Speaker 1: This week on a Happy half hour.
Speaker 2: Seeing some of those connections to Deontae, seeing Xavier get
Speaker 2: up and go get it. You know, stuff like that
Speaker 2: is encouraging, but you know that kind of leads into
Speaker 2: the thing that I have taken away from the first week.
Speaker 2: And Dave Canalis tells you he's going to run the ball.
Speaker 2: He is not b s and U touched down, cow h.
Speaker 1: It's time for the Happy Half Hour, presented by Southern Star,
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Speaker 1: Darren Kant and Cassidy Hill.
Speaker 2: Welcome friends to the Happy half Hour. And the Happy
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Speaker 2: spirit of the Carolinas, and boy do we have plenty
Speaker 2: to celebrate. We are firmly in the middle of training camp.
Speaker 2: It is I have lost all track of time. I
Speaker 2: don't know what day of the week it is. I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's morning, noon or night. But I
Speaker 2: know I'm inside this building. Football things are happening around
Speaker 2: the clock, and at some point we'll get on airplanes
Speaker 2: and buses and go places and see things, but that
Speaker 2: time is not now. This time belongs to you, our listeners.
Speaker 3: We may not know what day it is, but luckily
Speaker 3: we know what time it is because podcast Matt has
Speaker 3: put three new clocks at every Eyeline site in this room,
Speaker 3: so I know exactly down to the second what time
Speaker 3: it is. Well everywhere.
Speaker 2: I'll lose This one over here in front of my face,
Speaker 2: that's got a hard hat on top of it. Used
Speaker 2: to be on the wall until I knocked it off,
Speaker 2: So I'm familiar with that one. That one almost killed
Speaker 2: a man?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 3: Are you responsible for the big crack down the middle?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think that might be me.
Speaker 3: You were hitting as hard as they were yesterday once
Speaker 3: they put pads on a practice.
Speaker 2: It certainly seems like a theme, doesn't it. It's almost
Speaker 2: like I said that on purpose. But put on your helmet,
Speaker 2: let's go. I wish we had rights to lice music,
Speaker 2: or we would put Olivia Newton John's lick Lets get
Speaker 2: Physical underneath this. Yeah, something like that. I'm I don't
Speaker 2: know if I'm surprised, impressed, or in despair that you
Speaker 2: know that song. It is one of the worst songs
Speaker 2: ever of my youth.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's kind of did right after Greece too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, straight off, it was a day yesterday, I mean,
Speaker 2: and there's always a little bit of build up and
Speaker 2: it's always a little bit funny to me to see
Speaker 2: because having done these, you know, for thirty years, you
Speaker 2: kind of realize that certain things happen at certain points
Speaker 2: in training camp and it's inevitable. And they put on
Speaker 2: pads for the first time, and it was probably the
Speaker 2: warmest practice they've been through during camp because it's been
Speaker 2: unseasonably cool here in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker 3: I missed and still not too hot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Somebody joked that Dave Canal has had to deal with
Speaker 3: the weather guiys, And I'm beginning to believe it's true.
Speaker 2: He's just convinced God that his football team does not
Speaker 2: deserve to suffer. So it's enjoy nice things. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's been delightful to be on the sidelines. But you
Speaker 2: could kind of see that when coming yesterday it got
Speaker 2: a little warm, they put on pads for the first time,
Speaker 2: and it's like we're gonna get the first air quotes
Speaker 2: fight of training dam I mean, It's just it happens
Speaker 2: every year, and I've seen big fights, and I've seen
Speaker 2: you know, I remember the time Jason Peter pulled Anthony
Speaker 2: Redman's helmet off and hit him with it, and yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it's just these things happen all the time.
Speaker 2: Actually it was Redmond pulled Peter's helmet off and swung
Speaker 2: it at him, and Redmond still ended up with a
Speaker 2: busted lip because Jason was just that kind of nuts
Speaker 2: sometimes on the field. So good stuff all the way around.
Speaker 2: But yesterday it was just you know, guys coming together,
Speaker 2: guys doing their thing. You know, Jadavian gives Chewba a
Speaker 2: little bit of shoulder on his way by, and you
Speaker 2: know people bow up. Picky's right there in the middle
Speaker 2: of the fray. And you know, Dave Canal has talked
Speaker 2: after practice about wanting to be smart about it, wanting
Speaker 2: to preserve guys. But I don't think anybody terribly mine
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff happening, because there are little things
Speaker 2: like defense taking things personally, you know, Ikey stepping up
Speaker 2: for his guys. I mean secretly, that's the kind of
Speaker 2: stuff that nobody really minds, and you kind of encourage
Speaker 2: behind the scenes, and.
