WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 76: Taking Ownership 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:10.039 Mayfield under center back to throw five tug picked up 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:19.200 field Anderson opens the fuck Tuto to flood off. Wow, 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:25.360 it's that time of the week. Welcome to the Happy 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.639 Half Hour podcast with Augusta, Darren and Kristen. But before 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:31.760 we dive into it, I want to tell you about 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.240 the Prowling Vineyards Napa Valley, which is the official wine 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.640 brand and wine club of the Carolina Panthers. These premium 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.239 selections celebrate the great people of the Carolinas and the 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.600 Panthers hunger to achieve excellence on and off the field. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.559 Learn more at Prowling Vineyards dot com. Well, it's Thursday 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.640 morning here, so maybe a little early for a glass 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:53.479 of wine, but you never know. On the Happy Half Hour, 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.560 what's that in your mug, Darren, Nothing, as far as 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.680 you know, it's turning Prowling Vineyards at ten thirty on 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.160 at Thursday morning, unless you're in an airport, in which 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.120 case there is no judgment because it could be anytime anywhere. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.279 So that is true. That is true. Um, let's dive 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.400 right into it with the two of you. As I 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.200 said Thursday morning, we have learned a lot since the 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.360 home game versus Cleveland. I want to touch on that 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.319 game and more so just what we've learned from it. 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.360 Um the good, the bad, the in between, and it 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.680 really felt to me like a tale of two halves. Guys, 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.160 do you agree? Yeah? I mean, Rule talked about that yesterday. 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.720 The first twenty five minutes not very good at all, 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.080 about as bad as it could be offensively. The next 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.640 thirty five not so bad. They were moving the ball, 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.520 and you know, it's not hard to draw the line 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.960 between a couple early three and out Christians not really 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.679 doing anything three touches in the first half to all 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.480 of a sudden boom, you get Christian McCaffrey involved, things 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.160 start going well, and you know, we're going to talk 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:56.640 about Christian all year long. He's their most important offensive players. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.040 So as long as he's involved in doing things, you know, 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.600 he picks up there's a loose snap and balls at 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.320 his feet and he just picks it up and takes 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.600 off with it. Now, Christians fantasy owners probably hated that 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.120 play because they don't get credit for rushing yards, but 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.160 it just kind of shows the kind of spark he creates. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.000 And I think, you know, if you if you can 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.160 separate those two and say all right. Well, the last 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.880 thing they did offensively wasn't all that bad. Uh, you 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.160 move forward, but those first twenty five minutes count too, 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.400 and you can't gain twenty one yards on your first 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.760 twenty plays and expect to be competitive against anybody in 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.639 the league. Really, yes, but there were a lot of 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.120 um things that that went wrong and that throughout the 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.920 course of the game. Right, there were four issues with snaps, 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.079 and we heard Baker Mayfield say earlier this week that's 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.400 never happened to him. I've never seen that in a game, 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.640 but you certainly don't expect that to happen going forward. Right, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.040 there were some some big penalties that you hope you 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.440 can get cleaned up, which is the it's the good 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.880 and bad part of it, right, Augusta, because you don't 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.639 want to see those things from your team if you're 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.160 a fan. But also there's some hope, especially considering the 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:02.720 way in which they played in the second half, that 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.080 those little things that may have prevented them from ultimately 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.880 just edging out the Browns um may not come up 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.880 again as the season goes on, or hopefully don't. Well exactly, 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.839 And I think when you have those things, I mean, 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.799 you you mentioned the botched snaps and then a few 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.800 batted balls up in the air and things like that. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.000 I mean, when you have those things as much as 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.080 you as much as you don't want things to be 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.320 that glaring and in your face, it's there's obvious points 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.880 to clean up, there's obvious things to work on, there's 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.080 obvious places to start um and taking ownership of it. 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.720 I mean both Baker and Pedophline. Talking with both of them, 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.240 you know, you're like, oh, botch snaps, and they both oh, 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:38.920 that's on me, that's on me, you know what I mean. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.520 So when you have two people taking ownership of whatever 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.680 the chemistry issue was there, I mean they they have 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.400 a path forward. I mean, like Darren said, you know, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.160 the first twenty five minutes were really rough, but being 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.440 able to turn that around. I think that's part of 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.080 the good part about having Baker Mayfield, you know what 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:57.840 I mean. I mean you can be down and and 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.120 have all the things going wrong, and he's still going 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.040 to find a way to drive the ball downfield. I mean, 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.920 we were talking about the Robby Anderson pass and and 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.960 just kind of his explosive ability obviously Christian being Christian, 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.400 and and however the plan is moving forward with him. