Speaker 1: This week on the group chat, we're having a little
Speaker 1: bit of fun with this whole Kyle Allen's homecoming in
Speaker 1: Arizona and then he gets another one in Houston, so
Speaker 1: we are nominating a homecoming course. I mean, I thought
Speaker 1: Kyle would play well. I was shocked he played that well.
Speaker 1: And then we also share stories from our perspective of
Speaker 1: the Panther's win over the Cardinals this past weekend. Nerdy
Speaker 1: Panthers stats guy incoming Dante one of just three Panthers
Speaker 1: players to ever have multiple two interception games. We have
Speaker 1: that and so much more this week on the group chat.
Speaker 1: You've been added to the group chat with your friends Caroline, can,
Speaker 1: Max Senson, and Will Brian. We all have Billy Joel
Speaker 1: stuck in our heads right now, everybody, because the day
Speaker 1: that we are recording this, it was announced Billy Joel's
Speaker 1: coming to Bank of America Stadium. So we're gonna start
Speaker 1: this off with not talking about football. We're not going
Speaker 1: to talk about anything that we had normally planned. You
Speaker 1: must sing the first at least four words of the
Speaker 1: chorus or the beginning of the song your favorite Billy
Speaker 1: Joel song. Boys. Ryan started the fire. Ryan started the fire.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the group. Chat everyone. It is a beautiful
Speaker 1: Tuesday because the Panthers one it was a victory Monday.
Speaker 1: Now it's Tuesday, gearing up for another game going to Houston.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a tough one because Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: had a heck of a game this past week. We've
Speaker 1: I was the first to say, I think Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: is a very beautiful quarterback. I think, you know, I
Speaker 1: think we can go in and really do some things
Speaker 1: and get a second win. But then I went back
Speaker 1: and watched DeShawn Watson pretty good, My goodness, he always
Speaker 1: has game like that. Though you're our advanced scout when
Speaker 1: it comes to this, after all your time and I
Speaker 1: have seen these teams play a lot, and that was
Speaker 1: my my kind of point was Deshaun Watson is a
Speaker 1: great quarterback. We watched him for years at Clemson win
Speaker 1: a ton of games and then go to Houston. But
Speaker 1: he has been beat up in the NFL. He's been
Speaker 1: sacked numerous numerous times. I would love to, actually I'm
Speaker 1: going to count that up this week, how many times
Speaker 1: has he been sacked over his career. But I've seen
Speaker 1: him get super frustrated in games, and his body language
Speaker 1: is low and he's he's confused out there and can't
Speaker 1: get you know, everyone lined up and get the ball moving.
Speaker 1: But my goodness, he looked great. And speaking of I
Speaker 1: was just gonna say, speaking of guys getting sacked numerous
Speaker 1: times and getting really frustrated Kyler Murray. And we've seen this,
Speaker 1: and I think that's an exciting part going into this
Speaker 1: Houston game. Is this defense. I don't care if people
Speaker 1: are saying, like, oh, it's an anomaly. I don't care.
Speaker 1: There's eight sacks. Give me half of that and we'll
Speaker 1: be excited about that game. So certainly a lot to
Speaker 1: be excited for from this game. And we're going to
Speaker 1: playoff of this a little bit because, in case you
Speaker 1: lived under a rock, Kyle Allen started and he started
Speaker 1: in Arizona, where he was born and lived there for
Speaker 1: a few years, and then Texas is also his second homecoming,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna play off of this a little bit.
Speaker 1: Everyone loved in high school or college is not as
Speaker 1: big of a deal, but high school homecoming is huge,
Speaker 1: at least the homecoming court is huge. So we're going
Speaker 1: to play off of this a little bit. There were
Speaker 1: so many stars in Arizona for the Panthers. So we're
Speaker 1: going to create a homecoming court maybe share why we
Speaker 1: want a particular candidate to win. Max. Were you on
Speaker 1: the homecoming court? I was. I was going to say,
Speaker 1: we didn't have homecoming in Jersey really know there was
Speaker 1: It wasn't. There wasn't like a homecoming. This is where
Speaker 1: that guy's going. Yeah, um college college, Yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: my own. I was. I was on homecoming in college.
Speaker 1: Because so they have like the court was made up
Speaker 1: of voting um like different like they we had eating
Speaker 1: houses and fraternities and so like those would have a
Speaker 1: represent eating houses. Davidson didn't have sororities. They had eating houses.
Speaker 1: But my buddy who went to Princeton, humble brag Um
Speaker 1: was not about me, about my buddy. Uh. They also
Speaker 1: do that. There yes, these eating clubs, which was really strange.
Speaker 1: You have to explain that to people. Yeah, what is that?
Speaker 1: So it's this is a little bit different from that.
Speaker 1: That's like that's just you know, it's old as Princeton
Speaker 1: with with all that. But no, so for they just
Speaker 1: never had national sororities on campus for whatever reason, and
Speaker 1: they just had these local there. They just because the
Speaker 1: fraternities there. You don't live in the fraternity houses, so
Speaker 1: they're pretty much just eating houses themselves, except they have
Speaker 1: like a national fraternity affiliation but strange. Yeah, so they're
Speaker 1: like just eating where you go to have lunch and
Speaker 1: dinner and have parties, right, And they're just not They're
Speaker 1: just not. It's like, so you can't if you can't
Speaker 1: have Greek life, right, you essentially substitute for it was
Speaker 1: called an eating house, which is where everybody's sort of
Speaker 1: hang but nobody lives in any of the houses. So
Speaker 1: how do you pick what eating house? I think you
Speaker 1: rushed for that. It's just they're not affiliated with anything.