Speaker 3: Dave Canalis has to, you know, be the head coach
Speaker 3: in that situation and say, you know, we've got to
Speaker 3: be careful, We've got to be smart about these things.
Speaker 3: I think he said it was a good teaching moment
Speaker 3: to teach guys. You know, if you're in the middle
Speaker 3: of the game and something like this happens, you know,
Speaker 3: don't lose us yards, don't lose us time, right, But
Speaker 3: in training camp, practice, you need a little bit of
Speaker 3: that just to get the juices flowing and to your point,
Speaker 3: to kind of have guys create that chemistry. Now, Cuba
Speaker 3: knows that if something happens to him, Ikey's right there
Speaker 3: and got it, has his battle.
Speaker 2: And so Ikey's jumping up to his guys defense. I
Speaker 2: think that's kind of stuff everybody kind of expects to see,
Speaker 2: wants to see. But we're a weekend to camp. We've
Speaker 2: seen him in pads for the first time, and this
Speaker 2: is kind of the time when trends start emerging. And
Speaker 2: you know, I always like to joke and call it,
Speaker 2: what have we learned? What have we learned? So after
Speaker 2: a week of training camp, Cassie, what have you taken
Speaker 2: away from this team? Big picture view?
Speaker 3: This is gonna sound so cliche, you know, I almost sound.
Speaker 3: I feel bad saying at first, but I really really
Speaker 3: like their energy every day. You know, there are some
Speaker 3: days it starts a little slower, but then they get
Speaker 3: things going. The one on ones have been The one
Speaker 3: on ones have been good competition, but the one on
Speaker 3: ones have also been a lot of fun to watch
Speaker 3: everyone else watch, if that makes sense, you know, watching
Speaker 3: j C. Horn when you know Troy Hill might go
Speaker 3: up against uh, you know, Miles Sanders or I don't
Speaker 3: thineling just kind of depending on how the one on
Speaker 3: one draws. That's been a lot of fun just to
Speaker 3: kind of see those guys hype each other up. And
Speaker 3: the one on ones have been pretty even. I've kept score.
Speaker 3: I try to keep score every day, but I specifically
Speaker 3: kept score yesterday and it was pretty even right down
Speaker 3: the middle offense defense who won those. It's been interesting
Speaker 3: because I've never you know, I got here so late
Speaker 3: last year. It's been fun to watch Adam Thling up close.
Speaker 3: You know, there's so many new receivers in this offense
Speaker 3: that are going to do great things, like Deontay Johnson
Speaker 3: and Xavier lo Get, but watching Faling up close, and
Speaker 3: especially the days that he doesn't wear his visor and
Speaker 3: watching him in those one on ones and realize how
Speaker 3: much he uses his eyes even in short distances to
Speaker 3: throw a dB off, and it's just like that's textbook.
Speaker 3: That's somebody that's been in the league for years and
Speaker 3: knows what they're doing. He might not be as physical
Speaker 3: as Deontay Johnson or you know, as big as Xavier,
Speaker 3: but like he's he's textbook in his technique and that's
Speaker 3: been a lot of fun to see up close. And
Speaker 3: then of course you've got the guys that you see
Speaker 3: that that chemistry getting a little stronger every day between
Speaker 3: Bryce and Deontay Johnson, and you see them starting to
Speaker 3: figure each other out. And that's something that Dave Canalys
Speaker 3: has talked about a lot, is Bryce needing to figure
Speaker 3: out how Deontay Johnson moves because he's such a what
Speaker 3: canal is caused a special mover, and figure out, you know,
Speaker 3: how his timing is because he's gonna get open ninety
Speaker 3: percent of the time, right, and so it's a matter
Speaker 3: of figuring out when he gets open, what his releases
Speaker 3: look like. And then Xavier get he's just big and
Speaker 3: seeing it, especially in one on ones, and then daring
Speaker 3: some is seven and seven, but especially in like the
Speaker 3: team past eleven on eleven, he's he's gonna be a
Speaker 3: problem for some dbs in this league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's one of the things. And it's
Speaker 2: and it's good for the Carolina Panthers offense. But it's
Speaker 2: also good for j. C. Horn because in Deonte, in
Speaker 2: Feeling and lege it, he got three completely different right
Speaker 2: kinds of cats. And you know, those are good reps
Speaker 2: for him because if you're constantly going up against a big,
Speaker 2: strong guy, or you're constantly going up a little quick guy,
Speaker 2: or you're constantly going up against the guy who is
Speaker 2: so precise and knows exactly where to be and how
Speaker 2: to trick you. Though you can acclimate to any one
Speaker 2: of them if that's all you ever get, but when
Speaker 2: you get all three of them randomly in sequence, and
Speaker 2: then mix in a Mingo, mix in an Amir Smith Marsett,
Speaker 2: mix in a Devin Tompkins who is oh shifty, so
Speaker 2: quick and little, like five one fifty little, but doesn't
Speaker 2: look out of place and looks sharp and looks quick
Speaker 2: in these practices, these first couple since he joined the team,
Speaker 2: that's good work for JC exactly and he's you can
Speaker 2: tell he's kind of rising to the occasion because he's
Speaker 2: trying to prove himself this offseason. Everybody knows that he
Speaker 2: wants to prove that he can maintain availability and be
Speaker 2: the guy everybody knows he already is, which is the
Speaker 2: kind of corner who can cover cats like that.
