.800 getting better. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:39.480 So if you. 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.840 Can put some of that stuff together, here's your opportunity 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.040 to change some of the results. And I think those 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.240 guys definitely need that exactly. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.240 And I know we talked about a little bit between 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:51.680 you and me, but I was looking at the injury 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.640 report because I'm getting ready to write five things to 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.960 know where I'm getting ready to prep for it. And 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.880 usually let to go over there because I like to say, Okay, well, 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.920 especially with this season, who's available, what's going on? And 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.600 it is shorter, But there are some guys that have 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.439 hit ir there are some guys still coming off of injury. 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.320 But at the same time, there are some guys who 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.560 are working back. Austin Corbett principle among them leming to 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.000 participant yesterday. He talked in the locker room a little 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.119 bit yesterday, and I know you're really in tune with 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.600 the O line in Corbett after that awesome story you 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.280 got to do kind of chronicling all of his steps 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.600 in the process and getting activated and coming back. Wanted 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.439 to share, or wanted you to share kind of what 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.000 your thoughts were on whether or not you know when 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:31.760 you think he'll come back, when you think he'll be ready, 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:33.240 and the kind of difference that he'll be able to 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.760 make along the offensive line. Because Austin Corbett is a 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.000 huge piece of that that they've been missing, and we've 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:39.919 kind of seen that and felt that through the first. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:40.600 Six week right. 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.560 I think last year as it was happening, you know, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:46.840 we remarked on it a good bit because it was 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.520 so unusual. But to go through a season with only 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.280 two versions of an offensive line and for the change 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.280 to have been a conscious change, to go from Bradley 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.399 Boseman or from pad alf line to Bradley Boseman, and 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.800 then for that five to play out the rest of 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.080 the year. That's unheard of in the NFL. And obviously 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.760 that luck did not continue going into this year. They've 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.960 already played three different left guards, three different right guards. 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.199 There's another change, and I'm assuming at this point that 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.360 Austin's going to be out there on Sunday. There's been 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:22.040 no official word, but everything is pointing toward this being 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.440 the week that you get Austin Corbett back on the field, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.480 and I think that's going to have the opportunity to 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.760 stabilize because with all that, if there's been a common 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.439 thread to the offensive line stuff through those first six games, 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.440 it's been other teams have been able to get way 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.680 too much pressure up the middle and they've taken advantage 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.719 of the fact that you're constantly shuffling guards and putting, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:46.560 you know, the backups to the backups in those spots. 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:51.240 I mean, it's it's not just that you're playing backups. 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.359 It's when Chandler's of oola goes down and all of 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.800 a sudden, you're looking at Cade Mason, Calvin Throckmorton, and 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.840 Calvin Throckmorton wasn't even here in training camp so and 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.679 all of a sudden he's looking like a stable starting option. 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.480 So it shows how much flux. 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:10.040 They've been in, and I think getting Austin back stabilizes 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:13.160 some of that, but it also creates when you think 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.679 back to last year when you go Bozeman, Corbett, Moten. 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:20.120 Now you've got a side of the line that you know. 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:24.720