Speaker 1: It's just you're not that. It's just that. No, that's
Speaker 1: just that group and they have that identity. They're called
Speaker 1: like Turner and Rusk and interesting. Well, I guess I
Speaker 1: should say that. I did say that homecoming in high
Speaker 1: school is a bigger deal. In the South, high school
Speaker 1: homecoming is a very big deal. And then I my
Speaker 1: experience of college homecoming, I just wasn't a part of
Speaker 1: it that was in season for us, and it was
Speaker 1: a very Greek thing too, you know, as you're saying
Speaker 1: will of your you get voted by your house, and
Speaker 1: that's where I was just never involved in Greek. So
Speaker 1: for me, the only thing that I had is gonna
Speaker 1: be an embarrassing podcast for me. By the way, we're
Speaker 1: just gonna go ahead and set that up. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be some embarrassing stories that come out of this, but
Speaker 1: one of them is the only involvement I had in
Speaker 1: homecoming while I was in college was I hosted. This
Speaker 1: is when I was like starting in the broadcasting world.
Speaker 1: So they thought, oh, you would be great to host this.
Speaker 1: It was called the Spurs and Struts at the University
Speaker 1: of South Carolina and it's where fraternity's and sorority's team
Speaker 1: up and they have a dance team and they compete
Speaker 1: in the center of campus. It's really cool. But they
Speaker 1: thought I would be a great host for this, So
Speaker 1: I was like, sure, that would be so fun. You
Speaker 1: ever hosted before? A good name for athletics? Okay, I
Speaker 1: cannot say a fraternity name or a sorority name to
Speaker 1: save my life. And so we go up there in
Speaker 1: the first awful, awful so and like some of them
Speaker 1: that I had heard of, you say, you know Sigma Nu.
Speaker 1: Good with that, but they wanted the full name. So
Speaker 1: we go up there for the first two or three
Speaker 1: times and it's me and the student body president, and
Speaker 1: so I say them, you know, the first two and
Speaker 1: it was like Sigma Nu and Zaida and all this. No,
Speaker 1: they wanted the full name. So I come off and
Speaker 1: I said, listen here, I can't say that. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to say them. And he was like every single time.
Speaker 1: I was like every single time, but there were a
Speaker 1: couple of times where it was like awkward. So I
Speaker 1: had to say them. I was not invited back next year. Well,
Speaker 1: it seems like a pretty big part of the job
Speaker 1: as hosting that event is to be able to say this.
Speaker 1: And I told them, I said, I've never done Greek.
Speaker 1: I don't you know. They're, oh, that's fine, Like we
Speaker 1: just want entertainment. I brought the energy, just didn't bring
Speaker 1: the correct pronunciation. So you weren't actually on the home
Speaker 1: coming court. No, I was not that for athletic Like athletics,
Speaker 1: it wasn't really unless you were in a sorority. What
Speaker 1: about high school? Yeah I was, but I did not win.
Speaker 1: Yeah I didn't win. That one hurt. No, it didn't
Speaker 1: actually who won and this happens. I don't know if
Speaker 1: this happens at your high school. But the girl that
Speaker 1: won my year, her younger sister was a freshman. So like,
Speaker 1: you win because you, I mean all those votes, like
Speaker 1: you know, go for them. And it happened every single year,
Speaker 1: like we had some I'm not gonna say random, because
Speaker 1: she was an awesome girl and very swee et deserving
Speaker 1: on all of those things whatever it takes to deserve
Speaker 1: to win homecoming queen. Not sure that those requirements are,
Speaker 1: but she had them. But every single year it was
Speaker 1: whoever had the younger sibling won every single year. What
Speaker 1: is the difference between like getting votes to be homecoming
Speaker 1: king or queen versus Prom king or queen? Is there? Like,
Speaker 1: what's the difference? We didn't have a problem. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so you didn't have that prom homecoming homecoming? Did you
Speaker 1: have prom and homecoming? I don't think we did. I know.
Speaker 1: I feel like my brother's class, he was four years older,
Speaker 1: I feel like they had a prom king and queen,
Speaker 1: but no, interesting we did not. And then for us,
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, the the like escorts for the
Speaker 1: nominees for homecoming queen were the senior football players, so
Speaker 1: like by default, I was like on the homecoming court
Speaker 1: as one of the right because you were a stud
Speaker 1: football player in school. You know, he doesn't want to brag.
Speaker 1: He should be. He should be in our list of
Speaker 1: nominees for what we're about to do here. So what
Speaker 1: we are going to do to get back to Panthers.
Speaker 1: We just went on a tangent welcome to the group chat.
Speaker 1: We are going to nominate our homecoming court from this
Speaker 1: past game in Arizona, and then they're going to go
Speaker 1: into this game in Houston. Whoever comes out with the
Speaker 1: best game statistically or what we think is the best game,
Speaker 1: we will crown them the just biggest award that these
Speaker 1: guys could really get all year. I mean they're just
Speaker 1: gonna be shocked and they'll I mean they'll we tell
Speaker 1: them in the locker room, they're gonna just we should
Speaker 1: probably get a crown for them. I mean, it is
Speaker 1: going to be a big deal. They can just down
Speaker 1: written into contracts for incentive. Is your named home come
Speaker 1: to the homecoming court on the group chat by the
Speaker 1: group chat, Yes, if you become king, I mean could
Speaker 1: lord the bonus on that will be insane, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna give you our homecoming court. It's the guys that
Speaker 1: everyone was excited about all week. And it's fun when
Speaker 1: the homecoming court is very long, and I think that's
Speaker 1: what the game in Arizona was. A wreath of fresh air.
Speaker 1: Because we've talked about and needs to be complimentary football,
Speaker 1: all of those things that you hear every football team say.
