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Speaker 1: of the combine? What is today? Thursday? So is that
Speaker 1: day four, day five, day one hundred of NFL combine.
Speaker 1: We can confirm the breaking news really off the top
Speaker 1: of this is that Will is alive and and well,
Speaker 1: we don't know about bruised. We haven't confirmed any any
Speaker 1: bruises or anything like that. It was really concerned about
Speaker 1: his calves fitting into the ski boots, so we hope
Speaker 1: that worked for him. But it has been a reductive
Speaker 1: NFL Combine for us here in Indianapolis. We've gotten a
Speaker 1: lot of, uh, just good things from either experts or
Speaker 1: listening to the prospects. I always enjoyed this time, really
Speaker 1: just for the stories that come out of the combine.
Speaker 1: There's always a few good that stick out from the rest.
Speaker 1: What's so far has been your favorite NFL Combine story.
Speaker 1: It's a good question, I think, and I know you
Speaker 1: tweeted this in response to the quote I put out
Speaker 1: from from him, but, um, javon Kin lost story really yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would say it's a combine story.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just his story and many of us
Speaker 1: have heard it at this point, but he kind of
Speaker 1: told it again at least part of it. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy homeless just such a really difficult upbringing, and
Speaker 1: I just thought, it's every time he talks about it,
Speaker 1: it's just fascinating. And so to hear him talk about
Speaker 1: being eleven years old by himself on a Greyhound bus
Speaker 1: from DC to South Carolina and just all of the
Speaker 1: how fast he had to grow up really um, and
Speaker 1: he mentioned he was I didn't go to junior college
Speaker 1: to then be like, Okay, now I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: prove it here and I'm gonna go to SEC school
Speaker 1: and then from there I'm gonna make it to the league.
Speaker 1: He was like, I just went to junior college because
Speaker 1: it was a place where I could sleep and I
Speaker 1: was gonna have food regularly. And it kind of puts
Speaker 1: a lot in perspective. Um, obviously that these guys here
Speaker 1: chasing an NFL dream. He was just looking for some
Speaker 1: stability in his life. So um, everyone's rooting for him.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to see just kind of where he
Speaker 1: ends up, and we'll be curious to follow him wherever.
Speaker 1: That is, just because of all he's kind of had
Speaker 1: to overcome just to get this far. Yeah, he's definitely
Speaker 1: my favorite story to come out of the combine, to
Speaker 1: of just getting to know these kids, because you know,
Speaker 1: he even made a comment that he understands why people
Speaker 1: are asking the questions about it. But I thought at
Speaker 1: the podium it was interesting to see him say it's
Speaker 1: not a remarkable story. He kind of, you know, leaned in.
Speaker 1: He was like, this is not I get why you're asking,
Speaker 1: but it's not a remarkable story. It's it's my story
Speaker 1: and it's been my reality. But no one really started
Speaker 1: to pay attention until the Senior Bowl, which is when
Speaker 1: the NFL starts to get to know these prospects. And
Speaker 1: so that's just really what this week it continues to do.
Speaker 1: We hear the scouts and everyone say at all the time.
Speaker 1: This week at the NFL Combine is just another step
Speaker 1: in this big picture of who these players are, and
Speaker 1: it has been really cool to see um some of
Speaker 1: these stories come out. Kin Law, he's a South Carolina gamecock. Um,
Speaker 1: so those of you listening in the Carolinas, he's definitely
Speaker 1: one that we have seen for a couple of years
Speaker 1: and it's crazy that. I mean, he's even been linked
Speaker 1: in a couple of mock drafts of of potentially coming
Speaker 1: to Carolina or staying in the Carolina. So, um, I
Speaker 1: think that's definitely one of my favorite favorite stories. But
Speaker 1: another favorite story is actually happening later on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Um there's always random things that happened either in media
Speaker 1: row or you'll see something on Twitter. A good thing
Speaker 1: that came out on Twitter earlier today is apparently they
Speaker 1: ran out of diet pepsi in the media workroom. This
Speaker 1: was a big deal for some writers that were up there. Um,
Speaker 1: I believe some tensions were high and some words were
Speaker 1: exchanged over diet pepsi. Needing the diet pepsi. Apparently they
Speaker 1: were coming at it, they were coming at five, but
Speaker 1: that didn't help them right now. They needed it right now.
Speaker 1: So all of those even stories that come out of
Speaker 1: this crazy week of the entire INNFL taking over Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: But my favorite, all time favorite is coming later on
Speaker 1: the show because there were so many celebrities here. I
Speaker 1: mean so many Nick Saban. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: seen that Nick Sabans here at coach Oh no, you're
Speaker 1: excited about that. Matt coach O. Uh, Colin Cowhard, he
Speaker 1: even came out and we we talked to every single
Speaker 1: one of Andrew Luckyn and Andrew never does media like this.
