WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 119: We Touched Grass 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:08.479 Hello, friends, Welcome to the Happy half Hour, and it's 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:13.560 happier than ever because we were actually on a football 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:14.800 field this week. 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:19.079 We've seen grass, we touched grass. As the kids say. 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:20.280 We probably all needed to. 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.160 It's good to be out there on a football field 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.520 and remind yourself that this is a football product that 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.400 we spent so much time talking about. Because for so 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.840 much of the off season, when you're at the combine 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.239 and doing free agency and everything else, this feels like 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.839 an abstract concept. But then you walk out there in 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.680 the sunshine and the blue skies and Dave Canalysis, you know, 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.600 jumping around, twirling his whistle and having a big old time. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.720 It's like, Okay, yes, this is a football team we're 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:52.599 talking about here, an actual tangible product. And they were tangible. Indeed, yesterday, 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:53.240 weren't they. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:57.520 They were, They were in fact almost tangible completely as 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.840 a team. Only three players not here. That's a pretty 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.800 good attendance for the first day of voluntary mini camp 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:04.520 in April. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:05.560 I think. 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.600 I think Dave Canals will take that for his first 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:08.800 time as a head coach. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:09.240 No doubt. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.480 And these things are voluntary, and the thing about attendance 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:14.240 this time of year is you never know what's go 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:15.440 guy's got going on. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:17.160 I mean, people have things. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.000 Playing before you know, they realized they were coming to 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.520 a team where there's a you know, voluntary mini camp 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:25.560 on this particular weekend, that kind of stuff. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.720 So we're so a testament of It's not a commentary 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:30.760 on those who weren't here, but we're so a testament 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:31.520 to those who were. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.880 Definitely, and I think there was an energy about the place, 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.520 and a lot of that is coming from Dave Canalis himself. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.160 That's kind of his calling card. It feels like that's 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.360 the first word anybody says when they're asked about Dave Canalis. 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:44.680 They talk about that energy. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.000 So Deonta n did you hear Deonta Johnson yesterday what 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:48.440 he said? 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:48.880 Yeah? 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:49.760 That was classic. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.400 He said it was so much energy. He didn't even 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.600 realize he was the head coach until after dinner. 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.200 I wondered about that, and I kind of I thought 0:01:58.200 --> 0:01:59.720 to myself when Deontay said that. 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:00.920 Who do you think he was? 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.200 Did he think he was the writer for the website? 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.560 Did he think he was podcast Matt? Did he think 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.560 he was Yeah? I don't know what, but you know he. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:15.760 Was, Yeah, somebody they just brought along to drive the car, like, yeah, somebody. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.760 He's the young guy, he's the coach's son, or I 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:18.240 don't know. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.720 Because I would imagine he did the bulk of the talking. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:21.919 Yeah. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.440 And it's interesting to me though, because when you see 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.920 Dave for the first time doing Dave things out on 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.440 the football field, it's new to us, right. And I 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.200 was careful in knocking around yesterday talking to people about 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.880 Dave's first day on the job, basically, you know. And 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.360 I asked his assistant, Jessica Beckinstein, I said, is this 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.800 more amped up? And she was like, no, the usual amount, 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.280 and this is just who he is. And we're still 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.680 getting used to Dave and learning Dave's patterns and everything 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.959 like that. But some people get up for special occasions, 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.280 but Dave kind of gets up to a certain caffeinated 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:59.600 peak and then stays there for hours and hours at 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.200 a time. So I respect the fact I also am 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.000 mourning people. I do not get here at four forty 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.200 five in the morning the way Dave Canalis does. But 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.000 the alarm goes off not long after that, and we 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.480 begin the day bringing you the very best product we 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.200 can here at Panthers dot Com. But It was interesting 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.120 to see it all out there in practice because we 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.480 can talk about what it looks like. We can talk 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:26.680 about Deontay Johnson, we can talk about Robert Hunt, Damien Lewis, 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.280 Austin Corbett moving to center. But when you lay eyes 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.760 on him and you see it out there in the flesh. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.040 And you see all of them together. 