Speaker 1: But a big thing for this offense was having Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen under center, knowing that you needed your other playmakers
Speaker 1: to step up. And not only did the offensive playmakers
Speaker 1: step up, the defensive guys special teams. If there wasn't
Speaker 1: that penalty would have been an amazing return. So, uh,
Speaker 1: this was a great game. Duh, they won. It's fun,
Speaker 1: but just the way that it happened, I thought was
Speaker 1: really great. So we're going to nominate our homecoming court,
Speaker 1: and the first one Kyle Allen he gets on the
Speaker 1: homecoming court, congratulations. Yeah. I gotta start with Kyle, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, literally the homecoming kid coming back to Arizona.
Speaker 1: I was I mean, I thought Kyle would play well.
Speaker 1: I was shocked he played that well. I mean, that
Speaker 1: was that was incredible football. It's his pass writing was
Speaker 1: one forty four point four and Panthers haven't had a
Speaker 1: passer rating like that since cam VPCS. Especially after that
Speaker 1: first drive. Oh yeah, because because that was something I
Speaker 1: was looking at coming into the game. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: Caroline has got to get off to a fast start.
Speaker 1: The first two drives they started with the all the
Speaker 1: previous two weeks. Both ended in turnovers. One was a
Speaker 1: turnover on downs Camp's fourth down run. The other was
Speaker 1: d J. Moore's fumble, and was like, man, if they
Speaker 1: get behind early on the road, this is gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: And that exactly what happened. But yet Kyle on that
Speaker 1: offense came right back, leveled the score and then just
Speaker 1: started rolling. And man, when you talked about a guy
Speaker 1: feeling it, Kyle Allen was just he was on a
Speaker 1: tent and it was It was just awesome to watch.
Speaker 1: Dude was having so much fun. Guys around him were
Speaker 1: having a ton of fun. Make him plays, pressure in
Speaker 1: his face, rolling right, throwing off his back foot, didn't matter.
Speaker 1: The ball was getting where he needed to go and
Speaker 1: just how cool story and oh the high steps celebration
Speaker 1: after that touchdown to Greg was incredible. It was Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was awesome. So much family in the
Speaker 1: crowd watching him. This is an undrafted guy who was
Speaker 1: cut by this team, made his way back onto it.
Speaker 1: Now here he is. He's got his best friend from
Speaker 1: growing up, Christian Kirk playing on the other team. He's
Speaker 1: got Kyler Murray, the guy who was you know about
Speaker 1: that drama Texas A and M who was going to
Speaker 1: be the quarterback their quarterback and the other team. I mean,
Speaker 1: so many storylines for Kyle and to go out and
Speaker 1: play the way he did and to outplay Kylers in
Speaker 1: someone to watch his poise and he felt the pressure,
Speaker 1: he felt the pass rush, his timing was great in
Speaker 1: terms of getting an out on time. And then you see,
Speaker 1: you know, literally the very next drive, you see Kyler
Speaker 1: unable to do that. You know, just be completely overwhelmed
Speaker 1: by the pass rush, by the um the ways that
Speaker 1: they were coming at him from different angles, and then
Speaker 1: just giving up on plays early. And Cole did do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was great to see. I think that's what it
Speaker 1: made me think about, was that's the difference between college
Speaker 1: ball and NFL. I mean, my goodness, like Kyle of
Speaker 1: the way that he was able to stay composed. That's
Speaker 1: why you hear all this like, oh, he's just an
Speaker 1: NFL quarterback. Yeah, I mean that that game right there
Speaker 1: is the difference of join a college and NFL quarterback
Speaker 1: as far as style. Because, of course, not taking anything
Speaker 1: away from Kyler Murray, heck of a college quarterback. I
Speaker 1: think he will still have success in the league. It's
Speaker 1: just gonna look totally different than what we're used to seeing.
Speaker 1: Here's embarrassing story number two for me. Kyle Allen before
Speaker 1: the game comes out and I'm watching him down there
Speaker 1: getting ready for my radio hit, and you know, I
Speaker 1: try and make a joke that didn't It landed well
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I didn't lean hard enough in on the
Speaker 1: radio for it to really stick, and that's totally my bad.
Speaker 1: But I tweeted that Kyle Allen got to watch his
Speaker 1: brother Josh Allen score a touchdown and I I know, guys,
Speaker 1: they're not brothers, because yeah, we actually still aren't a
Speaker 1: confirmed on this, but so I tweeted out and like
Speaker 1: people were having a really good time on Twitter with it,
Speaker 1: and people were like, oh, does this also mean that
Speaker 1: Willie Camp's cousin their uncle is going to be singing
Speaker 1: the National Anthem. I got asked if I was going
Speaker 1: to be interviewing Greg Olson's twin sisters, Mary Kayton Ashley.
Speaker 1: I mean there was some really good also, Bill was there,
Speaker 1: Calor Murray's uncle. Um. So there was a lot of funny,
Speaker 1: very funny responses there. But when I said it on
Speaker 1: the radio, when I when I said it on the radio,
Speaker 1: I didn't lean hard enough into it at all. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's difficult to kind of joke back and forth when
Speaker 1: you're not in front of the person on radio, and
Speaker 1: it just went nowhere. There was no response, no, hey,
Speaker 1: you're wrong, they're they're not brothers. Nothing. So much so
Speaker 1: that when I got off the that hit and off
Speaker 1: the radio, I had to google it myself. I thought
Speaker 1: this was such a terribly executed joke that I haven't
Speaker 1: turned confused myself. So I'm sitting there like googling, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no no, no, no, no no, they're they're not brothers.
