WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 104: Mawmaw's House 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.160 This week on the Happy half Hour. 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:05.320 It doesn't feel, you know, rash. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:07.280 It feels like it came at a time where okay, 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:08.959 we see what we're building, and now we want to 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.160 make a change because things aren't perfect and there are 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:13.360 issues to kind of work out, but let's let's make 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:13.720 a change. 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:15.480 There's no reason to keep doing the same thing over 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:15.840 and over. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.920 So an exciting opportunity for Thomas Brown, and I'm excited 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.040 to see what it looks like for him. Talks. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.560 It's time for the Happy half Hour with your friends 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.760 Kristin Balboni, Augusta Stone, and Darren Gannon. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:38.120 Welcome to the Happy half Hour and how happy are 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:38.680 we all? 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:40.040 Or something? 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.800 At any rate, it's by week, everybody. The Carolina Panthers 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.160 are zero and six not ideal. Obviously, we will talk 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:52.000 a little bit about what happened in Miami and what 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.440 has happened in these six weeks behind us, but obviously 0:00:55.600 --> 0:01:01.200 most of today's episode will center on yesterday's news. Frank 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.880 Craig did the thing he was gonna do. He just 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.600 did it sooner than he might have anticipated by making 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.040 Thomas Brown his play caller. And now the Carolina Panthers 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.039 offensive coordinator will be calling the plays the rest of 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:17.160 the season, and that's obviously a pretty significant shakeup. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:18.720 Thomas is a guy who is. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.560 Who was brought here with an idea that he was 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.399 going to do this eventually anyway. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.120 But I think at zero to six and when. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.520 You I don't even want to say struggling on offense 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.959 necessarily they're not doing great, but you were coming off 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.680 the best quarter of football you had played all season, 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.119 and I just think it was one of those things 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.399 where it was time to do something, to make a change, 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.040 to freshen things up. And since this was a move 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:49.120 Frank intended to make always anyway, this felt like, in 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.240 his mind, a good time to do it, just since 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.040 they are in a bye week and they can go 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.160 out and practice on Tuesday, practice on Wednesday, get a 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.840 little head start on what the Thomas Brown era is 0:01:58.920 --> 0:01:59.440 going to be like. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.800 I mean, it's something, as you mentioned, it had been 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.040 mentioned since Frank's and maybe not his introductory press conference, 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:07.040 but definitely before. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:07.880 Any players got here. 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:09.880 You know, though, had asked that question about play calling, 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:13.240 and he said that he would be open to kind 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.840 of expanding and seeing what could you know, how how 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:20.120 it would look to give those up, so not, you know, 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.680 something that was completely unforeseen, something that had never been 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.720 talked about. He had definitely mentioned it, And yeah, Thomas Brown, 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.639 I mean rising star as you wrote about in your 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.680 story and has talked about a lot yesterday by Frank 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.000 and Bryce. And I think it was the kind of 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.360 thing where you're not placing him, you know, at the 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.640 start or at the head of an offense that was 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.880 completely just miserable at Miami. 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:43.600 I mean, like you. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.760 Said, that first quarter was about as efficient and doing 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.440 everything that they had talked about and looking like they 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.320 could do multiple things and having Cuba Hubber running and 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.040 Adam feel and doing Adam feeling things. Who is absolutely 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:59.320 emerged through those early stretches the guy which they brought 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.880 him here to be, and he's very efficient and he's 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.040 honestly close to top of the league in a lot 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.080 of categories. So they're bringing him in and a point 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.480 when they're not completely miserable, they have plenty to build 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.760 off of of that, and I think it's a situation 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.360 we're off the buy that he could be primed to 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.200 have some success here. I don't think it doesn't feel 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.240 you know, rash, It feels like it came at a 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.680 time where Okay, we see what we're building, and now 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.760 we want to make a change because things aren't perfect 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.800 and there are issues to kind of work out, but 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:28.880 let's make a change. There's no reason to keep doing 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.600 the same thing over and over. So an exciting opportunity 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.160 for Thomas Brown and I'm excited to see what it looks. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.080 Like for him, right And I don't think this is 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:40.080 necessarily a revolutionary change. I think Frank is There are 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.880 a couple of layers to this. To me, Number one, 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.840 Frank is walking into a new situation that obviously, you know, 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.720 nobody wants to talk about rebuilds or anything like that. 