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.160 Right, it's like, Okay, now you see the start of 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.520 this plan coming together. Now you see what it's beginning 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.640 to look like, and realize what they've been talking about 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:43.480 all off season. 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:44.800 As you stood there. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.080 Cassidy, watching this thing kind of unfold brand new for 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.840 the first time, what was the first thing that jumped 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:51.280 out at you? 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.000 Well, Jadavian Cloney. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.400 That's also just because he's large and he was right 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.160 there near us. He was also the only outside linebacker 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:00.960 really going through jail because he was the only one 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.320 that was here and healthy and able to do so. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.440 But you almost got the sense too that if push 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.200 came to show, Ja, Davi and Cloinney could take care 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.960 of outside linebacker for this team by single hatedly. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.760 Even in his thirties. 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.000 He was definitely moving around well, and he seems you know, 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.200 we talk about Dave's energy. He's got a little rejuvenated 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.000 vibe about right. We noticed that when he came in 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.600 right after signing and we were talking to him and 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.760 filming some stuff for the website, that kind of thing. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.000 You could tell he was excited. You could tell he 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:30.560 felt it. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.400 But I get the sense that last year was kind 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:37.120 of a boost for him because after so long that 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.800 the weight of expectations when you're a number one pick 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.040 kind of bears down on you and you wonder if 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.280 you're ever going to get back to being that guy again. 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.560 Last year in Baltimore, not in a Hatch Sackson regular season, 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.359 another one in the playoffs. He was that guy again 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.880 last year, and so that's why he was such a 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.680 central component of the work they were doing defensively. But 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.800 there's still, you know, along those lines when you look 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.200 out there with DJ Wadham still kind of working his 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.800 way back from an injury last year. It's an incomplete 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.720 group right now on defense, and it's also brand new 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.880 because we got condition to seeing certain things over the 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.520 tail end of last year. And then you look out 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.839 on the field and there's a Sean Robinson and he's new. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.000 There's Josie Jewel and he's new, and he's next to 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.520 Shaq Thompson, who's not new but wasn't out there a 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.680 whole lot last year. And then there's Jadavia, and then 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.720 there's Dane Jackson, and then there's j Fuller in the back, 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.640 and you realize it's a brand new group. 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.520 And Nick Scott, which I know is technically a def 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.440 it's a back, but it was really brought in for 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.719 his special team's prowess. And at one point they were 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.599 running a punt drill and you remember I even like 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.640 said to you, like, who is that calling the play? Yep, 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.040 And we looked out there and it was Nick. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.279 Scott's number twenty one. You're a new personal protector, Nick Scott. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.400 So that that's gonna be one of those hidden wrinkles 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.560 over the course of this year. Nick Scott, who has 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.840 a career reception from Johnny Hecker. So we are, yeah, 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.560 we are definitely looking for to putting that one into play. 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.599 But as I looked out there and again this was 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.680 such a topic for so much of the conversation, but 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:12.839 when you see that interior offensive line together, you a 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.240 understand Austin Corbett is not a small man, right Austin 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.760 Corbett is a large human being by any metric that 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.640 mortals have available to them. When you see Damian Lewis 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.840 and Robert Hunt on either side of him, it's like, ah, 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.359 that's different. Yeah, those two guys are not like the 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.839 one in the middle, and Austin is merely huge and 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.360 they are gigantic and that is on purpose. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.719 Kids, And to kind of go along with that, you know, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.359 we heard from both Canalis and a little bit of 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:49.120 Bryce yesterday too talking about how yesterday was they were 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.719 going back down to the bear basics with both Bryce 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.080 and Andy Dalton of you know, how to take your 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:59.440 quarterback stance and to see around these large linemen, which 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.640 is is going to be something that Canalis has talked about, 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:05.760 is going to be something he has to work with 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.040 with Bryce because he is on the what did he 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.640 call it, vertically challenged or height challenged or something like that. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.120 He's not tall, not tall, and now. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.600 You've got these huge guys, and so it's you know, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.840 even learning something as basic as what stance to get 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.320 in to see the whole field from that pocket. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:25.000 Ye, And so he's he's very very detailed. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:29.480 And Bryce got the baptism by fire in that yesterday 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.320 kind of going back to quarterback school as. 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.120 They Yeah, I like the fact that Dave called it 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:37.960 quarterback school, and they are beginning. They're making no assumptions 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.239 about these people basically. I mean, he talked about Will Harridser, 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.240 the quarterbacks coach, teaching Andy Dalton how to get into 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:45.520 a stance properly. 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.160 And I'm sure Andy's. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.000 Thinking, thanks, I've been doing this for a little while. 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.240 I appreciate that Andy's a pro, He's here for a reason. 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.240 But and also has great hair, as Dave Canal has 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.400 helpfully pointed out, Wow, like that best. 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.080 Hair in the league other than Patrick Mahoonmes. But Mahomes isn't. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.560 Red, right, Yeah, so the red hair pushes it over 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.600 the top. But it's interesting to see, I mean, and 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.040 that's kind of the way Dave's been putting this thing 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.800 together in terms of the on field product. He's being 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.880 very intentional. He's starting at the beginning, making no assumptions 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:20.160 and basically creating a brand new product. We get caught 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.280 talking about things in the context of what happened to 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:24.480 last year, and. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.520 He's this is a brand new product. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.600 This is completely different, and Bryce Bright it's easy for 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.600 Bryce to say, Hey, I'm focused on this year. Don't 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.160 want to spend any time thing about last year because 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.720 last year was a disaster for everybody that was involved 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.240 in it. So I understand not wanting to talk about it. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.440 But this is going to be a brand new product, 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:45.560 so from new receivers in new spots, and you know, 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.199 people are talking about Deontay Johnson's going to be the 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:52.240 first read on almost every play. So far, that group 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.000 is still very much under construction and is probably going 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:56.800 to change in the next four or five days. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:58.559 We'll see how all that kind of goes. 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.520 But it was inve to kind of see the way 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.800 they're approaching everything on the field from a very building block, 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:09.720 very step one sort of standpoint. And you know, again, 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.800 good to see that group on the field together as 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.080 a unit after we've been talking about them all last season. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.319 Let me ask you a question, and really this is 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.240 a question for Dave Canalis, but I'm going to ask you. 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.319 Dave Canallis and I have many things in common besides 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.200 the fact that we're both mourning people. 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:30.560 Right, I'm sure you're cafeated. You have to be if 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:31.520 you're going to get up that early. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.640 See like like Dave Canalis and Pete Carroll. 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.000 I got to work out him before this podcast. As 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:37.120 far as you know, as. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:38.680 Far as who's going to tell you you're. 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.439 Wrong, exactly nobody. There are pictures of me working out 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:42.720 at some point, I'm sure. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.760 Anyways, at any rate, So Canalis yesterday talked about how 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.320 this was the same quarterback school that he's put all 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.840 of his quarterbacks through. Russell Wilson, Gino, Smith, Baker Mayfield. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:58.920 We've seen what became of that, you know, consistently three 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.040 of their like all three quarterbacks had their best career 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.680 seasons or with Russell one of his second best. 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:06.520 But still. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.520 We saw like five Pro Bowls, Comeback Player of the 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.280 Year for Gino, a Comeback Player of the Year nomination 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.560 for Baker, and so we've seen it have success. Do 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.920 you think it will be those But here's what is 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.160 the difference between those three guys and Bryce Young. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.760 They're all more established at the time he's getting to them. 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.680 So that's my question. Do you think it will be 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:33.360 easier or more difficult to take a second year quarterback 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.120 through this quote unquote quarterback school or would it have 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.920 been because with an established player on one hand, they're 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.760 already they already have habits and it's probably harder to 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.360 break them of those. But on the second hand, they 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.000 already have seen a lot of NFL defenses. 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.079 Yeah, the one thing I know about Bryce I kind 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.480 of picked up from. And this is not anything anybody's 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.320 necessarily said. It's just from watching him and observing Rice 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.080 ain't scared to learn, He ain't scared to put in 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.679 the work to improve on things. I mean, he's constantly 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.520 asking for feedback. He's talking to coaches on the side 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.640 and afterward about you know, how he can do different things. 