Speaker 1: Andrew Lucky even stopped by um. So stick around because
Speaker 1: that is coming later on in the podcast. But today
Speaker 1: it was defensive line and linebackers at defensive front seven
Speaker 1: up at the podium. I mean, some interesting stuff from
Speaker 1: some Baylor kids. We were able to hear from a
Speaker 1: couple of Yoda quotes. So from today, Max, what was
Speaker 1: what was the most intriguing thing you heard at the podium? Well,
Speaker 1: James Lynch, the defensive lineman from Baylor, and Clay Johnston,
Speaker 1: the linebacker from Baylor, both available, and they were surrounded
Speaker 1: by folks from Charlotte who were asking about a couple
Speaker 1: of coaches. Um, So we kind of had to warn them.
Speaker 1: We were like, hey, yeah, we're from Charlotte, so we're
Speaker 1: about to ask you a bunch of questions about Matt
Speaker 1: Rule and Phil snow Um. And they were really good
Speaker 1: sports about it. I mean, their praise for these coaches
Speaker 1: was just effusive. Um, I mean and talking about how
Speaker 1: much they love these guys. I mean it's not just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: these these guys are really good coaches. I learned a lot.
Speaker 1: It was like, No, I loved my time with coach Snow,
Speaker 1: and UM, I really do think that that's kind of
Speaker 1: the That's what Matt Rules trying is going to try
Speaker 1: to do in Carolina. It is a family type environment
Speaker 1: with his coaching staff. There's a lot of really tight
Speaker 1: bonds and that extends to his players. Um. You can
Speaker 1: you can tell just the connection that was formed. And
Speaker 1: I think the players believe that's a big reason why
Speaker 1: they had success was because everyone was a lot more selfless.
Speaker 1: They all sort of bought in and we're playing for
Speaker 1: each other and for these coaches. And I think that's
Speaker 1: that's why. Yes, they had some talent, they brought in
Speaker 1: some talented players in that program, but I think it
Speaker 1: was the intangible element that really they felt put them
Speaker 1: over the top. And Uh, both both guys were entertaining
Speaker 1: to listen to Phil Snow. Like we've heard a lot
Speaker 1: about Joe Brady, we haven't heard as much about Phil Snow, right,
Speaker 1: you know, he's kind of the older, old school defensive.
Speaker 1: Everyone's always focus on the offense and the fireworks that
Speaker 1: l s U put up. But it was interesting to
Speaker 1: learn a little bit more about Phil and to hear
Speaker 1: them say, you know, a little bit more about the
Speaker 1: origins of the Yoda nickname. And Clay told me that
Speaker 1: he thinks he might have been the one who started that.
Speaker 1: He actually got a little bit of trouble because it
Speaker 1: was like Phil Snow had never heard of Yoda, and
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? But he said, he's just this,
Speaker 1: He's this old guy who's a super genius um and
Speaker 1: they all he owes all of his football knowledge and
Speaker 1: the ability he has right now to go on a
Speaker 1: white board with these NFL teams and really map out
Speaker 1: what these coverages look like and dissecting the schemes. All
Speaker 1: of that he credits to Phil Snow and how he
Speaker 1: prepared him for this. Um. So those guys Lynch Lynch too,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was they swear by him, and we
Speaker 1: all know it's an adjustment going from the college to
Speaker 1: pro level. But man, if you listen to those two
Speaker 1: kids talk Lynch and Johnston, they will tell you that
Speaker 1: anybody in that Panther's locker room that you're about to
Speaker 1: become a much better player from getting work with these
Speaker 1: two coaches. I thought it was interesting Lynch talked about
Speaker 1: how when he first got to Baylor that Snow taught
Speaker 1: him the offense first, and that was that. I thought
Speaker 1: that was an interesting Snow clip from him. Um, just
Speaker 1: learning the offense first and then kind of doing it
Speaker 1: back us. And it makes sense too. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: if I've heard in the past, coaches will use a
Speaker 1: sort of tactic to say, you know, the best way
Speaker 1: we can play defense is to know what the offense
Speaker 1: is trying to do. Right, So let's in Phil Snow's mind,
Speaker 1: it was clearly we've got to make sure our kids
Speaker 1: understand what the offense is trying to do to them,
Speaker 1: and then we can build off that and say here's
Speaker 1: how we're going to defend it. So, um, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was that was an interesting point he made, and it
Speaker 1: it makes sense. Well, you hear all the time of
Speaker 1: Matt Role every time he says, you know, we want teachers.
Speaker 1: We want people who can you know, actually coach these
Speaker 1: kids and and and give them more than just you know,
Speaker 1: go to this I on this play. It's it's the
Speaker 1: why behind it. So it was it was interesting. I
Speaker 1: liked that quote from him to have just no this
Speaker 1: is this is real. They don't just talk this talk,
Speaker 1: they're actually doing it. They're form players can say it,
Speaker 1: but it still doesn't The quote of the day which
Speaker 1: Johnston when he said Snow is amazing. We call him
Speaker 1: the Yoda, that's his nickname. He's just this old man.