Speaker 1: But it did stumble upon an Instagram post from Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen that says like family with Josh Allen at this,
Speaker 1: So then I was still confused. So they're not brothers,
Speaker 1: but they're bros. But they're bros. They're super good for Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know bros, their homies even they even crashed
Speaker 1: the others press conference at joint practices in Spartanburg. Yeah
Speaker 1: they are big, big bros. Okay they Yes, they are
Speaker 1: bros in that sense, but not actually brother So that
Speaker 1: was um, that was strike number one. Strike number two
Speaker 1: on game day was I took a photo of Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen on the sideline dapping up like his friend group
Speaker 1: who I just happened to grab the picture of looked
Speaker 1: a hole heck of a lot like Carson Palmer. So
Speaker 1: thankfully not in my main tweet, but in a tweet
Speaker 1: underneath that, I said, yes, yes that is Carson Palmer. Wrong,
Speaker 1: not Carson, but I'm sticking by this one. But honestly,
Speaker 1: like that's what I thought. The ironic part was it
Speaker 1: was still a brother duo like this. This was direct
Speaker 1: karma for my joke on. I then was confused by
Speaker 1: real brothers and this was Jordan Palmer who works with Kyle.
Speaker 1: He's a quarterback trainer, works with Kyle has three years.
Speaker 1: So I got, I got. I wasn't a good start
Speaker 1: for me. It was a rough start. So I just
Speaker 1: went up and got some coffee, and you know, adjusted
Speaker 1: my sarcasm hat and went back down there and trying
Speaker 1: to have a good game, just like Kyle in the offense.
Speaker 1: Strip sack on the opening drive, not how you want.
Speaker 1: We should have known, honestly, we should have known that
Speaker 1: that's how it was going to start, because I definitely
Speaker 1: had my strip sack and then I walked back out
Speaker 1: there and had a heck of a game. Okay, But yeah,
Speaker 1: that was my day. So there's three embarrassing stories about me. Max,
Speaker 1: What about your day? Any any good stories from your experience?
Speaker 1: And if I embarrassed myself, I mean, I don't mean,
Speaker 1: do you ever congratulation? Yeah, no, trust me, Okay, but
Speaker 1: I think I got out pretty clean from Arizona. Um.
Speaker 1: I just thought it was awesome seeing Kyle after the game,
Speaker 1: in that moment where he's signing Christian Kirk's jersey, who
Speaker 1: said that they were like buddies, and then he's stapping
Speaker 1: up Kyler Murray and they're taking that photo and then
Speaker 1: like you've got all the cameras just like trailing him
Speaker 1: as he goes out of the field and shout outs
Speaker 1: Panther fans. By the way, there were a ton of
Speaker 1: you out there in Arizona pretty much took that place
Speaker 1: over by the time the game was out of reach,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it was just a bunch
Speaker 1: of people wearing blue and black down near the field.
Speaker 1: So Kyle is getting serenaded as he goes off into
Speaker 1: the tunnel, following him and Ryan Anderson, the PR guy
Speaker 1: who's jogging behind him feverishly into the locker room. And
Speaker 1: then you see Kyle just kind of miled by his
Speaker 1: teammates game ball. It's just that whole sequence was I mean,
Speaker 1: that was sports. I mean, that's like, it's what it's
Speaker 1: all about. Um. And so to see that all in
Speaker 1: action for a guy that everybody just likes, Kyle was
Speaker 1: just a good dude, UM. And I think you see
Speaker 1: that on Sundays. You see the guys like playing with him,
Speaker 1: like playing for him, and everybody was just generally happy
Speaker 1: for him and deservedly so the guy played out of
Speaker 1: his mind. And Kyle did say that this time last
Speaker 1: year he came and watched Christian Kirk play in the
Speaker 1: Nosebleeds and come on, yeah, that's the story that he
Speaker 1: was there for Cam's national championship game when Auburn played
Speaker 1: Oregon Um, just that stadium and just being there was
Speaker 1: there was a lot to it for Kyle, very very cool.
Speaker 1: So of course Kyle Allen is in the homecoming court.
Speaker 1: Let's go with the cat Pack next. It's a good
Speaker 1: good day when the entire cat Pack was being talked
Speaker 1: about in a positive way, and so all three of
Speaker 1: them found the end zone. It was a the toe
Speaker 1: drag swag of Curtis Samuel. Isn't that the special on
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football? Yeah? He was in there. They loved it.
Speaker 1: It was that was But here's another person. We've got
Speaker 1: the cat back in there, another person. Greg Olsen is
Speaker 1: on this old man because yeah, I feel like he
Speaker 1: has to win, right, Yeah, So I hope he does
Speaker 1: because it's incredible. He's maybe he's a little salty, he's
Speaker 1: not part of the cat pack. Is an old guy.
Speaker 1: That's all he wants. That's all he wants. But here's
Speaker 1: a piece from the game that I why Greg Olsen
Speaker 1: and we we know the stats an amazing game, but
Speaker 1: he was like the game manager out there. And I
Speaker 1: was talking to you guys about this earlier and you
Speaker 1: were saying, this is Greg Olsen, this is who he is,
Speaker 1: what he does two minute drill. He's a coach out there.
Speaker 1: This was just my first time seeing it live in
Speaker 1: in action. When the tow drag happened, Greg Kyle was
Speaker 1: like kind of like whoa like living it up? This
Speaker 1: was awesome. Everyone else's too, and Greg is like hello, like,
Speaker 1: let's go. So they don't challenge that play because when
Speaker 1: you're out there, they didn't know that it actually was
Speaker 1: two feet in. When you're at a home stadium like that,
Speaker 1: Arizona's replay was, you know, coming up on the board,
Speaker 1: and that's how the coaches like, no one to challenge sometimes.