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.320 I mean, that always makes people in the NFL uncomfortable 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:52.640 when you. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:53.560 Label him that way. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.480 But I think realistically, this season they were starting a 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.920 brand new project with brand new people, a new system, 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.000 so there was going to be some degree of adjustment, 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:05.880 some degree of growing pains, if you will. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.800 I don't even know it was a. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:13.120 Great sitcom, it's less of a cliche, but anyway, I 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.000 think they were always going to go through some of 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.360 this kind of stuff. Anyway, And after Frank and Thomas 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.920 spent the off season basically together putting this thing together. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.040 As Augusta you wrote about it early on in the process. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.080 You take a guy who is running a variation on 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.720 what he did as a Buffalo quarterback, what they did 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.760 in Philadelphia when he was coaching with Doug Peterson, and 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.920 he's putting that together with a very Sean McVay style 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.480 Rams offense. So these two were blending this thing already. 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.640 And now that's why I don't necessarily think this is 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.920 going to be this big seismic change. I think, to me, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:54.000 the biggest impact is it gives Frank an opportunity to 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.919 be the head coach, to do the head coach, to 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.240 oversee the entire project. I mean this just and the 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.200 defense has been leaking points at a pretty high light 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.919 high rate lately, so it's going to give him an 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.480 opportunity to cast an eye over there and help out 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:10.120 a little more. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.960 He had discussed the collaboration, even with play calling with 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:15.800 Thomas Brown, so it's not one of those things that 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.719 will be completely different. Also, Thomas Brown has called plays 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.080 before in the preseason. They were trading off haves, so 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:22.719 it's not even like it'll be a brand new thing 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.000 for him. I think one of the benefits that again 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:26.839 it won't make a seismic change, as you mentioned, but 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:28.599 something kind of cool of it is the pairing of 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.960 a very young offensive coordinator, offensive mine, offensive play caller 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.320 with another very young offensive weapon and the future and 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.680 that is Bryce Young and having them kind of work together. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:40.839 I know they've been collaborating and that was something that 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.000 Bryce made very clear that it had been, you know, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.720 the kind of thing where he and TB were very close, 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.039 and now it kind of gives them more I guess, 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.880 just kind of more ownership of the product or just 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.479 more of a reason to collaborate even more closely. And 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.560 that's a really cool pairing to make I think, from 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.760 like even an off field aspect, just the conversations and 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.680 can indications and and Frank mentioned it yesterday, just as 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:04.240 you talked about. You know, he will still be in 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.160 most of the quarterback meetings but most of the offensive meetings, 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.480 but he has more time now to be freed up 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:11.320 to go to those defensive meetings, to go in the 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.200 special teams meetings, to look at more things going on, 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.600 and I think that's an opportunity that excites him at 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.159 this point. I mean, just being able to look around 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.839 and take that CEO type approach. I think that's something 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:27.080 that that'll come of this. It's he's not necessarily taking 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.960 his foot completely off the gas, but he has more 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:34.039 of a wavelength and more kind of viewpoint at the 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.919 whole thing as a whole versus kind of staying focused 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:38.800 in this shell and then this tiny little. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:39.320 Place that he had been. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.880 And I think the pairing of Thomas Brown and Bryce 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.360 Young is not insignificant. I think it's a really cool 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.159 thing to have kind of going on the two minds, 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.200 see what they're creating, and also just having them together 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:49.640 from the. 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.160 Start, right. And I'm kind of fascinated. 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.520 And that's why I was interesting getting on Sean mcvay's 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:59.560 press conference last night and asking him about Thomas because 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.360 I am fascinated. Frank's talked all off season about diversity 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.120 of thought. Thomas Brown exists in a room full of 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:13.000 former quarterbacks and current quarterbacks with Bryce, with Josh, with Frank. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.120 I mean, Jim Calwell played defense in college, but he 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.520 was a quarterbacks coach. He coached Kerry Collins at Penn State. 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.360 He was Peyton Manning's quarterbacks coach. For God's sake, So 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.520 he knows a little something about this position. I like 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.000 the idea of Thomas having a different perspective and there's 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:30.880 a couple different ways to offense. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:32.800 Yeah, and it's not just it. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.800 It all runs through the quarterback, but it can't always 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.600 be quarterback driven. And having that perspective. One of the 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.520 things i'd find most interesting about him is when he 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.600 was on mcvay's staff, what did Sean McVay do with him. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.800 He took him from coaching running backs and gave him 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.760 tight ends. Guess what Sean McVay did right before he 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.600 became a coordinator for the first time, he coached tight end. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.800 So I mean, giving this guy that different perspective. Okay, 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.240 now do this, I'll do this. Thomas kind of walks 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.760 into the job as they see the whole field. 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:06.040 Guy. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.720 I mean, it's not just laser focused in on one 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.960 player at one positions perspective. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.120 Now, do I think they'll run a little more? Maybe? 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:14.800 I don't know. 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.080 We'll find out in Week eight when they get back 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.280 after this thing against Houston Texans. But I think more 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:26.560 than that, it's just having the kind of broad perspective 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.160 on this thing. And McVeigh was so good talking about it. 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.240 I encourage you to check out the video and the 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.480 story on Panthers dot com about it because hearing the 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.920 guy who does the thing better than just about anybody 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.400 in the NFL explain why Thomas is good at this 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.000 is interesting. So it's he's coming at this thing with 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.240 a lot of credentials. He's a fast riser in the business. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.800 It's it's kind of hard to believe that he's only 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.920 thirty seven years old, given what he's done already in 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.040 his career. But Thomas is a bright guy, and as 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.520 Sean said, he's still a g Well. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:01.640 Yeah, I wanted to get into that. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.800 We heard some stories from Austin Corbett that you got 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.320 to write about in your article, but also from Sean McVay, 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.319 I mean the Achilles Starah, I actually have an interesting. 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:10.080 Perspective on that. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:11.880 It kind of hit me while I was reading your 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.320 story fun random Augusta being a student journalist story, but 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.720 I was writing an article about two thousand and seven Georgia, 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.679 I believe a game, and I was trying to get 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.920 Thomas Brown's perspective. The rams PR department was super awesome 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.960 to a senior in college, Augustin, and I was trying 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.360 to interview him. And the day that that injury happened 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.320 to Thomas Brown was the day I was actually scheduled 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.040 to talk with him after practice. And what's funny is 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.680 that I had been I was also editor in chief 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.000 of the paper at the time, so I was waiting 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.760 on my phone touring at I think it was nine 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.640 thirty local time in Athens, Georgia, and writing this look 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.360 backstory was gonna be so cool. I got to talk 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.920 to Mark Rick, I got quotes through lions pr from 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:50.120 Matt Stafford when he was there. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.240 I mean, it was a whole thing, and I was. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.680 Trying to talk to him, and if I remember this correctly, 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.280 they messaged me and they're like, well, I assume you 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.360 saw the news and I was like, oh, I haven't, 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.199 because I've been so in depth. I mean, there was election, 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:02.800 there was so much going on and I was looking 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:03.839 at it, so I was like, oh, I didn't. And 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.280 then they were like, oh, he he was injured too. 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.319 I said, the coach was injured. So funny story. I 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.200 actually could have talked to him before he got here, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.920 but you know, other other events happened. 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:14.600 We were actually on the books to talk that day. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.400 I'm pretty sure that that was what happened, so that's amazing. 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.480 It's a funny little story, but I remember that and 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.280 I was like, oh my goodness, that was him. So yeah, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.360 he uh, I mean gives it as all. I mean, 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.960 Austin Corbett was talking about how he might be among 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.320 the fastest coaches. I mean, I'd love to see him 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.000 and Sean Jefferson get at it because I mean, you 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:33.680 talk about all the guys on the staff that looked 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.440 like they could just suit up, but no, his energy 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.960 is unparalleled and that's something really exciting to have too, 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.320 with all these young players along offense and having all 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.600 the excitement. But yeah, that's I think that if I 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.080 remember correctly, I remember when that happened. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.800 Sonny Dee Hall can probably still run, and he's torn 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.040 an achilles or two in his life, but I think 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.439 he could probably still move. It would be an interesting, 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:58.040 interesting race. But yeah, Thomas looks and I'm not saying 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:02.080 that there was necessarily a generational gap between Frank and 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.240 what was going on, but I do think there's a 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.400 different level of communication. I mean, it's not peer to peer, 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.600 it's still player coach, but I think there is at 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.920 least an opportunity. If you're looking for something positive that's 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:20.760 going to flow from this is that Thomas's communication style, 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.040 I think, for lack of a better word, puts him 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.160 in a better opportunity to be able to talk to 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:30.320 not just Bryce, but those backs and the offensive lineman 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.480 and just he's a little bit closer to that former 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:38.280 player's perspective than Frank is. I mean, Frank's experience is 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.760 a benefit here. It's the reason he's got the job. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.920 It's having these contacts and knowing all these people that 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:48.280 he brought here, including Thomas Brown, is the reason he 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.960 was appealing. They wanted to build an offense. They wanted 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.520 to put together a staff where you could turn to 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.680 Jim Calwell, Thomas Brown, Josh McCown and all the way 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.800 down the list, through all these guys, And I think 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.200 it's going to be interesting to see how this thing develops. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.360 But I do think and we saw a little bit 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.000 of it last week, especially in the first half against 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:10.720 the Dolphins. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:12.360 You saw the. 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.080 Emergence of Cuba Hubbard a little bit, and part of 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:19.440 that I think was game plan, specifically to Cuba, knowing 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.280 you're going to be without Miles Sanders. Cuba's the big back, 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.559 He's the physical back among this crowd here. So there's 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.679 a little bit of let's lean on the Dolphins a 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.840 little bit, let's move that way, Let's see if we 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.079 can push the pile forward and be a little more 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.040 on the front foot. And you know, they were gaining 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.840 four yards on first down pretty often that you know, 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.400 Frank's talked about staying in second and six is a 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.800 good thing because it gives you so many options with 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.600 the rest of the offense. And I think when Cuba's 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.360 getting those regular carries, he's shown he can produce. And 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.080 certainly there were signs of that last Sunday. I mean, 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.520 I will never and I was it's very careful to write, 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.520 you know, on the website over the weekend it's like, hey, 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.720 it was a great quarter. Unfortunately they had to play 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.320 the next forty five minutes and those didn't go well 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:09.720 at all. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.200 And nobody's in the moral victory business. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.960 But I again, my focus has always kind of been 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.559 on what the long view of this offense is, what 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:23.000 this means for Bryce Young moving forward. So having that 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.600 run game kind of reignite a little bit. Knowing Austin 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:31.319 Corbett is coming back soon. Maybe you can stabilize things 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.000 a little bit. It's not going to be just like 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.160 last year. It's not the same kind of offense, not 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.000 the same kind of run game. But having four of 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:42.120 those five blockers back, can you get competent play on 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.840 the out of the other guard spot between Savallah, Throckmorton, 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.480 K Mays whoever it happens to be coming out after 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.720 the buye. We'll see how that thing comes together. But 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.959 I just think there's an opportunity with Austin coming back 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.520 to sort of stabilize it thing run a little bit more. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:00.800 And be able to brea the second. 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.480 I think that's as important as anything for this offense 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:04.360 for the next little bit. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.439 I was gonna ask you, Darren, just kind of looking ahead. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.079 I mean, we have the bye and they're gonna use, 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:11.719 you know, the early part of the by to kind 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.720 of start getting acclimated to the way things will look. 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.160 But when we come back here and Hall of Honor, 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.640 exciting weekend Texans are here, I wanted to ask you 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.240 what you mentioned that you don't expect to see more 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.120 runs necessarily out of a Thomas Brown lead offense, and 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.240 then it won't look super different is there anything that 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:33.120 you think tangibly will be something that maybe fans could notice, 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.320 or something in the game where you're like, Okay, that's 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.600 a different touch. Do you think there's anything that you 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.160 can see from from that? Just sort of knowing that, 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.720 knowing his style and knowing the way that he and 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.560 Frank like when they make this change, is there something 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:45.640 that we're gonna see tangible? 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.840 One of the things I'm curious about, and we'll ask 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.400 Thomas about this at his press conference later the day. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.800 You can see all the video and Panthers dot Com. 