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:12.920 That was last year and that's going through this year. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.200 When I talked to him the other day, he was 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:20.120 very clear about wanting to continue to do that work, 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.200 wanting to continue to improve on the football stuff. Now 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.480 he also talked about wanting to improve as a leader. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.320 So I think that's going to be a twofold thing 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.520 for Canalis. I mean, along those lines. He doesn't have 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:35.280 the same background that Russ Gino, Baker and those guys 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.400 all had when they got to this job. But he 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.920 is still almost an unshaped piece of clay, and from 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.000 the standpoint of Dave Canalis, so he gets to work 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.680 with something fresh, and I think it's going to be 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.400 interesting to see how that turns out. 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:49.400 Yeah, exactly. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.640 I did have one more observation for mystery at me, 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:55.360 probably move on and you could speak to this maybe 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.360 even a little bit more, because you saw these guys 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.040 last year before the season started. By the time I 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.640 cut to them, there was a. 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:03.120 Lot of they were broken. 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:04.000 They were just. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:08.160 Weighed down, yes, broken and just you know, kind of like, oh, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:12.200 let's just get this over with. Obviously, that was a 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.240 much different vibe yesterday, even like we saw Bryce bounce 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.400 in there and make jokes about basketball and hold his 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:22.920 own little uh press conference vice versa, Yeah, asking everybody 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:23.120 all the. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.200 Rolls up and starts asking us questions, what do you 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:27.440 guys do in the off season? 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.360 You know, what else does your job do? 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.360 But there was one unit that kind of stood out 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.520 to me, and that was the running back unit and 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.679 and kind of just how they were handling themselves and 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.520 their vibe, and especially with Cuba Hubbard and one, it 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.280 was kind of fun to just see he and Bernie 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:52.200 parmeally have kind of already established their little like side show, 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.480 like ribbing each other and kind of staying on each 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.120 other but in a fun way. And but then also 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.719 every time Parmally would teach something, Cuba would then turn 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.040 around and make sure the other guys had it and 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.240 kind of go over it again with him while Parmally 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.320 got something set up, which seems like very very much 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.400 he's embracing. Okay, this is who I have to be 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:12.080 in this unit. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.800 Yeah, one of the really understated things about last year, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.040 And it was easy for things to slip under the 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.160 radar with the way he last year went. But for 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.040 Cuba Hubbard to start the years of backup and end 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.760 up running for nine hundred yards and catching thirty nine 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.760 balls for a team that was always always behind is 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.920 a minor miracle for a couple of reasons. Number One, 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.760 it was hard for them to run because they were 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.840 always behind. And number two, Cuba was not a natural 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.720 catcher of the football last year, and through the sheer 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.760 force of repetition and hard work, he has turned himself 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.040 into a competent pass catcher. So I've got all the 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.439 respect in the world for the job Cuba's done kind 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.400 of growing into this role and it's not as if 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.199 he's there just because Miles Sanders didn't have the year. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.400 People thought he was going to have last year. He's 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.880 earned this. He has made this his own and kind 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:02.920 of staked out that area as the lead back in 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.920 this situation. So I'm encouraged to see what Cuba's done, 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.079 and I think it's been impressive. That's what you want 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.319 out of fourth round picks, That's what you want out 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.520 of anybody, is take the stuff you're bad at, get 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.920 better at it, improve, keep working. 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:24.560 Do you think, if properly used behind this offensive line, 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.080 could Chuba Hubber be a top ten back in this league? 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.000 I don't know. I don't know. 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.920 I get the impression that this is always going to 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.000 be a little bit committee based. I don't think Cuba 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.160 is so far and away, you know, physically dominant, that 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.120 he's going to be that guy. He's not ever going 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:41.920 to be a three hundred carry a year guy or 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:46.400 anything like that. But I think he is absolutely a 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.760 quality starter in the league. I mean, we've shown he's 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.840 shown that he's got long speed. Every now and then 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.480 he can break one. He's shown over the last couple 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:59.000 of years that he's a capable interior runner. So I 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.120 don't want to put a sea on what he might 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.800 or might not be but I'm just impressed with how 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.920 far he's come in three years so far in terms 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.640 of making that making that. 