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.720 In the second half, his usage went up a lot, 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.120 and he's one of those players that you want to 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.080 get him the ball as much as possible. They talk about, 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:20.600 you know, you want your playmakers to get the ball 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:22.440 and looking ahead to the Giants, that's what they do 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.200 is sake one. So there's a lot of different pieces there, 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.279 but um, there's there's things to grow from and there's 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.480 things to learn from. And I think the right now 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.760 the mood in general is okay. I've heard a lot 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:36.680 of Okay, we're flushing it. We're flushing it. But you 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.280 want to build also from from what was good. And 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:41.720 I mean you watch the first half of that game 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.679 and you fast forward to the last couple of minutes, 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.039 and I don't think a lot of people in that 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.479 stadium the first, you know, thirty minutes would have thought 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.160 that the game was on the line. It was really close. Um, 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.760 So I don't know. I think that turnaround is something 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.440 that it's it's Baker Mayfield specific to. I think that's 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.840 something that he brings is that you know, we're never 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.279 fully out into all the game is over kind of mentality. Absolutely, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.960 we saw that. Yeah, and Kristen. You've heard me say 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.360 this a hundred times in the past, but I'm not 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:11.600 typically an overreactor to any one particular thing that happens 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.479 in a NFL game. The difference between the Giants and 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.719 the Carolina Panthers is the Titans kicker missed his field 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:21.119 goal and the kid from Cleveland smoked one from about 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.920 a hundred and twelve yards away or whatever it was. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:28.800 I mean, and if the Titans kicker hits his, we're 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.800 not talking about, Oh, Brian Dable is a gutsy genius 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.080 and this is a new era of Giants football. And 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.080 if the kid from Cleveland misses his, we're not talking about, 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:43.200 oh looking back at last year. We're we're talking about 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.280 We're talking about what to come back. We're talking about 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.400 and incredible. You know, if if the kid from Cleveland 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.719 misses that field goal, the rookie kicker who hits a 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:52.800 fifty eight yard or which has probably only been done 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.479 a handful of time, then Baker Mayfield just had his 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.760 first chapter of Jake Delome right here in front of us, 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.360 coming in at halftime and turning the thing around him 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.800 winning the thing in dramatic fashion. Now, I mean, those 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.520 are the things football games turn on. They still count 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.520 kind of like the first twenty five minutes of the game. 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:13.760 But I do kind of like that Baker's got this 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.280 thing about him. He he talks about flushing it a lot. 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.800 Baker walked into Cleveland where they had won one game 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.880 in two years. This is not too big for him. 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:28.039 This does not scare him, This does not really phase him. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.360 I mean, I think he's kind of looking at this year, 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.239 you know, personally professionally is kind of a blank slate, 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.360 new lease on life, whatever cliche you want to put 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.960 on it. But that's the way he's approaching this. So 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.440 he's kind of what you almost seven straight at the 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.080 end of last year. Yeah, let me tell you something 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.040 about that. I mean, he's been through, He's seen worse, 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.400 So I don't think it's ever going to really cow 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.599 him and make him kind of blank, so to speak. 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.600 So you know, we'll see. I mean, he was, he 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.400 was We're still getting to know him. But the Baker 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.760 we saw in press conference yesterday was very It's very upbeat. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.640 It's like Bumbles will fix it. What's next, you know, 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.640 And that's the thing that keeping the focused on the 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.040 next thing rather than oh my god. I mean even said, 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.440 if you think back on the negative stuff, it'll creep 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.360 into the back of your mind. That's why you've just 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.040 got to keep eyes forward and that's really the only 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.760 way to do it. Yeah. I don't have any concerns 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.440 about the poise or the ability to meet the big 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.480 moment from pretty much anyone on this team. You know, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.840 I was down on the sidelines that entire game. That 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.920 is not the issue. Um. You know I reported this 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:43.280 on our broadcast. But um, after those first few three 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:47.280 an ounce, Matt Rule gathered the team together and, um, 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.239 you know, just kind of getting everyone to take a breath. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.000 And Christian came up as well and said, um, guys, 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.600 everyone take a breath, Calm down, smile. Remember football is fun. 