Speaker 1: So there was a lot going on in Greg. He
Speaker 1: maybe the old man, but he's the old man that
Speaker 1: knows a thing. He's you know, hurry up, guys, let's go,
Speaker 1: let's get in. And I thought to myself, that is
Speaker 1: such an asset for Kyle Allen in this game and
Speaker 1: really everyone. But when we say so many times at
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are game managers, and oh the way that he
Speaker 1: handles the clock and all of these things. That was
Speaker 1: something that how could take off of his plate and
Speaker 1: worry about other things. And he didn't have to take
Speaker 1: on all of that because Greg was there and I
Speaker 1: just I was like, you know what, I want Greg
Speaker 1: on my team. That's the guy that I want on
Speaker 1: my team to make sure that there's a lot of
Speaker 1: youth that's playing out there. I believe at that point
Speaker 1: Greg Little may have even been in like there was
Speaker 1: a lot of youth out there. And and Greg, this
Speaker 1: tight end is running up, like, guys, come on, get
Speaker 1: up on the line, we need to stop this ball.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a great play after that, but they were
Speaker 1: trying to get the play in and it wasn't great,
Speaker 1: but the whole point was don't let them review this
Speaker 1: and overturn that big play. Get up here and run
Speaker 1: the ball. And they did that, and I just thought, man, Greg,
Speaker 1: and and credit to Greg to for balling, because yeah,
Speaker 1: he's always going to bring that sort of value to
Speaker 1: the team. But for a guy who's dealing with the
Speaker 1: back injury at the start of this year, and of
Speaker 1: course we don't know the history with the foot, Arizona
Speaker 1: couldn't cover him and he was open all day. Um
Speaker 1: Arizona has struggled with tight ends. Yeah, that defense is
Speaker 1: struggling in a lot of a lot of ways right now,
Speaker 1: which I know Panther fans who are maybe more cautiously optimistic,
Speaker 1: keep pointing out, Um, we'll find out a little bit
Speaker 1: more against his Texans defense, for sure. But for for
Speaker 1: a tight end who's, as Brady Quinn mentioned a zillion times,
Speaker 1: is thirty four years old in the broadcast, Greg can
Speaker 1: still get out there and get open. And I think
Speaker 1: that's do you talk about a security blanket for a quarterback,
Speaker 1: and there's nothing better than Greg's. And I mean he
Speaker 1: played well against Tampa. I mean, you know, I want
Speaker 1: to talk about this game. He had, you know, over
Speaker 1: a hundred yards against Tampa. He was wide open, he
Speaker 1: was running with the ball after catching, I mean he
Speaker 1: was up. I mean he joked aft of the game,
Speaker 1: he was like, well, I've made it further this year
Speaker 1: than I have in the past couples. So I mean
Speaker 1: he's got his fingers cross. Hopefully continues to stay healthy,
Speaker 1: because you know what an asset it is to have
Speaker 1: a guy with that kind of experience. And I mean
Speaker 1: one of his biggest plays might have been the block
Speaker 1: to seal off Christian McCaffrey's run. I mean Greg filled
Speaker 1: in the hole and then you know, just completely stealed
Speaker 1: off that left side and left Christian to just make
Speaker 1: one man miss, I mean, get great blocked by Greg.
Speaker 1: Greg also said after the game that he felt Christian's
Speaker 1: hand on his back. I just thought, what a no
Speaker 1: one sees that in the game. It's going so fast,
Speaker 1: there's so many things to look at, and what Greg
Speaker 1: feels it's Christian McCaffrey just you know, nudging him like, hey, buddy, bunny,
Speaker 1: I'm here, keeping keep going, keep going. I just thought, what,
Speaker 1: that's a really cool moment between this offense, that there's
Speaker 1: so many intricate details and one of them just happens
Speaker 1: to be that Christian McCaffrey is going to lay his
Speaker 1: hand on your back and say, go, buddy, you got
Speaker 1: this all right. So that's it for the offense. We
Speaker 1: have Greg Olsen, Kyle Allen, d J. Moore, Curtis Samuel,
Speaker 1: and Christian McCaffrey on our homecoming court. For the defense,
Speaker 1: where do we begin. We mentioned the eight stacks. They're
Speaker 1: all going in there. Okay, So every single guy that
Speaker 1: got a sack, someone who got multiple sacks. We've got
Speaker 1: Mario Addison, Christian Miller, Brian Burns, Eric Reid, and Shack Thompson.
Speaker 1: They're all Maria Mario with three you get a hat
Speaker 1: trick on the football field. Uh, you're actolutely going out now.
Speaker 1: One of those there it was a touchdown after you know,
Speaker 1: they all have They all count the same at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, they all count the same. Miss
Speaker 1: Mario told me after the game because I said, I
Speaker 1: was like, you know that one you kind of like
Speaker 1: ran him out of bounds and he was like, they
Speaker 1: all count the same. So um, Christian Miller reeling him in.
Speaker 1: How about that stacks celebration he had. He had quite
Speaker 1: a game, only had like twenty four snaps and had
Speaker 1: three or four tackles to two sacks. A cool moment
Speaker 1: for him too, because this was an emotional game. His
Speaker 1: grandfather was laid to rest this past weekend, kind of
Speaker 1: came into with a heavy heart. That was the field
Speaker 1: where he won a national championship as an Alabama player.
Speaker 1: He just kind of told me afterwards, he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of took the field with all of
Speaker 1: that and just you know, he said, which was, you know,
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I just wanted to make my family proud
Speaker 1: today and man, did he go out there and do it.