Speaker 1: That's a super genius. Johnson said. So maybe he did
Speaker 1: get in trouble a little bit for Yoda, but let's
Speaker 1: just show Snow he's just an old man. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a super genius. I think that might dig a hole
Speaker 1: a little bit. He called him like a lovable grandpa.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know that Philip would actually
Speaker 1: love that either. He actually probably he probably would. But
Speaker 1: a lot of really cool things from the comment what
Speaker 1: what's kind of like your wrap up of of what
Speaker 1: you had here? Well, today was a big day too,
Speaker 1: just because there were some heavy hitters at the podium
Speaker 1: as well. And Derek Brown and Isaiah Simmons, as we
Speaker 1: talked about on our preview episode of the Group Chat,
Speaker 1: those are the two names that have been kind of
Speaker 1: connected to Carolina early on in this process. Us. Um.
Speaker 1: First of all, Derek Brown, just when he's you know
Speaker 1: you're standing next to him, is an imposing figure. Not
Speaker 1: the most um outspoken guy, pretty quiet, but he doesn't
Speaker 1: need to do a whole lot of talking. UM. That guy.
Speaker 1: You can just you can just see that he's a
Speaker 1: lot to deal with um in the trenches. UM. So,
Speaker 1: I was just impressed with the way he kind of
Speaker 1: carries himself. He looks like a guy that's all business.
Speaker 1: And every LSU player that I I heard from this week,
Speaker 1: everyone gets asked variation of this question, right, who was
Speaker 1: the toughest player you win against all of them on
Speaker 1: that LSU football team, said Derek Brown. I mean they
Speaker 1: were in unison on that one. It was like that dude,
Speaker 1: it was Edwards Hilaire, the running back. I'm saying that right.
Speaker 1: He's he told he told me it was like Derek
Speaker 1: Brown just does whatever he wants to do. So that
Speaker 1: that dude is a good player. I think he's in
Speaker 1: the conversation for among the best player in this draft. UM,
Speaker 1: and so is Isaiah Simmons. Who's who's the Clemson products
Speaker 1: and he was. He was interesting to talk to you
Speaker 1: because he's a guy. And he made this point he's
Speaker 1: sort of dition lists now, and he said, you know,
Speaker 1: years ago that was a knock. It was if your
Speaker 1: position list, it's like, well, you can do a bunch
Speaker 1: of things, but you're a master of none quote unquote.
Speaker 1: Today's NFL being position list is an asset. Uh And
Speaker 1: with the way defenses want to potentially utilize him safety
Speaker 1: linebacker close to the line of scrimmage as a Russian end,
Speaker 1: I mean, he can do a whole bunch of different things,
Speaker 1: and he feels like that's gonna make him really attractive
Speaker 1: to these NFL teams. And I agree. I think he's
Speaker 1: he's he's right, and he's a really good athlete. He
Speaker 1: knows the defense so well from having to do all
Speaker 1: those different things, and I think teams in that top
Speaker 1: ten for sure are going to take a hard look
Speaker 1: at Simmons. Another question that's always asked, at least in
Speaker 1: my one couple of days of being here, is they
Speaker 1: always ask who do you compare yourself too. I thought
Speaker 1: it was interesting that Simmons said Jalen Ramsey, who's a
Speaker 1: corner tyrone Matthew who's a safety, and Von Miller, who's
Speaker 1: an edge. Maybe if you just mix them all together,
Speaker 1: you would get Isaiah Simmons. I found that interesting. Also
Speaker 1: liked how he said, you know, the new NFL is
Speaker 1: these tight ends, and when you look at the Empire,
Speaker 1: these tight ends are having. Well that doesn't fit your
Speaker 1: traditional linebacker. But he's that speed linebacker that can run around.