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.160 Job his own next year. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.600 Exciting to watch, no doubt, no doubt, And we'll have 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.760 more to watch today when we go out there. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.600 We are coming to you live on a taped basis. 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.240 It's like one of those old sitcoms taped live in 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:24.080 front of a studio audience, and there is your dated 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.000 pop culture reference for today that nobody else in this 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.760 room gets. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:30.720 The sitcoms I used to watch when I was a kid. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:31.480 We're always filmed in. 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.960 Front of I'll accept that. 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.000 So friends, everybody loves Raymond. 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:36.960 Family matters. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:38.160 I appreciate that. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.920 So anyway, we will get back on the field here 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.440 in a little bit later on this morning. Uh, and 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.800 then we will sit around all day on Thursday waiting. 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:48.680 And it's gonna be exactly what we do. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.520 Yeah. I think we will probably just spend our time 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.480 listening to Taylor Swift records over and over something like that. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.600 It'll be excited Orchard beat writers departments. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.400 We'll have so much time is that you can go 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.040 through all thirty one songs once and then we can 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.560 go through them again. As I give you the background 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:06.280 of each song. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.400 So this is going to be like after a football 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.040 game when the coach says, well, I got to look 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:11.880 at the film before I can break that down. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:13.840 Right, I've done the film study. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:14.560 I'm ready. 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.960 You're prepared for this. You're a swiftie. 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.960 We are going to be sitting in literature class as 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:21.960 we go through each song. 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.440 This is going to be interesting to me because I 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.720 was thinking about this and I kind of I lobbed 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:29.880 a grenade in the foxhole and ran with some of 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.000 the criticism of Taylor Swift's album the other day. I 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.640 didn't realize what a passionate defense I was going to get. 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.440 It would be like somebody rolling up on me and saying, 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.000 you know, Darren, I think bo'j Angle's kind of overrated. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.600 I didn't realize what I was starting. But yeah, you 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.240 can go on and on about this game. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.880 I'll take fifteen seconds because I can't go on all 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.320 but I'll take fifteen seconds to say this. I have 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:56.840 no problem with criticism of the work. Everybody has their 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.920 own taste in music, as she's done this across like 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.120 four different genres now, so it's not gonna be for 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.960 everybody all the time. I do think this album was 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:06.840 more for the fans than that. It's not for the 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.760 Grammys or the critics, but whatever. But my issue with 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.119 like the review that you sent me is more so 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.680 about the person than the music. And it's like, let's 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.200 just review the music. If this is what we're doing, 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:20.840 let's just review the music, Okay. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:22.440 One of the things I keep that short. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.399 Yeah. One of the things that's interesting to me about 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.480 Taylor Swift. And I don't know a few people are 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.760 aware of this, but I am an older person. I 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:35.080 am aware of her presence. I am not very familiar 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:35.840 with her work. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.919 I mean, are probably are more than you realize. 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.320 I've heard it and it's been like background music, and 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.320 I'm aware of it in a general sense. But I 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:47.040 don't know anything about this person other than she's had 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:49.520 a lot of boyfriends and a lot of relationships and 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.520 most of them in poorly well. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.520 I mean, wouldn't you be able to say that about 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.440 all of your relationships except the ones that are a success. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.879 That's just in general, not you, that's any person. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:06.800 Yeah, I thank god there's no Daring Gaant Tortured Poets album. 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.440 Imagine there could be. I'm sure there are some stories. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.600 Yes, no, thank you, this would be a very different 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.800 podcast with a very different clientele. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:16.280 Point many many were. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.000 Probably heard a song and not realize it because she 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:19.959 writes a lot of songs that other people record. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.080 That's fair, and we'll have a lot of time to 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:27.480