Speaker 3: You know, usually early on in training camp two, during
Speaker 3: the defense like quote unquote clearly wins the day. Usually
Speaker 3: for the first half of training camp. I don't know
Speaker 3: if i'd say that's the case. I don't want to
Speaker 3: to clear a winner loser, but the offense has stood
Speaker 3: out enough for it to be, oh, okay, right, do
Speaker 3: you if you're a you're a fan, does that worry
Speaker 3: you or do you go back to what we were
Speaker 3: just saying and go, Okay, this is just, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe vice versa of what it would usually be. And
Speaker 3: in the next couple of weeks we'll see Jase Horn,
Speaker 3: will see Daan Jackson, Jordan Fuller, Xavier. Would it start
Speaker 3: to kind of catch up to what it takes to
Speaker 3: cover guys like this.
Speaker 2: I think, if I'm on the outside, I'm feeling okay
Speaker 2: about this because after last year, when nothing worked on offense.
Speaker 2: The idea that there's a couple of things that are
Speaker 2: working in different ways seems like a good problem to have.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just think that's obviously going to be
Speaker 2: the priority. I mean, the last two times we saw
Speaker 2: this football team play, they didn't score any points. So
Speaker 2: you know, getting in these situations and seeing some of
Speaker 2: those connections to Deontae, seeing Xavier get up and go
Speaker 2: get it, you know, stuff like that is encouraging. But
Speaker 2: you know, that kind of leads into the thing that
Speaker 2: I have taken away from the first week. And it's
Speaker 2: weird to say this since they've been in practice exactly pads,
Speaker 2: in practice exactly one time. When Dave Canalis tells you
Speaker 2: he's going to run the ball, he is not BS
Speaker 2: and U. That is the intent. That is the theme
Speaker 2: of this camp so far. And I've seen again, you
Speaker 2: stand around and watch a lot of training camps and
Speaker 2: they all sort of start to look alike. I've seen
Speaker 2: more intention on inside run drills, even in unpadded practices.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can just tell the emphasis they're putting
Speaker 2: on it, because when you're out there in pads working
Speaker 2: on inside run that's not intuitive. And just seeing the
Speaker 2: way they've worked when they weren't in pads the first
Speaker 2: couple of days, and you talk to these guys, it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're serious about this. And we should have known that
Speaker 2: when you spend one hundred and fifty million dollars on
Speaker 2: six hundred and fifty pounds guard, we should have known
Speaker 2: that when you move probably your most reliable offensive line
Speaker 2: in Austin Corbett into the middle to be center because
Speaker 2: he's merely huge and not gigantic, we should have known
Speaker 2: that when Dave Canalis comes from I think people get
Speaker 2: lost in I've heard people say and I've seen comments
Speaker 2: online about, well, the Bucks were one of the worst
Speaker 2: run games in the in the league last year. Did
Speaker 2: you watch Seattle Seahawks football for the last fifteen years?
Speaker 2: Are you familiar with what Pete Carroll's formula is. It's
Speaker 2: played defense, it's run the ball. Russell Wilson was fine,
Speaker 2: but Marshawn Lynch was the reason. You know, Russell developed
Speaker 2: and Russell created these partnerships with guys like DK Metcalf
Speaker 2: over time. But when they won a Super Bowl, that
Speaker 2: was a big honkin offensive line. That was Marshawn Lynch,
Speaker 2: and that was let's play defense with a bunch of
Speaker 2: big personality freaks. And so I think because Dave Canalis
Speaker 2: came in with the quote unquote offensive background, people in
Speaker 2: their minds equate that to passing. Dave Canalis wants to run,
Speaker 2: and he has told us so over and over and over,
Speaker 2: and you might not get a clear picture of it
Speaker 2: in a preseason, but I think we should believe him
Speaker 2: when he says this over and over and over.