Speaker 1: And when I was listening to him speak and kind
Speaker 1: of how he approaches the game, it did remind me
Speaker 1: a little bit of Darius Leonard, who was taken with
Speaker 1: the Colts when I was there, and he's not used
Speaker 1: in that traditional linebacker because he's so quick from sideline
Speaker 1: to sideline. So he he's a little bit of you know,
Speaker 1: he might be that nickel or he might drop back,
Speaker 1: but he is the linebacker. He's that quarterback um of
Speaker 1: the defense. So I am just curious though with Isaiah
Speaker 1: Simmons listening to him, is his knowledge there to be
Speaker 1: that quarterback of the defense? You think so? I mean
Speaker 1: with the way he's used to Clempson, the success that
Speaker 1: Clemson has had, the way that you know, you hear
Speaker 1: about Dabbo and those coaches being teachers but I think
Speaker 1: that might be a big question for him. I haven't
Speaker 1: heard the raven review about his football i Q, and
Speaker 1: I feel like you normally hear that as you go
Speaker 1: through this of you know, he's a guy that can
Speaker 1: definitely run that defense. But I think it's crazy too that,
Speaker 1: you know, Dary Brown arguably the best player in this draft,
Speaker 1: but he's linked to the Panthers dropping a seven. So
Speaker 1: I think when you look in that top ten, that's
Speaker 1: what makes an interesting a team. They want quarterbacks, they
Speaker 1: want to do all these things. But you could have
Speaker 1: the best guy dropped to seven and end up coming
Speaker 1: to the Panthers. Yeah. Look, I know Chase Young has
Speaker 1: certainly a lot to say about being the best player
Speaker 1: in this draft. He came out here today and declared
Speaker 1: that I think a lot of people would agree, Um,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. Of course, at the quarterback position, the best
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are going to be valued a little more heavily
Speaker 1: than the best interior defensive lineman. That's just a reality
Speaker 1: of the way this league is right now. Everyone who
Speaker 1: doesn't have a quarterback is desperate to find one. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think if you're a team sitting in the position
Speaker 1: like the Panthers are at seven. If you're gonna take
Speaker 1: a best available player approach, depending on what happens in
Speaker 1: front of you, yeah, you might have somebody fall into
Speaker 1: your lap, very much like what happened in two thousand
Speaker 1: twelve with Louke Kikley, who you know at a at
Speaker 1: a linebacker spot. Clearly, if you look back on that
Speaker 1: now a Hall of Fame linebacker following to where he
Speaker 1: did at nine, people probably feel like they should have
Speaker 1: taken him or consider taking him a little earlier. Um,
Speaker 1: so that that can happen. And I think, yeah, Derek
Speaker 1: Brown with his with his talent level, you just don't
Speaker 1: see guys at a size able to do what he
Speaker 1: can do very often. I mean it's it's rare, um,
Speaker 1: but he might be on the board and that would
Speaker 1: certainly be intriguing. Yeah, it is crazy, go ahead. I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's possible with there might be a quarterback
Speaker 1: run early and both of those guys are sitting there
Speaker 1: at seven. If they have their pick of those two,
Speaker 1: that would be an interesting conversation, right, I mean your value,
Speaker 1: what are you weighing? You know, you've got an interior disruptor,
Speaker 1: a guy at the line of scrimmage. You've talked about
Speaker 1: the Panthers run defense and how all the issues they
Speaker 1: had last year, you'd certainly feel like, man, okay, that's
Speaker 1: a big way we can address that right off the bat.
Speaker 1: But Simmons too as a playmaking linebacker, as Caroline you mentioned,
Speaker 1: he was talking about it, how are you going to
Speaker 1: defend the kittles and Kelsey's in the world these days?
Speaker 1: You need somebody like me to do that? And he
Speaker 1: makes a compelling point. Um, He's he's got that rare
Speaker 1: ability and a space linebacker to cover running backs like
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. We're going to see more and more running
Speaker 1: backs doing what Christians doing. That's kind of the direction
Speaker 1: this is all going. So Um, a talent like Simmons
Speaker 1: is also intriguing one. So we'll we'll see where. We've
Speaker 1: still got a little ways to go before the Panthers
Speaker 1: are on the clock. Um, but it's it's become a
Speaker 1: prety clear that these guys are certainly in that conversation
Speaker 1: and it's getting down to the point in the combine
Speaker 1: where there's really just one more day of media availability
Speaker 1: and then you start getting all on the field testing
Speaker 1: where we get to hear about hip flexibility, uh, the
Speaker 1: knee drive fast forty, all of those that we've already
Speaker 1: heard about, the hand size of of many of these guys. Yes,
Speaker 1: who is twitchy. But we now have to get to
Speaker 1: the parts of the podcast. That is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite parts from this entire combine. So when we had
Speaker 1: so many celebrities stop, I'm just back to back. They
Speaker 1: were lined up at the table to come on the
Speaker 1: group chat. It was crazy, but really it's linked to
Speaker 1: one man we had. So when you may know he
Speaker 1: went viral on Twitter for his Nick Saban impersonation about
Speaker 1: picking his favorite having to pick between Thanksgiving sides. So
Speaker 1: it was Joey Molinaro. He is from Indianapolis. He works
Speaker 1: for a radio station here in town. But he said
Speaker 1: he started this and now it has grown into um,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say full time business, but we
Speaker 1: think it should be because here's what he did for is.