Speaker 1: Um two sacks. This was a guy that we didn't
Speaker 1: really talk about at all during training camp. He took
Speaker 1: a little while for him to get his feet under
Speaker 1: him get up to speed. But Eric Washington said it
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. Is the light has as
Speaker 1: the cliche Gohost has come on for Christian um and man.
Speaker 1: We certainly saw that in Arizona. They they've got a
Speaker 1: lot of pass rushing, uh you know, weapons that they
Speaker 1: can throw at offenses right now, and Christian hopefully continues
Speaker 1: to build on it. Christian I walked to a practice
Speaker 1: during O T a S one time with Christian and Brian.
Speaker 1: Two completely different personalities, different style of play when they're
Speaker 1: out there, you know, just very very different guys. But
Speaker 1: they love each other. Man, They're like such good friends
Speaker 1: in the locker room. Their lockers are near each other.
Speaker 1: And Christian said to me, I'm just not very outgoing.
Speaker 1: I don't like the attention. I've never done the media thing,
Speaker 1: you know, I was kind of I was getting to
Speaker 1: know the team then, so I was trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, who's the good interview, who enjoys doing these things?
Speaker 1: Who can we kind of who can here go to people?
Speaker 1: And Brian Burns is one of the go to guys.
Speaker 1: He's very charismatic. He completely gets the whole media game thing.
Speaker 1: But Christians just not that guy. He's he's kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, in the in the back burner. He doesn't
Speaker 1: he's not too big on social media, although he came
Speaker 1: through with probably one of my top five players from
Speaker 1: a tweet our tweet words actually get paid to talk guys.
Speaker 1: I'm just not very good at it. Sometimes I'm I'm
Speaker 1: very good. But he came through with one of my
Speaker 1: favorite tweets from a player. There's like top five. Did
Speaker 1: you guys see this about his sack celebration and what
Speaker 1: he said to a fan on Twitter? All right, he
Speaker 1: said that a guy puts out there his you know,
Speaker 1: reeling out there in his sax celebration, and you know,
Speaker 1: he goes he's throwing out a top water plug four
Speaker 1: pound no, no, no, six pound line, large mouth gets
Speaker 1: after it as soon as it hits the water. Nice
Speaker 1: action of setting the hook looks like at least a
Speaker 1: five pounder. So that's what this person puts out there?
Speaker 1: Was this Jeremy, I go yes, I thought I did
Speaker 1: say yes. Our old friend at the Carolina good job, Jeremy.
Speaker 1: You set him up beautifully for this though, Like this
Speaker 1: was right up Christian's alley, who does not like it.
Speaker 1: He doesn't get involved in a lot of media things.
Speaker 1: But you went right for the kill on this. Jeremy
Speaker 1: and Christian retweets and goes no, no, no, Texas rigged
Speaker 1: motor Oil Zoom trick worm eight pound tested medium fast
Speaker 1: act and whatever that means, quick hooks that hit it
Speaker 1: as soon as it hit the water, felt bigger than
Speaker 1: he was three pounds maybe with a little emoji with
Speaker 1: the hands. That's great. We're gonna we're gonna get some
Speaker 1: some replies in the in the comments now from all
Speaker 1: of the sport fishing. Yeah. Sorry, will you actually explain
Speaker 1: that to us? If you do, I don't know anything
Speaker 1: about it. Please we gotta Texas rig motoro and his
Speaker 1: own trick worm eight pound tasted. I mean that's is that?
Speaker 1: Was that a subtle like dig at Tyler not being
Speaker 1: very big tea motoral Zoom trick worm eight pound tisted
Speaker 1: medium fast action. What's the last thing? Felt bigger than
Speaker 1: he was three pounds fool? Maybe it's just a three
Speaker 1: pound and he was I just I read that thought, Christian,
Speaker 1: you might not think you're very good at this or
Speaker 1: enjoy this, But that was a fantastic tweet. Twitter done. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is That's the way it's us to be done.
Speaker 1: So those are the guys that got this sack. And
Speaker 1: then of course finally Dante Jackson, my goodness, not one
Speaker 1: not to I think he actually just landed from that
Speaker 1: one interception. I've never seen someone climb in the air.
Speaker 1: That's what he did. That was not a jump, that
Speaker 1: was a climb in the air to go get that
Speaker 1: ball nuts. Dude is such a freak athlete. Uh And
Speaker 1: after the game, that was what I love. Now in
Speaker 1: today's day and age, I feel like this has happened
Speaker 1: over the past couple of years. Guys as soon as
Speaker 1: they get into the locker room after immediately grabbed their
Speaker 1: phones and look at the highlights. So like Dante, I
Speaker 1: literally go over there to try to like interview him,
Speaker 1: and he's like check this out, and you know, he's like,
Speaker 1: look out, how I got um? But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that was that was absurd. The dude, literally, as Caroline said,
Speaker 1: is probably still floating. Um. But it wasn't just that
Speaker 1: from Dante. You know, he had the other pick earlier
Speaker 1: in the game, a couple of big hits. You also mentioned,
Speaker 1: you know, to me they owned up to a couple
Speaker 1: of miss tackles. It was kind of all over the place, um,
Speaker 1: but overall in a good way for Carolina and he
Speaker 1: There's something about week three in Dante Jackson. Week three
Speaker 1: last year two interceptions, Week three this year two interceptions.
Speaker 1: So whoever they got next year in week three, good luck?
Speaker 1: He's two picks are coming, nerdy Panthers stats guy in coming.