Speaker 4: I think that the teams that play well into the season,
Speaker 4: especially towards the end, are the ones who can run
Speaker 4: the football and who can stop the run. I wish
Speaker 4: I had more models to go off of, but I have. Fortunately,
Speaker 4: I have the model in Seattle and then in Tampa.
Speaker 4: We made sure that we established our mentality, our core
Speaker 4: runs that are important to us, and then it gets
Speaker 4: really specific with who our blockers are, who our runners are,
Speaker 4: and the way that we can utilize different people in
Speaker 4: the run game. But that commitment, to me is the
Speaker 4: formula that I've seen work to make us competitive. So
Speaker 4: and it challenges both sides of it. You know, when
Speaker 4: you can as a defense, when you can force the
Speaker 4: team to pass, you can create good opportunities as an
Speaker 4: offense when you can run the ball when you need to,
Speaker 4: especially you know, as a mixer for sure, because it
Speaker 4: opens up explosive plays, but finishing games running the ball,
Speaker 4: there's nothing better.
Speaker 3: When you said they won a Super Bowl by running
Speaker 3: the ball, there was a part of me that also
Speaker 3: wanted to think they also lost to Super Bowl by
Speaker 3: not running the ball in one specific situation, right, But
Speaker 3: that was I want to say that was a Brian
Speaker 3: Shottenheim recall, not a Dave Canalis call, if I remember.
Speaker 2: Webl but it's, uh yeah, I mean it was. It
Speaker 2: might have been a Russell Wilson, you never know, but
Speaker 2: it's it doesn't have to be that hard football, I mean,
Speaker 2: and I think that's the ultimate point of what Dave
Speaker 2: Canalis is trying to do. And it's fascinating to me,
Speaker 2: you know, having seen seven first year coaches walk into
Speaker 2: this place, Dave is He's not trying to be thematic,
Speaker 2: he's not trying to be inspirational or anything like that.
Speaker 2: What are he wants to do is work And it's
Speaker 2: interesting to me. This is one of those little characters
Speaker 2: traits that you notice over time. Dave Canalis comes out
Speaker 2: to practice every day in the same outfit shorts and
Speaker 2: a T shirt. And if it's raining, he doesn't put
Speaker 2: on a raincoat, and if it's hotter, he doesn't necessarily
Speaker 2: change the look or anything like that. And these clothes
Speaker 2: come in about four colors, black, gray, white, blue, and
Speaker 2: you know, there might be mixing and matching every day
Speaker 2: or whatever, but the outfit remains the same. And he
Speaker 2: said the other day, kind of the point is, if
Speaker 2: it's raining, we don't want to work differently if it's raining,
Speaker 2: that can you stay focused when the external factors are
Speaker 2: coming into play. And so it's a very simplified, it's
Speaker 2: a very stripped down but at every turn he keeps
Speaker 2: telling us we're trying to focus on the work here
Speaker 2: and getting the stuff done. That's why when they were
Speaker 2: scrapping around and jawing at each other yesterday, his point
Speaker 2: was cool, but let's not lose fifteen yards, Let's not
Speaker 2: lose five minutes of practice time. Let's keep the focus
Speaker 2: back here where it needs to be and getting the
Speaker 2: ball right. And you know, Cas, you and I have
Speaker 2: heard him say that approximately three million times in the
Speaker 2: last six months at give her take a million. And
Speaker 2: again at a certain point when somebody keeps showing you
Speaker 2: who they are, maybe start to believe them. And this
Speaker 2: is exactly what he's trying to get through the.
Speaker 3: Same outfit thing. That's very Mark Zuckerberg of him, and
Speaker 3: so that could both.
Speaker 2: But also, and it's not full Steve Jobs. He does
Speaker 2: mix up the color. You do see him in the
Speaker 2: blue tight shirt and the black tight shirt and the
Speaker 2: white tight shirt.