Speaker 1: I won't say anymore about because it was fantastic, But
Speaker 1: here's a little segment we did with many many personalities,
Speaker 1: but all stimming from one man. We have one of
Speaker 1: our first guests. So on this podcast, we we have
Speaker 1: some guests that come in but normally it's me making
Speaker 1: a full of myself. Um, I am going to show
Speaker 1: off who that PERSONA is a little bit later, but
Speaker 1: we have our first guests. Although this is a bit
Speaker 1: of a package deal, I think is the best way
Speaker 1: to put it. It's it's it's one person, multiple personalities,
Speaker 1: several guests waiting to join. They really are and and
Speaker 1: I wish you know, you're not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: recognize this person necessarily over audio, but I think if
Speaker 1: you see who we're talking about, I'll post something. Um,
Speaker 1: you'll recognize him because he's gone viral many times. Any
Speaker 1: times viral? How does that sound? Yeah, it's like you know,
Speaker 1: you tell your grandma that and she's like, well, what's
Speaker 1: going on to the doctor problem? Check out that? That
Speaker 1: doesn't sound good? But yeah, I know it's it's been fun,
Speaker 1: it's been wild. Well, we have Joey here, Joey you
Speaker 1: you gotta tell us how the heck did this come about?
Speaker 1: Have you always been able to do impersonations? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I've tried. Like you know, I tell people that
Speaker 1: I was kind of like the living room impersonator grown up, right,
Speaker 1: I do like school teachers and different you know, family
Speaker 1: friends and stuff like that. But then once I know,
Speaker 1: got into the professional media world or whatever, I was like,
Speaker 1: if I want to keep doing this, I need to
Speaker 1: do people that other people know besides just like my
Speaker 1: fifth grade teacher. Um, and so I started giving it
Speaker 1: a shot and you know, going for it. Well, you
Speaker 1: may be able to recognize him when we asked him
Speaker 1: to do the Nick Saban. I think that's I think
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck is your best impersonation personally. We're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk to him in a little bit. You got
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean you were up close and personal
Speaker 1: with him. That's why I think it's so good, because
Speaker 1: the cadence everything is so good. So we're we're going
Speaker 1: to talk to Andrew and just a little bit. Um.
Speaker 1: But Nick Saban is what really got you the most viral.
Speaker 1: That's where people may yes, UM, tell us how did
Speaker 1: that come about? When did you think about, Oh, I
Speaker 1: should definitely have Nick Saban talk about Thanksgiving it and
Speaker 1: get that going. Yeah, it was because, like you said,
Speaker 1: Luck was the first one that I did. Um, So
Speaker 1: then I started once he retired. Um, I was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta figure out somebody else that I can do,
Speaker 1: and um, it. It was around Thanksgiving time obviously, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't think anybody's done anything with
Speaker 1: that sabing bit that um he did with Maria Taylor
Speaker 1: right where he was the quid asking, And I was like,
Speaker 1: it'd be funny if talking about Thanksgiving, you know, he's
Speaker 1: talking about instead of two different quarterbacks, he's talking about
Speaker 1: two different options of food, you know, whether it besides
Speaker 1: or desserts or whatever it is. And um, you know
Speaker 1: it was just a quick fifteen second bit and you know,
Speaker 1: called on with the right audience and how many views
Speaker 1: does that have? Do you know? Do you keep up
Speaker 1: with it? No? Um? I mean it's back in November,
Speaker 1: so last time I checked a couple of million something
Speaker 1: like that. But that's so fun. In a while, it
Speaker 1: was worth it. So now I hope everyone out there
Speaker 1: knows who we've got on here. But really we've got
Speaker 1: to talk about the combine and there's no one better
Speaker 1: that knows, you know, Indie and the Combine than Andrew Um.
Speaker 1: So we'd love to hear from Andrew of just you know,
Speaker 1: why why is Indie? Why why should the combine stay Indie?
Speaker 1: It's it's a perfect place of of a centralized location,
Speaker 1: a lot of great architecture around, whether it be Lucas
Speaker 1: Soil or the convention center. Where everything is is a
Speaker 1: very very good spot. Uh. Like I said, essentially located
Speaker 1: a lot of good food, a good restaurants, and good
Speaker 1: places to hang out. But it's snowing, Andrew, it's snowing here.
Speaker 1: I mean what these l a people, they don't know
Speaker 1: what to do. But that's another great thing is that
Speaker 1: everything walking distance from the hotel to the convention center.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they even have overpasses that you can walk in. Uh.
Speaker 1: And that makes it very convenient. So I'd be an
Speaker 1: advocate that I should stay here for a long time. Andrew.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you're keeping up with the
Speaker 1: draft these days, but do you have any thoughts on
Speaker 1: the quarterback talent on display? Everyone's talking about Joe Burrow?
Speaker 1: He any good? Well, I'm a dad now, uh so,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm pretty busy on a on a day to day.