Speaker 1: Dante one of just three Panthers players to ever have
Speaker 1: multiple two interception games. Do you know the other two?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. One of just one of just three Panthers
Speaker 1: to ever have two interceptions multiple multiple interception games. Oh man,
Speaker 1: is Josh Norman on the list? That's where the mind
Speaker 1: goes first. Chris Gamble, he's one, all right, Gambles obviously
Speaker 1: in the safety Mike Minnard might not know him, Trey Boston,
Speaker 1: Dion Grant. Yeah, but still, I mean, that's rarefied air,
Speaker 1: all rarefied air. Did you just stumble into that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: good for you. Alright, there's another stat out there, though,
Speaker 1: Will you please share with people the off the wall
Speaker 1: random stat that I believe ESPN and NFL. So this
Speaker 1: is one of those things that to to bring back
Speaker 1: to my Sunday. Um, you know, I'm having to kind
Speaker 1: of juggle the things with the app. And as Christian
Speaker 1: keeps doing Christian things, there's always a stat for what
Speaker 1: Christian has done. And sometimes you guys get on me
Speaker 1: for like, will come on, that's ridiculous, that's just to ridiculous.
Speaker 1: For the record, I never get on to you about
Speaker 1: a good stat. I love the off the wall stats,
Speaker 1: but sometimes even I can get frustrated with some of
Speaker 1: the random things that write the league tries to There's like,
Speaker 1: there's only so many words that can be in a
Speaker 1: stat before it gets to the point where I don't
Speaker 1: understand what you're saying anymore. You know, like this, it
Speaker 1: has to be kind of snappy. Otherwise it's like how
Speaker 1: many guys, right, how many weeks in? This is? But
Speaker 1: this is yeah, this this is ridiculous because they just
Speaker 1: they they're cherry picking, and it's such a cherry pick.
Speaker 1: So Christian became the fourth player in NFL history with
Speaker 1: at least a hundred and eighty five scripmin yards and
Speaker 1: one touchdown in two of the first three games. Of
Speaker 1: a season. Yep, yeah, I got all that. What there
Speaker 1: it is? Joining Uh, I think he likes some guy
Speaker 1: never heard of and then um, I think Bo Jackson.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Congratulations Simpson. I think congratulations to Christian.
Speaker 1: I mean he's on our homecoming court and he did
Speaker 1: that in the first couple of weeks. I mean, my goodness.
Speaker 1: The bigger one was that all of the fans on
Speaker 1: Twitter are happy about was he pretty much wiped d'
Speaker 1: Angela Williams off the record. Brook In one day now
Speaker 1: has more receiving yards than D'Angelo as a running back
Speaker 1: franchise record and the longest touchdown run by anybody wiped
Speaker 1: d'An Angeloia. Sorry D'Angelo. Yeah, Christian had himself a day
Speaker 1: and he was bound to break records this season, but
Speaker 1: that was an impressive moment there for him. So your
Speaker 1: homecoming court going into this game against the Houston Texans,
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen, Kyle Allen, d J. Moore, Curtis Samuel, Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: Mario Addison, Dante Jackson, Christian Miller, Brian Burns, Eric Reid,
Speaker 1: and Shack Thompson. If this was a popularity contest, we
Speaker 1: want to know who would you pick so out of
Speaker 1: that list, let us know on Twitter in the reviews
Speaker 1: after leaving a five star review, let us know who
Speaker 1: you would want to win this. But we'll see how
Speaker 1: it plays out in Houston going on the road, second
Speaker 1: round game of this season. But this one thing, goodness
Speaker 1: is a normal travel schedule. This was a weird one.
Speaker 1: When we went on to Arizona. It was a day early,
Speaker 1: but it was beautiful. What did you guys do on
Speaker 1: your day off before we we end this thing? So
Speaker 1: I mentioned on the previous episode was going to be
Speaker 1: on the hunt for some good tacos, and mission accomplished.
Speaker 1: We had some traditional, authentic street tacos which were terrific.
Speaker 1: Arizona is a great place for that stuff, obviously, and
Speaker 1: then we kinda we were too lazy to do a
Speaker 1: real hike, which I think you're going to tell us
Speaker 1: about yours. So we just drove to like a lookout
Speaker 1: point hole in the rock mountain is what it's called,
Speaker 1: and literally like you know, five minute walk when she
Speaker 1: got out of the car into this little like kind
Speaker 1: of cave thing overlooking the desert. It was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I felt like we did something Arizona e this is
Speaker 1: kind of like what we wanted to do. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: we're here, we gotta do a little bit of that.
Speaker 1: But I know you did like a legit jetike. I
Speaker 1: went and did camelback and you see this on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Everyone's sharing like this is the place to go. I
Speaker 1: just figured if everyone was like sharing this, it was
Speaker 1: a relatively easy hike. No, so thankfully, I like, I'm
Speaker 1: an athletic person, so I was able to hang in
Speaker 1: there and like we it was still to the point
Speaker 1: where you can talk the whole way, like it's not
Speaker 1: like you're completely out of breath. But about halfway up
Speaker 1: the mountain for anyone going out to Arizona and you're thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to leisurely hike. No, it took us.
Speaker 1: If we would have gone straight up and straight now.
Speaker 1: And we did stop in the middle for about minutes
Speaker 1: and talk. I was with a really good girlfriend of mine.
Speaker 1: But I mean, we we hiked for three hours and
Speaker 1: and what kind of heat, Like you guys went in
Speaker 1: the morning, so it wasn't too but it was. We
Speaker 1: started at the base um where we parked, even just
Speaker 1: from where you parked too. Then the base of the
Speaker 1: mountain is like a pretty good walk because they don't
Speaker 1: have a true parking lot. You just park on the
Speaker 1: street and then you're walking up. So we got to
Speaker 1: the base of the mountain probably like eight thirty and
Speaker 1: then you know, you start hiking. I mean it was
Speaker 1: a three hour or deal and you hit halfway and
Speaker 1: then it is climbing, and we went. We did go.