Speaker 3: That's why I went with Zuckerberg instead of Jobs. He'll
Speaker 3: mix up the color of his hoodies, but it's the
Speaker 3: same hoodie every day. I didn't want to make one
Speaker 3: extra point though, on the Tampa Bay being the worst
Speaker 3: rushing team in the league last year, and I I
Speaker 3: know Dave Canallos has talked about this at some point,
Speaker 3: but pardon me, I can't remember exactly when he talked
Speaker 3: about it, but he said, you know, we started off
Speaker 3: the worst rushing team is an average of the whole season.
Speaker 3: They started it all really, really, really bad running the ball.
Speaker 3: If you look at the latter half of games, though,
Speaker 3: they really started to get something going and you know,
Speaker 3: got a lather on that workhorse and got their running
Speaker 3: game going more towards the end of the season. And
Speaker 3: so yes, the first half of the season was so
Speaker 3: bad that the average still worked out for them to
Speaker 3: be the worst in the league. But the second half
Speaker 3: of that season, they really started to find a groove
Speaker 3: running the ball because they stuck with it, yeah, and
Speaker 3: didn't freak out and give it up and decided to
Speaker 3: just chuck the ball all over the field of Mike Evans.
Speaker 2: And it also helps that they had leads occasionally in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter and you're able to find out games
Speaker 2: late and that's the that's kind of the goal. That's
Speaker 2: the place he's trying to get to here. And you know,
Speaker 2: I think one of the beneficiaries of it's going to
Speaker 2: be one of the guys who was in the middle
Speaker 2: of that little scrap yesterday, which is Chuba Hubbard.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's broken off a few already.
Speaker 2: Those of us who remember last year. As bad as
Speaker 2: it was, I still say for two bit a run
Speaker 2: for nine hundreds MyD yards last season is one of
Speaker 2: the most impressive things I've seen. He's a fourth round pick.
Speaker 2: You know, they kind of thought he had some home
Speaker 2: run speed coming in, but he has turned himself into
Speaker 2: this guy. And you know, yes, they drafted Jonathan Brooks
Speaker 2: in the second round, and that was a pick designed
Speaker 2: for the future. And you know, I figure we're going
Speaker 2: to see him four or five, six weeks into the
Speaker 2: year before he's really out there on a regular basis,
Speaker 2: because this is gonna be Cuba's deal man, and Miles
Speaker 2: Sanders is gonna be mix in and Raheem black Shear's
Speaker 2: got a little pop to him, but this is going
Speaker 2: to be about Cuba. And I think that's okay because
Speaker 2: I keep coming back to some of those off season
Speaker 2: workouts when you would see guys together. Who was always
Speaker 2: at the front of the line. It was Derrick Brown
Speaker 2: on his side. It was Cuba Hubbard on his side.
Speaker 2: That's instructive, folks. I mean, Cuba has the respect of
Speaker 2: everybody on that side of the ball. And when you
Speaker 2: invest in Robert Hunt and Damian Lewis and put Austin
Speaker 2: Corbett in the middle and your lead back as Cuba,
Speaker 2: Hu who ain't afraid to slam it up in there
Speaker 2: and take those dirty runs. That's a statement of personality
Speaker 2: type thing. And I think there's an opportunity here for
Speaker 2: Cuba to create a name for himself and create some
Speaker 2: economic opportunities for himself. At the end of the year,
Speaker 2: and just.
Speaker 3: Going back to our Tampa Bay point, Cuba got all
Speaker 3: those yards on a team that wasn't running it.
Speaker 2: In the fourth quarter, right, Yeah, they had to lead
Speaker 2: for a second, and so.
Speaker 3: That is impressive. And I like to your point again,
Speaker 3: the interior part of that line. I like seeing what
Speaker 3: they're doing up the middle and they're not having to
Speaker 3: always try to bounce it outside, because if you're bouncing
Speaker 3: it outside, you've got to have a lot of speed,
Speaker 3: and there are some running backs in this league that
Speaker 3: have that capability. But if you can run it up
Speaker 3: the middle, then you can really get your running game going.
Speaker 3: On the point of the interior line, I think we're
Speaker 3: seeing this too with a trio of interior guys that
Speaker 3: it readily admit themselves they have still not reached what
Speaker 3: they feel is the chemistry level they need to before
Speaker 3: the season. Robert Hunt takes a lot of that on
Speaker 3: himself because he missed a lot of this offseason. That's excused.
Speaker 3: He had a he had a baby baby. He needs
Speaker 3: to be at home with the baby, and it's.
Speaker 2: An adorable baby. I saw the wife and the baby
Speaker 2: on the sidelines the other day, so.
Speaker 3: Cute, and he was telling me, I think it was
Speaker 3: Monday Sunday. I don't know that the days are all
Speaker 3: run together.