Speaker 1: Will there it be you know, helping my daughter start
Speaker 1: to read already because we're very smart, or you know,
Speaker 1: having to get up and change poopy diapers. I haven't
Speaker 1: kept up with it too much, but Joe Burrow is Uh,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be just fine. And instead Two's
Speaker 1: gonna be fine too, And uh, if anyone fall to Indie,
Speaker 1: I think that'd be pretty good. Well, speaking of too,
Speaker 1: I think I think saving just walked. Is that? Yeah? Exactly? Nick?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? I know Ta is here and
Speaker 1: and gosh, I mean you had quite a time with him.
Speaker 1: How do you think he's gonna do at this next level? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean thanks for having me on your program. Uh
Speaker 1: to it as somebody that I'm very proud of. I
Speaker 1: wish you would have stayed another year because we've got
Speaker 1: to be able to go down to l s U
Speaker 1: and beat those beat those dudes. We got us last. Um,
Speaker 1: But anybody who gets to I was gonna be really
Speaker 1: pleased with who'd they get as a as a person,
Speaker 1: as a player. And uh, you know, I'm I'm trying
Speaker 1: to run my own football program. So if you would
Speaker 1: just take the time to not ask me about two anymore,
Speaker 1: that'd be good. All right? Are you? Nick? Are you
Speaker 1: looking for some sympathy for the Alabama program? The fact
Speaker 1: that they're losing a quarterback. Seems like you guys just
Speaker 1: replace talents so easily. Why why should we feel bad
Speaker 1: for you guys for having to lose to it for
Speaker 1: next year. Look, I'm not asking anybody to feel bad
Speaker 1: for me. I'm Nick freaking saman I have a statue.
Speaker 1: You have a statue. I don't. I don't Nick. That's
Speaker 1: why I thought I'm a living legend. I don't recruit,
Speaker 1: I reload. That's what we do Alabama, my football program. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's true, but you know, for a while,
Speaker 1: you guys were the dynasty of everything about me. Clemson's
Speaker 1: coming upon your l s U. Well, Caroline, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: one year dound. That don't mean that we're not gonna
Speaker 1: be come back. So I still think that we're on top.
Speaker 1: We gotta count the rings a little bit. You got
Speaker 1: some rings, you're right, how you're wearing a few exactly.
Speaker 1: L s U got you, and they look to be
Speaker 1: building quite a powerhouse program that I don't know that
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna have total control over that conference
Speaker 1: in nation like you have. It's like I tell my wife,
Speaker 1: sometimes every blind score finds a nut every now and then.
Speaker 1: So L s U I get us once in seven years.
Speaker 1: I'm not too worried about it. Okay, all right, well, coach, oh,
Speaker 1: actually he's walking not The coag is crazy. How many
Speaker 1: uh big guys are coming through. Yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: just kind of said that about you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: coch coach O coming in here. But coach, first off,
Speaker 1: you know, congratulations this year with what your team was
Speaker 1: able to do. Thank you so much. You're so good
Speaker 1: to be here on the Panther Podcast with everybody so
Speaker 1: excited about Joe Burrow here in Indianapolis right now, and
Speaker 1: we had you he's gonna be a Bengal so still
Speaker 1: kind of a talk on some sort of way, but
Speaker 1: very upseting. Well. He handled himself very well yesterday at
Speaker 1: the press conference. And are you are you surprised with
Speaker 1: how he's gone through this an entire situation? Most definitely not.
Speaker 1: That's how we raised our players. That's how we raised
Speaker 1: them to be, from baby tagles to grown up tacles.
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is definitely a grown up tacle. He's got
Speaker 1: a national championship and uh sort of proud of them. Coach,
Speaker 1: You've got sixteen growing up tigers here in Indianapolis. How
Speaker 1: did you acquire so much talent? How are you going
Speaker 1: torn down? Turn down to come on down there? To
Speaker 1: Coach's house house and gumbo with my mom and Cocole.
Speaker 1: It's always gonna be a great time. You guess that's true. Well,
Speaker 1: I do have to say our our producer, Matt huge
Speaker 1: L s U fan he went to the game. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he recognized him though, because he was around
Speaker 1: so much and all that he did for your program. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he was there. I don't think it it
Speaker 1: really you wouldn't have won without him there, Coach. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean he's a big part any anytime that we
Speaker 1: have extra support those tacles down there, new oleans that
Speaker 1: we had a lot of it. But I certainly appreciate you,
Speaker 1: Matt being down there. I don't whaticee about about that.
Speaker 1: It's about that. I mean it was closer to h Okay,
Speaker 1: does people want to tacles up there? You're winning the championship,
Speaker 1: the championship. But I remember looking up when I looked
Speaker 1: up the talcle Faithful, and I saw you when I said,
Speaker 1: that's what I saw about talks. It's a moment that
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll ever forget. I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I see a tear in your eye. I mean I'm
Speaker 1: holding them back right now. I'm glad, but we do
Speaker 1: have to actually kind of shift a little bit here. Um,
Speaker 1: we we saw you walking around yesterday, Colin, but listen,
Speaker 1: we had to sit you down here because you're not
Speaker 1: very nice to Panther fans. Sometimes you're not very nice, uh,
Speaker 1: to Cam Newton. And the news came out this week,
Speaker 1: you know, and if he's healthy, he's the Panthers guy.