Speaker 1: There's like two sides. We went to quote unquote the
Speaker 1: easier side it's a little bit longer um and we
Speaker 1: at the at the top. That was very fun because
Speaker 1: I don't know if like people just came out for
Speaker 1: the trip to see the panthers or what it was,
Speaker 1: but that mountain was overtaking my Charlotte Charlotte didn't Charlotte
Speaker 1: Charlotte Charlotte's people because we I'm still learning people. But
Speaker 1: there was a bachelorette group that we kind of ran
Speaker 1: into and one of them hat on a Charlotte you
Speaker 1: know clt hat, and so we got to talking to
Speaker 1: them and multiple group members were from Charlotte. The bride
Speaker 1: was from Charlotte. And then we get up to the
Speaker 1: top of the mountain and there's like this, you know,
Speaker 1: five to seven guys that walk up and come and
Speaker 1: have them pant their hats and I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 1: keep pounding. They're like, yeah, like you onto the game.
Speaker 1: I was like yeah, man, I'll be there um. And
Speaker 1: then we also ran into like a group of four
Speaker 1: girls that one of them I ended up going to
Speaker 1: college with, and she was just like Caroline and I
Speaker 1: was like, Rachel, that's really weird. And they live in Charlotte.
Speaker 1: And then on the way down, I am you know,
Speaker 1: you have to climb down, so there's parts where it
Speaker 1: was getting a little bit busy, so you have to
Speaker 1: kind of like wait. There's a guy standing at the bottom.
Speaker 1: He has North Carolina's shirt. He's like, how's the top
Speaker 1: up there. We're like it's beautiful, like totally worth it,
Speaker 1: and he was like I don't think I like, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna wait here. I don't think I can make
Speaker 1: it up there because it was getting hot. There were
Speaker 1: a lot of people. If you didn't have the patience,
Speaker 1: you just weren't gonna make it. So he, you know,
Speaker 1: he was like, I'm just gonna wait, like it's beautiful here,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, come on, like you're from
Speaker 1: North Carolina, like make us proud, like go up there
Speaker 1: and he was like, you're from North Carolina. Was like, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: and he was like where And I was Charlotte, you know,
Speaker 1: and he was like, oh, what part of Charlotte. So
Speaker 1: I tell him. He's like, I'm your city councilman. What
Speaker 1: So I met a bad group, like a group from college,
Speaker 1: this other group of guys in my city councilman, all
Speaker 1: on the hiker camel back. It was just it was
Speaker 1: so weird. At that point. My friend was like, we
Speaker 1: need to get off this mountain, like you're going to
Speaker 1: run into Like we have to get off this mountain.
Speaker 1: But it was really cool. I thought it was awesome
Speaker 1: to then show up to the game, and it was
Speaker 1: no coincidence that all these Panther friends were hiking because,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, Max, so many people were in Arizona
Speaker 1: pant I mean, it was so cool to see the
Speaker 1: blue um in black all over that stadium for the Panthers.
Speaker 1: So thank you. If you are listening and you were
Speaker 1: out there, or if you've even tried to go and
Speaker 1: you wanted to go in spirit, we thank you too.
Speaker 1: But we hope you enjoyed this week of the group chat.
Speaker 1: Let us know who you want to win? Anything cool
Speaker 1: on Saturdays? It will didn't do anything cool? Right? I
Speaker 1: went to Octoberfest. That yeah, I mean first you like
Speaker 1: kick me off the plane. I don't even get to travel. Now,
Speaker 1: don't even get to like talk about my weekend. I
Speaker 1: I see how it is you didn't have a weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I actually went to an Octoberfest too,
Speaker 1: and you know the little warm right now for Octoberfest,
Speaker 1: it is you know them, the competition where you hold
Speaker 1: the the mug out the stunt? Is that? What is
Speaker 1: it called stein Stein? I I entered that competition? How
Speaker 1: do you do? So? I'm a little salty about it. Clearly,
Speaker 1: if I would have one, I would have been bragging
Speaker 1: about this since walking in the door. I came in third. However,
Speaker 1: that's not bad. However, the two women in front of
Speaker 1: me cheated. And I will say this until I go
Speaker 1: to my grave. Because there were rules. I'm a rule follower,
Speaker 1: and so they were saying that you can't be in
Speaker 1: your back, you have to keep your elbow up, like
Speaker 1: you can't touch the cup. You can only touch the
Speaker 1: handle part of it. So I was doing that and
Speaker 1: then as soon as I like felt myself leaning back
Speaker 1: a lot. I just I dropped, like that wasn't right.
Speaker 1: I should have just kept going because you know, you
Speaker 1: let them tell you you. I know, I know, but
Speaker 1: I just I felt myself like leaning back a lot,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, well, I'm I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: you know, I'm out. How long did you do it for? Um? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't even remember. I know that the I don't
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I have a video. I think I'll go, okay,
Speaker 1: but I'll review the film and get back to you guys.
Speaker 1: But why why now is it? Is it now in Germany?
Speaker 1: I think it goes for like three weeks, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's now At O m B. They just they released
Speaker 1: their october Fest beer and then they had the october
Speaker 1: Fest Festival fun. It was cool, all right, Well, sorry
Speaker 1: I didn't let you say that earlier. We'll forgive me.
Speaker 1: But now now we were at the end of the podcast,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Vote for your homecoming. Let us
Speaker 1: know who you want to win out of that homecoming court,
Speaker 1: and then we will crown a homecoming king next week
Speaker 1: after hopefully the Panthers beat the Houston Texas We'll see
Speaker 1: you next week,