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:57.200 Of course, Thomas will be asked at some point today 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.200 whether he intends to remain on the sidelines or move 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.920 upstairs to the box. And that's what I'm curious about, 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.640 because Thomas had talked about early on being down on 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.760 the sidelines gave him an opportunity to have that immediate 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.000 feedback from players and kind of see it from ground level. 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.840 I'm curious to know if with this change, if he'll 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.640 come upstairs and sit at the same level we're sitting on, 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.040 taking up space in our elevator. 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.800 I'm just kidding. I'm curious to see if Thomas will 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:24.120 do that. 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.360 I think, you know, again, he is a guy with 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.320 a pretty broad perspective of this offense anyway, So if 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:31.880 he sees it the way he sees it and is 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.520 comfortable staying on the field, maybe he'll stay down there. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:35.480 But that's something I'm. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.560 Curious to hear from him later today. I think there 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:44.840 is a possibility. I'm curious to see how the communication 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.080 moves because as they continue to you heard a lot 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.400 of talk about simplify, simplify the last couple of weeks. 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.240 Now as they get to a point where okay, we 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.600 know this works, we know this works. As they zoom 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.840 in on the stuff that they're good at, then you 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.400 have an opportunity to build back. So I want to see, 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:05.200 you know, early on, how the communication part of it goes. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.360 It looked like the Panthers had kind of gotten some 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.200 of that pre snap communication stuff ironed out. 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.320 There weren't the big issues early on. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.200 I mean, anytime you see Bryce with his hands on 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.560 the side of his helmet, you know, when he's standing 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.200 in a huddle, that's not necessarily a great sign because 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.200 that means he's trying to process something and get the 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.080 call in from the sidelines. So there was less of 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.560 that last week, and again last week's game got away 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.920 from him, as I think any reasonable observer would have 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.080 expected it to. And playing the Miami Dolphins, for God's sake, 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:40.440 those guys are good at the offense, and they offenced 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.360 all over the place from about the second quarter through 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.520 the third, and it was and it was on. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.640 Here's another thing I learned this week. 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.200 If your team has more of the fast people that 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:55.040 other people can't catch than your team, that's bad. So 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.280 the Dolphins got that Tyreek Hill guy. He's pretty good 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:02.760 at this. So it's to me that game showed sort 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.040 of where you want to get to. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:06.880 And they're still very early in this process. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.920 So seeing how Thomas communicates it and makes it look 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:10.640 early on, it's. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:11.520 Going to be interesting to me. 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.760 I agree, I agree, and I wonder too, And I 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.080 think it'll be a gradual build up process. Like you mentioned, 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.320 you know, they kind of simplified it bringing things back. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.880 I think we saw a lot in the last two games, 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.040 and especially at Miami, a lot of the no huddle 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.000 sort of tempo that they're going with. I'm not sure 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.639 how much of that will continue when they have someone 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.320 new kind of given the calls to him, but that 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.000 was something that they found a lot of success on 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:32.800 that I wouldn't be surprised to see them go back on, 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.640 just kind of moving quickly. Frank was very proud yesterday 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:38.240 at the press conference to mention that they had no 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.840 pre snap penalties unlike all the other games. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:42.760 I think there was a question asked. 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:44.200 And the wins where you get them from? 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.680 Yeah, the question was asked like, oh, there were fewer, 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.840 and he goes there were none and looks very smug 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.159 and it was very but but like things like that, 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:53.800 and I think it goes back to what I was mentioned, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.800 and then that they're giving it. He's given it to 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.520 He chose to give it to Thomas Brown at a 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.720 time when things are getting more steady, more stable, I mean, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.720 the little bitty mistakes aren't happening as much. It was 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.359 Bryce Young's cleanest game in terms of turnovers, no no interceptions, 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.399 and no fumble, so he's obviously getting a little bit 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.640 more comfortable. And they were in Miami on the road, 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.240 so that's something to be kind of thinking about. But 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.040 but no, I'm excited to see kind of kind of 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.320 how how they as you mentioned, when they deconstructed, simplified 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.280 and now build it back up. Where do they start 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.520 in the building process when it's someone new giving it 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:26.920