Speaker 1: We need an apology about how why do you just
Speaker 1: not like the guy I'm not. I'm not in the
Speaker 1: credit business, in the honesty business. If you want to credit,
Speaker 1: go to your local bank. I'm not in that business.
Speaker 1: I'm in the honesty business. Okay, Cam, he's more into
Speaker 1: fashion magazines than the playbook. I can't apologize to a
Speaker 1: guy who's more worried about looking good in the But
Speaker 1: Colling camis but Colling camis let. Kim hasn't had a
Speaker 1: winning record in three years. Three years. It's hurt. I
Speaker 1: think we need we need At a certain point, it
Speaker 1: just seems like it gets oddly personal between you and Kim,
Speaker 1: and I think I think people just want to know
Speaker 1: why why is that? I mean, objectively, he's been great
Speaker 1: in the community. His teammates love him all these things,
Speaker 1: and yet you seem to still find ways to poke
Speaker 1: holes in him whenever you get a chance. See, my
Speaker 1: philosophy with quarterback has always been, you have to be
Speaker 1: somebody who could be a face of the franchise, someone
Speaker 1: who's not a backwards hat kind of guy, back Newton
Speaker 1: backwards hat kind of guy. Feather in the cab kind
Speaker 1: of guy. They're in the cab, he's on g Q,
Speaker 1: he's on you know what I want. I want him
Speaker 1: in the playbook. He isn't in the playbook. He's out
Speaker 1: there in a g Q and worried about Instagram and
Speaker 1: with this and doing the rap. And you know, you
Speaker 1: know when we were we were trying, we were trying,
Speaker 1: but Colin, get out of here, Colin, just just get out.
Speaker 1: You know, we tried, We tried. We tried to get
Speaker 1: out of a round of applause here for Joe. How
Speaker 1: how do you what? How do you do it? I mean,
Speaker 1: I just, you know, I just have I just have
Speaker 1: fun with it, you know, And I just try to
Speaker 1: make the characters be as big and as loud and
Speaker 1: as obnoxious as they can be. And like it was
Speaker 1: somebody like coach Oh, he's so lovable that I don't,
Speaker 1: you know, saving to somebody and collin somebody that you
Speaker 1: know that that makes people mad a lot and a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't like saving. A lot of people
Speaker 1: don't like cowherd Um for different reasons. But there's not
Speaker 1: too many people who don't like coach. Oh. He's just
Speaker 1: a very lovable, likable guy. That's good. You've got a
Speaker 1: good coach, thank you. That's always fun to just be
Speaker 1: able to just get into that and be the lovable,
Speaker 1: big old coach. Oh. But yeah, so I just you know,
Speaker 1: I just have fun with it and just try to
Speaker 1: come up with bids that will make people laugh. And
Speaker 1: the thing about your impersonation though, it's it's the little
Speaker 1: things that you just absolutely get right. That's like he
Speaker 1: did a video the other day where he was faking
Speaker 1: some press conference and at the beginning of the video
Speaker 1: he had someone like reach up and set like a
Speaker 1: microphone on the table like those little touches. Big people
Speaker 1: who watch sports all the time about the detail that
Speaker 1: just that makes me how much how much practice does
Speaker 1: it take to get to a point where on command
Speaker 1: you can go from one voice to another to another,
Speaker 1: especially on the spot like this you don't have a
Speaker 1: chance to like get a warm up or just like
Speaker 1: try to get into it. Yeah, it's tough because sometimes,
Speaker 1: like you know, I mean that, that's what it is like.
Speaker 1: You just have to roll with it, like you can't
Speaker 1: you know, if at the start you're not you're right
Speaker 1: into it. You just have to keep going right because
Speaker 1: you guys aren't You're gonna be like, oh yeah, take
Speaker 1: a few practice rounds and don't know what we're doing this.
Speaker 1: So it's like if I'm not getting at first, now
Speaker 1: I'm getting a cowherd something I'm not think everything about
Speaker 1: cowhert is like when he asked a question like yeah,
Speaker 1: but obviously this is a great radio for the people
Speaker 1: who are listening. Hopefully we got wet, but no, man,
Speaker 1: you just have to like just go into it. You
Speaker 1: can't you know, struggle and be like ah, stop anything
Speaker 1: that you just gotta go into it and keep rolling. Well.
Speaker 1: I'm not a professional, but I do have one impersonation.
Speaker 1: It's not of a particular human tomorrow persona um and
Speaker 1: it's Southern mom. And listen, she gets pissed when she
Speaker 1: gets real piff when um, when some guys like the
Speaker 1: meeting members Colin talking about my boy cam. Um, we
Speaker 1: don't deal with that, and we don't. We don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't really deal with that. We did a bit
Speaker 1: earlier this year and I gotta get out of it.