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.840 And so you have those leaders on this team both. 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.360 You know, I've watched some of these young guys grow 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.640 into now leadership positions, whether it's Jeremy Chen getting voted 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.080 to captain. Um, you know that Dante Jackson is like 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.160 a vet now even though he's been in the league 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.440 for five years. Um, you know, he's like he's like 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.600 one of those like old hardened guys that really knows 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.560 how to lead everyone and then you have the additions 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.080 of just really experienced players coming in like Baker. So 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.480 I do not think, by by any means, no fans 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:26.640 should be worried about, um, the moment being too big, 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.000 the doubts creeping up on any of these guys. They're 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.280 very good football players. But I do wonder if for 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.040 the fans it makes it just even a little bit 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.080 more frustrating and the team as well, to have little things, 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.240 UM that had not shown up in practice, as the 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.040 team has been saying, UM, affect your game, right, and 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.400 you go, we just had that one snap back. We 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.760 were just lined up correctly here CMC could have scored 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.360 right as one example that they had mentioned. UM. So yeah, 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:53.920 you take that as the good and the bad, and 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.680 of course we'll see, right, UM, what this team looks like? 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.600 Is it the first three or five minutes, the last 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.240 thirty five minutes as they go and face the Giants. 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.000 One thing I do want to ask you both about 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.720 is UM we saw us game against the Titans, Darren, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.480 you were just referencing it. He looks great, UM, and 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.040 the Panthers had issues with the run, uh in this 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.560 last game. How much of what you saw Darren was 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.920 Nick Chubb just not going down no matter what. UM, 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.520 how much of it was mistackling, how much of it 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:30.079 was something that you think will carry over into this 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.000 Giant's game, or just a factor of of you know, 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.160 the Brown's running backs being very good. Yeah, I mean 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.400 this just in Nick Chubb good at football. UM, he 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.880 is a problem for a lot of people. And se 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:42.760 Kwaan is a problem if he's going to run the 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.440 way he ran last week. But the thing you worry about, uh, 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.080 and you saw it last year, Chris, and after the 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.320 Dallas game, then it was like the mark was on them. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.800 And because Dallas ran for a million yards, everybody was 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.920 gonna tryum until it didn't work. And so you saw 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.280 New England play on that way, you saw Minnesota play 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.680 him that way, and it started to stack up. Now 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:07.000 these two teams again, se Kuan had the big numbers 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.840 this week, and he is capable of doing that. I 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.840 don't know that that Giants offensive line is necessarily the 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.200 same as the Cleveland line. That interior Cleveland line. They 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.920 were without their right tackle. That's a good group of players. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.040 I mean, we talked a lot this offseason about what 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.600 the Panthers did to kind of rebuild a line to 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.840 get it to this point. That's the place you're trying 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.720 to get to. That's what Cleveland has standing there in 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.800 front of Nick Chubb. Um, so we'll see it's going 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.280 to be a thing until it's not a thing. And 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.000 that's just Phil Snow every Thursday when he walks in, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.200 is gonna get asked about run defense now until it stops. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.400 I think if I was trying to isolate any one thing, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.440 it all came around the edges. I think, yeah, I 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.280 feel bad for Derek Graham, Matt I and I just 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.760 sometimes because I think when there's a run defense game, 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.760 people go to ask those guys in the middle about it. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:58.720 But a lot of those yards came out on the 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.880 edges and I and I think that when you're defending 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.679 or trying to think about stopping that. Obviously, tackling is 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.520 a problem, but keeping edges set and keeping people in 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.120 gaps are things that can be fixed. I mean, you 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.640 can do that. You know, Nick Chubb's gonna break some tackles. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:21.719 He just is. But I think you can become more disciplined. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.680 I'm curious to see if Henry Anderson plays more snaps. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.920 I mean they brought him in a week ago. Uh, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.520 it's not Baker Mayfield walking in at quarterback, you know, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.720 right before training camp. But Henry Anderson got a pretty 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.520 quick introduction after being here a week. And I think 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.040 he his role is gonna just get bigger and bigger 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.800 because he is a VET. He's a bigger body. Uh, 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.360 he's a little more stable against the run. And when 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.800 you we talked about run defense a week ago or 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.720 through this offseason, it was they want to be bigger. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.320 It's a tour rather than Hassan Reddick, it's Damien Wilson 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.920 rather than Jermaine Carter. You're just putting bigger bodies at 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.640 the problem. But he, me Anderson knows how to do this. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.880 And you know, he's never gonna put up big sack 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:06.960 numbers or anything like that, but he knows how to 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.040 set edges and maintain and be in the place he 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.240 needs to be. I think you're absolutely right. I think 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.760 we will see more of him. I talked to Matt 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.640 Rule yesterday and I was asking him about, you know, 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.640 some of the little things that we were just talking about, 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.360 and I said, how how does that manifest itself in practice? 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.360 When you want to clean up some some little things, 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.480 and he said, you know, it's it's really about confidence, 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.079 especially for the second rotation guys, you know, the ones 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:32.720 that maybe haven't played a lot. And he used Henry 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.559 Anderson as an example of a player who's been around 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.920 is doing it and just despite getting there earlier in 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.800 the week, was able to come in and make a 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.520 couple of plays when they needed it. Um, really at 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.520 the drop of a hat. I know at one point 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:45.720 it was when you know, Matt and I just had 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:47.640 to go out for cramps, and he just said, you know, hey, 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.160 he does not have a ton of familiarity with our system, 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.480 but he came in, he played confidently, knows what he's doing. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.760 So Darren, I think it's a it's a great point 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.600 and something that will certainly be looking out for UM 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.720 is to see more Henry Anderson. Yeah, I think he's 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.800 gonna be a thing and and it's just gonna grow. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.760 I I'm really curious to see what happens with Sa 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.439 Kwan this week because he him and Christian are sort 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.120 of in the same spot. I mean, they've dealt with 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.600 a lot of the same stuff, but they're both capable 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:19.640 of changing games like that and if goes again, that's 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.880 gonna be that's gonna be an issue, but there are 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.800 reasons to think it's not necessarily as dramatic as it looks. 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.960 I mean again, you catch Cleveland in New York right 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.320 out of the shoot, you know how they're going to 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.679 try to move the ball. I mean nothing against Jakobe 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.280 Bricittt and Daniel Jones, but they're trying to run to 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.720 minimize the amount of the impact the quarterback has on 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.280 the offense. So we'll see. This is gonna be an 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.760 opportunity for them to get some of that stuff ironed out, 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.320 and we'll find out in a hurry if it does. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.680 All right, we have got a stat of the week 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:55.120 from our very own Panther stats Guy, Will Darren. I 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.160 love Darren, the intrepid reporter. Tracked Will down. Even though 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.960 he can't be with us in studio every single week, 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.040 we are not going to let the stat of the 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.800 week go. So let's hear it will of the time. 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:13.800 It backs every times that of the week as promised. 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.320 Even though he's not here in the studio with us today, 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.760 Panther Stats Guy will always be a part of this 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.440 podcast in spirit. So we're coming live from an undisclosed 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.400 location in Bank of America Stadium. That's why I'm whispering. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.560 Here's Will Brian stat of the week. What's up, Darren? 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.680 What's up? Podcast crew? Hi? Man, So I've got a 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.000 I've got a Robbie Anderson stat for you. Last week, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.360 his seventy five yard touchdown was his third straight touchdown 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.400 of over fifty yards in Week one. Only Randy Moss 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.360 has more fifty plus yards touchdowns in Week one over 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.520 the last two decades than Robbie Anderson. How about that. 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.800 Robbie went eighty five point eight total yards on that play, 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.880 second longest play in total yards run in the Seventy 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.280 five yards from scrimmage was the longest play in Week one. See, 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:00.920 that's the kind of stuf if you only get here. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.080 That's why we're going to continue to come get it. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.160 I just love to hear wolves voice. Right, he's sneaky. 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.800 I had to go out and commit a journalism and um, 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.200 but he's there. I know where he lives, and we 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.920 will try. I hope that at some point, if he's 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.000 um in a bunch of meetings one day and you're 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.440 trying to get this, you do just go knock on 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.200 his door at his house. There's there's a non zero 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.880 chance that's gonna I love it. Another great thing about 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.880 last week's game that we have to talk about is Augusta. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:33.080 It was your first regular season NFL game as a 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.400 writer for the Panthers. It was, it was. It was 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.600 very exciting. I took in a moment. I got there 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.000 very early. I was I was in the building by 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:42.880 nine o'clock, which I mean feels very early to me. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.720 I think there were still people who beat me here. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.320 But UM went down to the field, took it all in, 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.000 had a little sappy moment that I tweeted about because 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.040 I share my sap everywhere. I saw that tweet. I 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.520 loved it. I just had to. Especially it was this 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.960 overcast day. The day before was my birthday, so it 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.160 was already in my mos because of that. And then 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.320 you just look up. All the clouds are there, but 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.920 they're starting to part and you're starting to see the 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.160 sky and then the big uh, you know, the JumboTron 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.640 has the helmets on and it says Panthers browns and 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.760 I don't know, you take in the moment. It was exciting, 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:16.920 and I know you yeah, we're talking about like meeting 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.320 the moment and everything. I felt like, you know, okay, 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.080 I'm meeting it. We're here. It's so cool. But um, yeah, 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.960 and then the pregame. I love being on the field 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.840 pregame and seeing everyone go through all of their workouts, 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.520 getting to see I got to write about it last week, 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.440 but Christian McCaffrey's routine and just the way he jumps 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.280 really like Brady Christians and said like a gazelle. I 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.600 just it was. It was so cool to to take 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.880 it all in and then and then the work happens 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.480 afterward and it's it's crazy. And the game was such 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.400 a an instantly kind of one of those things where 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.840 I've already heard some people, um, you know in the 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:49.120 media saying, oh my gosh, it was one of the 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.160 craziest games I covered, and you know all these things. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:52.840 I was like, great, it was my first, that's awesome. Um, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.920 but it was really really cool. Um, you know, it 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.280 was one of those things where, um, you sort taken 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.360 in like I'd covered plenty of football games, so it 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.120 wasn't that first. But there is definitely a different elevation 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.360 at the level, and there's a huge difference between preseason 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.240 and regular season just in the way it feels. Um. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:11.639 But it was awesome. I don't know if I'm just 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.760 saying like obvious things, but it was cool from my 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.840 from my purview, and um, yeah, I I really enjoyed 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.359 getting to take it all in and I'm excited to 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:24.600 do it sixteen more times at least. Absolutely, She's covered 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:28.680 plenty of football. Well. I saw her tweet and she 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.159 she did document the moment and it's one thing that 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.960 I love as a reporter and host. I love to 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:39.119 ask the rookies about taking in the moment. And you know, 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.760 I've I've been like the crazy aunt a couple of times. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.160 I walked Aquanum through the locker room for the first time. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.199 We did that on camera, but like after the cameras 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.080 were off, I said, look, I said, you're gonna come 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:49.680 in a couple of weeks and it's gonna be normal 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.119 to you. You know, you're gonna Ricky Mini camp. You're 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.000 going to go into two O, T A S. And 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:56.959 I said, you need to just like look around and 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:58.880 take it off for the cameras. Just take it in 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.240 for a moment. And so of course I had to 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.760 ask you as well. And I think it's it's cool 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:08.280 that you took a moment to you just really soak 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.639 it all in. Yeah, thank you very much. It was 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.080 It was a cool game, like I said it would. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.440 It couldn't have gotten It was a pretty difficult game 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:17.920 for your first game, but I think I handled it well. 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.440 I'm proud of it. That's awesome. Do you have your 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.680 pregame routine yet? Oh, that's a great question. I will 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.520 say this week was a little weird side people over 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.240 at my apartment, so I was getting ready at the 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.239 same time as two other folks. Um. So, you know 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:32.640 I always drink my coffee out of my little blue 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.800 cup that I love so much. Um right now it's 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.000 pumpkin spice flavored. Um. So coffee is always a huge 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.320 part of my routine. Um, honestly not. Yeah. I always 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.800 listened to um the same song on the way to 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.480 any game I cover. I listened to song too by Blur. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.639 It gets me really exciting. Yeah, so I listened to 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.639 that in my car where my earbuds if I'm walking. 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.399 So that's a part of my routine. That's what I 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.520 love to hear. Darren. Do you have a Do you 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.359 have a routine that you would hear by or is 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.040 it just getting out the door. I am kaya A 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.760 lot of times it's no out the door, and sometimes 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.800 you just want to make sure you're dressed. Um, but 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:10.280 I um, I I am kind of particular about my area. 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.240 I like to show up early, get my stuff set up. 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.520 Could you know, have everything at right angles? No, I'm 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.360 not really that um particular about it, but I do 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.000 like I will never get tired. And I kind of 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.640