Speaker 2: Right now, correct, because it's training camp. I have no
Speaker 2: idea of what day it is.
Speaker 3: He was telling me. He was like, we're not where
Speaker 3: we need to be, and he said, and a lot
Speaker 3: of that's because of me, because I had to miss
Speaker 3: some of the off season with the baby coming. And
Speaker 3: he said, but we'll get there. It's just going to
Speaker 3: take more and more reps. So I'm excited to see
Speaker 3: how this Running the Ball continues to involve, continues to
Speaker 3: evolve as that trio of Robert Hunt, Damian Lewis, and
Speaker 3: Austin Corbett really kind of figure themselves out as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, speaking of evolving, you and I are going
Speaker 2: our separate ways later today. You're you're gonna get on
Speaker 2: a bus tomorrow and go to Clemson. I'm gonna crawl
Speaker 2: on a airplane and go to campon Ohio.
Speaker 3: Would you rather spend three hours on a bus or
Speaker 3: a plane?
Speaker 2: I think plane. Listen, man, I'm not gonna lie. You
Speaker 2: know why You're going to Clemson and I'm going to
Speaker 2: Campton because you didn't want because I got to pick first. Uh, no,
Speaker 2: I love Clemson and and there's nothing but fond memories
Speaker 2: down there. Again. Still tend for you to get your
Speaker 2: tickets to go to FanFest Clickpanthers dot com for all that.
Speaker 2: It will be broadcast here in the Carolinas as well.
Speaker 2: I think it's worth tuning in if for no other
Speaker 2: reason it reminds you of Dom Capers in nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: five and getting on the bus ride Ulson, Indiana real
Speaker 2: year and it's and it's inn squad scrimmage. They're gonna
Speaker 2: be in full pads. It's gonna look like actual football
Speaker 2: down there, which is good because in ninety five it
Speaker 2: was that same kind of hard hitting, let's play defense
Speaker 2: and run the ball kind of system. All of these
Speaker 2: things come back around with time.
Speaker 3: What goes around comes around, and that was that was
Speaker 3: my point. It's going to be a little bit of
Speaker 3: an actual game fell to it. So if you're around
Speaker 3: Clemson or can get to Clemson tomorrow night, definitely come
Speaker 3: and join us. We'd love to have you. But Darren
Speaker 3: will not be there. I will try to I'll get
Speaker 3: like a bo jingle sweet tea, and I'll try to
Speaker 3: do my best Darren impression. If somebody wanted to meet him,
Speaker 3: but Darren'll be in Ohio, his other favorite places.
Speaker 2: The happiest place on earth, Canton, Ohio.
Speaker 3: It's not Disney than many people have said that, all
Speaker 3: three of you.
Speaker 2: It's the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And I love
Speaker 2: it because when you go there, nobody's mad. We're celebrating
Speaker 2: only there's no you know, there's nothing sad about it.
Speaker 2: Nobody's angry. It's just a bunch of guys getting together
Speaker 2: and celebrating this thing we love, which is football. And
Speaker 2: this week it's Julius Peppers and we've had some pretty
Speaker 2: cool stories on Panthers dot Com. There's more to come,
Speaker 2: as people know Julius is a complicated man. He contains multitudes.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of cool stuff I've learned about Julius
Speaker 2: over the course of the last six months, and we
Speaker 2: look forward to sharing the rest of it. I loved,
Speaker 2: I loved, loved, loved talking to the legends the other
Speaker 2: week when Julius was put on the field to try
Speaker 2: to catch passes, that meant somebody had to come off,
Speaker 2: and Steve Smith and Mussin Muhammad and Wesley Walls all
Speaker 2: had thoughts about that. Wesley even had specific play calls
Speaker 2: he would have preferred in that situation, But at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, everybody's like, you know, but when
Speaker 2: you see Julius do that, it's kind of hard to
Speaker 2: argue with at that point. So, as with so many
Speaker 2: things in his career, a brilliant career. We look forward
Speaker 2: to a lot of coverage from Canton in the next
Speaker 2: couple of days. Keep it locked on Panthers dot com
Speaker 2: for that, pay attention to Cassidy on the social media
Speaker 2: and the same platform for all your latest from FanFest,
Speaker 2: and we will see you next week when things become
Speaker 2: somewhat normal again and they start playing football games.
Speaker 3: And then we get on a plane and go to
Speaker 3: North New
Speaker 2: England exactly, and we'll cover it all next week here
Speaker 2: on the Happy Half Hour.