Speaker 1: We did earlier this year with Yeah it's hard, you
Speaker 1: gotta get up. But with uh CMC carried the ball
Speaker 1: for what thirties seven? It was crazy, I think it
Speaker 1: was thirty seven times, and people were like, oh, you're
Speaker 1: running him too hard. So Southern Mama became uh Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey's mother. She's very protective. Then she's very protective and said,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, thirty five, Hell give him forty two.
Speaker 1: I've always been running to the franch for me this
Speaker 1: whole time. And then I had the audacity to tell
Speaker 1: his mother that I actually did it and did the
Speaker 1: import like did it for her on the sidelines. I've
Speaker 1: never had the like, I've never had that experience of
Speaker 1: like somebody that I impersonate with him, you know, I've
Speaker 1: never done it in front of him. I've been around
Speaker 1: Andrew when he was playing, and that was always kind
Speaker 1: of weird because I felt like he might have known.
Speaker 1: But then again, he's not on anything, so I can
Speaker 1: see anything like, but um, you know, so I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten that x I don't know. I feel
Speaker 1: like that's right up Andrew's alley. I think he would
Speaker 1: enjoy and think it's it's funny. I can't. I can't tell.
Speaker 1: I would hope. So it's like a dream of mine
Speaker 1: to do a little like like across the table together
Speaker 1: and like kind of Jimmy Fallon who was my guy
Speaker 1: from Rolling Stones, um whatever his name Jack one day
Speaker 1: that would be amazing. Yeah, but I don't know what too.
Speaker 1: Let's hope that we can do that. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: jump on this train. I'll try. I want to make
Speaker 1: that happen to Yeah, you have more connections. So funny
Speaker 1: Andrew Andrew interviewing Andrew. Yeah, I mean I think it would.
Speaker 1: It would be perfect. We could pub the XFL for
Speaker 1: his dad. Well, I mean we could would go crazy.
Speaker 1: We can we can pull the strings on this. I
Speaker 1: want to make this happen. But seriously, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining us. Tell the people where to follow
Speaker 1: you because they need to be able to they need
Speaker 1: to be able to hear you. Yeah, so just on
Speaker 1: Twitter is my main my main platform. Joey spelled, you know,
Speaker 1: joe Y and then Mullinero m U L I N
Speaker 1: A R O Joey MULLNERO on Twitter and we can
Speaker 1: keep having fun and find me on their awesome. Well,
Speaker 1: we can't wait to see what else you come up with,
Speaker 1: and we appreciate you joined us. Thanks. Wow, wow, I
Speaker 1: mean really, Matt, are you okay? I've been waiting a
Speaker 1: long time. Not only did you get to hit that button,
Speaker 1: but I mean, coach, oh, thank you for all all
Speaker 1: that you did. Yeah, that meant a lot to me
Speaker 1: because obviously, you know you did forget all these guys
Speaker 1: that are here. It was your favorite? Who was your
Speaker 1: favorite of the interviews? Mine is Andrew because he nails
Speaker 1: the cadence, which words get you know, brought to life
Speaker 1: through the body line. It was just and then I
Speaker 1: interviewed him for three years and so I know that
Speaker 1: voice in that cadence. Honestly, think if we hadn't told
Speaker 1: people who Joey was and we just said Andrew's here
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, he's doing a little bit of media. We
Speaker 1: actually got him for five minutes and he acted as if,
Speaker 1: you know, like if we just played it straight. I
Speaker 1: don't know that anyone. I don't know. I think he could.
Speaker 1: I think he could have gotten away with two. I
Speaker 1: think that one and very good. In a radio situation
Speaker 1: where all you're hearing is the voice, I don't think
Speaker 1: you're able to tell if we had played it off.
Speaker 1: I mean, why wouldn't those We should have done that.
Speaker 1: This is why we get for not really preparing. We
Speaker 1: should have just done it like that. I just wonder
Speaker 1: anyway it was. It's that good. But that that is
Speaker 1: why that's my favorite piece from the combine. Yes, there's
Speaker 1: all these storylines about these players and what they're doing,
Speaker 1: but we just had a man sit here and run
Speaker 1: through four different impersonations. That's not happening in every combine.
Speaker 1: At every combine, you're gonna have, you know, a runaway story.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a guy that you know breaks these records,
Speaker 1: and you're not going to have Andrew Luck, Nick Sabe
Speaker 1: and Cocho and Collin Coward on the same show. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that for free. So you're welcome for
Speaker 1: all this great content that we brought you from this
Speaker 1: year's NFL Combine. That concludes, uh the group chat here
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. We will be back in Charlotte and talk
Speaker 1: to you guys next week.